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University Daily Kansap Monday. October 4,1954
Giants Head for Home After 4 Straight Wins
New York—(U.P.)-Baseball's new world champions, the New York Giants, began heading for their respective homes today, preferring to gloss over the Cleveland Indians' surprisingly poor World Series showing by firmly denying that the losers choked up.
The triumphant Giants, who will
The triumphant Giants, who will receive their Series' spoils later this month, admitted they bowled over the Indians more easily than they expected but there was no criticism of Cleveland's performance.
"Maybe we simply caught them at the right time," declared Alvin Dark, the Giants' shortstop and captain. "It's ridiculous to think that they lost because they got Series fever or anything like that. The Indians are a great ball club and don't let anyone tell you differently."
Other Giant players, like veteran pitcher Sal Maglie and second baseman Davey Williams backed up Dark but none of them could offer a reason for Cleveland's unexpected four-game collapse.
Whether the Giants admitted it or not, however, it was perfectly obvious that the Indians during the Series were not paying the same brand of ball that accounted for a record number of 111 victories during the American league season.
The Indians established a new World Series record with 37 men left on base, they failed to steal a single base, they made four errors that were listed in the official box score and several other mental lapses that didn't show anywhere except in the eventual outcome.
"You can't rap the Cleveland club just because we beat 'em four straight," said victorious Leo Durocher. "Sure, I'll admit I didn't figure we'd beat 'em four in a row. But don't forget we got all the breaks and they didn't get any."
The Giant players, feted by jubilant Rorace Stoneham, the president and owner, shortly after they returned from Cleveland Saturday night, generally talked about enjoying "a good long rest" for the next month or two.
Close Games In IM Play
Intramural 'A' football games played Friday were highlighted by two overtime victories and two shutouts. Touchdowns were scarce as the five losing teams scored a total of only nine points.
TKE 6. AKL 2
Tau Kappa Epsilon was held scoreless by AKL until the final play of the game when Dave Peery passed to Max Madrick for the winning touchdown. Leonard苏塔 passed to Bill Crowe for the conversion. AKL's two points came early in the first quarter when TKE was forced to punt near their own goal line.
Triangles 18 Acacia 6
Triangles 18, Acacia 6
The Triangles scored two overtime touchdowns to rush past Acacia and score a quick 18 to 6 victory. The first Triangle touchdown came when Jay Robinson took the ball from teammate Chuck Hill and ran for the score. In the overtime Hill threw to Vince Golden and later to Jim Herink to account for the Triangle scoring. The lone Acacia tally was on a pass from Jim Glass to Louis Buck.
Pearson 6. Sterling-Oliver 0
In the independent "A" division
Pearson Hall scored a 6 to 0 victory over Sterling Oliver hall. Ely Shraver passed to Leroy Herold for the only score of the game.
Stevenson 1. Jolliffe 0
Stevenson Hall and Jolliffe Hall battled to a scoreless tie in their game as neither team was able to penetrate the others defense. In the overtime Stevenson won a 1 to 0 verdict by gaining 5 yards while Jolliffe was unable to move the ball forward.
Delts 12. Phi Psi 0
Delts 12, Phi Psi 0
In the only "B" team game of the day Delta Tau Delta downed Phi Kappa Psi 12 to 0. First and third quarter passes from Don Ulrich to Charles Franklin were the game winning scores.
3 Big 7 Teams Score Victories In League Play
By UNITED PRESS
Colorado and Missouri loomed today as the teams most likely to contend for the Orange Bowl trip to Miami, Fla., next New Year's day, but Nebraska still was in the running and increasing steadily in size as a dangerous darkhorse.
Of course, Oklahoma still rated at the top—a prime favorite to annex its seventh straight conference crown—but Bud Wilkinson's Sooners, idle last week, are not eligible to engage the Atlantic Coast conference representative on Jan. 1 since they made the journey last New Year's day.
Thus, even if it proves to be a race for second place, there remains a coveted prize for the team which finishes nearest to the perennial champions from Oklahoma.
