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KANSAS HUSTLER—Dean Smith, senior guard from Topeka, stands only 5 feet, 11 inches, but makes up in hustle what he lacks in height. Smith never has held a starting role on the Jayhawker squad, but has been an invaluable reserve because of his spirit and desire to win. He is a good defensive man, ball handler, and can hit well from the outside. He should see action in the crucial Kansas-State-Kansas contest Saturday night. He probably will have a tough guarding assignment as the Wildcats are loaded with height.
Cavaretta Claims Cubs Ready for Big Year
Dallas, Texas—(U.P.)—The Chicago Cubs, who surprised half of the baseball world by finishing fifth in 1952, are ready to startle the other half by winding up in the first division this year, declared Manager Phil Cavarretta today.
"I honestly feel that we're about ready to come into our own," said the Cub boss at his home here.
"We're a young ball club and therefore have made a lot of mistakes," the confident young manager explained, "but that was because we had to go along with rising young players who should have been getting their seasoning in the minors instead of with us.
"But these boys are coming into their own now, gaining confidence by proving to themselves they are big league stuff and that experience is going to pay dividends for the Cubs."
Cavarretta shares the belief of general manager Wid Mathews that the Cubs will reach "the first division by '53" and points with pride to last year's young team which finished with a .500 mark despite being 10 games out of the first division.
"We did better than a lot of people thought," the peppery manager said, "and I'm well satisfied with our climb that far."
Cavarretta foresaw another good year for big Hank Sauer, the outfielder with the big stick who clouted 37 home runs and drove in 121 runs to lead the National league in both respects.
"And Bob Rush, Warren Hacker, Lefty Paul Minner and John Klippstein give us an imposing start for a mount corps," he said. "That Rush is really going to be something now that he knows he can win, and the same goes for Hacker, whom you may classify as one of our 'untouchables.' He definitely isn't trading material."
Klippstein's future, Cavaretta said, may be even better.
"I look for John to develop into one of the real stars of the majors with that live fast ball and sharp curve," he said.
As for the fifth starter, Caravretta has his eye on Bob Kelly and Omar Lown, who won only four games each last year. Kelly, Caravretta said, is going to forget that "slider" pitch which got him into trouble so much last year.
He said the return of Preston Ward from service wouldn't necessarily push Dee Fondy off first base,
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Every other position on the club is as wide open as that one, said Cavarretta, who still plans to remain on the active list and pinch hit a little in his 20th year in the majors.
St. Louis—U(P.)-Former heavyweight champion Ezzard Charles, hopeful of a chance to regain his crown, launched preparations today for another fight to bolster his claim after winning over Wesbury Bascom last night by a ninth round technical knockout.
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Bascom, who asked his managers to make the match for him, had ample cause to regret it as early as the fourth round.
He lost the first and third rounds by considerable margins, and held Charles fairly even in the second before the storm broke.
The dusky, 30-year-old Cincinnati battler made his ring experience pay as he slowed up, then stopped his 23-year-old foe at 2:34 in the ninth.
Nebraska Nips Kansas, 50-43 In Swim Meet
In the fourth, Charles brushed aside his best shots, jarred him with a two-fisted attack to the head and landed heavy right-handed shots to the body.
Nebraska's Cornhuskers captured five events to out-splash Kansas, 50-43, in a dual swimming meet in the Robinson gym pool yesterday afternoon.
The winners broke up a nip-and- tuck struggle by taking first and second place in the 200-yard back- stroke, the seventh event of the match. Nebraska also won the 300- yard medley relay, the 1-meter diving, and the 200-yard breast- stroke. They took the 220-yard free- style by one yard.
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Co-captains Dick Effin and Sam Perkins led the Jayhawkers b y setting new varsity pool records in the 100 yard stylele and the 440 yard Effin clocked the 100 in 58.1 seconds and Perkins came from behind to win the 440 in 5,212 Effin also
won the 120-yard individual medley and swam a leg on the winning Jayhawker 440-yard relay team. Perkins placed second in the 220-yard race.
Mahlon Ball set another varsity record by swimming the 60-yard freestyle in 32.2 seconds.
