Thursday. May 20. 1954
University Daily Kansan
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U Will Attempt Sweep Of Races in Outdoor Meet
Among other things, there is a chance Kansas can score an unprecedented sweep of the flat races Saturday when the Jayhawks go after their third consecutive Big Seven outdoor track and field championship at Boulder.
Such a slam of all races from the 100 through the two-mile never has been accomplished by any school in the combined histories of the Missouri Valley, Big Six, or Big Seven. More important, such a feat would allow Bill Easton's team to swing a knockout blow even before the kickoff. The meet will be a six-place meet at an A flat-rise slam would be worth 60 points on the 10-8-6-4-2-1 scoring chart.
Bill Hargiss' track teams of two decades ago needed only a 440 champion to turn such a trick in both 1933 and 1934. Those were the years in which Glenn Cunningham scored his unmatched mile-880-two-mile triples to fuse with Hall's sprint slams. No other school has succeeded in capturing more than four of the possible six events in any one meet.
The key to KU's task at Boulder is slim sophomore sprinter Dick Blair. He is unbeaten this spring in the 160 in dual competition. He beat one of his foremost challengers, Kansas State's Jerry Merson, in 30.0 in the recent KU-Wildcat dual, and another, Oklahoma's Juel Sweatte, in the Drake Relays finals. He finished fourth there with Sweatte out of the money.
He hasn't met Colorado's Ron Gray, a place-winner the last two years and owner of two 09.8 clockings this spring.
Blair has a seasonal low of :09.6, a wind-aided effort he used to win a semi-final heat in the Kansas Relays. His best race to date was a :69.8 into a slight breeze in the first half, and a warm burn. 1953 NCAA fourth-place finisher, in an early dual at Berkeley.
Santee hit .69.8 to win a dual
against Oklahoma A&M. Mershon
also has reached that figure in a
victory against Missouri.
Blair reached a personal low of :21.4 in completing a dash double against the Bears, but was shaded by Mershon two weeks ago in :21.2. Mershon also owns the year's best conference time of :21.0 against MU. Sweatite has dipped to :21.8, also in the Aggie dual. Gray's best is :22.1, a time he recorded in three meets against Border conference opposition.
With Kansas State's Thane Baker graduated, these events will be closely contested for a change.
Jayhawk senior Frank Cindrich is only once-beaten in the 440 this spring, after failing to qualify at the conference Indoor derby. He's whipped two other front-running
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contenders, too, K-State's Jerry Rowe, and Bob Massengale, Missouri's Indoor champion. He set a new dual meet record in the latter race at 48.7 last Saturday. He was caught in at 49.9 against State.
Oklahoma's Harry Lee, who owns one of the nation's best performances in .48-0, this spring, could be a starter in this race if a muscle pull suffered at the Kansas' Relays is sufficiently healed. He failed to place in a test run against A&M April 29, but may be ready by Saturday. The Sonners' Chuck ScULL and Phil Beeler, also are capable of winning the gold medal here.
KU's Wes Santee will be heavily favored in the mile and 880, and Easton can send up three top two milers in Dick Wilson, Tom Rupp, and Al Frank. Wilson hit 9:30, his seasonal low against Missouri Saturday. The Sooners' Chuck Scully 9:31.3. No other conference hand has been below 9:38 to date. Frame won the indoor championship in 9:39.5 but probably will be called upon for double duty in the mile.
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The Jayhawks hope to score somewhere close to 135 points, a goal which almost certainly would allow them to retain their grip on the team trophy.
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Baseball Standings
American W L Pct GE
Cleveland 20 10 .667 ...
New York 19 11 .633 1
Detroit 16 10 .615 2
Chicago 19 13 .594 2
Baltimore 12 15 .444 6
Washington 10 18 .357 9
Philadelphia 10 19 .345 9
Boston 7 17 .292 10
National W L Pct GB
St. Louis 18 14 .563
Philadelphia 16 14 .533 1
Brooklyn 16 14 .533 1
Milwaukee 15 14 .517 1⁰
New York 16 15 .516 1⁰
Cincinnati 17 16 .515 1⁰
Chicago 14 14 .500 2
Pittsburgh 11 22 .333 7⁰
Cliff Mapes, former New York Yankee outfielder, has been dropped from the roster of the Charleston Senators.
