MONDAY, MAY 1. 1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE FIVE
KU Linemen Vie For Positions
(Editor's note: This is the first in a series of articles about the 1950 Kansas football prospects).
The Jayhawker's forward wall, going into the final week of spring practice, is manned by several players from Kansas' 1949 undefeated freshman team that should give Coach J. V. Sike's 1950 club one of K.U.'s best lines in several years.
Several of these sophomores-to-be linemen will play prominent roles in the annual intra-squad game to be played Saturday afternoon in Memorial stadium.
A recent switch of Art Spratt, 6 foot 2 inch 215-pounder, from tackle to guard, focuses the sophomore spotlight even more sharply on the Kansas interior line problems.
The graduation of Dick Tomlinson, a two-time all-Big Seven selection, and Carl Ellis, leaves both guard open to Spratt, and three more from Jack Luschen, Oliver Spencer, and George Abel. These first year men are bidding stoutly against three returning lettermen, John Idoux, Dolph Simons, and George Kennard.
Coach Sikes, and his line coach, Pop Werner, himself a former all-southern conference guard at Duke university, have hopes that Spratt will help solve some of their guard problems.
"Spratt is an improved blocker and always has been tough defensively," Coach Werner analyzes.
"Art is a fine enough athlete to learn the position, and most important of all, he owns adequate speed." Coach Sikes said when asked about the former fullback pre star at Christian Brothers high school, St. Joseph, Mo.
Two other frost. Luschen and Abel, both all-state high school linemen two years ago, are rated high in the 1950 guard position. Luschen, although a trifle light at 181, is going to be hard to keep out of action as a linebacker. He is fast, analyzes plays well, and hits like a 200-pounder when coming in to make tackles.
Along with Luschen, two more backings, center Merlin Gish and fullback Galen Fiss, should give the Jayhawkers sharp tackling. They should provide adequate and much improved line-backing that the 1949
club missed following the graduation of Dick Monroe and Frank Pattee the year before.
Another freshman, Oliver Spencer, 6 foot 2 inch 215-pound, recently suffered a knee injury to bench him for the remainder of spring drills. He had been outstanding playing guard on defense since being moved into the line from his fullback spot of last fall.
Spencer showed continued improvement from the opening spring drill and can be counted on to see plenty of defensive action next autumn if he can shake off the injury jinx. He is fast, highly inexperienced, but willing, and likes his football rough and tough.
Two more sophomores-to-be who are bidding for playing time are George Mrkonic, 6 foot $2 \frac{1}{2}$ inch 210-pound agile tackle, and Buzz Frazier, 6 foot 180-pound end.
Mrikonic, who is fast and hits hard, should take his place along side veteran co-capt. Mike McCormack, S. P. Gurnett, and Bob Talkington to give the Jayhawkers the best tackle corps in several years. He carries an added asset as a fine punter, having split the kicking chores with Charley Hoag on the past year's frisht club.
Frazier is bucking even stiffer opposition at the terminal position. The ends are two deep in returning regulars with Charles O'Neal and Orbon Tice returning for defense and Aubrey Linville, Bill Schaake, and Lyn Smith for the offense. The latter played both phases the past year and Tice may move up to that status this fall.
this rain.
However, Frazier is quick, a fine competitor, and a hard slashing tackler in breaking up end plays. He's definitely worth a spot in the 1950 K.U. future football book.
KU Golf, Tennis Teams To Meet Strong Foes
K. U. golf and tennis teams play return matches with two strong foes this week. The Washburn Ichabods are in Lawrence for matches today, and on Wednesday the Jayhawkers will meet Missouri in Columbia. Today's matches were to start at 2 p.m.
Coach Dick Richard's team lost to Washburn, 3-1 in Topeka the past week. The Ichabods are uninterested in even matches this year. Retitled in their winning streak are victories over Nebraska, Missouri, and Emporia State.
canceled Missouri defeated the K.U. tennis team, 5 to 2, in a match played April 29 on the courts near Memorial stadium. Kansas wins were in the No. 2 and No. 3 singles.
The undefeated K.U. golfers are after their third win of the season today. Coach Bill Winey's team dropped Washburn, $13\frac{1}{2}$ to $4\frac{1}{2}$, in their first meeting. Their other decision was over Nebraska. A scheduled match with Missouri's defending conference champions on April 29 was cancelled because of rain.
Bob Swartzell, the Jayhawker of No. 2 man, defeated Boyce Meyer, 6-4, 6-3, and Charles Crawford, playing in the No. 3 spot, decisioned Otis Greene, 6-3, 9-7. Swartzell and Crawford each have won three of four singles matches this season.
