UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MAY 22,1947
PAGE FOUR
By BILL CONBOY
Kansas isn't the only school which depends on double and triple duty athletes to bring home the sports bacon. When Illinois defeated Purdue, 6 to 0, for the Big Nine baseball title Saturday, two football players and a basketball star contributed to the victory.
Russ Steger, fullback on this year's triumphant Rose Bowl eleven, got one hit and scored two runs from third spot in the batting order. He played right field. Julie Rykovich, powerful Illinois halfback played left field and batted sixth. The cage team was represented by Andy Phillip, scoring star of the "Whiz Kids", who got two hits-in four times at bat. Phillip played first base.
The top performer of the Illinois baseball season was Marv Rotlbatt a left-handed hurler. He allowed only three hits in the shutout over Purdue. During the Big Nine season, he won six games and lost none to tie a modern conference record.
In his half dozen victories, Rotblatt allowed a total of 18 hits, all but one of them singles. Only three earned runs were scored off his pitching. Some major league scouts have called him the top hurler in college baseball.
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When Kansas State played Ft Riley in baseball May 14, the soldiers started fast to go out in front 3 to 0 after two rounds at the plate. Then the roof fell in. The final score was 23 to 5 in favor of the Wildcats. The Big Six team scored 11 runs in the sixth innning.
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Lud Fiser, Kansas State baseball coach, claims to have the most powerful hitting team in Wildcat history this season. Five of the regulars are clubbing the ball at better than a .300 clip. They are first baseman Jennifer Kendall, right first baseman Brennan, second baseman Dana Atkins, third baseman "Gabby" Chew, and left fielder Keith Thomas.
Kier has 24 hits in 55 times at bat for a 436 average. The Wildcat first sacker packs a lot of power. He drove out two home runs against Washburn university in a game last week.
--fuses to go along with the experts however.
Texas A. and M. won the Southwest conference track meet Friday and Saturday by upsetting Texas university, 59% to 53%. The Longhorns were deped to take the title weakness in field events proved fatal.
The Aggies picked up 34% points in six field events, but Texas was able to score only 3%. George Knight scored 28%, the most in shot but, discus, and laxiel throw.
Jerry Thompson, tireless little Longhorn distance runner, captured firsts in the half-mile<sub>5</sub> mile, and two-mile races. He received the individual trophy of the meet on loss of a coin with George Kadera.
Perry Samuels of Texas upset Bill Martinez of Baylor to win the 100-yard dash. Samuels has been eclipsed all year by teammates Charley Parker, andullen Lawler, anduryard for the first time urday and maintained his lead to win in 9.7 seconds. Lawler finished third and Parker fourth.
Men's Pep Club Installs Rod Armstrong President
New officers were installed Tuesday night by the KuKu club at the last regular meeting of the present semester.
Officers who will direct the men's pen club next year are:
Rod Armstrong, president; Reg Robertson, vice-president; Eugene Innis, secretary; and Bob Bell, treasurer.
Plane Displaces Wagon at 89 Oklahoma City—(UP) —Sarah Pennington, 89, who once crossed the plains in a covered wagon, flew to Oklahoma City from California. Her judgment of air travel: "I felt good part of the time—and not so good part of the time."
26 KU Tracksters To NU To Defend Big Six Title
Coach Ray Kanehl and 25 members of the track team leave for Lincoln today to defend their Big Six championship at the 19th annual running of the conference meet.
Statistics on past performances favor Missouri to win this year's meet by a wide margin, with Nebraska second and Oklahoma Kansas fighting
"We'll be in there fighting all the way and hope to edge Nebraska out for that second place spot," he says. "Don't sell Oklahoma short though. They may take more points than expected, and we're hoping that they take them from Missouri and Nebraska rather than us."
880 Relay Included This Year
Wednesday, Coach Kanehl received word that an 880 relay would be included in this year's meet. This event hasn't been included in the meet for the past few years and may change the point totals which decide the top three spots.
Kansas hasn't been training a team for this event, and, if the other schools in the league were not informed any earlier, it may make a great deal of difference. The age of the team was made up of William Binter, Lee Schloesser, Richard Wagstaff and Glen Thompson.
Other Kansas entries, by events,
will be: 100-yard dash—Schlosser
and Thompson; 220-yard dash—John
Jackson, Schlosser, Thompson and
Wagstaff; 220-yard low hurdles—
Frank Stannard and Welton; 120-yard
high hurdles—Stannard and
Welton; 440-yard dash—Dick Shea,
Otto Sites, Jackson and Binter;
880-yard run—Pieriat Johnson, Harold
Hinchee and Winton Studt.
