UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
JUNE 4,1947
PAGE FOUR
Jayhawker Coaches Name The Year's Best Sportsmen
Jayhawker coaches of the spring sports have closed their books on one of the toughest seasons in Big Six history. The record could have been better in baseball, but the track, tennis, and golf teams all ended the season with successful campaigns behind them.
In an interview head baseball coach Vic Bradford named three players as outstanding during the season. Dick Bertuzzi, right fielder, as his top clutch hitter, Bertuzzi, who doubles on the football field as a halfback, won two of the Jayhawkers four victories with timely hits. One came in the ninth inning against Kansas State here and the other against the Missouri Tigers at Columbia in the next to the last game of the season. The latter blow was a triple off Stewart Finlayson, star Tiger pitcher. The Jayhawkers won the contest, 2 to 1.
Dick Gilman was selected by coach Bradford as another outstanding performer. Also a, football halfback, Gilman pitched good ball on several occasions for the Kansas team.
The third player named by the Jayhawker diamond coach was first baseman Lou DeLuna. DeLuna batted at cleanup during the last part of the Kansas schedule. He led the University team in total bases for the season.
Coach Bradford picked the victory over Missouri at Columbia as the game which made him happiest. The Tigers had won two contests from the Jayhawkers here and were confident of a third. By winning, Kansas knocked Missouri out of a chance at the league title.
"Bud" French, shortstop, was picked by the Kansas coach as the most improved player through the year. Harold May was also mentioned for his steady play in all the games. Regarding the team personnel, coach Bradford said:
"Only one senior was on the squad. It was really a sophomore team. Other conference schools had more experienced men. In another year or two; this same Kansas team may be tough to handle."
The Jayhawker diamond boss chose Oklahoma, the Big Six champion, as the best team his club faced. He said that the Missouri and Kansas State pitchers were the toughest, however. Finlayson and Englert of Missouri, along with Dean and Bell of the Kansas State club, formed the top mound quarter of the league.
Track coach Ray Kanehl found it difficult to name outstanding performers because of diversity of events in the sport. He did cite Tom Scofield's record breaking high jump in the conference meet at Lincoln as the top single feat of the year. The Kansas jumper went up 6 feet, $7\%$ inches to win the event and take the outstanding performer trophy of the meet.
In addition to Scofield, the list of men which coach Kanehl is planning to take to the coming Central College meet includes John Jackson, quarter miler; Bob Karnes, distance runner; and Karl Ebel, javelin thrower.
The Kansas coach picked Missouri as the top team in the conference next year with newcomer Colorado offering plenty of competition. He thought the meet with Southwest conference champions June 13 will be tough for Big Six winners to take since several of the stars of this league will not be able to attend. Tennis
Tennis coach Gordon Sabine said that it would be difficult for him to choose his outstanding performer, but he did name the single best match played by one of his men. It was played by Erwin Busiek, Jayhawker number one man through much of the season, against Stanley Draper of Oklahoma in the opening match of the year at Norman.
Draper, a red-haired fireball on the court, had both power and accuracy. He scored more than 50 placements against Busiek in three sets, but the Kansas netter would not be beaten.
Busiek took the first set, 6-4. After Draper captured the second set
the two battled to 6-all in the third set. After breaking Draper's serve in the 13th game with three placements, Busiek scored four more placements in the next game to take the match.
Coach Sabine chose Roy Shoaf for his most improved player for the year. Big Six singles champion in 1946, Shoaf faced tremendous competition this spring. He was equal to the test, however, working all winter to smooth out his rough spots. Shoaf won the majority of his matches this season, playing against uniformly tough competition.
In a practice match at Kansas City, Shoaf hit his peak, defeating Len Prosser, a member of the national public parks championship team and a former Jayhawker star.
The Kansas net coach also revealed some handicaps under which various members of his team operated during the season. Harold Miller played all year with a bullet in his leg, a souvenir from college days, with about 20-800 vision, could not even see on the court when his glasses cluded up.
Roy Shoaf played the last part of the schedule with stomach cramps which kept him from sleeping normally day or night. Barn Barness lacked physical power to play but made up enough in headwork to gain a spot on the team. Golf
Coach Boy Coyon of the Jayhawkier golf team named Bill Jones, his number one man as the outstanding Kansas player of the year. Jones turned in the top individual performance when he shot a 66 against Oklahoma in a conference match at Kansas City. This round, six strokes below par, equalled the Swope park course record for amateurs.
It was Jones' sub-pair shooting that enabled the Kansas golfers to defeat the Sooners, $12\frac{1}{2}$ to $51\frac{1}{2}$, and gain a tie for the league championship with Oklahoma and Iowa State. Coach Coyan chose Charley Coe, Sooner number one man, as the best golfer his team faced during the season.
The Jayhawker coach named Oklahoma A. and M, in their match here as the hottest team the Kansas golfers faced during the year.
The Kansas coach is planning to take six men back to the National Intercollegiate golf meet. Though competition will be exceedingly tough, he predicted that some members of the Jayhawker team are likely to pull an upset or two.
Johnson Named Dance Manager
Charles D. Johnson, special student in the School of Business, will be dance manager for the 1947-48 academic year. He was appointed Tuesday by the A.S.C. social committee.
He will be in charge of booking arrangements for all A.S.C. sponsored dances. Organizations needing help in planning parties may also call on him.
Johnson was manager and a member of the ship's orchestra on the S.S. Normandy in 1939. While in the service he handled the booking and management of orchestras in various army and navy clubs.
Other applicants included Ben Webster, fine arts sophomore; Robert J. Anderson and Donald Wind, College freshmen; and Joe Moddrell and Ralph Moberley, sophomores.
About 2,700 students now on the campus have elected to return for summer school, James K. Hitt, registrar, said today.
2,700 Will Return To Summer School
The influx of freshmen just graduating from high school and former students returning to school will boost the number well over 3,000 at enrollment time, the registrar estimated.
Summer school registration and enrollment wil begin at 1 p.m. Thursday, June 19. Letter schedules for registration may be picked up at the registrar's office.
Parker, Falkenburg
Lead Tennis Tournament
Kansas City, Mo.—(UP)—Frank Parker, the defending champion, led several tennis standouts into the third round of the Heart of America tournament today.
Parker breezed through Eugene Spitz of St. Joseph, Mo. 6-0, 6-1, Malibu of Los Angeles defeated Detroit of Kansas City by the same score.
Other winners were Francisco (Pancho) Segura of Ecuador; Garnar Mulloy of Miami, Earl Cochell of Los Angeles, and Pancho Gonzales of Los Angeles.
A group of books handbound by Anne Marie Raeder, special student from Oslo, Norway, is on exhibition in the department of design, third floor, Frank Strong hall. The book displays typical examples of leather and handmade paper used in handbinding.
Mrs. Reader is the only woman to hold a master bookbinder's certificate in the Bookbinders Guild of Norway. She has studied in the Norweigian School of Arts and Crafts at Oslo and with O. V. Calder of Oxford, England.
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