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University Daily Kansan Friday, May 16, 1952
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KU Nine to Play Iowa State, Missouri for Title
JAYHAWKERS' KEY TITLE HOPE—Big Carl Sandefur, 6-foot 4-inch 215-pound senior righthander, holds KU's key title hopes in this weekend's championship determining four-game road trip. With Jack Stonestreet a doubtful starter with an injured knee, Sandy will be called upon to split the hurling chores with John Brose, sophomore southpaw. Sandefur, expected to start tomorrow's game against Iowa State, will also likely draw one of the two Kansas starting assignments against Missouri's Tigers at Columbia, next Monday and Tuesday. Sandefur, in registering a 3-0 record, has turned in both effective and ineffective performances. Against Oklahoma, he hurled his best game allowing no runs and one hit in an excellent sixinning relief role. If Sandy could flash this form against the Cyclones and Tigers, KU could bring home the Big Seven baseball champion-and Tigers, KU could win the Big Seven baseball championship.
Buffet Dinner to Honor Jayhawker Track Team
A buffet dinner honoring the Kansas track team will be held at 6:30 p.m. May 23 at the Eldridge hotel.
Sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce sports committee the dinner will be the first for a track team in the history of the committee. ___
Plans were begun for the dinner when it became apparent that the 1952 track squad would post a final record better than any previous team.
So far the Jayhawkers have scored three indoor dual wins and easily won the Big Seven indoor track crown. Since the indoor season closed, the thinclads have racked up three wins in outdoor dual meets to end the season with six wins and no losses.
The Kansans also have set a new record in three outstanding relays—Texas, Kansas, and Drake. At Drake, the rampant Jayhawks set four new records, two of which were new American standards.
Sparking the team at the Big Seven conference championship meet today and tomorrow in Oklahoma are three trackmen who are expected to be top contenders for Olympic berths. Herb Semper and Wes Santee, distance men, and Bob DeVinney, hurdler, and respected in their specialties.
No outside speaker is scheduled for the dinner, but Coach Bill Easton and a few of his trackmen will be called upon to say a few words. Tickets for the dinner will be $2 each. They soon will be available at the Chamber of Commerce office.
Part of that amount will be used to buy gifts for the trackmen and their handlers.
Plans are to make this dinner an annual affair.
League Standings
American League
| | W | L | Pct. | GB |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Cleveland | 18 | 9 | .667 | |
| Washington | 14 | 10 | .583 | 2½¹ |
| Boston | 15 | 11 | .577 | 2¹⁰ |
| New York | 15 | 12 | .500 | 4½¹ |
St. Louis | 13 | 14 | .489 | 5 |
Chicago | 13 | 14 | .485 | 5 |
Philadelphia | 10 | 14 | .417 | 6½⁰ |
Detroit | 10 | 14 | .280 | 10 |
Today's Games
New York at Detroit Philadelphia at Chicago, night Boston at St. Louis, night Washington at Cleveland, night.
Yesterday's Results
Washington 0, Detroit 1 (no hitter)
Boston 1, Chicago 0
Philadelphia 6, St. Louis 0
National League
Yesterday's Results
| | W | L | Pct. | GB |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| New York | 17 | 5 | .773 | |
| Brooklyn | 16 | 7 | .692 | 1½¹ |
| Chicago | 14 | 14 | .560 | 4½² |
| Chicciniun | 14 | 12 | .453 | 5³ |
| % Los Angeles | 12 | 14 | .452 | 7 |
| Philadelphia | 12 | 13 | .458 | 7 |
| Boston | 10 | 14 | .417 | 8 |
| Pittsburg | 5 | 23 | .179 | 15 |
Brose to Pitch for the Jayhawks Today; Sandefur to Face Iowa-State Tomorrow
By BOB NELSON
Kansan Sports Writer
Yesterday's Results
These obstacles are four weekend good games, contests with Iowa State today and tomorrow, and clashes with league leading Missouri (11-1) at Columbia. Monday and Tuesday.
Today's Games
Kansas, with its back to the wall in the Big Seven baseball pendant race, will attempt to defeat Iowa State at Ames this afternoon, and thus clear the first of four big barriers in KU's path to copping the baseball championship.
Coach Hub Ulrich will send his ice hurler, lefty John Brose (3-0) against the Cyclones today and big Carl Sandefur (3-0) to the mound tomorrow.
Yesterday's Results
Pittsburgh 0, Brooklyn 2
Cincinnati 1, Philadelphia 5
Kansas is expected to encounter Iowa State's two top pitchers. Cap Pimm, Cyclone coach, will probably tart left Jack Luhring against Kansas today and righthander, Don Burgess, in tomorrow's contest.
Luhring, who beat KU here, 7 to 1, for the Jayhawk's first setback, defeated Nebraska, 2 to 1, last Saturday. He allowed only six scat-tered bits.
Burgess, who was shellled in his start against KU here, hurled two-hit 2 to 0 shutout ball against the Cornhuskers last Saturday in the second half of the doubleheader.
