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By JOHN McMILLION
Kansan Sports Editor
The price you have to pay when you start writing sports is to continually crawl out on a limb and then saw it off behind you. From now until Thanksgiving the Kansas sports staff will do that every Friday on 20 major college games
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The staff, consisting of Daryl Hall, Sam Jones, Dick Walt, Les Flanagan, Kent Thomas, Bob Lyle, and yours truly will attempt to pick the score of the KU game and the winner of 19 other games every week.
The other 19 games picked were Kansas State-Iowa, Colorado-Arizona, Missouri-Michigan, Nebraska-Ohio State, Oklahoma-North Carolina, Alabama-Rice, UCLA-Maryland, Notre Dame-SMU, Minnesota-Washington, Michigan State-Indiana, Navy-William & Mary, Illinois-California, Stanford-Oregon State, Southern California-Oregon, Georgia Tech-Florida, Texas Tech-TCU, Mississippi-Kentucky, Louisiana State-Texas A&M, and Arkansas-Oklahoma A&M.
Little Agreement On Results
For a starter this week here is how the staff picks the score of the Washington State game. Sam Jones, KU-12, WS-26; Dick Walt, KU-14, WS-27 (the two pessimists in the crowd); Leo Flanagan, KU-20, WS-19; Daryl Hall, KU-21, WS-19; Lee Thomas, KU-20, WS-14; Bob Lyle, KU-21, WS-14 and John McMillion, KU-26, WS-20.
The staff agreed on seven games, picking Iowa to beat Kansas State, Colorado to beat Arizona, Michigan to beat Missouri. Ohio State to beat Nebraska, Oklahoma over North Carolina, Navy over William and Mary, and Arkansas over Oklahoma A&M.
Most of the other games were fairly evenly divided. McMillion and Lyle picked Alabama over Rice and the others took Rice; Flanagan, Walt, and Lyle took Maryland over UCLA, the others picked the Bruins; McMillion, Jones, and Hall picked SMU over Notre Dame while Lyle, Walt, Flanagan, and Thomas took the Irish, only Jones and Hall took Washington over Minnesota, and Lyle, Flanagan, and Thomas picked Stanford over Oregon State.
All Alone
Jones and Hall differed from the pack by picking upstart Texas Tech to beat TCU, and Flanagan and Thomas were the only two to take LSU over Texas A&M.
Thomas, McMillion, Hall, and Lyle went off on a tangent and found themselves lone backers in several instances. Thomas was the only man to pick Indiana over Michigan State and Florida over Georgia Tech. McMillion took California over Illinois while the rest picked the Illini. Hall was the SAC writer to take Oregon over UC and Lyle went out on the limb to pick Kentucky over Mississippi.
There it is for what the consequences may be.
Yanks Can Win Pennant Today
By UNITED PRESS
The streaking New York Yankees get three big chances to clinch the American League pennant today.
Already assured of at least a tie for the flag, the fired-up New Yorkers can put the flag under lock and key by winning either their day game or their night game against the Boston Red Sox in Boston. Or they could lose both and still clinch today if second-place Cleveland loses its day game to the Detroit Tigers in Detroit.
"If we don't clinch the flag to today, I'll be awfully disappointed." Yankee Manager Casey Stengel admits.
"We should have that old pennant in the bag this afternoon or onnight," said Stengel as he named righthander Don Larsen to make the afternoon try and southpaw Tommy Byrne to follow at night. Meanwhile, the Yankee clubhouse man put the champagne on ice, all set for the big celebration.
The "magic number" is only "one"—one Yankee win or one Indian loss.
The disappointed Red Sox, who dropped right out of the pennant race by losing 12 of their last 14 games, are anxious not to be humiliated in the bargain. To keep the corks in the Yankee champagne bottles just a little longer, they named pitchers Tom Brewer and Willard Nixon for today's games.
It also would be the sixth flag for: Manager Stengel. And clinching in Boston would give gnarled old Casey an extra kick, because he operated in the "Hub City" for several sad seasons as manager of the downtridden Boston Braves.
games. The 1955 pennant would be the sixth for the Yankees in the last seven years, an awesome record of league domination, and their 21st in baseball's modern era.
Out in Detroit, the Indians could only do their best against the Tigers and, at the same time, keep an eye on the scoreboard to see how the Yankees are doing in Boston. All Cleveland hope is at the vanishing point, but Manager Al Lopez won't yell "uncle" until the last mathematical chance is gone.
HANDLEY
"We'll still keep on trying because anything could happen," Lopez insisted stubbornly, "After all, the Yankees could lose all their remaining four games."
TRAYLOR
Home Run Bat, Ball To Hall Of Fame
CINCINNATI —(U.R.)— The National League player who hits the final home run of the current campaign will have his name and the bat with which he hit it enshrined in baseball's Hall of Fame.
The bat and the player making the horner will have special significance because the league already has set a new record for homers in a season. The last one hit will fix the number entered in the record books.
He didn't sound much like he meant it.
The Yankees must lose all their remaining four games and the Indians must win all their remaining three for the two teams to finish in a tie for the pennant. In that event, they would meet in a single game playoff in Cleveland on Monday.
Little Leagues Hurt—Doctor
PITTSBURGH (U.P.)—Dr. Thomas E. Shaffer, pediatrician at Ohio State University, said yesterday that Little League baseball is being jeopardized by grownups who place winning ahead of fun. Dr. Shaffer claims that Little Leagues often are harmed because the players are "exploited" by older people.
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Flo Chadwick Hits Channel
DOVER, England —(J.P.)—Florence Chadwick, San Diego, Calif., long-distance swimmer, today made another attempt to swim the English Channel nonstop to France and back.
Miss Chadwick plunged into the chilly waters of the Channel from the beach at Shakespeare Cliff near Dover at 2:47 a.m. (10:47 p.m. Thursday EDT). Only a handful of newsmen and photographers were on hand.
Miss Chadwick said that she would "stay no longer than 15 minutes on the French side before starting to swim back."
"I think I have a good chance despite the rain," she said.
GIBSON
It was raining heavily when she set off but the waters of the Channel were calm. Channel experts said that Miss Chadwick had a good chance to complete the nonstop round trip swim if the weather did not worsen.
Miss Chadwick already has conquered the Channel three times. She was the first woman to swim the distance both ways.
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