Page 4 University Daily Kansan Thursday, Sept. 16, 1954
Grid Coaches Talk of Teams At Local Lunch
Lawrence High coach, Allan Woolard, said his 1954 team will lack size that former Lawrence teams have had, but spirit and aggressiveness should overcome some of this deficiency. Woolard was rather optimistic about league play, but he expected his team would have trouble with the non-league opponents. He said he would be more than satisfied if his team won half its games.
The Lawrence Chamber of Commerce sponsored a "kickoff" luncheon yesterday noon at the Eldridge hotel preceding the 1954 football season which opens in Lawrence tomorrow night.
KU football coach Charles V. "Chuck" Mather said that as long as his boys kept trying and playing to the best of their ability, KU would be well represented on the football field, win or lose. Mother said that the loss of Capt. "Bud" Bixier hurt the team tremendously, but every team had to expect and overcome injuries.
Milton "Mitt" Allen, Lawrence attorney, acted as master of ceremonies for the occasion and introduced the football coaches of Haskell Institute, Lawrence High school, and KU.
Warner "Tony" Coffin, Haskell coach, said that his team will be better represented at Lawrence tomorrow night than at Holton, where the Indians open their season. Injuries to five starting finemen, and two backfield members, and the ineligibility of three other players will hamper Haskell in its opener. The two ineligible players will become eligible after they have competed in nine practice sessions, however. Coffin was very optimistic about the remainder of the season.
How They Stand
American League
W. L. Pct G.B.
Cleveland 105 40 .724 ...
New York 96 48 .667 8½
Chicago 91 55 .623 14½
Detroit 64 80 .444 40½
Boston 63 81 .438 41½
Washington 61 83 .424 43½
Baltimore 50 96 .342 55½
Philadelphia 96 96 .338 56½
Yesterday's Results
Yesterday's Results
Baltimore 2, Boston 1 (night)
New York at Detroit, postponed
wet grounds.
(Only games scheduled).
National League
W. W. L. Pct G.B.
New York 90 53 629
Brooklyn 88 57 607 39
Milwaukee 84 58 592 54
Washington 88 64 762 22
Philadelphia 68 76 476 22
St. Louis 67 77 472 22
Chicago 60 86 411 31
Pittsburgh 51 94 352 40
SOMEBODY STOP 'EM—Bev Buller (with ball), KU's second string quarterback, goes for a short gain in yesterday's dummy scrimmage. Coach Dick Piskoty (without shirt) is watching the play from the line of scrimmage, and tackle Coach Lauri Wartiainen (X on jersey) is
-Kansan photo by Bill Slamin
Mays, Snider Top Prospects InMVP Award
Willie Mays, who throws up his hands in boyish embarrassment any time the idea is broached to him, probably will clinch the National league's most valuable player award the same day that the Giants clinch the 1954 pennant.
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Mays' closest pursuer in the MVI department at the moment is Duke Snider, who collected two hits in Brooklyn's 10-4 victory over Cincinnati yesterday and continued to lead the league with a .342 batting mark.
The Dodgers, in cutting the distance between them and the league-leading Giants to three games, played their game with the Red-legs in a steady drizzle but it didn't affect their batting eyes.
They pounded five Cincy pitchers for 15 hits, including four by Gil Hodges, who smashed his 40th home run of the season and his 23rd at Ebbet's field. Don Newcombe registered the victory, although he needed the help of Jim Hughes in the eighth.
While the Dodgers kept alive their faint pennant hope, the Giants passed the time idly in their clubhouse vainly waiting for the rain to stop so they could meet the Braves. A radio in the Giants' clubhouse was tuned to an account of the Brooklyn - Cincinnati game but hardly any of the Giant players bothered to listen.
If sophomores are able to hold their practice spots until Saturday, KU will start only one man, quarterback John McFarland, who answered the kickoff against TCU last season at Fort Worth.
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Fight Postponed Set for Tonight
New York—(U.P.)—The postponed Rocky Marianjo-Ezzard Charles return heavyweight championship fight will be staged at Yankee stadium tonight if the uncertain weather permits; otherwise it will be shifted to Saturday night, a rare novelty in modern boxing.
Betting men doubted that either champion Marciano or challenger Charles would be affected by the postponement, since both are heavyweights and both are calloused professionals. Accordingly, the odds favoring Rocky remained at 6-1 to win and 3-1 to score a knockout.
There never has been a Saturday night heavyweight title show.
It would be impossible for the International Boxing club to schedule the $500,000 fight for tomorrow night because of its conflicting TV-radio scrap between middleweights Willie Troy and Walter Cartier at Washington, D.C.
Originally slated for last night, the 15-round bout was postponed 24 hours because of persistent rain. Cloudy weather with occasional showers were predicted for today, but the forecasts indicated the skies might stop weeping before fight time at 10 p.m. (EDT).
Promoter Jim Norris said the advance sale of $350,000 indicated that the gate would equal the $543,092 that Rocky and Ezzard drew at the stadium on June 17—"if we get a break in the weather today."
Laughlin Out of Hospital; Hawks Practice TCU Plavs
Bud Laughlin, 207-pound fullback from Kansas City, Mo., yesterday returned to football practices after being absent from the pair of early-in-the-week drills while he was nursing a leg cut that became infected.
While Mather has been experimenting with various lineups in the 13 fall practice sessions, a definite starting lineup still is in doubt.
Laughlin's return enabled Coach Chuck Mather to move husky Dick Reich back to center from full, where he had been subbing in case Laughlin would not have returned in time for the TCU opener here Saturday. The No. 2 fullback, junior letterman John Handley of Kansas City, Mo., is expected to be ready for action Saturday although he has been hampered with an ankle injury he suffered in a scrimmage last Saturday.
Tentatively, according to the way the teams have been lining up in drills this week, the Jays will have three sophomores in the lineup that will answer the opening whistle of the '54 season. Only one player, quarterback John McFarland, will be a repeat starter from the opener last fall.
The Jayhawks spent most of yesterday's single two and one-half hour practice drilling against the freshmen, who first threw some TCU offensive plays at the varsity and then used typical Horned Frog defenses as the Red and Blue ran the ball.
At ends Mather has been using
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