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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Jan. 7, 1954
Bv KEN BRONSON
BY KEN BROWSON
Kansan Assistant Sports Editor
Now is the time of the year when everyone is looking ahead to the months of 1954 for great accomplishments in the field of sports. We were wondering ourselves about what this year held in store, so with the help of our second-handed crystal ball, we had a brief look into the future. This is what we saw;
JANUARY  Kansas' basketball team notches wins over K-State and Missouri but loses to Oklahoma A&M ... Jim Myers hired as football coach at Kansas ... KU indoor track opens schedule with a triangular victory over Oklahoma and Kansas State at Manhattan.  Joey Maxim emerges from plush Florida training camp to retain light heavy-weight championship from Archie Moore.
FEBRUARY: KU basketball team reverses form to whip Oklahoma A&M to avenge earlier loss . . . Jayhawkers defeat K-State as Dr. Forrest C. "Phog" Allen claims the two teams will never meet again in Hoch
.. Coach Bill Easton's indoor aces cop Michigan State Relays and win Big Seven indoor crown easily . . . Gordon Pirk, Britain's ace distance man, enrols for the second semester at Oklahoma. . .
MARCH: Kentucky grabs NCAA championship while Kansas wins runner-up spot again . B. H. Born and Harold Patterson make all-big Seven team while Allen Kelley and Dallas Dobbs gain second team berths. . Major league teams open spring training with the Yankees and the Dodgers favored to wind-up in the World Series again . . .
APRIL: Wes Santee runs 4-021 to win the Glenn Cunningham Mile in the Kansas Relays. . . Jayhawker relay teams again register a clean sweep of the Texas, Kansas, and Drake Relays. . . Kansas opens spring football practice under new coach, all new assistants, and UCLA plays. . . Milwaukee and Boston lead the major league after two weeks of action. . . Kansas baseball team loses first two games to Emporia State and Rockhurst. . . Claims poor diamond caused the double defeat. . .
MAY: Kansas wins Big Seven outdoor track championship . . Jayhawker baseball team finishes season in a burst of speed, winning its last game. . Some big gray horse wins the Kentucky Derby to prove that color had nothing to do with the race last year. . Milwaukee and Boston continue to lead major leagues. . Yankees in eighth place
... Stengel says, "We're improving." ...
JUNE: Santee runs 4:01.6 mile in Compton Relays and to show it was no fluke, runs 4:01.5 mile in the NCAA meet . . . Nino Valdes and Rocky Marciano battle it out in Yankee Stadium . . . Marciano chalks up fourth round knockout . . . Santee astonishes world by running 3:59.9 mile in the AAU track meet . . . Turns down German camera offered as a prize . . . Brooklyn and Chicago take over the leads in the major leagues . . . Yankees still in eighth place . . . Stengel says, "We're improving, I think." . .
JULY: Work started on KU fieldhouse. . . Contractor says building may be completed in 1956 but promises nothing . . . Brooklyn and Boston lead major leagues at the July 4th mark. . . Yankees climb to seventh place. . Stengel says, "We're going now!" . . .
AUGUST: AAU opens investigation on Santee to see why he refused German camera in June. KU football practice opens with spirits and material promising. Brooklyn and Boston continue to lead major leagues. Yankees in fourth place. Stengel says, "It won't be long now!" . . .
SEPTEMBER: Bevo Francis enrols at Utah . . . Gardner says, I don't know why I'm so lucky" . . . Kansas' football forces win opener against TCU . . . Major league seasons end with Brooklyn, Milwaukee, St. Louis, and New York finishing in that order in the National League while New York, Boston, Cleveland, and Chicago finish in that order in the American . . . Stengel says, "I told you so!"
OCTOBER: Brooklyn wins World Series in six games. . Stengel says, "I'm getting too old!" . . . Kansas wins three more games but again loses to the powerful Oklahoma Sooners . . .
