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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE KANSAS
FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1849
Kappa Sigs Top Sig Alphs To Win 'A' Volleyball Title
Kappa Sigma, fraternity "A" league volleyball champion, sat back confidently today, considered a virtual shoo-in victor in the Independent-Fraternity inter-league playoff game which is slated to be played sometime next week.
Sigs rambled over Sig Alph in two straight matches before
The Kappa Sigs rambled over She an estimated crowd of 200 in Rob- $ \textcircled{8} $ inson gym to cop the fraternity crown.
Smooth teamwork again pointed to victory for the Kappa Sig's, who are unbeaten in seven appearances this season. Sharp on spike defense and even sharper on set-ups to 6-feet, 4-ichr Roy Shoaf and Maurice Martin, the new champions never got intd serious trouble.
The murderous spikes of Shofar, an A.A.U. volleyball player in 1948 and one-time Big Six tennis champion, and also those of Martin kept the heretofore unconquered Sig Alphs in hot water throughout both matches. The Kappa Sig's rolled up a 15 to 5 score in the opening match and then fired back with a 15 to 13 victory to win the second game.
Phi Delta Theta andDelta Tau Delta meet at 7 o'clock tonight in Robinson gym in the fraternity "B" championship game. The Little Saints, spurred on by spikers Max Matthews and Ed Barlow copped the Independent "B" championship. The inter-league game will be played next week.
The Delts moved into the "B" semi-finals by knocking off Kappa Sigma in the rubber match of a best-two-out-of-three series. The Delts took the first match 15 to 11, then lost the second game 15 to 6, but came back to win the final match 15 to 10. Phil Delti, the other fraternity "B" finalist, whipped Sig Alph two matches to one Wednesday.
Bill "Jug" Winslow was the Delt standout, hot on defense and serving as the chief Delt bait slammer. Foot-baller Bob Drumm and Jack Parker kept the Kappa Sig's in the game with neat spike work.
The Shysters came from behind to spill Pegis club and advance into an independent "C" final with Beta Theta Pi. After dropping an opening tilt 15 to -5 the Shysters jumped into action, downing Pegis club 15 to 7 in each of the last two matches. The Beta-Shyster game will be played in Robinson gym tonight at 9 o'clock.
Phi Gamma Delta "C" team, playing in the independent "A" division, avenged a pre-tournament loss by thumping Oread hall in two matches. The Phi Gam's, led by Gordon Stucker, won the first match 15 to 9 and the second 15 to 11. The Phi Gams meet the Airscrews in the Independent "A" finals tonight at 8 o'clock.
Balanced diets and blood tests recommended by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to produce healthier trout for stream stocking have been adopted at West Virginia's state hatcheries.
Leo Durocher In Bad Again
New York, April 1—(U.P.) The first major league manager to be on the spot in 1949 is Lippy Leo Durocher of the New York Giants.
Actually, he was put on that spot last July when he switched from the Dodgers to the Giants. He was brought to the Polo grounds with only one thought in mind—to make a pennant winner of a club which owner Horace Stoneham is convinced has championship possibilities.
Mel Ott couldn't bring them out so, despite the hatred which Durocher had built up at the Polo grounds during his years with the Doggers, Stoneham decided to bring him across the river.
It was quite a shock to Giant followers and they will stand for it only if Durocher comes through. The odds are against it.
For Durocher inherited a comparatively old club that is slow and lacks the fire and pepero which marked his Dodger clubs. It is a team with the most potential power in the league, and perhaps the worst pitching.
That pitching is Durocher's big worry was made plain when the Giants shipped $50,000 to the Dodgers for Hank Behrman, a baseball "bad boy" whose outside activities have kept him from cashing in on his promise. The only good year he enjoyed in the majors was under Durocher and it probably was with that thought in mind that Leo got Stoneham to take a chance on the speed ball right hand.
Durocher is figuring on Behrman as a starter to go along with Larry Jansen, the ace of the staff Sheldon Jones, Montia Kennedy, Dave Koslo, Andy Hansen and Cliff Hartung. That leaves Ray Poat, rookie Sam Webb and Bill Ayers for second line duty.
For hitting power Durocher is looking to Johnny Mize at first, Sid Gordon at third; Willard Marshall, Whitey Lockman and Bobby Thomson in the outfield, and big Walker Cooper behind the plate. It could well form the murderer's row of 1949.
But the array does lack fielding finesse and, as a whole, speed. That takes something away from the batting power.