Nebraska standouts were Calvin Bentz, who won the 200-yard freestyle and who placed second in the 100- and 440-yard races. Dick Hildek captured the 200-yard breaststroke and swam a leg on the Cornhusker 300-yard medley relay team. Lloyd Reed chalked up a 2 minute, 33.6 time in the 200-yard breaststroke, a very good early-season performance.
K-State Slacks Off After Polishing Plays
Manhattan—(U.P.)—Kansas State, the nation's No. 1 basketball team in the United Press poll, tapered off hard work today after intense practice on its offensive plays for the vital Big Seven conference tangle with Kansas Saturday night at Lawrence.
The K-Staters had scrimmaged hard on Tuesday and Gardner was careful not to overwork the squad. Two guards, Peck Mills and Bob Denoo, returned to practice after a period of treatment at the college hospital for flu.
Play-polishing and ball handling occupied Coach Jack Gardner's Wildcats yesterday.
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Gardner and his squad plan to leave Manhattan by bus Saturday morning and arrive in Lawrence for a late morning workout.
Thursday, Jan. 15, 1953
2 Platoon System Banned by NCAA
St. Petersburg, Fla.—(U.P)—A new era in college football was ushered in today with the death of the costly, controversial "two-platoon" system.
In a sudden move that caught most college coaches and officials by surprise, the NCAA football rules committee last night struck from the gridiron rule book the "free substitution" rule that made possible switching of complete teams every time the ball changed hands.
The committee gave as its chief reason for the revision the fact that the "two-platoon" system was too costly for many smaller colleges to maintain, because of the number of players needed and the number of coaches required for such huge squads.
By coincidence, Crisler is the man generally credited with starting the two-platoon system in 1941 when he was Michigan's football coach.
"We think we'll have a better football game than we ever had, especially among small colleges," said Herbert O. (Fritz) Crisler, athletic director of the University of Michigan and chairman of the rules committee.
The system was a subject of hot controversy from its birth to its death. Its supporters declared that it made for a faster, more efficient, more interesting type of game, and also that avoidance of over-fatigue by individual players reduced the danger of injury. On the other hand, many officials decried it as too expensive and as tending to make the "rich schools" richer in a football sense.
"A player withdrawn from the game before the final four minutes of either the second or fourth period may return during the final four minutes of the period in which he was withdrawn. But, if he is withdrawn in the final four minutes of either the second or fourth period, he may not return during that four-minute period."
"A player withdrawn from the game during either the first or third period may not return during the period from which he was withdrawn.
This is the rule that the committee substituted:
Almost unnoticed in the discussion over the two-platoon change, the NCAA committee made several minor changes, including a ban against the much-discussed "sucker shift."
The shift, a surprise and sudden movement before putting a play in motion, designed chiefly to lure an opponent offside, re-defined a "false start" as "a shift or movement which simulates a play or the beginning of a play."
Use of a "sucker shift" will cost a team a five-yard penalty.
In other rulings, the committee:
in other rulings, the committee:
1. Changed the penalty for defensive pass interference from completion at spot of foul to only enough yardage to give the passing team a first down.
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2. Rueded that a punt receiver signalling a "fair catch" must do so far enough in advance that the tacklers could have avoided tackling him. The decision is left to the game officials.
3. Allowed all officials to use whistles instead of just the referee.
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Spring Practice May Be Longer
"Spring football practice should be extended from 20 to 30 days." Jules V. Sikes, head football coach, said today when asked about the ban on free substitution by the football rules committee of the National Collegiate Athletic association.
Sikes commented that now it would take longer for the players to become used to playing both offense and defense. He felt if spring practice was extended it would help the players become accustomed to the change in rules.
"It wouldn't be necessary to start fall practice any earlier than Sept. 1." Sikes said.
Sikes continued, "I haven't had an opportunity to study it but the rule will be a handicap to all of us next year but in the long run it will be all right."
"Our boys have been coached in their specialties, and now we'll have to develop all-around players. Some of our boys probably won't get to play, but I doubt if the rule will make much difference in football expenses."
First Cage Rally Slated for Tomorrow
The first home basketball rally of the season will be held tomorrow at 10:50 a.m. in front of Strong hall.
The rally, called to arouse interest in the KU-K-State basketball game, will feature talks by Jayhawks basketball coach F. C. Allen and Kansas players B. H. Born and Dean Kelley.
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