Sotthall Games |
JUL L& 1939
Draw More Than

seventy Players

%* League Teams Named
After Big Six Members
With Wildcats in Lead;
All-Star Game Thursday

By Dave Shirk
More than 70 Summer Session stu-
dents have been playing intramural

 

softball this summer. From these 70/

men came the conference known as
the Big. Six National Softball League,
each team named for a member of
the Big Six. Last summer the Jay-
hawkers won the conference by
winning 8 games and losing 1. . So
far this year we find the Wildcats
setting the pace for championship

honors. During the first few games|

there was a little drafting of play-
ers to equalize the squads.

Included in the galaxy of softball
luminaries in the Big Six National
Softball League firmament are names

that have been listed with the great
or near great. The teams and cap-

tains are:

Wildcats: Lawrence Stanton, cap-
tain; John Hocevar, Art Lawrence, |

Alvin Emch, J. D. Caldren, Dean

Nesmith, Willie Keeler, Dick Barnes, |'

Harold Pitts, Bryan Blackburn, Har-
old Smith, Eddie Ash, Brown.
Tigers: Clarence Spong, captain;
Hayes, R. A. Blowey, Cliff Olander,
Joe Trimeloni, Jack Turner, Mike

Andrews, Harold Frost, J. F. Ebelke, }

Stud Bales, L. Spong, Harold Sum-
_mers, L. Eiffert.

Cyclones: Kenneth Senter, captain; |

Francis Moore, Lee Allen Casida,
John Sterrett, George Gilmore, Dal-
las Myers, Gerald Barker, Bill Ho-

gan, Bingham, Joe Wilkerson, Street- |
er, Jack Jewell, Oglevie, S. Packard. |

Cornhuskers: Fred King, captain;

Bobby Allen, Lyle Reed, Fen Dur- |

and, George Golay, Hank Ewert, John
Rider, Rusty Frink, Charlie Paddock,
Bill Fitzgerald.

Sooners: Paul Masoner, captain;
Russell Mosser, Fred Littooy, Loren |:

Florell, Vernon Hayes, Harley Prit-
chard, Dale Hutchinson, A. E. Garri-
son, Isaac, Bert Nash, Branson.
Jayhawkers: Barney Forker, cap-
tain; Harold Reade, Frank Naylor,
Oscar Foote, Ken Hill, Chet Shep-

herd, Lawson Roberts, Bob Camp- |

bell, James Miller, Don Spaulding.
Umpires: Dr. Forrest C. Allen, Dr.
E. R. Elbel, Dr. J. W. Twente.

 

 

 

 

ions of the Big Six National softball

| hawkers, won the all-star game by a

Softball Stars Picked

For Game With North
Lawrence Alinptarsy 1939

An all star. squad picked from
the Big Six National Softball league
will play the North Lawrence all-
stars at the North Lawrence park
July 21. Freddie “Czar” Harris, for-
mer University football star, will
be in charge of the North Lawence
team while Dr. F.C. Allen will coach
the University team.

The Big Six all-stars are; Wilk-
erson and Hoceaver, pichers; Pritch-
ard and Roberts and Senter, catch-
ers, Caldren and Foote, 1 b;
Casida and Nesmith, 2b; Emch and
V. Hayes, 3b; Florell, Fitzgerald,
Frink, and Barnes, ss; Keeler and_
King, rf; Miller and Olander, cf;
Masoner and Allen, If.

The All-stars also have a game
scheduled with an Ottawa team.

 

All-Stars To Play
Leaque aor Wildcats
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On Wednesday,

League will play an all-star team
composed of members from the other
five teams. The captain of the sec-
ond place team automatically be-
comes the captain of the all-star ag-
gregation. The game will be played|:
at 4*15 p.m. on the intramural field.
Last year the champions, the Jay-

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score of 8 to 7 in a tightly fought
game. This year’s game promises to

 

| be just as good as last year’s. Law-
‘rence Stanton, coach at Page City,

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who captained the all-star team last
year, is the captain of this year’s lea-
gue-leading Wildcats. as

 

TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1939

ALL-STAR GAME THURSDAY |

 

A picked team of Summer Ses-
sion students in the Big Six Na-
tional Softball League will meet
the all-star group of the North
Lawrence league Thursday eve-
ning, July 20, at 8:30 on the Wood-
lawn diamond. Dr. Forrest C.
Allen will be in charge of the
Summer Session team, and Freddy
Harris, “Czar” of the North Law-
rence league, will be in charge of
the boys across the river.