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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1951
Sandefur Draws Hurling Assignment In Big Seven Opener Here Today
By BOB NELSON
Daily Kansan Assistant Sports Editor
Coach Hub Ulrich's Jayhawker baseball club will open its 195 Big Seven season at 3 p.m. today against Nebraska Cornhuskers defending conference champions, on the Varsity diamond.
PROBABLE LINEUPS
Kansas Nebraska
Houk, cf Rego, 3b
Koenig, ss Reynolds, 2b
Bether, lf Diers, cf
Hicks, rf Dunn, lf
Voss, 1b Mladovich, 1b
Sunye, 3b Fitzgerald, rf
McConnell, 2b Jensen, ss
Smith, c Lohrberg, c
Sandefur, pi McCormick, p
Kansas will stake its hopes largely on Carl Sandefur, big junior right-
SANDEFUR
hander, who will draw the opening pitching assignment. Jack Stone-street, Wichita sophomore, will hurl for Kansas in the second game of the two-game series Thursday.
Sandefur will be opposed by Nebraska's sophomore righthander,
Dick McCormick. Last year Sandefur led the Big Seven hurriers with a 7-1 record and will be out to gain revenge over the Cornhuskers who administered his only defeat, a 2 to 4 back in a 5-hit 7-inning game at Lincoln.
The Cornhuskers also humbled K U. 7 to 2 in the other game of that double-header. Tony Sharpe's Nebraska club won 11 and lost three last year in copping its second title in three years.
Kansas baseball fans will have an opportunity to see Bobby Reynolds, Nebraska's All-American halfback, in action at second base. He is a key man in N.U.'s better than average defensive club. Reynolds is regarded as a fine baseball prospect with plenty of speed around the keystone bag and a better than average hitter.
Coach Ulrich is expected to make only one change in the lineup and batting order that K.U. used in downing Emporia State 9 to 1 here Monday. Charles Bether, junior from South Haven, will start in left field in place of Frank Mischlich.
Nebraska has a season record of 3-1 to date. The Cornhuskers won their opener with Buena Vista 9 to 6 last Friday at Lincoln but lost Saturday's game to the same club, 12 to 13.
Golfers Leave For NU Today
Golf Coach Bill Winey has named a four-man squad for K.U.'s Big Seven opener against the University of Nebraska at Lincoln Thursday. The team will leave Lawrence today at 1 p.m. by car.
The travelling team includes Gene Rourke, who has a 74.6 average in five rounds of play; Bob Dare with a 78.2; Don Everett, 78.6; and Jim Houghton, 79.0.
The Jayhawkers won their first match of the season against Washburn university Monday by a score of $16\frac{1}{2}$ to $1\frac{1}{2}$. Gene Rourke won medalist honors with a 78 as he defeated Francis Jones of Washburn 3-0.
The 1951 K.U. squad, defending champions in the Big Seven conference, will be minus two of last year's standouts, Dave Dennis and Dick Ashley.
Following the Nebraska match the Kansans will travel to Omaha for a match Friday with Omaha university.
Dennis was the national junior college titlist in 1948 and in 1950 he captured the Colorado college invitational and the Kansas men's amateur title.
Ashley was the Big Seven individual champion in 1949. In 1950 he lost to Dennis in the semi-finals of the Kansas men's amateur tournament.
The Cornhuskers downed Wichita university 19 to 7 Monday at Wichita and won the second game Tuesday by a 12 to 8 score.
The Jayhawkers finished fourth in the Big Seven last year with an 8-8 record. For the entire season, K.U. won 10 and lost eight. Both non-conference victories were over Rockhurst college of Kansas City, Mo.
Here are the final 1950 Big Seven standings:
| | W. | L | Pct. |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Nebraska | 11 | 3 | .786 |
| Missouri | 9 | 5 | .643 |
| Oklahoma | 7 | 5 | .583 |
| KANSAS | 8 | 8 | .500 |
| Colorado | 4 | 7 | .364 |
| Iowa State | 4 | 9 | .368 |
| Kansas State | 5 | 11 | .313 |
This year's Nebraska club is far from being the well balanced outfit that took the Big Seven title last year. Coach Shaarpe is without the services of 10 lettermen from last year's team.
Biggest Nebraska loss was Bob Cerv, hard hitting outfielder who led the league in about every department, now batting cleanup for the Kansas City Blues in the American association.
This long-ball hitter lead the Big Seven in batting with a .509 mark, runs batted in, 19; total bases, 50; hits, 27; doubles, 9; tied for triples, 2; tied for home runs with 4, and in runs scored with 17.
Cerv was considered one of the finest hitters to ever play in the Big Seven and he proved his greatness by making the jump from collegiate ball to Class AAA professional baseball.
Other N.U. losses include the Cornhuskers' one-two pitching combination of Linus Vrbaka (5-1) and Bill Camp (4-1) who accounted for all but two of the Cornhuskers' 11 wins.
Two more powerful hitters missing are catchers Tom Novak and outfielder Bill Denker. These two hitters plus Cerv provided Coach Sharpe's club with three of the conference's top long-ball hitters.
However, Sharpe will have veterans like center fielder Bole Diers, shortstop Bill Jensen, first baseman Ray Mladovich, and pitcher Del Kopf (1-0) to bolster his sophomore studded squad he has assembled this spring.
Pitching is Nebraska's biggest worry at the moment.
Wildcats Honored With Huge Banquet
Manhattan, Kan. (U.P.)—The Kansas State basketball team, "greatest in the school's history," was honored at a huge banquet April 13 in Nichols gymnasium. More than 500 Manhattan townpeople attended to watch Coach Jack Gardner and his athletes being showered with gifts.
Gardner was presented with a sterling silver service, a combination television-radio-phonograph and the title to a new two-tone four door Chevrolet sedan.
Each of the 11 players who comprised the traveling squad received 17-jewel wrist watches from Aggieville businessmen and gold basketballs and a letter jacket with "Big
Seven champions" inscribed on the white "K".
Tex Winter, the assistant coach who only last Wednesday resigned to accept the head coaching post at Marquette university in Milwaukee, was given a sterling silver set and a check "to help furnish your new home in Milwaukee."
Ed Head, senior forward, was named "the most inspirational player" and Jim Iverson was the "best free thrower" with 77 per cent Ernie Barrett, the squad's all-American guard, was announced as the captain of this year's team.
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