Missouri Downs Kansas 5-2 To Complete Season
Columbia, Mo—Missouri defeated Kansas, 5 to 2, here Tuesday to sweep a two-game series with the Jayhawks. The Tigers shutout KU, 2 to 0, in Monday's opener.
The victory was Missouri's 13th win in 14 Big Seven games this year and the Tigers' 11th win in a row at home. For Kansas, the defeat dropped Hub Ulrich's crew into third place behind Missouri and Nebraska with a final 8-6 conference mark.
Dick Atkinson and John Brosse hooked up into a pitching duel with each allowing six hits but four KU errors helped the Tigers end their season in a blaze of glory.
The loss was the Jayhawkers' fourth straight setback in their four-game weekend road trip. Kansas dropped a pair of seven-inning games to Iowa State Saturday at Ames, 4 on 0 and 5 to 3.
Missouri took a 1 to 0 lead in the second inning and added three more in the seventh to take a 4 to 0 margin. Kansas threatened in the eighth with a pair before MU scored one in the same inning to complete the scoring.
BIG SEVEN STANDINGS (Through May 20)
| | W | L | Pct. | GB |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| *Missouri* | 13 | 1 | .929 | |
| *Nebraska* | 8 | 5 | .615 | 4½ |
| *Kansas* | 8 | 6 | .571 | 5 |
| Iowa State | 5 | 4 | .556 | 5½ |
| Colorado | 4 | 6 | .400 | 7 |
| Oklahoma | 3 | 6 | .333 | 7½ |
| *Kansas State* | 2 | 15 | .118 | 12½ |
*Regular season completed
REMAINING CONFERENCE GAMES
Iowa Sta May 30-31
Iowa State at Oklahoma May 30-31
Friday and Saturday
Colorado at Iowa State
Tuesday's MU-KU clash marked the final collegiate competition for three Jayhawkner seniors, Walt Hicks, right fielder; George Voss, first baseman, and Carl Sandefur, pitcher.
Three additional Kansas seniors weren't included on the traveling squad for the Jays final road trip. They are Bud Jones, catcher; Frank Mischlich, left fielder, and Charlie Bethe, center fielder.
Page 6 University Daily Kansan Wednesday. May 21, 1957
Kansas finished its overall season with a 11-6 record.
The score by innings:
R H E
Kansas 000 000 020 2 6 4
Missouri 010 000 31x 5 6 1
Batteries: Brose and Fiss; Atkinson and Barbour.
I-M Softball Playoffs End
Intramural softball games enter the last round today in the Fraternity A to determine the division championship before the Hill championships are played.
Phi Gamma Delta collected 11 runs to defeat Sigma Alpha Epsilon 11-7 in the semi-finals of the Fraternity A league yesterday. Alpha Tau Omega dropped the Beta Theta Pi team 9-7 in a close, hard-fought duel.
In the Independent A league. Sigma Gamma Epsilon edged the Faculty Fossils 7-5 to win the Independent A championship. The geologists will meet the winner of the Phi Gams-Betas game for the Hill championship.
The Phi Gams will meet the Betas today in a contest for the Fraternity A championship.
Delta Upsilon easily defeated Kappa Sigma 11-1 to take the Fraternity B title. The DU's will play AFROTC, winner of the Independent B league, for the B league Hill championship
Games scheduled for today are:
FRATERNITY A
4 p.m.--Phi Gamma Delta vs Alpha Tau Omega, Field 1 (league championship).
HILL CHAMPIONSHIP B
4 p.m. - Delta Upsilon vs. AFRO-
TC, Field 2.
By JOHN HERRINGTON Kansan Sports Editor
For the graduating seniors, it's pretty nearly the end of the line. Except for a quiz here and there, there isn't anything left now but the "long line."
The Trail is graduating, too—into new hands next fall. And this is the last column this year (that follows, since this is the last paper of the year).
We've tried to do a number of things with the Trail. We've tried to praise when we thought praise was due. We did some gripin' about this and that (and anything we thought there was cause to gripe about). And when there wasn't anyone to laud or anything to gripe about, we just rounded up a bunch of facts and threw them together.
We could do a lot of things with this last column. We could go back over the season and quote a bunch of scores and statistics. But that's hardly necessary. The complete season—score-by-score statistic-by-statistic—has been covered throughout the year.
Of course there are always names to fill a column with. Name like Clyde Lovellette, Wes Santee, Herb Semper, Carl Sandefur Charlie Crawford, John Prosser, Charlie Hoag, Dean Kelley, Bol DeVinney, Gene Rourke, Walt Hicks, Jack Stonestreet, Bill Hougland, John Brose, Blijenhard, Bob Kenney, Jim Floyd.
Sure, there are those and a couple of hundred more names that flash to mind. But even by doing this, someone's going to be omitted
Then there are more names. Names of future stars. And names of those Jayhawker athletes who have already come into their own and of whom bigger and better things are expected during the next athletic year. To those of Santee, Hoag, Kelley, Brose, Stonestreet add B. H. Born, who'll have to fill Big Clyde's shoes during the next basketball season; Gil Reich, former Army star who'll play a lot on ball for J. V. Sikes' Jayhawker football team next fall, and many others.
others.
