FRIDAY, MARCH 16. 1951
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE FIVE
State Basketball Tournaments Move Into Semi-Final Round
Wichita East and Newton still are in co-favorite roles today as the State High School class AA tournament at Emporia reached the semi-finals stage.
The other two semi-finalists are Parsons and Winfield, both strong teams.
Wichita East advanced yesterday with a 64 to 53 victory over Ottawa while Newton eliminated McPherson, 61 to 42.
Winfield showed power in its quarterfinal 50 to 39 triumph over Salina. Parsons moved up with an easy 59 to 37 win over Argentine of Kansas City.
The Semi-Final Schedule:
7:30 p.m. Wichita East vs. Parsons
8:45 p.m. Newton vs. Winfield
Surprising Hugoton scored another upset last night to become a semi-finalist in the Class A championship at Salina. Led by John McFarland with 21 points, Hugoton clumped Osborne. 46 to 44.
Hugoton defeated Hays—the 1944 titleholder—in another upset, 43 to 42, in the second round.
Three other strong teams advanced to tonight's semi-finals. Russell defeated Augusta 54 to 44; Norton eliminated Nickerson, 52 to 40, and
Abilene humbled Hayden of Topeka,
12 to 34.
Tonight's Schedule:
7:30 p.m. Russell vs. Norton
8:45 p.m. Abilene vs. Hugoton
Four staunch contenders with struggle in the semi-finals tonight of the Class B competition at Hutchinson.
The Schedule:
Marvin Andrews of Formoso banged the basket for 29 points to give Formoso a 44 to 33 decision over Oxford in the quarterfinals last night.
7:30 p.m. Stockton vs. Carbondale
8:45 p.m. Forterson vs. Sedwick
Sedgwick humbled a powerful Overbrock team, 47 to 42; Carbon-dale advanced with an upset over Sylvia, 54 to 49, and Stockton stepped up by eliminating Cedar Vale, 40 to 38.
KU's 'Cinderella Kids' Leave For Chicago Track Meet
Those Cinderella kids who compose K.U.'s mile relay team will run for another major stake Saturday night when they go to the post in the Chicago Daily News Relays in the Windy City.
Their opposition will be Illinois' Big Ten indoor champions, Oklahoma A. & M., and Drake, winner of the Central Collegiate conference indoor crown.
Bill Easton's quartet won the right to compete in this "relay of champions" by copping the Big Seven indoor title in a major surprise two weeks ago in Kansas City. The Jayhawkers, with three men running their first mile relay in league competition beat off three favored clubs in the creditable time of 32:42.
Top-rated Oklahoma, which represented the Big Seven in the stadium last year, was kayed by injury when Charlie Coleman, its No 3 carrier, was felled by a pulled muscle. Kansas had clung to the Sooners' heels through the first two legs and thus marked its time with no pressure through the final two carries.
Jayhawk personnel includes Capt. Emil Schutzel, leadoff; Rollie Cain, No. 2; Don Smith, No. 3, and Jim Hershberger, anchor, Cain, a transfer from Coffeyville junior college, did not even qualify in two open races, the quarter and half, at the conference derby, and was running the mile relay for the first time in competition this winter when he stepped on the spruce planks in Kansas City's municipal auditorium. He turned in the best individual time of the foursome at 504.4.
Smith, Belle Plaine sophomore, who is a spinner and hurdler, turned in a 50.7 in his first mile relay competition of the winter. Hersberger had not placed in the 440 in a single dual meet all season.
This gang caught the fever and
turned in a time that ranks fifth among winning indoor relay times on the league's all-time books. OU.'s 1950 Sugar Bowl kings ran only five-tenths of a second faster in capturing the crown last season.
Illinois' foursome of Wayne Nast, Hunter Gilbertson, Roger Swank, and Cirilo McSween, blazed 3:21.3 last Saturday at Champaigne to bag the Big Ten crown. McSween also won the open quarter in 48.8.
Drake ran 3:22.0 at South Bend with a team of Ray Eiland, Jim Ford, Jack Kelley, and Jim Lavery. The Bulldogs' big Canadian anchorman ranks as one of the midlands' finest quarterilers.
Oklahoma A. & M.'s 1950 Missouri Valley champions smoked 3:17:6 in finishing third at the Sugar Bowl last January 1 minus their regular anchorman, Billy Gilchrist. The latter will combine with two other veterans, Ralph Taylor and Bob Brandeberry, and a sophomore, Eddie Terrenova, to complete Coach Ralph Higgins' club for the Chicago games.
These times may not be quite as fearsome for the Kansans as they seem. The Hawkers posted their title over a 146-yard board track while Illinois and Drake were winning on 220-yard saucers and A. & M. was running the full 440 yards outdoors.
Pat Bowers, K.U.'s great half-miler, will miss the affair because of a recent attack of flu. The raven-haired Chicagoan, now a graduate student in commercial art here, was invited to compete in the 1,000-yard field.
Yank Rookie Mickey Mantle Groomed As Joe DiMaggio's Eventual Successor
Phoenix, Ariz. (U.P.)-Wide-eyed Mickey Mantle—the kid sensation being groomed as Joe DiMaggio's eventual successor—made it plain today he isn't ready yet for the big leagues.
