Monday, April 26, 1954 University Daily Ransan Page 5
By KEN BRONSON
Don't look now, but the Kansas baseball team may have two of tomorrow's top stars performing.
John Trombold, a third string all-American choice last year, and Bob Allison, the football-playing centerfielder, are two men in Big Seven baseball circles who are currently drawing praise from major league scouts.
Trombold, a first baseman, performed last summer with the Boeing Bombers, the Kansas non-pro champion. He's not very large but he's got powerful arms and enough speed to make him definite big league timber.
Allison is amazingly fast for his size and has the power to hit the long ball. He's also a good fielder and his arm is one of the best in the Big Seven.
Incidentally, the only other Big Seven performer in which scouts say they are interested is in Kansas State's Dick Myers. Myers, a catcher, has been handling the Wildcats' backstopping duties for three years.
Don't look now, but this may be the year for Kansas to defeat Oklahoma in football.
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Don't laugh. The Sooners have been going along for so long now that the law of averages is going to catch up with them sooner or later. And looking over their schedule for next fall, make's a person realize that if they are going to get beaten, it will have to be at Kansas.
And that's not taking anything away from Coach Charles "Chuck" Mather. Not anyone could do it but we believe that Kansas, come next October 16, will field a team that will do it.
Incidentally, the Kansas football schedule for next fall shows the Jayhawkers playing host to Texas Christian, UCLA, and Colorado on successive weekends. The next contest finds the Jayhawkers going to Iowa State.
Oklahoma is here Oct. 16 and then come road trips to Southern Methodist and Kansas State. Nebraska is here Nov. 6 for homecoming and then the season closes with games at Oklahoma A&M and Missouri.
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Short Shots—When the Kansas tennis team runs up against Washburn Wednesday in Topeka, they will be playing a team that hasn't been beaten in dual competition since Kansas did it in 1952 . . .
hasn't been beaten in final competition. Everyone has been bawling out the Kansas Interscholastic meet lately because of the number of athletes performing. Sure it's a big meet but that's what makes it the No.1 track meet in Kansas, barring none.
To be sure, some of the high schoolers should never be entered but who is to say that they shouldn't get the chance to run and the chance to see some of the country's finest athletes running the next day.
We caught a Class B miler, who finished last, with a time of 6:26.6. Now that is hardly worthwhile. Yet that boy probably learned a lot that day and who is to say that he should not have run.
Let's leave the Kansas Interscholastic meet the way it is and instead of hoping the number of participants will dwindle, hope they will continue to rise and make the meet the largest high school affair in the world.
KU Sets American Records In Distance, Sprint Medley
Coach M. E. "Bill" Easton's KU track team put on a brilliant showing in the Drake Relays winning four relays and setting new American records in two of these events.
The Jayhawkers won the distance medley in 9:50.4 breaking the record set by Michigan in 1952 of 9:56.3. The sprint medley team for the second time this year went under the recognized American mark of 3:22.7 set by NYU in 1950. Its time Friday was 3:21.4, and earlier it had run in 3:20.2 in the Texas Relays. KU completed its distance relays sweep by taking the two mile and four mile relays.
Bill Biberstein took second place in the 120-yard high hurdles. Dick Blair took fourth, and the 100-meter took fifth. And Al Fram took third place in the open mile.
The distance medley team won by 95 yards over Georgetown. The unofficial times for the race showed Frank Cindhrick ran a 48.7 quarter-mile; Lloyd Koby followed him with a 1:53.3 half-mile; Art Dellzell ran a 3:01 three-fourths of a mile, and Wes Santee anchored the team with a 4:07.4 mile.
The weather, which was the prime topic of worry for Drake officials turned out to be mild. On Friday the temperature was 63 degrees with an overcast sky and a wind up to 15 miles an hour, Saturday the temperature rose to 84 degrees.
The four mile relay victory was by far the most lop sided victory as the Jayhawkers won by 110-yards
In the sprint medley, Kansas was trailing Illinois until Santee took over for the anchor half-mile. Cindrich ran the leadoff 440 in 48.4, the fastest time he has ever run a 440. Ralph Moody and Blair ran the 220 carries and Santee anchored with an unofficial 149.7.
over the second place Missouri Tigers. Al Frame gave Kansas a lead of 35 yards at the end of the first mile, and Dick Wilson, Dalzell, and Sante added to this lead.
Frame ran the fastest mile of his career in 4:15.9, as he finished third behind Dennis Meyer of the University of Washington and Rich Ferguson of Iowa. The winning time in the event was 4:15.
Blair's time in the 100-yard dash was an unofficial .10J. Dean Smith of Texas won the race in .097. Willie Williams of Illinois, the defend-
Kansan photo by Larry Trettoar
A BIG HOLE—Dick Reich, KU fullback, finds a big hole in the line and goes for several yards in the scrimage held Saturday afternoon in Memorial stadium. Other players in the picture are unidentified.