Moore And Karnes in Mile Run.
Mile run—Hal Moore and Robert Karnes; two-mile run —Karnes, Moore, and Stud; Mile relay—Binter, Robert Hill, Jackson and Shea; Shot put—Paul Penyu and Leroy Robinson; Discuss—Karl Ebel, Robert Kline, Penny and Robinson; javelin—Bruce Henoch, Clifford King, Ebel, Kline, and Robinson; high jump—Tom Scfield, Delvin Norris and Norbert Zimmer; broad vault—Mallon.
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Archery Club Awards Medals
For the second consecutive time this season, Richard "Rip" Collins and La Vaughn Hodgson, were awarded gold medals for winning first place in the Archery club tournament held Wednesday. Rex Getz and Stella Gabrielson, second place winners were awarded silver medals. Miss Joie Stapleton, assistant professor of physical education, supervised the competition which included eight men and six women.
Five targets were used by the 14 competitors in the tournament. Scores were as follows:
To receive a blue shirt, the rider must go on a rough cross-country
Men Hits Score
Collins, Richard 83 405
Getz, Rex 63 227
Shigley, Harold 49 272
Furnish, Alan 56 264
LeVan, Herbert 56 244
Staples, Robert 55 243
Lemons, Robert 59 241
Cowdrey, Joseph 46 179
A red shirt must know how to jump a horse or pass a five gait exam. For this degree, the rider learns how to make with the forge and anvil, for horseshoeing is included in the exam.
Women Hits Score
Hodgson, La Vaughn 57 255
Gabrielson, Stella 47 237
Smith, Leah 42 190
Lippelmann, Joan 28 120
Leigh, Pearl 19 81
Topping, Jane 11 49
With Cry 'Yoicks, Yoicks, And Talley Ho,' Kansas Spur Club Riders Are On The Go
With a shout of "yoicks, yoinks and talley ho" the members of the University Spur club are off for a romp in the meadows or a quick game of basketball on horseback.
After the tournament, the club held a picnic and election of officers. The newly elected officers are: Robert Lemons, president (Robin Hood); Rex Getz, vice-president (Little John); Joan Lippelmann, secretary-treasurer (Will Scarlet); and Leah Smith, publicity director (Friar Tuck). The new officers were initiated and plans were made for more tournaments with other schools for next year. ...
To be a white shirt, a member must know how to saddle, bridle and ride the three natural gaits of a horse—the walk, the trot and the canter. Also the rider must know how to mount a horse, which isn't as easy as it sounds. One girl, after saddling her horse, gave a leap, cleared the horse and landed on the other side. No doubt, that is where the yoicks comes in.
Must Jump a 'Horse'
The Spur club is an organization of about thirty members who excel in making friends with the quadrupes. The club has three honor degrees, the white, red and blue shirts.
trip, taking everything that may chance in the horse's way by leaping and bounding. The member must know how to hobble a horse, which, in the terms of the landlubbers, means to tie the horse's head to his front foot so that it will not wander away from them, enjoying a bite of breakfast. The blue shirt can also ride the three natural gaits on bare-back.
Riders Are Up In the Air
plicated game in which the riders
plicated game in which their iders
are up in the air and the baskets
are on the ground. This game is
strictly for those riders who can
take rough stuff. The basketball is
thrown to the center who throws it
to the guard. So far so good. The
fun comes in when the basketball
is dropped to the ground. Then all
the riders dismount and try to get
to the ball the shortest possible way,
which generally means climbing
under, over or around the horse.
This feat is not so difficult either if
the rider knows that his horse is
a nice steady individual who will
not move while he is half-way
between his forelegs.
Riders Are Up In the Air
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1,350 Golfers Set In National Open
New York—(UP)—A field of 1,350 golfers have entered the National Open tournament in which only 171 players actually can compete and only one man can win.
The entry list, second largest in the history of the open, was announced by the U.S. Golf Association.
The U.S.G.A. said that the total was subject to a recheck but that it was certain to surpass all previous records in 1928 when 1,402 golfers sought the title.
Out of the sectional rounds will emerge 126 low strokesters who will complete the field for the 47th open which will be held over the swanky St. Louis Country club layout on June 12, 13, and 14.
Among the 45 exempt players are 11 former winners of the open, including war-hero Lloyd Mangrum, the defending champion, who took the title last year at Cleveland's Canterbury Country.
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