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Star Pitchers Taking Batterings in Games
By UNITED PRESS
Friday, March 27, 1953 University Daily Konsan
A dozen star pitchers, counted on to win 15 to 20 games each have been battered like Class D recruits in Grapefruit league games this spring and would expect to find "pink slips" in their pay checks any day if they were rookies fighting for jobs.
Each has been tagged for an average of at least five runs per nine innings in spring exhibition games. Lemon has the poorest average, 15 runs per nine innings (10 runs in six innings), while Spahn's average is 11.8 and Reynolds, Raschi, and Raffensberger each has a 9.0 average.
The list includes Allie Reynolds and Vic Roschi, the world champion Yankees' key right-handers; 20-game winners Bob Lemon and Early Wynn of the Indians; Bobby Shantz. the American League's most valuable player in 1952, and 15-game winner Harry Byrd of the A's; Jim Hearn and Larry Jansen of the Giants; 15-game winner Warren Hacker of the Cubs; Warren Spahn, the Braves' stellar southpaw; right-handed ace Saul Rogovin of the White Sox, and Ken Raffensberger, who won 17 games for the Reds in 1952.
Reynolds was hammered for 10 runs in six innings as the Yankees lost to the Cardinals, 10-2, yesterday and has permitted 12 runs in as many innings. Raschi, a 16-game winner last season, has been blasted for nine runs in nine innings and, to complicate things for Manager Casey Stengel, Ed Lopat has yet to make his spring debut.
Lemon, a 22-game winner in 1952, has pitched twice this spring and been tagged for 10 runs in six innings while Wynn, a 23-game winner, has yielded six runs in eight innings, indicating that the Indians' highly-regarded pitching strength is a long way from being ready for the pennant race.
Shantz has turned in one 5-inning shutout job, but has been rocked for nine runs in a total of 14 im-
The threatened action by the North Central association of colleges and secondary schools against Oklahoma A&M college likely will have no effect on the relations between the Oklahoma school and Kansas, KU athletic director A. C. Lonborg reported today.
The Dodgers, scoring their 13th victory in 18 games, beat the Phillies. 8-7.
ings this spring while Byrd, expected to be the "strong-armer" of Jimmy Dykes staff, has been hit for 12 runs in 15 frames.
Other scores: Red Sox 4, Senators
3; Braves 10,-Reds 8; Indians 8,
White Sox 4; Browns 6, Giants 5,
and Pittsburgh "A" 13, Pittsburgh
"B" 6.
A&M has been accused of over-emphasizing athletics as well as having an inadequate faculty system. It was recommended that the school be dropped from the accredited rolls, but the school was given 30 days to clear up some of the matters.
A&M Series To Continue
Kansas and A&M have had athletic relations for years and this year have a full schedule. The Jayhawkers beat the Aggies, 12-7, in football, won two of three basketball games from them, and will play two baseball games in Stillwater later this spring as well as hosting Aggie trackmen in the Kansas Relays.
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Columbus, Ohio —(U.R.)— Jimmy McLane, a champion on two continents who waited a long time to win his first collegiate swimming title, was favored to win another tonight as his Yale team bids for its fourth NCAA title.
Yale Takes Lead in Quest for NCAA Title
The Vale senior, a former Olympic champion, captured the opening 1,500-meter event last night as teammates took second and sixth for a total of 13 points. Michigan State was second with four, followed by Springfield, Mass., with three, and Oklahoma with two. McLane, burr-headed swimmer from Akron, Ohio, turned in his best time of the season in adding the 1,500-meter collegiate crown to the national AAU distance crown he won when 13 years old and the 1948 Olympic 1,500-meter title.
McLane led all the way on the 34 trips up and down the Ohio State pool to win in 18 minutes and 27.5 seconds. This was five seconds
better than he has done this season, but 12 seconds off the collegiate mark set by Ford Konno of Ohio State last year.
Bali Appeals for Aid
Jakarta, Indonesia — (U.P.) An urgent message from Bali has asked for ships to evacuate 2,000 inhabitants from a remote island threatened by the eruption of a volcano, Indonesian authorities reported today.
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