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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1948
Sikes Looks For Depth Behind First-String Line
After a week of careful scrutiny of last winter's Orange Bowl team, J. V. Sikes, the new Jayhawker head grid coach, has just about sized up the strong and the weak of his team.
Coach Sikes believes the first string line will be good this fall, but the reserve lines need much improvement. He has shifted Gene Sherwood from
tackle position in hope of bolstering the line. Other leading tackle candidates are Ed Lee, Hugh Johnson, Rouse, all from last year's squad, and Mike McCormick, a graduate of the freshman team.
Fischer Bolsters Center
The center slot will be strong again this year with Howard Fischer
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Allen Will Speak $\Delta +$ C Of C Banquet
Dr. Forrest C. "Phog" Allen, varsity basketball coach, will be the main speaker at the Chamber of Commerce banquet Wednesday. The banquet is in honor of the Liberty Memorial high school basketball team, which recently won the state AA championship.
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and Dick Monroe the leading choices, but hard pressed by Ralph Brown and Ed Bray. All four are veterans at the position although Fischer was ineligible last season.
The ends need improvement in catching the ball, said Coach Sikes, but the position will have the services of Marvin Small and Dave Schmidt, who Coach Frank Leahy praised as being the best lineman on the field in the Orange Bowl game. Schmidt is also known for
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his feat of bottling up Oklahoma A & M's All-American Bob Fenimore here in 1946.
Coach Silkes showed some concern over the full back slot, which has Forrest Griffith as the only returning letterman, but he will be backed by Johnny Amberk and Jim Sackrider, two clever ball handlers up from the freshman eleven.
Sikes said that there would be plenty of speed in the backfield with the leading candidates being Hogan, Scott, and Wilson, a promising alumnus of the freshman squad, fighting it out for the quarterback berth. Boys who are looking good as half backs are Bertuzzi, French, McDonald, and Stricker at left half and Pattee, Modric, Moffett, and freshman grad Bud Lamping at right half.
St. Louis, April 6—(UP)—Brooklyn Dodger Ray Sayers left today for Oklahoma City with his doctor's permission to return to the game and the wide-open competition for a first-base assignment on the Bums
Sanders said an X-ray examination of his left arm indicated that he was ready to play after more than a year on the sidelines. "I'll have to take it easy at first, though," he said. "Till probably just play part of a game at a time for a few days."
Sanders Returns To Baseball Wars
Sanders' arm was broken in August of 1946 when Cardinal outfielder Erv Dusak ran into him at first bose just as he was stretching for an infielder's peg. A former Cardinal. Sanders was with the Boston Braves at the time. He became a Dodger in the trade that sent Ed Stanky to Boston.
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Pirates Are Due To Climb
New York, April 6—(UP)—The surprise team of the major leagues this year is likely to be the Pittsburgh Pirates.
With Bill Meyer, a new and aggressive manager, and a host of new and experienced major league players, it is the most completely revamped club in either circuit and seems certain to finish well above its sad state of a year ago when it would up in a tie ◇ ___ with the Phillies for last place.
No less a judge of baseball talent than President Branch Rickey of the Brooklyn Dodgers thinks that Pittsburgh will finish in the first division and so do many other experienced observers.
Rickey should know a lot about the club—he helped to develop it. Many of the Pirate players in key positions have been purchased from the Dodgers by the new Pittsburgh regime which took over two years ago and which is sparing neither money nor energy to build a winner. Meyer A Winning Pilot
Meyer long was considered one of the best pilots in the minors with the Yankee organization. He brings to the majors a background of winning baseball and a reputation for developing young stars and getting the most out of oldsters.
And the Pirate front office, headed by exgeneral manager H. Roy Hamey, another ex-Yankee operator, gave Meyer the talent to work with. Every department was strengthened.
Last year the Pirates had the slowest outfield in the majors with a poor crop of throwing arms. This year Dixie Walker is in right, Johnny Hopp is in center and Ralph Kiner is in left. There should be few complaints on their defensive prowess.
The infield also has the "new look." Ed Stevens, a long-ball hitter who is another Brooklyn alumnus, will be at first; the veteran Danny Murtraugh, back up to the big time for Milwaukee, at second; young and brilliant Stan Rojek at short; and the polished Frankie Gustine at third.
Pitching Is Stronger
The pitching, woeful a year ago, should be much better. Kirby Higge, who got off to a bad start after being traded from the Dodgers, confidently predicts he will win 20 games and the big fast-baller might do it. Little Vic Lombardi was considered the best of the Dodger southpaws and there still is surprise expressed in baseball circles that the Pirates were able to get him.
Rookie catcher Eddie Fitzgerald is considered a potential big league star and might move in as a regular. He hit 363 at Sacramento and is a good judge of pitchers. Clyde Kluttz, the first string backstop, long has been regarded as one of the steadiest in the business.
