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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, MAY 23, 1949
Kansas Into Big 7 Baseball Lead Gilman, Moffett Hurl 5 Hitters
The onrushing Kansas Jayhawks pushed in front in the tight Big Seven baseball race by sweeping a two game series from Colorado 4 to 3 and 7 to 2 here Friday and Saturday.
Dick Gilman and Charley Moffett hurled five-hitters at the Buffaloos as Coach Bill "Red" Hogan's club ran its winning streak in conference games to seven straight. Gilman allowed one earned run and Moffett none. By winning one game of a two-game series with K-State at Manhattan today and tomorrow, Kansas
By winning one game of a two would force Iowa State to win three of four games against Nebraska at Lincoln and Colorado at Boulder this week. If K.U. wins twice, the Cyclones would have to sweep all four, Oklahoma can win the title only if K.U. and Iowa State both lose twice. The other four teams are now out of the running.
The Jayhawkers ran Colorado wild on the birds, stealing five bases
Fig Seven Baseball Standings:
W L PC1
Kansas 10 6 .625
Iowa State 6 4 .600
Oklahoma 7 5 .583
Nebraska 7 8 .467
Kansas State 5 7 .417
Missouri 4 6 .400
Colorado 2 5 .236
in the first game and 11 in the second Coach Hogan revamped the batting order before the second Oklahoma game, concentrating the base-running speed. Bud French is now hitting second instead of third, Lou DeLuna went from second to fifth, and Dick Bertuzzi was moved up to third.
Colorado was shut out completely during the first seven innings of the first game as Gillman racked up his eight straight league win. He walked one and struck out seven. In the first seven innings, only three men reached base. One was thrown out stealing by catcher Ken Morrow and the other two were erased on double plays. Carl Ellis made a leaping catch of Dick Cowden's drive and doubled Gene Rogers off second for the top fielding play in the fourth. Bill Fanning went the distance for Colorado.
KU. jumped away to a 3 to 0 lead in the first inning, Bertuzzi got on by an error and Ellis walked. DeLuna slammed a single to score both men and Temple drove in DeLuna. Bertuzzi blasted a terrific line drive over left fielder Hug Graham's head for a home run in the third. A walk, stolen base and single accounted for Colorado's first run in the eight. They cut the lead down on two errors and a single in the ninth, but Guy Mabry took Bill Ley's fly to right with the tieing run on third to end it.
Moffett won his second victory with no losses in conference play, walking six and striking out six. Both Colorado runs came without a hit in the first inning. An error, walk and wild pitch resulted in the Buffs' 2 to 0 lead.
But the Jayhawkers came back to collect nine hits, eight of them in the first four innings off Joe Nix, while Moffett subdued the Buffers the rest of the way. Carl Ellis and Dick Bertuzzi led the attack. Ellis clouted a triple and two singles, batted in three runs, and stole two bases. Bertuzzi also had a triple and two singles, besides stealing three bases. Mabry walked all four times up and stole three bases, and Ken Morrow collected a pair of singles.
Ellis drove in Cavanaugh in the first and Mabry scored on Morrow's single to tie it up in the second. The Jayhawks took the lead to stay in the third as Bertuzzi led off with a single and Ellis followed with a 360-foot triple to right center. DeLuna walked and stole second. Floyd Temple hit a long fly to center, scoring Ellis and DeLuna scored on a wild pitch. Ellis drove in Bertuzii in the fourth and Mabry scored on an error in the fifth. The score by innings:
First game:
RHE
R HE
Colorado ... 000 000 012-3 5 1
Kansas ... 301 000 0x4-7 3
Batteries: Fanning and Cox: Gil-
batteries; Fanning and Cox; Gman and Morrow
Second game:
Colorado 200 000 000-2 5 1
Kansas 113 110 010-7 9 3
Batteries: Nix, Manie and Cox;
Moffett and Morrow
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Major Leaguers Bear Down; Raffensberger Allows 1 Hit
Ner York, May 23.—U.(P.)—Lefty Ken Raffensberger of Cincinnati ordi narily is as nice a gent as you could want to encounter, but it may be just as well if he never meets Gil Hodges, Marty Marion, or Nippy Jones in a dark alley late one night.
They're fine fellows, too, but loot Just knocked him out of three no-hit, no-run victories—that's all. They did it with a total of just three dinky singles, all in the past two seasons.
They're fine fellows, too, but look what they've done to Raffensberger: of three no
Hodges of Brooklyn was the latest to break Ken's heart when he singled with none out in the eighth yesterday as Cincinnati scored a 2 to 0 victory, the third in bleacher, 3 to 0, for the Dodgers' 19th straight victory in Crosley Field.
The Dodgers got fine pitching in the opener from raw rookie Don Newcombe, a big Negro from Monaco. The Cubs scored in his big league starting debut.
Last year, the 31-year-old Rafenberger one-hitted the Cardinals
LEAGUE STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE
W. L. PGCUB
New York 10 12 613
Boston 10 12 531
Phoenix 10 12 531 $2\frac{1}{2}$
Cincinnati 10 15 616
Philadelphia 15 15 000 $2\frac{1}{2}$
Pittsburgh 15 14 438 $5\frac{1}{2}$
St. Louis 12 17 414 $6$
Chicago 10 18 357 $7\frac{1}{2}$
W.L. Pct. GB
New York 19 10 .655 ...
