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Kansas to Meet Sooners in Last Two Game Series
The Kansas Jayhawkers, eliminated from any chance at the Big Seven championship with three victories and four defeats, will attempt to play the role of spoiler today and tomorrow when they meet the league leading Oklahoma Sooners in the final two-game series for Kansas on the KU diamond.
Coach Jack Baer's Sooners are undefeated in conference play with a record of four victories and no defeats. They are now in the midst of a six game road trip in which they meet Missouri, and they have already swept a two-game series from Kansas State.
A victory by Kansas in either game would throw the conference into a deadlock. Missouri is second place in the conference with three victories and one defeat, the Tigers only loss coming at the hands of Iowa State.
The Sooners have a veteran lineup with 10 players who have lettered two previous seasons. Five of these two year veterans, two men who have lettered one season, and one sophomore will be in the Oklahoma lineup.
The five two year veterans are Orville Rickey, shortstop; Bill Knox, third base; Johnnie Risinger, first base; Carl Allison, out fielder, and Buster Cloud, catcher.
Catcher Cloud is Oklahoma's leading hitter with a .435 batting average. Including Cloud, four of the first eight men are batting over the .300 mark. Leake is hitting .333; Allison .324; Knox .24, and Cloud.
Sophomore Joe Snyder will play first base and lettermen Sterling Jones and Buddy Leake will fill the two remaining outfield berths.
George Loving and Joe Mobra
with two leading pitchers
with records of 64 wins.
wade defeats. Loving has an earned run average of .57, and Mobra an earned run average of 1.35. Loving probably will not see any action until the Missouri series for he pitched the first game against Kansas State.
Mac Sanders was the winning pitcher in the Kansas State game yesterday.
Of the 16 men on the Oklahoma traveling squad six, Snyder, Mobra Sanders, pitcher Larry Foley, and pitchers Fred and Frank Minton are all from Kansas.
Coach Floyd Temple is expected to go with his usual lineup of John Trombold, first base; Bill Pulliam, second base; He Bitheltol, short-stop; Punky Hoglund, third base; John Perry, left field; Bob Allison, center field; Bob Conn, right field, and Don Aumsgt, catching.
Either Bob Shirley or John Brose is expected to pitch for the Jayhawkers.
ROTC Drills Halt IM Softball Games
OTC drills forced a halt to all inamural softball games yesterday. The games will be scheduled for a later date. There are three games scheduled for today at 4 p.m.
Fraternity "A"
4 p.m. Field 1 ATO vs. Beta
4 p.m. Field 3 ATQ vs. Sigma Chi
Independance "A"
4 p.m. Field 2 Don Henry vs. Battenfeld
The 1985 National Figure Skating championship will be held in March at Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, the U. S. Figure Skating association announced today.
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WHAT WAS THAT COACH?—Coach Floyd Temple and firstbaseman John Trombold are talking over strategy for the two-game series with the defending Big Seven baseball champion—Oklahoma—today and
tomorrow.
Bixler Happy at Center, Allows More Defensive Play
Wednesday. May 12, 1954
Bud Bixler, Kansas' 6-5, 232-pound converted tackle, is happy over his switch to center for a strange reason. It allows him to play middle guard on defense.
This has been the deciding factor in the coming senior's terrific comeback during Jayhawk spring drills. If it continues through the autumn he certainly will be one of the Big Seven's top linemen, a level he was expected to reach last season as a junior.
Such a circumstance would bring about this poignant question. . How does a football player progress by changing from one position to another, then play a third slot half the time?
The answer is many sided. For one thing, Chuck Mather nearly always plays his center at defensive guard, whether he uses a five or six-man line. Bixler is happy about this tactic since mid-line is the slot in which he experienced greatest success two years ago as a sophomore.
Oddly, Bixler is not unduly concerned over grasping offensive techniques of his new position. "I know I have a ways to go," says the product from Middletown, Pa., "but I feel I'm improving."
"I sure feel at home in the middle of the line," the towering new pivot will tell you. "I won't have that outside responsibility a tackle has, and I won't need to cover as much ground on defense."
It will be recalled that he played the defensive middle along side Bob Hentla so furiously two years ago he was called by some observers the best sophomore lineman in Kansas history. He saw some action at tackle too, both ways. But it was in the middle, either on a five or six, where he wrought most havoc.
