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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1941.
If Figures Don't Lie Jays Can Hit
Who says the Kansas baseball team can't hit?
The Jayhawkers have two men hitting in the .400's and two more that are batting than a .300 clip.
Now just supposing that the nine top batters on the Jayhawker nine all played together. Records prove that the team would average nine hits a game.$^9$
Kansas' nine top batters have gathered 40 hits in 142 trips to the plate in the six Big Six games they have played this year. That is an average of a shade better than .281 for the nine men at bat.
Supposing that the Jayhawks went to bat 36 times a game, which is not unreasonable for a club with a high batting average. With Kansas' .281 clip, that would mean better than an average of nine hits a game!
It is quite logical that the Kansas nine would be able to bunch these nine hits per game to push across a couple of runs in two or three innings of each game. And any team that can do that must have power at the plate.
However there is a catch. As Mark Twain once said, "There are three kinds of lies—white lies, damn lies, and statistics."
The baseball squad will leave today for Columbia where they will meet Missouri in the first of a two-game series.
Batting averages:
| | ab | h | rbi | pct. |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Kresie | 21 | 10 | 3 | .477 |
| Holmer | 5 | 2 | 0 | .400 |
| Martin | 16 | 6 | 3 | .375 |
| Burge | 13 | 4 | 3 | .308 |
| Hall | 22 | 6 | 4 | .272 |
| Beims | 17 | 4 | 2 | .225 |
| Allen | 22 | 5 | 2 | .227 |
| Thompson | 13 | 2 | 0 | .154 |
| Johnston | 13 | 1 | 0 | .077 |
| Wabaunsee | 10 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
| Nipper | 9 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
| Pierce | 8 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
| Green | 3 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
| Krum | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
| Hunter | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
| Munsinger | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
The Jayhawker freshman and varsity basketball teams wrapped up their favorite pastime, basketball, for another year last night at Robinson gymnasium.
Coach F. C. "Phog" Allen and Gordon Gray, freshman coach, put the squads through their final work-out before finals and the end of school.
Al Knight, with a medal score of 79, paced the Washburn crew. Bill McElhenny and Bob Kirk won their twosome matches.
Basketball Squad In Final Workout
Jayhawk golfers defeated Washburn College 10 1-2 to 7 1-2 in matches played at the Country Club course yesterday afternoon. It was their second victory over Ichabod linksmen this season.
Jayhawk Linksmen Deal Washburn Second Defeat
Coach William H. Shannon's squad has two more dual meets on tap this weekend. Tomorrow afternoon they meet Oklahoma, and Saturday Kansas State. Both meets will be played at the local Country Club course.
Results of the Washburn duel:
Results of the Wasnub duen:
Twosomes—Knight (W) defeated
Bob LaGree (K), 3-0; McEhlenny
(K) defeated Warren (K), 3-0;
Barker (W) defeated Bill Gray (K),
2 1-2 to 1-2; Bob Kirk (K) defeated
Ryan (W), 3-0.
Foursomes—LaGree and McElhenny (K) tied Knight and Warren, 1 1-2 to 1 1-2; Kirk and Gray defeated Barker and Ryan, 2'1-2 to 1-2.
Not Enough Out---- Freshmen Baseballers Display Power At Bat
Matching them hit for hit in the first five innings, the freshman baseball team, led by Warren Hodges, Fred Hulett and Frank Vratil, finally fell before the varsity's six run barrage in the sixth and were defeated 7 to 1 in a nine inning practice game yesterday.
Red Dugan's charges displayed unexpected power both at bat and in the field and caused Dr. F. C. "Phog" Allen, varsity
Red Dugan's charges displ bat and in the field and caused coach, to wax optimistic about baseball's future for the jayhawkers.
"They're good, but there aren't enough of them out" is how Allen sizes up the freshman squad. He particularly likes the work of Hodges, Vratil and Hulett.
All the runs by the varsity were scored off Dugan, who pitched for the freshmen during the first six innings. Al Hecht, who relieved him, did not allow a run. Frank Bukaty, assistant coach, pitched for the varsity.
A regular game between these two teams was scheduled for Friday but it has been postponed until sometime between the Nebraska series May 12-13 and the K-State games May 23. 24. Dr. Allen said.
No box score was kept of the practice game. The starting line-ups for the teams:
Varsity Freshmen
Hall c Hodges
Bukaty p Dugan
Allen 1b Vratil
Kresie 2b Harwood
Green ss Hulett
Krum 3b Bozeman
Beims lf Innis
Johnston cf Hardin
Burge rf Davis
Softball
Softball games scheduled for 4:20 o'clock this afternoon are Pflugerville Pflashes vs. Tennessee club, Delta Upsilon vs. Phi Delt, Newman I vs. Dunakin club, Theta Tau vs. Jayhawk Co-op, and Carruth hall vs. K.E.K.
The Delta Chi-Battenfeld games slated for this afternoon will be played this weekend.
Since the R. O. T. C. is going to drill a week longer than expected, it will need the softball diamonds to drill on Wednesday, May 14. All games scheduled for that day will be shifted to Friday, May 16. However, games listed for Monday, May 12, will be played as scheduled.
Intramural Golf
Four teams have advanced to the semi-finals of the intramural team golf tournament. In semi-final matches, Beta meets Phi Gam and Phi Psi plays Delt.
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Frosh Trackmen Show Promise
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Sharpe Hurdles Well
A promising group of freshman tracksters has been working out since early spring, first indoors and now on the outdoor cinders. According to Track Coach Bill Hargiss "prospects look good," and some of the boys are showing definite promise.
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him as perhaps the outstanding prospect on the squad.
Leading the group is Gaylord Conzelman, who starred in the half mile at Republic High School last year. He won the state meet with a time of 2:01 and can run a fast quarter-mile. His work this spring has labeled $ \textcircled{*} $
Several others are shaping up in the weights. Ed Todd, freshman from Eureka, has hit 160 feet with the javelin, as well as making good marks in the shot and discus. Jack Tenenbaum, big football lineman on the freshman squad, has the size and should develop into a good weightman.
The hurdlers among the freshmen are showing indications of added strength to the Jayhawkers. Leading a group of four prospects is Dayton Sharpe of White Plains, N. Y. He has the stride and natural speed for both the high and the low
Three others are also showing up well in practice. Milo Farneti, a sophomore transfer from Pittsburg Teachers, threw the javelin more than 188 feet in Central conference competition last spring. Only one Big Six school has a man equaling that mark now. Herb Grote of Nebraska has throw the spear 216 feet. Black Heaves Weights
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Les Breidenthal, Topeka, and Charles Black of Lawrence are establishing themselves as all-around performers. The former not only heaves the shot, discus and javelin, but high jumps over 6 feet as well. Black, who starred on the freshman basketball squad, also throws the weights and vaults.
Rope Signs With Oilers
Howard Engleman, Big Six basketball scoring record holder, has signed to play with the Phillips Oilers A.A.U. team of Bartlesville next season, Coach Chuck Hyatt, of the Oilers, announced yesterday.
Three other former collegiate stars, including all-American Hank Luisetti; Johnny Adams, Southwest conference scoring champ from Arkansas; and John Freiburger, lanky center from Arkansas are other new members of the team.
Table Tennis Tourney
Takes-off Tomorrow
At the entry deadline yesterday noon, 40 boys and 5 girls had entered the tournament.
The first round of the tournament will start tomorrow in the game- room.
Listings of first round contestants in the all-University table tennis tournament will be posted in the gameroom of the Memorial Union building tomorrow, Norma Tibbets, college junior and director of the tournament, announced today.
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