THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1951
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE SEVEN
Hicks, Sandefur Lead Kansas To 9 To 5 Victory Over Nebraska In Big Seven Baseball Opener
Bv BOB NELSON
Daily Kansan Assistant Sports Editor
Kansas combined the pitching efforts of big Carl Sandefur and the long-ball hitting of right fielder Walter Hicks to down the Nebraska Cornhuskers, 9 to 5. Wednesday afternoon in the Big Seven baseball opener for both clubs on the Varsity diamond.
Sanefur allowed the 1950 conference champions only five scattered singles in gaining credit for K.U.'s second straight victory of the young baseball season.
Hicks had a perfect day at the plate with three for three including a single and a pair of line-drive home runs over the 292-foot right field fence. His timely hitting accounted for five runs in K.U.'s runs batted in department.
Coach Hub Ulrich will send his big sophomore righthander, Jack Stonestreet, against Nebraska at 3 p.m. today, with hopes of sweeping the two-game series with the Cornhuskers. It will mark Stonestreet's first conference mound duty and be his second appearance of the season.
Stonecrest looked impressive in taming Emporia State Monday during his five inning chore on the mound allowing no runs and only two hits. He, along with Sandefur, is expected to provide Coach Ulrich with the conference's top one-two pitching combination this year.
Ulrich was quick to praise his team following its opening Big Seven victory and his first win as a coach in conference competition. Ulrich replaced Bill "Red" Hogan who led K.U. to an 8-8 record last year and the No. 4 spot in the final standings after winning the title in his first year, 1949.
"We hit the ball exceptionally well today and the boys hustled all the way," Coach Ulrich said as he relaxed in the clubhouse following the game.
"Considering the inadequate amount of hitting we've been able
to get in due to adverse weather this spring, the team did an excellent job at the plate—especially in hitting that long ball. We were afraid we'd miss the distance hitting of such fellows as Carl Ellis, Guy Mabry, Lou DeLuna, Floyd Temple, and others that graduated off last year's team.
"But the boys came through in grand style in our opener. I'm very well pleased with the way the entire team played, and think we'll continue to show improvement as the season progresses," Coach Ulrich added.
Ulrich indicated he expects to start the same lineup again today.
Sandefur finished the 1950 Big Seven saesor, in a blaze of glory allowing only 23 hits and five earned runs in his final $37\frac{1}{2}$ innings on the mound for a 7-1 mark—one of the finest pitching records in conference history for a sophomore.
He continued his fine conference performance by allowing Nebraska only five hits and no earned runs. Sandefur's control was below par as he walked six and he was handicapped by six Kansas errors that got him in trouble in the fourth, seventh, and ninth innings. He struck out four N.U. batters.
Kansas took a 1 to 0 lead in the first innning, as left fielder Charlie Bether doubled to left and scored on Hick's single to right field.
Darrell Houk, K.U. center fielder,
opened the third with a homerun
over the right field fence. With one
away, Bether singled to center and
scored ahead of Hick's home run to
Netmen Wallop Baker
Again winning all five singles matches and splitting the two doubles, the Jayhawker tennis team swept to its second consecutive victory of the new season Wednesday afternoon, defeating the Baker university netmen, 6-1 on the local courts.
The score was identical to that by which Coach Glen Tongier's men whipped Washburn Monday in Topeka.
Tongier withheld two of his ace returning lettermen, Jack Ranson and Bob Swartzell, from competition and no lettermen were allowed to compete in the doubles.
Lefty Charley Crawford whipped Baker's David Day, 6-0, 6-4. Jayhawker John Freiburger dumped Ron Larson, 6-2, 6-1 and teammate Bill Thompson had no easy time of it in nudging Ted Potter, 7-5, 6-3.
Hal Titus and Terry Jaquith also scored singles victories for Kansas, Titus blasting Ralph Carlson, 6-3, 6-0 and Jaquith surprising Dick Baker. 6-1, 6-4.
Jaquish and Bob Smith teamed to defeat Potter and Larson in one doubles match, 3-6, 6-4, 6-1. Day and Carlson scored the lone Baker win when they downed the Jayhawker's Richard Mercer and Al Sim, 6-2, 6-2.
Wildcat Nine Meets Buffs
Manhattan (U.P.)—Baseball is the headliner in the Kansas State home schedule this weekend as Coach Ray Wauthier's club tangles Friday and Saturday afternoon with Colorado in two Big Seven contests.
It will be the home debut for K-State's diamond crew. The Wildcats dropped their opening matches to Oklahoma at Norman last weekend, 11, and 5-9. Two earlier matches with Wichita were rained and snowed out.
