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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, April 23, 1952
Clyde Lovellette Still Silent on Pro Ball Offer
See Page 1 for Lovellette Statement
Clyde Lovellette had "no comment" this morning when contacted concerning the reported $50,000 he has been offered by the Milwaukee Hawks of the professional National Basketball association.
Lovellette said he had talked with draft
Lovellette said he had talked Jayhawker coaches and they had advised him to make no comment at the premiere of anything which would the Hawks' offer or his decision to play AAU ball with the Phillips Oilers.
But Ken Kerner, manager of the Hawks, was saying plenty. He went into the second stanza of his prolonged song of woe today after learning of Lovellette's final decision.
Kerner particularly was peeved with the Jayhawker all-American for deciding not to keep a date in Milwaukee. Lovellette was scheduled to talk with Kerner yesterday about the professional ball job.
"I've really been double crossed." Kerner told the Milwaukee Sentinel sports editor.
Kerner has been on the optimistic side of the Lovellette case, hoping to land the 6 foot 9 inch senior on the roster of the Hawks. Milwaukee has first grab in the NBA basketball
draft.
Kerner reported last week that Lovellette was interested in pro ball. He visited Lovellette in Terre Haute, Ind.,-Clyde's hometown - during the Easter holidays and at that time made arrangements for the conference in Milwaukee.
According to Kerner, plane reservations were made to fly Lovellette and his wife to Milwaukee. Kerner said Lovelette phoned him Monday and told him he had decided to go to work for the Phillips Petroleum company after graduation June 1.
“It’s simply a case of doing what my wife and I considered best for us.” Lovellette said earlier this week. “I regard less, anyhow, anyone else,” it still Sally's (Lovellette's wife) and my future I must be concerned about.”
Lovellette believes the Phillips job "offers me the type of security a professional contract couldn't and, after all, I've got to look farther than just the next few years. Playin a steady rain which ended in a downpour.
The Jayhawk tennis team eked out its second conference win as it slipped past the Kansas State Wildcats Tuesday 3-2 with the last hour of the meet being played in the rain.
Tennis Team Wins Tight One From Kansas State, 3 to 2
"The small score is valid because of a precedent set at Kansas State last year," Coach Dick Mechem said. "The meet there was called because of rain when the Wildcats were on the top side of a 3-2 score. They, agreed this year's match was our victory." he added.
Freiburger stepped into the No. 2 player slot when he defeated Gene Fotopoulos in an intra-squad ladder tournament.
Al Hedstrom put Kansas in the lead again by setting Dave McFarland down 6-0, 6-2. Wildcat Al Chaplan scored the K-State second win by defeating Hal Titus 6-2, 6-2
Charles Crawford defeated Roger Coad 6-2, 6-3 to score the first Kansas win in the No. 1 game. But Chris Williams of Kansas State evened the score by defeating a fighting John Freiburger 6-4, 9-7.
The meet score was tied at 2-all when Fotopoulos met Don Dupon across the net. The match lasted three hours going to three sets with 18 games played in the last set. The last hour of the match was played
Fotopoulos won the first set 6-4,
but dropped the next to Upson 7-9.
The final set which decided the
final and the meet went to Fotopoulos
10s.8
"A fellow has to think about how he'll get along after his playing days are over and the Phillips job answers that question. I'm very happy with my choice and sorry Kerner feels as he does."
ing basketball certainly isn't everything and it's a cinch you can't play forever.
The Jayhawkers will play a tough Washburn university team here Thursday at 2 p.m.
No doubles matches were played because of the rain.
Crawford, No. 1 Kansas player, will pit his skill against Gene Powell of the Topeka club. Both Crawford and Powell are from Topeka, but they have met only once on the field in Iowa. In last summer Powell scored a win over Crawford so the Kansas tennis ace will be out to even the score.
Freiburger will play Phil Blackburn in the No. 2 match which Coach Mechem said would be another close match. Fotopoulos will play Larry Ingmason, and Titus will meet Charles Harrison.
Outside of the top two matches (Cleveland, Boston) were victories for the Kansas team.
