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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
APRIL 10,19
By BILL CONBOY
Baseball Coach Vic Bradford is not the only diamond boss in the Big Six who has been bothered with weather troubles this spring. The Iowa State squad under L. C. (Cap) Crawford was out last Friday against the Iowa Teachers with only seven days of outdoor practice.
The consistent rain at Ames continued when showers fell both Friday and Saturday to force postponement of the contests. They will be replayed April 21 and 22.
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Both Kansas State and Iowa State have cage stars from the recently completed season appearing in their starting lineups for baseball play. Jack Dean, speedy Wildcat guard, is slated as a starting pitcher for the Manhattan crew. Don Paulsen, on most second team all-Big Six basketball selections, will hold down first base for the Ames nine.
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Joe Golding, 26-year-old Oklahoma halfback, gave indications in the Sooner spring football practice that he will be harder than ever to handle by the time fall rolls around. He galloped to nine touchdowns in the four spring practice games held down in Norman.
The most improved player on the Oklahoma squad in the opinion of lead coach Charles "Bud" Wilkinson. Gene Heape, end right from Nowata.
Ed Kreick, third string fullback for the Sooners last fall, cracked the opposing line for almost 100 yards in the final practice scrimmage. He burns "Buddy" Jones, a ground power "letter of the Oklahoma track team," worked his way up to a starting left half position in the same game.
Jones will face stifler competition next fall from Dave Wallace, out of Mount Sinai and Charles Saratt, who ran wild for Sooners at the close of last season.
Kansas Relay Sidelights
Three of the greatest football coaches in the history of the American game have served as head referee for the Kansas Relays in past years. They were Knute Rocke, Fielding H. Yost, and Amos Alonzo Stagg.
One of the biggest single events ever run in the Kansas Relays was the 1938 invitational mile. This race was broadcast to the nation over a nationwide network. The contestants were Don Lash, Archie San Romani, Gene Venske, and Glenn Cunningham.
Sam Francis, newly appointed head football coach at Kansas State, participated in the Relays in 1937. He broke the shot put record that year with a heave of 51 feet, 6 inches. He then shattered two years later by Elmer Jackduck who set the present Relays record at 32 feet, $ \frac{1}{2} $ inches.
Net Squad Plays Nebraska Friday
The' varsity tennis team will play the first home match of the season 2:30 p.m. Friday against the University of Nebraska sued in a nonconference tilt on the stadium concrete courts.
The match will consist of five singles and two doubles.
Dick Richards and Roy Shoaf will start for the University team, Coach Gordon Sabine said. Other possible starters include Frank Gage, Sam Mazon, Bob Barnes, Hervey MacFerran, and Charles Carson. Shoaf, Barnes, and Carson are lettermen from last year's team.
A special scoreboard on which the spectators can follow match progress has been built by the University buildings and grounds department. It is reported to be the only one of its kind.
The match will be postponed or cancelled if the weather is rainy.
The University team will play Washburn at Topeka Saturday.
Improved Newcomers To Press Regular Backs For Football Spots
New faces appear from time to time in the top eleven which head football coach George Sauer is whipping into shape on the Jayhawker practice field. Last season's starting lineup will return intact for the fall campaign, but newcomers and squadmen from 1946 who have shown improvement will be pressing the regulars for first string soots. Here is the backfield picture as it lines up at present:
At quarterback, Lynn McNutt and
back, Lylin McNutt and "Red" Hogan are being pressed by T. A. Scott of Kilgore, Texas. In a practice game March 29, Scott tossed two touchdown passes to end Darrell Norris to help the "Whites" defeat the "Reds" 27 to 26.
Hogan's Passes Click
Hogan, the fiery redhead who rolled up 229 aerial yards in only six quarters last season, tossed two scoring passes, one to end Otto Schnellbacher and the other to end Dave Schmidt in the practice game.
Cecil "Tip" Mester, 1946 squadman, rounds out the top four quarterbacks. Mester has shown steady improvement this spring and will likely see more action this fall.
Evans Strengths Left Half
The left halfback position appears solid with the return of Ray Evans, captain of the 1946 eleven and holder all-Big Six and all-America honors, its capably backed by another 1946 veteran, speedster Bud French.
Dick Gilman, a 190-pounder from Merriam, and Charley Moffett, returned all-Big tailback of the 1944 season, are pushing Evans and French for their positions. In the opening practice game of the spring season, Gilman played long touchdown sprints, ranging from 40 to 55 years in length.
