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Knick Knacks PUBLISHED BY THE KNICKERBOCKER PROFESSIONAL TEAM • MADISON S9UARE GARDEN

Volume 3, Number 1 September, 1949 Kentucky's Fabulous Four Meet Knicks: Groza, Beard, Jones, Barker Face !(nicks in Garden Opener, Nov.IO WaUace Jones What many court critics consider the best tean of all time, the , now the professional Indian Pro Leagues a polis Olympians, will help the Knickerbockers open thei1 1949-50 home season, in , Thursday, Novem In Merger her 10. Kentucky's Fabulous Four-Alex Groza, , Wah Wat In addition to such favorites as Jones and - the scourge of rival collegiate squads for the the Minneapolis Lakers, Chicago past three years signed as a unit with lndianapoli1 Stags, Washington Capitols, Phil­ and their efforts against the nation's top profes adelphia Warriors and Rochester sional outfits in the ational Basketball Assn. wil Royals, New York court fans this be followed with keen interest. ;eason will see the pick of the Alex Groza, the 6-7 Wildcat , was the ~ational League clubs. country's leading college scorer last season ir Ten clubs from the Basketball major competition. He made 698 points, an aver <\ssn. of America, in which the age of 20.5 in 34 games, and was an <.~nanimom NPw Yo-rk Knickerbockers held All-America ::.election. Ralph Beard was runner-UJ membership three years, have to Groza among the Kentuckians with 370 points joined with seven National Lea­ followed by Jones with 309 and Barker, 248. gue franchises to form the Na­ In 26 regular season games last winter KentuckJ tional Basketball Assn. lost only to St. Louis, by two points. The Cats wor The ten BAA clubs are: Wash­ the Southeastern Eastern Conference tournament ington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, but lost to Loyola of Chicago in the Invitation ew York, Boston, Chicago, Min­ They then captured the NCAA title, beating Okla neapolis, St. Louis, Ft. Wayne homa A&M, at Seattle, in the finals. They finishe< md Rochester, and the seven NL out the long campaign with 32 victories and onl' outfits- Syracuse, Tri-Cities, She­ Ralph Beard, Kentucky's All­ two defeats, averaging 68.2 points a game. · America guard, who'll b e in boygan, Anderson, Waterloo, Den­ The Fabulous Four twice won the NCAA cham ver and . The Provi­ lineup of Indianapolis against Knicks in Garden opener, pionship and the 1946 Invitation crown. The] dence Steamrollers and the Indian­ Nov. 10. reached the finals of the 1948 Olympic Trials apolis Jets withdrew from the BAA and are not included in the I new circuit. , Bovko-F-F, Kerris, Otten in Pro Loon Feerick Named Anderson, Ind., won the Na- .! 'J J! r tiona! League title last season. 1------.....J Capitols' Coach That circuit's leading scorer was , former St. John's star center, who still holds the Bob Feerick, former Santa Clar• Don Otten, Tri-Cities, with 872 all-time Madison Square Garden record of 54 points in one game, All-America and leading scorer o points in 63 games. Otten played has developed into one of the pro game's standout pivotmen. the Washington Capitols for the in the Gar~en with Bowling Green Big Harry is with Waterloo, Iowa, one of the seven National lS a collegran. 