UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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THURSDAY,APRIL 22,1948
Cards Are Flying High As Moundsmen Shine
New York, April 22—(UP)—The Cardinals, who lost last year's pennant by five games simply because they played bad baseball for the first two weeks of the season, apparently have pledged themselves that it won't happen again.
This year the Cards are off to a flying start with successive victories
This year the Cards are provided by pitchers Murry Dickson and George Munger and with an important test coming up today for lefty Howie Pollett.
Pollet will try his arm under fire for the first time since undergoing an operation and that old Cardinal confidence will abound again if he, too, can come through a winner against the Reds.
The red-haired Munger did all that was asked of him against the Reds yesterday, holding them to five hits in a 5 to 2 victory at St. Louis. Timely hitting by George Kurowski, Enos Slaughter and Nippy Jones and 12 walks by Johnny Vander Meer gave the Cards their victory.
The Phils showing the foe some stingy pitching, put over a 13th inning tally for a 4 to 3 victory over the Braves at Philadelphia. Oldsters Lyn Rowe, Ken Raffensberger and Ed Heusser collaborated in the triumph. Heusser, cast off recently by the Dodgers, got credit for the victory by retiring one batter.
Pafko Spoills a Duel
Munger A Master
Andy Pafko gave the cubs a 6 to 3 victory over the Pirates at Pittsburgh with his two-run eighth inning homer, enabling Hank Borowy to defeat Ernie Bonham in what was a good duel up to that time.
The Giants had to subdue 24 players in their 9 to 5 victory over the Dodgers at New York as Leo Durocher set a new major league record, for a nine-inning game by sending that many men in the Brooklyn lineup. The old record, naturally, also was set for the National league in a Dodger-Giant
Today's Pitchers
(Last year's won and lost records in parentheses)
American League
Detroit (Trucks 10-12) at Chicago (Judson—)
Philadelphia (McCahan 10-5) at Boston (Barris 5-4)
(Only games scheduled) National League
Brooklyn (Taylor 10-5) at New York (Lee—)
Boston (Barrett 11-12) at Phila-
delbia (Simmons—)
Chicago (Schmitz 13-18) at Pitts-
burgh (Higbe 13-17)
Cincinnati (Raffensberger 8-11) at St. Louis (Pollutte 9-11)
The world champion Yankees dropped their second straight game in Washington to the supposedly sad Senators, 6 to 3. even though Joe DiMaggio poiled a 440-foot homer into center field, one of the longest ever hit there. Gil Coon hit a three-run homer for the Nats and pitcher Mickey Haefner was backed up by some spectacular fielding as he scattered nine New York hits.
game in 1937 when 23 Brooklyns littered the lineup.
Nats Ston Yanks
The Tigers made it two straight over the White Sox at Chicago, winning 4 to 3 when Hoot Evers singled home the deciding tally in the eighth after Detroit started Dizzy Trout yielded all three of the losers' runs in the seventh.
Philadelphia at Boston was rained out while the Browns and Indians had an open date in the American.
KU Nine Host To Sooners In Weekend Double Bill
Still smarting from a pair of two-run losses to powerful Colorado the past weekend, Oklahoma moves in on the local scene tomorrow for a two-game series with the Jayhawkers. Friday's game will start at 3:30 p.m. and Saturday's encore will begin at 2 p.m.
For the Jayhawkers it will be Seven conference foe. Kansas dropped two games to Missouri at Columbia the past weekend.
The current edition of the Sooners bears only a slight resemblance to the powerful squad that last year swept to the Big Six and N.C.A.A. fifth district championships.
Coach Jack Baer's young club numbers only two lettermen: Lewis Eubanks, a classy shortstop, and Elton Davis, strong-armed righthanded pitcher.
Pros Raid Sooners
The Sooners lost most of their talent to major league clubs. Five
LEWIS EUBANKS
ELTON DAVIS
Sooners signed contracts and two others quit school to tryout with the New York Giants at their Sanford, Fla., baseball school.
Oklahoma has turned in spotty performances since swapping Texas Christian in the opener, 12 to 2. It allows it to at three victories and six defeats.
Baylor walloped the Sooners, 11 to 6 and Texas, with football star Bobby Layne hurling the first game, spanked Oklahoma twice, 18 to 7, and 11 to 5. Nebraska split a pair of games with the Sooners, winning the first, 16 to 4, and dropping the second, 1 to 9.
Waters Hurls Victory
The past week the Sooners played their best ball of the young season to edge a perennially tough Oklahoma Aggie nine, 4 to 2. Bill Waters, 230-pound sophomore pitcher, held the hard hitting Cowpokes to eight hits. Colorado tagged the Sooners with their most recent defeats, bumping them twice at Norman, 12 to 10, and 10 to 8.
Coach Baer has had his squad in the batting cage most of the week in an effort to wring some base hits out of the Sooner's bats. None of the regulars are hitting over the 300 mark.
Bill Stephenson, smooth-fielding third baseman, is batting .275. Delbert Holt, an outfielder, is just a point under his teammate's average, while Eubanks is hitting .255.
Plans are being made for a full scale inter-squad game on Friday, May 7, the last of the spring practice days, head coach J. V. Sikes said today.
However, three pitchers, who are used as pinch-hitters when not on the mound, are all hitting over 400.
The game cannot be played in Memorial stadium because of the high school regional track which is on May 7. Tentative arrangements for the use of Haskell stadium are being made.
Inter-Squad Game To End Grid Drills
Coach Sikes intends to divide the squad evenly into two teams rather than send the first stringers against the subs.
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Boston, April 22—(UP)—Connie Mack relieved his son Earle as first-base coach of the Philadelphia Athletics today.
Mack Benches Son, Says He's Too Old
Said Comie: 'The boy is getting up in years,'
For centuries, the Pekingese was the royal dog of China and could be owned only by the ruling classes.
Earle is 55. Connie is 85.
Bartlesville, Okla., April 22—(UP) —Jesse "Cab" Renick, former Oklahoma A. A. & M. basketball star and a guard on the Phillips 66 national amateur champion, was named today to succeed Bud Browning as coach of the Oller squad.
Former Oklahoma Aggie Named Phillips 66 Coach
Browning becomes director of the Phillips recreational program and will act as adviser to Renick.
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