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Denver Team Slides Back In Scramble MISSOURI YUU A. A A. A U. U LEAGUE Standing Won Lost Pet Pct K Kansas City 6 8 i 1 3 J 3 Den Denver Dener er 4 3 Wichita n 1 r Ii 0 o 5 m. f This Thill on at Thursday Hutchinson Thursday at Wichita Friday McPherson Friday at Kansas Knous City Week Denver 31 it I I. I McPherson 55 Denver Den 44 Hutchinson 28 Denver Deliver 35 Wichita 36 er 21 Kansas City 27 1 KANSAS CITY Jan 13 UP The JP-The The The hapless Hutchinson quintet will have two chances fo to break Into the win column In the thet Missouri Valley A. A A. A U. U basketball at Wichita ichita Thursday in the only two league games c carded McPherson will vIlI meet the Kansas City an associate member of the league at Kansas City Fri Fri- rida ri- ri da day Fails to Gain Tie Tic Last weeks play was marked by bythe bythe bythe the failure of Denver to take advantage advantage tage of oC Its chance to tic tie Kansas City for tor the lead As Kansas City barnstormed barnstormed barnstormed barn barn- stormed in the far west Denver made its first road trip The Colorado team needed to win each of its three league games for a atie atie atie tie for first The best it could do was two out of ot three and It ended its jaunt Friday by losing to the The first Denver setback of the week was suffered at McPherson 55 The Colorado quintet had little trouble defeating Hutchinson 28 41 but it lost a raiser hair-raiser to Wichita 36 Close Exhibition The score of the tho Philco game was 27 21 which failed to indicate bow Jow ow close the exhibition game really was The threatened withdrawal of the Hutchinson club from the circuit also marked last week Gene Ware sponsor charged the players were paying too little attention to their jobs The difficulty was Ironed out and It was announced the team would play out Its schedule |