TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1948
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Coaching Baseball In Kansas Isn't Easy, Russ Sehon Finds
Major league baseball managers take their ball teams to the sunny South for early season drills, but Russ Sehon, the new Kansas baseball coach, has the job of building a first class ball team here in Lawrence where the weather isn't any too favorable for the diamond sport.
Despite the bad weather, Sehon has started workouts beneath the west wing of the stadium and he has more than 40 men loosening up each afternoon.
Sehon replaced Vie Bradford as head baseball coach after serving as assistant coach last year. He coached the infield and produced one of the few bright spots in the otherwise erratic Jayhawk team. Has Rue Contract
The youthful new coach is the property of the Pittsburgh Pirates. He broke into the game as a member of the Lawrence Ban Johnson teams of 1936, 37, 38. In 1939 he was a member of the Junction City national Ban Johnson champions.
Professional baseball caught Russ's eye in 1940 and he joined the Deland Redhats of the Florida State league.
navy Russ played with Jackson, Miss., in the Southeastern league, and in 1947 he played for Selma. Ala.
Second base has always been Russ's favorite position although he has filled in at both third base and shortstop. He throws right handed and he bats from both the right and left side of the plate.
After serving three years in the
Expects Improved Team
Sehon will be depending a lot on football players to fill many key scouts on the team. Red Hogan, Dick Bertuzzi, Dick Gilman, Bud French, and Jack Fink will be dividing their time between spring football and baseball. All of these men played on the team last year.
"I will not predict how K.U. will fare in the Big Seven race, but we do expect to make an improvement over last year's showing," Sehon said.
"With 16 league games and four non-conference games we will probably have our hands full," Sehon stated. He hopes to gain enough experience in the four early non-conference games to put the Jayhawkers in the thick of the Big Seven race.
By PAUL ZEH Assistant Sports Editor
The true odor of the Brannum eligibility case was loosed on the public Sunday in C. E. McBride's column in the Kansas City Star. And the odor isn't pleasant.
Mr. McBride tells all-facts which were known weeks ago confidentially by officials and many sports writers connected with the scandal, but which were withheld from the public until the eligibility committee had a second fair chance to administer justice.
The revelations by the Star sports editor are neither biased, nor unfounded, nor exaggerated. They are objectively and truthfully reported. These revelations open the public's eyes to a cancer within the Big Seven administration — a cancer caused by the lack of "backbone."
That Dud Brannum is clearly ineligible, and that even Kansas States agree to that fact, is now clear. Dr. F. C. (Phog) Allen's sincere, though highly criticized, effort to enforce a conference ruling has failed—BUT NOT BECAUSE HE WAS WRONG. IT WAS PRIMARILY BECAUSE HE STOOD ALONF AS AN ATHLETIC LEADER WITH "GUTS."
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Without quoting at any length from Mr. McBride's article, or repeating what this column has published before, the all-important fact to remember is this. Brannum was allowed to continue to play legally because Dr. H. H. King, the Kansas State faculty representative, made a mistake by giving the athlete the green light last spring to play in the Denver tournament.
SO THE BIG SEVEN COMMITTEE VOTED FOR BRANNUM TO SAVE FACE FOR A FELLOW-MEMBER.
That's the reason they voted twice contrary to rules. There are other implications in the scandal, and probably more dirt will be barred before the matter drops from the public eye. Yet the important fact is that conference rules have been ignored for the sake of friendship.
"Are the conference rules, to be enforced or ignored?"
Now is the time for the public to ask, and for the Big Seven schools to demand, an answer to this question:
Graduate Wins Two Prizes
Robert Kiskadden, 47, won second and third prizes for oil paintings in the sixth annual Ohio Valley exhibition. The exhibit was sponsored by Ohio university.
Kiskadden is teaching and working on an M.A. degree at Ohio Wesleyan.
'Harvey' To Open 3-Day Run April 8
"Harvey," a three act farce by Mary Chase, will be presented April 8, 9, and 10.
Brock Pemberton, '08, Broadway producer, will appear as the lead, Elmer Dowd. Mr. Pemberton was asked to play the role by Chancellor Deane W. Malott.
The University production will have a student-faculty cast. It will be presented April 12 in Mr. Pemberton's home town in Emporia.
Training Camp Briefs
Clearwater, Fla., March 9 - Big Dutch Leonard, Philadelphia Phils pitcher who will be 38 years old later this month, today had the rare distinction of being the first major league hurler definitely picked for the season's opening game.
Leonard had one of the best seasons in his long career last year when he won 17 games and lost 12 for the seventh-place Phils. His earned run average was 2.68.
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San Bernardino, Cal.-With only one day's practice under his belt, Jerry Priddy was expected to play second base for the St. Louis Brown's today in their exhibition game against the Chicago Cubs.
St. Petersburg, Fla.-Thirty-seven year old George McQuinn, finally back in the New York Yankee fold after a long holdout, today laughed away the suggestion that anybody could take his first base job away from him.
Manager Zack Taylor announced that Priddy would start in an infield with rookie George McDonald at first, Sam Dente at short, and Bob Dillinger at third.
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McQuinn ended his holdout yester- day by signing for about $15,000 and announcing that he was "ready to play 150 games."
Bradenton, Fla.-General manager John Quinn and manager Billy Southworth of the Boston Braves denied today that they had attempted to trade second baseman Coonie Ryan to the Chicago Cubs after getting Eddie Stanky from the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Hollywood, Fla—Six homers were hit yesterday as the Pittsburgh Pirates defecated the Hollywood Stars, 7 to 4 in an exhibition game.
Southworth said that he planned to carry 10 pitchers, three catchers, seven infielders, and five outfielders after June 15.
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Wally Westlake and Ed Stevens were the only Pirates to hit for the circuit. The other homers were hit by the Stars' Tod Davis (two), Fred Vaughn, and Andy Skurski.
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IM Teams Open Volleyball Season
Fri. Mar. 12—Mil. Science Bldg.
POST GAME DANCE
Twelve teams took to the courts in Robinson gym last night to open the intramural volleyball season with the first round of play. Playing two games out of three to determine the winner, no team was forced into a third to win its match last night.
Phi Delt took Triangle, 15 to 2 and 15 to 11. Phi Gam won from Delta Upsilon, 15 to 5 and 15 to 10; Alpha Kappa Lambda defeated Phi Kappa 15 to 8 and 16 to 14; Delta Tau beat A. V. C. 15 to 7 and 15 to 3; Tau Kappa Epsilon down Siged Up 15 to 12 and 15 to 11. sigma Chi won from Theta Tau on a forfeit.
'A' Regionals Begin At Turner, Colby
The University of Minnesota expects to hit an enrollment peak of 30,000 by 1965.
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Play will commence in most of the other 17 Kansas towns tomorrow in the regional eliminations.
Oberlin was considered the team to beat in the eight-school Colby tournament. At Turner, Washington Rural was given the pre-tourney nod over seven other eastern Kansas teams.
Colby, Kan, March 9-(UP)-Regional tournament play in Kansas high school basketball opened today with class A teams battling in Colby and Turner, in the east and west ends of the state.
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