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University Daily Kansan Monday, March 22, 1954
Mattick Tops Jayhawks' All-Opponent Quintet
By RON GRANDON
Kansan Sports Writer
Bob Reiter of Missouri, Lester Lane of Oklahoma, and Bob Mattick of Oklahoma A&M hurt the Kansas basketball team the most last season the Jayhawkers said in a Daily Kansan poll.
Among non-conference aces, Mattick was picked as the toughest man the Jayhawkers had to face in the past season. Starring at center for the Missouri Valley champions, Mattick and his teammates held KU scoring star B. H. Born to only six points when Kansas lost an early season match to the Aggies 54- 50. Matttick collected 14 points for second highest scoring honors.
Reiter, 6-foot, 8-inch center was the scoring ace who tripped Kansas out of a Big Seven championship this season in the Jayhawkers' last fiil. The slim Tiger junior hit 28 points in that game and scored more points against the Jayhawkers than any other man KU faced this season—61 points in three games.
Lane and Mattick received the most votes by the Jayhawkers for members of an all-opponent team which they'd most hate to face.
Lane is a 5-foot 10-inch forward who scored 50 points in two contests against the Jayhawkers.
All-American Bob Pettit of Louisiana State university earned a spot on the all-opponent quintet, Pettit, a 9-foot, 9-inch senior from Baton Rouge, tied with KU's Born for top scoring honors when the Jayhawk in the second Jayhawk contest of ones met the Bengals in Batton Rouge the season. He established a new season scoring record with a 32.2 season average.
Others on the Jayhawk all-opponent team include conference contestants Reiter and Jess Prisack of K-State.
The all-Big Seven team picked by the Jayhawkers includes Lane, Easter, Priscoe, Norm Stewart of Sououri and Bill Johnson of Neahub.
This mythical Big Seven team averages 6-feet 5-inches with Reiter at 6-feet 8-inchs towering above the shortest man Lane, who is 5-feet 11-inchs. Prisikow 6-foot 5-inches, and Johnson, 6-foot 7-inches, will graduate from competition this spring.
Second-team Big Seven choices of the Jayhawkers include forward Bob Jaengerard, center Burdette Holderson, guard Charlie Mock of Colorado; and Fred Seger, Nebraska. Gene Stauffer of K-State and Carl Van Cleave of Iowa state tied for fifth-man position.
Favorites Advance In Handball Meet
Chicago — (U.P.) — Bob Brady, who won the title last year led the way into the second round of the Nationals Singles Handball tournament today after the whole list of seeded entrants advanced without an upset.
Brady outclassed Utah State champion Art Tornwall of Salt Lake City, 21-8, 21-1 on the Town Club courts yesterday.
Playoffs Set In Volleyball
Vic Hershkowitz, Brooklyn, N.Y.
seeded second in the meet, whipped
Raleigh Blakely, Dallas, Tex., 21-6
and 21-18.
First round games in the volleyball playoffs will be held this evening. These games will be the end of the 1954 volleyball season. Other spring sport competition will begin after spring vacation, except for the swimming meet which will be held March 30 and 31.
TODAY'S SCHEDULE
Fraternity "A"
6:45 p.m. (E) Phi Delt-Lambda Chi
6:45 p.m. (W) Sigma TK-TKE
Beta and Phi Gam received first round byes.
Independent "A"
(Robinson gym)
7:30 p.m. (E) Set-Ups-Liahona
7:30 p.m. (W) Jimmy Green-Sig
Fraternity "B"
(Robinson annex)
6:45 p.m. (E) SAE-DU
6:45 p.m. (E) SAE-DU
6:45 p.m. (W) Dels-Beta
Phi Gam and Delta Chi received first round byes.
Fraternity "C"
500 p.m. (E) Phi Delt III-Beta I
500 p.m. (W) Phi Psi I-Beta III
LaSalle Sets 5 New Marks
Kansas City, Mo. — (U.P.)—La-Salle's Explorers, who placed two men on the all-tournament team, set five of 12 new records and tied another in winning the 1954 NCAA basketball championship, today looked like the team to beat in 1955.
Of the eight men whose play won the NCAA crown for the Philadelphia entry, only one will graduate this year—three-letter, senior guard Frank O'Hara.
