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Easton Predicts Repeat In Cross Country Dominance
By LOUIS STROUP JR.
Kansan Sports Writer
Prospects are bright for the University of Kansas cross country track squad this season, as Coach Bill Easton prepares his runners for a try at their seventh straight Big Seven championship.
Easton said that barring any bad luck or misfortune, Kansas has a good chance to repeat its performances of the last six years.
Wes Santee's mark of 15:00:1 for the 3-mile course which he set last fall in the conference meet held here, highlighted the season. Kansas won against Oklahoma in the squabble. The squad with the lowest number of points wins in cross country races.
Co-captains for the 1953 edition of the cross country squad are Wes Santee, Lloyd Koby, Art Dalzell and Dick Wilson. Easton has every squad member back from last year's team with the exception of Keith Palmquist, who graduated last spring.
Others expected to help add strength to the Kansas thinclads are Bob Creighton, sophomore from Flagler, Colo.; Allen Frame, sophomore from Wichita; Tom Rupp, sophomore from Hays, and Norman Bitner, a senior who was sidelined from competition last season with a knee injury. Bitner was captain of last year's team.
Also adding to Kansas' power will be the presence of Santee, who had said he would attend the international games held in Israel later this month and early October. Santee said he has changed his mind and will help Easton try for the school's seventh cross country championship.
The season's opener, which will be with Oklahoma A&M at Stillwater, might prove a stumbling block for the Big Seven champs. Easton said the initial contest could be a thorn in the Jayhawkers side as reports on them show they have a powerful squad, and foreign runners from Norway, Lundquest and Eckhoff, will make things plenty tough for the Jayhawkers. Also bolstering A&M's strength will be its almost-all-veteran team.
Kansas also has three NCAA championships under its belt and will be looking for a fourth at Lansing, Mich. Nov. 23.
The schedule of meets for the Jayhawkers this season gives them three chances to show the local fans some top flight running. The other three meets of the six-meet schedule are on ofe's courses.
The schedule:
the schedule:
Oct. 16 KU at Oklahoma A&M.
Oct. 24 KU at KU.
Oct. 15 Missouri at KU.
Nov. 7 KU at Oklahoma.
Nov. 14 Big Seven meet at KU.
Nov. 23 NCAA meet at Lansing.
Cats Work 2 Hours in Heat
Manhattan — (U.P.)— It was punt pass and run for Kansas State's football team yesterday as coach Bill Meek pushed the Wildcats through a two-hour practice despite hot, sultry weather. The varsity and freshmen joined forces in the workout with Meek running the frush from a single wing to let the first team have a close look at that type of maneuver. A brief session Friday night will conclude the preparation for the clash with Drake Saturday.
53 Freshmen Get Suits
Fifty-three freshmen gridders, including 20 from out of the state, have checked out equipment, Wayne Replogle, yearling coach, announced today.
"We know quite a bit about many of the freshmen," Replie said, "but, of course, there are some who are not so well-known but who could turn out to be real players. Our 2-game slate won't allow us much experimentation, but with practices almost every day through the fall, we ought to get a pretty good line on most of them."
Helping Replogle this year are three ex-KU grid greats, all of whom have completed their eligibility. They are Gil Reich, all-American safety man last year; Charlie Hoag, holder of the all-time Jayhawker ground-gaining mark, and Merlin Gish, center and line-backer who holds the distinction of never having lost any playing time due to injuries in his entire grid career.
Freshmen who have checked out suits:
Ends; Jerry Flynn, Amarillo, Tex.
Bob Prestern, Lawrence; Dave Paulding,
Vandalia, Ill.; William Bell
Hickman Mills, Mo.; Robert Westerhouse,
Eudora; Bob Mallott, Newton,
and Tom Clevenger, Topeka.
Tackles: James Hull, Wichita; John Drake, Cassidy; Joe Collins, Garden City; Albert Korn, Chicago;
Roger Brinkhoff, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Don Jones, Sapulpa, Okla., and Jack Poe. Lawrence.
Guards; Arthur Redmond, Howard;
Charles Burton, Kansas City; John
Gibson, Wichita, and Bill Arm-
strong, Amarillo, Tex. Centers: Bob
McDonald, Leonard, Tex.; Charles
Sprinkle, Hutchinson, and Frank
Black, Lawrence.
Quarterbacks: Don Steinmeyer, Topeka; Bob Boring, Kansas City; Tom Slaymaker, Kansas City, Mo.; Blaine Hollinger, Russell; Terry McLnottch, Chapman; Frank McKnight, Alma, and Frank Miller, Liberty.Mo.
