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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, March 25, 1953
'Pretzelmen' to Enter AAU Gymnastic Meet
The University's pretzelmen, the self-organized gymnastic team, will leave tomorrow afternoon to participate in the Southwestern AAU gymnastic meet in Fort Worth, Texas, Friday and Saturday.
Seven men will travel to the YMCA-sponsored event to represent the University. There is no official recognition for the team, but members hope that by receiving a few laurels in this meet, they can get the University to sponsor a team and furnish a coach.
Bob Bell, education senior, captain of the gymnastics group, said that the men all work out about two hours a day without a coach. The men simply teach each other. This year the gymnasts put on halftime exhibitions at five home games, participated in a gymnasts' clinic in Great Badden, performed on the Lawrence Kiwanis and Oddfellows club, and performed for the annual Women's Play Day," an annual public relations conference held for high school women from all over the state.
The team which will travel to Fort Worth for the AAU meet will consist of Dick Laptad, education freshman; Glenn Sterling, education sophomore; Bradley Keith, education senior; Don Pflitzerton, education junior; John McCoulland college junior; Al Lange, education freshman, and Bell.
The meet will be held for three divisions, novice, junior, and senior. All the men, with the exception of Laptad and Sterling, will enter the novice class since they have not participated in any such meets before. Once a man places in any event in his class, he is eligible to enter that event in the next higher class.
The events which the KU men will enter in as a team are the rope climb, free calisthenics, side horse, flying rings, high bar, long horse, parallel bars, and all around gymnastic events.
Sterling and Laptap, who will enter the senior class of the meet, already have placed in events in the junior division.
Medals will be awarded to first, second, and third place winners in each event. The winners of the junior and senior division all around events will receive trophies, and a trophy will be awarded to the championship team in each division.
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Piersall to Open In Right Field
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Manager Lou Boudreau crossed his fingers and toes, tucked a rabbit's foot in each pocket today, and announced that Jim Piersall will move in the field and Dom DiMaggio in center field for the Red Sox.
Boudreau "took the plunge" after Piersall's spectacular Grapfruit league play convinced him the 23-year-old outfitier has turned over a new leaf and after receiving assurances from juggler that the opening which has sidelined him most of the spring will not hinder his batting.
Meanwhile, Boudreau has been playing mostly youngsters and not getting the best results. The Red Sox bowed for the third straight time to the Yankees, 9-0, yesterday and their exhibition game mark is a mere 8-8.
Rookie Johnny Podres shunted manager Charley Dressen's experiments with his infeld into the background as he blasted through seven shutout innings in the Dodgers' 3-0 victory over Montreal yesterday.
Little Bobby Shantz, preparing for his opening day assignment, permitted only four hits and a run for seven innings, but was hammered
Two Lettermen Back for 1953 Tennis Squad
Two lettermen are among 25 candidates vicing for positions on the varsity tennis team.
Coach Dick Mechem, former letterman, is counting heavily on Pete Fotopolos, number two man last year, and Al Hedstrom, number four.
Three men from the 52 team which took second place in the Big 7 have been lost through graduation, Charles Crawford, John Fleiburger, and Harold Titus. Last year the team won two, Kansas was nosed out in the conference meet by a half point by champion Oklahoma.
Coach Mechem has lined up a tough slate of dual meets for this spring. The squad will open April 6 against Iowa, which boasts last year's Big 10 singles champion, Norman Barnes. Two matches are ten-match schedules with Bakersfield, the dates to be announced later.
The dual schedule. (Match at Lawren unless otherwise indicated.)
April 9: Northeastern State college
April 18: Nebraska
 April 24: Manhattan
 April 29: Washburn
 May 1: Missouri
 May 2: Nebraska, Lincoln
 May 6: Omaha
 May 13: Washburn, Topeka
 May 16: Missouri, Columbia
 May 22-23: Conference meet, Ames, Iowa
for three runs in the eighth inning as the Braves beat the Athletics, 6-1. Eddie Waitkus, probably in the showcase for the edification of prospective buyers, collected three hits as the Phillies beat the Senators, 5-4.
NCAA to Revise Point Totals
New York — (U.P.) The scoring records of such basketball "greats" as Paul Arizin, Johnny O'Brien, and Dick Grot were either raised or lowered today by the NCAA's new "Anti-Beo Francis" rule.
When the nation's cage coaches voted last week that only points scored in competition between varsity teams of four-year, degree-granting colleges would be counted in the records, the fabulous Francis of little Rio Grande college of Ohio was the obvious and first victim.
For four years, the 85 points scored by "Pitchin' Paul" against the Philadelphia naval station team in 1949 has been accepted as the all-time single-game scoring record for major colleges. Under the new rule, that's out and the all-time record becomes the 75 points scored by Bill Milkvy of Temple in 1951 against Wilkes College of Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Stricken from O'Brien's collection will be the 34 points he tallied against the Peoria, Ill., Caterpillars an industrial team.
Annual Spring Sing K.U. Glee Clubs
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Old Songs Grand Opera
New Songs Operetta
GUEST ARTIST Marie Wilkins
Formerly with the Metropolitan Opera of New York
Joseph Wilkins
DIRECTORS:
Hoch Auditorium
Clayton Krehbiel
Wednesday, March 25, 8:00 p.m.
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Volleyball Drawings Set for Tomorrow
Drawings for the intramural volleyball playoffs will be held at 4 p.m. tomorrow in Robinson gym. Playoffs will start tomorrow and the Hill championship will be played on either Tuesday or Wednesday of next week.
Team managers of first and second place finishers in all divisions are asked by Walt Mikols, director of intramural athletics, to be present for the pairings.
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