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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, Sept. 21, 1954
By JACK LINDBERG Kansan Sports Editor
This is the time of year when the baseball fan dies a slow death and the football fan comes into his glory. But to most of us it is just a change from one sport to another. For awhile a story on a football game might mention the sixth inning, or a baseball story might mention a field goal, but everything will get straightened out in a week or so.
The major league pennant races close Sunday. Cleveland has already clinched the American league, ending the New York Yankees' string of five league championships and five world championships. At this writing the New York Giants hold a five and a half game lead over the Brooklyn Dodgers with six games to play.
Assuming the Giants win the National league it will open at the Polo Grounds, home of the Giants.
The professional odds makers will undoubtedly install the Indians as the series favorite. The Tribe has more pitchers than a certain Mr. Carter has something or another. Mgr. Al Lopez can call on Bob Lemon, Early Wynn, Mike Gareca, Bob Feller, Bob Hooper, Hal Newhouser, Ray Nawleski, Don Mossi, and Art Houttman.
Cleveland is now trying to set an all-time American league record for team victories in one season. The New York Yankees won 110 games and lost 44 in 1927 for the present record. Cleveland's record at the moment is 107 and 40 with seven games to play.
The Giants have been in the Senior circuit lead most of the season with leads ranging from one-half to seven and a half games. Whenever the Dodgers or Milwaukee Braves threatened the Giants, the men from Coogan's bluff repelled them easily.
A few years ago the major baseball players went South of the Border, down Mexico Way, now the professional football players are traveling in the other direction. Canadian professional football has attracted much interest in the last few weeks because of one game being televised each Saturday afternoon.
Right now Canadian football seems comparable to AAA baseball to the majors. Most of the players are not of the same top-notch caller as the American teams, although many first class men have jumped to Canada. It seems possible that in not too many years the Canadians and Americans will have to play a "World Series" in football, or the two leagues will merge into one, just as the American conference merged with the National Football league four seasons ago.
In either case, a merger or playoff, there will have to be some rule changes. In Canada 12 men are on each team, a touchdown is worth only five points, and a single point can be scored on a rouge. The length and width of the playing field would have to be standardized, too. The American playing field is 100 yards long and 160 feet wide, and the Canadian field is 110 yards long and 65 yards wide. And the Canadians also have a 25-yard end zone.
Two major playing differences in the league are: in Canada there can be no down field blocking 10 yards past the line of scrimmage, and there is no fair catch of a punted ball. On the punt opponents must be five yards from the man catching the ball.
Canadian football might sound a little difficult to us, but then maybe our football sounds a little mixed-up to them.
Hard Sessions Slated for MU BeforeOpener
Columbia, Mo. - (U.P.)- Heavy practice was scheduled today and tomorrow with a light workout Thursday for Missouri's football team.
The squad will take off Friday for the game with Purdue Saturday.
Coach Don Faurot moved Harold Thomczek up to number two full-back for his excellent work Saturday in a game-size scrimmage. Rain forced the squad indoors for their practice yesterday.
Norman, Okla.—(U.P.)—Star signal-caller Gene Calame, who quarterbacked the Oklahoma Sooners to victory over California last Saturday, got a rest yesterday.
Calame did not work out and other first team members engaged in only light drills.
The rest of the squad scrummaged each other as coach Bud Wilkinson pushed his charges toward readiness for Saturday's scrap with Texas Christian university at Norman.
Manhattan —U.P.— Kansas State coach Bill Meek reported today his footballers came through Saturday's 29-0 victory over Colorado A&M without injury.
The first two units engaged in only light practice yesterday, galloping through passing and kicking drills. The reserves held a brief scrimmage.
Apparently pleased with his squad, Meek said, "We came out of it in great shape."
Sophomore halfback Tony Addeo, who was injured before last Saturday's game, was out on the field yesterday, but Meek would not say whether the 175-pound speedster would make the Wyoming trip.
TACKLE DICK KNOWLES—One of the few men on the KU line this season that weighs more than 200 pounds. In the official check two weeks ago, Knowles weighed in at 207 pounds.
Mather Makes Two Changes
In a move to bolster his depleted fullback corps, Coach Chuck Mather yesterday shifted 205-pound junior, George Remsberg, from his guard position to fullback, to take up the slack left by injuries to Bud Laughlin and John Handley, the first and second string full-backs.
The total value of crude oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids produced in Texas in 1953 was $3,404,800,000.
Twenty-six species of wild orchids are found in the Great Smoky Mountains National park.
According to studies made by engineers of Fairbanks, Morse & co., 1.405 gallons of water are required to bring a helping of potatoes to the dinner table.
In place of Remsberg, who alternated at both positions in the TCU game, Lawrence sophomore Bob Preston was moved from tackle to guard from the fourth unit.
The Bronx borough of New York City gets its name from Jonas Bronck, a Danish expedition leader who settled north of the Harlem river in 1639.
Laughlin is still hampered by a cut leg that became infected 10 days ago; Handley by an ankle injury he suffered in the final scrimmage a week ago Saturday. The No. 3 fullback, sophomore Tom Webb, missed the first game because of a leg injury also.
Ralph Moody, junior left half-back, was limping as a result of an injury he suffered in the final stages of last Saturday's game.
The team practiced offensive and defensive plays in a three-hour practice session yesterday. Most of the plays were to perfect offensive tiring and defensive blocking assignments.
The squad then practiced its individual playing skill, such as passing, kick-offs, placements, and punting.
The session closed with all the men participating in 100-yard wind sprints.
IM Basketball First for Women
Basketball will be the first intramural sport for women, it was decided at a meeting of the intramural board Friday.
Ruth Hoover, director of women's intramurals, said the reason for scheduling basketball first is to alleviate the problem of having both the men and woman participating in the same sport at the same time.
same time.
Rules for the coming season were discussed at the meeting, but no major changes were decided on. Erythra blanks were given to the managers of the various houses to be used to list the names of women interested in the sports to be offered.
Intramural golf, tennis singles, and badminton singles, besides basketball, will be offered by the department this fall. Basketball will start Oct. 1.
Miss Hoover announced that any girl not in an organized house interested in any of the intramural sports should contact the intramural department in order to be placed on a team.
Spahn Wins 20 Games For Sixth Season
Milwaukee — (U.P.) Warren Spain, who became the first left-hander in modern baseball league history to be a six-time 20-game winner, was more dejected today over the Braves pennant failure than he was pleased with his pitching record.
ing record.
Spain defeated the Cincinnati Redskins yesterday, 6-2, in the first game of a double-header to give him his 20 victory of the year. He previously won more than 20 games in '47, '49, '50, '51 and 53. With his 20 victory, Spain joined immortal right-handers Christy Mathewson, Grover Alexander and Mordecal Brown, as the only pitchers in modern baseball to win 20 games for six or more seasons. Mathewson did it 12 times, Alexander nine and Brown six.
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