Colorado, Missouri, and Nebraska all got away to fast conference starts last week-end, winning by comfortable margins over Kansas, Kansas State, and Iowa State, respectively.
Missouri was particularly impressive, rebounding from its humiliating 31-0 loss to Purdue to hand Kansas State its first loss in three starts, 35-7. At the same time, Nebraska and Colorado were turning on second half power to rout their rivals. Nebraska thumped Iowa State, 39-14, scoring 25 points in the last period. Colorado, held even for a half, finally got its offensive rolling for a 27-0 verdict over Kansas.
The Colorado victory left. the team with one of the best records in the nation-three straight wins and a total of 134 points against none for the opposition.
Nebraska will take on Kansas State at Lincoln and hapless Kansas will go to Ames to play Iowa State in the only conference games this week. Missouri and Oklahoma face formidable opposition from the Southwest conference while Colorado will tackle Arizona at Tucson.
WertzPlaysSeries WithInjuredHand
Cleveland — (U,P)— Vtc Wertz, lone standout in the Cleveland shambles, revealed today he played the entire World Series with a painful hand injury which he concealed so he wouldn't be benched. Wertz, who led the regulars of both clubs with a 500 average for the Series, was reluctant to talk about the injury even "B-As" because I not looking for sympathy and I don't want to be considered a hero."
Despite the handicap, Wertz staged a one-man batting display, the likes of which have seldom been seen in Series history. He clouched two doubles, a triple, a home run, and four singles in addition to being robbed of a possible triple by Willie Mays in the first game and at least another single by shotstop Alvin Dark in the third game.
The Cleveland first baseman suffered what might be a severe bone injury in his left hand the final week of the season. Wert doesn't know the extent of the injury because he avoided seeing a doctor about it.
Oklahoma and Nebraska are the only Big Seven teams to hold a winning percentage over Kansas football teams.
In 1951 Kansas had nine players on the all-Big. Seven team.
ALMOST GETS AWAY—Bud Laughlin, KU fullback, almost gets away from two unidentified Colorado players as John Anderson, 87, moves in to block Les Lots, 80, Colorado end. Laughlin carried the ball seven times against the Buffaloes for a total of five yards.
Giants to Get $10,795.36
Cleveland—(U.P).—An unofficial estimate today placed the share of each member of the New York Giants for winning the World Series at a record $10,795.36 and the share of each member of the losing Cleveland Indians at $6,449.16.
The shares would not have been any higher if the series had lasted longer than four games, because the players' share comes only in the receipts of the first four games of a World Series.
However, this year's total players' pool of $798,763.70 set an all-time record. Factors in setting the new mark were the raise in ticket prices for this year's Series and the fact that the games were played in the two biggest parks in each league. To this pool was added approximately $88,000 in fees from a pre-game television show.
From the total pool, 70 percent goes to the two teams playing in the Series and 30 percent to the second, third, and fourth place teams in each league. The Series contestants' pool is split with 60 percent going to the winning team and 40 per cent to the losing team.
The previous record winning and losing shares were set last year when each New York Yankee received $8,230.63 and each Brooklyn
Dodger received $6,178.42.
The players on each team voted at the end of the season how to split up their team's player pool—with almost all the players receiving full shares, with some players who were only with the team part of the season, clubhouse attendants, bat boys, etc., receiving partial shares. The Giants reportedly voted $ 34_{ \frac{1}{2}} $ shares, the Indians $ 38_{ \frac{1}{4}} $ .
Buff's Clean Slate Includes 3 Shutouts
Boulder, Colo. — (U.P.)—Saturday's 27-0 defeat of Kansas left Colorado the only major unscored-on team in the nation, but Coach Dallas Ward saw little chance that the record would stand beyond another week.
The Big Seven Buffs were in for their hardest week of defensive scrimmaging so far, with touchdown-happy Arizona next on the schedule--under the lights at Tucson. Arizona whipped Utah 54-20 two weeks ago, and Utah dumped Oregon 7-6 this week while Colorado was taming sophomore-loaded Kansas.
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