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Wildcats Maintain
League Lead‘)

. Wildcats and Huskers Play Off ‘Tie
. Game Tuesday; Jayhawkers Continue re
: Drive for Four Straight Victories | |
By Big Scores

Going into the second half of the Summer Session softball tourney, the
league leading Wildcats are still undefeated although they had a close call
Tuesday evening. The hustling Huskers almost took the top team’s measure
—when they played to a nine inning tie which was called on account of

darkness.

During the week the Wildcats and 2—— : Art Lawrence, Wildcat second
- the youthful Jayhawkers have con- | baseman, is one of the many former
tinued to set the pace. The Wildcats, _ KU. athletes playing in the soft-
behind the effective pitching of Cun- |. ball league. Grid fans will remem-
ningham stopped the Sooners by ber that Art is the boy whose pass-
i touching Nelson for 11 safeties and; ing was the talk of the Big Six a few
i seven runs. The Huskers however years back. He is still as good as
j were<tuore stubborn “and dhe. ttle ever and is one of the chief reasons
bound Wildcats had to give every-| that the Wildcats are leading the
thing they had to secure a 7-7 tie. league. Art is now coaching at

This game will be played off next Rosedale High in Kansas City.
Tuesday. In case the Huskers win, EPCRA a tees
the league lead will be tied up with
the Wildcats and Jayhawkers on top.
The Jayhawkers are beginning to|
look like the tournament’s ‘hot team.’
They dropped their initial game to
the Wildcats but sirice then they have
been winning with big scores. This|
week the youngsters stopped the}:
Tigers and overwhelmed the Cy-.
clones.
i The Sooners and the Huskers are
in a battle for third place. The Soon-
; ers, in the third spot with three wins
' and two loses, have the Huskers close
behind with two and two and a play
off game to complete.
Fighting to stay out of the cellar
are the Cyclones and the Tigers.
Both teams have been defeated by
‘ ' the four top teams. When they met
5 earlier in the season, the Cyclones, |

 

 

 

 

By Jim Bell

 

A fellow by the ‘name of L. A.
Brooks is a headache to the Wild-
eats. He was the principal reason
that the Sooners showed so well
against the league leaders’. Brooks
is a teacher in East High in Denver.
In the play off game Tuesday,
Brooks made 11 put outs, more than
the average first baseman usually
gets. He plays in left field.

 

Dr. Allen’s son, Bob, who is Cap-
tain of the second place Jayhawkers
is willing to bet anyone his shirt
that his team will overtake the fast

_-stepping Wildcats before the season

be a2 os iF
driving across the winning run in th
last half of the seventh inning.

In their previous meeting the two
teams battled to a tie in an extra in-

 

 

 

jis over. His team mates feel the
|same way about it.

“Shorty” Coulson, of the Wildcat

Berit
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led by Vernon Lapp out distanced e|clan, is a gym instructor at Newton ning affair that was called on account
the Tigers by a score of 24-22. e|High. Newton is noted as a great | of darkness.
_ No team appears to be a cinch for |. s| basketball city, but “Shorty” as-| The game featured the defense

the title at this point. The next few)

weeks will see plenty of good base-
ball. A whale of a game is predicted
when the Jayhawkers tangle with the
Wildcats, as the conference title may
go to the winner.

Se aera aeereneianeee SPE

 

woe

 

sures us that they can do other
things there-- for instance, play

, | baseball.

Wildcats Win

 

 

 

work of Brooks and the pitching of
John Buller. Brooks, from the left
field garden was credited with 11
put outs. Art Lawrence and “Shorty”
Coulson contributed greatly to the
Wildcat win.

 

 

ee Playoff Game a -

4 * Team Ga Wel Pet
* Wildcats 4 4 06 1000 *|| The Wildcats retained their league

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*” Seaue 5g 2 600 * 6-5 in a play off game Tuesday even-

* Hackes 4. 9° og « ing. The game was tightly contested

&. Geclonee ee all of the way with the Cats finally

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