Besides the names and the scores, there are a lot of sidebar incidents: the human interest sidebars that really make athletics. For instance, take the vociferous Phog Allen—one of the few coaches with (if you'll pardon the expression) guts enough to say what he thinks. Then there's always the famous "Allen water bottles." You'll be seeing these again and again at basketball games in the future, just as you've seen them emptied time and time again in fast games.
And whoever heard of a football coach moving quarterbacks to end? Sikes did it. And the tall Texan will be doing many more things like that to turn his Jayhawker football team into a cracker-jack club next fall, trying to better the 8-2 won, lost record of last fall
There are other interesting sidebars on sports. There was the time when Kansas State's tennis coach handed down his "play insider or get out of here" ultimatum to Coach Dick Mechem's Jayhawk tennis squad. And the parallel incident, when the Big Seven tennis match was played, in part, indoors. Both times, the Jayhawkers, unaccustomed to inside courts, lost. The second time, it was just enough to bounce them to second in the conference.
There are lots more. All-in-all, this will probably prove to be one of the biggest and best years in Kansas athletic history.
Just let me brief you: the football team won eight games, loss two and placed third in the Big Seven behind Oklahoma and Colorado. The basketball team won the Big Seven, won the NCAA, defeated the NAIB champions and the NIT champions, and placed seven players on the United States Olympic team which will go to the Olympic games in Helsinki this summer.
In track, the Jayhawkers won all their dual meets, plus the Bills seven outdoor conference crown, the indoor championship and the cross-country. Besides these, Coach Bill Easton's trackmen romped to some of the best times in the country as they won high recognition at the three biggest midwestern track carnivals: the Texas Kansas and Drake Relays.
If we were forced to pick the two brightest lights during the past year, we'd have to say basketball and track. If we were forced to pick two stars, we'd say Lovellette and Santee.
So there it is, for, what it's worth, our swan song.
Mystery Man Marrero Wins 4th for Senators
New York—(U.P.)—Connie Marrero, who doesn't speak much English, was putting it on his curve ball instead today, and hitters were cursing him in different languages all over the American league.
Washington's cigar-smoking Cuban cutie, who is supposed to be more than 40 years old and hurls all winter in Latin - American competition when other hurlers are resting their aching bones, has been a terrific spring winner for the past two seasons. His only trouble is that he gets tired when summer comes and he runs out of gas.
But in the early stages he is unbeatable, but the next year he won five games, a row before losing on 25. This year has been a repeat pattern. Last night, in one of his greatest jobs, he held the Brownns to four hits in a 2 to 0 victory that put Washington within two games of idle first place Cleveland. It was his fourth straight, without a defeat.
Marrero was so effective with his curves that he struck out eight batters, and all but one of the rest went out on pop-ups to the infield or were out stealing. Marrito himself retired the only St. Louis batter to go out on a ground ball. He walked only two men.
The only dark cloud on the horizon is that summer is coming. Last year, after running up an 11-5 record, he faded and didn't score another victory after Aug. 4, being knocked out of the box on his five final appearances. But if the Senators can provide him with some vitamin-filled cigars or some other energy-producing magic they might keep right on causing trouble in the American league race, because this year, Marrero has added pitching help, plus a better all-around team behind him.
Last night, with one well-timed rally, the Nats got the runs they needed to top Brownie lefthander Tommy Byrne. They bunched three of their nine hits for both runs in the second inning. A walk to Eddie Yost and singles by Jim Busby, Jackie Jensen, and Archie Wilson, all of them Senator newcomers, etched the final score. Byrne was rescued from trouble at other times by four double plays.
In the only other major league game played, righthander Johnny Sain of the Yankees scored his fourth victory against one defeat, by outlasting the White Sox at Chicago
4 to 3. He gave up only six hits and just one walk,surving trouble in the late innings.
The Yankees took a 4 to lead in the first five innings, after which the White Sox came to life but Bain staved them off and became the first Yankee pitcher to win four games. Mickey Mantle paced the Yankees at bat with four singles. His single and Gene Woodling's double drove in a pair of Yankee runs in the first inning. In the fourth Sain himself drove in a run with a single, and in the fifth the Yankees counted their final run as Phil Rizzuto and Mantle singled and Yogi Bear delivered a long fly.
The Philadelphia at Detroit and Boston at Cleveland games in the American league were rained out.
Sain pitched hitless ball for four innings. In the fifth Eddie Robinson walked to become the first Chicago base-runner and scored singles by Sam Mele and Chuck Carrasquel. The other Chicago runs were unearned. They came in the sixth when Hector Rodriguez singled with two out and substitute first baseman Irv Noren fumbled Robinson's grounder. Ray Coleman singled to load the bases and Mele drove in two runs with another single.
League Standings
National League
W L Pct. GB
Cleveland 20 11 645
Washington 17 12 586 2
Boston 17 13 567 $ \frac{2}{1} \frac{2}{2} $
New York 15 13 536 $ \frac{3}{1} \frac{2}{2} $
St. Louis 16 16 500 $ \frac{4}{1} \frac{2}{2} $
Chicago 16 16 467 $ \frac{5}{1} \frac{2}{2} $
Philadelphia 11 15 423 6
Detroit 7 21 250 1
W L Pct. GB
New York 19 7 731
Brooklyn 19 7 731
Chicago 16 13 .552 4½
Cincinnati 15 13 .536 5
St. Louis 14 15 .483 6½
Philadelphia 14 15 .444 7½
Boston 11 15 .423 8
Pittsburgh 5 26 161
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