Born, Kelly Selected In NBA Player Draft
B. H. Born and Al Kelley were two of the four Kansas basketball players chosen in the National Basketball association's annual player draft Saturday, Jesse Priskoof of Kansas State and Benny Peters of St. Benedict's were also selected.
title, and went on to the NCAA finals, and the 1953-'54 team that was co-champion of the Big Seven.
Born and Kelley were standout performers on the University basketball teams for two years. They were both spark-plugs on the 1952-53 team that won the Big Seven
Other players from the area who were drafted are Bob Mattick, Oklahoma A&M, Milwaukee; Arnold Short, Oklahoma City university, Fort Wayne; Bill Johnson, Nebraska, Boston, and Bob Waller, Oklahoma, New York.
Kansas Tennis Team Beats Nebraska 7-0
The KU tennis team won a 7-0 victory over the University of Nebraska tennis team at Lincoln, Saturday, to boost the Jayhawk conference record to three wins and one loss.
Al Hedstrom beat the No. 1 Cornhusker Wray Calson 6-0, 6-1. No. 2 KU netman Dick Hadley won 6-1, 6-1, and Merl Sellers won the third singles contest 6-1, 6-1. Don Franklin of Kansas won his watch 6-0, 6-1, and Roger Youmans won 6-0, 6-0.
Tomorrow, the KU squad will tackle non-conference foes at Washburn university in Topeka.
ing champion, was second, and Al Frieden of Texas was third.
Bill Curtis of TCU beat Biberstein for the second straight week in the nurdles. The winning time for the event was 14:6.
Michigan State pressed Kansas in the two mile relay as Kansas won the event by only 14 yards. Wilson, Koby, Dalzell, and Santee ran for KU.
To protect charging outfielders the Boston Red Sox have cushioned their fences and rightfield bull pen with expensive foam rubber padding. The idea is to prevent injuries.
The first race at the Churchill Downs spring meeting in 1899 was appropriately n a m e d "Opening Scramble."
Patton Rated First In Amateur Tourney
Pinehurst, N.C.—(U.P.)-Billy Joe Patton, the lad who came within two strokes of winning the coveted Masters tournament, was ranked as the favorite today as the field teed off in the qualifying round of the 54th annual North and South Amateur Golf tournament.
The Morganton, N.C. youth startled the links world when he finished only one stroke behind Sammy Snead and Ben Hogan at the end of the regulation distance in the Masters.
The Falmetto is the state tree of South Carolina.
Football Team 'Much Improved' In Scrimmage
The Kansas football team climaxed a week of grueling practice with a scrimmage Saturday afternoon in Memorial stadium which lasted about 90 minutes. This ended the second week of KU spring practice.
While two teams were scrimming, the rest of the men were working on the practice fields east of the stadium.
Bob Conn, Bob Allison, Dick Reich, Dick Blowey, and John Handley were all impressive with their running. They made several long gains during the afternoon, as the offense completely overshadowed the defense.
"I thought that everybody tried hard, our spirit was good, and we were much improved over our Wednesday scrimmage." Coach Chuck Mather said. "Our technique is weak, but that can only be improved through constant work."
The KU team will practice today, tomorrow, Wednesday, and Friday and will have another scrimmage session 3 p.m. Saturday.
Quarterbacking the first three teams in the Saturday session were Bev Buller, John McFarland, and Dick Sandifer. Although Buller worked with the first group, Coach Mather said that all three boys are even at the present time.
Golfers Beat Omaha, NU
Coach Donn Everett's KU golf team won both dual meets on a road trip last week-end, beating Omaha university 15-3 on Friday and Nebraska 7-5 on Saturday.
Bob Richards of Kansas was the medalist in both matches, shooting a 74 in both meets. Harlan Hise of Texas shot a 76 in both his matches.
KU meets Kansas State at Manhattan today in a meet starting at 1 p.m.
The results of the Omaha meets Bob Richards def. Dean Wilson, O, 3-0; Harian Hise def. Jerry Norene, O, 3-0; John Prosser def. Fred Shiarock, O, 3-0; Ron Fox, O, def Pete Rush, $2^{-1/2}$; Richards and Hise def. Norene and Wilson, O, 3-0; Prosser and Rush def. Shiarock and Fox, O, $2^{-1/2}$.
The results of the Nebraska meet:
Bob Richards de, Dean Anderson,
N, 2-1; Harlan Hise def. Bob
Moore, N, 2-1; Herb Mayer, N, def.
John Prosser, 2-1; Pete Rush def.
Tom Tole, N, 2-1
Murry Halberg of Auckland, New Zealand, won the Ben Franklin mile Saturday in the Penn relays in 4:10 to defeat Mal Whitfield and Fred Wilt.
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