Hervey Maeferran, the K.U. No. 1 man, gave Bill Miller, the Missouri captain, a tough battle in bowing, 6-4, 3-6, 4-6. Miller was the number two ranking singles player in the Missouri Valley area the past season.
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Louis (Lanier 1-8)-(night)
Mabry Homers As KU Defeats Cyclones 9 to 7
Kansas won two out of three Big Seven games the past week to climb back into the championship picture. The Jayhawkers split even with the Missouri Tigers here and won from the Iowa State Cyclones, 9 to 7, in a Snowstorm Saturday at Ames. Guy Mabry homered for Coach Hogan's club in the Iowa game.
The Big Seven's leading title contenders, Nebraska and Oklahoma with 4-2 records, split a two-game series at Norman over the weekend. The Cornhuskers won Friday's game 14 to 4 behind the effective seven-hit pitching of Lin Vrbkha, sophomore righthander. Vrbkha is the conference's leading pitcher with a 3-0 record and is scheduled to meet Kansas' sophomore righthand ace, Carl Sandefur, this weekend at Lincoln.
Score by innings:  R. H. E.
Kansas ... 024 101 010---- 9 12 1
Ia. State ... 110 300 200---- 7 11 2
Batteries: Philipp, Sandefur, and
Morrow, Mace; Burgess, Luhring,
and Delbridge, Stewart.
BIG SEVEN STANDINGS All games through April 29 included
| | W. | L. | Pct. |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Colorado | 1 | 0 | 1.000 |
| Oklahoma | 4 | 2 | .667 |
| Nebraska | 4 | 2 | .667 |
| KANSAS | 2 | 2 | .500 |
| Missouri | 3 | 3 | .500 |
| Kansas State | 2 | 2 | .500 |
| Iowa State | 0 | 5 | .000 |
All Games
All Games W. L. Pct.
Colorado 7 3 .700
KANSAS 4 2 .667
Nebraska 4 2 .667
Oklahoma 8 5 .615
Kansas State 4 4 .500
Missouri 4 7 .364
Iowa State 3 33 .66
Last Week's Results Conference Games
MISSOURI 9-3, KANSAS 2-9,
KANSAS 9, IOWA STATE 7
(Second game rained out)
Nebraska 14-3, Oklahoma 4-8
Non-conference Games
Oklahoma 9, Okla. A. and M. 11
Colorado 9, Colorado College 5
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KU Four-Milers Win Triple Crown
Coach Bill Easton's four-mile relay team made Kansas track history over the week end as it ran to victory at the Drake Relays in Des Moines. The Jayhawkers became the first K.U. team to sweep the same relay title at the Texas, Kansas, and Drake Relays.
Those who thought weather at the Kansas Relays a week previous was bad because of brisk winds should have been at the Des Moines carnival. The meet was run off in an atmosphere of gloom as nearfreezing temperatures, bone-chilling wind, rain, sleet, and even snow prevailed.
Another Jayhawkner relay squad, the two-mile team, was out to win, but the Kansans fell victim to misfortune. A dropped baton early in the race put the Jayhawkers too far back to win. A third K.U. entry in the distance-medley relay was scratched by Coach Easton, and the mile relay squad failed to qualify.
Easton's two individual entries in running events, Jack Greenwood in the high hurdles and Bob Devinney in the lows, also had tough luck. Each man hit a hurdle to ruin his chances for victory.
The four-mile team of Cliff Abel, All-American Pat Bowers, Capt. Bob Karnes, and Herb Semper came through easily, with Abel giving the Jayhawkers the lead in the final lap of the initial leg, a lead they never relinquished. The Kansans' time was 17.50, the weather forcing them far above their usual record times 20 to 30 seconds below that. Second was Michigan.
The two-mile team, made up of the same personnel as the four-mile, finished out of the money. But Semper was moving into the lead on the second leg when the baton was jostled out of his grasp in a three-man shake-up.
The Jayhawkers lost 35 years in the mixup, and that was too much. Semper, Karnes, and Bowers each used too much energy trying to regain the yardage. Bowers did move
from eighth place to third in his terrific first lap on the anchor, but he lost out over the homestretch Oklahoma A. and M. won the event.
Greenwood hit the second hurdle on the sloppy track to lose out in the high sticks. William Fleming of Notre Dame, who placed third in the Kansas Relays, was the winner. Iowa's Russ Merkel, K.U. Relays champion, placed second.
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