By ED HOWARD Kansan Assistant Sports Editor
Come school again and a chance to criticize what we don't like and praise what we do. As Sports Editor Don Tice mentioned in Monday's Trails, this quite often involves suffering from the "hoof in mouth" disease.
During the summer, the greatest call for sports comment in the Midwest came about when Jack Gardner, former basketball coach at Kansas State college, took over a similar position at the University of Utah. Not content with just taking a new job, Gardner also took two of the Big Seven's best basket-teers, Art Bunte of Colorado, and Gary Bergen, star at K-State.
While Bunte was not popular with Bebe Lee, head basketball coach, Bergen was being heavily counted on by "Tex" Winters, new Wildcat mentor. The 6-8 Bergen has surprising agility for a man of his size and would be valuable on any team.
What enticements Gardner offered we do not know. But Utah officials maintain that no athletic scholarships have been or are being given to the boys.
What we cannot figure out is why a good player would leave a school where he has a scholarship, a reputation, and a promising future, to play basketball at an institution where he does not have financial aid and must wait a year before becoming eligible.
If, as Utah claims, the men are not getting financial help, proof would have been presented that money is not everything. However, there are such things as wealthy alumni associations which can offer quite strong inducements to promising athletes.
How many Big Seven basketball players Gardner "invited" to follow him to the Great Salt Lake country we do not know. Besides the publicized announcement that Jerry Jung, towering junior at K-State who has the potential of Kansas' B. H. Born, had been contacted by Gardner to "go West, young man," we know of one other conference player asked to move, too.
In addition to Gardner's trying to get conference athletes to go to Utah, we are disgusted by the methods with which he has contacted them. His contacts have been to the athletes themselves, and not to their coaches. He did not say one word to Winters about taking Bergen with him, and even went so far as to tell Winters that he had not even spoken or conferred with the former K-Stater about changing schools. Gardner, long a foe of Allen's, both on and off the basketball floor, has made himself more unpopular than ever with "Phog" and Kansas supporters.
Changing directions to a more pleasant subject, we are going out on a long limb by saying that we believe Kansas will have a much better football team than most of the "experts" are predicting. After watching Saturday's intra-squad scrimmage, we are encouraged.
Even though the backfield will be almost completely inexperienced, the hustle and drive shown by individual members of both backfield units was more than encouraging. If they can keep that hustle, long a trademark of success in any sport, Kansas should do very well.
If the Jayhawk team does well against UCLA, we feel it can carry on more than adequately against its other competition, including Oklahoma. The West Coast team has 22 returning lettermen from its Rose Bowl team of 1953. They will be tough. We would compare Kansas' line with any in the nation, but the difference comes in comparison of backfields. Don't count the Jayhawkers too low for '53.
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Major League Standings
W. W. Pct. G.B.
New York 98 76 571
Cleveland 86 67 509
Chicago 84 62 575
Boston 74 62 373
Washington 74 71 510 22%
Detroit 58 89 305 40%
Philadelphia 58 91 374 40%
St. Louis 58 91 374 40%
AMERICAN LEAGUE
University Daily Kansan Thursday. Sept. 17, 1953.
Wednesday's Results
St. Louis 5-2, New York 3-3
Boston 4-1, Chicago 6-
Cleveland 7, Philadelphia 2
Washington 4, Chicago 2
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Fremont, Neb. —(UP)— A Mid-
land college freshman died at Dodge
County hospital here Tuesday night
of injuries suffered a few hours
earlier in football practice.
Neb. Football Has 2 Deaths
He was Yuichiro Doi, 20, of Honolulu, Hawaii. It was Nebraska's second football death in as many days.
New York  Cincinnati 3
Chicago 7, Philadelphia 3
Milwaukee 7, Pittsburgh 3
St. Louis 5, Brooklyn 4
Doi suffered a neck injury while making a tackle. The injury paralyzed the lower part of his body, and he was placed in a respirator after his arrival at the hospital. He died about 10 p.m.
Creighton Prep freshman, 14-year-old James Schwee, died Monday in Omaha, of an injury suffered in football practice Friday.
Doi was a freshman at Midland, one of 19 Hawaiian students on the campus.
The Hawaiian youth had reported late for football. He was being tried out at quarterback and safety.
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Team to Fly to Texas For '53 Grid Opener
By STAN HAMILTON
Kansan Sports Writer
George Remsberg, soph fullback,
and Jerry Taylor, senior end, are two
more question marks. Remsberg
suffered a badly bruised hip last
Saturday and Taylor had a bad chest
bruise.
Kansas, with a 7-3 record last year, and TCU, 4-4-2 in '52, will be meeting for the eleventh time, although it will be only the Jayhawkers' third appearance at Ft. Worth. In the early days of the rivalry the contests were played in Kansas City.
On the debit side, trainer Dean Nesmith listed three men as doubtful for Saturday. Sophomore quarterback Dick Sandifer is still nursing a cut hand, an injury he suffered when he collided with a sideline marker last week.
Coach J. V. Sikes, his staff of coaches, and about 40 gridders will leave Kansas City early tomorrow by plane for Ft. Worth, and will work out tomorrow night at Amon Carter stadium, site of Saturday's KU-TCU clash.
Yesterday and Tuesday, Sikes sent his charges through bruising controlled scrimmage sessions, and indicated that tonight he would taper down the heavy work. Since the Texas Christian contest is an arealight affair, the squad will practice under the lights tonight at Haskell field.
Senior fullback Frank Sabatini, who suffered an injured eye iris in Saturday's intrasquad game, and Don Hess, junior halfback who twisted a knee in the same game, are due to be ready Saturday for fulltime duty.
KU has defeated the Horned Frogs twice, has been tied twice, and has dropped six games, scoring a total of 88 points in 10 encounters to TCU's 135. The only Kansas victories were in 1951 and 1952.
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