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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, MAY 10, 1942
FROM THE SIDELINES by Alan B. Houghton
By Ralph Coldren
It's a sure thing that this year's Big Six baseball pennant will be taken by either Missouri or Oklahoma with the Tigers having a slight advantage at present over the boys from Norman. Oklahoma is playing only eight games in Big Six competition this year while the Missourians are playing 14. Missouri has a powerful club moulded from last year's winning team and with its six-game schedule advantage can make it hot for the Sooners right to the end. The Tigers can afford to lose another contest (as long as it isn't to Oklahoma in the crucial series May 11 and 12) but the Sooners must make every last game count or they are out of the running.
The payoff for Oklahoma comes next week when Coach Jack Baer takes his team to Columbia for the two day series. Since the Sooner and the Tiger teams have not met previously this season, the only comparisons of the two teams is on the basis of their respective games with K-State.
Kansas State met Missouri in a two-game series earlier in the season on Columbia with pitcher Ed Doyen losing a tight pitching battle to Bobo Spencer of Missouri, 0-1. The following day, Kansas State's fire-ball sophomore pitcher, Huck Heath, whitewashed the Tigers 3-0.
A few days later the Wildcat team went to Norman and in the first of a two game series lost 8-6. The second game the Sooners knocked pitcher Heath out of the box and went on to win 11-4. One must remember, however, that the Wildcats were playing without shortstop Warren Hornsby and catcher Norbie Raemer who did not make the Norman trip.
Oklahoma Hits Hard
Oklahoma has a hard hitting outfield that supplies most of the punch when runs are needed and needed bad. Dale Mitchell, sophomore clean-up hitter, leads the squad with an average of .422 and in runs batted in. Other big guns in the Sooner outfield are Lester Layton, another brilliant sophomore, and Walter Stephenson, senior center-fielder.
The Oklahoma team proved its winning qualities Tuesday when they beat Iowa State, 4-1 despite the 6-hit pitching of the Cyclone veteran, Willard Mylenbusch. Oklahoma's Dee Sanders also pitched 6-hit ball and it was pretty much of a pitcher's' battle until the middle of the game when the Sooners added two runs on three hits, an error, and a stolen base to decide the game. The Sooner players muffed the ball three times but the Iowa State men could not capitalize on the Sooner errors. Oklahoma's three stolen bases along with a timely State error was the advantage that decided the game.
Kansas Squad Young
Some 320 men reported for spring football drill throughout the Big Six circuit, and as usual, Kansas had the smallest squad, with only 36 players reporting for drill regularly. Despite the smallness of their squad Coaches Henry and Hurt have decided one point in their favor—they have the youngest squad. Of these
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Kansas Kansas Takes Opener,3-1
BY JACK WERTS
Aided by seven errors the Kansas baseball nine chalked up their first Big Six win of the season against Kansas State Friday afternoon, defeating the Wildcats 3-1.
Both teams went scoreless for the first four and one-half innings, but in the Kansas half of the fifth, Martin led off with a single. Then errors by Dunlay, K - State second baseman, and Hugos, shortstop of the Aggies, set the stage for another error by Dunlay, which scored one Kansas run.
With two men on base for Kansas, Doyen, pitcher for K-State, retired the next three batters.
The game continued to be a pitcher's battle until the last half of the eighth. Innis, outfielder for the Kansans, opened the inning with a tremendous double against the cen-
Box score:
Kansas State ab r h po a e
Hugos, ss 4 0 1 1 1 2
Gatzoulis, rf 3 0 1 0 0 0
R. Rokey, cf 4 0 0 0 0 0
Kier, 1b 4 0 0 15 0 0
Dunlay, 2b 4 0 0 1 5 1
Raemer, c 4 0 2 6 1 1
N. Rokey, lf 4 1 1 1 0 0
Leavitt, 3b 4 0 1 0 3 3
Doyen, p 3 0 0 0 3 0
Prideau, x 1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 1 6 24 13 7
x-batted for Doyen in ninth.
