Cards Into First Place For First Time In 5 Years
By UNITED PRESS
Just six putouts—but enough to put the St. Louis Cardinals in first place today for the first time in exactly five years. That's the story so far this season for 41-year-old Ellis Kinder, who's been on hand for the last putout in no less than three of the rejuvenated Redbirds' six triumphs.
Ellis did it again Monday, retiring the last two batters in St. Louis' 2 to 0 victory over the Milwaukee Braves.
The victory, their fourth over southpaw pitching in five games, moved the Cardinals into first place in the National League. 31 percentage points ahead of the Brooklyn Dodgers and marks the first time they've occupied the circuit's top rung since May 1, 1951.
It was also the Cardinals' second shutout and gave Redbird pitchers a string of 19½ consecutive scoreless innings.
In all, Kinder has retired six batters this season but that seemingly puny total adds up to three victories in the books of manager Fred Hutchinson and general manager Frank Lane. For Kinder came out of the bullpen to retire the last batter in Vinegar Bend Mizell's 4 to 2 opening day win over the Cincinnati Redlegs and then hurled the full ninth inning in a 5 to 3 verdict over the Redlegs on April 24.
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T om Poholsky, 26-year-old right-hander, shut out the Braves for eight innings Monday but was yanked when he walked the first batter in the ninth. Jackie Collum retired one batter and then Hutchinson turned over the game to Kinder.
In the process, the Cardinals defeated their No. 1 "jinx pitcher," Milwaukee's Warren Spahn, who entered the game with a 43-22 lifetime edge over the Redbirds. The 35-year-old southpaw had a no-hitter for $62\%$ innings but then Ken Yoon, Rip Repulski and Wally Moon singled in succession to put the Cardinals ahead, 1 to 0. The Cardinals added another run in the ninth against Lou Sleater.
Nebraska Series Set For Today
Kansas' Monday baseball game with the University of Nebraska was postponed because of rain, and a doubleheader will be played today. Pitching for KU in its third round of Big Seven play probably will be Ron Wiley in the first game and Bob Shirley in the second.
The Cornhuskers have won two and lost none in conference activity and are tied with Missouri for the B Seven lead.
Missouri won its fourth Big Seven game Monday, beating Colorado 7 to 4 when third baseman Emil Kammer blasted a three-run homer in the fourth inning.
In the league's biggest upset so far, Kansas State dumped Oklahoma Monday 4 to 3, at Manhattan in the 13th inning. Dick Stone, who beat KU about a week ago, was the winning pitcher. K-State and the Sooners meet again today.
Last week K-State lost to the pitching of Missouri's all-Big Seven basketballer, Norm Stewart, 8 to 1.
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Bill Russell Drafted By Boston Celtics
A couple of former Big Seven players, Gary Bergen and Art Bunte of Utah, were drafted by New York. Norm Stewart of Missouri was picked by St. Louis. Wichita center Bob Hodgson was the choice of Milneapolis, while Rochester drafted Clayton Carter of Oklahoma A&M.
Bill Russell, San Francisco's alleverything boy of the 1955-56 basketball season, has been drafted by the Boston Celtics as the National Basketball Association staged its annual draft of college talent today. Russell was the Celtics' third choice.
The oldest unbroken Memorial Stadium record is the 100-yard dash mark set by Cy Leland of TCU in 1930. Texan Bob Whilden tied that record this year.
AAU Bans Track Team At W & M
The entire William and Mary track team has been declared ineligible by the AAU because two members of the squad participated in a race against Wes Santee in a meet April 14.
The school's athletic director said he intended to inform the AAU that he did not feel it was his duty to tell the Quantico team who could represent them. "William and Mary had a meet with Quantico and that was that."
John Core, official of the Virginia Association of the AAU, said the AAU cannot accept entries from the school's team. He said he was acting under orders from Dan Ferris, AAU secretary. The action of the AAU did not make the W. and M. team members professionals, but does make them ineligible for AAU sanctioned competition.
Olympic Team Needs Money
University Daily Kansan
Approximately $750,000 is needed by the United States Olympic committee to send a full strength team to the game in Melbourne. J. Lyman Bingham said today. The committee has only $400,000 on hand at the present time.
Tuesday. May 1, 1956.
Bragg Aiming At World Mark
NEW YORK (UP) —Don Bragg, the Villanova junior tagged by all the experts as the best bet to smash the 16-foot barrier in the pole vault, was worried about his weight today as he eyed an Olympic championship "and at least a world record."
Bragg at 188 is the heaviest of the seven pole vaulters who have surpassed 15 feet. It poses a problem.
Don simply can't get a pole which will support his weight until he gets it up into the vaulting stratosphere.
"If I get the right pole, and I've been doing a lot of experimenting, then I feel fairly confident that some day I'll have a chance at 15 feet," he said. "But right now I'm more interested in setting a new world record."
Which means that Bragg, a strapping six-footer with bull-like shoulders, narrow hips and long legs, isn't concentrating at the moment on the 16-foot barrerv: His mark at the moment is Corneius Warmerdam's outdoor record of 15 feet $7 \frac{3}{4}$ inches.
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