Blocking, Tackling Practiced in KU Drill
Football Coach "Chuck" Mather and his assistants ran the KU squad through their second workout yesterday that was similar to the first day of practice.
Linemen and backs alike were practicing blocking and tackling assignments in preparation of the first scrimmage that will be held this afternoon.
The linemen, in particular, were doing the heavy hitting. Line coaches Dick Piskoty, Lauri Wartiainen, and Dave Putts kept constantly shouting at men, urging faster starts, cleaner blocks and tackles, and rolling into the opposing defensive man to complete the block.
Back field coaches Wayne Replogle, Paul Schofer, and Mather had their men practicing blocking assignments from their T-formation positions, along with running quick sorting plays, pass plays, and pass defense maneuvers.
After the session, Coach Mather was asked if he wasn't taking the boys a little too fast. Mather said that a boy had to extend himself in order to learn. He added, "I go as fast as the fastest men can learn, and the rest of the boys will just have to catch up. If I waited for the slower men, we would never learn anything."
Asked about the serimimage that is scheduled for today the coach said he would only play the boys that had the least football experience. He has about 33 boys who are looking pretty good, and he will have these men working out while the remainder are "knocking heads."
Mather said that the squad seem very deep in back field material and he was thinking about moving some of the backs into the line for more speed.
Cutting the squad to a smaller, more workable group is the next big job for the coaching staff. Mas said that he would keep most the boys as long as he could because he didn't want to overlook any talent.
First Day Crowds Top `53 Figures
New York — (U.P.)— Opening day 1954 drew more baseball fans to the parks than did opening day 1953.
Final figures showed that 236,414 fans attended yesterday's major league openers, as compared with 176,269 fans on the general opening day last season. True, there were eight games yesterday and only seven last year, but even so the average attendance increased from 25,181 to 29,582.
Yesterday's largest crowd was at Detroit's Briggs stadium, where the Tigers played host to, and defeated, the Baltimore Orioles, who were returning to the American league after a 52-year absence. But that throng, 46,994, failed to match 1953's top opening day crowd of 53,698 at Cleveland.
Tennis Squad Posts 9-0Win
A seven man KU tennis squad made a clean sweep of nine matches to defeat the Mankato, (Minn.) State Teachers college here yesterday afternoon. Today KU is meeting Omaha in a dual meet which started at 1 p.m.
The only match that even went three sets was the No. 1 doubles in which Al Hedstrom and Dick Hadley defeated Ronnie Trondson and Henry Dison 4-6, 7-5, 6-2.
Al Hedstrom, K, defeated Trondson,
M, 6-0. 6-2.
The results:
Dick Hadley, K, defeated Dison M. 6-1. 6-4.
Roger Youmans, K, defeated Harold Schoreder, 6-2, 6-1.
Merl Sellers, K, defeated Lowell Case, 6-2, 6-1.
Dave Kane, K, defeated Tom Hanson, 6-3. 6-0.
Don Franklin, K, defeated Nate
Hovland. 6-0, 6-2.
Sellers and Youmans, K, defeated Schroeder and Case, 6-1, 6-3.
Hedstrom and Hadley, K, defeat
Trondheim and Dison, 4-6, 7-5,
6-2
Kane and Ralph Kelley, K, defeated Hovland and Hanson, 6-1, 6-3.
Joe Page, former New York Yankee relief pitcher, signed with the Pittsburgh Pirates yesterday for the 1954 baseball season.
Shantz Injures Pitching Arm
Philadelphia—(U.P.)—The Philadelphia Athletics crossed their fingers today in the hope "muscular spasm" bellwether Bobby Shantz suffered in his pitching arm is not as serious as the arm injury which wrecked his 1953 season.
Trainer Jim Tadley massaged the tiny southpaw's arm and after the session of the rubbing table Shantz said, "it feels real good."
Manager Eddie Joost was so optimistic over Shantz' report that he canceled plans for an x-ray examination of the arm. Joost said he would let the 139-pound hurler "throw a few in New York" tomorrow to test the arm.
"If the arms seems okay, I'll let Bobby limber up over the weekend and maybe him against the regularly held box against the Boxbox in Boston on Sunday." Joost said.
Deep concern ran through the Athletics' squad yesterday when Shantz, the club's most valuable piece of property, gripped his left arm in pain after tossing a called strike to leadoff batter Billy Goodman of the Red Sox in the sixth inning.
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