Page 4 University Daily Kansan Wednesday, May 20, 1953 KU Halts Tiger Rally; Chalks Up 9-7 Victory Kansas built up a 6-1 lead then held off eighth and ninth inning Missouri rallies to edge the Tigers, 9-7 in Columbia yesterday. The victory closed out the 1953 Jayhawker baseball season. The loss cut the Missouri first place lead to one-half game. The Tigers now have a 9-3 Big Seven record, while Nebraska is close behind at 8-3. KU finished with a 4-8 conference mark. The Jayhawkers pounded out 14 hits off Missouri pitchers, including a home run by catcher Galen Fiss in the fifth. Kansas committed only one error while the Tigers made three. MU got 12 hits off winner Jack Stonestreet, who pitched 8 1-3 innings. John Brose stopped the Tigers cold during his brief 2-3 inning stint. The Jayhawkers scored two runs in the opening inning, one in the second, and one each in the fourth and fifth to take a 5-1 advantage. The Tigers shoved across a single run in the seventh and posted two more in an eighth inning rally. Kansas came back with three in the top of the ninth, but the Tigers threatened to win the game in the last inning again by posting three runs before Brose ended the Missouri spurt. The Bengals took Monday's game, 10-9, by scoring three runs in the bottom of the ninth. Second baseman Bill Putnam, Fiss, centerfielder John Konek, shortstop Harold Bergsten, and Stoneestreet all banged out two hits. Lefflider Bob Bishop led the Tigers at the plate with three hits Stonestreet, who pitched the Jayhawkers to a 4-3 victory over Iowa State Saturday, struck out seven and walked seven. Missouri's longest hit was a triple by centerfielder Jerry Schoenmaker. Missouri now needs to sweep its Downtown. Now this weekend or Nebraska must split its doubleheader with Iowa State for the Tigers to chalk up their second straight Big Seven pennant. Last year the Bengals went all the way to the NCAA finals before losing to Holy Cross in the national championship game. Kansas ended its season with a 6-10 record. The Jayhawkers split four non-conference games, losing to Tulsa and Oklahoma A&M, and defeating Wichita and Rockhurst. Box Score Kansas AB H O A Wolf, 3b 4 1 1 0 Fallon, 2b 6 2 5 0 Perry, 1b 6 0 2 0 Trombold, 1b 4 1 8 0 Brose, 1b 4 1 8 0 Smith, rf 5 1 0 0 Konek, cf 4 2 1 0 Bergsten, cf 5 2 2 5 Grosset street, p 5 2 2 5 Brose, p 0 0 0 0 Totals... 43 12 27 10 Missouri AB H 27 A Dickinson, ss 4 1 3 4 Vriarie, 3b 3 1 1 4 Smyth, f 5 3 3 4 R. Schoommaker, 1b 5 1 6 1 J. Schoomaker, 1b 5 1 6 1 Cox, 2b 4 1 1 1 Soffer, rf 5 2 1 0 Colman, c 2 0 6 1 Mohesky, c 2 0 2 1 Willingham, p 1 0 0 1 Beckmann, p 1 0 0 0 a-Shepherd 1 0 0 0 Jenkins, p 0 0 0 0 b-Wyman 1 1 0 0 Park, p 0 0 0 0 e-Doerr 0 0 0 0 Boenker, p 0 0 1 0 Totals b-singled check out for Beckmann in 7th b-singled for Jenkins in 8th Kansas 210 110 103—9 Missouri 001 000 123—7 Homers, Low-Hit Pitching Increase in Major Loops New York — (U, P) — Fine pitching and superfine home run hitting make strange bedfellows, but that is the situation today in the major leagues. Figures prove that there has been a much greater number of low hit pitching performances in the majors this year compared with last. Yet a checkup discloses that, substantiating the theory that there is more jackrabbit in the ball, homer hitting also is up tremendously. As of the same number of games last season, there had been a total of 264 homers compared with 337 this year—an increase of 73. Once known as a pitching league, the National has taken the long distance play away from the American League at the moment. In 99 games, the National has hit 184 homers, an increase of 47 over the number last season. In a total of 115 games, the American League has belted 153 homers, which is 26 more than at the same stage of 1952 The individual surprise is, of course, chunky Roy Campanella of the Brooklyn Dodgers. He leads both leagues with 12 homers after 27 Brooklyn games. Last season at this stage he had but three and finished the season with 22. Campanella's performance indicates that last year's co-champions with 37, Ralph Kiner and Hank Sauer, will have to hustle to catch him. Kiner, a notoriously slow O'Malley Hints Player Deal Milwaukee—(U.P.) Walter O'Matley, president of the Brooklyn Dodgers, hinted today at an imminent player deal but said he had "no comment" when asked if the clubs involved were the Dodgers, Milwaukee Braves, and Cincinnati Redlegs. O'Malley Hints Player Deal Larry Doby, who won the American League homer crown with 32 homers last season, is in better shape than the last time out. Now, after 26 games, he has four compared with two in 1952. starter, has five in 27 games compared with but two at the same stage last season. Sauer, off slowly because of an injury, has two compared to his six at this stop last year. should