Wednesday, Jan. 20, 1954 University Daily Kansan
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Indoor Runners Open Next Friday
Kansan Sports Writer
By DANA LEIBENGOOD
Coach M. E. "Bill" Easton's track team will open its 1954 indoor season Jan. 29 when it competes with Kansas State and Oklahoma in a triangular track meet at the Kansas State fieldhouse in Manhattan
The middle distance events will again be the ones in which Kansas will score heavily. In the half mile Wes Sante and Art Dalzell will make a strong bid for first and second places.
In the mile run Santee, the fastest iner in the U.S. today, will lead a strong contingent. In addition to Santee there is Allan Frame, who won the freshman telegraphic meet last year with 4:27. Frame finished third in the Big Seven cross country meet the past fall, and also finished seventh in the national cross country meet which was won by KU.
The 42-man squad includes 13 lettermen. This squad will face the toughest indoor schedule in Kansas history. Besides the Kansas State triangular meet, KU will compete in the Michigan State Relays, in a triangular with Illinois and Michigan State, a dual with Missouri, and the Big Seven indoor meet in Kansas City, Feb. 26-27.
Lloyd Koby, who finished third in the mile in the indoor run last year, and sophomore Tom Rupp round out the mile runners.
Despite the tough schedule, Kansas should give a good account of itself. Last year it won the Big Seven indoor meet with 43 points. This year it has back the men who scored 30 and one-third of those points.
said "Kansas is under a dual handi-
gion in this meet. We are not as
as along as we would like to be,
and the strain of going through finals
week puts us at a decided dis-
advantage."
Dick Wilson, a letterman last year, Frame, Rupp, and Norm Bitner will be the top men in the 2-mile run. Bitner is the key to Kansas' hopes in the 2-mile. He finished third in that race in 1952, but did not see action last season because of an injury. If he could display the form he showed two seasons ago, he would strengthen the distance situation tremendously.
The shot put, which has been a weak spot in the past, is now a strong event. This year it will have to carry a good part of the scoring punch of the team. Letterman Dick Knowles is the top man in this field. Gene Blasi, who finished third in the freshman meet last year with 46-5, and two other sophomores, George Bermsberg and Leo Heilman, show promise. Dean Ragon, a squad member last year, and Dale Birney, another sophomore fill out the shot put squad.
Last year's outdoor high jump champion Kermit Hollingsworth is back for another season. He is joined by Leon Wells, who won the freshman telegraph meet last year with a jump of 6.315.
Battery Service
This event suffered a cripping blow when Bill Nieder was lost because of a knee injury suffered in football last fall. Nieder had won the freshman loop meet last year with a heave of 48-10½.
The normally optimistic coach
Mueller is the only veteran in the low hurdles. He finished second last season in the indoor meet.
Coach Easton will have to do a major rebuilding job on his mile relay team. Don Smith and John Reiderer have graduated leaving Cindrich and Adolph Mueller to anchor the team.
Bob Smith, another letterman is joined in the broad jump by Paul Hunt, a sophomore, and Ken Bateman, a transfer from Garden City Junior college.
This team has good balance, and should score some points in almost every event. As usual the middle events will be the strongest events.
Cindrich and Bill Hawkey, another returning veteran will carry Kansas' hopes in the 440-yard dash. Two sophomores, Tom Pott and John Quarrier will also compete in this event.
Kansas should score in the 60-yard dash with lettermen Don Hess and Frank Cindrich back. Hess finished second in the indoor meet last year and Cindrich fourth. They are joined by Dick Blair and Hunt, two promising sophomores.
With the injury to Jack Stephens, the pole vault loses most of its scoring punch. Stephens injured his ankle early in the fall and it has not healed sufficiently for him to resume vaulting.
In the high hurdles Bill Biberstien, who finished second in the conference last season, will be a strong candidate for top honors in the 60-vard highs this year.
The picture isn't as bright as it looks however, for several injuries may leave the squad considerably below par for the triangular meet.
2 Independents Win IM Games By Big Scores
Sigma Gam Ep and Kappa Eta Kappa won easily in the only two Independent "A" league games played yesterday.
Gamma Ep 41. KHK 27
Sigma Gam Ep built up a convincing 15-point lead at halftime, 25-10, and then coasted the rest of the way. The losers outscored the winners in the second half 17-16 but could cut the lead no lower than 14 points.
The victory was the first for Sigma Gam Ep. It had lost its two previous games, while the loss evened KHK's season record to one victory and one defeat.
