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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, Sept. 23, 1952
Bogue Sidelined by Injury; To Miss Santa Clara Game
By BOB LONGSTAFF Kansan Sports Editor
Injuries hit the Kansas Jayhawkers again Saturday in the game against TCU; this time setting end Jerry Bogue on the bench for at least one game. $ \textcircled{4} $
Bogue suffered a reinjury to his left knee in the clash with TCU Saturday. He jumped into the air to receive a Gil Reich pass. As he caught the ball, he was hit hard by a Horned Frog tackler and was hurtled to the ground.
The injury marks the third time in four years that his bad knees have plagued him. The injury he received Saturday will keep him out of the Santa Clara-KU game this Saturday but he was expected to return to the Jayhawker lineup against Colorado the following week
In 1950 Bogue was scheduled to call the plays from the quarterback slot for the Kansas club. But his bad-luck knees caused him to sit out the season. During fall practice his knee popped, and a specialist gave him the verdict of no football in '50.
A cast was placed on Bogue's knee to immobilize the leg and speed recovery.
He gained 521 yards through the air for the Kansas eleven, and impressed the sports writers enough to endorse him more; water-block for the Dixie Snow Bowl.
But Bogue's bad knees had bothered him before his entrance to Kansas university. His tricky cartilages have been plaguing him ever since he led Wichita East High school to an undefeated season and a mythical state championship in 1946.
His troubles began in 1944 when he executed a "cannonball" off the high board at the Wichita Municipal pool The dive was performed well except that he struck the water with his knees crossed.
Troubled with the knee in high school, Bogue managed to play four years of football—two of them on the varsity running from the tail-back slot on the single-wing. He also received two letters in basketball and three in track.
As a senior in high school, he was selected on the all-Ark-Yalley and all-State teams in football, named second string all-conference in bass-
ketball, and pole vaulted and high jumped on the track squad.
An operation on his knees during the summer after his graduation from high school kept Jerry from participating in football at Kansas State college where he enrolled as a freshman.
Bogue decided to break family tradition and come to KU as a sophomore. (His father is head of the K-State alumni in Wichita).
A second operation and intense re-conditioning of his knee brought Bogue around for his senior year in KU athletics. Because of the lack of ends, Coach Sikes converted him from the quarterback position to end.
Bogue showed tremendous improvement the more he played at the terminal slot for the Jayhawkers. In the opening game with the TCU Horned Frogs, he displayed an amazing ability to snag passes. His blocking is improving greatly, and Coach Sikes has great hopes for Bogue for the 1952 season.
However, it is hoped that the injured knee will be in condition to open the conference play against Colorado Oct. 4.
Bob Brandeberry's pulled leg muscle which limited his action Saturday against the Horned Frogs is working itself out, and he should see action against Santa Clara
BENCHED BY INJURY-Jerry Bogue, end, is sidelined due to a knee injury received in Saturday's game with Texas Christian. Bogue was hit hard while going after one of Gil Reich's passes during the third quarter. He will be unable to play in the Santa Clara game next Saturday, but will be back in for the Colorado game.
Rocky Plans to Kayo Walcott In Tonight's Fight for Title
Philadelphia—(U.P.)—Rocky Marciano, the unbeaten "Tiger Man" from Brockton, Mass., expects to take the world's heavyweight championship away from old Jersey Joe Walcott tonight by knocking him out in the sixth, seventh, or eighth round.
Oddsmakers generally agreed with the prediction of the 28-year-old slugger as they made him a 7½ to 5 score in a round- battle at Municipal stadium.
Marciano calmly admitted his knockout intentions at an unprecedented mass interview last night.
If Marciano wins, he will be the first white heavyweight champion since Jim Braddock was knocked out by Joe Louis in 1937.
Marciano scorned the tradition that holds on the eve of great bouts and held court before a battery of cameramen and a band of reporters before he paid his respects to a large steak—with garlic sauce—last night.
Sure, he hated 38-year-old Walcott, he admitted, but he explained "I hate every man I see in the ring before me, and I try to take him out as soon as possible."
The relaxed Rocky appeared supremely confident he would register his 43rd consecutive professional victory and his 38th knockout when he battled the oldest heavyweight who ever defended the crown. That achievement was perfect record to challenge did not put him under perceptible pressure.
The forecast was "cloudy and cool." In case of a postponement, the bout will be staged tomorrow
Rough Workouts For MU Tigers
Columbia, Mo. — (U.P.)—The Missouri university Tigers will work on defense today, after a rough spring season.
tensive, scrimmage, here, v-sterday.
Coach Don Faurot allowed the Tigers no rest yesterday, in spite of their rugged struggle with Maryland last Saturday, which they lost
This year he got his first crack at Class AA baseball in the Southern association and punched out 110 hits in 538 trips to the plate to lead the league with a 364 batting average. He drove in 98 runs and would have certainly hit the 100 mark except
Giants Might Find 'Miracle' On Bench
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Pless is not a "natural" for the polo grounds since he is a right-hander and a punch hitter. Yet a ballplayer who can hit 300 plus and drive in 100 runs is welcome anywhere, and Pless qualifies.
Atlanta—(U.P.)-If the New York Giants are still interested in "miracles" after the 1952 season, they might take a good look at a husky young southern who's riding their bench.
Pless's rise in baseball has been slow and disappointing, and the 190-pound native of Greenville, Tenn., has become accustomed to biding his time. Yet anyone who watched him burn up the Southern association with the Nashville Volunteers will say he is ready for the big show.
