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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1948
Feller To Oppose Sain In World Series Opener
Boston, Oct. 5. - (UP)—One of the strangest World Series ever conceived — the Cleveland Indians against the Boston Braves — was at last a reality today and the baseball world was enthralled over the possible outcome.
It was a strange alignment because the Indians, the team almost unanimously conceded to be the winner, almost didn't get into it at all. While the Braves, the poor and supposedly mediocre club rated little better than a pre-season second division outfit, won their race by a comfortable margin.
When the teams get down to business tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. (CST) at Braves field, Cleveland will be a 13 to 5 favorite to win the series. The oddsmakers made no provision for the kind of pennant races the two teams had gone through—all they were interested in was how the teams stacked up man for man.
Manager Lou Boudreau, as much of a cold and calculating gambler as if he presided over a dice table instead of at shortest, had all the blue chips. For the opening game he was expected to start ballball's greatest pitcher of modern times, "Fireball" Bobbv Feller.
On that basis it had to be conceded that the Indians deserved their role as favorites. For their crew, which had to battle into an unprecedented American league playoff game with the Boston Red Sox, winning it 8 to 3, to gain the pennant, generally stacked up as a superior outfit to the amazing Braves.
It was true that Feller had his poorest season since becoming one of the top hurlers of all time. But it also was true that he was a man seeking the one goal in baseball always previously denied to him—pitching in a World Series, Holder of strikeout records, of two no-hit, and nine one-hit games during his career. Bobby was a man to be counted on for such an occasion.
Behind Feller, Boudreau had two 20-game winners, young Bob Lemon, who was the big man on his staff all year, and lefty Gene Bearden, who pitched the five-hit triumph over the Red Sox yesterday for his seventh win in a row.
At the same time, Manager Billy Southworth of the Braves, always at his best when his team played in an underdog role, announced flatly that he would start his great right hander, tobacco-chewing Johnny Sain from the Ozark hills of Arkansas. Sain won 24 games—tops for any hurler in the majors this season—and as an every-other-day operator if necessary. Southworth probably was figuring on him for as many as three starting jobs during the series.
But beyond Sain, the Braves were in a hinterland of liability. Figuring to start the second game against Lemon was left hander Warren Spahn, a picture pitcher with fine control.
Big 7 Team Standings (Includes all games to date)
W. L. Pct.
Kansas 2 1 .667
Iowa State 2 1 .667
Nebraska 1 1 .500
Missouri 1 1 .500
Oklahoma 1 1 .500
Kansas State 0 2 .000
Colorado 0 2 .000
Strong last year, this quartet of teams has started powerfully this season—Lawrence, Wichita East, Great Bend and Shawnee-Mission.
Topeka, Oct. 5—(UP) —A fearsome foursome of schoolboy elevens emerged today in Kansas high school football.
4 Teams Rule Prep Gridirons
Extending their five-year undefeated streak with a relatively green team, the Lawrence Lions knocked Proj's 20-0 for No 37 without loss.
Wichita East's Blue Aces got past a worrisone contender for Ark Valley league honors in beating Wellington 19-14. Great Bend, the standout in the Southwest, crashed by Hays 24-6, and Shawnee-Mission's Indians showed they were to be reckoned with in eastern Kansas by besting Wyandotte 12-6.
Meanwhile the longest unbeaten and untied record in Kansas school-boy football was smashed. Manhattan defeated Marysville 13-6 to put an end to a string of 29 straight victories.
In the always strong Ark Valley circuit, Wichita North looked good in thumping Winfield 66-6.1, 34-7, 13-7, and 13-8. Hutchinson blanked El Dorado 13-0.
Ottawa showed promise in the Northeast Kansas league with a 38-6 walloping of Argentine, while Leavenworth beat olathe 7-0 and Atchison whitewashed Hiawatha of the Big Six 19-0.
Iola, defending champion of the Southeast Kansas conference, outfought Pittsburgh 23-13. Independence beat Fort Scott 18-0, Parsons trounced Coffeyville 27-0, and Columbus whipped Chanute 14-7.
Clay Center looked good in the Central Kansas league in a 38-0 drubbing of Abilene. Beloit pasted Newmilapolis 13-0 in the North Central Kansas loop.
Concordia defeated Mankato 12-6 and Belleville took the measure of Smith Center 14-7. Russell licked Lincoln 19-6.
