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30 Korean War Vets To Return to Baseball
New York—(U.P.)—More than 30 major league baseball players will be discharged from the armed services in time to rejoin clubs for next season, a United Press survey showed today.
The world champion New York Yankees, Boston Braves, Cleveland Indians and Pittsburgh Pirates are due to benefit most from the return of these players, whose promising careers were interrupted two years ago by the Korean war.
Most of them played a great deal of ball during their two-year service stints and many should win regular jobs in 1953. Major league teams are required to keep returned servicemen on their rosters for one year, although the players are not counted in the 25-man player limit.
The Yankees get back the prize player of the whole crop in Whitey Ford, the 24-year-old left-handed pitcher who won nine games and lost one in 1950, and added another triumph in the World Series. Ford is due for discharge Nov. 19.
The Braves should be strengthened considerably by an outstanding young battery consisting of 22-year-old Johnny Antonelli, who received a $75,000 bonus for signing in 1947, and 22-year-old Del Crandall, who looked like one of the best catching prospects in baseball two years ago. Both are due out in March.
Cleveland will welcome back five players, the most promising of whom is outfielder Jim Lemon, who batted .330 and hit more than 30 homers to lead the Texas league in 1950. Others already discharged or due out soon are pitchers Dirk Weik and rookie Al Aber; infielder Doug Hansen, and outfielder Herb Adams, who hit .293 for the White Sox in 1949.
Danny O'Connell, a brilliant 25-
year-old shortstop prospect with a
292 batting mark in 1950, and
Bill MacDonald, who had an 8-10
record the same season, are the
two prize packages Uncle Sam will
OU Offense 2nd in Nation
New York—(U.P.)—Michigan State Oklahoma and Maryland rank No.1, 2,3 in total offense among the nation's major colleges, figures released by the NCAA service bureau showed today.
The Spartans have gained 455.2 yards a game, the Sooners 430.8 and the Terrapins 423.0, but Oklahoma holds first place in rushing and scoring. Since being tied by Colorado in its opener, Oklahoma has gone over the 40-point mark five straight times and is the only major team in the country with more han 200 points. Meanwhile, its running attack has ground out 287.7 yards a game.
Fourth and fifth in total offense and third and fourth in rushing, are San Jose State and Tulsa. Maryland is fifth in rushing and fourteenth in passing, Michigan State sixth in passing and ninth in rushing. Behind Oklahoma's 41.1 points a game comes Princeton with 32.7 and Michigan State with 31.3.
Frosh Cindermen Win 3rd Straight
The Kansas freshman cross-country track team won its third straight telegraphic dual meet of the season last weekend by beating the Oklahoma university frosh 10-27, low scoring winning.
The junior Jayhawkers romped home in the first four places in the two-mile run to score the minimum points, and added an eighth place as a pusher.
a pusher. The team has also scored victories over Iowa State and Michigan this season.
The finishers: 1. Allen Frame, KU;
2. Bill Griswold, KU; 3. Tom Rupp,
KU; 4. Tom Jones, KU; 5. Dick
Monatona, OU; 6. Maurice Pell, OU;
7. Donald Ladd, OU; 8. Don James,
KU; 9. Bands Upshaw, OU; 10. Dean
Seeber, OU. Time: 9:51.5.
Jeliver to the Pirates this spring.
One tragic victim of the Korean conflict will not be back to rejoin his old club. Jack Cohan, a 23-year-old brilliant pitching prospect in the Cardinals' farm system, lost his left leg while fighting in Korea and undoubtedly never will play again.
Among the other standout players due back to bolster other clubs are pitcher Ray Herbert of the Tigers, and a 4-0 record before he was called into service in May of 1951; Sam Calderone of the New York Giants, with a 299 batting mark in '50; rookie catcher Joe Lonnett of the Philadelphia Phillies, whom owner Bob Carpenter once called "the outstanding young prospect in our organization"; outfielder Bill Wilson of the White Sox, who hit 24 homers and led the Southern association in runs batted in with 125 in 1950; first baseman Preston Ward of the Chicago Cubs, and outfielder Dick Kokos of the Brown's.
Big Election Still to Come
New York —(U.P.)— Now that all these minor elections are out of the way, the time is approaching to vote on the professional athlete of the year, and without a single speech it looks like heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano by a landslide.
The prize to the winner is a $10,000 jet awarded by Rochester's Ray Hickok. It is presented annually at a dinner co-sponsored by the Rochester Press and Radio Club, all proceeds to the infantile paralysis fund.