Not that the long wait in the dugout is anything new to Rance Pless, but down in Dixie they will tell you that the quiet infielder belongs on the diamond, any diamond.
for a bean ball that put him out with about two weeks of the season remaining.
The 26-year-old spray-hitter feels that because of his age it might be now or never.
"I just about have to make good now. I'm hitting the ball better than I ever did before in my career."
Pless and another Nashville rookie "Dusty" Rhodes, who later was moved up to New York, led the heavy-hitting Vols all the way, but poor pitching caused a second division finish. Pless hit safely in his first 27 games for a loop record.
SIX-FIVE CAB CO.
Oklahoma Fifth as-
Kansas Climbs to Ninth Place In Weekly United Press Poll
New York—(U.P.)—Georgia Tech, an impressive 54 to 6 victor over the Citadel, crowded power-packed, but untested, Michigan State today for the No.1 spot in the United Press football ratings.
Although Michigan State does not open its season until Saturday when it meets its traditional rival, Michigan, the 35 outstanding coaches who make up the United Press Rating board accorded Coach Biggie Munn's team top position in the first weekly ratings of the new season.
Maryland, rated second at the start of the season, dropped to third place with 211 points after it barely managed to beat Missouri, 13 to 10, in its season's opener last Saturday.
California, rated fifth pre-season,
was given fourth place with 188
points as a result of a convincing
34 to 13 triumph over the College of
Pacific. Texas, with a 35 to 14 victory
over Louisiana State, advanced
from tenth to seventh place. Southern
California, which buried a highly
regarded Washington State team,
35 to 7, was placed eighth whereas
Reynolds May Take Valuable Player Honors
New York—(U,P)—One year late, Allie Reynolds was an apparent cinch today for most valuable player honors in the American league if his New York Yankees could stagger to the pennant.
It isn't a requisite, but it has become almost a matter of course that this award goes to a player with a pennant winner. And you could have said that he should say that he instead of catcher Yogi Berra, should have won it last year.
Last season, Allie became the big man of the Yankee staff, starting and relieving as he paused the club to the flag. He became the "stopper," and pitched two no-hit, nor run games in the bargain—his second coming in the pressure-packed pennant clincher.
But the stigma of the past isn't washed away easily. And for years "the Chief" was labeled as a softy in the clutch, a guy who melted down when the heat was on.
But this season, Allie, despite bone chips in the elbow which crackle loudly when he swings his arm, has been little short of phenomenal. The figures beat this out in an era where pitchers who go the distance with regularity are distinct rarities.
The burly six-footer from Bethany, Okaa, has started 28 games for the Yankees—and gone the route in 23 of them. He also has relieved in six additional games—and saved every one of them. He has posted six shutouts while hurling four two-hitters, a pair of three-hitters, a brace of four-hitters and three five-hit jobs. And his 19 and 8 record puts him within striking distance of his first 20-triumph season in 10 full years in the major leagues.
This season to date he has beaten the Brown's five times, Senators four, Boston three, Tigers, Indians and A5 each twice and White Sox and Browns each two. Tigers and Senators each bested him while he has lost four times to Cleveland. But Allie got back at the Indians.
Six times he has gone to the pump and six times he put out the fire to save a game. Three of those were against the Indians.
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it rated no better than a tie for 13th place in the pre-season predictions.
Kansas, 13 to 0 upset conqueror of Texas Christian, drew ninth place against its pre-season rating of 12th, Villanova, which failed to receive a single vote in the pre-season baloting, received 42 points, good for 13th place, as a result of its 25 to 6 triumph over Kentucky.
In all, eight teams were given first place votes: Michigan State 14,
Maryland 8, Georgia Tech 6, Kansas and Oklahoma 2 each and California,
Texas, and Southern California, 1 each.
In addition to Michigan State, three other teams which have not opened their seasons were voted among the first 10- Oklahoma in fifth place. Illinois sixth and Wisconsin tenth.
The United Press football ratings (first place votes in parentheses):
Tenn. Point
1 Michigan State (14) 276
2 Georgia Tech (6) 240
3 Maryland (6) 211
4 California (1) 188
5 Oklahoma (2) 157
6 Illinois 133
7 Texas (1) 130
8 So, California (1) 120
9 Kansas (2) 112
10 Wisconsin 67
Second Ten—11 (tie) Notre Dame and Tennessee, 51 each; 13, Villa-nova, 42; Duke, 28; 15, Pennsylvania, 15; 16, Michigan, 12; 17, Purdue, 10; 18 (tie) Clemson and Stanford, 8 each; 20 (tie) Ohio State, Penn State, Princeton, Rice, and UCLA, 7 each.
Others—Washington, 6; Holy Cross and Nebraska, 5 each; Virginia, 4; Tulsa, 3; Alabama and Oregon State, 2 each; Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, and Texas Christian, 1 each.
Dressen to Stay As Dodger Pilot
Brooklyn, —(U.P.) Charley Dres-
sen will be back as the Brooklyn
Dodgers' manager in 1953 with a
"reasonable" boost in pav.
Dressen, known as "Chucklin' Chuck" since the Dodgers clinched a pennant tie on Sunday, has already been assured that his job is safe for next year, the United Press learned today from a reliable source in the Brooklyn organization.
Dressen, the source said, was told soon after the pennant tie was clinched that he will be given a one-year or a two-year pact including the salary boost.
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