MONDAY, MAY 17, 1948
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE SEVEN
Four Win Thrillers In Greek Playoffs
Beta, ATO, Phi Delt, And Phi Gam Play Today In Softball Semi-Finals
It looks like anybody's race for the fraternity softball championship today as four well-matched teams move into semi-final contests. Phi Gam meets A.T.O. and Delt Goes up against the Beta's at 4:15 afternoon.
Scoring all of its runs in a spectacular seventh-inning rally, Beta squeezed past Sigma Chi 4 to 3. Bill Conboy, Beta, and Bob Hagg, Sigma Chi, locked horns in a tight pitching ◊ duel. |
All runs were scored in two big innings. Successive doubles by Bob Maupin, Alfred Miville, Bob Hagg, and Lee Vogel gave Sigma Chi its runs in the second frame.
Hagg blanked the Beta's on two hits up until the fatal seventh when three singles, two walks, and a pair of errors gave them four runs and the victory. Charley Oswald opened with a single, moved to second as John Wassmer walked, and scored when Coboy was safe on an error. Singles by Bob Schwanzle and Harry Hunter, combined with another walk and a bobble brought in the three additional tallies.
Conboy gave up five hits, fanning 12, and issuing three bases on balls. Hagg also yielded five hits, all singled out, struck out eight and walked four.
Beta 000 000 4—4 5 1
Sig Chi 030 000 0—3 5 3
Sparked by lanky Jack Eskridge who scored four runs and rapped out four hits, one a two-run homer. A.T.O. whipped Phi Psi, 15 to 7. The victors scored in every inning and led all the way.
A. T.O. ran wild at the plate, banging out 19 safeties, including homers by Eskridge, Dick Cory, Dave Nesser, and Joe Levy: Bill Cavanah garnered a double and a pair of singles in four appearances to pace the Phi Psi hitting.
A.T.O.    323 211 3—15 10
Pbi. Psi*   203 000 2 — 19 70
Loren Powell's two-run homer in the seventh inning enabled Phi Delt to defeat Kappa Sig 7 to 5 The round tripper came after Dale Oliver's Texas-leaguer in left field had scored Ed Marquis to tie the score.
Kappa Sig opened with a 2 to 0 lead in the first. Don McLirthr's two-run nomer for Phi Delt into right corner knotted the count in the second.
Tex Langford's single combined with two passed balls and Jim Walker's long fly gave Kappa Sig the lead again in the bottom of the frame. Bill Sapp's single, a walk, a passed ball, a fly, and a balk stretched lead to 5 to 2 in the fourth. Bill Debus and Oliver belted homers in the fifth for the winners.
Sig Ep Rally Fails
Phi Gam piled up an early 10 to 10 lead but had to score two runs in the eighth inning to squeeze past Sig Eg 13 to 11. Bob McNeive, Sig Ep mound ace, gave way in the third frame after displaying much wildness.
Taking advantage of nine walks and six hits off McNeive, Phi Gam ran wild in the first three frames. Karl Kappelman took over the third and after yielding two runs kept pagan control the remainder of the same.
Sig Eo broke the scoring ice with a four-run shelling in the third, and hacked away to knot the count in the sixth by pushing in five runs.
A walk followed with successive doubles by Jim Sallee and Neil Post gave Phi Gam the victory in the eighth. Si Strong sparked the winners by batting in six runs on a double and a grand slam homer.
Phi Gam 235 010 02—13 13
Sig Ep 004 205 00 14
Find Twenty-Two Skeletons Of Quarter-Ton Moo Birds
New York—(UP)—The American Museum of Natural History announced that Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy of its staff is bringing back skeletons of 22 moa birds from New Zealand. The largest specimen was 10 feet tall and weighed a quarter of a ton when it lived more than 100,000 years ago.
Dr. Murphy estimates that the last living moa probably was killed and eaten by natives about 1350 A.D.
