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Hawk Baseballers Start Play Monday
Kansas gets its 1955 baseball season underway Monday when the Jayhawkers meet the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in the first game of their annual southern road trip. Tuesday KU will play Arkansas a second game, then will play double headers with Arkansas State and Memphis Naval Air station on Thursday, April 7, and Saturday, April 9.
Arkansas was easy for Coach Floyd Temple's crew last year. The Kansans took four games from the Razorbacks, winning 9 to 5 and 7 to 4 on the road trip and then taking 5 to 2 and 13 to 4 decisions from Arkansas here.
This will be the Jayhawks first meeting with Arkansas State and Memphis. So far this year the Arkansas State Indians have beaten Barkside Air Force base 5 to 4 but they dropped two games to Centenary college at Shreveport, La. According to a press release the biggest problem facing the Indians coach, J. A. "Kee" Tomlinson, was cutting his squad down from 12 candidates. This statement will probably make Coach Temple trimpace with agony.
The only thing known about the Memphis Naval Air Station club is it is a service team and this in itself means it will probably be tough. The services habitually base their athletes at stations like the Memphis base and a few pros will probably be on the roster.
Wayne Tiemeyer, Bob Shirley,
and Loren Martin have all faced
and beaten Arkansas. Shirley, however, probably will be sidelined with an arm allure that has been troubling him, and Martin will have to handle most of the catching chores. Coach Temple's one two punch probably will be Tiemeyer and Gary Fenity, both south-paws.
The Jayhawkers will open their home season April 15 and 16 with two games against Arkansas. The Kansas nine moves into Big Seven play April 25-26 against Nebraska. Last year the Jayhawkers finished fourth in the conference.
The team will leave Lawrence
sunday morning and work out in
Coffeville, continuing on to Fay-
etteville Sunday evening.
The traveling squad members are Wayne Tiemeier, John Walz, Loren Martin, Bill Heitholt, Benny Croyle, Frest Holdog, Gary Padgett, Don Steinmeyer, Dick Blowey, Bob Conn, Don Dixon, Bob Shirley, Gary Fenity, Larry Ullmann, Don Adams, and Ben Dalton.
Pirates Sizzle In Spring Play
Rv UNITED PRESS
The Pittsburgh Pirates have been pretty funny for the last three seasons, what with their "space helmets," leaky infield, and humpy-dumpty pitching staff, but all of a sudden the other major-league teams have stopped laughing.
For the amazing (and amusing) last-placers have compiled a .667 winning percentage in Florida and it's starting to look like they can hurt somebody in the National league pennant race this year.
As Branch Rickey's club breaks up its training camp at Fort Myers, Fla., today and starts the barn-storming trek northward, the Pirates show this totally unexpected record: vs. American league teams, 9-2; vs. National league teams, 5-5; total vs. major league teams, 14-7. And they've done it the hard way—eight of their wins have been by one run.
So a hasty second look is being taken at the Pirates and their chances of climbing out of the N.L. cellar. The re-appraisal discloses; an improved infield with basketball great Dick Groat back from military service at shortstop; a dangerous outfield that includes speedy rookie Roberto Clemente to team with hard-hitting Frank Thomas and possibly Sid Gordon; competent catching in Bob Shepard, who hit .304 last year; and an improved pitching staff on which Vern Law, Dick Littlefield, and Max Kockont may be helped by ex-Dodger Ben Wade, ex-Giant Roger Bowman (a 22-game winner at Hollywood), Nelson King (a 16-game winner from New Orleans) and Al Grumwald (9-2 with two minor league teams last year).
Texas Relays Open Today; KU Sends 14
WAYNE TIEMIER
A 14-man KU track team left early yesterday for Austin and the Texas Relays, this afternoon and tomorrow.
This afternoon, the KU trackmen will run in the sprint and distance medley relays. Running in the sprint relay will be Frank Mastin, Bob Franklin, Dick Blair, Mike Swanson, and Bernie Gay. Franklin and Gay will team with Lowell Janzen and Al Frame for the distance relay.
In the individual events, Dick Blair will run the 100 yard dash, and Bill Biberstein will run th e120 high hurdles for KU in quest of his third straight Texas Relays championship.
Friday, April 1, 1955
Saturday, Jansen, Gay, Frame, and Jan Howell will team for the four mile relay. Then Janzen, Swanson, Frame, and Gay will comprise the two mile relay team.
Dick Knowles and Bill Nieder will toss the discus during the afternoon. KU team captain Bob Smith and Frank Mastin will work in the broad jump event.
Jan Howell, besides the relays,
will also enter the 300 meter run.
Les Bitner and Don Sneegas will
toss the javelin. In the university
mile. Howell and Swanson will run
for KU.
Bill Nieder will throw the shot for KU at the relays. Wes Santee, famed KU miler, will be at Austin in his first American outdoor run this year after a long and grueling indoor season.
After this weekend, the trackmen will return to Lawrence and begin afternoon workouts for the Arkansas Relays the following weekend. The same men who are in Texas are scheduled for the trip to Fayetteville.
Strauch Shines In Varsity Win
With freshman quarterback Wally Straugh passing to junior halfback Ralph Moody for one touchdown, and tackle Frank Gibson dashing 43 yards with a recovered fumble, for a second, Coach Chuck Mather's first eleven won a 15 to 0 victory over the second string in the third intra-squad scrimmage of the spring.
Two more freshmen, quarterback Dave Preston and halfback John Traylor, led the third team to a 6 to 0 victory over the fourth string. The pair hooked up on a 70-yard pass play on the last play of the afternoon. Fullback John Handley made the longest run of the day, getting off on a 63-yard sprint over left tackle, but he was hauled down from behind before reaching pay dirt.
Strauch added two more points to the total when he recovered a fumbled punt in the end zone of the second team for a safety. The play came when Moody kicked from the 34-yard line. Fullback Jerry Baker converted after Moody's touchdown for the 15th point.
The practice was the last for the Jayhawkers until after Easter vacation. The gridders will have a layoff of 11 days before resuming action April 12. Four days later, the annual Varsity Alumni football game will conclude spring drills.
Cats Down Wichita Twice in Baseball
Manhattan—(U.P.)—Kansas State has two victories already in its baseball book today after opening the season by trouncing Wichita University yesterday in a double-header, 6-2 and 4-3.
Santee to Run Again Tomorrow
By UNITED PRESS
The great outdoors—always the pride of Westerners—was cited by Kansan Wes Santee as a factor which might help him obtain the four-minute mile.
Santee, who just completed a season on the boards, will be running in the open air tomorrow at the Texas Relays.
He figured to shave at least two seconds off his time just by being in the fresh air. "Indoor running is rugged because of the curves," the KU great said.
"I'd say with the same effort you put into an indoor race you can run two seconds faster outdoors," he added.
Santee should know. America's greatest miler today, he clocked a 4:00.6 for an intercollegiate and American record in the Compton (Calif.) Invitational in 1954.
By the Kansan's calculations then, he should be ready to run the Jerry Thompson Mile at Austin in about 4:01 or 4:02. That's not far from the coveted four-minute mile.
Santee said that running the indoor mile was harder than racing on the cinders in the outdoor meets.
During the indoor season this year he lowered the world mark with a 4.006 enoit. Recently he ran the mile in 4:04.2 in Chicago and 4:04.6 in Cleveland.
Every time around indoors, he said, was a strain on his legs, side, shoulders and neck. As a result fatigue came faster.
"You have to swing your right arm across your body, too, instead of pumping it straight ahead," Santee said. "You have to cross it to maintain your balance on those tight curves."
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