Tuesday, Sept. 30, 1952 University Daily Kansan
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KU Rated Above Oklahoma in Poll
New York—(UP)—Michigan State, making its strongest ballot showing of the season, retained its ranking as the nation's no. 1 football team in the United Press ratings today with California mov-
ing into the runner-up position.
By BOB NOLD
By BOB NOLD
Kenson Assistant Sports Editor
Kausan
the 1952 World Series gets under way Wednesday at Ebbets field, the New York Yankees will be in their customary role as favorites.
The Yankees will be trying for a repeat performance of four consecutive World's championships. Only the Yankees in 1936-39 have been able to accomplish this.
able to accomplish
However, the last great Yankee dynasty was powered by a blasting crew containing Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Bill Dickey, and Red Rolfe.
The present ball club has only two outstanding sluggers, Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra, neither of which drove in 100 runs. All the New York hitters are dangerous, but none have that murderous quality.
Brooklyn, on the other hand, is loaded with power. Any one of its players is capable of destroying a pitcher's noteworthy efforts with one swing of the bat.
one swing of the bat. Therefore, the keynote of the series will be the pitching. It will be a matter of Brooklyn's mediocre pitching staff trying to stall an average hitting, though dangerous, New York nine while the Yankee's highly effective pitchers will pit their skillful arms against the most explosive bats in the business.
There is little doubt that Allie Reynolds is the best pitcher in the series. When he gets in a jam, he stops pitching carefully and simply rears back and blazes the ball past opposing batsmen.
opposing fingers, backed by two effective fingers, Ed Lopat and Vic Raschi. Both are tough to beat when they are right. Lopat has been especially stingy since his return from the injured list.
jured his.
In spite of all the nasty things said about him, Preacher Roe is the Dodger ace. Joe Black has been classified in that role recently, but it is hard to call a man an ace when he has started only two games and lost one of those.
lost one or three.
Roe, though he hasn't finished many games this year, did win the big game against the Giants when they were closing in fast on Brooklyn. Had he lost, it is likely the
The 35 outstanding coaches who make up the rating board gave Michigan State 23 first place votes and a total of 313 points—only 37 points short of a perfect score.
Last week, in leading the first weekly ratings of the season, Coach Biggie Munn's midwest powerhouse received a total of 276 points.
Illinois moved up from sixth place over last week's rating; Maryland dropped from third to fifth; Southern Cal advanced from eighth to sixth; Georgia Tech dropped from second to seventh; Wisconsin jumped from 10th to eighth; Kansas stayed in the No. 9 spot and Oklahoma dropped from fifth to tenth after being tied by Colorado.
Points are awarded on the basis of 10 for a first place vote, nine for second and so on down to one for a 10th.
In all, eight teams received first place ballots, Maryland finishing second to Michigan State in that respect with four. Illinois received three, California, Texas, Wisconsin, Tennessee and Duke, one each.
receiver in California, fourth last week and fifth in the pre-season balloting, took over second place with 210 points with Texas moving up from seventh to third with 210 points.
The United Press football ratings (first place votes in parenthesis):
Team Points
1—Michigan State (23) 313
2—California (1) 219
3—Texas (1) 210
4—Illinois (3) 180
5—Maryland (4) 158
6—Southern California 150
7—Georgia Tech 148
8—Wisconsin (1) 98
9—Kansas 79
10—Oklahoma 52
10-Okrakeen Second Ten—11, Tennessee (1), 50; 12, Duke (1), 40; 13, tie) Ohio State and Princeton, 30 each; 15 Villanova, 29; 16, UCLA, 28; 17, Pennsylvania, 20; 18, Notre Dame, 17; 19, Virginia, 14; 20, Georgia, 13 Others—Washington, 9; Colorado, 8; Arizona State (Tempe), 7; Alabama and Kentucky, 6 each; Rice, 4; Navy, 2; Holy Cross, Purdue and Tulsa, 1 each.
Brooklyn's only other consistent effective pitcher is Carl Erskine. If a fourth pitcher is needed, Billy Loes will probably get the nod.