Rounding out the infield will be Bill Rigney at second and Buddy Kerr at shortstop. For infield utility duty luck Jack Lohrke and Joe Lafata, who also can play the outfield, have the inside track while
'Phog'Says Higher Baskets Sure As 'Death And Taxes'
Dr. F. C. (Phog) Allen basketball coach at Kansas University whose prognostications have been both uncannily accurate and sadly off-the-beam in his long hardwood career, had predicted today the advent of a higher basket "as sure as death and taxes" in the American court game.
1. Blasted the national rules committee for "playing into the hands of powerful monopolies and trusts" by adopting the molded ball over the leather stitched ball:
In a statement released late Thursday, the Kansas mentor also:
2. Claimed authorship of a newly adopted rule that stipulates when a player is fouled in the last two minutes of play that he not only will be given a free throw, but his team will retain possession of the ball; and
3. Charged elimination of the rotating center jump 10 years ago had created "our present, hectic game of hockey-ized basketball." Concerning the higher basket, the imitable Phog said, "Every team of championship caliber has a dominantly tall player whom they use for a listening post under the basket."
He claimed he had mentioned a 12-foot basket years ago as a method of evening up this extra advantage gained from the tall player's altitude.
"We will continue to have taller and taller boys," he said, "because as soon as a grade school coach, a junior high coach and a high school coach views this vitamin-taking human bean-pole, they immediately encourage the youngsters to try his luck with a basketball. By the time the boy reaches college, he has had an eight or 10-year education in footwork and ball control around the basket.
"That's why the higher basket is coming, as sure as death and taxes."
Kansas Signs New Pact With Horned Frogs
Kansas and TCU, now in the midst of a closely-fought football rivalry, have signed a new home and home contract extending through 1952, it was disclosed here Friday by Javawk Athletic Director E. C. Quigley.
The new pact will carry KU to Fort Worth September 22, 1951, for a night game and bring the Horned Frogs on September 20, 1952, for an afternoon affair. It will mark the Jayhawk's first appearance in the Texas city since 1942 when TCU took a 41 to 6 victory in the season's opener.
The series between the two schools is now six years old with the Purple owning four wins against two scoreless ties. Kansas scored a near miss here last year before going down, 13-14.
The present contract between the two schools extends through 1950 with both games to be played in Lawrence.
Daily Double Back At Jamaica Track
New York, April 1—(U.P.) The daily double returned to New York today as the 1949 racing season got under way at Jamaica.
The 40th running of the $25,000 Paumonok handicap, traditional curtain raiser, headed the first of 196 racing days but the metropolitan fans concentrated their attention on 15 high class selling platers entered in the first race and on 10 two-year-old maiden fillies the second.
These two races decide the first daily double payoff since the close of the 1945 season. The New York track owners were rolling in wealth then and didn't need the poor man's panacea for a severe case of "the shorts" to boister betting totals. So they eliminated the double.
Upwards of 35,000 racing fans were expected at the Long Island oval today to watch 15 thoroughbreds vie at six furlongs in the Paunonkom. They were expected to all but empty the 77 daily double racks, each containing 14,400 tickets, before turning their attention to the feature.
for the reserve outfield berth Don Mueller, a rookie who hit .358 in 36 games for the Giants late last season, was the leading candidate.
Mickey Livingston, an able receiver but a weak hitter, will help Cooper with the catching.
The lanky shortstop hit his eighth home run of the spring in the fourth inning yesterday to help his team to a 7 to 6 win over the Browns at Alpine.
Cub Hits Eight Homers
San Antonio, Tex., April 1—(U.P.) The Chicago Cubs today were buzzing about their new home run threat-shortstop Roy Smalley as they came here to continue their spring series with the St. Louis Browns.
Bradenton, Fla., April 1—U.P. Johnny Sain, king-pin of the Boston Braves' pitching staff, is scheduled to work against the invading St. Louis Cardinals today.
Sain Hurls To Cards
Evans' Future Not Certain
Earl Torgeson was the star of yesterday's contest with a triple, a double and two singles as the Braves lost a 9 to 7 decision to the Yankees.
Whether Ray Evans will be back with the Pittsburg Steelers of the National professional football league again next year still remains a question today.
Dr. C. R.
Albright
Evans, an all-America back at Kansas in 1947-'48 refused to comment when approached by reporters at his home in Kansas City Thursday morning. He was hampered with injuries throughout most of the past season, his first with the Steelers.
Ed Kiely, Steeler publicity representative, visited Evans Thursday but the professional halfback termed it only as a "friendly visit. Ed just dropped in to see me," he said.
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