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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, May 13, 1954
Veterans Responsible For Yankee Victory
New York—(U.P.)-Two veterans who came back were proving to the New York Yankees today that the club policy was wrong when it was decided to "Break Up the Yankees."
That has been the cry of the American league for years now. It seemed as if the Yankees were going to do it themselves when they pedaled off Vic Raschi and made him while Johnny Sain advanced his retirement and Allie Reynolds talked of quitting to go into the oil business.
The Yanks can be glad that Reynolds changed his mind and that they changed Sain's mind for him.
For as of the moment the Yankee youth movement has been very close to a failure and it is the old guard which won five straight pennants—the likes of Ed Lopat, Yogi Berra, Reynolds, and Sain—that has been keeping the Yankees alive.
The two who almost got away have demonstrated clearly even this early in the season that without them the Yankees would be really hurting. Tobacco-chewing Johnny has saved four games and Indian Allie has won three and saved another. Lopat's sterling efforts have proved to the rest of the league that it still is the old-timers of the Yanks that they must beat.
But the key men as the team shoots for a sixth straight pennant are Reynolds and Sain. It is evident already that without them, and with Raschi gone, the Yanks wouldn't have had an oriental opportunity this season.
Reynolds very seriously considered stepping out of the game this season. He has a bright future in the oil business in his native Oklahoma and it was only the prospect of playing on a sixth straight pennant winner that lured him back. Without that incentive, Allie would have called it a career.
Even at that, the season was almost a month old before he was given a starting assignment. On opening day he was called from the bull pen and gave up the 10th inning homer which lost to Washington. It was more than two weeks later before he was given the call to rescue Jim McDonald and went six innings before the Yanks won it for him.
That was Sain's fourth successful rescue of the season.
A week later, Allie got his first start, beating Baltimore and Bullet Bob Turley. He gave them one hit over seven innings before straining his left leg. Then, after losing the first game of the just completed series with Cleveland, the Yanks needed another "stopper." So they called on the Chief and he won, with the help from Sain in the ninth
It was four games on the credit side which the Yankees might not have had unless they finally decided to go all out to bring Johnny back. He had announced during the winter that he would retire and devote full time to his automobile agency in Walnut Ridge, Ark. The Yankees were complacent about it at first, until there was a storm of protest over the sale of Raschi and the team wobbled through the early part of spring training. Suddenly they saw that Sain was a necessity.
Last season, Reynolds and Sainb
between them won or saved a total of
53 games. Allie won 13 and saved
13. Sain won 14 and saved 13.
Considering how the youth movement fizzled, the Yankees must get the cold chills when they think that both of them could have been lost this season—and surely the pennant with them.
31 Alums to Play Saturday
Bill Fisher, S. P. Garnett, Oliver Spencer, Galen Fiss, Henry Lamping and Hal Cleavinger have signed to play in the alumni-varsity football game Saturday bringing the number of alumnus who will play to 31.
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Williams Ready To Resume Play
Chicago —(U,P)— Ted Williams, swinging a bat at "about 80 per cent of full strength," was encouraged today about his prospects for active duty with the Boston Red-Sox in the near future, but irate because he still has to stay on the bench.
"It makes me mad being, on the bench when we're losing these 2-1 and 1-0 games," he said. "I'd just like to get up there in one of those games. And maybe I could make a difference."
Williams had his longest batting drill yesterday since he broke his collarbone in spring training in March, swinging for 35 minutes against the pitches of Red Sox Manager Lou Boudreau and pitching coach Joe Dobson.
Swinging easily yesterday, he slugged nearly 100 balls, putting four of them into the right field stands in Comiskey Park after the Red Sox had lost a 1-0 decision to the White Sox. The right field wall at the foul line is 352 feet from home plate and three of Williams' drives went into the lower deck, one into the upper deck. He hit to all three fields.
Boudreau said it was "up to the big fellow" to determine when he goes into action, but he added he was hoping "he can get up there maybe as a pinch hitter this weekend."
So far, Boston has won only five and lost 11 games to hold last place in the American league, but with Williams swinging a bat in the near future, Boudreau's club could climb fast.
Women Bowlers Take Ninth Place
KU placed ninth in the 15th annual National Intercollegiate women's bowling tournament with a total of 1,383 points.
The entry was based on the results of the four games bowled during the term.
Martha Hazzard, fine arts sophomore, placed seventh on the individual honors list with 326. High for the tournament was a 416 score by Katherine Poguse of Chicago Teachers college.
A Peapack, NJ. high school baseball team had the fifth no-hitter in six outings tossed at them yesterday. In 42 innings, the Peapack team has produced just one hit.
Temple university won with a 1.70% total, with Chicago Teachers college placing second.
The nation's top women golfers play today in the T2-hole National Capital women's open over tough fairways of Prince George's Country club in Washington.
Carl Allison—The Oklahoma left fielder has been one of the team's mainstays all season. He has a batting average of about 320 and is also the team's top man at
Three Teams ScoreIMWins
drawing bases on balls.
Battenfeld, Sigma Chi, and ATO remained undefeated in intramural softball by scoring victories yesterday. No games are scheduled for today because of the Armed Forces review.
Battenfeld extended their record by virtue of a 7-0 forfeit from Don Henry in Independent "A" league.
ATO broke a tie for first place in Fraternity "A" by beating the Betas 7-3. ATO now has a record of 4 and 0, and Beta 3 and 1.