NOVEMBER. Kansas captures four more wins to end up the season with a 9-1 record and a trip to the Orange Bowl. Kansas cross-country team wins Big Seven title
Three Eye Spots In Hall of Fame
By OSCAR FRALEY
New York —(U.P.)— The spot in which the baseball boswells bury the hatchet will determine this week whether Bill Terry, Bill Dickey and Joe DiMaggio win their way into the Hall of Fame this year.
There can be small doubt that each of them belongs in the diamond shrine. But, up to now, for varied reasons the voters have preferred to bury the hatchet in the carcass.
As far as Terry and Dickey were concerned, the axing was of a purely personal reason. Too many guys simply didn't like them personally. In DiMaggio's case, it was the old East vs. West split among the baseball writers.
Thus, last year when the New York writers were announcing calmly beforehand that DiMaggio would make it, the outside writers put their back up and made dogged certain that DiMaggio didn't make it. Silly, sure, but human nature.
In the cases of Terry and Dickey, the writers agreed to disagree. Both came close to winning their niche in the Hall of Fame but enough of the old die-hards in each of the voting camps hung on to ancient feuds to make the two Bills miss.
Who can deny that they belong?
Who can deny that they belong. Terry is the only man in the last quarter of a century to hit 400 in the National League. He made it with 401 in 1908, body has mudged it since. But Terry, an incredible man, made too many injuries during his tenure as manager of the New York Giants. He was contemptuous of newspapermen and, while he could be charming, he didn't very often take the trouble.
Dickey is cut much in the same pattern. But, if you face facts as a voter, Dickey was one of the greatest catchers of all times, if not the greatest, and the balloting is supposed to be done from that angle.
with Allan Frame, Tom Rupp, and
Corky Eggs running 1-2-3 . . .
DECEMBER: Illinois and Southern Cal sign for Rose Bowl, Kansas to meet North Carolina in the Orange Bowl, Georgia Tech and Texas Tech to play in Sugar Bowl, and Baylor and Tennessee slated for Cotton Bowl. . Kansas opens basketball season, defeating LSU, 66-65 . California becomes first invited team to win the Big Seven pre-season tournament at SMU did it in 1946 . .
P. S.: Don't look me up next January.
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Oklahoma City, Okla.—(U.P.)His team didn't win, but Arnold Short of the Oklahoma City university Chiefs got a big charge out of scoring a record 28 points against the Oklahoma Aggies the other night.
Short Comes Back to Haunt Aggies With Scoring Skill
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For Short is a fellow the Aggies $ ^{5} $ turned awav four years ago.
He was a senior at Weatherford, Okla., high school at the time, and his ambition was to join Hank Iba's big-time Aggie club. But when one of his teachers called a member of the A&M coaching staff, he was told no scholarship was available for the relatively unheralded small-town guard.
Short turned to OCU, where Coach Doyle Parrack took a look at him and signed him up. Neither of them ever has regretted it. Short is the hottest shotmaker in these parts, sporting a fancy 29.4-point average in 10 games this season and making something of a prophet out of his high school coach, Steve Graham, who told Parrack Short would become "the best ball player in Oklahoma."
“There are reasons for wanting to try a little harder against the Aggies,” the reticient senior conceded. “I wanted to go to A&M once, but I’m glad now I came to OCU.”
Short, who has written a new record book for the local university, made more points against the defense-minded Aggies than any other player ever has scored. He easily outscored Frank Selvy, 39 to 26, the night before.
Opposing coaches are almost as high on Short as is Parrack, who simply calls his No. 1 boy "the best I've ever known."
Wesleyan Drops Bethany
"He could make any team in the country," says Parrack, who has played professional and AAU ball and knows his way around.
Lindsborg —(U.P.)— Kansas Wesleyan, with Dean Groves dropping in 22 points, opened its Kansas Conference schedule with an 83-70 win over Bethany here last night. Ralph Fry hit 20 in the losing cause for Bethany.
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