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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, March 24, 1957
KU Eyes 3 Events In Texas Relays
Kansas has placed three baton titles in its sights Friday and Saturday when it opens its annual quest for relays glory at the 26th running of the Texas Relays in Austin.
Wes Santee will anchor all three bids, which means the Jayhawkers are likely to score a triple. He'll be cleanup man for the sprint and distance doubles team Friday and finish in the four-mile Saturday.
Coach Bill Easton will have good help running ahead of Santee in each race, despite an early rash of injuries. Don Smith, a four-time runner-up for Big Seven indoor and outdoor 440 titles, will lead off the sprint medley. Dick McGlinn, nifty sophomore sprinter, will fill one of the 220 spots, with Frank Cindrick, Bill Hawkey or hurdler-quartermile Adolph Mueller taking over the second. Santee will run the 880.
Cindrich would be the best bet, except for the fact that he is nursing a slight muscle-pull. And Don Hess, the Jayhawkers' No. 1 dash man, will miss the meet altogether because of a similar hurt.
This means Easton will not be able to field his best club. But with Santee anchoring, it may be good enough anyhow. Wes established a new Big Seven indoor 880 record of 1.525 a month ago, running on the cramped 147-yard spruce layout in Kansas City. He, of course, figures to better this time indoors.
The Kansans must beat off Oklahoma A&M's sparkling quartet if they are to bag this one. Ralph Higgins' Pokes ran 3:27.2, fine early season time, to establish a new record in this event at their own Preview Relays Saturday. In Billy Heard they own the best half-miller in Aggie annals.
The Aggies, plus Texas A&M, will challenge Kansas severely in its pet distance hauls. Smith, Art Dallzell, Big Seven outdoor 880 champion, and Lloyd Koby, junior miler, will run ahead of Santee in the distance medley. This will call Smith and Santee back in the harness after a 50-minute rest from their sprint mendie chores.
BILL EASTON
Dick Wilson, creditable junior two-miler, will team with Koby, Dalzell, and Santee in the four-mile Saturday. The Jayhawkers must leave another one of their top distance hands, Keith Palmquist, Big Seven indoor two-mile champion, at
some, because of shin-splints, this somewhat weakening this quartet.
A groin injury to Capt. John Riederman, 6-5 quarter-miler, has forced a scratch in the mile relay, while Hess' injury has knocked the Kansans out of the 880, both of which Easton had scheduled for his troupe.
The Jayhawkers are working on a string of four straight Austin victories in the distance medley. By winning again Friday they can tie the meet's all-time consecutive victory string of baton triumphs at five. Texas from that many 440 crowns from 1941 through 1945 and duplicated in the 880 with a 1944-1948 string.
Individual entries will be Bill Biberstein in the 120 yard high hurdles; Norm Steanson, Big Seven indoor champ, in the pole vault; McGinn in the 100; either Morris Kay or Dick Knowles, in the disc, and Jim Swim, Marysville senior, in the javelin. The latter was runner-up for the 1952 Big Seven championship. Biberstein ran second in the 60-yard highs in the recent conference indoor.
Phils Should Be Contenders, But Must Plug 1952 Holes
This is the first in a series on the 1953 prospects of the major league clubs
Clearwater, Fla.—(U.P.)-The Philadelphia Phillies, who played the best ball in the league after Steve O'Neill became manager in June last year, figure to be a contender again this year.
But they must do some strengthening. They haven't yet plugged the weaknesses which plagued them last year.
They gambled when they traded Russ Meyer, a 13-game winner with a fiery temperament, for first baseman Earl Torgeson in an attempt to get more long ball hitting power. It was taking a two-way chance. They don't know if they can come up with a starting pitcher to take Meyer's place. And they just hope Torgeson will hit.
Owner Bob Carpenter and O'Neill are sure the deal will work out to their benefit, but they are frank to admit a weakness at second base. They hope to plug that by trading first baseman Eddie Waitkus, but high-class second basemen are few.
"They just don't throw the runner out on the close plays which mean the difference between victory and defeat." O'Neill complained.
The Phillies also are short on catching, Smokey Burgess can hit well enough, but lacks polish behind the plate. Stan Lopata is the better receiver, but never has shown a liking for major league pitching. Neither can throw.
