UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1940
Baseball, Tennis, Golf Today
Baseball Jayhawks Open Baseball Season Against Hawks
At 3 o'clock this afternoon, Rockhurst first baseman Harry Tannihill stepped into the batter's box to face the pitching of Jayhawk moundsman, Knute Kresie, and another baseball season was under way.
Behind the plate to handle the curves of the Kansas right hander was Monte Merkel, and stationed in right field was Eldreth Cadwalader, team captain, who had been moved to the outfield in order to add more punch to the Jayhawk offense.
Coach Mike Getto nominated Charles Kraemer, Kansas second sacker, to lead off for the Jayhawks. Miller Cameron, third baseman, and Larry Hensley, center fielder, followed Kraemer
in the batting order, and Cadwalader swung in the cleanup slot.
Jack Sands, last year's first baseman who is doing business at the some old stand this season, batted fifth, followed by Ramie Beim, left fielder, Ray Napier, shortstop, Merkel, the catcher, and Kresie, the pitcher.
Facing the Jayhawks was a line-up studded with rookies, but containing four veterans, who last year led the Rockhurst team to nine victories in 12 starts. Included in this successful season were triumphs over both the Universities of Missouri and Kansas.
Lettermen on the Rockhurst squad are second baseman Joe Drastigin, third baseman Mickey Combs, outfielder John Scanlon, and pitcher Leo Cain.
Following today's game, the Jayhawks will have only one day of rest before they tangle here with the Wildcats of Kansas State Friday and Saturday afternoons.
Coach Getto said this morning that he is planning on using John Burge, veteran right hander, in Friday's game with the Wildcats, and then on coming back with "Red" Dugan the following day. If all goes well this afternoon, the Kansas coach will also have Kresie available for relief duty on Saturday.
Kansas Hopes Go With Robertson
When Tommy Robertson left for his home in Duncan, Oklahoma, a few days ago, the hopes for an all-powerful center on K.U.'s football team went with him.
Tommy was the 200-pound fresh-
man center, who would have made
almost any man's team. Last fall,
when he first suited up for spring
ball, he gave his opposition unended
trouble. The 200-pounds were put
to full avail.
Although his scholastic grades did not measure up to those of his grid-iron ability, they were passing. Robertson had dropped out of several other schools before he departed from Kansas, including Oklahoma and Oklahoma A. and M.
The cause for his leaving, while undetermined definitely, seems to be that he didn't want to study. He was quoted as once saying, "If they would just let me play football I would be Q.K."
SPORTSCOPE By Larry Winn
Today is the day for Kansas— we hope. Today we meet three visiting teams here, on our links, courts, and diamond.
On the links the Kansas golfers will meet a promising team from Kansas City University. Likewise, our netmen will battle the tennis team from K.C.U., because our golf and tennis schedules are exactly alike.
Starting for the K.U. team on the mound will be Knute Kresie, who has been looking exceptionally good in practice lately. Second on reserve is John Burge, who, if he doesn't play this afternoon, will probably start on the slab against the Kansas State team next Friday.
Meanwhile, the Jayhawker batsmen will meet the diamond team from Rockhurst College of Kansas City. The exact strength of the Hawks is not known, but this team defeated both Missouri and Kansas on the diamond last year.
LOOKIE, LOOKIE, LOOKIE, here comes cookie, or rather the Jayhawker basketball squad. Aren't they pretties, all garbled out in their gabardine "windbreakers," new Elgin watches, shiny gold belt buckles and no telling what next. Last night, the team was feted by the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, and after dinner, a local merchant presented each of the 11 members of the team with a windbreaker jacket. Oh yes, and I forgot to mention the little silver basketballs that hang from their key or watch chains. Boy, if they don't look like a jewelry store on hoof, I'll eat June Storey's cowboy hat.
Baseballs are really in the air nowadays. The intramural teams are beginning to buckle down and get back into the competitive mood for the coming softball season. In some of the intramural games yesterday, it looked as if some of the pitchers are going to be "red hot" this season. Harwood, moundsman for the Galloping Dominoes looked like an ace when he pitched a one-hit game over the Warriors, to win 6-0.
Southwestern Stars Turn to Kansas Relays
The stars of Saturday's Texas Relays are now turning their attention to the Kansas Relays, April 20, is the word brought back from Austin, by Bill Hargiss, University of Kansas track coach.
