Page 4 University Daily Kansan Tuesday, April 20, 1954 Huskers Hand KU First Conference Loss, 12-1 The Kansas Jayhawkers lost their first conference game of the season, and the second in eight starts, when they lost to the Nebraska Cornhuskers at Lincoln yesterday 12-1. Commissaries at the Commissary of Nebraska. The Jayhawkers got only three hits off of Fran Hofmaier, who went all the way for Nebraska. Meanwhile the Huskers were nick- Bob Sidley for 11 hits. Nebraska, co-favorite with Oklahoma for the Big Seven baseball championship, jumped off to an early lead. Two walks, a wild pitch by Shirley, and Jim Cederdal's double scored two runs in the first inning. Three singles, a walk, and two fielders' choices brought in three more runs in the second inning and clinched the game for Nebraska. This was the second conference game for Kansas. Last week it beat Kansas State 7-4 and the second game of that series was called off because of wet grounds. Four errors, three by Bob Allison and one by Bill Pulliam, and seven bases on balls off Shirley aided the Nebraska attack. Cederdahl got three hits in as many times at bat to take batting honors for the game. Pulliam, Allison, and Bob Conn each got a hit for KU. Kansas plays Nebraska again today and either John Brose or Wayne Tiemer will pitch. The box score: Kansas (1) Pulliam, 2b AB H O A Conn, rf 4 1 1 0 Trombold, 1b 4 0 8 2 Allison, cf 4 1 2 0 Berry, if 4 0 1 0 Aungst, c 3 0 6 1 Bergsten, ss 2 0 4 0 Heitholt, ss 0 0 0 1 a-Hixon 1 0 0 0 Shirley, p 3 0 2 0 Totals ... 29 3 24 Nebraska (12) AB. H. O..A Poolest, ss 2 0 1 Coufal, ss 1 1 2 Gottsch, 3b 3 1 1 Seger, 2b 5 2 4 Cederdahl, cf 3 3 2 Novak, 1b 4 1 11 Mallet, rf 4 2 1 Becker, rf 0 0 0 Giles, lf 4 1 0 Backus, c 2 0 2 b-Brown 1 0 0 Lohrb'g, c 1 0 2 Hofm'er, p 4 0 1 Totals 34 11 27 14 a-Struck out for Bergsten in 8th b-Hi- into double play for Backus Kansas 000 000 010—1 Nebraska 203 102 04x-13 E—Shirley, Allison 3, Rolston, Hofmaier, Seger, RBI-Pulliam, Seger 2, Cederdahl 2, Novak 2, Giles. 2B —Cederdahl. SB—Holston, Seger. S —Cederdahl. DP—Shirley, Bergsten and Trombold. Left—Kansas 4, Nebraska 7. BB—Off Shirley. 7 SO Mather Pleased With KU Drill Kansas football Coach Chuck Mather continued to be pleased with the progress which the team is making in spring practice. Last week he said that the practices were very satisfactory, and yesterday he was pleased with the way the team ran the basic offensive formations. The KU team will hold two scrimimages this week, one on Wednesday and the other on Saturday. No more cuts were made in the squad over the week-end as had been previously planned, because the coach said that all of the players worked well in the scrimmage last Wednesday. Mather does plan to cut the 73-man squad to 66 in another week, and he plans to have about a 60-man squad by the end of spring drills. Films will be taken of the Wednesday and Saturday scrimmages to help determine those to be eliminated from the squad. The only injury which resulted in practice yesterday was a dislocated shoulder suffered by freshman halfback Harry Solter. This was the same shoulder which he had injured last fall. Oliver, Bevo May Join Globetrotters Rio Grande, Ohio — (U.P.)—Newt Oliver, talkative basketball coach of little Rio Grande college, said "no comment" today about reports he and high-scoring Clarence (Bevo) Francis will team up with Abe Saperstein of the professional Harlem Globetrotters. Oliver did say he hailed in his resignation at Rio Grande today, to be effective Sept. 1. Asked what he would do next fall, the coach said "that will be decided next Monday." Meanwhile, Saperstein said in Chicago he had arranged to meet Oliver in New York next Monday to talk about a contract. The Globetrotter owner said he had done nothing about the matter as yet, but "that doesn't mean I won't." By Shirley 1, Hofmaier 4. R-ER- Shirley 12-9, Hofmaier 1-0, HBP- Novak (by Shirley). WP-Shirley. PB-Aungst. Alpha Kappa Lambda, Sigma Phi Epsilon, and Pi Kappa Alpha won opening games in intramural softball competition yesterday. Hitters Star As Intramural Softball Starts The AKL's, although outbit by the Phi Delts, won by a score of 7-5. Don Williams, Glen Davis, and Hugh Bowden each had two hits for the winners. The Phi Delts made ten hits