New York —(U.P.) Ponderous Vic Raschi won't say it but he is determined today to prove that the New York Yankees made a mistake when they pleddled him to the St. Louis Cardinals.
Raschi Showing Yanks Mistaken With 5-0 Record
Big Vic, you'll remember, was part of the two-way surprise of the off-season. After 17 years in the Yankee chain he went to the Cardinals and Country Slaughter, after 16 years in the Redbird organization, went to the Yankees.
The inference was that Raschi was one of those guilty of "com- placency," a word exhumed by the Yankees to get their pennant-sur- rated athletes "on the ball" in an attempt for a sixth consecutive flag.
The deals weren't connected but the tac men with the same bitter reaction.
Slaughter was outspoken about his disappointment at leaving old, familiar scenes. Raschi, ever the introvert, contemplated the switch to reserve of the supreme court judge and to subdue his marriage to the parting words of the Yankees.
Raschi over the last five seasons won 92 games against only 40 losses. He had a 21-10 mark in 1949; led the American league in percentages with a .724 mark in 1950 on 21 wins and eight losses; had a 21-10 mark in 1951 when he led the league in strikeouts; scored a 16-6 mark in 1952 and had a 13-6 record in 1953.
It stands there in black and white that he trailed off over the last two years. Which may be why the Yankees tried to slash his $40,-000 salary to $30,000 this season.
A pronounced introvert who long has kept his own counsel and a man who never joined in the horseplay of the Yankee family, Vic didn't pop off now. He becomes a man with an icy exterior when he is asked to compare the Yankees and the Cardinals.
"The Cardinals have a tradition of their own." he says in what is, for him, a long speech. "They, too, have the winning spirit and the winning habit."
The Philadelphia Athletics' Bobby Shantz will take a 30-day rest to rest a sore left shoulder.
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Yankees in Old Form; Beat White Sox 3-2
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Belatedly, but with the same devastating force, the Yankee steamroller continues to rush forward as the fans in towns expect a monotonous pennant race in the American league.
It is an old familiar pattern. Enthusiasm ran high in Cleveland, Detroit, and Chicago as those teams started out brilliantly and dominated the early phase of the race. The Yankees faltered. They couldn't even win at home. Then they launched a western trip in Cleveland and the Indians took the first game.
Boom. The Yankees rebounded to take the next two. On they moved to Detroit where the Tigers were in first place, a completely rejuvenated team from the second division laggards of the last two seasons. The old crusher rolled into action and the Tigers were tamed three in a row. In Baltimore, where the fans are still a little awed just to have a big league team, they were satisfied for a double header split with the Yankees, but at Chicago, last stop on the first western tour the fans hoped for a "killing" suffered most of all because the White Sox had two games all but won, yet lost both in the innings as the Yankees ended their trip with eight wins in 10 games, just a length behind first place Cleveland. The Indians are on top only because of a seven game winning streak that started—significantly—the day after the Yankees left town.
Chico Carresquel enabled the Yankees to tie the score in the eighth inning and they went on to win it 3-2 in the ninth when Gil McDougald was hit by a Billy Pierce pitch, took third on Andy Carey's single and scored on a force out as reliever Bob Grim gained his second victory.
Cleveland also scored two unearned runs in the eighth to defeat the Red Sox 5-3, while Detroit beat the Athletics 4-3 on Al linsine's bases-loaded single in the ninth, and Baltimore topped Washington 5-3 on a four-hitter by season comebacker Joe Coleman, who won his third in a row and fourth of the season.
An error by White Sox shortstop
In the National, the Cards took over first place with aflive-hit, 3-0 victory by Vic Raschi over the Giants, his fifth in a row and his first shutout. The Braves defeated the Phillies 6-2 on Warren Spahn's seven-hitter; the Cubs back the slumping Dodgers on four hits, 9-3,
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