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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1951
TrackTeamAddsDashManForNeededStrength In Outdoor Opener At Nebraska On Saturday
Addition of Wally Beck, one-time state prep sprint king from Shawnee-Mission could eliminate Kansas long-time dual meet weakness in the dashes Saturday when the Jayhawkers tackle Nebraska in Lincoln.
The 6 foot 3 inch former Indian three-sport ace by-passed the indoor season in favor of basketball, but his turned out this spring to take Coach Bill Easton something to break the frequent slams opponents have scored in the 100 for the past three years.
WALLY BECK Kansas
The big boy, who has shrunk from 200 to 190 since the season opened, won't be at his peak for the Cornhuskers, but he'll go into the century and 220 expected to pick up points.
Beck, a nineletterman at Mission, won the Kansas State High school 100 as a
senior two years ago in :100. He scored a sprint double at the Kansas Relays Interscholastic meet, always nearly as potent as the State itself that season, collecting the 100 in :99. He also won the century here as a junior.
The hefty sophomore could make the difference Saturday in a meet that figures to be tight right down to the mile relay. It will be a morning air, and one of the features of Nebraska's all-sports day.
Kansas also will gain help from two cripples who, like Beck, missed the Texas Relays last Saturday. Bob Dvinney, the brilliant all-around from Anderson, Ind., will be seeing his first action since leveled by an emergency appendectomy in mid-February. Easton will limit his competition to the Mile relay.
John Reiderer, 6 foot 5 inch Holton sophomore, will climb off the sick list for a hand in this race after a long session with the ftu.
With K.U. heavily favored in the distance hauls and Nebraska an equally stamina bet to dominate the field events, the deciding battleground will reach from the 100 through the half.
Beck and Don Smith, the fast-moving sophomore from Belle Plaine, will duel Husker Lee Alexander in the 100. They will be joined by Emil Schutzel, Jayhawker captain, and Jim Hershberger in the 220. Alexander drubbed DeVinney and Smith in the 60 in the K.U.-N.U. indoor dual.
With Hobe Jones, sophomore indoor 880 champ, and Ken Jacobs, a capable mile and half-mile hand, both called into the service, the Hus-
kers will find the going much rougher against the Jayhawks than was the case indoors. Jones beat Schutzel in the quarter while Jacobs was outrunning Dave Fisher in the half. Alexander won the 440 at .520 as the Huskers beat Colorado, 63 to 59, last Saturday in a scheduled outdoor dual, most of which was forced inside by cold weather.
N. U.'s top hope in the half will be Dale Snackel, who was nipped in a 2:02.5 half at Boulder on the Buffalo's indoor oval. Fisher, Rollie Cain, and Jim Dinsmore will run this one for Kansas. Fisher placed fourth in the conference indoor half last month.
With Jacobs gone, the distance burden will fall to Gene Yelkin who ran second in a 4:38.5 mile at Colorado. Easton will double his top distance hand, Herb Semper, as well as the fast-improving sophomore Keith Palmquist, in the mile and two-mile.
Either team could sew up the meet in these events. Nebraska also could come close to putting it away if Don Bedker or Dan Tolman upend Jack Greenwood, the Hawkers' two-time indoor champ, in either flight of hurdles. Bedker pushed him to a 07:5 wins in the indoor highs.
K.U. upset the Huskers, 66 to 65,
here last year.
Boys who will leave for Lincoln at 3 p.m. today by bus include Capt. Emil Schutzel, Cliff Abel, Wally
Fiss, Laughlin, Sabatini Vie For Fullback
The most torrid position battle be fought in Kansas' spring football camp is the three-man war at fullback between two sophomores and an upcoming freshman.
The sophs, both of which will be juniors next autumn, include Bud Laughlin, 205-pound Kansas Citian, and Galen Fiss, the oakenthighed plowboy from Johnson. Both earned letters last season, the latter chiefly as a line backer. Third party involved is Frank Sabatini, a swarthy projectile out of Chicago, who scored the touchdown against Missouri's yearlings last year which meant a 7-6 victory.
Laughlin and Fiss are presenting their bids for varsity status on planks of overall improvement. As a matter of fact, Head Coach J. V. Sikes and his backfield aide Cliff Kimsey will tell you Fiss may be the most improved player in camp.
