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Monday, March 15, 1954 University Daily Kansan
Former Pirate Hurler Making Good As Umpire
San Francisco —(U.P.)— There is a general belief that men who display violent tempers during their athletic careers will not make good umpires.
But Bob Chesnes, one-time Pittsburgh Pirate and San Francisco Seals pitching ace, is an exception to the rule.
If Chesnes wishes, he will get a shot at umpiring in the Pacific Coast league this year and his biggest booster will be Jerry Donovan, president of the Class C California league_and a former professional baseball star himself. Chesnes umpired in the California loop last year.
Currently, president Clarence (Pants) Rowland of the PCL would like to give Cheesen a chance in the PCL-if he can find the youth. Eut Bob has failed to answer two telegrams and a letter.
"Bob is the best first year umbree I've ever seen," says Donovan. "He has a chance to go all the way to the majors. He's great."
"He tossed only one man out of a game all last year," says Donovan. "That's exceptional for a first-year-man. You never could tell that Cheses umpiring and Cheses playing were one and the same man."
Few men with violent tempers have made the grade asumpires in the major leagues. Babe Pinelli is one. Donovan thinks Chesnes could be another.
As a player, Chesnes was a delight to the fans—and the despair of his managers. He could blow his top quicker than a pressure cooker. One time when manager Bill Meyer of Pittsburgh went to the mound to remove him, he threw the ball clear
But he had a lot of talent in that good right flipper of his until it went bad. In 1948 he had a 14-6 record for the Pirates; and in his last year with the San Francisco team, he won 22, lost eight.
He played in the Class C Pioneer league, too, at the start of his career—dividing his time between shortstopping and pitching. The managers up there were afraid to let him pitch very often because he got into too many arguments with the umpires and ended up getting tossed out of the game. At shortstop, he didn't have so much at stake in whether the pitch was called a ball or strike.
Babe Pinelli was the same. Possibly worse.
"I played with Babe on the Seals" said Donovan. "He was always going up in the stands after some guy. You can tell that by his nose today."
"But you'll note that he is start ing his 21st season as a National league umpire this year."
Meanwhile, LaSalle, Bradley, Penn State, and Southern California take over the cage festivals.
Basketball's top ten will be on the outside looking in when the NCAA finals begin Friday night in Kansas City's Municipal auditorium.
Top Fives Out Of Cage Race
Indiana and Kansas, last year's finalists, will be missing along with Notre Dame and Oklahoma A&M. last week's favorites to advance to the national.
indiana was dumped by Notre Dame Friday night and then the Irish, installed as favorites after their crushing victory, dropped the finals the next night to Penn State.
Kansas missed out on a lucky draw to Colorado and Oklahoma A&M completed the dizzy week-end byopping their home final to Bradley.
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RELAY ACES—These four men will head the Kansas track forces when the Jayhawkers run in the Texas Relays, April 3. Left to right, they are Dick Wilson, Wes Santee, Art Dalzell and Lloyd Koby. The KU track team is working out now in preparation for the outdoor season which is kicked off with the Austin carnival.
Fabulous Furman Sophomore Takes Back Seat to Selvy
Atlanta—(U.P.)—Furman's Darrell Floyd knows how Evashevski felt.
Forrest Evashevski played in the shadow of football's mighty Tom Harmon. Floyd occupied the basketball court this season with one of the game's most fabulous performers, Frank Selvy.
Floyd himself under ordinary circumstances would be considered something of a whirlwind for he averaged better than 24 points a game in his sophomore season at Furman. That kind of playing got lost in the scrapheap of outdated records as Selvy, the all-American, rewrote nearly every major college scoring record during the season.
While Selvy managed to hit 45.3
per cent of his field goals he fell
below Floyd at the free throw line,
hitting 80 per cent of his foul shots.
In accumulating his 24.3 average the 21-year-old native of Thomasville, N.C., connected on 83.9 per cent of his free throws and 44.3 pe- cent of his field goal attempts.
Just as Evashevski eventually won his fame on the gridiron, Floyd is a near cinch to make his mark on the hardwood now that Selvy is through with college competition.
Floyd demonstrated his accuracy from the charity line recently by hitting 14 of 14 foul shots in the Southern conference tournament.
Even this season with teammate Selvy averaging a spectacular 41.7 points per game, Floyd won the reputation of being one of Dixie's sharpest shots.
Floyd, who is hardly a big man on the court at six-one, also grabs his share of the rebounds. Through 16 games this season he grabbed 116 rebounds.
Kansas Finishes Third In League Swim Meet
The most outstanding race for Kansas was the free style relay in which Don Burton, Dick Eflin, Gene Buchanan, and Pete Rombold finished in second place with a time of 3:48, a new KU record. This was the only race in which one of the last three teams was able to gain a place as high as second.
With all 15 men turning in their finest performances of the year, the KU swimming team took third place in the Big Seven conference swimming meet Friday and Saturday at Ames, Iowa, marking the first time since 1937 that Kansas has gotten as high as third in the league meet.
Other new Kansas records were in the breast stroke, in which a new time of 1:09.3 was set, the medley relay, and the 60-yard free style. Burton, Jean Schanze, and Eflin took third, breaking the old medley record by more than seven seconds setting a new time of 3:11.6. Eflin's time in the 60-yard free style was 30.6.
In this meet KU was swimming against the third and sixth best teams in the nation, Oklahoma, the No. 3 team, and Iowa State, the No. 6 team, each winning seven events. However, Oklahoma's superior power and depth gave it enough seconds and thirds to win the meet by a comfortable margin of 44 points Iowa State scored 110 points Kansas 26, Nebraska 23, and Colorado 20. K-State and Missouri did not compete.
Entering the meet Kansas was ranked no better than fifth since it had lost two meets to Colorado and two of three to Nebraska.
One of the finest times, as far as improvement is concerned, was posted by Leigh Stratton of KU, who cut 30 seconds off of his best time to take sixth place in the 440-yard free style.
More records were broken in the Big Seven meet than in the Big Ten conference meet which had such powerful teams as Ohio State competing.
New conference records were set in all events except the 60-yard free style and the free style relay. In addition to the conference records broken four national collegiate records were set.
The only triple winner in the meet was Jim McKevitt of Iowa State. His outstanding time was
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1:11.9 in the 120-yard individual medley, which is a tenth of a second faster than the national record time set by McKevitt in the preliminaries on Saturday.
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