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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1951
DiMaggio Expects To Play 3 More Years For Yanks
New York (U.P.)—Joe DiMaggio has three seasons left with the New York Yankees if, as some suspect, he is operating on the same time-table used by Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.
The Bambino and Larruping Lou each put in 15 full seasons with the Yankees, and DiMaggio has still three to go to equal their span.
On paper, DiMaggio has been a member of the Yankees 15 years but on the field he only can show 12 campaign marks because of three years' service in the U. S. Air Corps.
As of the moment, the poker-faced, 36-year-old outfielder has played in 1,620 games for the Bronx bombers; considerably less than the 2,164 games in which Gehrig played for the Yankees or the 2,084 contests in which Ruth wore a Yankee uniform.
The only man in the American league today with a higher lifetime mark than D!Maggio is Ted Williams of the Red Sox, who sports a flashy .350 percentage.
In the matter of life-time batting averages, DiMaggio is 13 points behind the Babe and only 11 in back of Gehrig. Jolting Joe has a .329 life-time mark as compared with Ruth's .342 and Gehrig's .340.
"Why should I?" he generally snaps.
Why should he, indeed? Even with a bothersome assortment of aches, pains and piques he still managed to play 139 games last year, hit a creditable .301, drove in 122 runs and walloped 32 homers.
DiMaggio, himself, always manifests irritable impatience whenever he is questioned about when he plans to quit.
True, he failed to steal a single base but the fans didn't come out to watch him burn up the base-paths.
Another important item that keeps DiMaggio in harness is that $100,000 or thereabouts salary he draws. Few men can quit or even remotely think of it when they're that far ahead.
The Yankee outfielder has confided to friends that he would like to keep playing as long as possible. Publicly, he says he'll keep going as long as he can help the club.
Manager Casey Stengel says DiMaggio can write his own ticket as long as he is piloting the club.
State Prep Tourneys Open
Forty-eight Kansas high school basketball teams will inaugurate the 1951 state championship tournaments in three classes today.
Top squads of the state will battle for the Class AA honors at Emporia with Wichita East and Newton ranking as co-favorites.
At Salina, the Class A clubs will go after the crown last won by Larned, a team which failed to qualify for the big event this season. Thirteen regional winners and three invited teams comprised the Class A field, which included four former titleholders—Augusta, Russell, Anthony and Hays.
The Class B tournament was booked in Hutchinson with Stockton and Formoso heavily backed in the well-balanced field. Downs, B winner a year ago, was not among the contestants.
Salina's maroons were defending champions in the Class AA Field at Emporia and five other former state champions were in the brackets. They included Newton, Emporia, Winfield, Topeka and Ward of Kansas City, Kan.
Newton, winner of 10 state championships, entered the competition with a season record of 19-3. It was topped only by Wichita East, which won 22 and lost three in the regular season. The two favorites met twice in the campaign and each won on the home court.
A newcomer to the "AA" field was Altamont, elevated to that class only last fall but successful in its first year of "big time" competition in reaching the state tournament.
NAIB Tourney Into 2nd Round
Kansas City (U.P.)—Ranks of the favorites remained intact today as top-seeded Evansville, Ind., college led the way into the second round of the N.A.I.B. tournament, but competition was stiffening.
Evansville and Hamine university of St. Paul, Minn., turned in impressive first-round victories yesterday, but third-seeded Baldwin-Wallace of Berea, O., barely squeezed by American university of Washington, D.C.
A capacity crowd of 10,000 was expected to watch today's full schedule of eight second-round contests.
Regis college of Denver meets Southwest Texas State in the first game.
This afternoon, Memphis (Tenn.)
State college takes on Hastings,
Neb., college; George Peppardine
university of Los Angeles battles
Florida State of Tallahassee, and
James Millikin university of Decatur,
Ill. clashes with East Texas
Baptist college of Marshall.
Games tonight find Arkansas Polytechnic of Russellville taking on Hamline; Baldwin - Wallace meeting Ottawa (Kan.) university; New Mexico A&M playing Central college of Fayette, Mo., and Morningside college of Sioux City, Iowa, battling Evansville.
Pepperdine stamped itself as a contender for the championship by crushing Eau Claire, Wis., State Teachers, 86 to 53, in Tuesday's first-round play.
Hamline easily outpointed Rocky Mountain college, Billings, Mont., 82 to 57. Central barely survived with a 68-66 squeak victory over tough Southeastern Louisiana college of Hammond. Evansville convinced the doubtful with an 85 to 74 win over Westminster college of New Wilmington, Pa.
Baldwin-Wallace advanced by the margin of a missed free throw as it shaded American university, 67 to 66, in another afternoon game. Morningside defeated Providence, R.I., college 66 to 63, East Texas Baptist eliminated High Point, N.C., college, 67 to 64.
Hastings looked impressive with a 71 to 51 victory over Pacific Lutheran college of Parkland, Wash.
Tuesday's College Basketball Results
EAST
New York (quarter-finals)
Seton Hall 71, N. Carolina St. 59
Dayton 74, Arizona 68
National College (universi
c)
National invitation tournament at New York (quarterfinals).
National Catholic tournament at Albany, N.Y.
Albany, N.Y.
St. Francis (N.Y.) 74, Springhill 65
Iona 54, St. Mary's 52
Lemoyne 95, St. Michael's 67
Mt. St. Mary's 91, St. Norbert's 59
Northeastern institution tourna-
ce
ment at Medford, Mass. Rhode Island State 77, Williams 68 Trinity 76, Tufts 71
SOUTH
Kentucky 97, Loyola (Chi) 61
SOUTHWEST
Texas A&M 33, Texas 32
MIDWEST
N. A.I.B. tournament at Kansas City, Mo. (first round)
RHY. MB. (first point)
Bryce Baptist, 7, High Point 64
Morningside, 8, Prince Campus 63
Baldwin Wallace 67, Amer. U. 66
Hastings 71, Pacific Lutheran 15
Pepperdeer 86, Eau Clair Tchrs 53
Hamline 82, Rocky Mt. Col. 57
Central 68, So'west, Louisiana 66
Evansville 85, Westminster 74
Chandler Offered NBC Baseball Job
Wichita, Kan. (U.P.)—Officials of the National Baseball Congress said today that A. B. "Happy" Chandler has a baseball job with their organization if he cares to accept their offer.
Raymond Dumont, president, said the Commissioner had gone out of his way to help sandlot baseball and announced that the Commissioner can have a "good-will ambassador" job if he wants it.
Dumont hopes Chandler will officially open tournaments in other nations, such as Japan, Hawaii, Alaska, Canada, Central and South America, where the N.B.C. has affiliations. He added that Chandler also would appear at the opening of each of the 48 state championship tournaments in the United States during July and August, either in 1951 or 1952.
"Chandler loves baseball and he sincerely had his heart in it—from the youngsters to the Major Leaguers." Dumont said. "If he desires to remain in the game, we're ready immediately to create the position for him. Chandler has the public
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