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Corbin 1, Harmo 0 (forfeit)
Kappa K. Gamma 38, Watkins 30
Delta Gamma 50, Jayettes 33
Alpha Delta Pi 61, Sterling 15
Miller 34, Alpha Chi Omega 23
Wildcats Meet Minnesota In Game of Week
New York, Oct. 5—(UP)—Northwestern's Wildcats from Evanston who came on out to top in their first brush with the Big Nine conference by handing Purdue a resounding 21 to 0 lacing, this week tackle Minnesota, and after that comes Michigan.
Meanwhile, Purdue faces Michigan this week. The Wolverines ripped through Oregon's Pacific coast championship hopefuls by a 14-0 score Saturday while Minnesota whipped Nebraska, 39-13. Michigan's win was the 16th in a row.
As the Big Nine shaped up into a dogfight, North Carolina and Georgia Tech hiked themselves into almost-beyond-challenge positions in southern leadership.
Carolina, with "Choo-Choo" Charley Justice doing all the work, came from behind to down Georgia, 21-14, Saturday while Georgia Tech took an easier-than-it-sounds 13-7 win over Tulane, the team which upset Alabama the week before. North Carolina faces Wake Forest this week in a bid for the Southern conference title while Tech runs up against Washington and Lee.
California moved to a 20-0 win over St. Mary's and now makes another faltering bid for a Pacific victory over the Big Nine. The Golden Bears meet Wisconsin and once again the coast will probably come out second-best in this lop-sided intersectional rivalry.
In the East, Penn and Penn State still looked best, although Army's performance in crushing Lafayette, 54-7, also was impressive. Penn downed Dartmouth, 28-13, and Penn State topped Bucknell, 35-0. Now Penn faces Princeton, Penn State meets Syracuse, and Army runs up against Illinois.
Harvard whipped out the surprise of the East's week-end with a 33-24 win over Columbia and now meets Cornell, 13-7 victor over Navy. Columbia takes on the Yale team which barely licked Connecticut, 7-0.
Notre Dame's perennial championship contenders had little trouble knocking off once-great Pitt, 40-0, and now goes against Michigan State, 68-21 conqueror of Hawaii.
Men's IM Touchfootball Sigma Chi 79, Kappa Alpha Psi 0 Phi Gamma Delta 9, Alpha Kappa
Men's IM Touchfootball
Lambda 0
Delta Upsilon 8, Kappa Sig 6
Pi Kappa Alpha 6, Beta Theta
Pi 32
Sigma Phi Epsilon 12, Delta Chi 0
Delta Tau Delta 1, Sigma Nu 0
(tie playoff)
(die playon)
Alpha Tau Omega 14. Triangle 0
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Big Seven Favorites Get Prestige Lift Over Weekend
Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 5—(UP)—Missouri and Oklahoma, the favorites to fight it out for the 1948 Big Seven conference football championship, today had regained some prestige lost in inter-sectional defeats a week ago, and Kansas, defending co-champion with the Sooners, had further stamped itself as a team to be feared.
These 3 teams scored impressive victories over the week-end, rolling up 142 points against 28 for the opposition, running and passing in a dizzy scoring parade.
The Tigers led the way, crushing St. Louis university by 60-7 in a final competitive tuneup before Missouri engages its second major intersectional foe, Southern Methodist University, at Columbia Saturday.
This is the game of the week, but it can't count in the Big Seven race. Two other battles can. Iowa State takes on the potent Kansas Jayhawkers at Artigas, and Nebraska, hawkers to 39-12 to 39-12, is the guest of the Colorado Buffs. It should be an easy afternoon for the Huskers.
Oklahoma and Kansas State both step outside the conference with the Sooners meeting Texas at Dallas and Kansas State entertaining Arkansas State at Manhattan.
As the race now stands, Kansas and Nebraska share first place, each with a triumph in its only conference start. Kansas figures to make it two in a row against Iowa State, although the Cyclones proved an alert, capable squad in their 20-0 conquest of Kansas State.
Oklahoma, meanwhile, was exhibiting its greatest aerial attack in two seasons—at the expense of Texas A. and M.
Minnesota did exactly as expected against Nebraska, the oddsmakers having installed the Gophers as 26-point favorites over the Huskers. The final score, 39-13, hit that figure
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No Injuries In Buff Game
right on the button. Nebraska had no defense against the Minnesota aerial attack which rolled up five touchdowns in the first half. Gopher errors, a bad pass from center into the end zone, and a fumble on their own 25, accounted for Nebraska's only touchdowns.
Charles Moffett, senior halfback, will probably be ready for action with the Jayhawker football team when they meet Iowa State Saturday. Moffett, who saw only limited play in the Colorado game because of a knee injury, has been one of the Jayhawkers' top men on pass defense.
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His return will put K.U. at full strength for the Cyclone contest unless injuries strike at the Kansas camp during workouts this week
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