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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, Sept. 28, 1954
By JACK LINDBERG Kansan Sports Editor
Big time football has returned to Kansas. Yes, UCLA defeated the Jayhawks 32-7 Saturday and TCU defeated KU 27-6 the week before, but it was quite evident against UCLA that the Hawks aren't going to lose every game.
After the first quarter against the Bruins, the Jayhawks gave the visitors all the football they wanted. It seems though the Hawks were too impressed with the Uclans' press clippings during the first quarter, and they must have thought that they were destined to lose. But when they realized that they were playing men just like themselves, the entire picture of the game changed.
A tremendous improvement was noted in the blocking and tackling shown by the Kansas linemen. The ball carriers were running and driving harder. No one quit on any play until the referee sounded the whistle. It seems impossible that one team could improve so much in the short period of one week.
There are still large hurdles to overcome. The team is not too deep in any position. This will be a handicap all season when most of the other teams on KU's schedule can pour reserves on the field most of the time.
And then, Kansas still has eight tough games to play before the season is over. No one likes to lose, but as long as the team keeps playing like it did against UCLA no one should criticize too severely.
The World Series begins tomorrow, and Cleveland has won the support of the bookmakers. The odds run from 6 to 5, to 8 to 5. These odds seem about right considering the strength of the Indian pitching staff. In such a short series the team with the strongest pitching has the best chance of coming through on top.
The New York Yankees dominated the American league for five seasons with their pitching, but the Yankee pitching corps couldn't fight father time, and the pitches have to be replaced.
Right now, the Cleveland staff is just in its prime, or maybe a little past prime, but everyone is having a good year. Bob Lemon, Early Wynn, Mike Garcia, Bob Feller, and Hal Newhouser are all over 30, and Feller and Newhouser are on their way out—slowly.
The Giant pitchers cannot be taken too lightly, however. Sal Maglie and Marv Grissom, both over 35, are having fine seasons, and with Johnny Antonelli and Reuben Gomez showing excellent form, the Giants will be able to make the series mighty interesting.
The batting power of the two clubs appears fairly even. Larry Doby and Al Rosen give the Tribe a home run threat. Willie Mays and Hank Thompson act as equalizers for the Giants.
Both teams are fairly close in the fielding department, too, with the Giants having a slight edge.
But the pitching will tell the difference. It looks like Cleveland in six games.
Series Opens Tomorrow Durocher to Name Pitchers
New York—(U.P.)—Giants' manager Leo Durocher, who has the unique opportunity to name not only his own but also the Cleveland Indians' starting pitcher in tomorrow's opening game of the World Series, was expected to choose today either Sal Maglie or Johnny Antonelli.
If righthander Maglie (14-6) pitches for the Giants, Bob Lemon (23-7) will wurl for the Indians; southpaw Antonelli (21-7) would be opposed by Early Wynn (23-11).
Cleveland manager Al Lopez, who brought his solidly-favored American league champions to town this morning by train, made it possible for Durocher to pick both opening game pitchers when he announced yesterday his intention of matching Maglie with Lemon and Antoniella with Wynn—reserving, of course, the right to change his mind at the last minute.
Commenting that the top-heavy 17-10 odds favoring the Indians "don't look right to me," Lopez obviously was hoping to gain a slight batting advantage by these plans.
Lemon and Wynn both are righthanded pitchers. But Lemon bats left-handed and therefore figures to hit better against righthander Maglie than against lethanded Antonelli. Wynn, on the other hand, is a "switch" hitter and could bat right-handed against Antonelli.
Durocho has promised to announce his starting pitcher at the end of the Giants' final pre-series workout this morning at the Polo Grounds and Lopez is expected to follow immediately with his selec-
Durocho won't be making a last-minute pick—he said as long ago as
last Sunday that he already had made the choice in his mind.
Whichever pitching combination is picked for the first game, Maglie-Lemon or Antonelli-Wynn, the other combination is expected to start the second game on Thursday, which also will be played at the Polo Grounds. When the scene shifts to Cleveland's Municipal stadium for the third game on Friday, righthanders Ruben Gomez (17-9) of the Giants and Mike Garcia (19-8) of the Indians probably will be the burling rivals.
The Indians underwent a drill yesterday at Cleveland and at the end were warned by Lopez that, "this is going to be a tough series and it could go to the limit of seven games."
But odds-makers continued to make the Indians the solid favorites. In addition to the 17-10 odds favoring them to win the Series, the oddsmen also made the Tribe 6-5 favorites to win the opening game,
Captain Al Frame paced the KU cross-country team during the two-mile time trials Friday, as the Jayhawks warmed up for their first meet with Oklahoma A&M Oct. 14. Frame led the team with a time of 9:50.5.
Runners Prepare For Opening Meet
Coach M. E. "Bill" Easton, who is shooting for his twenty-eighth straight dual meet victory, said that the inexperienced Jayhawks were improving steadily and that the freshman runners were doing an especially fine job.
The times of the other members of the team were Jan Howell, sophomore, 10:00.4; Lowell Janzen, sophomore, 10:01.3; Tom Rupp, junior, 10:03.0; Bernie Gay, sophomore, 10:08.0; Mike Swanson, sophomore, 10:10.0; Grant Cookson, sophomore, 10:28.0; and Corky Eggert, sophomore, 11:02.5.