Six of the eight are sophomores. The other is one-man gang Tom Gola, an all-America junior whose performances against both Penn State and Bradley in the week-end's championship games kept sell-out crowds on their feet.
Gola scored 38 points in the two games here, 19 in each, and personally sparked the third period with a transformant battle with Bradley into a rout.
Gola was the only unanimous selection for the all-tournament team that was announced yesterday, following LaSalle's 92-76 triumph over Bradley Saturday night in the title game.
The six-foot, seven-inch rebounding giant also was voted the tournament's most valuable player.
Six of the records were for a five-game series and were written into the books for the first time, since the 1954 championships produced the first victor that had to go the full five-game route.
Mesa, Ariz.—(U.P.)-It's been nearly 20 years since a 17-year-old high school phenom named Phil Cavarretta took over first base for the Chicago Cubs and he figures he still could handle about 75 games this season.
Cavarretta Still Going Strong As Cub Manager
"But only in case of a dire emergency—such as if something happened to Dee Fondy" the sharpeyed, trim Cavarretta said today. "Outside of that I'm strictly a bench manager from now on. It's too much to try and play first base and keep track of a million other problems at the same time."
Cavarretta, who never became chummy with anyone during a baseball game, is only 37 despite the near quarter-century he has spent as a Cub. And 'tis said he is a lot more easy-going as a manager than when he played. Strictly a nice guy now with a seventh-place club, which Leo Durocher might figure is just what "a nice guy" deserves.
But veteran writers recall that as a player, Phil never cracked a smile during a game—not even in his own dugout. He was the kind who would try to tear you apart during a game then buy you a steak that night.
Cavaretta didn't care for laughing boys in baseball and still doesn't. How about smilin' Hank Hack who was across the way at third?
"He wasn't always smiling." Phi. hadn't mistaken the way he carried his tobacco.
Pitchers hated to see Caravretta come up in the clutch. He broke in with the cubs in 1934 by smashing a home run off Whitey Wistert to give Chicago a 1-0 victory over Cincinnati. Eleven years later he batted .423 against Detroit in the 1945 World Series and drove in five runs. He ruined the Phillies during a double-header in 1951 by socking a pinch triple with two aboard in the first game and clubbing a pinch homer in the second with the bases loaded.
Phil's lifetime batting average is .291 but his World Series record, where the gold and glory is involved, is .317.
Cavaretta talks in a relaxed, calm manner but his voice can rip you to shreds when need be. Take the case of a rookie in the present Cub camp who hit a pop fly and loafed toward first.
"For ----- sakes!" Cavaretta roared. "When did you quit running out hit at the age of 19?"
The kid may not stick around but he's had wings on his heels ever since
Managing a seventh-place club and dreaming of the great days of 1935 brings a misty note to Phil's voice
"That was a year," he said, looking a little sidewise at his present roster. "We won 21 straight with Gobvy Hartnett batting 344 and catching guys like Bill Lee and Lonnie Warneke—both 20 game winners. Gosh, you just don't see great catchers like Ole' Tomato Face anymore."
Cavaretta, always rough when he has to be, now runs a children's amusement park called "Kiddieland" in Dallas during the off season.
New Glove Ruling Ires Players
New York — UUP— There's a typhoon in a tea kettle simmering on baseball's front burned today over a harrowing hardship which threatens to the players worn out before the season gets under way.
By OSCAR FRALEY
Richie has the figures to prove it, too, figures which will make you coal miners, steel workers, and
It's the matter of toting their gloves in from the outfield at the end of each half inning instead of leaving them on the field of play as additional occupational hazards. This is a sparking new rule.
"It makes our work just that much harder," complained Richie Asburn of the Philadelphia Phillies.
And the boys don't like it.
truck drivers weep in a manner fit to turn Frank Leahy green with envy. Because Ashburn's complaint is that he'll get on base 300 times this year, and score only about 100 times.
That means, and my old algebra teacher will blush with pride, that he'll be left on base 200 times—and the Phillies oughta be ashamed of themselves. Either that or Richie will have to start hitting home runs instead of singles.
Anyhow, Richie contends that all that extra walking back from second base at the end of every half inning will be dog-days' drudgery of the worst sort.
