Thursday, May 21. 1953 University Daily Kansan
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Batters Pound Out 182 Hits In 8 Major League Games
New York—(U.P.)—Take to the storm cellars you pitchers with your no-hit, low-hit performances—the lively batters suddenly have discovered the lively ball.
Yesterday was no time for the weak-hearted to go to the ball game, especially in the National League. At the finish there were 182 hits in eight games, 103 in the National and 79 in the American. There were 54 extra base hits, 15 homers, eight triples, and 31 doubles.
The Giants set the pace with 21 hits, including three homers, three triples, and three doubles in their 16-6 trouncing of the Cubs for their fourth straight victory. The Cardinals collected 17 hits as they hit their high for the season with an 11-6 victory over Pittsburgh—in which Red Schoendienst batted in six runs on a homer, two doubles, and a single for a perfect night. Pittsburgh collected 14 hits.
Cincinnati was the third N.L. club to hit a season's high for the day with a 14-hit, 14-5 victory over the Phillies, who made 11 hits in defeat. Things were a little quieter in Milwaukee where Brooklyn Billy Loes pitched a six-hitter in a 7-2 triumph.
Washington hit its high in hilt for the year in a 16-hit, 8-3 victory over collapsible Cleveland while Boston made nine hits in 14 innings in its 3-2 victory over St. Louis. The Yankees and Tigers each made 12 hits as the Bombers again won in the final inning, 9-8. The only pitching battle of the day found Morris Martin turning in a five-hitter for the A's in a 2-1 victory over lefty Billy Pierce of the White Sox, who yielded seven hits.
A four-run rally in the third and an eight-run rally in the eighth were the crushers for the Giants at Chicago as Monte Irvin, Alvin Dark, and Davey Williams hit homers. Bobby Thomson, Henry Thompson, and Whitey Lockman tripped, and Tookie Gilbert, Irvin, and Dark doubled.
Schoendienst boosted his average 24 points to .354, second highest in the league, with his big night at St. Louis while Musial and Steve Bilko collected three hits each.
Hot Springs Board To Discuss Order
Hot Springs, Ark. —(U.P.)—The board of directors of the Hot Springs baseball club of the Cotton States league were to meet today to discuss league president Al Haraway's order for forfeiting Hot Springs' game with Jackson because a Negro was to pitch.
Haraway's order was received by Hot Springs' co-owner Lewis Goltz here last night as Negro pitcher Jim Tugerson warmed-up for his first start with the Bathers. Some 1,500 fans, who booed the announcement and applauded the Negro pitcher, were given their money back-or tickets to another game.
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Frank Smith got four for Pittsburgh. Brooklyn added six stolen bases to its 10 hits at Milwaukee as Loes became its fourth route-going pitcher in a row. The Dodgers never trailed after Jackie Robinson hit a two-run first inning homer.
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Del Wilber's homer, in a pinch-hit role, gave veteran Ellis Kinder his second victory in as many days in a battle of relievers at Boston. Loser Don Larsen pitched scoreless three-hit ball for seven innings for the Browns before the blast by Wilber.
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The Toledo Sox were rapidly marching up the American Association ladder today with six victories out of their last seven games, including last night's 5-4 victory over Columbus.
The victory put Toledo in fifth place, only two games back of the jammed-up first division where only two games separated the fourth and first place teams. The Sox came through with 13 hits to edge the Birds after surviving a four-run Columbus uprising in the eighth inning. Starter Murray Wall went the distance in his first start for Toledo since coming down from Milwaukee.
St. Paul edged league-leading Kansas City, 5-3, when the Saints scored the winning runs in the top of the 10th frame. The victory went to Fred Bessent, who hurled seven-hit ball.
Two home runs by Chuck Diering and Bill Taylor in the ninth inning enabled the Minneapolis Millers to defeat Louisville, 3-1, for the second night in a row. Al Worthington gave up seven Colonel hits for the Millers in an errorless game.
Charleston prevented Indianapolis from gaining ground on Kansas City with a 9-6 victory over the Indians. Dick Fowler posted his second victory of the year for Charleston.