Giants would have gone on to win the nequant.
All in all, it should be an interesting World Series. The Dodgers have lost three straight Series to the Yankees in 1941, 1947, and 1949.
The Series odds favor the Yankees 8-5, but don't bet Brooklyn won't win.
Big 10 Championship on Line In Wisconsin-Illini Meeting
New York—(U.P.)Two of the nation's top 10 football teams collide Saturday when Wisconsin plays Illinois in a game which could lead to the Rose Bowl.
Other major games this week; East-Cornell, 14-7 loser to Colgate meets Navy, which downed
Up to now, not one of the top 10 teams has played another. Perhaps it's just as well, for many of them have totered on the brink of upset even in their "warmup" games. But the Big Ten's big one Saturday matches Wisconsin, ranked sixth in the nation by the United Press Coaches' Rating board, against Illinois, placed 10th.
It will be a passing panic. Illinois has Tommy O'Conell, who completed 11 of 16 passes in a 33-7 victory over Iowa State last weekend. Wisconsin has Jim Haluska, who threw for three touchdowns in a 42-19 conquest of Marquette.
The other members of the "top ten" circle face lesseroes. Michigan State meets Oregon State. Georgia Tech faces Southern Methodist, Maryland meets Clemson, California plays Minnesota. Oklahoma meets Pittsburgh, Texas faces Notre Dame, Southern California tackles Army, and KANSAS GOES AGAINST COLORADO.
South: Duke plays Tennessee, 14-7 victor over Mississippi State. Georgia, 21116 winner over Tulane, plays North Carolina, a 28-7 loser to Texas. Tulane is host to Santa Clara.
Yale, 31-0, Harvard faces Columbia,
a 14-0 loser to Princeton, Holy
Cross, 27-9 conqueror of Dartmouth,
plays Fordham. Penn meets Dart-
mouth, and Yale plays Brown.
Southwest — Baylor is host to Washington State. Rice plays Louisiana State, Texas A&M, 14-7 winner over Oklahoma A&M, plays Kentucky, tied by Mississippi at 13-13. Texas Christian plays Arkansas and Texas meets Notre Dame.
Midwest — Northwestern goes against Vanderbilt, 27-10 loser to Virginia. Ohio State, 33-13 winner over Indiana, meets Purdue, which played a 20-20 tie with Penn State.
Far West — Southern California plays the rejuvenated Army team which linked South Carolina, 28-7. Stanford, 14-13 victor of Washington State, meets Michigan and Washington, 19-13 victor over Minnesota, plays UCLA.
In Re:
...the Kansas Supreme Court
EVEN IN this day when the rules of American politics seem more elastic than ever, there is an understandable reluctancy on the part of many a Kansas lawyer to speak openly of a condition existing on the Kansas Supreme Court. Yet, on the other hand, under the laws of the State of Kansas the selection of the members of our Supreme Court is the responsibility of Kansas voters . . . of every man and woman who vote next November.
THIS STATEMENT is no eleventh hour cry. It is made months ahead of the hour of decision. This gives everyone the opportunity to consider the problem, and the pattern. Every Kansan . . . this regardless of political party . . . has the obligation to choose wisely two members of the Supreme Court next November. This is no ordinary duty!
IN SOME RESPECTS the Supreme Court is more important than either the Executive or the Legislative branch of our state government. That is because in the Supreme Court is vested the power to review the acts of both the Executive, and of the Legislative branches of our state government.
Already in 1952, the American people have heard more about the necessity or preserving our two-party system than has been heard in the past decade. It is especially dangerous to the general welfare of the people to place any court of last resort . . . and our Supreme Court is a court of last resort . . . in the hands of any political party $100\%$.
There are seven members of the Kansas Supreme Court . . . today all seven of them are Republicans.
Every student of the American style of government would agree that the sounder, the wiser pattern would be to have four members of a 7-man court of last resort from one political party, and the other three from the other political party. A 4-3 combination on the Supreme Court . . . 4 Republicans and 3 Democrats, or 4 Democrats and 3 Republicans . . . would help to give the Court a desired balance. Such a balance would bestow additional dignity on the Court.