be examined today, Call for appointment. Any lens or Prescription duplicated. LAWRENCE OPTICAL CO. Phone 425 1025 Mass. Only two major league clubs have tailed off in homer power. They are the Giants, down from 30 to 27, and the Cubs, off from 14 to 12. AILING—Frank Cindrich, Jay-hawker sprint star, probably will not be able to compete in the Big Seven track and field championships in Ames, Iowa, this weekend. Cindrich, a junior from Kansas City, pulled a leg muscle in practice yesterday while warming up. His loss will cripple the Jayhawks. Regents to Discuss Fieldhouse Name The proposal that KU's new fieldhouse, now awaiting resumption of construction this fall, be named in honor of basketball coach Phog Allen definitely will be brought up at the board of regents meeting in Topeka Friday, board chairman Walter Fees said in a telephone interview last night. Mr. Fees, contacted at the Governor's Mansion, reported he still is planning to bring up the proposal Friday at the full meeting of the board. He expressed no personal opinion on the matter and said he had not talked with any of the other members about it. The numerous articles and editorials in the Daily Kansan recently were sent to Mr. Fees who replied two weeks ago that he would present the idea at the meeting. Hutchinson Knocks in 24 Hutchinson — (U.P.)—The Hutchinson Elks smashed all existing batting records for the new Western Association baseball season by shell-lacking last-place Fort Smith, 24-2, at Hutchinson last night. Go By Air Anywhere full arrangements by the Air Travel Desk of Santee to Face World's Best In Compton Relays Mile Run The Lawrence National Bank 7th and Mass. The invitational race will pit Santee against the toughest competition he has ever faced in that event. Entered so far is the Belgian star, Gasto Reiff, and Finland's ace, Denis Johannson. Wes Santee, Jayhawker all-American distance ace, yesterday became the third man to enter a "dream" mile race to be run at the Compton (Calif.) Relays June 5, the Relays promoters announced. Reiff, who will be making his first appearance in Southern California, holds the world's two-mile record with an 8:40.4 time, and turned in a sizzling 4:02.8 mile in a meet at Antwerp, Belgium in September 1952. Johannson, who like Reiff was in the 1952 Olympics, captured first place honors in the Los Angeles Coliseum Relay mile last week in 4:08.6, just 3 seconds over Santee's best time, a 4:08.3 Kansas City indoor mile last February. Santee was clocked in 4:06.6 in a mile relay lap at this year's Texas Relays. A possibility exists that there may be two more entries. Mal Whitfield, world 880 record holder who has said in recent magazine articles that he plans to switch to the mile this summer, has been approached, but as yet has not entered. Leun Treux. --former Ohio State great, also may run. 11 Teams Entered For IM Golf Final The intramural golf championship match will be held Saturday starting at 8 a.m. at the Lawrence Municipal golf course south of town. It was originally scheduled for last Saturday but rain postponed the match. Defending champion Delta Tau Delta will head a field of 11 teams in the tournament, to be played on sand greens. The match will be an 18-hole affair with the scores of the low four men on each team added together to determine the team titlist. --former Ohio State great, also may run. "Ive seen these two (Reiff and Johamson) run." Santee said this morning, "and they're real tough. But I think Reiff, if he's in shape, is the man to beat." He and coach Bill Easton will fly to the meet just five days after Santee runs in the Missouri Valley AAU meet in Kansas City May 30. IM Playoffs To Start Today Playoffs in the two Independent intramural softball leagues will begin this afternoon and will open in the Fraternity divisions tomorrow. Defending "A" Hill champion Phi Gamma Delta and 1952 "B" titlist AFROTC are both back to defend their titles against tough opposition. Four Fraternity "A" and one Fraternity "B" contest was played yesterday in the last day of the regular season, cut short because of the excessive rains this spring. Intramural director Walt Mikols said today that the division championship games should be played Saturday if weather permits, and the Hill title game probably will be held Monday. Yesterday's games: Yesterday's games. "A" Friley "A" Phi Psl 2. The Chi Chi 1. Beta 14, Phi Kappa Tau 1. PIKA 9, Lambda Chi 8. TKE 10, Sig Ep 9. Phi Gam over Phi Kappa Sig by forfeit. Phi Kappa Na by forfeit. "B" Fraternity "B" Delta Tau Deta 9, Beta 5. Today's playoff games (4 p.m.) Independent "A" Field 1 Pearson-Last Chance. Field 3 Sam Ep. Epiliffe. Independent "B" Field 4 Pharmacy-Pearson. Field 5 Physics-AFROTC. Haynes and Keene 819 Mass. Phone 524 OPEN THURSDAY 9 A.M. TO 9 P.M.