UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1940
British Planning Pro Baseball On Major Scale
New York, Feb. 17- (U.S.)—Such former big leaguers as Mickey Owen and Max Lanier, suspended for jumping to the Mexican league, were under consideration today as player-coaches to help get major league baseball started in Great Britain.
Dick (Twinkle Toes) Carlish, British sportsman and promoter here to study the field of available talent he can export to get baseball under way in England this summer, had his eye on those players now serving a five-year suspension.
"We plan an eight-team league and those players would be perfect to help us get started," he said. "By using those men we would not be tampering with the baseball set up in the United States and when their suspension ends they could return. Naturally, I would seek Chandler's approval."
Backed by a number of eminent British sportsmen, such as Sir Arthur Elvin, who was underwriter for the 1948 Olympic games, Carlish looks forward to the day when baseball will "kill cricket" and England will meet the United States in a real world series.
"We are not quite ready to contact American players because our plans still are in a very formative stage," said the former night club proprietor.
"But I am certain that baseball will go over big in England," he added. "Your G.I.'s played your Marines at Wembley stadium during the war and attracted almost 40,000 people. Your boys would play at Hyde Park on Sundays, and thousands would go out to watch them."
Carlish tentatively plans teams at Wembley and White City stadiums in London, Liverpool, Birmingham, Leeds, Sheffield, Newcastle and Manchester.
"We hope to be able to fly two o your teams over for an opening exhibition," explained the one-time dancer. "And when we finally have a worthy team, we would like to bring it over to play one of your teams, naturally not the Yankees or any major league club, but possibly a triple A class team. Eventually, it is our hope, we will have a team of a calibre which could compete against your world series winner for the baseball championship of the world."
Locksley Loses To Delta Gamma
In one of the first women's intramural basketball playoffs of the season held Tuesday night, the Delta Gammas defeated a hard fighting Locksley five 24 to 21. Locksley took an early advantage and held a half-lead of 14 to 11, but the third quarter told the tale. The DGs, outscored in every other quarter, piled up five points to Locksley's none in the third period, and Locksley was unable to pull out of the hole. The DGs will play the winner of the Kappa Kappa Gamma-I.W.W. game Wednesday night.
University High Out Of Tourney
Tonganoxie scored seven points in the last minute and a half to defeat the University high school Eagles, 52 to 45 in a first round game of the Tri-County league tourney Wednesday night at Basehor.
The loss eliminated the Eagles from the tournament, since there is no consolation bracket. University high's "B" team was also eliminated, losing 35 to 28 to the Baseher seconds.
The score was tied six times and the lead changed hands nine times in the hectic first team game. University High trailed 43 to 44 with a minute and a half left.
Button Starts Defense Of Skating Crown In Paris
Paris, Feb. 17.—(U.P.)—Dick Button, 18-year-old "Fancy Dan" from Englewood, N. J., turned out for a final five minutes of work today in quest of his second straight world's figure skating championship.
Button, a freshman at Harvard, got the jump on 19 international competitors yesterday by scoring 638.1 points in the first round consory school competition.
Facing him today was five minutes of free skating, often regarded as his favorite forte. The handsome Olympic champion was expected to glide across the ice of the Palais de Sports to the strains of his favorite folk song, "The Rumanian Fantasy."
Button left his rivals far behind while cutting capers in the six compulsory school figures. Edi Rada, European champion from Austria, pulled into second place with 625.6 points and was followed by Ede Kivaly of Hungari, who totaled 623.1 points.
Button's compatriots remained in the qualifying field of the top 10 skaters, but were given little chance of catching the New Jersey youth. Jimmy Grogan of Berkeley, Calif., was fifth with 583.8 points, Hayes Alan Jenkins of Akron, Ohio, sixth with 568.6 points, and Austin Holt, also of Berkeley, seventh with 563.6 points.
Ede Kiraly and Andrea Kekesy of Hungary were crowned new champions in the paired event.
The American team of Peter and Carol Kennedy of Washington, D.C., took runner-up honors. Anne Davis of Washington and Carleton C. Hoffner of Arlington, Va., gained the third spot.
Scheduled to compete in the women's division today were Americans Virginia Baxter of Detroit, Helen Uhl of Los Angeles, and Yvonne Sherman and Andra McLaughlin, both of Brooklyn, N.Y.
Emporia State Leads CIC
Winfield. Feb. 17—(U.P.)-Southwestern will make a desperate effort tonight to regain a respectable position in C.I.C. basketball standing when the Pittsburg Teachers come to town.
The Moundbuilders were dropped from a three-way tie for third to a two-way knot at fifth last night when league-leading Emporia State handed them a 65 to 44 trimming at Emporia.
That one left Southwestern and Pittsburg with identical 4-5 records for their conference tangle. The winner here tonight will jump to a fourth ranking tie-up with Fort Hays; the loser will claim rung number 6 on the loop ladder.
Washburn carved the third place niche a little deeper for itself in its conference go last night against second-running St. Benedict's. The Ichabods, playing before the home town crowd, handed the Ravens a 71 to 48 licking.
The loss left St. Benedict's in second place, but 'automatically dropped idle Fort Hays to an undisputed fourth.
Remaining conference games this week, besides tonight's Pittsburgh-Southwestern tilt, will see Emporia State at St. Benedict's and Washburn at Fort Hays.
C. I.C. standings:
| | W | L | Pts | Opp | Pct |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Emporia State | 8 | 0 | 1050 | 378 | 0.002 |
| St. Benedict's | 6 | 3 | 485 | 486 | .666 |
| Washburn | 6 | 4 | 516 | 475 | .555 |
| Fort Hays | 4 | 4 | 475 | 444 | .500 |
| Pittsburg | 4 | 4 | 498 | 480 | .444 |
| Southwestern | 4 | 5 | 414 | 447 | .444 |
| Rockhurst | 0 | 10 | 396 | 624 | .000 |
Service Classic To Be Played
The University R.O.T.C. has challenged the University N.R.O.T.C. to a basketball game and the Navy has accepted. The game will be played as soon as gymnasium space for the game can be obtained. According to informed Navy sources, the Army is seeking revenge for the 7 to 0 defeat their football team suffered at the hands of the midshipmen.
Gromek Signs '49 Contract
New York, Feb. 17—(U.P.)—Boss Bill Voeck of the Cleveland Indians thinks Steve Cromek will be the Tribe's brightest itching star of the 1949 season, and so it was with considerable joy that he tucked away the 28-year-old control artist's contract today.
Gromek was one of three Indians whose acceptance of terms were announced last night.
The other two were catcher Roy Murray and ancient Negro pitcher Satchel Paige. Paige announced Monday that he mailed his signed contract Feb. 12, but it didn't show up in the mail until Wednesday.
Gromek showed his stuff in the world series with a masterful four-hit, 2 to 1, victory over the Braves in the game that sent the Indians into a 3 to 1 lead.
After that game Veeck said, "this will be out star next season. I know it."
K-State Baseball Schedule Set
Manhattan, Kan., Feb. 17—U(P)Fritz Knorr, athletics business manager, will coach the baseball team of Kansas State college this season; it was announced today.
April 12—Wichita here; April 15-16—Oklahoma there; April 18-19—Oklahoma A. and M. there; April 22-23—Nebraska there; April 25-26—Kansas there; April 29-30-Iowa State here; May 3—Washburn here; May 6—Washburn there; May 9-10—Nebraska here; May 13-14—Colorado here; May 17—Kansas Wesleyan there; May 20-21—Missouri there; May 22-23-Kansas here.
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