The Philadelphia strength lies in pitching, with 28-game winner Robin Roberts spear-heading the staff. Fast-balling southpaw Curt Simmons (14-8) and Karl Drews (14-15) will be other starters. O'Neil is hoping that Steve Ridizk will be able to take over Meyer's
Connie Ryan, a hustling, smart player, will open at second unless there is a deal, but he has slowed up in the field and cannot play a full schedule. There are only two castle-to-castle players: John Tom Glaviano, Granny Hammer will be back at short and Willie Jones at third.
If Konstanty wins a starting role, Andy Hansen will be the No. 1 bullpen man. Other pitching prospects include the veteran Ken Heintzelman, Howie Fox, Bob Miller, and Paul Stuffel.
place. If not it may be Jim Konstanty, the 1950 relief ace or Kent Peterson, who wasn't able to make the grade with the Reds.
Jones could be the key man this coming season. If he hits back to his 1950 form and displays his old agility, he'll fold it would make a big difference.
Two outfield positions are set with Del Ennis, who batted in 107 runs last season, in left and fleet Richie Ashburn, who slumped to a .282 average in 1932, in center. Four are at the bottom of the league with Mel Clark, who came along fast toward the tail-end of last season, apparently having the inside track
Ban Pressure Causing Rivera To Star in Drills
The others are John Mayo, John Wyrostek and the veteran Bill Nicholson, who is sure to be kept for pinch-hitting chores.
It is so far, so good today for Jim Rivera, the White Sox' center fielder who has only one more strike coming to him.
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Placed on a one-year probation by Commissioner Ford Frick, the 30-year-old Rivera went to camp knowing the White Sox had to carry him through the false step and he would be through with baseball.
Rivera's answer—under the double pressure of winning a regular job and watching his conduct under Frick's edict—has been a spectacular spring performance. He is leading the team with a .394 batting average and justifying Manager Paul Richards' contention that he is one of the best defensive center fielders in the American league.
With Rivera showing the way, the White Sox are beginning to demonstrate that they will be strong contenders. Shortstop Chico Carrasquel and left fielder Mino Minoso seem recovered. His 182 hits made catcher Red Wilson has surprised with a .350 Grapefruit league batting average.
Rivera and Wilson sparked a 15-hit attack with three hits each yesterday in the Sox pummedmelon game 9-4, their spring record to the 500-mark.
Opening day pitching assignments were beginning to shake down, meanwhile, as Carl Erskine became the first Dodger pitcher to go nine innings and Robin Roberts, the Phillies' 28-game winner, turned in his second long impressive performance in a week.
Erskine, a 14-game winner last season, limited the Athletics to two hits and faced the minimum three batters in eight innings to lead the Dodgers to their easy 8-0 conquest. The performance virtually clinched the Dodgers' opening day assignment against the Pirates.
Roberts pitched six shutout innings as the Phillies beat the Braves, 11-5, and now has permitted three runs in his last 15 innings. Roberts is expected to open for the Phillies against the Giants.
Manager Fred Hutchinson of the Tigers, however, continues to have trouble with veteran pitchers Ted Gray and Art Houttman. Gray announced that he will undergo a tonsillectomy Thursday in hopes of curing a sore arm while Houttman announced "some progress" with his lame arm. Neither has pitched an innning of competition this spring.
Jim McDonald's bid to win a berth on the Yankee's staff suffered a jolt when the Senators hammered him for four runs enroute to a 9-0 triumph over the world champions. McDonald, 3-4 in 1952, had not yielded an earned run in 15 previous innings.
Kansas will meet Tulsa in baseball for the first time since World War II, Athletic Director "Dutch" Lonborg disclosed today in announcing a 21-game slate for 1953.
KU Nine to Face 21-Tilt Schedule
The Jayhawkers will meet the Golden Hurricane in a two-game set at Tulsa April 10 and 11 in the windup of an Oklahoma swing that will open the season against Oklahoa. A single game with Rockhurst April 14 completes the non-conference card.
Coach Hub Ulrich, who piloted the Jayhawkers home in third place last year, is drilling a 28-man squad including nine lettermen.
These are Jack Stonestreet, John Brose, and Wayne Tiemeet, pitchers; Dean Smith and Galen Fiss, catchers, and John Trombold, Bill Pullium, John Perry and Frank Wolfe, infelders.