Chicago at New York, 2 games
Pittsburgh at Brooklyn,
Cincinnati at Philadelphia, night
St. Louis at Boston, night,
The Jayhawkers' hopes of winning the title seem slim considering three of KU's key players are operating below par due to injuries, with a fourth left at home.
Biggest question mark hinges around the ability of Jack Stone-street to pitch during the four-game trip. The big junior righthander twisted his knee in the K-State series Monday and is listed as a doubtful performer.
Kansas" regular catcher, Bud Jones, was left behind when the team departed yesterday afternoon by bus for the Iowa State series. He received a hand injury in Monday's K-State game.
Coach Ulrich's other two backstops, Galen Fiss and Dean Smith.
KU STARTER TODAY—Leffly Jayhawker pitching load today as John Brose will shoulder the Hub Ulrich's club opens an important two-game series with Iowa State, at Ames. Brose will be seeking his fourth win against
no defeats this season.
are operating below par because of injuries. Smith was badly shaken up when he collided with KU third baseman, Bill Pulliam, Tuesday, while chasing a foul ball. Smith was forced from the game by the injury.
His replacement, Fiss, is still recovering from a split hand, his second such injury of the season.
John Trombold, KU sophomore left fielder, continues to club the ball at a terrific clip. In the last
While Kansas is receiving a severe test by Iowa State's unpredictable fifth place Cyclones today and tomorrow at Ames, Missouri will be resting up for its all important two-game series with Kansas at Columbia, Monday and Tuesday.
For Kansas, the Jayhawkers are hoping this two-game series with the Tigers will be for the 1952 Big Seven baseball pennant. For Missouri, the Tigers are hoping a pair of Iowa State victories over Kansas will make the KU-MU clashes just "ordinary games."
To win the title outright, Kansas must win all four of its weekend road clashes, two with Iowa State and two with Missouri.
Should Kansas split with Iowa State and then down Missouri in both contests, the Jayhawkers would end in a 11-3 deadlock with Missouri for the title.
A first place tie would call for a playoff to determine the Big Seven champion. This playoff winner would meet St. Louis university, Missouri Valley conference champions, to determine the Fifth District NCAA representative for the annual Collegiate World Series to be held at Omaha, Nebr., next month.
Nebraska, now in third place with a 6-5 record after dropping four straight road games—to Iowa State and a pair to Missouri, tangles with Colorado (4-4) today and tomorrow at Lincoln for third and fourth spots in the Big Seven standings.
Nebraska's pair with Colorado closes its 1952 baseball season.
five games, he is batting a "cool" .632 as the result of 12 hits in his last 19 trips to the plate. Several of his hives have been of the longball variety for extra bases.
Two other Kansas hitters have been giving opposing hurriers plenty of trouble. They are George Voss, senior first baseman, and Walt Hickey, senior right fielder and clean up hitter.
Pitchers' Battle Prevails in Majors
By CARL LUNDQUIST United Press Sports Writer
New York—(U.P.)—Due to a strike at the bat factory, major league hitters are complaining they don't have enough bats—but the way the pitchers are going they don't need 'em anyway.
Virgil Trucks of the Tigers fired the first no-hitter of the campaign but not bet that there won't be some more—any day. His sizzling double-blanking of the Senators, 1 to 0, yesterday was spectacular enough to overshadow some terrific performances in the other four of the game. The job turned in by both winning and losing hurlers made it look like the hitter had taken the day off to go fishing.
Trucks had to be good—almost perfect in fact—to top loser Bob Porterfield, who gave up only four hits and was battling the Tiger fireball artist 0-0 until Vic Wertz uncoached that dramatic homer with two out in the last of the ninth.
In Chicago, Ray Scarborough blazed to a four-hit 1 to 0 triumph for the Red Sox over the White Sox in which loser Ken Holcombe gave up only three safe blows. At St. Louis, Alex Kellner pitched his second straight shutout for the Athletics over the Browns, 6 to 0, a fine four-hitter.
In the National League, Billy Loes, making his first major league start after three winning relief appearances, blanked the Pirates, 2 to 0 in Brooklyn. Both he and loser Murry Dickson pitched six-hit ball. In Philadelphia, the brilliant Robin Roberts won his sixth straight game, 5 to 1. Doling out just five hits to the losing Reds.
Loes, released from military service during the off-season, suddenly has become the big man on the Brooklyn staff, replacing mighty Don Newcombe, who is wearing Army khaki instead.
Robert's' who hasn't lost a game since opening day, limited the Reds
to four singles and a homer by Joe Adcock which spoiled his shutout. Jack Mayo hit his first big league homer for the Phils, while Richie Ashbury drove in two runs, getting three hits.
Scarborough pitched his finest game since coming to the Red Sox from the White Sox, smacking down his ex-mates with two singles and a pair of doubles by Al Zarilla. He walked only one batter. The Red Sox scored the only run of the
game in the fourth when rookie Faye Thorneberry walked, stole second, took third on catcher Phil Masi's wild throw and scored on Rookie Ted Lepcio's single. The victory ended a six-game Boston losing streak.
Kellner not only blanked the Browns again on three singles and a double, but blasted three hits, one a double, and drove in two of the Philadelphia runs. He struck out four batters and walked but one.
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