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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MAY 16, 1946
We will have our last chance to show how much support we intend to give spring sports tomorrow and Saturday when the Jayhawker baseballers entertain the Missouri Tigers for a two-game series.
By BILL SIMS
Only two conference games have been played here because bad weather has forced the cancellation of others, and the attendance at those two games was pretty good. But it wasn't nearly as good as it could have been.
With over 5,000 students enrolled in the University, there should be between 500 and 1,000 athletic supporters of all sports, not just football and baseball. The whole valley should resound with the cheers of loyal Kansas fans when these two teams meet.
The Tigers won the first two game series, and the Jayhawkers will be out to get revenge. They will be fighting to win, so that Kansas can move up the conference ladder into second or third place. That's all the more reason all of us who possibly can should be out there rooting for the Crimson and Blue.
If the students show the athletic department that they will support the so-called minor sports whole-heartedly, you can bet your bottom dollar that the athletic department will do everything it can to build the minor sports into major sports at Kansas. They'll cooperate with us if we'll co-operate with the teams and coaches.
Once again it's up to us to show them that we mean it when we say we'll cooperate. Let's all be down at the baseball diamond for these two games.
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Kansas boasts one of the best hurriers in the conference in Tom Saffell. He has won two and lost two in Big Six competition, but he has had a lot of tough luck. Errors have been his downfall in both games, and his earned run average is low in the four games he has worked.
Saffell probably will get the cah to hurl against the Tigers tomorrow. It will be his second home appearance this season, and, in his first, he let Kansas State down with two hits. If Saffell gets good support from his teammates, he will be hard to beat.
Saffell has been called the best Jayhawk hurler since Knute Kresie was mowing the opposition down in 1940 and 1941. Saffell has a fine assortment of curves, a good drop, and a pretty fair fast ball, and he also is one of the best hitters on the team.
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Tribute should be paid to all of the men who have represented Kansas in athletics this year. All have done their best to give Kansas good teams, and they have done a pretty good job.
It's true that we have won only two championships so far, but only the Oklahoma Sooners have done as well so far as titles are concerned. If the Jayhawkers can come through at Lincoln in the track and field meet, Kansas will rank right up at the top of the Big Six all-sports standings.
Kansas is definitely on its way up in Big Six athletics, and next year the Jayhawkers should do even better. Ernie Quigley and his staff are to be congratulated for a swell job this year. The Crimson and Blue will no longer be the doormat of conference athletics.
'Cowboys' Are Chosen All Sports 'Champs'
Stillwater, Okla. (UP)—Oklahoma A. & M. won three major sports championships of the Missouri Valley conference to clinch the all-sports honors for the 1945-46 year.
The Aggies took first places in football, basketball and track, tied for second in tennis and was third in golf.
Campus Acquires New Football Fans
The little Sauers, George and Dana, already have been converted from their Nebraska upbringing and are enthusiastic Jayhawkers. During spring practice, they decked out in their red sweaters with the Jayhawker emblems and watched Daddy, Coach George Sauer, direct his gridmen. Here they get "in the huddle" with Frank Pattee, fullback, and Hubert Grubiss, end. Coach Sauer says they think no one ever had a Jayhawk until they came to Lawrence, since they always proudly out at seeing the emblem somewhere else, "Look! There's a Jayhawk like ours."
Sigma Chi, Sigma Nu, Phi Kappa,
and Phi Delta Theta were the winners in intramural softball games Wednesday.
Sigma Chi, Phi Delt,
Phi Kappa, Sigma Nu
Win Softball Games
Sigma Chi defeated the Sigma Phi Epsilon team by an overwhelming score of 17-7. The Sigma Chi's took the lead early in the game and held it throughout the encounter.
Sigma Nu played a hard fought game with Delta Upsilon but was able to hold a four-run advantage with a final score of 8-4. The lead was threatened several times but the Sigma Nu team put down the rallies without damage.
Phi Kappa forged ahead in the last innings to defeat the Tau Kappa Epsilon squad by a score of 8-4. The TKE's took the lead early in the game but were unable to hold the Phi Kappa team down.
The game between PT-7 and Kappa Alpha Psi was postponed until today by agreement of both teams.
Phi Delta Theta walked away with the game with Alpha Tau Omega by a score of 11-2.
The Jayhawkier linksmen, who finished their pre-tournament season with four victories and five defeats; will compete in the Big Six golf tournament Friday and Saturday at Lincoln, Neb. The results of the tournament determine the winner of the title and also the standings of the other teams.
Golfers Will Compete In Big Six Tourney
Coach William Shannon probably will use Jack Hines, Bill Winey, Phil Wade, and Peter Macdonald in an effort to give Kansas a championship. Oklahoma, undefeated in Big Six competition this season, is favored to capture the title, but either Missouri or Kansas could upset the favorites.
Lemonade was the favorite beverage of the Mongol emperors in China. A special official of high rank was charged with keeping enough on hand.
A.D. Pi's, Corbin Hall Chi O's, Harmon Win In Women's Softball
Three of the closest games of the season were played in the woman's intramural softball tournament Wednesday, when Alpha Delta Pi defeated Gamma Phi Beta, 2-1, Chi Omega won over the Independents, 4-3, and Corbin hall defeated Locksley, 4-1. Harmon Co-op won over Alpha Omicron Pi, 12-2, in a later game.
Each team was fighting for honors in its division and for qualification into the semi-finals. Land and Anderson pulled through a win for Alpha Delta Pi over Gamma Phi's Urban and Brown. Curtis and Jones for Chi Omega held down the Independents, whose battery was Strobel and Stuber. Corbin's Horseman, and Pyle scored their second win against Locksley's strong battery, VanderSmisson and Bedell, giving Corbin second chance for honors in its division. Battery for Harmon was Stoll and Bozarth, and for Alpha Omicron Pi, Voth and Burthscher.
In a late game Tuesday, Tipperary hall defeated Harmon 9-1. Battery for Tipperary was Cultra and Lenski and for Harmon, Stinebaugh and Stoll.
19 Tracksters Go To N.U. Tomorrow
Nineteen Jayhawker tracksters will leave at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning for the Big Six outdoor track and field meet at Lincoln, Neb. Coach Ray Kanehl and trainer Dean Nesmith will accompany the team.
The Jayhawkers are determined to upset favored Nebraska and bring home the championship. It will be a close meet, and a bad break in one or two events might spell the difference between victory and defeat. If the Kansans win the title, it will be the first for the Jayhawkers since 1934.
No One Watched Willie
Peck, Anderson, Jackson, Dester-
haft, Shea, Lunsford, Hinchee, Lapt-
ra, Raab, Moore, Wetton, Black,
Robison, Ebel, Henoch, Scofield,
Zimmer and Stevens will compete
for the Jayhawkers.
Jacksonville, Fla. (UP) — Willie Mark of this city lost his pocket watch in 1920. He asked police detectives to find it. This year the watch turned up in a local pawnb shop and now — you guessed it — the hunt is on for Willie.
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