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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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MAY 24
By BILL SIMS
One of the biggest improvements that could be made in the intramural system would be the awarding of trophies for individual sports to the winning team, instead of giving one award to the winner of the point sweepstakes.
The single award for the team compiling the most points in all sports throughout the school year causes too much emphasis to be placed on intramural sports. Several organizations have talked men into competing in intramurals who could have made varsity teams in the same sports so that the team could win points toward the sweepstakes award.
Individual trophies for the different sports would do away with a lot of this, since there wouldn't be as much competition for one big award. It would give more teams a chance to win something in the intramural program, and it would be a much fairer system of reward.
Many teams or organizations participate in only three or four sports, but often they win the title in this sport. Since they don't compete in all of the athletics, they don't have a very good chance to win the sweepstakes. They should get a trophy for winning that sport, instead of some team that they beat getting an award just because it participated in every sport.
If an independent organization won a tournament, the team members should have a choice of a trophy or individual awards.
I believe that this is a necessary stop that must be taken to clear up the intramural system and make it a good natured athletic contest instead of a bitter dog-eat-dog affair.
The major league race for top honors in the home run slugging department should be one of the most interesting in several years. Most of the prewar stars are back, and they are giving evidence that the layoff didn't hurt their batting eyes very much.
eyes Very hard.
With only one-third of the schedule completed, batters are clipping off home runs at a rate which will far surpass the top marks of the past two or three years.
Joe DiMaggio and Charley Keller of the Yankees and Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox are fighting for the lead in the American league with DiMaggio registering nine to top Williams by one.
Vernon Stephens won the home run title last year when he paired 24 for the St. Louis Browns. The winning total this year may double his mark, and it could easily approach and perhaps go over the 50 mark.
In the National league Johnny Mize tops the list with seven, but several others are capable of taking the lead at any time. The National league total for the season probably will not approach that of the junior league, but it should be better than last year's mark.
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Sigma Alpha Epsilon meets Alpha Tau Omega in an intramural softball playoff game today to determine which team will enter the championship tournament.
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The Sig Alph's defeated Carruth 2 to 1 in an overtime eight-inning contest Thursday in the first round of the preliminary playoffs. The three teams had tied for second place in Division II.
SAE-ATO Meet In I-M Playoff
It was one of the tightest games of the season, and each team made only one error. Carruth scored its lone tally in the fifth inning, but it looked like it might be the winning run.
Ewers, the first man to face the Carruth hurler, Stout, touched him for the only safety up until the seventh inning. The Sig Alph's combined a walk, an error, and a single to tie up the score one-all in the first of the seventh.
Daugherty, Sig Alph shortstop, singled to open the eighth frame. He stole second, took third on a fielder's choice, and then stole home to give the Sig Alph's a one-run advantage. They put the game on ice in the last half of the eighth inning with tight fielding.
Sauer, Quigley Speak to Gridders
Coach George Sauer and Ernest C. Quigley, director of K.U. athletics, spoke to 35 of next year's potential gridiron stars at a football mixer sponsored by the athletic office in the Kansas room of the Union Thursday.
This was the last meeting of football coaches and players before the beginning of summer practice, July 1. The players were commended by Coach Sauer on the interest they have shown, and the following six men were given special awards for having a perfect attendance at this year's spring practice:
"Red" Hogan, Ray Bray. Bud French, Bill Fischer, Bob Bathis, und Mike Grobus.
Other speakers for the event included Capt. John V. Peterson, director of Navy V-12, at the University, and W. W. Davis, faculty representative of the athletic board.
Ball Teams Travel Despite Strike
New York. —(UP)—A schedule quirk which called for a complete slate of six night games, and the last-minute use of airplanes, buses, and chartered taxi-cabs enabled major league teams to get to new playing sites today despite the nationwide railroad strike.
for one of the few times since the start of night baseball in the majors, all of the six contests scheduled will be tonight instead of this afternoon, giving the clubs several extra hours to reach their destinations.
The extra time was expected to come in particularly handy for the Cincinnati Reds who were making a 400-mile highway jump between Buffalo, N.Y., and their home park in seven pre-war model taxicabs. The Reds left Buffalo at 8 p.m. Thursday and the trip was expected to take at least 10 hours, barring breakdowns, flat tires, and steaming radiators.
The Reds got stranded in Buffalo, en route home from Boston where they faced the prospect of missing tomorrow night's game with the St. Louis Cardinals, but Secretary Gabe Paul arranged for the taxi-cabs when he was unable to get plane or bus accommodations.
The Cardinals fared better. A minimum squad of 22 players, Manager Eddie Dyer and Coach Mike Gonzales, was scheduled to leave New York by TWA Stratoliner at 9 a.m. However, it was a regularly scheduled flight and the team was to go only to Dayton, where a bus has been chartered to complete the jaunt to Cincinnati. The Cards will operate without their star, Marty Marion, who declined to make the trip by air.
The Chicago Cubs were able to get out via Pennsylvania Central from New York for Pittsburgh only when the airline was able to arrange an extra-flight.
Will Stay With Cardinals
New York. (UP)—Three St. Louis Cardinal players—pitchers Max Lanier and Fred Martin and utility infielder Lou Klein—were reported late today to have reconsidered their decision to jump to the Mexican league and will stay with the Red-birds.
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Ted Lyons Succeeds Dykes as Sox Head
Baseball Results
Chicago. (UP)—James J. Dykes manager of the Chicago White Sox since 1934, resigned today, it was announced by Vice-President and General Manager Leslie M. O'Connor.
O'Connor simultaneously announced that Ted Lyons, veteran picker, would succeed Dykes, effective after tonight's game with the world champion Detroit Tigers.
American League York 12 Detroit 6
New York 12, Detroit 6.
Cleveland 3, Boston 2 (10 innings).
Washington at St. Louis, postponed, rain.
(Only games scheduled.)
National League
Brooklyn 2, Chicago 1 (11 innings).
ruttburgh 10. Philadelphia 2.
St. Louis 4, New York 1.
(Only games scheduled.)
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MacArthur Orders Japanese Princes Off Public Payroll
An allied headquarters directive deprived the princes and princesses of 14 families related to the royal household of all special privileges and immunities. They cannot eveuse imperial household servants.
Tokyo. (UP)—Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur today ordered the Japanese imperial princes off the public pay roll, subjected their wealth to taxation and instructed Emperor Hihito not to loan them any money.
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