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University Daily Kansan
Monday, April 25, 1955
KU Baseballers Meet Nebraska Here Today
Barring a strikeout by the weather, lefty Wayne Temeier was scheduled to take the mound at 3 p.m. today on the home diamond against the University of Nebraska in the Kansas baseball squad's first league game of the year.
A second game with the Cornhuskers, or a doubleheader if today's game is rained out, will start at 3 p.m. tomorrow with Ben Dalton pitching for Kansas. Dalton has a record of two wins and one loss and has pitched a two-hitter and a three-hitter.
Tiemeier has won two and lost two this year and has been especially tough in the clutch. The little left-hander pitched nine innings of last Tuesday's 11-inning marathon with Oklahoma A&M which the Aggies won 5 to 4.
A total of 84 runs were scored by Nebraska through their first eight games, seven of which they won, but the opposition managed to get 52 tallies across the plate. By contrast the Jayhawkers, while losing six and winning four, have scored only 49 runs and have given up only 56 in ten games.
Nebraska has a powerful hitting club, but has had trouble with its pitching staff. Through the first eight games of the season the Nebraskans' have not had a hurler last nine innings.
The Huskers opened their Big Seven play last week by shellacking Kansas State twice, 15 to 0 and 13 to 2. The Wildcats bounced back over the week end and beat Colorado.
Considering the loss of Bob Shirley with an arm injury before the season opened, the Kansas pitching has been better than expected. Dalton and Tiemee have both pitched well and Gary Fenity shows promise 'of being able to go nine innings.
Only two men on the Kansas squad have been hitting well. Both Forrest Hoglund and Bob Conn have been rapping the ball consistently, but last year's leading hitter, Bill Heitholt, hasn't been able to find the range all year.
The KU team picked up some needed bench strength last week with the addition of footballers Ted Rohde and Joe Held to the squad. Both men are catchers.
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Sam Jones Hurls Neat Two-Hitter
Bill Veeck's tip to acquire Sam Jones was paying off for the Chicago Cubs today and making General Manager Hank Greenberg of the Cleveland Indians fear that he gave up the big pitcher one year too soon.
Purchased from Cleveland's Indianapolis affiliate as part of the deal in which the Indians obtained Ralph Kiner, the 29-year-old Jones pitched a two-hitter yesterday to give the Cubs a 2-1 victory over the Cincinnati Redlegs. The win enabled the surprising Cubs to sweep the three-game series with Cincinnati and also marked their fifth straight triumph over the Redlegs this year.
Rookie Herb Score failed for the second straight time yesterday as the Indians bowed to the Detroit Tigers, 6-4, for their third loss in four games. Score yielded five runs in six games and suffered his first big league loss even as Rookie Frank Lary won his first game.
Former teammate Ray Boone drove in four runs with a homer and a single for the Tigers as the Indians dropped their fifth game in 11 starts. It adds up to a disappointment for the American champions, but a today their record was 3-11 and they went on to win a record 11 games
The New York Giants won a spectacular, three hour and 55 minute struggle with the Brooklyn Dodgers, 11-10, in 10 innings and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 6-1, in other National league games. The Phillies led, 2-0, in the second game when it was suspended in the eighth inning. It probably will be completed on June 28.
Dean Smith Relay's Outstanding Athlete
Dean Smith, the speedy Texan who tied the KU Relays' record in the 100-yard dash Saturday, was speeding in the opposite direction when it was announced that he was named the "outstanding athlete" at the Relays.
Smith was on the train Texas-bound when it was announced that he had won the award.
So Texas track coach Clyde Littlefield accepted the award in Smith's behalf.
In the American league, Willard Nixon's two-hitter gave the Boston Red Sox a 1-0 decision over the New York Yankees and the Kansas City Athletics beat the Chicago White Sox, 5-0. The Baltimore Orioles beat the Washington Senators, 2-1, in their opener but the Nats won the nightcap, 5-2.
The St. Louis Cardinals released veteran pitcher Vic Raschi unconditionally.
Podoley Wins Second Crown In Decathlon
Jim Podolev of Central Michigan, defending KU Relays' champion, held true to Saturday as he repeated his 1954 decathlon win by scoring 6,340 points Saturday.
Edd Roberts, Oklahoma A&M
took second place with 6.144 points.
took second place with 6,114 points.
Other finishes: Joe Savoldi, Michigan State, 5,890; Philip Mulkey, Springfield, Mo. 5,872; Dale Saxton, Eastern N.M. 5,377; Russell Smith, Ft. Knox, 5,313; Robert Kemp, Beauregard, 5,218; Brian Calif. 5,023; Al Lange, Santos, Ana Calif. 4,993; Marian Hudson, Dana, 4,865; Willie Stevens, Fort Leonard Wood, 4,682.
Baseball Game Will Be Played Today
The baseball game with Nebraska, scheduled for 3 p.m. today, will be held, Coach Floyd Temple said this morning. There had been some doubt as to whether or not the game could be played, due to wet grounds. A second game between the two teams will be played at 3 p.m. tomorrow.
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Too Muddy for Wes
KU Netmen Win Season Opener
Delayed for two hours by rain, the KU tennis team opened 'its season by walloping Nebraska in seven straight matches.
Bob Riley, KU's number one player, defeated Nebraskan John Schroeder, 6-0 6-1, and Dave Kane, Kansas, defeated Steve Sutton, Nebraska, 6-0 6-0.
Don Franklin, Kansas, defeated John Moran, Nebraska, also by 6-0 6-0, and Del Hadley, Kansas, defeated Al Ford, Nebraska, 6-1 6-2
Bruce Wenger, Kansas, apparently had the only tough match of the day as he defeated Tom Stiff, Nebraska, 6-3 6-3.
KU travels to Iowa State today for its second match of the season.
In the doubles matches, Kane and Riley defeated Schroeder and Moran, 6-4 6-2, and Hadley and Wenger defeated Sutton and Stiff, 6-2 6-0.
Kentucky Derby favorite Nashua beat Summer Tan by a neck in the $111,700 Wood memorial at Jamaica.
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The feature of the KU Relay fizzled out because of a wet tractor as Wes Santee ran one of his slowest miles in the past few years in the Glenn Cunningham mile. The official time was 4:11.4.
Expectations were that Santee could set a new American record, but the rain and hail that fell earlier in the afternoon spoiled all chances for a record-breaking run.
Dick Wilson jumped off to an early lead with Art Dalzell in second place, Army-man Ted Wheeler in third place, and Santee in fourth.
Santee was still in fourth place going into the third lap, when Wilson dropped out, and in the mixup. Santee jumped into first place. Wheeler gained second place and Dalzell went into third.
Santee began to widen his lead over Wheeler in the third lap and was leading by 40 yards going into the final lap. At the tape, Santee was leading by a good 60 yards.
Though the crowd applauded the run, Santee threw up his arms if apparent disgust for the slow time
Santee will run in the Dral Relays this week end.
Yesterday's Star--Willard Nixon of the Red Sox, who scored a 1-0 two-hit victory to beat the Yankees for the sixth straight time.
Betsy Rawls of Spartanburg, S.C., won the Carrollton Women's Open Golf tournament with a 54-hole score of 218, three strokes ahead of Patty Berg.