Tuesday, March 16, 1954 University Daily Kansan Page 3
Baseball
By DANA LEIBENGOO
Kansan Assistant Sports Editor
With three weeks remaining before its opening game with the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville on April 5, the KU baseball lineup
JOHN BROSE . .
Ace Lefthander
Forces Eye April 5 Opener Some Sports Still Wide Open Don Aungst is the leading catching candidate. The coach said that at the present time this lea
is far from set with the future of the team depending on how much time the football players will be able to spend playing baseball.
Bob Allison, sophomore centerfielder, and Bob Conn, sophomore right fielder, will form the nucleus of the outfield and the main part of the team's attack if they play, Coach Floyd Temple said. The coach said that with these two boys, KU will have a goot hitting team, but without it it would be well below average on offense.
The future of the football players is in doubt because spring football practice will be in progress at the same time as the baseball season. Since this will be the first look which Coach Charles E. "Chuck" Mather will have at his team, he would like to have them for all of spring practice. In future years, Coach Mather plans to schedule spring football practice early enough so that it won't conflict with the spring sports program.
The only outfielder who is sure to be in the starting lineup when the
season begins is leftfielder John Perry, who lettered last season, Coach Temple said.
"If I can use Allison, Conn, and Perry in the outfield, the outfield will not only have plenty of power, but it will also be very good on defense. Allison and Conn, particularly, are very fast," Coach Temple said.
Third base is also wide open with Forrest Hoglund, a transfer from William Jewell, and Bill Heitholt, letterman outfielder, fighting for the position. Heitholt was the starting centerfielder last year.
John Trombold, third team all- American at first base last year, has that position sewed up, the coach said.
Lettermen Bill Pulliam and Harold Patterson have the edge on the second base and shortstop jobs, respectively. Pulliam has started for KU the past two seasons, as a third baseman in his freshman year and as a second baseman last year. Patterson was the regular shortstop last season.
Don Aungst is the leading catching candidate. The coach said that at the present time this looks like it will be the weakest spot on the club. Aungst should do a capable job, especially on defense, but he lacks experience, the coach said.
Behind Aungst are Bob Kaak and John Handley. Handley is a sophomore and Kaak was a holdover squadman from last season.
"Although the pitchers aren't as far along as I had hoped, it still looks as if we should have a good staff," the coach said.
The top two men at the present time are veteran lefthander John Brose and sophomore Bob Shirley. The remainder of the staff will be composed of righthanders Ben Dalton, Dick Wogan and Loren Martin and lefthander Wayne Tiemeier.
The squad has been working outside the past two weeks, and Temple and his assistant Dick Gilman, have being holding practice games the last few days. In the game yesterday, lasting six innings, Tiemeier and Dalton pitched the first four innings and Martin and Wogan pitched the final two innings. Tonight, Shirley and Brose will pitch about five innings and on Saturday afternoon a regulation game will be played.
"Brooks spread-eagles the field," Brenner said. "His only possible United States opponent, Billy Peacock of Los Angeles, got knocked out Saturday night in Mexico City by Raton Macias. And it would be too expensive to import world champion Jimmy Carruthers from Australia or other good foreigners because the class doesn't draw here."
Chicago Man Boosts Polo
Like two previous bantam bouts, staged at the Parkway, last night's tilt drew poorly—about 1,200 fans and $2,000.
Last night young Brooks of Cleveland, North American bantam champion, won a "shutout" non-title decision over ex-champ Henry (Pappy) Gault in a TV 10-rounder. None of the three ring officials gave Gault a round.
New York —(U.P.)— Matchmaker Teddy Brenner of Brooklyn's Eastern Parkway arena today abandoned plans to revive the bantam-weight class because of Nate Brooks' superiority and the lack of public interest in the division.
Brooks Running Short of Foes
Chicago —(U.P.)- Pat Connors, a 29-year-old insurance salesman, is doing his best to show that polo is not a "rich man's sport."
Accordingly, Brenner hopes to have 20-year-old Brooks step out of his class and fight some good featherweight like Lulu Perez of New York or Gene Smith of Washington at the Parkway on May 3.