1 · h h past two sea Each NBA team will la 68 League c ubs to merge w_rt t e sons, will be the . . P Y Basketball Assn. of Amenca. He games t hrs wmter, to be followed · I · h" th. d f lege season, _averaging 15.1 a playing - coacl · h" 1 ff rs p aymg rs u year o pro game. Kerris rs 6-6, weighs 210 by ch ampwns rp p ayo s. b k tb II Aft h" II . t of that club thi1 as e a . er rs co egra e and holds all Loyola scoring year, succeedin~ career at St. John's, Big Harry, marks. / We'II Mail 'Em 6-9, joined Toledo of the National One of Kerris' Tri-Cities team­ Feerick totale• League. Last season that fran­ This is the first issu e of mates is Don Otten, 6-11, who 752 points in 5: Knick Knacks for the corning chise was transferred to Waterloo, starred in the Garden with Bowl­ games last win court campaign. where Boykoff scored 767 points ing Green. Otten led the National ter and 775 ir Knick Knacks, published for sixth place among league monthly during the season, League last year with 872 points 48 games ir deals with the New York leaders. and was all-league first team cen­ 1947-48, whe1 Knickerbockers and other Another Garden favorite now a ter. Bob Feerick he was name< team s in the professional Na­ pro is Jack Kerris, whose brilliant , former Dodger to the all-league first team. H1 tional Basketball Assn. stands 6-3 and is 28 years old If you a re not already on play enabled Loyola of Chicago first baseman, is the playing coach Feerick is a spectacular one-han( our mailing list and desire to to upset Kentucky in last year's of Anderson, , which won he included write B asketball National Invitation Tournament. shot and excellent ball handler Dept., Madison Square Gar­ the NL crown last year. Schultz Referee Pat Kennedy rates hin Kerris is with Tri-Cities. He to· den, 307 W. 49th St. There is was a Garden visitor as an un­ one of the top pro players of a] no charge. tailed 469 points in his final col- dergraduate with Hamline. time. - L- BAA Figures Prove Mikan [s the l(ing Pep Saul The official Basketball Assn. of Bob Harrison \.merica scoring statistics for last ,cason disclose something that :veryone readily admits- that Last S , eason~s College Aces ;eorge Mikan is tops among the :ountry's dribble and shoot boys. In leading the Minneapolis Lak- Now Knick s~ League Rivals :rs to the championship, Mikan Practically all of last season's great college seniors will be in ;cored 1,698 points for the regular action here against the New York Knickerbockers during the coming ;cason of 60 games, an amazing National Basketball Assn. schedule. Such well known names to Madi­ per game aver- son Square Garden fans as , Slater Martin, Pep Saul, age of 28.3. His , Bob Harrison, Vern Mikkelson, and the "batting aver- famed Kentucky trio of Ralph age" was .416 Beard, Alex Groza and Wah Wah ers, in two games last year. as he made Jones will oppose 's Most of the above named col­ good 583 field improved squad. legians played in the East-West All goals in 1,403 Macauley, All-American center Star game here last April. attempts. from St. Louis University the past Social notes-Bill Van Breda At that, Joe two years, is now with the St. Kolff of the Knicks became the Fulks of the Louis Bombers. Easy Ed led St. father of twin daughters recently P h i I a d e I • Louis to the National Invitation and took a bride, G M'k phia Warriors Tournament championship in Beverly Ann Hull, at Burlington, Ed M acauley, St. Louis Univ. eorge 1 an was a close run- 1948, and to an upset victory over Iowa, Sept. 25. Expectant fathers All-Amer ica center, now with pr£ ner-up to Mikan with 1,560 points, Kentucky last December in the are and . St. Lou is Bombers. 138 less, for the same number of Sugar Bowl. ------games, and his average was an The Philadelphia Warriors have ROOKIE-OF-THE-YEAR ~ven 26. The only other player signed Vern Gardner, Utah's tal­ with a 20- per game average ented center, along with Bowling .vas , the Green's Johnny Payak and Tern­ Schayes Back in Garden Joy, of the , who pie's leading scorer, Nelson Bobb. led the BAA in scoring in 1947- Frank "Pep" Saul, one of Seton Adolph Schayes, ace centeJ ~8. Max averaged 20.6 last winter Hall's all-time standouts, is wi th for four years, returns to Madison Square Garden md totalled 1,197 in 58 games. the Rochester Royals, where he scene of his many brilliant court performances Arnie Risen, Rochester Royals, joins another Seton Hall immortal, this winter as a rival of the New York Knicker ilad the best percentage, Bobby Davies. bockers. 