7 Advance In Playoffs
In the Independent league of intramural softball, the following seven teams advanced to the quarterfinals of playoffs by victories over the weekend:
Alpha Chi Sigma, Trailer Vets, Wildcats, Gushers, Alpha Kappa Psi, Aces, and Spooner Thaver.
Virgil Bruning's second - inning double robbed Oliver Edwards, Al- Garth Sigma mound ice, of a rookie gate ball. It hit 14 hits to rout Roussel House 10 to 0.
The speedy right-hander fanned two men and walked three. No Houser House player reached third. Ward Graham took hitting honors for AXE with two singles and a double in three trips.
A.C.S. 330 210 1----10 14
H.H. 000 000-----0 1
--iowa State's Ken Schneider defeated Dick Ashley, 2-1, and Courtland Smith scored Kansas's only victory, winning over Don Webb, 2-1. In the best ball match, Ashley-Smith tied Schneider-Webb, $1/2\cdot 1/2$.
The Trailer Vets piled up an early lead and went on to down Dog House 10 to 7 although outbit by the same margin.
Henry Curry, who clouted a homer in the first inning, and Dave Stewart, who slapped out three hits and scored four runs, starred for the winners. Bob Anderson hit safely three times in four appearances to pace Dog House. Pat Thiessen hit a bases-empty homer for the losers.
T.V. 405 001 0—10 13
D.H. 120 031 0—7 16
A power-hitting Wildcat rambled over Smith hall 13 to 4 as Bill Olin, Wildcat hurler, held the losers to 10 well-scattered safeties.
003 001 0—4 10
830 002 0—13 16
The Wildcats highlighted their scoring with eight runs in the initial frame, Norman Yackle, losing pitcher, was touched for 16 hits. Leading hitter was Bob Rudkins, Wildcats who clubbed three singles in four trips. Claude Engelke was the only Smith batter to get two hits.
Wildcats
Herk Harvey handcuffed Batten-feld on six hits as the Gushers coasted to a 9 to 3 triumph. Harvey faced but 25 men, whiffing three, and walking two.
The victors got to Harold Erhlich for 11 hits. They managed to score at least once in every inning, Dick Van Gundy spearheaded the Gushers with a round tripper, a double, and a single in four trips. Roger Davis collected a homer, a triple, and a double for Battenfeld.
With the aid of 13 walks off pitcha George Stout, Alpha Kappa Psi rolled over Army 14 t 6. It was Army's first defeat in five starts. Both teams got nine hits.
The victors started off with four markers in the first and added three more in the second to salt the game away. Leon De Young topped the hitting with three hits in four trips.
Gushers 111 112 2—9 11
Batt. 000 011 1—3
Aces Hi trounced the Co-Ops, 11 to 3, with a 17-hit batting attack. Edwin O'Brien limited the losers to six hits. Maurice Stryker and Francis Followell paced the Aces slugging, collecting four and three hits respectively.
A.K.P. 430 222 1—14 9
Armv 031 020 0—6 9
Spononer-Thayer forfeited to Dine-
A-Mite in the other scheduled game.
Aces 200 510 3—11 17
Co-Op 102 000 12 6
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Golfers, Netmen Split Pair In Final Home Session
Kansas swapped golf and tennis victories with the Iowa State Cyclones Friday in the Jayhawker's final home stand of the year.
The netmen again demonstrated their strength from top to bottom by sweeping their match with the Cyclones, 7 to 0. The linksmen ran into trouble on the back nine and dropped an 8 to 10 decision.
--iowa State's Ken Schneider defeated Dick Ashley, 2-1, and Courtland Smith scored Kansas's only victory, winning over Don Webb, 2-1. In the best ball match, Ashley-Smith tied Schneider-Webb, $1/2\cdot 1/2$.
Dick Richards, defeated only once $ \textcircled{6} $
DeLongy tied Firkins-Webb, 1½–
14% for best ball honors.
Scheider fired a three-over-par 71 to capture medalist honors. Ashley and DeLongy carded 74's to take low honors for Kansas.