The times of the freshmen who ran with the varsity, were Hal Long, 10:02.0; Jerry McNeal, 10:07.0; Leon Matassarin, 10:11.0; Verlyn Schmidt, 10:21.0; Bob Nicholson, 10:25.0; Paul Baker, 10:30.0; Bob Cormack, 11:02.5; Bob Lida, 11:30.0; and Myron Greene, 11:52.0.
The second meeting of the KU Quarterback club will be held tonight at 8 p.m. in the Union ballroom.
Quarterback Club To Meet in Union
CU Practices for KU Game
Chuck Mather, new KU football coach, will show pictures of the UCLA game and comment on the highlights. Coach Matter will answer any questions about his system the audience fires at him. He will also comment on past games, and next week's opponent, Colorado.
Coach Mather urges women, as well as men, to attend the meetings. He says this is one way students can find out about how the new KU team functions. It will also add to the enjoyment of future games if students know what the team is doing, he added.
Boulder, Colo. — (U.P.)—Colorado university's so far defended team shook out whatever kinks remained from its 46-0 rout of Colorado A&M Saturday, heartened by the return of first line backlash Emerson Wilson to light action. Wilson missed the Drake and Aggie games because of a dislocated elbow, but likely will be ready for the upcoming encounter with Kansas.
Refreshments will be served during the meeting.
The Cleveland Indians defeated the Detroit Tigers 11 to 1 to set an American league record of 111 victories in a single season Saturday.
Closed Door of the Jaclyn stable won the second running of the $67,500 United Nations handicap while Royal Vale ran second and Kaster third.
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Phi Delts Whip 'B' Champs Beta, Sigma Chi Also Win
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The intramural season opened yesterday with three "B" team games from the fraternity division playing under cloudy skies. Two of the games were carried into overtime as the teams were tied at the end of the regular period of play.
Phi Delta Theta edged defending "B" Hill champions, Phi Gamma Delta, in an overtime when Don Sifers threw a pass to John Paul Jones for the winning yardage. The Phi Gams had failed to gain yardage in four downs during the game. An overtime period is always resorted to when two teams have played to a tie. Each team has four downs. At the end of the four downs the team that makes the most vardage wins the game.
Beta 28, Kappa Sig 6
Beta Theta Pi defeated eight determined Kappa Sigs 28 to 6 as their strong passing attack moved the ball for four touchdowns. Innes Phillips received the ball three times from the arm of Curt Nettles for three Beta scores. Beta caught Kappa Sig behind the goal line for a safety and scored two of their four extra point attempts for a twenty eight point total.
Phi Delt 7; Phi Gam 6
Sifers had connected with Jones during the game for a touchdown to put the Phi Delts out in front 6-0, but a few plays later Phi Gam tied up the score on a touchdown pass from Dick Blair to Harlan Hise.
Nats Have Potential New Pilot Believes
Sigma Chi 7. ATO 6
Alpha Tau Omega and Sigma Chi battled to a six point tie and were forced to a showdown overtime. The Sigma Chi队 team tied the game with only seconds to play and then captured the contest with a three yard gain during the overtime. Gene Curtz hit John Walz for the ATO score while Tom Graber and Wayne Swanson teamed up for the Sigma Chi touchdown.
New York—(U.P.)—Charley Dresen, who has been given a "free rein" in player deals in his new job as manager of the sixth-place Washington Senators, cheerfully insisted today that he has the "nucleus of a really good ball club."
And one way he may build around that nucleus, he indicated, would be to bring to the Senators some of the star minor league players he managed this season at Oakland in the Pacific Coast league. It is believed Dressen will receive $25,000 per year.
Bicarb, with Ted Atkinson riding, won the $29,450 New York handicap at Belmont park. Trusting was second and Cold Command third.
Coach Makes Few Changes
Coach Chuck Mather made several changes in the KU lineup at football practice yesterday.
Mather placed George Remsburg at guard and said he would play that one position, instead of being shifted from guard to fullback.
Dick Knowles was moved into the right tackle position in place of Gene Vignatelli during yesterdav's session.
Another change was the moving of Rex Sullivan to right halfback, after his excellent performance against UCLA. Sullivan replaces Dick Blowey at half.
Mather also had several more injuries on the team. Dick Todd, second string left guard, missed practice because of a severe hip bruise. Mike Rodgers, a reserve tackle, suffered a pulled leg muscle, and Harry Solter, reserve fullback, received a shoulder injury in the Kansas 'B' game at St. Benedicts Saturday.
UP Football Poll
Team Points
1 Notre Dame (22) (1-0) 333
2 Oklahoma (8) (2-0) 284
3 Iowa (2) (1-0) 217
4 UCLA (1) (2-0) 184
5 Wisconsin (1-0) 147
6 Maryland (1-0) 121
7 Duke (1) (1-0) 107
8 Southern California (2-0) 90
9 Penn State (1-0) 73
10 Mississippi (2-0) 57
Second team—11, Ohio State, 44;
12, Texas Tech (1), 43; 13, Baylor,
40; 14, Purdue, 33; 15 South Caroline,
24; 16, Texas, 19; 17 (tie),
Florida and Rice, 8 each; 19, California,
17; 20, Texas Christian, 13.
Others — Michigan State, 10;
Michigan, 7; Northwestern, 5; Tennessee, 4; Minnesota and Stanford,
3 each; Colorado and. West Virginia,
2 each; Arizona, Navy and Yale, 1 each.
Paid attendance to major league baseball rookie 10.8 per cent this year over the 1953 season. A total of 15,937,282 fans paid their way into the sixteen big league parks this season.
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