ATO put together five hits and 10 walks to account for their seven tallies. Beta could get only three runs off Bob Mallory on 8 hits and 9 runs, the winning pitcher, and Dallas Dobbs, although the losing pitcher, was the leading hitter of the game with a home run and two singles.
Sigma Chi remained in first place in Fraternity "B" by beating ATO 11-7. The winners got 21 hits and two walks off losing pitcher Bob McCann while McCann's teammates were getting 10 hits and 10 walks off winning pitcher Charles Brown. Withers and Erickson led the Sigma Chi hitting, by getting four hits each.
Kansas State took the mile relay in the meet record time of 3.20.2 in Lincoln yesterday to defeat Nebraska 70-61 in a Big Seven dual track meet.
Enos Slaughter, veteran outfielder, who recently joined the New York Yankees, left the club today to return to his Belleville, Ill. home for treatment of an injured side.
--javelin; Parker, K; Gordon, K;
Kington. K. 185 feet 2 inches.
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Freshman Track Team Splits Two Postal Meets
In the Oklahoma meet, the Jayhawks failed to score in four events, the 100-yard dash, the 120-yard high hurdles, the shot put, and the discus. The freshmen also failed to score in the shot put and discus against Nebraska.
The Kansas freshman track team won and lost dual postal track meets last Saturday. The freshmen defeated Nebraska's freshmen 98-29 and lost to Oklahoma's yearlings 56-69. The loss to Oklahoma is the first postal dual loss KU trackmen have received in three years.
Against Nebraska the Kansas trackmen blanked the Huskers in nine events, and all of these were running events, except the javelin throw, and 75 of KU's points against Nebraska were in the running events.
The Jayhawks also swept the javelin throw in the Oklahoma meet, but they were soundly beaten in the other field events.
220-yard dash: Jones, K; and
Mullen, O; Solter, K. :22.1.
Results of the Oklahoma meet:
100-93, C; 85-76, O; Mullen,
C; Reagan, O. 100.
440-yard dash: Jones, K; Frasier
O; Lo, Stroup. K .502.
880-yard run: Janzen, K; Swanson, K; Gay, K, and Dudley, O. 1:57.9.
Mile run; Buchanan, O; Swanson,
K. K; Janzen, K. 4:29:4
2-mile-run: Buchanan, O; Egger,
K; Swanson, K. 9:37.9
High hurdles: Derrick; O; Frazier, O; HANDSON. O; 150.
Lo whurdles: Jones, K, and Derrick, O; Murphy, K, and Frazier O. 24.2.
Broad jump; Blankship; O; Mastin, K; Frisbie, K. 22 feet 1½ inches.
High jump; Corbin, O; Frisbi, K; Taylor, O. 5 feet 3¾ inches.
Shot put: Emerson, O; Timberlake, O; no third place. 42 feet 3 inches.
Discus: Emerson, O; no second or third place. 121 feet 1 inch.
Javeh: Parker, K; Gordon, K;
Kington, K. 185 feet 12 inches
Pole vault: Kruger, O; Lewis,
K; no third place. 12 feet.
Mile relay: Kansas. 3:23.0 (Mastin, La. Stroup, Jones)
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(Nebraska, Nebraska)
100-yard dash: Solter and Franklin, K; La, Etrup, K. 103.
Gerris, K; Gwinn, K. 104.
440-yard dash: Jones, K; Lo.
Stroup, K; L. Stroup, K. 502.
220-yard dasn' Jones, K; Souter,
K; La, Stroup, K. 221
880-yard run: Janzen K; Swan-
cock K; Gen K 1,57.9
Mile run: Swanson, K; Janzen,
K; Gav. K. 4:31.0.
2-mile-run: Eggert, K; Swan-
son, K; Kav. K, 10:01.0
High hurdles: Mayberry, K; Murphy, K, and Gibson, N. 15:5.
L low hurdles; Jones, K; Murphy,
K; Schroeder, K.; 25.5.
Broad jump: Mastin, K; Frisbie, K; Johnson, N. 22 feet.
740 Mass.
935 Mass
High jump: Knotte, N; Frisbie,
K; no third place. 6 feet $ \frac{1}{4} $ inches.
Shot put: Blair, N; Kobza, N;
no third place. 44 feet.
Discus: Kobza, N; Hoyt, N; no third place. 129 feet 7 inches.
Mile relay: Kansas, 3:25. (wras-
tin, La. Stroup, Lo. Stroup, Jones).
Pole vault: Blank. N; Lewis, K;
no third place. 11 feet 7 inches.
Baseball Standings
National W L Pct GB
Philadelphia ... 13 9 .591 ...
Brooklyn ... 13 10 .565 ½
St. Leuis ... 13 11 .542 1
New York ... 13 11 .542 1
Cincinnati ... 14 12 .538 1
Milwaukee ... 11 11 .500 2
Chicago ... 9 11 .450 3
Pittsburgh ... 7 18 .280 7½
American W L Pct GB
Detroit 12 6 .667
Chicago 16 9 .640
Cleveland 13 10 .565 1 1/4
New York 13 10 .565 1 1/4
Philadelphia 9 13 .409 5
Baltimore 8 12 .400 5
Washington 8 13 .381 5 1/4
Boston 5 11 .381 5
Unique Ball Game Ends in 8-8 Tie
An unusual game of softball was played last week when girls from the Newman club, Roman Catholic student organization, were allowed six outs per inning in a softball contest with boys from St. Benedict's college, Atchison.
A member of the boys' team pitched and batted for the girls, and Father George Towle of St. John's church, umired the game.
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