Norman Sheffer was the big gun for the winners as he scored 13 points to tie with Jim Schmitendorf, KHK, for scoring honors. Sheffer got able scoring assistance from teammate Perry who accounted for 10 points. Don Chang was the runnerup to Schmitendorf as he rang up 10 of KHK's points.
Jim Beam 58. Oread 43
Led by Dick Wogan, who scored 17 points, Jim Beam protected its perfect record by soundly defeating Oread, 58-43. Jim Beam now leads division III with four victories and no losses.
Martin scored 15 points for Jim Beam. Griffith of Oread, was runnerup to Wogan for scoring honors as he scored 16 points. Pete Nowin was the No. 2 man for Oread with 11 points.
Other scores:
Fraternity "B"
AKL 24, Lambda Chi 22.
DU 69, Delta Chi 7.
Independent "C"
Leaning Lodge 46, Knaves 25.
AFROTC 33, Pearson 17.
(Note: No games will be played
finally. Final examinations.)
Dodge City Junior college is the only undefeated Juco quintet in Kansas. The Western Kansas team dropped defending national champion Ei Dorado, 81-72 Saturday to boost its league record to 3-0.
(Note: No games will be played during final examinations).
Pro Grid Pool May Be Slim
Detroit—(U.P.)—Russ Thomas, assistant coach of the champion Detroit Lions, predicted today "pickings will be slim" in the National Football league player draft next week because of the return of the one-platoon system in college football.
"There just aren't as many good players around this year," Thomas lamented. "Some of the boys who would have been defensive standouts couldn't make the grade because they were lacking in offensive ability. And the same was true for good offensive prospects who were too weak on defense."
He said "I've talked with representatives of several other pro teams and they all agree this will be a lean year in the draft."
Thomas has been busy since the end of the football season scanning the long list of draft eligibles for players the Lions would like to land at Philadelphia next Wednesday.
"Naturally, if Bobby Garrett were still around when our turn came up we'd take him."
However, Thomas didn't expect Garrett, Stanford quarterback, to be around for the Lions to draft.
Thomas said he also expected that teams picking before the Lions in the first round would land Johnny Lattner, Notre Dame halfback; Art Hunter, Notre Dame tackle; Tim Nickeloff, Southern Cal end; Paul Cameron, UCLA halfback, and Bernie Faloney, Maryland quarterback.
"Garrett should go to the team that gets the bonus pick," he said. "I don't see how any team could pass him up. He has all the makings of a great pro quarterback."
Nine colleges—Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Texas A&M, Iowa State, Marquette, Idaho, North Carolina State Toledo, and East Texas State—are still looking for football coaches.
Hall of Fame Elections Today At Cooperstown
New York—(U.P)Bill Terry and Bill Dickey were the best bets to be elected to baseball's Hall of Fame today.
Senior members of the Baseball Writers' association already have voted on candidates for the official shrine at Cooperstown, N.Y., and the results of their ballots were to be announced at Commissioner Ford Frick's office today.
Outfieldier Al Simmons of the Athletics and pitcher Dizzy Dean of the Cardinals were voted into the Hall of Fame last year. Terry, former Giant first baseman, and Dickey, considered the Yankees' all-time standout catcher, fell only a few votes short of being elected.
Close behind Terry and Dickey in the 1953 balloting was Walter (Rabbit) Maranville, one-time Boston Brave shortstop who died earlier this month.
Although only Simmons and Dean were elected last year, there is a possibility that as many as four or five players may be elected this time due to a change in the voting set-up.
Writers were instructed to vote for players in the game from 1928 through 1948. Each writer can vote for as many as 10 players and those players whose names appear on three-quarters of the ballots automatically are elected. Since the writers can vote for only about two-thirds as many players as they have in the past, the more limited field could produce more members in the Hall of Fame.
Even though Dickey, Joe DiMaggio of the Yankees, and Ted Lyons, recently hired as a pitching coach by Brooklyn, have not been out of baseball five years, special exceptions were made for them since each polled more than 100 votes last year. There is even a chance that DiMaggio and Lyons might be elected in the current voting.
Allen to Talk at Dinner
Dr. F. C. "Phog" Allen, Kansas basketball camp Saturday night will speak at the annual teacher-board dinner for teachers and school board members of rural Douglas county in the ballroom of the Student union. The event is sponsored by the Douglas County Teachers association.
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