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SPORTS
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1940.
Meet Aggies In Series
SPORTSCOPE By Larry Winn
You can count on Kansas cagers to make a good showing in Madison Square Garden next December, when they play Fordham. De don't have to be ashamed of our basketball teams in anybody's game.
The intramural baseball standings are drawing to a close with Beta, Alpha Kappa Psi, Galloping Dominoes, and Phi Psi as the leading teams to beat. The D. U's and the Sig Ep's can certainly stand watching in the playoffs.
News from the coast tells us that Bob Peoples I.C.4.A. javelin champion, fell down the stairs of the Phi Psi house yesterday afternoon after practice, and broke his in a cast for six weeks according to physicians. Peoples was favored to win his title again this year. He tosses the spear over 200 feet, and has thrown it farther than any American.
The Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds really had it out yesterday afternoon, when Bucky Walters and Tex Carleton, two old-timers, had at it on the mound. They played 13 innings before the Dodger's came out on top.
BACK TO THE MINORS in Freddy Hutchinson, almost a Detroit hurler for two years, who will play for Buffalo now, because the Tigers were forced to meet their player-dead line last night, so they dropped the expensive young rookie because he still lacks control.
Kansas' hopes rest on "if" at the Big Six meet in Lincoln the weekend. If J. F. Jones can be in shape and his back stays in place. If Glenn Foy can come through in the low hurdles and catch a second in the high timbers. If Ray Harris can see fit to run the two-mile and possibly the one-mile. If Darrell Mathes can nose out Gene Littler in the century and furlong dashes. If Kenny Hamilton will be in shape to run the quarter-mile and anchor the relay team. "IF" we just have good luck in general.
Doc Allen gave his cagers a good stiff workout yesterday afternoon in the last day of spring basketball practice, and the boys looked pretty good.
Vieth Out Of Hospital
LeRoy Vieth, b'41, ended nearly a month's confinement in Watkins Memorial hospital today.
Vieth broke his leg in a softball game April 15 and has been in the hospital ever since.
Price To Speak To Math Club
Members of the Mathematics Club will meet in Room 203 of Frank Strong hall, tomorrow at 4:30, to hear Professor G. B. Price lecture on "A Survey of Mathematical Progress." Professor Price will outline recent developments in the field of mathematics.
Burge vs. Brock On Mound Today At Manhattan
The first and only chance to finish the season with more victories than losses to a Big Six opponent, was placed before the Kansas baseball team this afternoon as the Jayhawks squared-off against the Kansas State Wildcats in Manhattan for the first of a two-game series.
Two righthanders, John Burge of Kansas, and Jim Brock of Kansas State, were the opposing pitchers in today's contest. Henry Horak, Jayhawk southpaw, will hurl against Frank Woolf or Floyd Kirkland in the second game of the series tomorrow.
Split Games Before
Since breaking even in two games at Lawrence last month, the Wildcats have defeated Missouri, and Iowa State twice, and Nebraska once, while losing two games to Oklahoma and one to Nebraska. The Wildcats' hold on second place was strengthened Monday, when the Oklahoma Sooners clinched the Big Six pennant by conquering the Missouri Tigers 12 to 5. Yesterday, the Bengals came back to give the Sooners their first conference defeat of the year, but the Kansas State nine is still in second place, having won six games and lost four, while Missouri has won five and lost four.
Knute Kresie, who reported before the first Oklahoma contest with a sore back, is still bothered by the injury, but was sufficiently recovered to make the trip with the team. If he is able to play, he will be inserted at third base, but will not be given a pitching assignment in this series.
While the Jayhawkers are in Manhattan, the freshman squad will play intra-squad games both today and tomorrow. Then, when the varsity returns, the regulars will meet the freshmen in a practice game Friday afternoon.
Freshmen Will Play Too
Work on the entrance to replace the elaborate stone stairway on the north side of Frank Strong hall neared completion today as workmen laid bricks for the four pillars to support the remainder of the entrance extending from the second floor doorway.
The Missouri Tigers will come to Mount Oread next Monday, and Tuesday to renew hostilities with their traditional rivals, the Jayhawks. One of the games at Columbia last month was postponed because of rain, is there is a chance that the teams may play a double header on one of the afternoons to make up the postponed battle.
New Entrance Nearly Finished
No other work will be done on the basement doorway other than the brick pillars outside the entrance. On the second floor an iron railing will be constructed around the balcony which was formerly the upper part of the stairway.
Men's Intramurals
Play in the final drawings of the singles in horse shoes, handball and tennis is progressing to such a point that they are asked to have second round results in by 6 o'clock this evening.
