UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1942
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Easton Plans Track Changes To Aid Relay Contestants
Bill Easton, aggressive Jayhawker track boss, has popped up with two new ideas which may result in the shattering of two long-standing Kansas relay marks on April 23 when the nationally prominent track carnival comes to town for the 24th year.
comes to town for the 24th year. Both the pole vault and discus records are in peril because of Easton's
Both the pole vault event is most recent brainstorm. Easton figures that moving the pole vault event from the west side of the stadium to the east will give participants higher marks since the switch would give them a runway 55 feet longer. The broad jump pit on the west runway probably has prevented higher marks in the past.
Easton also is thinking about moving the discus throw to the freshman football field, east of the stadium. It is now being held in the stadium. The change would enable discus throwers to toss into the wind, a distinct advantage. In the past contestants have tossed from the southeast corner of the stadium where they have been hampered by winds at their backs.
Best possibility to crack the record of 14 feet, 2 inches, set in 1939 by big Beefs Bryan of Texas, is Oklahoma's Bill Carroll who soared 14 feet, 1 inch to cop the Central College conference title in February. Bryan, one time tailback at Texas, established the mark in 1939.
But Carroll isn't the only threat to Bryan's record. Several others, two of them Big Seven performers, are seeking to do the same thing. Warren Batman, Colorado, turned in 14 feet last summer in the N.C.-A.A. gonfalon and Nebraska's Larry Kehl registered 13 feet, 11 inches to set a new conference indoor record in February.
Harry Cooper, the Minnesota ace who tied for first place with Bateman in the 1948 relays, is expected to be on hand again this year as it Tom Bennett, Wisconsin, who tied for third. Cooper and Bennett finished in a three-way first-place deadlock with Don Laz, Illinois, when they made 13 feet, 8 inches in the Big Ten meet.
Fortune Gordien, Minnesota's Olympic discus thrower, will get his final chance to crack the relay mark of 171 feet, $6\%$ inches this year. The record was established by Archie Harris, Indiana, in 1941, but Gordien, defending champion, has bettered this mark several times.
Relays Will Use New Photo Timer
The 1949 Kansas Relays will be sporting something new this year when a new Bulova photo-electric timer is unveiled here Saturday, April 23.
The device was used in the N.C. A.A. meet and final Olympic trials last year receiving wide-spread acclamation. It not only designates the order of finish through a photograph but records the time of each runner by a line drawn through a ribbon of figures along the top of the picture.
"I think it will be only a few years until the photo-electric timer is standard equipment," the Jayhawk track coach explains. "After all it is a very important piece of machinery. All races are based on accurate judging and timing. When finishes are close, especially in the sprints, it is sometimes impossible to know the correct order without a photograph. Any judge will tell you that."
The contraption will be mounted on a station wagon for the Relays and will be moved about the infield to the respective finish lines.
Easton to Discuss Relays
Bill Easton, K.U. track coach, will address members of the Kansas City, Kansas Lions club today in a lunchroom meeting at the Gould hotel. He will discuss the 1949 Kansas Relays and also show a film on last year's events.
Mayor Misses Fountain
Beaver Falls, Pa.—(U.P.)-When Beaver Falls police reported for work at the city building, they found someone had stolen a water cooler and drinking fountain outside Mayor Charles S. Medley's office.
The University of Kansas donkey baseball season opens soon and we need your nominations for players, both faculty and seniors so all donkey riders will have time to train for the game when the selections are made. P.S. We don't need any nominations for donkeys, we have plenty of those. Send nominations to the sports editor, University Daily Kansan.
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Tampa, Fla., March 29—(J.P.)—All the talk about the National League pennant race this year is to the effect it will be a seven team affair with the Cincinnati Reds on the outside looking in.
But the Reds and their manager, Lanky Bucky Walters, have other ideas.
Reds Can Win Says Walters
Not that they are entertaining any pennant hopes. But they are sure that they aren't as bad as the experts tag them.
"It all depends on pitching," Walters said. "If we get it we may surprise a lot of folks."
What Bucky actually was saying is that a lot depends on Ewell Blackwell, the string bean right hander who is recovering from the removal of a kidney. Without him the Reds are definitely second division material, and Walters is the first man to admit it. But if Blackwell comes back to his 1947 form, when he won 22 games, Bucky thinks the Reds have a fighting chance for a first division berth.
Blackwell's chances still are problematical. He is taking it easy, trying to get back to playing weight, and to work his arm into shape. Just how successful he is going to be will not be known until the season is well underway.
Youth will be the keynote of the infield with Ted Kluszewski at first, Virgil Stallcup at short and Grady Hatton at third. Second base is open at the moment with young Johnny Lane now having the inside track, but with veterans Bobby Adams and Ben Zientera ready to take over. Also in the running for a job is Jimmy Bloodworth, back for another shot at the bigtime, and Claude Corbitt, the No. 1 utility man last year.