with Mac Stevenson and Bob Ball getting two apiece. Bowden did the pitching for the AKL's. Ball started for the Phi Delts and Bob Richards came on in the fifth in relief. The Sig Eps collected twelve runs on eleven hits to defeat the Acarias, who made seven runs on five hits. Dave Schwartz of the winners and Stan Hamilton of the losers each got three hits. Schwartz and Bruce Sears did the pitching for the Sig Eps, and Bob Keefer went all the way for the Acarias. The Pi K A's made the most of their opportunities and defeated the Kappa Sigs 8-5. Kappa Sig, while losing, outstaff the victors 13 to 9. For the winners, Holt Denman went all the way on the mound, and James Hyatt handled the pitching chores for the losers. Today's schedule, all games starting at 4 p.m.: Field I, Phi Psi vs. Sigma Chi. Field II, Sigma Nu vs. Phi Kappa Sigma. Field III, Phi Kappa Tau vs. Delta Upsilon. KU Playing Cats In Tennis Today Coach Dick Mechem's tennis squad is in Manhattan today playing the Wildcats in the third conference meet of the season. Kansas State will feature Max Blakely as their No. 1. Man blakely, a freshman from Wichita, beat out last year's No. 1 Larry Penner. Stan Burnett, last year's No. 2 Wildcat, is in the No. 3 spot this season. The two teams beat a visiting Omaha team by the same scores, but K-State lost two more matches to a Mankato, Minnesota team than did KU. K-State and KU both lost to a strong Colorado U team, and both teams had a 1-1 record before the meet today. Mechem will take five men to the match with Al Hedstrom retaining the No. 1 position. Dick Hadley is in the No. 2 and Merl Sellers is in 3 on the squad. Roger Youmans will play the fourth singles match, and Don Franklin will be the No. 5 man Blakely was a strong tourney favorite in Kansas high school tennis Dorish Has Cosmic Pitch Working Again Rv UNITED PRESS Relief apart Harry Dorish once again has his "cosmic pitch" in perfect working order, which should be a big boom to the White Sox pennant chances. The favorite pitch of the 30-year-old righthander confounds him as much as it does the batters. He has no idea why it acts as it does. He personally calls it a "slip ball". His grateful teammates hung the "cosmic" tag on it. Johnny Groth drove in two runs It was dropping perfectly Monday and so were the Detroit Tigers when he relieved rookie lefty Jack Harshman in the third inning with the bases loaded and one out and pitched shutout ball the rest of the way for a 5-1 victory. He struck out Walt Dropo and nailed robie Aaline on a routine that only four singles to gain his first triumph. Last season, pitching in 55 games, Dorish won 10 and saved many others. "you throw it from the same motion as a fast ball but it just goes up to the plate and dies," he explains. "If the hitter is expecting a fast ball it can be a little confusing. Some time it darts off in one direction or the other but usually it just drops." In other American league games, Jim McDonald of the Yankees pitched a one-hitter to defeat the Red Sox, 5-0, after Boston took the morning game of a Patriot's day doubleheader, 2-1. At Washington, Eddie Host hit a homer in the last of the ninth to give the Senators a 4-3 victory over the Athletics. In the National league, Pittsburgh took advantage of a five-run third inning in which it got only one hit to defeat the Giants 7-5, while the Dodgers defeated the Phillies, 9-7 and the Cardinals beat the Gators, 6-3. with a homer and a single to lead the White Sox batters in their third straight victory. Willard Nixon struck out 14 Yankees, including Mickey Mantle and Gil McCoqald three times each in his five-hit triumph in the opener at Boston. The Yankees scored only in the ninth when, with the bases loaded, Ellis Kinder ended the game by striking out Mantle a fourth time. Jackie Jensen hit his fourth homer for Boston. In the afternoon game, Rookie Harry Agganik hit a second inning single to spoil McDonald's bid for a no-hitter. Hank Bauer hit his third Yankee homeer and Mantle also polled one as the Yankees gathered 11 hits—their high for the season. Jackie Robinson, with four hits in as many times at bat, drove in three runs with a homer, double and two singles in a Dodger night victory which snapped the Phillies' four-game winning