April 6-7 Oklahoma &M at Stillwater
April 10-11 Tulsa at Tulsa.
April 12 Hickory at Lawrence.
 April 20-21 Okeefe at Lawrence.
 April 24-25 Kansas at Lawrence.
 April 27-28 Oklahoma at Norman.
 April 29-Oklahoma at Manhattan.
 May 4-5 Colorado at Lawrence.
 May 11-12 Missouri at Lawrence.
 May 16-19 Missouri at Columbia.
 May 18-19 Missouri at Columbia.
Oklahoma to Challenge Kansas Relays Mark
Neville Price, Oklahoma's mustachioed broad-jumper who Sooner Coach John Jacobs recruited by air-mail, will throw the most determined challenge in more than two decades at the Kansas Relays oldest field-event record, Ed Gordon's 25 $ \frac{4}{8} $ leap, in the Kansas track carnival April 18.
The Mt. Oread Olympics weren't even 10 years old when Gordon, the slender Iowa Negro, unreleased this leap in 1931, then went on to bag the Olympic title in Los Angeles the following year. Now in full flight as a junior, Price is a good bet to place the mark under pressure when he leads a classy field into the 28th annual Javhawker Games.
Price trajected 24-10 Saturday in his first outdoor start to win the Oklahoma A&M Preview Relays in Stillwater. This was a wind-blown effort, but it was a high starting level just the same.
This native of East London, South Africa, established himself as one of the Big Seven's all-time best last February by sailing to a new league indoor record of 24-9 off the green spruce runways of Kansas City's Municipal auditorium. Had he not dipped backward into the pit at the finish, the record would read 25-0 instead. For his spikes were out that far.
It should be noted that only four leapers in loop history have negotiated 24-0 at an indoor conference meet. And Price managed the record with only an 89-foot run since auditorium facilities wouldn't allow his
Rio Grande Quits NCAA
Rio Grande, Ohio — (U.P.) — Rio Grande college was out of the National Collegiate Athletic association today of its own volition because the NCAA refused to accept the record-breaking exploits of Clarence "Bevo" Francis, the sensational scoring star who smashed nearly every mark in the books.
Coach Newt Oliver announced yesterday that Rio Grande had severed relations with the NCAA because "there is no use letting an organization handle our statistics that makes their rulings retroactive."
In New York, NCAA officials refused to comment on the withdrawal. They pointed out that Rio Grande was "never" a full-fledged member of the organization, but just an associate member.
Oliver said his school would still belong to the NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, of Emporia, Kan.) He pointed out that the NAIA confirmed by telephone that Bevo's records are official in every sense of the word."
usual 120-foot takeoff
His effort in Stillwater is his best jump of the year. In January he catapulted 23-9¾ to win an outdoor triangular against East Texas State and North Texas State in Norman. He moved up to 24-1 in the OU-Nebraska Indoor dual before sailing almost off the planks in Kansas City.
His all-time best is 25-2½ which he used to win the Texas Relays last year. He'll defend his title this weekend in Austin as the Sooners join league-mates Kansas in the 26th Longhorn extravaganza.
He also won the broad jump and hop-step-jump at Drake last year, after placing second in the latter event at Kansas. He hit 24-8$ \frac{1}{4} $ to place fourth in the NCAA field representing South Africa, and finished eleventh in the Olympic games after placing third in the qualifying rounds at 24-1$ \frac{3}{4} $ .
Price was herded to Oklahoma chiefly through the efforts of Bill Jacobs, son of Coach John, and a one-time Big Seven 880 champion. Touring abroad with an American team in 1950, the junior Jacobs saw Price leap in a meet at Johannesburg. He got the lad interested in Soonerland and an airmail letter from "Jake" senior landed a fine prospect. Price had done 24-5 as a 17-year-old high school boy.
Price talks . . he says "Kahnt' and dresses like an Oxford man. And everybody's bound to watch when he follows that mustache down the runway.
However, he'll be obliged to surpass his all-time best if he is to break Gordon's record here. In fact, only one other jumper in Relays' history, Denver's Jerome Biffle, even has registered 25-0 here since the old Hawkeye erected his mark 22 years ago. Biffle matched 25-0 exactly in a tremendous effort into a stiff south wind in 1950. He went on to win the Olympics last summer.
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