The final brackets in tennis and horseshoes have also been drawn and are now under way. In tennis, the Phi Delta Theta and Beta Theta Pi drew the top seeded positions. In horseshoes the top seeded positions went to the Beta Theta Pi and Dominoe organizations.
Golf has not progressed very fast and the only match that has been played so far is between Kappa Sigma and Phi Gamma Delta. Phi Gam won the match.
Ellen Irwin, c'41, won first place in the women's division of the Memorial Union table tennis tournament by defeating her sister, Shirley, in the final match yesterday.
By defeating Norma Tibbets, runnerup in the tournament last fall, Ellen advanced to the finals. Shirley defeated last fall's winner, Doris Johnson, c'42, to advance to the final bracket.
Ellen Irwin Wins Ping Pong Meet
In the men's division, Charles Ham, ph'42, defeated Morris Keyser, c'42, and will now play Malcolm Black, l'42, for the semi-finals. The winner of this game will play Robert Chapman, c'42 in the final game.
Medals will be awarded to the winners in each division.
Sigma Nu's Break Phi Psi Winning Streak in Baseball
Phi Kappa Psi's winning streak was broken last night by the strong Sigma Nu outfit. The game went eight innings and the final count was 6-5. Beta finished the season in a blaze of glory by capping its undefeated record with a win over the Kappa Sigma's, 32-4.
In the Sigma Nu-Phi Psi game the game was tied up 3-3 at the end of the third, when Steve Meade connected with a long one for a homer, in the fourth. This lead was unchanged until the last of the sixth when the Sigma Nu's tied it up 4-all and forced the game into an extra inning.
In the first half of the exta stanza, it looked like Miller, Phi psi hurler, had won his own ball game when he slammed ou a homer giving his team a 5-4 lead. In their half the Sigma Nu's were able to drive in the tying run only with the assistance of several walks and with two out, it looked like there would be more extra innings, until Higgins, Phi psi fielder, dropped an easy pop-up fly and the winning run walked across.
Beta's Victors Again
Beta's combined sheer power and fine pitching to win their final game. Led behind the bat by Geiger and Pierce who each got five hits out of their six trips to the plate and working with Hogben, who pitched ten strikeouts, the Beta's run up the huge total of 32 runs. Stoland hit two homers for the winners. The Beta's scored 15 runs in the third inning.
Sigma Phi Epsilon remained in the battle for the playoff berths in Division IV, by trouncing the A.T.O. team to the score of 19-5. Ivan May contributed two home runs to the cause and played a good game in the infield.
Phi Alpha Delta defeated the Theta Tau team 13-9 and in thus doing, opened up the race for the second playoff spot in Division II.
I. S.A. forfeited to the Alpha Kappa Psi team.
The Dominos were able to win from the Hillside Club, 8-4, and thus keep their record clean with five wins and no defeats.
Spitzerbergen is the most northerly inhabitable land in the world.
Sports Parade
Henry McLemore
New York, May 15—(UF)—Like misery, idiocy loves company.
Which, perhaps, is why of all the managers in baseball, from the lowliest bush league to the majors, Frankie Frisch is my favorite.
Here is a genuine old master of a Zany. Here is an authentic home-spun loon. Here is a sterling silver, 24-karat, guaranteeed not to run off.
Anytime any of us behave queerly we have only to think of Frank Frisch to be consoled by the knowledge that nothing we could ever do would match his voluntary acceptance of the job as manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Frisch. I mean.
Look back a year ago. In 1939 at this time Frisch, after many arduous years in baseball, both as a player and a manager, was settled down in a soft broadcast job. All he had to do was to report at the Boston ball park when the Bees were in town and describe the game over the air. For this he was paid a handsome salary. Some guesses fixed his income at as much as $25,000 a year. When the day's game was over his worries ended. He could get up and go home without a thought as to tomorrow's pitcher, the batting averages of his outfield, or the standing of the clubs. He had time for golf and sailing and puttering around in his garden. His was a happy leisurely, and carefree life.
Then Frisch made a decision that must have made every psychiatrist in the country prick up his ears and make a note to add his name to their mailing list. Frisch accepted an offer to manage the Pittsburgh Pirates. For much less pay he agreed to take charge of a baseball club that didn't have a chance to do any good in the National League this season, and one packed with more problem children than an unfashionable reform school.
The Pirates, whether they deserve it or not, have the reputation of being good time Charleys, loafers, and quitters in the clutch. Frisch knew all of this, but, with a high, shrill laugh of glee, and a declara-
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