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Frosh to Tangle With Lettermen In Cage Opener
The Kansas basketball varsity will have its hands full Friday night when Coach F. C. "Phog" Allen matches his revamped NCAA champions against Coach Dick Harp's talented and tall freshman squad in Hoch auditorium. Tipoff time is 7:15 p.m.
Each squad will have only a week's practice under its belt in keeping with the NCAA ruling on no practice before Nov. 1. The freshmen will probably be at a greater disadvantage than usual because of this.
Coach Allen will be faced with replacing four of the starting five off last year's Olympic squad and also will be missing several team members now with the football team.
Available for duty Friday will be five returning lettermen headed by captain Dean Kelley, an all-NCAA tournament selection last year. Other monogram earners are B. H. Born, Larry Davenport, Bill Heitholt, and Dean Smith. Charlie Hoag, the sixth letterman, is still in football togs.
Against this squad of experienced players, Coach Harp will direct an 18-man squad in hopes of staging an upset. Many of the players gained all-conference and all-state recognition last year in their high schools.
schools.
There is Bill Brainard from last year's Kansas State champions, Newton, a 6 foot, 3 inch all-Ark Valley and All-State selection, chosen to play in the North-South game at Murray, Ky, this summer. Bob Crisler, a 5 foot, 9 inch spark-plug of the runner-up Shawnee-Mission five also is available.
Other Kansas players are Len Martin, Ottawa, all-NEKL and state's highest prep scorer; Dan Robinson and Jerry Roselund, Perkea; Jerry Cox, Lawrence, and Marlin McCune, Chanute.
From out of state come Connie Amons, Corning, In., an All-State selection who averaged 26 points per game; Jerry Buchanan, Avilla, Ind., brother of Nebraska's great Jim Buchanan; Fred Coffman, Rockford, Ill.; Richard Diers, Oklahoma City.
Dallas Dobbs, Bartlesville, Okla,
an All-State and conference players;
Wednesday, Nov. 5, 1952
Georgia Tech's Bobby Dodd Named UP Coach of Week
New York—(U.P.)-He's a big man, who pays special attention to the little things.
He's often pictured as a good-time Charley, yet he's a man who takes his football seriously and won't stand for misfits.
He was shrewd enough to detect what his opposition's greatest strength also was its greatest weakness.
That's Bobby Dodd of Georgia Tech, the United Press Coach of the Week. His team snuffed out Duke's undefeated-untied record Saturday in Dixie's game of the year, and the entire triumph is wrapped up in two little secrets Dodd learned at the movies.
This 210-pound hulk of a man peered at Duke movies incessantly in preparing for this game which probably meant a Sugar Bowl bid. Here are the two little things he discovered:
1. Although Duke has one of the greatest lines in its history, he noticed the linemen didn't charge a ball carrier. They waited for him at the line of scrimmage.
2. The Duke men were so anxious to smear hapless little safety men on punts that they didn't wait around long enough to protect their kickers.
That's all Dodd needed to know. Instead of avoiding the Duke line and taking to passing—this was the obvious strategy—he had his lighter linemen get the jump and bowl over those standing-still Duke guards. So Tech made most of its yardage through the middle.
And just to make sure the breaks came his way, Dodd worked on point No. 2. All week the team practiced blocking punts. Sure enough, Worth
Dirk MaGuire, St. Louis, All-State while playing in Canon City, Colo.; Harold McElroy, Independence, Mo., All-State and conference; Jim Tootl, Grand Island, Neb., a 6 foot, 6 inch scraper; Joe Wagoner, Mason City, Ill., All-League; Tom Matthews, Columbia, Mo., and Bill Perich, Johnstown, Pa.
Lutz of Duke didn't have enough protection in the game. Two of the four Tech touchdowns were set up by blocked punts.
Thus did Dodd engineer his victory, and point his team towards a perfect season and New Year's day glory. He enjoyed it too.
"Football and fishing are my loves," he says. During the season it's football; during the off-season it's fishing. There's nothing in between.
Suspended Stars Ask to Turn Pro
New York, —(U.P.)—Former Kentucky stars Alex Groza and Ralph Beard, who received suspended sentences last April for their part in the basketball "fix" scandal, will ask Judge Saul Streit Thursday to be allowed to play professional ball.
loved to poza and Beard currently are on probation and require permission from Streit, the judge who suspended sentence, to participate in any pro basketball activities.
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