The majority of the Southwestern track and field aces who competed in the Texas Relays are planning to make the trip to Lawrence, Hargiss reports. Here they will clash with stars from other sections of the country.
Leading the parade of Southwestern schools will be the strong teams of Texas University and North Texas State. Both teams will be out to duplicate the fine showings they made here last year.
Two of the defending Relays champions wear Texas U. colors. "Beefus" Bryan, twice a record breaker in the pole vault, will see if he can make a clean sweep of it, by shattering his own mark again this year. The pole vault record now stands at 14 feet 2 inches. Bryan won the Texas Relays championship for the third time Saturday.
Jack Hughes, big Texas discus thrower, won his event for the second straight year at Austin, and hopes to make his Kansas Relays record read the same after April 20. He won handily here last year.
The Longhorns' star high hurdler, Boyce Gatewood, had no opportunity to demonstrate his prowess on his home field Saturday, as he was disqualified for two false stars. However, the fleet Texan will rank as the favorite in a crack field here.
In addition to strong representation in the individual events, Texas boasts three crack relay teams. The quarter-mile, half-mile and one mile relay teams all placed high Saturday.
North Texas State won high honors at Austin Saturday, taking first in three events, second in another and third in two more. Coach "Choc" Sportsman's sophomore sprint sensation, little Welby Williams, won the 100-yard dash. Another North Texas sophomore, Mikeska, heaved the javelin out past the 200 foot mark to take that event and the 880-yard relay team set a new record in its event.
set a new record in the Eagles' mile relay team finished second in the college class race. Hicks of North Texas was third in the 100-yard dash and the quarter mile relay team also captured a third.
Howard Payne College, the alma mater of Gwinn Henry, director of the Kansas Relays, probably will send a team here this year. Howard Payne's mile relay team was the winner of that race in the college class Saturday and their hurdling star, Pete Owens, won the 120-yard pete hurdles.
yard high maintenance Oklahoma A. and Oklahoma A. and M., two teams which always go well here, turned in outstanding performances at Texas. The Sooners' sprint relay team, which won the 440 and 880-yard relays here last year, captured those two events at Austin in fast time.
Oklahoma's time of 1:26.7 in the half-mile relay was particularly impressive in view of the weather conditions. The Sooners' team in the sprint medley relay took second and Tone of O.U. was third in the pole vault.
A. and M.'s best showings were in the four-mile relay and the high jump. Forrest Efaw, veteran distance star, anchored the four-mile relay team to victory. Don Boydston, the Cowboys' high jumping sensation, leaped 6 feet $ 3 \frac{1}{2} $ inches to tie for first in his event despite an injury to his leg. A. and M. also got a second in the distance medley.
Radio Defends--go down to Carl's tomorrow morning and get that Double Breaster White Palm Beach Coat so we can take in the spring formals. She jumped right into his arms, and how.
London, April 10. — (UP) — The Oslo radio today urged the Norwegian population and local authorities to cease resistance to the German invasion. The station, now under German control, defended the German action, and announced new international currency rates affecting the two countries.
Golf, Tennis Teams Meet K.C.U. Today
The University of Kansas golf and tennis teams are opening their spring season this afternoon with the University of Kansas City teams at Lawrence.
Dean Ritchie and Roderick Wakeland, only returning lettermen from last year's Big Six golf champions, form the nucleus of this year's squad. William McClhenny and William M. Gray are the other two men chosen by Coach William H. Shannon from his squad of nine to represent Kansas this afternoon at the Lawrence Country Club.
Ritchie, number one man on the golf team and this year's captain, is present Kansas State Amateur Champion and should be one of the foremost defenders of the Big Six crown won last year.
Howard Engleman, Kernit Franks, and Jack Floyd are playing the singles tennis matches this afternoon on the courts southwest of the stadium. Two doubles teams, Conrad Voelker - Charles Snyder and Bob Minor-Warren Shupe, oppose the University of Kansas City net men in the doubles games.
Engleman and Franks are returning lettermen from last year's squad. Engleman played the number one position last year and is slated for the same spot on this year's team.
"Dutch" Uhrahla has charge of the Jayhawk netm this year.
Following the matches this afternoon with the University of Kansas City net and linkmen, the Jayhawk golf and tennis teams will play host to Washburn University of Topeka, April 17.
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