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Thomas said the action of the association was a forerunner to resplitting Kansas high schools into four divisions of athletic competition. The existing three divisions are AA, A, and B of schools with more than 475 enrollment, that number down to 150 and under 150.
Nebraska got back into the game with three unearned runs in the fourth inning. Two errors, a pair of walks, a single by Nebraska's starting pitcher, sophomore Dick McCormick, and a long fly to center field provided the scoring.
Eight teams instead of 16 will play in tournaments of each division of schools by enrollment, beginning next March, said E. A. Thomas of the Kansas State High School Activities association.
"There will be a study to establish the right dividing line," said Thomas. "It is possible the present division between A and B classes may be moved as well as finding one farther down to put the very small schools in a class of their own."
Topcka (U,P)-A decision to cut in half the number of Kansas high school basketball teams participating in the state tournaments was announced officially Wednesday.
straight-away right field. Hick's blow moved Kansas ahead. 4 to 0.
It is anticipated that at the fall meeting of the association's legislation committee in Topeka in September these B will be split into two categories.
Prep Tourney Field Halved
Coach Tony Sharpe replaced McCormick with another sophomore righthander, Al Benjamin, in the sixth inning. After shutting K.U. out in the sixth, the Jayhawkers pushed across their final three tallies in the seventh.
In the fifth inning, Hick again homered over the right field fence with shortstop Frank Koenig on base to increase the Kansas margin to 6 to 3.
Columbia, Mo. (U.P.)—The University of Missouri opened its home baseball season with an 8 to 5 triumph over Fort Leonard Wood Wednesday.
Missouri Wins
With two away (Kansas scored six runs during the game after two were out) and Bether on first, Benjamin hit Hicks. George Voss, KU first baseman, singled to right scoring Bether and sending Hicks to third.
The visitors outhit the Tigers, 11 to 10, but failed to come up with base knocks when needed.
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Nebraska-Kansas Box Score
Box Score
Nebraska (5) AB B H PO A E O
Rego, 3b 5 5 0 1 2 0
Reynolds, 2b 3 1 2 3 1 0
Dliers, c 4 1 2 3 0 0
Lumf, lf 4 0 1 2 0 0
Mladovich, rf 4 1 0 6 0 0
Fitzgerald, rf 5 1 1 2 0 0
Jensen, s 4 1 0 2 2 0
Hoberg, c 2 1 0 2 2 0
Shulk, c 2 0 0 0 0 0
McCormick, p 3 0 1 0 2 0
Benjamin, p 1 0 0 0 1 0
Totals ... 37 5 5 24 8 0
Kansas (9) AB R H PO A E
Houk, cf 4 1 1 1 0
Kews, cf 4 1 1 1 0
Bether, df 4 3 2 4 0
Hickens, rf 3 3 2 4 0
Voss, lb 4 1 1 0 0
Susy, bt 4 1 0 0 0
Harris, 3b 1 0 0 1 0
McConnell, 2b 1 0 1 1 0
Smith, c 4 0 1 4 0
Sandefur, p 3 0 0 0 0
Totals    33   9 11 27   5 6
Nebraska  105 180 245
      100 020 220
RHG—Bego, Lohrberg, McCormick,
Hollmey, McConnell, McConnell,
2B—Bether, McConnell,
HR—Houk,
SB—Dunn.
DP—Llohrberg to Reynolds.
LOB—Nebraska 12, Kansas 5.
BB—McCormick 3, Benjamin 1, Sande-
fur 6.
SO    McCormick 2, Benjamin 2, Sande-
HO—McCormick 6 and 7 in 5 innings;
Benjamin 3 and 4 in 3 innings; Sandefur
HBP — Benjamin (Hicks), Sandefur (Reynolds).
ER—McCormick 6, Benjamin 3, Sandefur (none).
Curt Harris, pinch hitting for Jim Sunye, singled to left scoring Hicks. Second baseman John McConnell, who hit long fly balls in three previous times at the plate, doubled down the left field foul line scoring Voss for K.U.'s final run.
The Cornhuskers added their final two unearned runs in the ninth inning. After hitting Bobby Reynolds, N.U. second baseman and all-American football star, Sandefur walked cleanup hitter, Jerry Dunn. Errors by Koenig and third baseman Harris allowed Reynolds and Dunn to score before Sandefur struck out catcher Jack Shull to end the game.
PB—Lohrberg 2.
Sandwich
LP—McCormick
U—Fabeck and Edwards.
T—2:20.
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Sandefur was most effective with men on base as Nebraska left 12 base runners stranded on the base paths.
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Reynolds led the Nebraska hitting getting two of the five singles off Sandefur.
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