He is president of the Indoor-Outdoor Polo league of Chicago and has become the driving force behind the rebirth of the game in the midwest.
"The guys in our league are all working men and play polo as a hobby." Connors said. "We've figured it out and if a fellow can afford to play golf at a country club he can play polo and it will cost him less money."
Slender, 20-year-old Brooks weighed $118\frac{1}{2}$ pounds, just one-half pound over the bantam limit, last night. Gault of Spartanburg, S.C., scaled 121.
Connors and a couple of friends took over the polo situation in Chicago two years ago and the league showed a profit for both years after 17 years of deficit.
"It wasn't much of a fight," Cornors said, "we just kicked out all the non-players and that was that.
Connors, son of a state senator,
has been around horses since he was
10. He was a member of the
1952 Olympic Equestrian team.
He frankly admits he's running the polo show here and it seems to be a good thing for polo fans that he is.
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Denver — (U.P.)— The lesser lights of the National Industrial basketball league see action today in a continuance of first round play in the 47th annual National AAU basketball tournament here with the featured Tuesday game expected to be the clash between Kirby Shoes of Los Angeles and Allen Bradley of Milwaukee.
In opening first round play yesterday, Young Men's institute of San Francisco defeated Lackland Air Force base of San Antonio, Tex. 84-68; Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., trounced Del Río of Trenton, N.J. 83-64; Indianapolis Towne House whipped Panchandle Flyers of Anchorage, Alaska, 64-57, and Warren AFB of Cheyenne, Wyo., eked out a 60-58 win over the McPherson American Legion team.
Allen Bradley of Milwaukee had not been scheduled to see action until Wednesday afternoon. But they were moved up on to tonight's program when the Jacksonville, Fla., Gibbs Shipbuilders cancelled out.
Today's schedule pits Riverland of New Roads, La., against the Associated Grocers of Ogden, Utah, at 12 noon; Cleveland Carmack Realators vs. Des Moines Clarkons at 1:30 pm.; CVE Travelers of Artesia, N.M., vs. St. Agnello of Amsterdam, N.Y., at 3 p.m.; Los Angeles Kirby Shoes vs. Allen Bradley of Milwaukee at 7 p.m., and Philbac of San Diego, Calif., vs. Ft. Siujv, Okla., at 9 p.
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O'Loughlin Changes Fraley's Opinion of Fight Managers
By OSCAR FRALEY
New York—(U.P.)-Prize fight managers went up a notch in my esteem today-when I met a handsome young-fellow named Bobby O'Loughlin.
Bobby is a square-jawed, broad-shouldered lad of 22 who moves with the soft, quick tread of the born outdoorsman. He has a five-dog sporting breed act currently appearing at the Philadelphia Sportsman's show and which subsequently will be seen in Columbus, Ohio; Utica, N.Y.; Milwaukee, and Los Angeles.
But Bobby looks like he'd make a' great heavyweight.
It was a winning combination all the way. Bobby and his dog, Jack Pine, cleaned up in field trial competition throughout the Midwest.
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And it's strange that he isn't, considering that his father is a gent named Tommy O'Loughlin who once managed, among others, a heavy-weight challenger named Elmer (Violent) Ray. The only difficulty was that Tommy talked a better fight than Elmo ever fought.
Elmer finally lost a few to guys that Tommy, his smiling Irish manager, could have whipped himself and with one hand in a plaster cast. So Tommy tossed in the towel and drifted into less frustrating promotional ventures.
Now the young O'Loughlin comes smiling out of the west, Minneapolis to be exact, and your first question is how he ever got away from the old man's fistic dreams of managing a heavyweight champion.
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"I went to the dogs too early," Bobbv grins.
"I wanted the dog so bad that I sold my jalopie to help pay for him." Bobb recalls.
He did, at that. Bobby was 15 years old and the proud possessor of a well-tuned jalopie when he started tinkering around the Hennepin Retrieving club kennels. He took a liking to a pedigree Chesapeake pup and soon the dog wouldn't "work" for anybody but him.
Finally, the kennel owner received a $500 offer for the dog and he gave Bobby the first chance to buy. Bobby's father at the time was broke because of feeding a stable of fighters who never lost a decision to a plate of steak and eggs.
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