Lovellette said Kerner had agreed to send the plane tickets for the trip to Milwaukee, but that he had never received them and if he had he would have sent them back since making his decision.
"We don't want the tickets," Clyde said, "so Kerner can stop worrying about losing any money on the deal. The tickets won't be used."
The Jayhawkers will journey Friday to Columbia for the third conference meet with Missouri university.
Lovellette said he couldn't understand why Kerner "is so put out. He hasn't thrown away any money on me or I haven't taken anything away from him."
The Kansas team finished the front nine in a tie with Nebraska, but couldn't match the Cornhusker's torrid finish.
The Kansas Jayhawkers couldn't match Nebraska university's sizzling play on the back nine in a golf engagement at Lincoln during the Easter vacation and were defeated by the Cornhuskers 13-5.
Coach Bill Winey said Nebraska definitely looks strong and he expects them to be one of the serious contenders for the Big Seven crown when the conference teams meet in the championship tournament May 16 and 17 at Norman, Okla.
Golfers Lose To Nebraska
He had nothing but praise for this Nebraska team which had just returned from a tour of the South including a losing match with North Texas State Junior college which has been the nation's No. 1 team the past three years.
by the Commission Nebraska scored seven birdies and an eagle on the back stretch to slip away from the Jayhawkers.
"I have never seen four sharper looking men forming a team in the Big Seven conference." Winey said of the Nebraska golfers.
He added that he still feels the Jayhawkers have a chance of winning the conference championship.
Low scorer for KU in the match was Gene Rourke, engineering senior, who posted a 74.
Two Golfers Win in Upsets
However, Irv Peterson of Nebraska took medal honors with a 73.
Besides Rourke, Coach Winey was pleased with the performance of John Proser, engineering sophomore. Proser scored a 75 for the Jayhawkers
Pinehurst, N.C.—(U.P.)Ray Palmer and William Hyndman, who eliminated Walker Cup players Dick Chapman and Jim McHale in the opening round of the North and South amateur golf tournament
Palmer of Wyandotte, Mich,
pulled a major upset yesterday by
defeating Chapman, the British
Amateur champion from Pinehurst,
1-up. Hyndman provided almost as
big a surprise when he ousted McHale, a fellow Philadelphia, by the same margin.
Stranahan and the other comedians, Billy Joe Patton of Morgantown, N.C., and Frank Strafici of Flushing, N.Y., also scored easy first round triumph. Stranahan best Vincent Fitzgerald for York 6 and 5; Patton defeated James Hunter of Stanford, Vt. 4, and Strafici ousted Bob Black of Chapel Hill, N.C., 5 and 4.
Palmer's second round opponent is defending champion Hobart Manley of Savannah, Ga. Hyndman takes on Frank Stranahan, former British Amateur titleholder from Toledo,
Federal Grand Jury Charges Saigh On 5 Counts of Income Tax Evasion
Fred Saigh, owner of the St. Louis Cardinals, was charged with income tax evasion in a surprise federal grand jury indictment today.
Each of the five counts carries a maximum penalty of five years imprisonment and a fine of $10,000.
Saigh was in Cincinnati when he was notified of the indictment. He immediately sought to make arrangements for a plane flight to St. Louis.
The indictment carries five counts providing a maximum penalty, upon conviction, of 25 years in prison and fines totaling $50,000.
There had been no hint that Saigh was under investigation. Word of the indictment landed like a bomb-shell.
Saigh was accused of evading a total of $49,620 in taxes on $108,823 of unreported income for the years 1946 through 1949.
Language Teachers Meet in Wichita
"This indictment comes as a complete surprise to me," Saigh said. "I knew an investigation had been going on, but I was of the opinion the case was in process of settlement."
Prof. Chalmers Herman and Prof. George O. Schanzer read papers at the afternoon session of the Spanish section and Girard Bourez, exchange student, spoke to the members of the French section.
Twelve members of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures attended the annual meeting of the Kansas Modern Language association at the University of Wichita April 19.