423, and was fourth in league Ft. Wayne's roster is studded Schayes, in his first season of pro basketbar ;coring with 995 points. Carl with last year's leading collegians, Ad 1 h S h with Syracuse, was voted the National League'1 Braun, of the New York Knicker- including Johnny Oldham and 0 P c ayes rookie-of-the-year for 1948-49 after scoring 801 bockers, finished ninth with 810, Charley Parsley, of Western Ken­ points in 62 games, an average of 12.8, for fifth place in the circuit iveraging 14.2. tucky; , Oklahoma Ag- In the six playoff games he made 86 for a 14.3 average. As a team Minneapolis averaged gies' big center, and Fred Schaus A notch below Schayes in the final standings was Harry Boykoff g4.03 points per contest, the same from West Virginia U. Slater Mar­ former St. John's giant center, with 767 points, Harry received hon figure as turned in by Rochester. tin, the University of Texas' slick orable mention on the all-NL first team. He played with Waterloo The Knicks' average was 79.2. little guard, and Bob Harrison, Iowa. In his final season at NYU, Schayes made 356 points in 2t In ten playoff games Mikan All-Big Ten from Michigan, were games to be runner-up to the Knicks' Ray Lumpp. :otalled 303 points, an average of drafted by the Minneapolis Lakers Syracuse and Waterloo are now in the National Basketball Assn. 30.3. The next best performance as was Vern Mikkelson, of Ham­ two of the seven National League clubs to merge with the Basketbal -vas 's 19.3 average for line, who outscored the seven-foot Assn. of America this year. 'ix games. , of the Phillips Oil- Knickerbocker Plays That Click

(These are p lays devised by r---~ ?'---.-----,~-----, Knicks Get Coach Joe Lapchick and used by the Knickerbockers-the first of a Simmons, series that will appear in Knick K nacks this season.) fop Scorer Here is a simple criss-cross out­ Of Bullets of-bounds play with the accent on timing. First cutter c feints to his ,...t ,"£~ right and then cuts quickly for ~-14,. .-~lr goal. Second cutter B times his cut After a three-year search the New York Knickerbockers finally so that he will run his defensive :arne up with a top-flight center when they signed , guard into cutter c, then continu­ "lushing, N.Y. ing toward goal where he receives Simmons, 6-8, 225 pounds, was obtained from the Baltimore Bul- bounce pass from player E. Player X lets in a trade fo r and . Connie will Q X !>e playing his fourth season of pro basketball. He led Baltimore in ~ should b~ a good set shot so that 0 ;coring last year with 779 points in 60 games, an average of 13, for If play fails the pass will go to 12th place among the league leaders. 1 him. d.- -.(1 ~nicks Land Three Colleg·e Stars 1 Boryla~ McGuire and Donovan Three of the most talented college courtmen ol recent years have been signed by the New Yor~ Knickerbockers for the coming season. They an Vince Boryla, All-America at Notre Dame anc Denver Universities and a member of the 194f champion U. S. Olympic squad; Dick McGuire. leading scorer at St. John's University the past two campaigns, and Harry Donovan, of Muhlenberg Col­ lege, the only hoopster ever to make the All-Penn­ sylvania first team four straight years. Boryla, 6-5, 210 pounds and only 22 years old, set four new scoring records for Notre Dame as a freshman center in 1944-45, including 322 points for the season. Last year, with Denver Univ., Vince a hook shot specialist, was the fourth highest college scorer in the nation with 624 points, averaging 