PAGE FOUR SPORTS UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1940 Kansas Plays Tigers Today Knute Kresie Is Pitcher Against M.U. By Bob Trump, c'42 With sharpshooter Knute Kresie in the pitcher's box and both barrels loaded for tigers, the Kansas Jayhawks invaded the lair of the Missouri Bengals, at Columbia this afternoon, for the first of a two-game series. Despite the fact that Missouri is expected to fight it out with the Oklahoma Sooners for the Big Six baseball championship this year, Coach Getto is conceding nothing to the Tigers and may pull the first upset of the season if his star right-hander can return to the form he displayed last Wednesday in muffling Rockhurst with seven hits. If Kresie is right, tonight may find the Jayhawks out in front in the pennant race, for Missouri has yet to play a game this year. Not only has bad weather slowed down the practice sessions of the Tigers, but rain washed away scheduled encounters with St. Louis and Washington Universities in the Smoky City, last Friday and Saturday. Infield Weak Sports writers have described the Missouri infield as uncertain with four rookies battling for positions around the keystone sack and Paul Christman at first the only experienced played. Coach "Hi" Simmons discounts these statements with an argument all his own, declaring that defense is not so important in the Big Six as offense. "It is different in the Big Six than in the major leagues," Simmons asserts. "Our conference fielders are expected to make a certain amount of errors behind their hurlers. Batting is the most vital part of a team in college ball." Conforming with the Big Six rules, Coach Mike Geto limited his traveling squad to the following 15 men: Knute Kresie, "Red" Dugan, John Burge, and Henry Horak, pitchers; Monte Merkel, catcher; Jack Sands and Louis Thompson, first base; Charles Kraemer and Bob Chilson, second base; Ray Napier and Bob Hunt, shortstop; Miller Cameron, third base; Ramie Beims, Larry Hensley, and Eldreth Cadwalader, outfielders. Getto Takes 15 Men KANSAS RELAYS If this is true, Missouri might wrest the championship from Oklahoma because in the outfield Coach Simmons has three men who can hit for distance. Ken Wackher and Abe Hair are sure to be the regular right and left fielders, and diminutive Herb Gregg, forward on the Tiger basketball team, will play centerfield, if his injured ankle heals as quickly as is expected. Captain Carl Miles and Lafayette Howard are the minstags of this year's mound corps with Lyle "Duke" Sullivan slated for the job of first string catcher. Other regular pitchers are Frank Graham and Bill Spencer. IOWA STATE TWO MILE RELAY TEAM Golfers, Netmen Play Washburn Dean Ritchie and Roderick Wake- Jayhawker golf and tennis teams will play their second matches of the season when they meet the Washburn Ichabods, here tomorrow afternoon. Golf rounds will be played at the Lawrence Country Club course, and the tennis matches on the courts southwest of the stadium. Washburn opened their tennis season Saturday afternoon when they scored a 4-2 victory over the Kansas State netmen. Feature match of the meet here should be the singles match between John Christner, Ichabod number one man, and Howard Engleman, Jayhawk star. Christner defeated the Kansas State number one man, Thornborough, 6-0, 6-2. Engleman, Franks, and Floyd will play singles tennis matches tomorrow afternoon and one doubles team will be Engleman and Floyd. The other members of the team have not been definitely decided upon, said Coach "Dutch" Uhrlaub this morning. land will head the Kansas attack against the Washburn linkmen. Wakeland won low medalist honors in the 17 to 1 victory over University of Kansas City with a low 75 for the 18 holes. Ritchie, golf captain, and Kansas State Amateur Champion, was slightly off-form last Wednesday, but is expected to be up to his usual good game tomorrow. DON'T FORGET THE RELAYS! 1939 Decathlon Winner Back to Defend Title A decathlon champion who won his title by the narrowest margin in history, will face an even stronger field than last year at the Eighteenth Annual Kansas Relays, Friday and Saturday. However, E. Lee Todd, the defending champion, figures to improve his performance this time also. He is now taking graduate work at the University of Colorado and has been training for the decathlon since the start of school last fall. Last year Todd was teaching school in Nebraska and did not have the facilities for training that he has at Colorado. He also has the helpful assistance of Coach Frank Potts of C. U. now. Chief threats to Todd's supremacy in the ten-event test are Walter Arrington, lanky Negro star from Michigan State, and Ted Billings, captain of the Colorado College team. Russell Bradford, Iowa State Teachers ace, looms as a dark horse. Arrington is exceptionally good in the jumps and should do well in the running events. He has high jumped 6 feet 4 inches and broad jumped 2 feet 3-4 inches. If he can make a fair showing in the weight events, Arrington should run up quite a point total. 'One Pitch' Frank Opens Eighth Ball Game Today More than 30,000 government officials, congressmen, politicians, ball players and fans were on hand to see if he had lost his "stuff." Washington. April 16.—(UP)— "One pitch" Franklin D. Roosevelt, his future still in doubt, opened his eighth and perhaps last baseball season at Griffith Stadium today. Clark Griffith, president of the Washington nationals, "scouted" Mr. Roosevelt at the White House last week and pronounced him ready. Flanked by his military and naval aides, Mr. Roosevelt tossed out the first ball to start the game between the senators and the Boston Red Sox. The Weather Showers tonight and Wednesday turning to snow in west portion Wednesday and in the extreme west tonight. Cooler. Billings, a senior at Colorado College, won the septathlon held at Boulder last week. His best events are the pole vault, high jump and high hurdles. Twelve men had entered the decathlon by April 13 and additional entries were expected soon. The men entering were Walter Arrington, Michigan State; Russell Bradford, Iowa State Teachers; Ted Billings, Colorado College; Orville Bonham, unattached, Harper, Kan.; W. L. Clapham, unattached, Los Angeles, Calif.; LeRoy Floyd, Oklahoma A. & M.; Woodrow Hutchinson, New Mexico Normal; Charles Larson, Culver-Stockton College; Donald Menning, Central College, Pella, Iowa; John Mitchell, Oklahoma City University; Ralph Tate, unattached, Stillwater, Okla.; and E. Lee Todd, unattached, Boulder, Colo. Todd has competed in the decathlon twice, finishing third in 1938 and nosing out Clarence Odell of Oklahoma A. & M. for first place last year. The finish of the ten event contest was sensational, with Todd winning by only five points, 6557 to 6552 for Odell. The A. & M. star outscored Todd on the final two events, but did not quite catch up with him. K.U. Table Tennis Team Defeats K.C.U., 4 to 3 The University of Kansas table tennis team, sponsored by the Memorial Union activities committee won four matches out of seven against the University of Kansas City team Sunday. In the men's singles bracket, Harry Peterson, c'42, lost to Howard Fowkkes; Bill Martin, c'43, defeated Dan Robinson; Morris Keyser, c'40, lost to Fred Grantham; Lloyd Heiberg, c'42, defeated Irwin Raines. Doris Johnson, c40, lost to her opponent in women's singles. The doubles games were won by a close margin by the K.U. teams. Keyser and Peterson defeated Grantham and Fowlkes in the first game. Heiberg and Martin won over Raines and Robinson. Plans for making these table tennis matches an annual event are being made and it is hoped that by next year other universities will compete. 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