TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1951
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE FIVE
Along the JAYHAWKER trail
By ALAN MARSHALL
Daily Kansan Sports Editor
Current plans for the all-sports weekend on May 4 and 5 should provide students with some of the best athletic spectacles for quite awhile.
Every major sport at the University will be involved in some sort of a contest, including both a conference baseball game and track meet.
Various alumni will be on hand for alumni-Varsity games in both football and basketball. The dates were set to coincide with the last week of football practice and the game will serve as a climax to the gruelling six weeks of drills. Many of Kansas' most famous athletes will return to Mount Oread for one more fling at their old specialties.
The alumni-Varsity basketball game is not yet official but from all indications it will be soon. From what we hear such notables as Charley Black, a Helms all-American, Otto Schnellbacher, fourtime all-Big Seven, Dick Harp, a member of K.U.'s western N.C.A.A. championship team in 1940, Ray Evans, all-American football and basketball player, and many others will be on hand. They should give Lovellette and company a run for their money, despite the weight and age handicap.
The April 20 Daily Kansan carried a list of the entries received for the football game. One more was added over the weekend—Cliff McDonald, who played as a halfback in 1948 and 1949—to up the total to 26 with many still not contacted.
Several Big Seven schools hold such weekends and all term them as complete successes. Only last Saturday at Missouri the alumni defeated the varsity 7 to 0 in a rugged football game. Although as a rule the better organized varsity boys come out on the long end, you can see it isn't always that way.
The K.U. alumni can boast of such veterans as Ray Evans, Don Fambrough, Dick Tomlinson, Otto Schnellbacher, Forrest Griffith, Mike McCormack, Wade Stinson, John Amberg, Red Ettinger, and Don Pierce—quite a fearsome lineup in their prime and they should be just as awe-inspiring May 5, at least for a few minutes.
The biggest obstacle to be overcome in planning the weekend seems to be in finding time for each event. The basketball game will probably be played Friday night, so that leaves football, baseball and track, all for Saturday.
However the program is arranged, though, you fans can count on a full weekend of entertainment. You'd better mark it down on your calendar right now.
Only Pee-Wee Reese Remains From Brooklyn's 1941 Pennant Winning Team
New York (U.P.)—They call Pee-Wee Reese the "old man" of the Brooklyn Dodgers but the boyish-looking shortstop-captain and sole survivor of the 1941 Flatbush pennant winner insisted today that he had "at least three more good years left."
"Old man!" Reese blurted as he looked around the Dodger dressing quarters where he has been hanging his gear since 1940. "Shucks, I'm almost a year younger than Phil Rizzuto of the Yankees and I don't hear anybody calling him an old man."
But even though he won't be 32 until July, the little man from Louisville realizes that the years—Brooklyn years—are catching up with him. It is significant that at 31 he is the veteran of a club where the accent over the past few years has been on youth, extreme youth. And Pee-Wee is looking ahead to the time when he becomes dollar bait on the baseball market.
"I'm going to play just as long as I can—or at least as long as I can make money at it," he explained, running stubby hands through dark blond hair. "Then I'd like to take a shot at managing some club."
But Pee-Wee, often mentioned as a future Brooklyn pilot, doesn't intend to become a playing-manager—or even stay in the driver's seat if it reflects his health adversely.
wouldn't want to both play and manage," he asserted. "Very few players have been able to do both. Of course, Lou Boudreau was the exception when he played and managed the Cleveland Indians to the pennant in 1948. But, as I say, I feel that was the exception.
"Nor would I continue as a manager," he added, "if I found it was keeping me awake at nights an ruining my health. Health is too important."
Money isn't a pressing problem with Reese. He has managed his affairs well since he hit the big-time in 1940 and has a partnership in a Louisville storm window business. Once his baseball career is behind him, Reese intends to enjoy life with his lovely wife and daughter, Barbara Lee, now seven.