18.9 a game. His 36 against St. John's here last winter was tops for the Madison Square Garden sched­ ule, and he broke two Mountain States Conference marks in leading Denver to the hampionship. These feats won for him All-America Vince Boryla unanimous selection as an All-American. Donovan totalled 1,527 in four years at Muhlenberg and was one of the most pop­ ~raun Head~ ular cagers to appear on the Garden hard­ wood. Harry, who lives in Bogota, N. J., Brofman, ~nicl<: Vets 1~ scored 600 points in his senior year at Carl Braun, ex-Colgate Univer­ Union Hill High, the highest tally ever Try for Places y star and boy, who made by a Jersey schoolboy. Last winter On Knick Squa I the Knickerbockers in scoring he averaged 16 points for the Muhlenberg ! past two easons, headed the Mules. Harry was on the 1946 Eastern All t of r turning · lerans who rt· Star squad that met the West in the annual Two newcomers trying to make ported to Coach Garden game. the grade with the ew York Joe Lapchick at Dick McGuire twice won the Haggerty Knickerbockers at training camp are Martin "Kelly" Brofman, the Bear Moun­ Award, emblematic of the best college who played one season at Long tain Inn train­ player in the Metropilitan District, and at ing camp. Island Univ., and Francis Xavier Braun was St. John's played under Joe Lapchick, cur­ Walsh, of Boston's Northeast ninth in the rent coach of the Knicks. A notable play­ Univ., who set scoring records for Basketball Assn. maker, he should prove invaluable to the that school. of America Garden pros in the National Basketball Brofman, 6 feet tall, is a Brook­ standings last Assn. race. Harry Donovan lyn boy with professional court experience having played three year with 810 seasons with Cohoes of the New points and high Carl Braun Lakers Add Big Vern Mikkelson York State League. Kelly was an Knick in the all league selection those three le playoffs with 116 in 6 games, campaigns and comes to the average of 19.3 that was sur­ Pre-season dope points to the Minneapolis Lakers Knicks highly recommended by ssed only by the mighty George copping the National Basketball Association flag. ~s~c~o~u~ts~-;.~-:::::----:---, ikan of the Minneapolis Lakers. ot only are most of last season's stars back, i alsh, 6-4, 187 pounds, aver- Also back from last season's eluding the nation's leading scorer, George Mika , aged 20 points a game in totalling uad are Harry Gallatin, Big Lee and the clever , · but the Lakers pick 327 for Northeastern in 16 con­ 1orek, Bill Van Breda Kolff, up, by the draft, one of the best big men in colle e tests, an all-time high for the :ne James, Joe Colone, Paul competition in the past three years- Vern Mikk 1- Beantown institution. Francis was lei and Goebel Ritter. Gallatin, Vern Mikkelson son of Hamline. Mikkelson played with the Wes n all-New England the last two sea- operty of the , All Stars against the Eastern All Stars in the Gar n sons. The wanted tched for Decatur the past sea­ last April. He stands 6-7, weighs 225 and is 20 years old. him, but he preferred to try out !1, and was one of the top At Hamline, Mikkelson averaged over 15 points a game for h s with the Knicks. mndsmen in the Three I League. collegiate career, developing into Gallatin, hailed as a rookie find one of the top "giants" in re- GAME OF THE MONTH CLUB: ;t winter, should, with that year bounding and scoring out of the experience, develop into one of pivot. Twice, last winter, he out- A Ticket Plan for Every Budget ! outstanding big men in the scored Bob Kurland, 7-foot vet­ o circuit. He tossed in 434 Don't miss out on this bargain-you can see FIVE games f~K' eran of the Phillips Oilers. No the price of FOUR. ints last season and was a whiz doubt the Lakers will use