Page 4 University Daily Kansan Wednesday, May 14, 1952 KU Downs Cats, 19 to 17. to Remain in Title Race Hub Ulrich's Jayhawker baseball team kept alive its Big Seven championship hopes by cutting short Kansas State rallies in the eighth and ninth innings to post a 19 to 17 victory yesterday over the Wildcats at Manhattan. Trailing, 19 to 10, going into the eighth inning, Kansas State scored four runs in the eighth and had the bases loaded (with three runs already across and one away) in the Big 7 Standings (Through May 13) Through W L Pct GB Missouri 11 1 .917 Kansas 8 2 .800 8 Nebraska 6 5 .546 4² Colorado 4 4 .500 5 Iowa State 3 4 .429 5¹² Oklahoma 3 6 .333 6¹² K-State 2 15 .118 11¹² This Weekend Schedule Friday and Saturday Kansas at Iowa State Colorado at Nebraska Monday and Tuesday Results Missouri 6-8. Nebraska 5-5 Kansas 9-19. Kansas State 7-17 ninth when KU reliefer, Jack Stone- street, got Jerry Schnittker to ground into a fast double play, pitcher to home to first, to end the game. Missouri continued its march toward winning the Big Seven pennant by defeating Nebraska, 8 to 5, at Columbia, yesterday. The Tigers now have a 11-1 record compared to KU's 8-2 mark. Yesterday's defeat eliminated third place Nebraska (6-5) from the title picture. In order to win the title, Kansas must defeat Iowa State at Ames on Friday and Saturday and down Missouri next Monday and Tuesday at Columbia. For M.U. to take the title, they need only to split with Kansas in their final pair of games. While Kansas is battling Iowa While Kansas is battling Iowa State this weekend. Missouri will be resting its ace pitchers, Dick Atkinson and Bob Boenker, for the KU series. For KU, it'll be a mighty tough four-game weekend trip. POWERFUL STICK—Walt Hicks, Jayhawker right fielder, helped KU down Kansas State, 19 to 17, yesterday at Manhattan, by getting three singles in seven tries to the plate to drive home four runs. Iowa State is expected to toss lefty Jack Luhring and righthander Don Burgess against the Jayhawkers on Friday and Saturday, a pair of hurlers who downed hard hitting Nebraska last weekend 2 to 1 and 2 to 0, at Ames. For Stonecrest, yesterday's fireman's role was his second such performance in two days. He saved Monday's game for Kansas by letting the Wildcats down with only one hit and one run through the final 5½ innings Monday. Yesterday's contest, which lasted three hours and 45 minutes, contained about everything possible in a baseball game. Both teams collected a grand total of 36 runs, 36 hits with the clubs throwing in 11 errors to help keep the pitchers in "hot water." George Voss, Jayhawker first baseman, continued his long-ball slugging a pair of three-run homers. His first blow came in the fourth inning, a 370-foot line-drive smash over the right center field fence. The second round-tripper came in the seventh, a 350-foot blow over the same fence. Voss also batted in another run to bring his game total to seven and two-game series RBI's to nine. He hit a two-run homer in Kansas' 9 to 7 victory on Monday. KANASS (I) AB H PO A Wolf, ss 4 2 4 Appling, ss 0 0 4 Bether, cf 6 1 2 Trombold, if 6 3 2 Hilts, cf 7 3 4 Perry, 2b 5 1 1 Pulliam, 3b 3 1 3 Voss, 1b 4 2 8 Smith, c 4 2 1 Fiss, v 2 0 2 Sandefur, p 3 0 0 1 Enoch, p 1 0 0 0 Stonestreet, p 0 0 0 1 Totals 45 15 27 13 K-STATE (17) A 4 H 10 P Childs, 2b 4 A 2 4 Woods, cf 4 1 5 1 Prigmore, 3b 7 3 1 4 Schmittke, rf 6 2 1 1 Adams, b 2 0 3 0 Parker, p 3 1 0 1 Pollom, ss 0 0 1 0 Staffer, ss 6 2 3 1 Myers, c 4 2 6 0 Tannahill, ff 1 0 0 1 Jacobs, lf 4 3 0 0 Wade, p-1b 5 3 6 0 Totals 47 21 27 12 Kansas 514 649 803 Kansas State 102 162 234—17 By JOHN HERRINGTON Kansan Sports Editor All you have to do to get a guy on your neck, it seems, is produce a winning athletic team. In case you don't believe it, just ask Phog Allen or Dick Mechem. Allen's Jayhawker basketball team—which never was accepted (and probably never will be)—in the eastern part of the country was panned unmercifully by metropolitan sports writers during the past season and even after the season was over. It got to the point where they're supposedly going to investigate members of the U.S. Olympic basketball team—seven of whom are Jayhawkers. But the pertinent situation now is what Kansas State tennis coach Frank Thompson pulled on the KU tennis squad—also a winning outfit. With only one loss to Iowa university to mar an otherwise perfect record, the Jayhawk swatters were confronted with a problem last Saturday when they traveled to Manhattan for a meet with the Wildcats. Thompson insisted that the matches be played indoors. Wildcats. Thompson. Thompson's actions were against the United States Lawn Tennis association rules (the rules under which the Big Seven tennis matches are played). But the Wildcat coach's stubborn—to say the least—insistence that the meet be played indoors brought the affair inside. inside. As a matter of fact, the Jayhawks were left with one of two alternatives. They could play the meet inside on wooden courts or they could pack up their rackets and come back to Lawrence without playing the matches. Not prone to run off—especially from K-State—they moved indoors. As fate would have it, they lost to the Staters, 5-2. But the fact still remains that the Wildcat coach—who is an ex-weight lifter carrying a pretty hefty bulk around—violated the rules. "The Big Seven conference rules," Coach Mechem said, "stipulate 15 or so ways in which matches are to be run off. When certain circumstances aren't covered by these rules the conference resorts to the USLTA rulings." The USLTA rules say that matches are to be played outside unless weather forces the meet to be called indoors. Just as a reminder, May 10 was a bright, sunny day. There was no reason—at least from a weather standpoint—to move the meet inside. But Thompson was rather blunt in his insistence—blunt even to the point of threatening to "beat the hell" out of one of the Jayhawker players—and the Jayhawks were left little choice in the matter. A few weeks back, when the KU-K-State teams hooked up in the first meet in Lawrence, rain caused the doubles matches to be canceled. Since Kansas was leading at the time of the down-pour and since there are no inside courts here, the Jayhawkers were given the victory. This was based on a precedent set last year at Manhattan when the same weather conditions prevented the playing of the doubles matches then. The Wildcats were leading then and were given the victory. Today, Coach Mechem is checking on protest action against the Wildcats. If he decides that such steps should be taken and if an ironclad ruling in the USLTA rules can be found covering the incident, the Wildcats are likely to find themselves without the victory their coach went to such unsportsmanlike means to obtain. It's quite easy to see that the only reason Thompson ordered the meet moved inside was that he was bent on avenging the earlier Wildcat loss here. And he went to a whale of a lot of trouble to do it. It's too darn bad that some persons—weight lifters included—can't be beaten by a better team and lose like men. From all outward appearances, Thompson is very much a man. It just goes to show that "all that glitters is not gold." COLLEGE WOMEN Step Forward... AS AN OFFICER IN THE WAC! ... and step up to a promising career :::: of stimulating work ... excellent pay ... great fun ... travel! A career that will mean escape from humdum, ordinary jobs! 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