Monday. March 28, 1960 University Daily Kansap
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Kansas Letterman Has High Hopes
Kansas' baseball team may be lacking in lettermen this season but at least one letterman is looking forward to the coming year with a desire to help make KU a threat in the Big Eight race.
Don Culp, a 6-0, 180-pound catcher-third baseman, will be demonstrating this today against Arkansas at Fayetteville. He will be starting his second season with the Jayhawkers and possibly will be used at third in today's contest.
KU Baseball Team Meets Arkansas
KU opens its baseball season today against the Arkansas Razorbacks and by all rights the squad should look pretty ragged.
The first day a team moves outside is always one of its most ragged days. The infielders find new hops they have to play.
The outfield has trouble judging the fly ball and several balls fall in for hits that could be caught after a few practices outside.
The team's battery has its troubles too. The pitcher often has control trouble and wild pitches become the rule rather than the exception. The catcher's days aren't all rosy either. The low pitch in the dirt which he could knock down or snag after a few outings, will many times skip its way back to the backstop and allow runners to advance.
Tom Holler and Ken Hensley are most likely to share the pitching duties today with Jim Ragan and Gerry Waldschmidt on the mound tomorrow. They are all righthanders and Holler is the only veteran.
Tom Dorney and Don Culp will probably share the assignment behind the plate.
The rest of the infield will be made up of John Tonge at first base, Jim Talley at second base, Bill Bryant at shortstop and Doyle Schick at third base.
In the outfield will be Norm Mailen and Lloyd Nichols. The third spot in the outfield is pretty well open and could become the property of any one of several men.
Nichols Re-elected
The Jayhawker baseball team re-elected Lloyd Nichols as captain of the squad Friday afternoon in a special meeting before leaving for Arkansas.
Nichols started at first base last year, but has been moved to the outfield for the coming season.
Not Good Enough
CLEVELAND —(UPI) —Shoeless Joe Jackson batted .408 as a rookie with the Cleveland Indians in 1911 but failed to win the American League batting title because Ty Cobb of the Detroit Tigers hit .420.
The blond haired senior was one of the leading hitters on last year's Kansas squad with a .273 average. He was used mostly as a reserve catcher for the '59 season, a position which he might see some action at again this year.
Culp told the Daily Kansan Friday before he left for Arkansas that
Don Culp
the weather had hurt the team quite a bit but the game today would show how much it has hurt.
Culp said. "It's hard to say how we'll do Monday. But I do know that we have a good ball club and should hold our own against Arkansas."
For eight years Culp has played baseball in one of the finest amateur leagues around the Midwest, the 3&2 League of Kansas City. In this loop, he has been selected on the all-star team three out of the last five years.
Playing for Kissick and Son during the summer of '59, Culp batted .315 and was highly recommended by his manager, Chet Marley, to many of the major league scouts that followed amateur baseball around Kansas City.
Culp, who throws and bats right handed, believes KU this year will win more games than the Jayhawkers did the '59 season.
"I think our team this year is stronger because we will have a better pitching staff. I think we'll improve our record of last year's team but whether we'll move up in the standings will remain to be seen.
The Kansas track squad exploded after being shut in all season to run away with the Oklahoma State Relays Saturday at Stillwater.
The Jayhawkers easily outshine the other teams at the meet even though there was no official meet champion crowned. Kansas was responsible for three of the 13 records that were broken as the Jays captured seven firsts and tied for one other.
Terry Beucher added another record-breaking to the Kansas showing as he threw the javelin 215-9½ to bring in another first for the Jays. Curtis McClinton grabbed off the other new standard for the Jays as he hedged Kansas State's Rex Stucker at the finish line to set the new mark at 14.3 in the 120-vard high hurdles.
Charlie Tidwell led the Kansas showing as he shattered the 100-yard dash record with a :69.6 effort and ran on three relay teams. Tidwell came from behind twice as he anchored the 440 and 880-yard relays to victories. Tidwell also ran a leg on the sprint medley.
Clif Cushman brought in another first for the Jav Hawkers as he won the hop, step, and jump with a leap of 45-9. The tie for first came in the intermediary hurdles as Darwin Asbaugh and Stucker had identical 34.2 times in the event that was accidentally ran over a shorter course than is required.
With Tidwell's great effort in over-coming 15 yard deficits in both the 440 and 880-yard relays, the Hawks edged the powerful Oklahoma State short distance relay teams in both races. Kansas used the same relay team in both events.
Paul Rearick led off with Dan Lee
Hedrick Takes Over KU Sports Network
Tom Hedrick has been named the new sports director of the KU Sports Network effective August 1, 1960.
Jays Run Wild at O-State Relays
Hedrick will replace Monte Moore, who has resigned to take over as sports director at WDAF in Kansas City, Mo. Hedrick is currently the sports director of KWBW in Hutchinson.
Hedrick will assist Moore in broadcasting the 1960 Kansas Relays April 22. Hedrick received his master's degree in radio and television from KU in 1958 where he served as faculty adviser to KUOK.
Moore will work with Merle Harmon, another former director of the KU sports network.
DUNEDIN, Fla. —(UPI)— PGA Hall of Famer Jock Hutchinson, 75, spends his winters in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and his summers in Golf, Ill., where he served as Glen View Club pro for 40 years.
Old Pro
Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we. —Michel de Montaigne.
Other Kansas point winners were Cushman, third in the intermediary hurdles; Jerry Foos, third in the discus and the mile relay team finished second.
served notice on the other Big Eight teams that he would be out to give Kansas the top two spots in the Javelin this year.
Mays Leading Stealer
Kansas freshman Henry Korn took third in the shot put with a toss of 54-8 1/4 as he demonstrated the fact that he was going to give the Jay-hawkers some points in the shot put next year.
taking the second carry. Paul Williams ran the third leg and Tidwell anchored. The time in the 440 was 41.6 and in the 880 the Jays turned in a 1:34.3 performance.
In winning the sprint medley relay, Kansas posted a 3:26.4 mark. Cushman led off with Williams and Tidwell running the short second and third legs. Bob Tague anchored the team.
The expected duel in the pole vault never came off as Oklahoma's J. D. Martin did not compete because of a leg injury, Oklahoma State grad Jim Graham won the event with a 15 foot effort.
Several other top performers were absent. Wichita's Archie San Romani and the Jayhawker's Bill Alley were among the stars that did not appear. Alley was in Florida defending a title. In Alley's absence, Beucher
SAN FRANCISCO—(UPI)—Willie Mavs of the San Francisco Giants has led the National League in stolen bases four straight times. He swiped 40 bases in 1956, 38 in 1957, 31 in 1958, and 29 in 1959.
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