"I won't make it this year," he said as he sat by himself in a corner of the New York Yankees' dressing room.
Manager Casey Stengel doesn't agree with the 19-year-old phenom, however.
"That kid Mantle is one of the greatest natural ball players I've ever seen." Stengel insists, "and he has a good chance to stay up with us."
Mantle is taking his lumps, literally, in his switch to the outfield. The youthful Oklahoman still nursed a bruise over his left eye where he was struck by a fly ball from the bat of Ray Boone in the Yankees' exhibition game against the Cleveland Indians last Sunday.
Linville Moved To Halfback Spot In Spring Drills
"Joe DiMaggio will be a hard man to follow," the shy, soft - spoken
looms all the more important because of DiMaggio's announced intention of quitting after the 1951 campaign.
If the husky, blond backwoods youngster does make it, he will have completed the rare baseball jump from Class C to the majors.
Most interesting experiment on K.U.'s early spring football card will be the trial of Aubrey Linville, Salina co-captain-elect, at offensive halfback.
By DON PIERCE
Two other defensive backfield regulars, Linebacker Bill Mace, and Halfback Fox Cashell, are gone, the latter having enlisted in the Marines. Galen Fiss, Johnson fullback, and Jack Luschen, Mission guard, saw considerable action as linebackers last season, and also are in the picture.
Until now, he was a shortstop. Currently, however, he is being used in the outfield and the conversion
Hal Cleawinger, Manhattan junior, will be back at right half and is expected to improve on a creditable sophomore performance.
A two-lettered end in his first two seasons with the Jawhawkers, the lean speedster moved into prominence late last year at defensive safety. He started the final three games at this post turning an auspicious debut against Oklahoma when he hung up 24 tackle assists plus one singleton and a pass interception in the furious 13 to 33 loss to the Sooners here.
Now with a capable crop of ends upcoming and a shortage of backs, Bossman J. V. Sikes hopes to strengthen his squad by re- casting Linville. The deft wingman always has been a swift, slashing runner as a pass catcher and Sikes hones that he can improve enough on these qualities to plug the thin secondary ranks. Of course, he will continue at safety also.
Sikes, and his expanded staff, will greet a herd of 77 candidates in Mondays opening practice.
Signing of Dan Edwards, former Georgia all-American, brings the Jayhawker coaching corps to eleven men this spring. Edwards, an All-Pro selection last season with the New York Yankees, played under Sikes when the latter was tutoring wings at Athens.
Jack Konek, rugged California, Pa., product, a top all-around back of last year's freshman club, figures prominently in defensive plans also.
Playing behind Bill Schaake, the Hawkers' other co-captain for 1951, Linville flagged four passes last season for 104 yards. Playing more frequently on attack as a sophomore in 1949, he nailed 17 toses for 276 yards, good enough for sixth among Big Seven receivers, while scoring two touchdowns.
He will also act as the cornerstone in a revamping of Jayhawks' secondary defense, which was a sore spot through most of 1950. Center Merlin Gish, who led the club with 81 assists and 36 unassisted tackles last season, is returning at defensive center, and also figures to hold his job.
Edwards and Dick Tomlinson, former Hawker all-league guard and a professional with Pittsburgh last season, plus John Amberg and Mike McCormack, last year's co-captains, will serve only through the spring.
NAIB Tourney Into Semi-Finals
Sikes' regular staff includes Pop Werner, line coach; Cliff Kimsey, backfield coach; Wayne Replogle, end coach; Don Fambrough, assistant coach; Dean Nesmith, trainer; Mike Getto, assistant coach; Hub Ulrich, assistant, and Otto Schnellbacher, assistant.
Mantle observed, with a suggestion of hero worship.
"I have so much to learn," he added, looking at the floor to cover up his self-consciousness.
"I was much of a shortstop the past two years. I made 50 errors with Joplin last season, probably more than anybody else in the league. There were a lotta times I just couldn't do anything right."
Getto and Schnellbacher are part-time aides, the former serving only in the Fall. Ulrich doubles as head baseball coach and thus will not be available for spring practice.
Kansas City (U.P.)—Regis College of Denver, darkhorse entry which upset top-seeded Evansville, Ind., college last night, will be out to repeat the trick, against highly-regarded James Millikin university of Decatur, Ill., tonight in the semi-finals of the N.A.I.B. tournament.
Hamline university of St. Paul only team with two N.A.I.B. championships under its belt, plays Baldwin-Wallace tonight in the first semi-final contest.
The Denver quintet pulled the biggest upset of the 13th annual tourney last night by shading Evansville, 70 to 63. Millikin advanced by dumping Florida State university of Tallahassee, 91 to 60.
In other quarterfinal play, Baldwin-Wallace of Berea, Ohio, outspotted Memphis, Tenn., State college, 50 to 67, and Hamline took over her favorite's role by downing New Mexico A. and M. 80 to 56.
Regis, paced by sharpshooting Dick Petry, ran up a 36-22 halftime lead and managed to hold back a resurging Evansville five in the last half.
Hamline got off to an early 24-7 lead over the Aggies, and coasted to an easy win.
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