Dallas-(UP)—A one-sided love affair is going on at the Marsalis Park zoo. It could be a reciprocal proposition if only Punkin, the lone-some dromedary, would quit biting his lady fair on the nose.
Love Will Soon Ripen, Says Zoo Keeper
For nine years, Punkin lived a life of solitary discontent, staring back at the hundreds who daily gawk at him in his pen. The people of Dallas, especially those who spend their Sunday afternoons walking in the zoo, finally took pity on the camel.
Josephine, a three and one-half-year-old member of the opposite sex, was turned into his pen. She gave him the cold shoulder, however, and kept her distance after Punkin took several love nips at her nose.
The zoo superintendent, Walton Carlton, explained, however, that ove should blossom in the spring.
Training Camp Briefs
Dalias, Tex., April 6—(UP)—Ed Duke "Snider, who has just learned where the "strike zone" is, today became the Brooklyn Dodger's latest hope to "make the fans forget Dixie Walker."
Snider smashed a first-inning home run yesterday with Jackie Robinson on base to start the Rodgers' "A" squad off to a 4 to 0 win over the Dallas Rebels, their 19th straight victory. The Dodgers added another run in the fifth and their final tally in the sixth, while slim Jack Banta held the Rebels to six scattered hits over the full nine innings.
Tampa, Fla.—Ewell Blackwell, most active pitcher on the Cincinnati Reds' staff, was slated to take the mound again today against the Syracuse Chiefs at Plant City.
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Bradenton, Fla—Rookie pitcher John Fetzer was sent by the Boston Braves to Dallas of the Texas League on option today and pitcher Dick Manville was optioned to Hartford of the Eastern League.
The Braves dropped a 6 to 5 decision in 10 innings to the Louisville Colonels, Boston Red Sox farm in the American association yesterday.
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San Antonio, Tex.—The St. Louis Brown's squad was trimmed to 25 players today with the dispatching of pitcher Ernie Bickhaus to their San Antonio farm and pitcher Joe Ostrowski to Toledo.
The Brownsc scoured their fourth straight victory over the Chicago Cubs last night. 8 to 3, when they made a total of 14 hits off Paul Erickson, Hank Wyse, and Jess Dobernic. The Cubs got only four hits, one of them a homer by Clyde McCullough, in the first seven innings against Fred Sanford.
Seattle-(UP)Somewhere in the Northwest today there is a machine which represents a half million dollar investment and half the life of Peter Mollow Ivanoff.
Chicago got two more runs in the ninth on Andy Pafko's homer off Sam Zoldak.
'Frictionless Machine' Lost In Seattle
Ivanoff worked for 30 years in his $300,000 Seattle machine shop building a machine to overcome friction.
Ivanoff bequeathed his plant and machine to several Vancouver, B.C., residents who had subsidized his work with cash gifts. Vick said he thought the frictionless machine was gathering dust in some Vancouver warehouse, but the 14 trustees claim it is still in Seattle.
"He called it a co-motional motion machine," said Lawrence Vick, devout disciple of the Bulgarian, who died here in February. 1945.
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Winey Picks Golf Squad
With the opening golf match of the season less than a week away, Bill Winey, Jayhawker golf coach, has announced that the following 10 men have been selected for the golf squad:
Bick Meeker, Harold DeLongy,
Dick Ashley, Murray Regier, Glen
Scott, Calvin Markwell, John Fahey,
Fred Brinkman, Courtland Smith
and Jim Thompson.
Bill Jones, Alkeborg.
Noticeably absent from Winey's list was last year's leading Jayhawker competitor, Bill Jones. Because of participation in intramural sports, Jones' status on the varsity golf team has been questioned, and as yet he has not reported for practice.
The 10 men listed on Winey's squad will begin eliminations soon to determine the four players who will represent K.U. in a match with Emporia State here April 12. Meeker May Be No. J.
With Jones out of the running, Meeker may be the man to lead Kansas golfers this season. However, Ashley and DeLongy have been turning in excellent practice rounds and will push last year's number two man for the number one spot.
Scott, Markwell, Brinkman, and Thompson have each turned in some promising rounds, and with practice, may give the others a tough race for starting posts.
Smith, 1947 fall intramural golf champ is also high in the running for a team position, as are Fahey and Regier.
Cupid's Well-Meant Arrows Go Wild On Valentine's Day
English, Ind., — (UP) — Circuit Judge S. Morris Wilson thought he would play Cupid when he set St. Valentine's Day to hear testimony in three divorce cases. But Cupid would have none of it. One of the attorneys had another case for that day, another was not prepared for trial and the third was ill. All three cases were postponed.
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