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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1950
Last February, a group of Kansas university students slipped into Manhattan on the eve of the K-State-K.U. basketball battle and "catnapped" Touchdown IV, the Aggies' wildcat mascot.
By RAY SOLDAN Daily Kansan Sports Editor
At that time the K.U. student council intervened and the wildcat was returned to its up-the-Kaw home.
This September, two K.U. students "stole" Rich Young, a basketball star on Salina High's 1950 Kansas state champions, from Kansas State's grasps and brought him to Lawrence.
The K.U. student council had its first meeting of the new semester Tuesday but Rich wasn't returned to K-State.
Young overaged nearly 14 points a game in pacing the Salina Maroons last winter. His heads-up, ball-hawking type of play earned him first team berths on the All-State and All-League selections. During Young's two years as a starter, Salina won 46 of 50 games.
Rich's play against the stiffest competition—he scored 21 points against Newton in the state finals and 21 against the Missouri all-stars at Springfield, Mo., impressed Jack Gardner, the K-State basketball coach, and F. C. "Phog" Allen, Jayhawker mentor.
When it came time for rush week activities to begin at the state schools, Young was still "undecided" on which one to attend. Rich had said in August that he would enroll at K-State, so Gardner was satisfied that he had him.
Then the K.U. boys—Marty Pankratz, College sophomore, and Bob Shaw, business senior—came into the picture. They were leaving Salina for Lawrence so they generously offered Young a ride—to Manhattan. One story has it that when they got to Manhattan, the car wouldn't seem to stop. They did somehow get it stopped in Lawrence though.
Young-feeling obligated to Gardner-called him from Lawrence and explained that there he was in Lawrence and what should he do. "Get on the bus, boy, and come on over," offered Gardner.
Before he could consult the bus schedules, his Jayhawker mates had him pledged to Phi Kappa Psi social fraternity and had him enrolled in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
The loss of Young was a bitter blow to Gardner. Earlier in the spring, the Wildcat coach had listed five graduating high school stars saying that if they would enroll at K-State he would be "pretty well set" for the next couple of years. One of the players—Jess Priskock of Emporia—is in Gardner's fold. The other four are all enrolled in K.U.-Young of Salina, Wes Johnson of Newton, Bob Godwin of Beloit, and B. H. Born of Medicine Lodge.
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The inevitable was just around the corner for the only remaining mathematical contenders, the Tigers and Dodgers. They are just about certain to bow out in the next 24 or 48 hours but they still managed to hang on, because the leaders were faltering.
New York, Sept. 28 (U.P.)—Pennant jitters gripped the Yankees and the Phillies today and the way they were back-pedaling in the stretch it looked like a six-day bike race—in reverse.
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The Phils blew both of their games to the Giants at New York, 8 to 7 and 5 to 0, when they could have clinched at least a pennant tie by splitting since Brooklyn lost a 4 to decision to the Braves after winning the opener at Ebbets field,
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9 to 6. The magic number is two for the Phillies now, which means they can clinch a tie by winning one of their four remaining games, and clinch it outright by winning two.
At Boston the Washington Senators did the final embalming on the Red Sox, defeating them 2 to 0 and 6 to 3 to eliminate them entirely from the flag race as first rookie Conrado Marrero and then lefty Gene Bearden turned in top-flight pitching jobs.
Johnny Groth's triple and Hoot Evers' outfield飞 gave the Tigers their winning run in the 10th after Art Houtteman, trying for his 20th victory, blew a 4 to 2 lead in the ninth. Hal White came out of the bulpen to get the third out after two doubles and a single routed Houtteman.
Bob Elliott's grand slam homer gave Johnny Sain his 20th victory in the second game at Brooklyn but the Brayes were outslugged in the opener in which Gil Hodges hit a three-run Dodger home. Roy Campanella also homered for Brooklyn and Duke Torgerson and Warren Spahn homered for the Braves.
In the other major league games, the Pirates beat the Cubs, 7 to 4 as Ralph Kiner hit his 47th home run. The Cleveland Indians beat the White Sox, 7 to 0, as Bob Feller won his 16th game of the season and the 208th of his career and Harry Brecheen pitched the Cardinals to a 1 to 0 victory over the Reds and Willie Ramsdell. The Kluszewski's first-inning error led to an unearned run which decided the pitching duel.
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