THIS YEAR Chief Justice Harvey and Justice Smith seek re-election. Each chair or position on the Supreme Court is numbered .1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. These numbers have nothing to do with the seniority of the members of the Court. Seniority, as the word itself suggests, is determined by the length of service on the Court. Thus Chief Justice Harvey holding Position No. 2, is the Chief Justice; Justice Smith on Position No. 1 is second ranking member of the Court, and would be reason thereof, become Chief Justice if Chief Justice Harvey would retire or be retired.
Chief Justice Harvey commands the respect of the rank and file of the Kansas Bar. Most of us hope that when we reach his age, we will command our facilities as he commands his today. Be that as it may, the Chief Justice will be 84 before January 1st, 1953. If he is re-elected this year he will be 90 years of age when he completes that term.
Those unfamiliar with our Supreme Court, will wonder why a man of that age seeks re-election. Every Kansan, and every Kansas lawyer especially, has a right to guess as to the answer to that question. I have mine. I have perhaps a duty to speak up on the subject.
FIRST, I should call your attention to the fact that Harry G. Miller, Jr., of Kansas City is the Democratic nominee for Position No. 2, and that I am the Democratic nominee for position No.1 on the Kansas Supreme Court. Should our fellow Kansans elect us to the Supreme Court next November, we will be the two junior members of the Court, and Justice Walter G. Thiele, now third ranking member of the Court would become Chief Justice.
BACK NOW to MY guess as to why the Chief Justice at the age of 84 asks another term of six years on the Court. It is my guess that while Justice Smith's best friends play with the words "Bill is more politician than judge," those are not playful words in the life of Chief Justice Harvey. Nor are they playful to many, many a Kansas lawyer.
If I could be permitted to venture a further guess, I would guess that Justice Smith's "friends" were instrumental in seeing that the Chief Justice has opposition in the Republican primary; a last minute entry so to speak. It is all a skillful pattern . . . the pattern for Justice Smith to become Chief Justice! If the present Chief Justice DOES think that it would be grotesque for Justice Smith to become Chief Justice, I agree.
I BECAME a candidate for Position No. 1 only after many of us attempted without success to get as candidates such men as Judge Humphrey of Junction City, Judge Benson of El Dorado, Judge Edgar Bennett, formerly of Marysville, now of Newton and Judge Pierpont. To some of them, to all of them maybe, there was something futile about trying to battle the "politics" of the Supreme Court.
I, too, prefer to remain in my own law office: I have always preferred Hutchinson to Topeka. But I for one, decided that I could not let Justice Smith have another term by default. I refuse to sleep wilyfully at the switch and see Justice Smith become Chief Justice by default. I fully appreciate the odds in running against the astute politician that he is, and I respect him as such.
THE KANSAS SUPREME COURT should be spared from the awkardness which would be in every direction should Justice Smith become Chief Justice.
Between now and the first Tuesday next November, each Kansas voter has a solemn obligation to study this problem, to understand how hazardous is the pattern to make a man "more politician than judge" the Chief Justice of our Supreme Court.
A. LEWIS OSWALD
ROTHERWOOD—Land of Oz Hutchinson, Kansas July 4,1952
The above appeared in Wichita, Topeka, Salina, Pittsburg, and Hutchinson papers during July, 1952. Mr. Owen out our words make the issues clear, and for that reason this statement made last July is published at this time in this paper. The importance of the position of our friend to every Kansas man and woman the obligation to give your friends the election of two Justices to the Supreme Court is respectfully asked to give this matter your personal duty. Clare's statement out. Keep it! Study it! Discuss it with your friends! Urge upon them their duty to study NOW our Kansas Supreme Court — theirs, your friends. LEWIS OSWALD FOR
NEW YORK
A LEWIS OSWALD FOR
SURGEONS UNITED
Hutchinson, Kansas.
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