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Giants Warn Flatbush Of 1953 Club Power
(This is another in a series on prospects of major league baseball teams). UNITED PRESS
By UNITED PRESS
The New York Giants are serving fair warning to Flatbush that they are "stronger than ever before" and, instead of it being the other way around, they firmly feel that Brooklyn will have to catch them this year.
"Take a look at this Giant lineup," said Cleveland manager Al Lopez, taking the New York batting order from the day before out of his hip pocket.
Each big league club that has faced the Giants this spring has come away with pronounced respect for the New Yorkers' power.
"Any one of those guys can kill you with a base hit. .Monte Irvin .Alvin Dark. .Whitey Lockman .Bobby Thomson. .Don Mueller .Daryl Spencer, and Wes Westtrum.
"And that new outfielder they have, Bill Taylor, looks like a whale of a hitter, too. You have to respect a ball club like that."
Giant manager Leo Durocher realizes that the Giants are loaded this year but, as usual, he steadfastly refuses to make any predictions.
It's difficult to see how the Giants can miss, particularly with pitching strength like Sal Maglie, Larry Jansen, Jim Hearn, Dave Koslo, and relief ace Hoyt Wilhelm.
"We won't be any pushovers" Durocher insists, "and I'm sure we'll be in the thick of the pennant fight all the way."
Among the newcomers, the burly Taylor and screwball pitcher Ruber Gomez have impressed the most. Taylor hits the ball a country mile and is unawed by major league pitching while Gomez has flashed a screwball that was the rave of the West coast.
The lone uncertainty about the club is at shortstop where it was thought that newcomer Spencer would take over. Dark, however, seems to prefer to stay there.
Ivin, the key man in the Giants' drive to the pennant in 1951, is hitting in his old-time style although he still favors the ankle he broke in an exhibition game last April.
Thomson, hit by a pitched ball early in March, was out with a swollen right hand for some time but is returning to action and showing to good advantage.
Phi Gams Win Volleyball Title
Phi Gamma Delta copped the intramural volleyball Hill championship last night by defeating the Independent "A" champions, the Set Ups, by scores of 15-10 and 15-8.
The championship team of Jim Potts, Gil Reich, Ev Dye, Dean Smith, Wally Beck, and Dick Smith overcame an early Set Up 1-9 lead to rally for the win. In the second game, the losers put up a good fight before bowing to the tiltists.
Big Jerry Robertson again led his SAE mates to the Hill "B" title over AFROTC in two quick games, 15-4 and 15-3. SAE pulled away fast and AFROTC never found itself in either of the two games.
Blackwell Pitches Yankees To 4-2 Victory Over Dodgers
Compiled from Wire Services
Elwell Blackwell hurled the New York Yankees to a 4-2 win over the Brooklyn Dodgers yesterday to clinch the exhibition series between the clubs in favor of the New Yorkers by three games to two.
Blackwell worked six innings, and gave up just six hits, half of them in the sixth inning when the Dodgers gained their first run. Bill Miller, who worked the final three innings, gave up the other run in the ninth.
Philadelphia Philly ace Robin Roberts was clubbed for 11 hits by the Milwaukee Braves and went down to a 9-6 defeat.
University Daily Kansan
Roberts gave up a home run, two triplets, and three doubles
The Detroit Tigers ended their exhibition play in Florida against major league opposition by belting the Philadelphia Athletics, 13-7. The Tigers sewed up the contest with a seven-run blast in the seventh iming. Carl Scheib was the losing pitcher.
New York Giants their sixth straight loss by taking an 11-5 win in Denver.
Tribe sluggers pounded out 13 hits, including homers by outfielder Suitcase Simpson, and rookies Jim Lemon and Doug Hansen. Mike Garcia, 20-game winner last year for the Indians, picked up the victory.
Bob Rush held the St. Louis Brownns to seven scattered hits to spark the Chicago Cubs to a 5-3 victory. Rush gave up all three runs in the final frame. Preston Ward hit a home run for Chicago.
Cincinnati pounded rookie lefthand Dean Stone for four runs in the final two innings to take a 6-3 decision from the Washington Senators. It was the final Florida exhibition game for both clubs.
Wednesday, April 1, 1953
Frosh Players Delight Faurot
Columbia, Mo.—Usually tight-lipped about his top-notch freshman prospects, Coach Don Faurot is letting the word leak out these days that a few of his grid recruits could be varsity timbre in 1953.
As Missouri's spring squad moved into its third week here, the Split T creator—now working on his 16th Tiger production—was admittedly high on three yearlings. They were Ray Detring, fullback from Farmington; Harold Burnine, end from Richmond; and Al Portney, tackle from University City.
Detring, rawboned and tough at 6-fit. $ \frac{3} {4} $ and 195, runs with power and speed. He can crack a line, and
Qualifying on three vital counts—size, speed and desire—this trio starred for the freshman outfit last fall which tripped up Iowa State, 40-14, and Kansas, 26-7.
Detring and Portney may have the better look-in on varsity jobs, because the berths they seek are lightly-manned with veterans, Bob Bauman, a junior-to-be, is the sole lettered holdover at fullback, while the tackle slots are thin. Charley Bull, Charles Phillips and Ted Follin—the latter switched from guard—are the veteran returnees.
then exploit his opening. Felled by an attack of yellow jaundice during the first week of work, the big guy was not expected to resume contact until after Easter.
Burnine, fleet and sure-handed,
did most of the yearlings's pass-catching last year. Older than the average freshman by reason of his Army service, the 6-ft. 2 wingman is a solidly-built 182-pounder, and a good competitor.
Portney showed more range and blasting ability last season than any tackle to appear on the Tiger front in many years. The swarthy newcomer, who has to inhale an atomizer during time-outs to combat asthma, is probably the fastest lineman on the squad.
KU and William Jewell hooked up in a basketball scoring orgy back in 1899. The final score—KU 19, William Jewell 3.
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