Philadelphia 19 14 .576 2
Detroit 16 15 .516 4
Chicago 16 15 .516 4
Washington 17 16 .515 4
Boston 14 14 .500 4½
Cleveland 11 15 .423 6½
St. Louis 9 22 .290 11
twice as first Jones, then Marion were "spoilers." Sunday the stands were hushed as Hodges smacked a clean single, then died on first as Raffensberger retired the last six battles in succession.
He gave up only two walks in the fourth and in the fifth, one of these men being erased in a double play. Joe Hatten gave up only four hits in defeat, one a homer by Hank Sauer. In the opener, Newcombe, who did not walk a man, settled down after giving up two singles with none out in the first inning, yielding only three more singles the rest of the way.
The Braves pulled back into a first place tie by defeating the Cubs, 7 to 2, at Chicago on the nine-hit pitching of Johnny Sain, who yielded only one earned run, a homer by relief pitcher Cal McLish, as he scored his fourth victory.
Stan Musial's three-run homer gave the Cardinals a 3 to 2 victory over the Giants at St. Louis as Jerry Staley pitched five scoreless relief innings, but New York bounced back to win the second game, 13 to 4. Walker Cooper hit a home run for the Giants while Larry Jansen took it easy and served up 16 hits, bearing down only occasionally in winning his fourth game.
In a battle of homers, a pinch double by Dick Sisler was the payoff hit, driving in the winning run in a 6 to 5 victory for the Phillies at Pittsburgh. The Phils took a 5 to 1 lead on two homers by Eddie Miller and one by Gran Hammer but the Pirates beat back and tied it up as Danny Murtaugh and Ralph Kiner homered and Marv Rackley singled in the equalizing run. Robin Roberts won his fourth game though giving up 13 hits. The second game was rained out.
Mel Parnell won his own game in the 12th innning when he singled home the winning run in a 3 to 2 Red Sox victory over Detroit in Boston. Parnell, who has completed every game he has started this season, registered his sixth victory against one defeat in a rousing duel with Virgil Trucks. Trucks was hampered by wildness, giving up 11 walks.
The thletics twice defeated the skidding world champion Indians, 5 to 4 and 7 to 3, behind Lefty Pitchers Alex Kellner, who won his fifth game, and Lou Brissie, who won his fourth. Pete Suder's double scored the winning run in the opener and a four-run first inning rally put Philadelphia ahead to stay in the second game, cut to seven innings because of the curfew law. The A's.
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KU Fourth In Big 7 Golf
Dick Ashley, University of Kansas golfer, fired a 72-77 at Nebraska Friday and Saturday to take medalist honors in the Big Seven golf meet. He finished one stroke ahead of Lowry Henley and James McKinney of Missouri and Don Spohmer of Nebraska.
A field of 35 golfers, five from each school competed in the two day tournament which was held on the Lincoln country club course. The Missouri Tigers won the four man team championship with a score of 603. Oklahoma was second with 626 and Iowa State third with 631. The Jayhawkers came in fourth only eight strokes out of second place with a score of 632.
After a good day Friday, rain and wind caused the scores to soar into the high 70's and low 80's on the second day.
Dave Dennis was second lowest man for the Jayhawkers with rounds of 76-80, and Murray Regier had a 36 hole total of 160. Glen Scott and Don Stickrod, the other two Kansas entries had scores of 167 and 172 respectively.
Phi Gam's To Semi Finals
Pitcher Shelby Smith twirled a 2 hitter as Phi Gamma Delta mauled Alpha Kappa Lambda 11 to 0 to go into the fraternity "A" semi-finals Friday.
Scoring 5 runs in both the first and second innings, the Phi Gam got the game away early. Jim Sallee, Phi Gam outfielder, slammed out 3 hits to pace the 11 hit Phi Gam attack.
Walt Cowell was the losing pitcher for AKL
Walt Cowen was the losing pitcher. Behind the 4 hit pitching of star hurler Fletter Bell, unbeaten Sig Ep drubbed the Betas 5 to 1 Friday to advance into the fraternity "A" finals. Big Lee Garich, Sig Ep catcher, blasted out 2 doubles to pace the 8 hit Sig Ep attack.
The Sig Eps scored in the second as Garich doubled in Bob McNeive, and later scored on a long fly ball.
Pitcher Bill Conboy, Beta, held the hard hitting Eps in check until the fifth. In the big fifth Baker and Fink bunted. Garich lashed a double to left to drive in 2 runs. Garich later scored on Herb Mesigh's long double to center.
The only Beta run came in the sixth when Nelson bunted, stole second, and later scored on a fielders choice.
The well-played contest was witnessed by about 350 fans, one of the largest crowds of the season to watch an intramural softball game.
Alpha Chi Sigma, professional chemical fraternity, defeated Batten $ ^{2} $ feld hall Friday afternoon to advance to the ssmi-final round of the softball playoffs. The final score was 6 to 4.
It was Battenfeld's second loss of the season. They had previously been defeated by Oread hall. Harold Ehrlich pitched for the Battenfeld nine.
The unbeaten Jim Beam team defeated YMCA in the opening round of the softball playoffs Friday 7 to 4. Jim Beam will meet the Alpha Sigma team in the semi-finals Sunday afternoon.
The Jim Beam team played a flawless game committing no errors. Ernie McCrane was the winning pitcher.
getting a better grip on second place, now have w won eight of their last nine games. Eddie Joost and Ferris Fain his Philadelphia homers and
Larry Doby and Mickey Vernon homered for Cleveland.
The Yankees and Browns' doubleheader was rained out in New York
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