Right now, he grinned, he is enjoying the game he chose as a career—"and this should be a good year because I had a good spring."
Last season was rough on the little "old man." In January, 1950, he had a hernia operation and it handicapped his play. But now he has recovered fully and the days stretch ahead in pleasant anticipation.
Soccer Team Stops Aggies
The University of Kansas soccer team defeated Oklahoma A. and M. Sunday afternoon, 5 to 1, in Kansas City's C.Y.C. stadium, but sidelined their leading backfill in doing so.
Topeka (U.P.) — Salina, Junction City, and Wichita were announced Wednesday as sites of Kansas high school state tournaments for golf and tennis.
Bautista Murillo, a business senior from Cartago, Costa Rica, was hospitalized early in the game when he received a severe cut on the calf of his left leg. Twenty-one stitches were required to close the wound.
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Forward Alan Walton scored four of the Jayhawk goals and Bernie Weitzner gained credit for three assists. Manuel Murillo contributed the other marker. Alexander Sivan accounted for the Cowpokes' lone score.
The state grass green golf tournament will be played at Salina and the sand green affair held at Junction City. The tennis tournament will be in Wichita.
Wichita already had been selected as host to the 1951 state schoolboy track meet.
All events will be held May 18 and 19.
The K. U. forward line of Baquer Shirazi, Weitnzer, Walton, Manuel Murillo, and Louis Bianchini was particularly aggressive. Halfbacks were Burt Berger, Van Fuegener, and Adnan Abdullah. Fullbacks were Andres Martinez and Bautista Murillo while Sami Saliba was goalie.
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The K.U. team will meet K-State here within the next two weeks. The exact date will be announced later.
Netmen Meet Cats Today
The Varsity tennis team spent Monday afternoon playing intra-squad matches to decide positions for today's match with Kansas State here. It will be the second conference match for the Jayhawks who already boast one Big Seven victory over Nebraska.
The K.U. netmen will meet Missouri here Friday. Both matches are scheduled for 2 p.m. The Kansas team is undefeated this year with convincing victories over Baker, Washburn, and Nebraska.
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Champaign, Ill. (U.P.)-Bob Zuppke in 29 years of coaching football at the University of Illinois reared some dandies, including Red Grange. He has done mighty well too in other fields, like hog-raising and painting.
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The salty old mentor, who is rushing 72, sort of parlayed pigs and a paint brush into a daily double. You might say that he made champions of both.
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After he retired from coaching, Bob bought a farm at nearby Mahomet, Ill. There weren't any hogs around, but it didn't take the old guy long to fix that. The former coach gave a friend in Ohio a couple of pastels in exchange for two Hampshire sows about to become mothers.
"I named one Illinois and the other one Ohio. I was a little unhappy when Ohio won that one, 12 pigs to nine."
Anyhow, Zuppke was in business. He bought a boar and before he knew it, his transfer from pig-skins to pork chops was about to run him off his property.
He sold the farm for twice what he paid for it and went back to his comfortable little place here to sit
around and relax and paint and bask in the memory of those great Illinois football teams he put on the field.
"I don't try to sell my paintings for money," he said.
But on occasion he puts them on exhibit — or makes some fancy trades—like the recent swap of an oil for a fine Hereford heifer. The heifer brought a fancy price.
Zuppke has a cluttered back room in his apartment where he dabs at a canvas. He does mostly landscapes and almost all of them are conceived while he is traveling around the country in search of a climate that will help his sinus.
If he sees a scene that might make a good picture he stops, drags out paints and brushes and makes a rough sketch.
Zuppke has quite a reputation as a humorist on and off the field and confessed to me a secret delight in being called a "screwball." He loves to shock Champaign society at white tie and tail functions.
"Want to see my society hat?" he asked. He pulled out a beat-up old topper, which he used to wad up and hand a hat-check girl. "This hat," he always told the bewildered girl, "in't worth a quarter tip. If you don't give it back to me for nothing, you can keep it."
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