Kansas ab r h po a e
Martin, rf, cf 5 1 2 3 0 0
Green, 2b 4 0 0 3 1 0
Hodges, c 5 0 1 5 0 0
Kresie, p 3 0 0 2 2 0
Hunter, 1b 4 0 0 5 2 1
Innis 4 1 2 4 0 1
Hulett, ss 2 0 0 2 3 1
Johnston, cf 2 0 0 1 0 1
Alford, rf 2 1 1 1 0 0
Krum, 3b 2 0 0 1 2 0
Totals 33 3 6 27 10 4
terfield embankment. The runner advanced to third when the center-fielder, R. Rokey, made a bad throw to the infield. Innis scored later on an error by Raemer, Aggie catcher.
Alford hit safely with one gone in the inning and then with two down Hugos, K-State shortstop, errored in fielding a ball hit by Delmar Green, and Alford scored another counter for Kansas.
In the ninth inning Ned Rokey
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Takes Double Header
Coach Gardner To Navy Service
Jack Gardner, head coach at Kansas State college ,is leaving his coaching job there to enter military service. Gardner is to report at Annapolis for a month of schooling
After the training period Gardner will be assigned to the naval training staff at the University of Iowa where he will assist in physical training for prospective naval fliers.
Jolliffe Hall, Phi Psi Win In Intramurals
BY JACK WERTS
The Kansas baseball nine of Coach "Phog" Allen literally won their game with Kansas State yesterday afternoon in the first inning, all but lost it in the fifth and sixth innings, and then came back the hard way in the ninth to score a run and win the game, 6 to 5.
Jolliffe hall put on a four-run rally in the sixth inning Friday evening to nose out a tough Battenfeld crew by a score of 9 to 8.
The big guns of the Kansas team opened up early in the first inning when Dean Martin, doubled, Green walked, and Warren Hodges, Jayhawk catcher, blasted out a mighty tripple to bring them home for the first two Kansas scores.
Battenfeld led at the end of the fifth inning but Jolliffe was able to stage a winning rally.
Hodges, Green Decide Tilt With Hits in Final Frame
Harold Craig of Jolliffe hall scored three times. This was most scoring done by any one man during the game.
Neither team scored in the first inning and then in the second Bob Siddons, Brower Richmond and Russell Atkinson all scored for the Phi Psi team.
Phi Kappa Psi had little trouble in downing the Sigma Chi ten in a game ending 6-2 in favor of the Phi Psi's.
In a fifth inning rally Max Wymore, Melvin Masterson, Rowland Raup and Jim Mills all scored for Battenfeld. Jolliffe retaliated in the sixth with four runs by Floyd Forsyth, Craig, Bohnenblust and Rohler. Bob Sheppard crossed the plate with the tying run in the 7th and Craig finished the Jolliffe scoring with the ninth and winning run.
The Phi Psi's came back in the first half of the third to score one more run. Sigma Chi pushed Van Hartman across for their first counter in the same iming. Scoreless Until Fifth
In the fourth inning Craig and Charles Rohler each counted for Jolliffe and Warren Lowen and Dave Rosen scored for Battenfeld.
Jolliffe was in the field first and Bill Bass scored their first run in the first inning. Battenfeld failed to score in the third.
Phi Psi Downs Sigma Chi
Neither team crossed the plate again until the fifth inning when Hartman again brought one across
Scoreless Until Fifth
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for Sigma Chi and Paul Carpenter and Max Kissell crossed the plate with runs five and six for the Phi Psi's. Bob Barton of the Phi Psi team allowed eight hits.
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Alpha Chi Sigma came out on the short end of a 5-4 score as a result of playing the Delta Tau Delta team. Hoyt Baker pitched for the Delta Tau's and Vander Werf
In the first half of the second, Raemer, Ned Rokey, and Leavitt came through with successive singles in what appeared to be the opening of a Aggie rally but the Wildcats were unable to push a single run across the plate. During the last half of the second, T.P. Hunter, Kansas pitcher, singled on a ball that bounced high over the pitcher's head. He went to second on a pass ball to give the Jayhawkers a man in scoring position. Martin walked and Del Green flied out to retire the side.
Ray Rokey, center-fielder for Kansas State, got the only hit of the third inning and outside of Hodges' spiking the Aggie first baseman in an attempt to run out a hit, the inning was of the three up and three down nature.
Dunlay, Aggie second baseman got on first in the fourth by way of Green's error but the next three men went down in order and he was left on first. In the Kansas half
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