Other members of the department who made the trip were Prof. and Mrs. Robert G. Mahieu; Profs. Agnes M. Brady, Barbara M. Craig, Mattie E. Crumrine, Jose M. Osma, Domingo Ricart, William H. Shoemaker, Mrs. Edna Cobb, and Eduardo Betoret and Richard M. Mikulski, instructors
While Milwaukee weeps in its famous brew, Clyde Lovellette prepares for his job with Phillips Petroleum company of Bartlesville. And the professional Hawks are doing a lot of crying.
Ben Kerner, Hawks manager, is doing most of the wailing—to no avail. Lovellette is still determined to play AAU ball with the Phillips Oilers.
As far as we can see, Clyde's being pretty consistent in his decisions. About a month ago he told us he was "not interested" in playing pro ball and would go to the Oilers "if they still want me."
CLYDE Still "No" To Pros
per annum. But Clyde's decision—and we dare say it is final—is in keeping with his earlier thoughts along the professional line.
Meanwhile, Kerner fumed his disgust with the Jayhawker all-American's decision.
"The Lovellette case proves what we've always contended," Kerner said, "namely: The pro get their toughest competition from the amateurs."
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There's been quite a turnover in the American league batting race from last year.
Take a guess—it'll be the wrong one unless you've read the statistics—at the name heading the list of hitters thus far. If you tried George Kell, Ted Williams, Ferris Fain or any of the other lads with the "big bat" you're wrong.
It's none other than the No.104 man of last year, Gerry Coleman of the New York Yankees.
And at the bottom? The big noise of last season—the Philadelphia Athletics' Ferris Fain. He slugged the ball for a .344 mark last season. So far this year he's batting .087.
Coleman swatted a .249 last year to wind up far down in the statistics. This season he's leading the league with a healthy .556 mark.
And while we're talking about Coleman, we might mention that the Yankee second baseman will leave the club to return to active duty in the Marine Air Corps May 2.
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Another Yankee, third baseman Bobby Brown, is slated to go up for his physical examination April 29. Brown, a reserve officer in the Army medical corps, will be called up for active duty in the July quota.
And the young doctor isn't sure but what his baseball-playing days will be over when he sheds his Yankee uniform and pins his first lieutenant bars to a deeper shaded costume.
Casey Stengel still isn't happy with his Yankees—even with Johnny Sain's brilliant three-hitter against the Athletics yesterday, a three-game winning streak and catcher Yogi Berra's return to the lineup.
"There's somethin' wrong with this club," Stengel said. "Not hittin', not lookin' good."
"I couldn't hazard a guess," Brown said, "but coming out of the Army at 30 years old and a doctor—well, there's just no telling."
KU 4-Milers Threaten Record in Drake Games
At least one American record is in danger of being broken as the 43rd annual running of the Drake Relays this weekend.
The four Jayhawk milers—Lloyd Koby, Art Dalzell, Herb Semper and Wes Santee—will aim for the 17:16.1 intercollegiate mark set by Indiana in 1936. The Kansans were only 2.2 seconds off the record on the slow track in the relays here last weekend.
Kansas' four-mile relay team will be shooting for the triple crown—wins in the Texas, Kansas and Drake relays—and at the same time try for a new American mark.
Relays director Tom Deckard, who ran a leg of the record-breaking race in 1936, is anticipating plenty of new marks as one of the strongest fields in Drake history assemble. But—as in the Kansas races—the weather may be the key factor to how the relay teams fare.
Hopes are high for a repeat of last year's sunny skies and mild temperatures. But at the same time, Drake officials well remember the snow and cold of the 1950 races.
The weather outlook at the present is for conditions somewhere in
between the best and the worst. Present indications were mild but cloudy with showers.
Oklahoma's two-mile relay squad also will be shooting for the triple crown. Another Sooner crew—the mile relay team—is a definite threat to the existing mark in that event.
The host team will be bidding for repeat titles in the 880-yard and mile relays. Jim Ford's leg muscle injury could play an important part in the Drake chances.
Entries from the Big Seven, Big Ten and Southwest conferences have been received for the Drake game.
Deckard indicated that university and college entries will be slightly smaller than in recent years, but early season performances generally overshadow any in the 43-year history of the meet.