Dick Richard, defeated only once this year on the home court, polished off Iowa State's ace Harold Johnson in straight sets, 7-5, 6-2. Glen Tongier coasted to a 6-0, 6-4 victory over Kent Drummond. Hervie Macferran and I-Latee's Gene Gildermaster hooked up in a real marathon in the first set of their match before the Jayhawker prevailed, 10-8. Macferran also copied the second set, 6-2, Southpaw Dick Cray defeated Jim Harris in the only match that went to three sets, 6-1, 3-6, 6-2. Charlie Carson gave up only two games in trouncing Lyle Gildermaster, 6-2, 6-0.
Invade K-State Today
Out at the Lawrence country club, the Cyclones tagged the Hawkwaters with their third conference defeat. In the front foursome, Jack Webb, Iowa State, defeated Bob Meeker, $21\frac{1}{2}-\frac{1}{2}$ and Bruce Firkins tied Kansas's Hal DeLongy, $11\frac{1}{2}-\frac{1}{2}$. Meeker-
In doubles, Richards-Tongier defeated Johnson-G. Gildermaster, 6-3, 6-2, and Macfearran-Carson defeated Harris-Drummond, 7-5, 7-5. *Third Loss For Golfers*
The Jayhawkers invade Manhattan today for golf and tennis matches with the Wildcats today.
Golf mentor Bill Winey is taking along Meeker, Glenn Scott, C. Smith and DeLongy. The golfers also defeated the Wildcats in an earlier match.
Tennis coach Jim Seaver said Tongier and Richards would stay home for examinations and that Macferran, Carson, Cray, Dave Cowley, and Art Fitch would take the court against Kansas State. Kansas holds an earlier 7-0 victory over the Wildcats.
New York, May 17—(UP)—The Yankees and Cardinals are the teams to beat but the Indians and Athletics in the American and practically everybody but the Reds in the National are going to bear plenty of watching, it appeared today after one month of major league competition.
Cardinals Win, 6-5, In 10th; A's, Yankees Rained Out
The Cards played like men of de victory over the Pirates at St. Louis in which they came from behind with four runs in the eighth and won the game when Terry Moore's pop fly fell safely between outfielders Ralph Kiner and Johnny Hopp, in the 10th, enabling Ralph LaPointe to come home all the way from first with the winning run. Kiner hit a Pirate homer.
The Reds won a battle of bats from the Cubs, 13 to 11, at Chicago in 10 innings when Johnny Wyrostek's triple, a long fly, a walk, an error and Virgil Stallcup's single provided the winning margin. Cincinnati made 15 hits, the Cubs getting 17.
Rookie Whitey Platt had a big time in Detroit, hitting a homer, triple and double as the Browns edged the Tigers, 3 to 2. He scored the winning run in the ninth when he hit a 440-foot triple. Bryan Stephens got credit for the victory in a relief role. Art Houtteman suffered his fifth straight defeat.
The White Sox ended a nine-game losing streak winning 6 to 4 in 10 innings at Cleveland but the Indians came back to make 13 hits and give Rookie Bill Kennedy a victory in his first major league start in the afterpiece.
Ken Keltner got his 12th homer and Allie Clark, Eddie Robinson, Joe Cordon and Pat Secrey also honored for Cleveland in the double bill, bringing the club's total to 36 in 19 games. Bob Kennedy's single with the sacks loaded gave Chicago the opening victory.
The Red Sox got 19 hits to top the Senators, 14 to 5, at Boston, with Birdie Tebbetts and Vernon Stephens getting three apiece. Relief Pitcher Earl Johnson who gave up two hits and no runs in six innings was the winner.
The New York at Philadelphia double header, and Boston at Brooklyn in the National, and Philadelphia at New York and the second Washington-Boston game at Boston were rained out.
Probable Pitchers American League (No games scheduled)
National League
Boston (Sain 2-2) at Brooklyn
(Branca 2-3) night.
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New York (Koslo 2-1) at Philadelph-
ia/Sirmium 1-2)-night.
(Only games scheduled).
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