TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1951
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE FIVE
Tennis Team Points Toward League Opener On April 19
By ALAN MARSHALL
Daily Kansas Sports Editor
With five lettermen returning, the Kansas tennis team is hard a work in preparation for the Big Seven conference opener at Nebraska on April 19. Coached by Glen Tongier, a member of K.U.'s 1948 conference titlists, the Jayhawks must be regarded as a dark horse in championship predictions.
Hervie Macferran is the only member of last year's fourth place team that will not be returning. Macferran, a Topeka product, attended classes during the first semester but has since dropped out.
Most heartening factor so far this season has been the much improved play of southpaw Charley Crawford. Should he develop into a consistent winner—and from every indication he will—Charley would be a valuable part of the title race.
On the 1950 team he was fairly well settled in the No. 3 or 4 spot behind Bob Swartzell, a snappy racket artist, who held the first position. This year, however, it's been a different story. Crawford walked off with straight sets, 6-1, 6-2 in their recent practice match.
Should he keep up his winning ways, the line-up of Crawford and Swartzell will be hard to beat.
Another letterman, John Freiberger, has shown definite improvement. He's a short, stocky fellow who owns plenty of court savvy. Despite his unorthodox style—he faces the net on all strokes—Freiberger is exceptionally fast with reflexes that more than make up for his diminutive size.
Jack Ransom and Bill Thompson round out the list of lettermen. Both are right-handed swingers who have plenty of dual and conference competition under their rackets. Their steady play adds the all-important depth to what could become a championship team.
Coach Tongier plans to concentrate his efforts on about nine men, the five veterans plus four newcomers. He isn't yet certain who these last four will be, but from all indications Harold Titus, Richard Mercer, Terry Jacquith, and Alfred Sim have the inside rail.
The doubles teams will probably consist of Swartzell and Crawford or Ransom. One of these latter two will team with Thompson for the second doubles outfit. Freierberg probably will compete only in the singles since his serve is insufficient for the close-working doubles men.
Coach Tongier is beginning his first year as tennis coach. A third-year law student, he was a member of the 1948 team that annexed the Big Seven title. He passed up his last year of eligibility in favor of the law school.
He teamed with Dick Richards to capture the No. 1 doubles in the 1948 meet, and then added to his laurels by copping the No. 2 singles tourney. Richards won the No. 1 competition.
Tongier is non-committal about the final outcome of the season, although he admits that "with the breaks, we could really come through." The improved play of Charley Crawford has given him considerable encouragement, since he figures the first-line men will swing the pendulum of victory or defeat.
"Oklahoma and Colorado are the teams to beat." Coach Tongier says. "We were unable to schedule a meet with the Buffaloos so we won't know what they have until the conference meet." The date for the Oklahoma match is still uncertain.
Tongier is trying to schedule a practice match with Washburn university of Topeka on either April 13 or 30. The meet will be held in Lawrence.
Colorado has already beaten Oklahoma in a dual meet this season. With Peter Arendrup, the 1950 Big Seven singles champ returning, the Buffaloes seem to be the team to beat. A Danish product, Arendrup starred on the Junior Davis Cup entry from his homeland.
1951 Tennis Schedule
April 19—Kansas at Nebraska.
 April 24—Kansas State at Kansas.
 April 27—Missouri at Kansas.
 May 1—Kansas at Kansas State.
 May 5—Nebraska at Kansas.
 May 12—Kansas at Iowa State.
 May 14—Kansas at Missouri.
 April 19, 8-Big Seven Conference Meet.
Last Season's Top Hurlers Hold The Key To Top Pennant Contenders During 1951
Often the best year—and this isn't said hopefully of such as Lemon
New York (U.P.)—With the probable pennant contenders picked before the first pitch, the biggest question today concerning the approaching major league races was whether last season's big guns of the mound can come back effectively in 1951.
And, on each of those near the top who are conceded a chance, all have pitching strength which could be a question mark. The Phillies, for instance, need another big year out of Jim Konstany. The Cleveland Indians have to receive a fat winning effort from Bob Lemon. And so it goes for each of the teams.
On the basis of past performance, spring training form, personnel improvements and adjustments, it is an accepted theory that there will be no great changes made in the standings. None of the bottom teams are expected to come charging out of nowhere to hit the jackpot.
Yet, of all the pitcher's currently active in the majors, only 12 of them have had four seasons in a row in which they bettered the .500 mark.
for the pitchers who managed five such years are of the legendary class. You're talking now of such immortals as Christy Mathewson, Lefty Grove and Carl Hubbell.
Lemon is one of them. The others are Hank Borowy, Alpha Brazile, Joe Dobson, Bobby Joe Hatten, Freddie Hutchinson, Max Lanier, Eolap, Allie Reynolds, Warren Spahn and Paul Trout.
Certainly some of the prime pitchers of 1950 are going to fade in 1951. And that will be the main factor which decides which club wins, and which clubs lose!
Lefty Gomez, back in 1934, stood the American league on its ear as he showed the way with 26 triumphs and a miserly 2.33 earned run average. The next season he won 12—and lost 15.
and Konstanty—is followed by a bad one.
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High Scores In Intramurals
Scores that looked like basketball totals were plentiful in the opening games of the women's intramural softball season.
The first week of play, which began April 2, gave 18 of the 23 teams their first taste of action. The remaining weeks of the tournament are scheduled to average 11 games each.
Teams from all of the sororities, organized houses, and several independent groups will make bids for the championship, now held by Gamma, and for individual positions on the class and varsity squads.
The first three days of action were ragged and the teams showed lack of practice.
Any nominations for the outstanding performances of the week would probably go to the Delta Delta Delta for their 31 to 2 slaughter of Alpha Omicron Pl, and to the Corpia who out-sugged Gamma Phi Beta to the Alpha Phi Beta 9 to 8 win over Locksley hall was the top attraction of the week.
Other games and scores were: the champion Delta Gammas over Fi Beta Phi, 24 to 22; Corbin Hawks over Chi Omega, 21 to 9; Jayettes forfeited to Kahops; Temruth over Sigma Kappa, 14 to 5; Kappa Kappa Gamma over Alpha Chi Omega, 19 to 12; I.W.W. over Kappa Alpha Theta, 8 to 2.
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KC Group Bids For Charles-Layne Bout
Kansas City, Mo. (U.P.)—A Kansas City group marked time today waiting for a reply from world heavyweight champion Ezzard Charles for the "go ahead" on a title bout matching Charles with Rex Layne early in August.
The group offered $75,000 to Charles for the bout, which would be held in the new Riverside stadium, a few miles northwest of downtown Kansas City.
The offer was made through Jimmy Nixon, manager of the stadium $ ^{r} $ who is a co-promoter with Jim Downing of Salt Lake City.
Jake Mintz, Charles' manager, expressed interest in the offer but wired he would be "unable to do anything about it" until after Charles meets Joey Maxim in Chicago May 30.
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