The 215-pound blaster always has been a bruising ball-carrier, but he has been a trifle too slow on the takeoff to earn much offensive playing time in a backline in which lightning starts are the keynote. Fiss turned out the first day with a new ignition and suddenly has found himself a blocker. He even has picked up defensively which was his long suit last season.
Laughlin, like Fiss, a thick-set rhinow with good speed for his bulk, also has suddenly lifted his blocking to varisity caliber. The lack of this ability was the main factor which kept both Laughin and his stable-mate playing behind the efficient Johnnv Amberg last year.
Bud flashed some promise as a ball-carrier last season, surprisingly manufacturing the club's highest average at 11.3 in 26 cracks. He gained a total of 295 yards, unreeling long touchdown gallops against Denver and Kansas State.
Improvement of both Brahmas doubtless was speeded by the sharp swath cut immediately by Sabatini. Though carrying only 185 pounds, the black-eyed Chicagoan is built like a boxing champion and carries quick acceleration, an item close to Sikes' heart.
He might be tabbed a halfback on some clubs because of his speed and better than average elusiveness in the open. But as Sikes explains in his expressive terminology... "he makes noise like a fullback"... a reference to Sabatini's explosive bucking power.
Continued improvement actually could lift the yearling over his more experienced rivals into a varsity berth. Sabatinin's early appraisal also includes linebacking ability which means he probably will be one of
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Another frosh, Morris Kay, rangy 190-pounder from St. John, also belongs in the 1951 fullback picture. An earnest workman, Kay, who was a halfback with the freshman last Fall, is headed for nearly exclusive defensive duty.
The triangular tussle, however, is not likely to be settled much before the Texas Christian opener September 22 in Fort Worth.
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the few reversables the Jayhawks boast next autumn.
Whether any of this gang can completely fill Amberg's shoes remains to be seen. The squat driver from Shawnee-Mission always turned in a good blocking performance and missed by only 20 yards of equalling Forrest Griffith's single-season K.U. ground-gaining mark for fullbacks at 461.
Grass Fire Victim Moved To K.C. Medical Center
Three-year-old Gerald Ray, recovering from extensive burns suffered nearly three months ago, wants the thousands of persons who have written him from all parts of the nation to know that he has a new address.
Through many skin-grafting operations Gerald was a patient at the Memorial hospital. Now he has been moved to the University of Kansas hospitals in Kansas City, for further treatment.
Since Gerald's plight was published nationally about a week ago, mail has "poured in by the box-full" to the hospital.
Gerald, the son of Mr. and Mrs.
William Ray of Lawrence, was
burned when his clothing caught
fire while he was trying to stamp
out a grass fire Jan. 14.
Eastern Cage Scandal Arrests To 17
The Latin name for the cacao tree—from which chocolate is derived—is Theobroma cacao, meaning "food of the gods."
The former L.I.U. player, seventh from that school to be arrested, was charged with accepting a total of $4,000 in bribes for "throwing" four games played at Madison Square Garden in 1949 and 1950.
New York (U.P.)—The number of basketball players under arrest in the bribery scandal rose to 17 today with the addition of Dick Feurtado of Long Island university, but four alleged "fixers" still were being sought.
He was accused of working with previously arrested L.I.U. players Eddie Gard, Natie Miller, Lou Lipman, Adolph Bigos, and Sherman White in "throwing" games against Duquesne in 1949, and North Carolina State, Cincinnati, and Syracuse in 1950. These games had been previously listed by District Attorney Hogan as "fixed."
Hogan revealed that his men still are searching for four men as "fix-
ers” of Garden games. One of these men he has identified as William Rivlin, who has already served a jail sentence in connection with the attempted “fixing” of a Manhattan college-George Washington U. game two years ago.
Feurtadt, now a gas station attendant, had been sought fruitlessly for over a month until two New York detectives, who were in California working on an extradition case, happened to see him and recognized him. They talked to him and he agreed to come to New York voluntarily.
Beck, Dave Breidenthal, Bob DeVinney, Jim Dinsmore, Dave Fisher, Jim Floyd, Merlin Gish, Jack Greenwood, Jim Hershberger, Keith Palmquist, Jim Potts, John Reiderer, Herb Semper, Don Smith and Jim Swim.
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