Halfbacks: Art Miller, Atchison; Ted Rohde, South Sioux City, Ia.; Greg Fouts, Chicago; Tom Kwapich, Rochester, N.Y.; Harry Solter, Johnson; Bill Hess, Manchester, Okla; Jim Ridder, Wichita.
John Schleicher, Kansas City; Don Crane, Hugonot; Stan Chapin, Oberlin; Joe Held, Tecmschum; Bill Davis, Wichita; Ronnie Haidu, Chicago; Bob Franklin, Parsons; Jack Ogden, Tucumcari, N.M.; Dee Lander, Tula, Okla., and Ted Winkler, Spring Hill.
5 Brooks Ready To Hurl Series
New York—(U.P.)—Manager Charley Dressen of the Dodgers, boasting he has five pitchers he can start in the World Series, indicated today he will open with Carl Erskine and use rookie Bob Milliken as early as feasible.
Dressen hinted at these pitching plans yesterday during a sparring session with reporters at Yankee Stadium after spending the afternoon scouting the Yankees with his ales, Andy High and Red Corriden. The Dodger skipper had left his team in the West to give the Yankees a personal look-over.
When a reporter asked Dressen after the game what were his impressions of the world champions, he answered with a smile:
"There isn't much more we can learn about them that we didn't know from last year's World Series." "Last year when we went into the Series, they all said I had only one pitcher I could start in the opening game—Joe Black," Dressen said. "This year I could start five."
Pressed to name the five, he replied:
"Billy Loes, Milliken, (Russ) Meyer, Erskine, and (Preacher) Roe," deliberately scrambling the names so as not to tip off his rotation plans.
"Erskine is my number one pitcher," the chatty little Dodger manager said. "I said long ago as soon as he got control he'd win 20. Well, this seems to be the year. Last year he had a sore arm. This year it's gone and his stuff is better than ever."
Fullbacks: Jim Kesl, Clyde; Johnson Savage, Leonard, Tex.; Otho Sweazy, Colby; Keith Patterson, Rozel; Charles Thompson, Blue Springs, Tom; M. Webb, Norman Okla; Dick Todd, Minneapolis, and Dwight Dinsmore, Wichita.
Thursday, September 17, 1953 University Daily Kansas
Yanks to March On
By FRED DOWN
BY FREE DOWN
United Press Sports Writer
New York—(U.P.)—General Manager George Weiss, crediting "continuing productivity of the farm system" as the key factor in the Yankees' unprecedented march to five straight pennants, said today the team's amazing success story "could continue indefinitely."
"We see no reason why we cannot not or should not go on winning," Weiss said. "Our farm system is in good shape, our personnel is young and we have not lost our ambition."
Weiss, who shares with Manager Casey Stengel the greatest credit for the Yankees' unprecedented feat, singled out the team's aging pitching staff as "our No. 1 problem for 1954."
Next to the farm system, Weiss credited the big mound three of Raschi, Reynolds and Lopat with being "the backbone of the team." Their records for the five seasons were for the last 21-10, 21-10, 16-6 and 13-5; Reynolds 17-6, 16-12, 17-8, 20-8 and 11-7; Lopat 10-18, 18-8, 10-5 and 15-3.
"We may or may not have the young pitchers we require to take over from the older hurlers," Weiss explained. "Whitey Ford took up some of the slack this year but the advanced ages of our three star pitchers—Vic Raschi, Allie Reynolds and Ed Lopat—forced Stengel to scramble with the staff most of the season.
In addition to the three pitchers, shortstop Phil Rizzuto, catcher Yogi Berra, and outfielders Gene Woodling and Hank Bauer were the only players who made significant contributions to each of the five flag winners.
"I believe we will be able to add the necessary young pitchers and stand a good chance of winning a sixth straight pennant in 1554," he continued. "But, of course, we can't be sure. And we must remember that bad pitching could make us a second-division team over-night."
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"This team differed from the Yankee teams of the 1330s," Weiss said. "It was a team which kept winning while in the process of being changed from an old ball club to a young one. The farm system accomplished this by sending up fresh, new talent each season.
"Our aging players won the 1947 pennant and lost the 1948 flag," he continued. "It became clear to us at the end of the 1943 season that our players could not continue to win and we then determined to place complete confidence in our young players."
One Non-letterman to Start
Columbia, Mo. — (U.P.)— Missouri university's football team faces mighty Maryland in the season opener Saturday with only one nonletterman in the lineup. He is Tony Karakas, St. Louis, who will play center. Last year he was a linebacker on the freshman team.
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