him to Simply pick out four Knickerbocker home games each m.onth and .der the backboards. spell Mikan. Big George got little buy your tickets in advance. Indicate which other home game you James, a nationally famous rest last winter. would like to see that month and we will send you free of charge 1yer at Marshall College, didn' t tickets comparable in number and price to those which you have The Lakers first New York ap­ purchased for each game. in the Knicks until last Febru­ y and saw little action, but pearance against the Knickerbock­ SEASON TICKET HOLDERS-You get one free game in each ers will be in Madison Square set of five. This means you will save the cost of SIX sets of •ach Lapchick thinks this tickets over the season. ungster has the makings of a Garden, Wednesday, December 14. Write to the Madison Square Garden Basketball Department f~j l fli ght courtman. They return here January 19. rompleoe deoaib. 1q 'f-S _ ~fj ?:":~ ~ Dolhon, Barnhorst Pro Opponents

A Notre-Dame-New York University basketball rivalry will be con­ tinued in the National Basketball Assn. this season by Joe Dolhon, captain of YU last season, and , who scored 21 pointE for Notre Dame in the 1949 victory over the Violet in Madison Square Garden. Dolhon is now with the Baltimore Bullets. Oddly enough one of his new teammates is Paul Gordon, a Baltimore boy and captain of last season's otre Dame quint. Barnhorst, signed to a league contract. will play either with the or the Chicago Stags. Dolhon won four basketball letters at NYU. He is an alumnus of Saunders Tech and lives in Yonkers. Last winter he scored 248 pointE for the Violet, averaging 13.1 a game. Barnhorst was top otre Dame scorer in 1947-48 with 290. KNICKERBOCKER SCORING LAST SEASON Games Pts. Av. Games Pts. A v. Carl Braun ...... 57 810 14.2 Goebel Ritter ...... 55 337 6.1 Ray Lumpp ...... 61 777 12.7 Irv Rothenberg ...... 53 314 5.9 John Palmer ...... 58 714 12.3 Paul Noel ...... 47 177 3.8 Lee Knorek ...... 60 443 7.4 Mel McGaha ...... 51 176 3.5 Harry Gallatin ...... 52 434 8.3 Joe Colone ...... 15 83 5.5 J oe D olhon Bill Van Breda Kolff.. 59 415 7.0 Gene James ...... 11 42 3.8 Leo Barnhor st

KNICKERBOCKERS' 194,9 50 HOME SCHEDULE

Thursday Nov. 10 - Indianapolis Madison Square Garden Thursday Jan. 19 - Minneapolis Madison Square Garden Tuesday Nov. 15 - Syracuse Madison Square Garden Sunday Jan. 22 - Rochester Madison Square Garden Saturday (Aft.) Nov. 19-Philadelphia Madison Square Garden Wednesday Jan. 25-Fort Wayne Wednesday Nov. 23 - Washington 69th Regiment Armory Saturday (Aft.) Jan. 28-Philadelphia Madison Square Garden Saturday (Aft.) ov. 26 - Bo on MacHson Square Garden Sunday Feb. 5 - Rochester Madison Square Garden Saturday (Aft.) Dec. 3 - Baltimore Madison Square Garden Wednesday Feb. 8 - St. Louis 69tb Regiment Armory Saturday (Aft.) Dec. 10 - Chicago Madison Square Garden Saturday (Aft.) Feb. 11-Chicago Madison Square Garden Wednesday Feb. 15 - Baltimore 69th Regiment Armory Wednesday Dec. 14-Minneapolis Madison Square Garden Saturday Feb. 18-Fort Wayne 69th Regiment Armory Saturday (Aft.) Dec. 17-St. Louis Madison Square Garden Wednesday Feb. 22- Washington 69th Regiment Armory Monday (Aft.) Dec. 26 - Rochester Madison Square Garden Saturday Feb. 25-Chicago 69th Regiment Armory Madison Square Garden Sunday Jan. 1 - Philadelphia Wednesday Mar. 1 - Baltimore 69th Regiment Armory Saturday (Aft.) Jan. 7-Fort Wayne Madison Square Garden Saturday Mar. 4-Minneapolis 69th Regiment Armory Wednesday Jan. 11 - Washington 69th Regiment Armory Wednesday Mar. 8 - St. Louis 69th Regiment Armory Saturday Jan. 14 - Boston 69th Regiment Armory Wednesday Mar. IS - Boston 69th Regiment Armory

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