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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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MARCH 27,1946
By BILL SIMS
The American league baseball race this year probably will be the closest in years, and it certainly will be the most interesting. So many stars have returned from war service that every club will be stronger, and fans will be watching these former players to see if they can make the grade again.
Everyone, who is interested in sports, is venturing predictions as to how the clubs will finish this season. I'm climbing way out on the end of the limb, but here are my predictions:
Boston Red Sox. New York Yankees, Detroit Tigers, Washington Senators, St. Louis Browns, Cleveland Indians, Philadelphia Athletics, Chicago White Sox.
I pick the Red Sox to win the title because I believe it will be the best balanced teams in the league. The Red Sox pitching corps will host such stalwarts as Tex Hughson, Dave Ferris, and Mickey Harris with several other capable hurriers. Boston's power at the plate should be terrific with Ted Williams, Bobby Orrer, Johnny Pesky, Dom DiMaggio, and Rudy York forming the closest thing in years to the old Yankee Murderers' Row.
Seasoned veterans will perform every position except third base, but several good prospects are fighting it out to gain a starting berth. If this gap can be filled successfully, the Red Sox should pull away from the field by the middle of September.
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The Yankees will be long on hitting and fielding, but the pitching staff may be a big disappointment. Cloud Chandler is one of the best pitchers in the league, but one ace can't win the pennant for a club.
Detroit is another club which will be well balanced. The battery worries should be practically nil for Manager Steve O'Neill, and the outfield should be strong. The infield the only weak spot in the Tiger meup, and power with the bat should make the Tigers one of the top contenders.
The Washington Senators probably have the strongest pitching taff in the league, but batting power poses the problem in the capital. The Browns have an outside chance to surprise everyone and capture the title. Pitching and batting should be strong, but fielding will be the Browns' main problem.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
March 27,1946
All Student Council special meeting, 7 tonight in Union.
Jayhawk Veterans meeting, 7 p.m.
tomorrow, room 426, Lindley hall.
Constitutional Amendment to be
voted on.
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The Engineering Council has closed Saturday to student activities not already approved. The Engineers' Hobnail Hop will be held at that time.
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Regular meeting of the Association of Law Students' Wives will be held in the lounge-library of Green hall at 8 tonight. Election of officers.
Notice to all Civil Engineers: A.S. C.E. meeting, tomorrow in the Kansas room of the Union from 7:30-8:30. Lee Gemmelt will speak on "The strangest People in the World." All Civil Engineers not yet members of the A.S.C.E. are cordially invited to attend.
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KU Young Republican Club meeting, 7:30 tomorrow, Pine Room, Union. Convention plans will be discussed.
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English Department Plans Tea
Mathematics club will meet at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow in the East room of the Union.
Majors, instructors, advanced standing and graduate students of the English department will have a "get acquainted" tea at 3:30 p.m. to-morrow in 313 Fraser hall.
Moorhead To Speak
This is William B. Moorhead, ace police reporter for the Kansas City Star, who is in Lawrence today for two appearances before University groups. He will speak at a Sigma Delta Chi initiation banquet at 6 p.m. in the Old English room of the Memorial Union, and will address members of the University club at the new clubhouse, $1007_{2}$ Massachusetts street, at 8. Guests are welcome for the latter meeting.
The Same Old Story: Aggies Do It Again
New York, (UP) — The agile Aggies of Oklahoma A. & M, ruled the National Collegiate basketball roost for another year today, and on the highest perch was seven-foot Bob Kurland, the tallest and perhaps the greatest court star ever to play in Madison Square Garden.
The Aggies, applying their usual diligence to defensive tactics trimmed North Carolina's eastern champions, 43 to 40 last night in the N.C.A.A. title game before 18,479 basketball batty fans.
By winning, the Aggies became the first team to take the N.C.A.A. championship two years in a row.
There wasn't anything particularly wrong with the Carolinians and they drove hard for the full distance. But despite their brilliant and sometimes effective efforts to stop the giant Kurland, they didn't have enough to plug the other gaps. It took two men to hold him and that left one of the other Aggies scot-free much of the time.
Pi Phi, DG Win Swimming Meet
Pi Beta Phi won the women's intramural swimming meet with $25\frac{1}{2}$ points, and Delta Gamma was close runner-up with 23 points last night in the Robinson gymnastium pool.
Olivia Garvey, DG, was individual high score with 13 points, and Marjorie Dinsmore, I.W.W., and Mary Crawford, Independents, tied for second with 12 each. Frances Chubb, Pi Beta Phi, Nancy Tomlinson, Kappa Alpha Theta, and Ia Ma Junod, Independent, each made 6 points.
The Independents were third with 18 points; L.W.W. placed fourth with 14 points; Kappa Alpha Theta made 12 points; Kappa Kappa Gamma scored 11 points; Tipperary made 5 points; and Sleepy Hollow made 3 points.
The summary:
One meet record was broken. Crawford, Independent, clipped 1/10 of a second off the breast stroke record set in 1941 to make it 26.3.
Relay—Tie: Delta Gamma, Pi Beta Phi, Kappa Alpha Theta.
Breast stroke (for form)—Dinmore, I.W.W.; Junod, Independent; McEwen, Kappa; Sanden, DG.
Free style (two lengths)—Garvey, DG, and Crawford, Independents, or first Kalk, Sleepy Hollow; Jood, Kalkins, and Betlach, DG, tied for fourth.
Diving—Keplinger, Pi Phi; Crawford. Independents; McGrew, Kappa White, Pi Phi.
Back stroke race (two lengths)—Tomlinson, Theta; Garvey, DG; Lenski, Tipperary; McEwen, Kappa.
Side stroke race — Dinsmore, I.W.W.; Junod, Independents, and Betlach, DG, tied for second; Kalin, Sleepy Hollow.
Crawl stroke (for form)—Chubb, Pi Phi; White, Pi Phi; Arnold, Kappa; Walker, Pi Phi
Breast stroke race—Crawford, Independents; Rios, DG; Dinsmore, I.W.W.; Gunsloy, Kappa.
Golf Candidates Meet
Eighteen golf candidates will meet at 7:45 p.m. tomorrow in 203. Robinson gymnasium, where Coach William Shannon will assign qualifying rounds over three days of play next week.
Gallea Wins Music Contest
Beverly Jean Gallea, freshman in the School of Fine Arts, placed first in the Women's American Federation music contest held last weekend in Neodesha.
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