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By BOB BRUCE
(Sports Editor of The Daily Kansas,
Big Seven baseball champion
Oklahoma plays its annual two-game
series with Minnesota today and
Tuesday at Norman, and there is
a likely chance that the Sooners
may lose for the second straight
year to the Gophers, which would
even the over-all series at 8-8
Last year's scores were 4 to 3 and
6 to 0.
The series, however, is not the first of the season for Oklahoma, who last week returned from a three-game Texas tour, in which they lost to Texas U. 6 to 2 and 9, and TCU 8 to 2.
Despite the losses, coach Jack Baer saw promise in pitchers Tony Risinger and Joe Mobra, and he thought his team met the ball well at the plate. Against TCU the Sooners came up with a triple play. Last year, OU lost to Oklahoma A&M in a best-of-three NCAA regional series to see who would go to the national in Omaha, while in regular season play they beat KU twice at Norman, 3 to 1 and 4 to 3.
Elsewhere in Big Seven play, Colorado opened Saturday against Colorado Mines, and today the Buffaloes move south for three games in Texas, two against Texas State at Alpine on Tuesday and Wednesday, and the third at Fort Bliss on Friday.
Although the Buffs return nine lettermen, the outlook is not bright. There doesn't appear to be as much talent as last year, when they finished fourth in the Big Seven, and the reluctant departure of winter has kept the team far behind its normal conditioning program.
NCAA national basketball champion five years ago was Kentucky; 10 years ago the titlist was Oklahoma A&M, while the champion 15 years ago was Wisconsin.
Kane, Burke Move Up Fast In Intra-Squad Tennis Play
Coach Dick Mechem reports continuing activity in the tennis team's intra-squad tournament over the weekend. The tournament, or "ladder," was set up by Mechem to aid in the selection of a varsity team for the first meet, which is tentatively scheduled for April 16 with Washburn, at the stadium courts.
Sophomore Gene Kane defeated Bruce Wenger in two sets 6-1, 6-0, to advance himself to the number four rung of the qualification ladder. Mechem considers Kane the outstanding contender for the vacancy created by the graduation of Don Franklin, last year's number three man. The defeat by Kane moved returning letterman Wofer. No 5.
Bud Burke, a senior who is out for tennis for the first time this year, took three steps up the varsity climb last week, by challenging and defeating Charles Barry, Jim Miller, and Roger Alberty.
Wenger met and defeated challenging number-six-man Phil Rein, 6-4, 7-5. Sunday afternoon.
Burke passed Barry 6-1, 6-1, for the No. 9 spot early last week, and on Friday he captured Miller's No. 8 position on the ladder, beating him 6-2, 6-0. Sunday afternoon Burke moved to No. 7 by beating Roger Alberty in two sets, 6-1, 6-2. His next match will be against Rein, Tuesday or Wednesday.
First-place Bob Riley will defend his position in the pre-season tournament, 3 p.m. Tuesday, against challenging Dave Kane, letterman No. 2 man.
Today at 3:30 p.m. Del Hadley will meet Gene Kane for the No. 3 position.
Of the top five men of the ladder,
K-State's Varsity Wins 19-6
K-State's Varsity Wins 19-6
MANHATTAN (UP)—Kansas
State's varsity ended 20 days of
spring football practice with a 19-6
win over the alumni Saturday.
Past NCAA championship basketball tournaments have been held in New York seven times, while Kansas City has been host to the national tournament six times since it was inaugurated in 1939.
tour are returning lettermen. Bob Riley, heading the team for the second year, is No. 1. Dave Kane and Del Hadley are second and third, and Wenger is No. 5. Gene Kane, the only newcomer at the top, is No. 4.
Confirmation of two meets is holding up the release of the schedule for season play. However, Coach Mechem is making plans for an exhibition match to be held the Monday after spring vacation.
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The exhibition match will place the top five Kansas netmen against a pick-up team headed by Mechem. The team will include Pete Woodward and Lynn Fry, outstanding Topeka amateurs; Charlie Crawford, former KU No. 1 man, and Philippe Hieronimus, foreign student and a former member of the City of Paris team.
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Today's schedule is: Diamond 1, Delta Delta Delta vs. Grace Pearson; diamond 2, Chi Omega vs. Miller and Watkins; diamond 3, Kappa Alpha Theta vs. North College.
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Texans Win Juco Title
5, Phi Gam vs. Beta; 5:45, Sig Chi vs. TKE (E).
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HUTCHINSON (UF)—A group of tall and talented Texans from Kilgore Junior College won the National Junior College Basketball championship Saturday night by beating Hannibal-LaGrange, Mo., 86-83.
9th & Indiana
Bob Kurland of Oklahoma A&M is the only player to win the NCAA tournament individual scoring title twice, winning in 1945 and '46.
JACKSONVILLE (UP)—Four new players, optioned from the Milwaukee Braves, showed up in the Wichita spring training camp today. The players, optioned Saturday on 24 hour recall, are pitchers Joe Jay and Carlton Willey, shortstop Joe Koppe and second baseman Ed Charles.
Wichita Options 4 Players
5. Phi Gam I i vs. SAE III (E); 5. Delta II vs. Beta III (W); 7:15. Phi Psi vs. Phi Gam II (E); 7:15. Beta I vs. SAE II (W).
4:15, Small Hard Corps vs. Army (B); 5:45, Pocorb or Liahoma (W).
5:45, ATO vs. Sig Ep (E); 6:30, Phi Gam vs. Kappa Sig (E); 6:30, SAE vs. Theta Chi (W).
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Moberly, Mo., which won the tournament the past two years, placed third with a 72-66 win over Pueblo, Colo. Jacksonville, Fla., took fifth with a 95-74 win over Greenville, S. C. New York Tech took fourth, defeating Graceland, Iowa, 77-70. Graceland ended seventh and Greenville eighth.
San Francisco is the third team in the history of the NCAA playoffs to win the title twice. The other two were Oklahoma A&M and Kentucky.
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