That leaves out of the infield picture first-baseman Charlie Kress, who has looked brilliant this spring in his third major league trial. But he isn't likely to beat out the hard-hitting Kluszewski and may wind up as trading bait.
The Reds feel their outfield may be one of the best in the league with Lloyd Merriman, the bonus rookie beauty, home run hitter, Hank Sauer and Frankie Baumholtz, Danny Litwhiler and Johnny Wyrostek.
There is high hope for Harry Per-
owski, who won 22 games with
Tulsa last year, and he is going to
get a starting chance.
Without Blackwell at the start, Walters will use Howard Fox. Johnny Vandermeer, Herman Wehmeier, Kent Peterson and Ken Raffensberger as his starters with Harry Gumbert, Bud Lively and Ken Burkhart backing them up.
With Ray Meuller, the old iron man back in shape, catching should be no problem with Ray Lamanno the No. 2 man.
the all minded depend on Blackwell and that youth. It's a club that could surprise a lot of people except Walters and the other Red front office powers. They will argue day and night that the Reds aren't as bad as they have been painted, and they may have something there.
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Daffy Dodgers' Last Clown Says Goodbye
Remember the days of the Blant- ant Babe and three men on one base? And the riotous afternoon when Uncle Robbie, trying to break a hitting slump, drew straws to decide the batting order and the pitcher hit in the cleanup spot? Well, Hank should have been there then.
The Long Island nature boy is a throwback to that delightful era of colossal wackiness. On top of that, he can pitch, even though some critics contend that he goes unperturbed against great hitters because he can't remember names and even Stan Musial and Johnny Mize look like just any other batter.
New York, March 29—(U.P.)-There was undeniable proof today that it doesn't pay to be daffy with the Dodgers any more as Henry Robert Behrman, last legitimate member of Brooklyn's old order, passed over the bridge to the hated New York Giants.
hare just the off season, Branch Rickey sat in his "Cave of the Winds" and moaned about Hank's proclivity for pool rooms. The deacon actually glowed when Behrman took a job as assistant groundskeeper at Ebbets Field, turned his life upside down and started arising at 6 a.m.
With him went Brooklyn's last claim to happy idiocy. It was strict notice that the slapstick shenanigans which made the Dodgers a universal favorite, alienating fans from hometown teams in every other city, would be tolerated no longer. It also made Brooklyn just another ball club.
Then came the dawning, or one of them, and Hank didn't show. Rickey ranted about his disappearance and declared that Behrman was busted with the Dodgers. And there was no reprieve when Huckleberry Hank showed up at the Dodgers' Florida training camp.
The Dodgers needed Behrman as a relief pitcher. But they needed him even more as a problem child who upheld the rib-tickling reputation which a generation of characters had woven into legend.
Rickey, infuriated by such goings on in a ball club which always claimed daffiness as its personal trademark, set out to peddle Hank—and did.
Hank's reaction was typical. A few days earlier the training camp beach was declared out of bounds when one player almost drowned. When told he had been sold, Hank exclaimed joyfully:
"I can go swimming now, can't I?" He did. And then took off for the Giants, there to join such kinsmen as Lippy Leo Durocher and fiery Frankie Frisch. It will be interesting to note just how much of the national play the promising Giants will take away from those staid businessmen in Brooklyn.
American railroads use about 95,000,000 wood crosses per year.
RUBINOFF IS COMING Tuesday, April 5
Intra-Squad Baseball Game Features Hard Hitting
Lou DeLuna's team defeated Bud French's team, 8 to 1 Monday in the first of a series of five-inning intra-squad practice games.
Hogan used a total of 28 men in the game, including four pitchers. Dick Gilman pitched two innings and Charley Moffett three for French's team. Guy Mahry went the first three innings for the winners and Ralph Freed the last two. Hogan will start Darell Norris righthander, and Loren Hepler, the squad's only lefthander, in today's game.
Coach Bill "Red" Hogan will use the results of the practice games to pick his lineup for the first game against Rockhurst here April 5. Dick Harp started as Hogan's assistant Monday. Harp was an assistant coach in basketball this year.
Deluna's team went hitless in the first inning, but got to Gilman for two runs in the second. Carl Ellis and Floyd Temple led off with singles and both scored on Ken Morrow's solid single to center.
After the game the squad engaged in a practice session in which infield practice was emphasized. Another intra-squad contest will be played today, with more games scheduled through the week.
Moffett gave up an unearned run in the third and blanked the winners in the fourth despite two errors, but two hits, three walks and two errors produced five runs in the fifth. Jack Fink's single scored Al Row with the first run and Dick Bertuzzi's triple scored Fink and Larry McDonnell. Bertuzzi and DeLuna pulled a double steal, Bertuzzi scoring, and DeLuna later scored on an error.
The losers got their only run and both their hits in the third. Don Clark singled to center with two out, and Herb Weidensaul tripped to score Clark.
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