A pre-medical student, Bud already can diagnose and prescribe his own grid ills. "Most trouble right now is passing that ball and moving out at the same time on the T. Practice is the only cure I know."
Golfers Triumph Over Wichita
The Kansas golf team downed a visiting four-man squad from Wichita university yesterday $8\frac{1}{2}-3\%$ with two golfers for medalist honors.
The KU victory avenged an earlier defeat at the hands of the Shockers. It was the 11th win for the Jayhawk golf team this season.
Sam Sadler, No. 1 Wichita player, and Harlan Hise, No. 2 KU man, tied for the medalist honor with a par 72.
John Prosser, K, defeated Fritz Prost 3-0
Sadler, W, defeated Bob Richards. 3-0.
Hise, K, defeated Dick Gardner,
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Pete Rush, K, defeated Joe Korst. 3-0.
Minor League Marvel Shuts Out Dodgers 2-0
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Stringbean Gene, the six-foot, eight-inch righthander of the Milwaukee Braves is the only player in professional baseball history ever to be named twice as minor league "Player of the Year." but after two previous unsuccessful trials with the Braves, there seemed to be doubts as to his major league potential.
Lean Gene Conley tossed a few fast curves today into the baseball gossip that he was just another minor league marvel who couldn't quite make it in the majors.
Last night, with the poise of a veteran, he turned in the first shut-out over the Dodgers since July 11 of last season, beating them 2-0 and striking out seven while walking none. It was his second straight route-going triumph and he was at his best with men on bases, striking out Gil Hodges with two on and Duke Snider with one on in troublesome situations.
"Listen, I don't believe that business about a fellow not being able to win the maiors just because he gets a reputation for being a minor leaguer," Conley said. "The difference now is that I'm relaxed out there. I don't worry about what may happen. I just decided I was going out there and try to get ahead of every batter. I think I can win up here now."
Conley had to be superb because until Joe Adcock homed in the sixth it was a scoreless battle. In the seventh the Braves scored again when Ed Mathews doubled home Danny O'Connell from first on a clout that even had the umpires arguing. It was ruled a double, then a homer, then a double, and there was further dispute over whether O'Connell should have scored, and whether Mathews was out for going on past second into a Peewee Reese tag. It was ruled he did so after time was called.
In other National league games, the Phils defeated the Cubs, 8-7 in the 10th on a single by Del Ennis after Richie Ashleburn walked and moved up on a wild pitch, while the Giants came from behind to top Cincinnati, 5-4, and the Pirates and Cards were rained out at Pittsburgh.
Bob Keegan made it four victories for Chicago when he six-hitted the Red Sox, 2-1, and touched off the winning rally with a triple, while Yogi Berra clouted a two-run double in the ninth as the Yankees edged Cleveland 5-3. Joe Coleman pitched a 'two-hit 2-0 shutout for Baltimore over Philadelphia and Bob Porterfield pitched a four-hitter and hit a nine inning homer in Washington's 5-3 win at Detroit in the American league.
Ennis drove in four runs in the Philly triumph, which was achieved after the Cubs had gone in front with a four-run seventh inning rally. Ralph Kiner had four Chicago hits. Monte Irvin tripleed the winning run for the Giants in the eighth after Willie Mays and Whitey
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Keegan tripled and scored the winning run for Chicago on a single by Nellie Fox, moving the White Sox back into second place ahead of Cleveland.
First baseman Al Rosen, a novice at the job, set up New York's winning hit by Berra when with a runner on first, he started after Hank Bauer's grounder then decided to let Boby Avila field it. Then Avila had no one to throw to at first and it went for a single. Rosen previously had tied the score at 3-3 off winning pitcher Allie Reynolds with a two-run single.
Coleman permitted only one man to reach third as Sam Mele was the key hitter for Baltimore. Mele tripled and scored on a fly by Vic Wertz for the first run, then singled, took second on a passed ball and scored on Vern Stephens' double for the other.
Porterfield, achieving his third victory, was touched for a home run by Frank House, but struck out four. Ed Yost also homered for Washington.
Ezzard Charles opened training in Monticello, N. Y. yesterday for his June 17 crack at the heavy-weight championship against champ Rocky Marciano. He said he "would be the first world's heavyweight to regain the title."
Six jockeys fell off their horses yesterday at Belmont Park in New York. Pete Moreno riding on Libby's First in the second race, suffered a broken leg as the only serious injury of the day.
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