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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Sept. 16, 1955.
Cross Country Workouts Start
Three seniors, four juniors and eight sophomores are in the running for this year's cross-country track season at KU.
Leading the team as captain for the second year will be Al Frame who won the NCAA cross-country last year when KU took fourth place. The other two seniors are Tom Rupp and Bob Brooks.
Bernie Gay, Grant Cookson, Jan Howell, and Lowell Jansen are the juniors returning from last year's squad.
Up from the freshman team are Jerry McNeil, Bob Nicholson, Harold Long, Verland Schmidt, Bob Cormack, Paul Baker, Earl Eblen, and Bob Farris.
The first long run for the team
AL FRAME
will be against Oklahoma A&M at Stillwater on Oct. 14.
Though a meet is scheduled with Drake on Oct. 22, Coach Bill Easton is negotiating with the Quantico, Va., marine corps station for a meet here since Drake has asked for a release on that date.
Missouri will run here on Oct. 29,
followed by KU traveling to Norman
on Nov. 4, with a run against
Oklahoma.
The Big Seven cross-country will be at Ames, Iowa, this year on Nov. 12.
The team will go to East Lansing, Mich., on Nov. 21 for the NCAA meet and take a crack at a better spet than the fourth place they had last year.
Something new in the way of coaching track was announced during the summer as Jack Warner, graduate student, was named as assistant track coach to tell Easton.
Coach Easton, always on the lookout for new track men, said yesterday that "we know there are a lot of trackmen on the campus." "We'd be awful happy to have them report to us at the field or at the fieldhouse," said Coach Easton. He added he was ready to talk with any and all trackmen, freshman and transfers, with track ability.
By JOHN McMILLION Kansan Sports Editor
Football is in the air and already the sports pages are being revamped to allow the pigskin sport to replace baseball but over in the American League a whale of a pennant race is underway. It looks like a two-team race now between Cleveland and New York but you can't count the White Sox entirely out of the picture.
Cleveland has eight games remaining and six of these are with the tough fifth place Detroit Tigers whose goldust twins, Kaline and Kuenn, can break up any ball game. The Yankees have 10 games remaining and they must face power-laden Boston in six of these. The White Sox have eight remaining games and six of these are with Kansas City, who, have been easy pickings for the Sox all year.
Both the Yankees and Cleveland have lost 56 games but Cleveland has won two more than Casey Stengel's crew. Cleveland has 90 wins and the Yanks 88. The third place Chicago club, four games off the pace, has an 86 won 60 lost record and fourth place Boston, seven games back, has won 82 while losing 62.
Reminder:
Eoston About Out
Any combination of three Cleveland wins and three Boston losses will eliminate the Red Sox so it looks as if Pinky Higgins will have to wait till next year. For Marty Marion and his White Sox the combination is five wins or five losses.
If Casey Stengel and his Bronx Bombers can handle the Red Sox, a job they haven't been able to do all season, "Old Case" could very easily secure his sixth championship in seven years. For Senator Al Lopez it will be a job mainly of keeping the Indians from living up to their reputation of blowing pennants in the final stages of the game.
The dark horse in the picture is without a doubt Marty Marion's White Sox. The Sox have been nipping like a small coach dog at the leaders' heels all year and have managed to get on top of the heap several times.
White Sox Play A's
If the Chicago club can handle troublesome Kansas City while Boston and the Tigers are dealing out trouble in heavy doses to the league leaders then Chicago may have its first World Champion since 1919.
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Manager Marty Marion of the White Sox pointed to the lack of hitting and the failure of hurler Dick Donovan to regain his pitching form since undergoing an appendectomy as the prime factors in the White Sox downfall.
Marion also professed a genuine fear of the Athletics. "Look at what they did to Boston," the lanky ex-shortstop said. The A's took two of their last three games from the Sox.
Another element that may be causing Marion to worry about Kansas City is what happened when the two clubs met last April. At that time the Sox beat the A's 29-6 and then Aug. 11 rubbed salt in the wound by beating Lou Boudreau's crew 14-1. Chances are the A's and their fans haven't forgotten those debacles.
Blasi Thinks Current Squad Best Since 1952 Eleven
One of KU's starting tackles, 215 pound Gene Blasi, thinks this year's team is 50 per cent better than last year's club. "In fact," he added, "I think we've got the best team KU has had since 1952."
By DICK WALT
Considering the fact that 1952 was the year Kansas had Gil Reich, Charlie Hoag, Oliver Spencer, and company, this is quite a statement. That year the Jayhawks compiled an 8-2 record and gave mighty Oklahoma a scare before bowing to the Sooners.
ber.
Blasi is slated to start at right tackle for Mather's crew tomorrow night in the season's opener at Fort Worth against Texas Christian University. A 6 foot 2 inch performer Gene has the capability of becoming a tackle of Big Seven cali-
BLASI
Gene thinks the main reason for the improvement in this year's squad is the added depth at each position. "There is competition at every position," he said, "and that makes everyone play better."
"I think I'm at least 50 per cent better myself." Gene said. "I know I've come a long ways from last year after watching the films of last season's games." Gene lettered as a tackle last year for the first time after playing briefly as an end in 1953.
The improvement in Blasi's play
Plans Started For Fall Intramurals
Walt Mikols, director of men's intramurals, yesterday outlined an extensive fall program consisting of touch football, golf, tennis, badminton, handball, and horseshoes.
He urged team managers to begin conditioning their touch football squads immediately. Intramural fields are now available for such practice. In all probability, the season will begin the week of September 28, with A and B competition in both independent and fraternity divisions. There will be a meeting of team managers sometime during the week of September 21.
With the exception of golf, all other fall sports will have both singles and doubles play. For further information contact Mr. Mikos or his assistants, Don Henry and Belden Mills, at room 107, Robinson Gymnasium.
is an example of the continued improvement in both performance and spirit of the entire 1955 squad. Gene like the rest of the team, is very optimistic about the chances for this year's club.
In addition to being a football player Blasi also doubles as a shot-putter on Coach Bill Easton's track squad. Last year he placed second in the shot put in the Big Seven tournament with a toss of 50 feet 11 inches. He professes, however, to like football better than track. During his freshman and sophomore years Gene was an end but switched to tackle last season.
Oddly enough, Blasi was a basketball star in high school rather than a football star. A graduate of Pratt High School Gene received honorable mention notice his senior year on the high school All-American basketball sound.
Even in high school, however, Blasi was an all-around performer, winning five letters in both football and track and four in basketball. This record makes him one of the best athletes in Pratt's history.
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