Behind the top four, Stricker of St. Louis and Fisher of Topeka have been the progress by playing heads up ball in crimmages. Right Half Wall Mauer
Right Half Well Manned
The right halfback position is manned by Dick Bertuzzi, deceptive running back of two seasons. A weak ankle which gave the player from Arma trouble in 1946 appears to have healed. Close behind Bertuzzi is Leroy Robison, converted fullback of the 1945 team.
Robison made a touchdown for the "Reds" in a practice game on an 18-yard run. He has shownprom-in in the spring sessions. Dale Mahone of McDonald have been substituting for him and Robison, Foster, Brimer, and Price complete the right half picture.
Baker Performs With Skill
The fullback spot has seen a lot of experimenting during the spring drills. Hoyt Baker, husky veteran from last year has pieased the coaches with his performances. Forrest Griffith, converted from right half, has been flashing promise in this position.
Frank Pattete from Smith Center has been going well after a late start. These three men have the edge of one year's playing experience, but the all around performances of Ralph Brown and Roger Yost have proven them strong contenders. Brown, from Newton, played in the third string bucking spot for Oklahoma A. and M. last year. Yost is from Kansas City, Missouri. He has played one season of college ball on the Kentucky varsity.
Sherwood and Nacarrate, a pain of big rough bruisers, have flashed evidences of ability at the fullback spot in scrimmage sessions.
New York—(UP)—The National Boxing association, deploring the lack of heavyweight title contenders, still rated Jersey Joe Walcott of Camden, N. J., today as the best of the lot, but predicted that champion Joe Louis would not be able to retain the title indefinitely.
Rate Walcott Best Bet To Fight Louis
In its quarterly ratings, the N.B.A. listed Walcott as an outstanding boxer but refused to list him or any boxer as a logical contender.
President Abe J. Greene of the N. B. A. said that "it is inevitable that even an invincible fighting machine like Joe Louis will eventually meet his waterloo."
Durocher's Fate Still A Question
New York-(UP) — The baseball fate of Lippy Leo Durocher hung today on the wide-open question of who would be his successor at the helm of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Nobody knew that better than the white-faced Leo when he heard that Commissioner A. B. Chandler had suspended him from the game for one year.
And it was significant that President Branch Rickey dodged all questions as to whether Durocher would be welcomed back when the suspension ends. The reason is fairly evident.
Durocher, Rickey At Odds
They have been at odds ever since the conventional-minded deacon inherited Durocher as manager when he took over in Brooklyn. Raucous hambanty Durocher wasn't a Rickie that had the Dodgers up there so consistently that the deacon was afraid to hand him his walking papers.
Now, Rickey has a perfect out—particularly if the 1947 manager should step into Lippy's slashing lead the Dodgers to the pennant.
Whether the deacon intends to throw a curve ball at Leo should be obvious when the new pilot is selected. If it is someone from within the organization, Durocher has an even chance of being reinstated as manager in 1948. But, if the nod goes to someone on the outside, then Durocher probably is through.
Four May Get Call
There are four men in the Dodger setup right now who might get the call. They are the three coaches, Ray Blades, Clyde Sukeforth or Jake Bitler, and second baseman Eddie Stanky.
Blades is the only one with major league managerial experience, having piloted the St. Louis Cardinals in 1939 and until mid-season of 1940. Rickey fired him at that time for the manner in which he handled the pitchers. Also detracting from the possibility that Rickey might hand him the Dodger reins, Blades insisted when he signed as a Brooklyn coach this season that he never again intended to manage a club.
Sukeforth formerly managed Montreal and Pitler was head man at Olean and Newport News. Of those three, big Jake is the only man who ever saw the Dodgers play until this season.
Stanky is a remote possibility. He is the Rickey type, quiet and clean-living and a battler all the way through, and the deacon has a very high opinion of him.
May Be Someone From Outside
Yet it may be someone from the outside, too. Rickey conferred several years ago with Bill Terry, former manager of the hated Giants, when he was having contractual difficulties with Durocher. Terry is the man who embittered Brooklyn by asking whether the Dodgers still were in the league—but Rickey would dare almost anything, even to bring Terry to Brooklyn.
Cards Move To St. Louis For Series With Browns
Kansas City, Mo.—(UP)—The St. Louis Cardinals, homeward bound for their annual city series against the St. Louis Browns, hope to continue their heavy hitting today against the Kansas City Blues pitchers.
The Cards came out of a batting slump yesterday at Dallas, Tex., and defeated the Texas league's Dallas Rebels, 10 to 2.
Mele To Play For Red Sox
Roanoke, Va.—(UP)—Sam Mele appeared to have climbed the right field birth with the Boston Red Sox today after rattling five straight hits against Cincinnati yesterday to pace the American League champions to a 17 to 6 victory.
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