About two miles a month, actually, and why should a fellow have to do that for a mere $15,000 to $20,000 a season?
That two miles a month is my own figure. It's based on an estimated 150 feet from second base to the dugout. Two hundred times a 300-foot round trip comes to 60.-000 feet (yoo hoo, Mr. Einstein!) or about 12 miles. Over six months that's two miles a month.
Of course, this excludes the times the Phils get a man on third, but holds to the theory that most of the time he'll die on first. Brooklyn is, naturally, excepted, holding the charter for having three men on third.
I find nothing in the rule which when the baserunner expires on the second sack, prohibits the cussing corpse to stand there in the proper crestfallen attitude until a teammate fetches his glove along on the way from the dugout. '
Baseball Roundup
Spahn Baffles Phillies With Mid-Season Form
Bv UNITED PRESS
Spring training games don't amount to a row of grapefruit seeds, but you can't convince Milwaukee's Warren Spahn, who displays the same bear-down brilliance whether he's pitching for money or marbles.
Spahn, a 23-game winner with the Brave last season, exhibited mid-season steam at Bradenton, Fla., yesterday as he baffled the Phillie batters and hurled seven scoreless innings in his team's 10-0 triumph.
The vetetan left-hander, first Milwaukee pitcher to go seven innings this spring, yielded only four singles—two of them "bleders"—in throttling Philadelphia. Jim Wilson relieved Spahn in the eighth and didn't allow a Phillie batter to reach base.
Johnny Logan, enjoying a fine spring, paced Milwaukee's 13-hit attack on Jim Konstanty, Thornton Kipper, and John Sanford with a triple and a pair of singles.
Peoria Cats Win AAU
Like the Phillies, the Red Sox didn't collect many hits, either, but they put their safeties to better purpose. Limited to two hits by Gerry Staley and Tom Poholsky, the Red Sox took advantage of four walks, an error, a passed ball, and a wild pitch to score two runs in the eighth and nip the Cardinals, 3-2. Rookie Tom Alston collected two of the six hits off Red Sox pitchers Leo Kiely and Truman Clevenger, including a home run.
Denver — (U,P)— Peoria, Ill., has one national basketball championship today—despite Bradley university's loss to LaSalle in the NCAA finals—after Peoria's Caterpillar Diesels captured their third successive national AAU title.
Peoria controlled play throughout the finals by setting up its shots and then scoring at crucial moments to wipe out Grihalva rally gains. Grihalva moved ahead, for the first time in the third period, 37-36, and held a 42-38 lead later in the period on the shooting of Hugh Faulkner, Glen Anderson, Jim Hoverder, and Ken Leslie.
The defensive-minded, benchladen Peoria Cats downed a good San Diego Grihalva Motors teams, 65-56, Saturday night in the finals of the AAU tourney in Denver. However, LaSalle's hot-shooting college team denied Peoria two national amateur basketball championships when it defeated Bradley, 92-76, the same night in Kansas City.
The Yankees snapped their seven-game losing streak as Harry Byrd and Tom Morgan pitched them to an 8-2 triumph over Brooklyn. It marked the Dodgers first loss in 12 games, and Yogi Berra was the chief culprit with a homer and two singles.
However, the Cat bench was too strong and Peoria moved ahead, 45-44, by the end of the stanza and widened the gap in the final period on the shooting of Kirby Minter, Ron Bontemps, Frank McCabe, Dick Retherford, Ed Solomon, Don Penwell, and Ken Sheets.
NL Prexy Defends Cardinal Owners
Tampa, Fla. — (U.P.)—National league president Warren C. Giles, in one of the most vehement outbursts of his career, defended the new St. Louis Cardinal owners last night and called "all this talk about commercial interests owning ball clubs to the detriment of baseball plain poppycock."
Although Giles mentioned no names, his blast unquestionably was aimed at Sen. Edwin C. Johnson, president of the Western league. Johnson has introduced a bill in the Senate designed to make base-coin transactions other liquor interests subject to the federal anti-trust laws.
August A. Busch Jr., of the Anheuser-Busch Brewing company, is president of the Cardinals and has faced the brunt of Sen. Johnson attack against commercial interests in baseball.
General manager Hank Greenberg was given a new two-year contract by the Cleveland Indians.
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