streak. Pee Wee Reese also homered as the Dodgers pummeled four Philieh hurleurs for 18 hits. Southpaw Johnny Podres relieved Don Newcomb in the third inning and gained the decision. Back-to-back homers by Stan Musial and Ray Jablonski in the sixth inning helped the Cardinals to their night win over the Reds, Harvy Haddix was the winner but he needed the help of Stu Miller and Al Brazzele when the Reds picked up their final run in the ninth. Pittsburgh took a 2-0 lead on Gail Henley's first inning homer, then put together four walks, a hit batsman and catcher's interference which gave another man his base in the weird third inning. After Jim Hearn loaded the bases, reliever Don Liddle forced home three straight runners, and Gair Allie drove in two more tallies with a single. Monte Irvin and Whitey Lockman homered for the Giants. John Hetki pitched one-hit relief ball for Lockman hit him for a three-run homer in the fifth for his first victory. Faculty Fossils' Return To Intramural Softball Scene Thirteen University faculty members are throwing old age and creaky bones to the four winds and have banded into a softball team known as the "Faculty Fossils." The team, whose combined age total would probably stagger the national debt, will compete in the Independent "A" league of the KU intramural program—uniforms and all. "The student body win promptly to laugh us out of the league, but they're in for a surprise of the first magnitude," explains Nino Lo Bello, instructor in sociology and first baseman and manager of the squad. "We not only plan to win the divisional championship and the league championship, but we are out to nab the hill title." Two years ago the Fossils did win the divisional flag in the "A" competition with a 9 and 1 record, but lost out in the semi-finals for the league flag. "Our left fielder—now teaching on the Pacific coast—made an error that cost us the game," alibis Manager Lo Bello. The faculty's infield consists of Richard F. Harp, assistant basketball coach at second base; John Reardon, instructor in English at shortstop, and Walter J. Mikos, assistant professor of physical education at the hot corner. The outer gardens are patrolled by George M. Beckmann, assistant professor of history in left field; Joseph H. Davidson, instructor in anatomy in center field, and Ray Verry, book store manager in right. Pitching is in the veteran hands of William Conboy, instructor in speech, and John H. Patton, professor of religion, the latter serving as relief hurler. J. Robert Fevurly, bacteriology lab assistant, handles the catching. Other squad members include George J. Edberg, assistant instructor in romance languages; Elliott Valenstein and Harold R. Dickman, assistants in psychology. Aside from the regular league contests, the Fossils have scheduled a number of Sunday morning practice games. Teams who will pit themselves against the Faculty nine are the graduate students in psychology, the governmental research bureau, the KU varsity basketball team, and the graduating class of June '54. The team has been practicing every Sunday since early March, and according to Manager Lo Bello, "we're up to sniff-snuff." "Weye it up." He got an air tight infield and a hard-hitting outfield." Manager Lo Bollo says." Conboy has his fast ball, drop, and in-curve working with emphatic precision. It's going to take more than wristcracks and jokes at our expense to make us eat humble pie. I think we'll show some folks that a man who can knock out a good lecture in his field can also knock out a line drive on the field. Black No Davey Both M-S Grads New York —(U.P.)—Gerald (Jed) Black wants the fight world to know today that he is no Chuck Davey—and he has the nose to prove it. There are, however, dissimilarities. Davey is a fancy Dan type. Black is an aggressive puncher who loves to mix it up. Davey flashed briefly and extravagantly across the welterweight horizon before Kid Gavilan put him into almost total eclipse. Black, well on his way to the top, figures he has the equipment to last in almost any leather pushing company. Black is the 24-year-old welterweight who tackles Joey Klein of New York in Friday night's televised bit of fistfuls from St. Nicholas arena. 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