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University Daily Kansan Monday, March 21.1955
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Mays, Rhodes in Gear For Defending Champs
By UNITED PRESS
Willie Mays is running wild and now Dusty Rhodes has started pinch-hitting homers again, so the world champion New York Giants are set to open the 1955 season. ◀
After Mays poled three homers to carry the champs to a 4 to 2 Saturday triumph over the Cleveland Indians, Rhodes kept the "World Series act" rolling yesterday by pinch-hitting a homer that touched off the winning rally in another 7 to 3 win over the Tribe.
The two victories put the Giants ahead, 4 to 3, in the spring series between the two teams that clashed in last year's fall classic.
But the Giants could hardly ask for anything more to make them happy. Mays, in top shape after playing winter ball, now has five spring homers and is fielding like, well, like Willie Mays, Rhodes has his eye on the ball again. And southpaw Johnny Antonelli, allowing only two hits in five innings yesterday, points up the general readiness of the pitching staff.
Rhodes' blast into the rightfield bleachers came off burly Mike Garcia and touched off a five-run rally.
The Brooklyn Dodgers, who want things to be “different” this year, saw something very different yesterday when manager Walter Alston got so steamed up he was ejected from a 9 to 8.10-inning victory over the New York Yankees. But Alston could be happy about ace Carl Erskine, who allowed only one hit in three innings, while Yankee skipper Casey Stengel was pleased with hurler Bob Grim, who gave one run and five hits in five innings.
Two other pitchers who delighted their managers were Frank Sullivan of the Boston Red Sox and veteran Emory (Bubba) Church of the Chicago Cubs. Sullivan, a 15-game winner last year, became the first Sox pitcher to go five innings and he allowed only one hit as Boston scored its fourth straight victory, 10 to 3, over the Detroit Tigers. He now has gone 11 innings without giving up an earned run.
Church, battling for a major league comeback after winning 11 games at Los Angeles, pitched perfect ball in his five-inning stint as the Cubs beat Los Angeles, 7 to 0. In retiring all 15 batters, Church struck out two and allowed only four balls to be hit to the outfield. It was the Cubs' fourth straight victory and their third shutout in nine games this spring.
The Pittsburgh Pirates continued to be pleased by the good showing
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In other camps;
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Jim McDonald, former Yankee, impressed the Baltimore Orioles by allowing no runs and only five singles in five innings, although the Orioles went on to lose to Kansas City, 3 to 2, when rookie Jack Littrell singled home the winning run off Saul Rogovin; Wally Post blasted two Cincinnati homers as the Reds beat the Chicago White Sox, 7 to 3, in a game that saw "Al Lopez field" at Tampa dedicated by Commissioner Ford Frick and other baseball officials, and Joe Adcock's eight inningHOME gave the Milwaukee Braves a 5 to 4 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals as Jim Wilson pitched five shutout innings for the Braves to win.
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The KU freshman track team maintained its perfect record by squeezing out a narrow 54 to 40 victory over the Notre Dame fresh in a postal meet held last week.
Dave Freeman was the big pointgetter for KU, winning the 60-yard dash and the high and low hurdles. Dick Eason was unable to pick up a blue ribbon, but scored seconds in the broad jump and both hurdles
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Other KU winners were Jerry McNeal in the two-mile, Bob Cannon in the high jump, Kent Floerke in the broad jump, Al Oterer in the shot put, and Tams in the shot put. KU was shut out in the 440 and the mile.
All members of the University of Kansas football coaching staff were voted salary increases by the board of regents Friday.
Head Coach Chuck Mather was given a $500 raise which increased his salary to $10,000. Mather is moving into the second year of a three-year contract.
Football Coaches Get Pay Boosts
The fourth annual game, comprising some of the nation's greatest collegiate stars, will get under way at 9:30 p.m. after a 7:30 p.m. meeting of Central College of Fayette, Mo., and Rockhurst college of Kansas City.
Assistant coaches Paul Schofer, Lauri Wartiainen, Dave Putts, Dick Piskoty and Wayne Reploge were given $200 raises. Schofer will now receive $6,500, and Putts, Wartiainen, Replogle and Piskoty $5,300 each. Salaries are paid by the KU Athletic Association and by the University.
Coached by Ken Loeffler of La Salle, the East squad also will include Dick Boushka of St. Louis, Ed Conlin of Fordham, Bill Evans of Kentucky, Dick Hemric of Wake Forest, Jack Sallee of Dayton, Don Schlundt of Indiana, Jack Twyman of Cincinnati, and Ed Weiner of Tennessee.
4th Shrine Game To Be Tonight
For the East there will be La-Salle's Tom Gola and Duquesne's Dick Ricketts. On the West team will be all-American Dick Garmaker of Minnesota.
Kansas City, Mo. — (U.P.)—With two all-Americans on the squad the East looked with confidence today toward achieving its first basketball victory in the annual East-West Shrine series which will be renewed here tonight.
The West, coached by "Sparky" Stalcup of Missouri, will rely on Garmaker, Burdette Halderson of Colorado, Lester Lane of Oklahoma, Cleo Littleton of Wichita, Jerry Mullen of San Francisco, Bob Patterson of Tulsa, Med Park and Bob Reiter of Missouri, Roger Tonneen of Utah, and Doug Duncan of Iowa.
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Russell of Frisco Picked As NCAA Most Valuable
Kansas City, Mo.-(U.P.)-Six-ten Bill Russell, who led San Francisco to the NCAA basketball championship by outplaying "player of the year" Tom Gola, bested Gola again today by winning the tournament's "most valuable player" trophy.
Both Russell and Gola were unanimous choices on the all-tour-nament team named today by 40 sports writers and sportscasters, while other players named to the honor squad were Carl Cain of Iowa, K. C. Jones of San Francisco, and Jim Ranglos of Colorado.
Jones, who stands only 6-1 to Gola's 6-7 but did a fine job guarding the LaSalla star, actually won scoring honors in the championship game with 24 points. But Russell scored most of the key points, including 18 in the wild first half that saw San Francisco pull out in front to stay.
The title victory was San Francisco's 26th in a row and 28th in
29 games this season. The Doo only defeat of the season came in their third game when they bowed to UCLA, 47-40.
The Dons' triumph confirmed their selection as the nation's N. 1 team at the end of the regular season by the United Press board of coaches.
Gola, voted college basketball's "player of the year" during the regular season, scored only nine points during the first half while Russell's 18 were sending San Francisco out in front. And then Gola tallied only seven in the second half while Jones was canning 18 to clinch the Dons' victory.
OU Swimmer Sets Record
Jeff Farrell, a former Kansas high school swimming star from Wichita, set a national AAU junior record of 51.5 seconds in the 100-yard free-style at St. Louis, Mo. Farrell currently is a freshman at the University of Oklahoma on a swimming scholarship.
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