Reporter Answers Letters
Phog Deserves Honor
By STAN HAMILTON Kansan Sports Writer
First, we would like to answer a "Letter to the Editor" that appeared in this paper last week. The unsigned letter advocated that James Naismith, inventor of basketball, be honored along with Dr. Forrest C. Allen when KU's new fieldhouse is dedicated and that it should be named the Naismith-Allen fieldhouse.
While it is a fact that Mr. Naismith did originate the game and was a faculty member here for many years, this reporter fails to see why anyone other than "Phog" Allen deserves the honor.
Allen has built up the most impressivon-lost basketball record
League Standings
AMERICAN LEAGUE
AMERICAN
W. L. Pet G.B.
New York 29 9 690
Boston 17 12 586 3
Chicago 19 14 576 3
Cleveland 15 12 554 4
Washington 15 12 516 5
Philadelphia 14 18 438 7½
St. Louis 12 18 400 8½
W. 24 273 13
NATIONAL LEAGUE
W. L. Pct G.B.
Philadelphia 17 9 654
Milwaukee 16 10 615
Brooklyn 16 12 386 $1_{1/2}$
St. Louis 15 17 577 2
New York 15 15 500 4
Chicago 15 16 360 7 $1_{2/3}$
Cincinnati 8 15 248 7 $1_{3/4}$
Pittsburgh 10 19 345 8 $1_{4/5}$
Yesterday's Results
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston 3, St. Louis 1 (14 innings),
New York 8, Washington 2
Philadelphia 2, Chicago 1.
Washington 8, Cleveland 3.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Brooklyn
Cleveland 14, Philadelphia 5.
New York 16. Chicago 6.
St. Louis 11, Pittsburgh 6.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
AB H H H Pet.
Kell. Boston 98 21 38 38.
Vernon. Wash. 91 17 17 17.
Tamie. 111 29 40 360.
Phila. Phila. 81 9 29 360.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
NATIONAL
AB R H M Pct.
Ashburn, Phila. 104 14 37 356
Schoenendienst, St. L. 113 18 40 354
Wyrostek, Phila. 82 12 29 354
Campanella, Brkn. 110 26 38 345
Greengrass, Crim. 87 16 29 333
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in American colleges today, with a winning percentage of over 600 that has been compiled against the toughest opposition in the nation. He has been at KU for 36 years, was one of the proponents of the movement to get basketball included on the Olympic program, and has a host of other accomplishments.
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True, Mr. Naismith was a faculty member at KU for 39 years, and was professor emeritus of basketball for two years after that, but it is Allen, not he, that has given Kansas the high athletic prestige it now has. Besides basketball, Allen has coached football and was athletic director for a time.
And, when basketball coaches first came into the picture, Dr. Naismith said his game could never be coached. Looks like "Phog" has knocked that idea apart.
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Second, we want to offer a rebullat to Jim Baird's "One Man's Opinion" column carried in the Kansan the same day.
How many persons would venture out of their homes to witness a
The writer says it is not whether KU needs minor sports or not, but rather would these minor sports pay for themselves if they were built up. Mr. Baird thinks not, but this writer's opinion is that, given proper facilities, they would.
How many people, students or otherwise, would pay admission to see a baseball game at our lovely stadium as it now is? Who would want to fork over a dollar to risk their life and limb on the sagging, splintered bleachers now provided for the loyal fans that want to see a good example of the "American pasttime?"
swimming match if they knew there were only approximately 100 possible seats? Who would pay to watch a tennis match if they were aware of the facilities now provided for them? The answers are obvious. Few, if any, would.
Let's look at it from another angle. How many would fight their way into a football game if there were seats for only 1,000? How many would risk a trampling to get into a basketball game if they knew that only the first 750 would be seated?
The big football and basketball arenas on this campus draw in money from thousands of fans. Winning teams and good spectator facilities accomplish this. The annual Kansas Relays, run in the stadium, draws sizable crowds.
It is this reporter's belief that the minor sports, if held under the same circumstances as the three mentioned, would not make any vast fortunes for the University, but they surely would be more self-supporting. Greater fan interest would be generated if our diamond looked more like a major-league field. If decent seating facilities were provided more would turn out for tennis and swimming meets.
It seems the solution lies first with the University and second with the fans.
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