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Volleyball Team Places 2nd in National Tourney
For the second straight year the Kansas University team finished second in the National Collegiate Championship volleyball tournament.
Second-seeded George Williams of Chicago captured the national championship yesterday at Des Moines by downing the favored Jayhawkers twice.
KU's team took third place two years ago, second last year and was named by many observers as the team to beat this year.
Only four teams competed in the double elimination tournament this year compared with the 10 that competed last year. Two of the four teams this year represented Kansas.
The Kansas "A" team beat Michigan State in the opening round while George Williams was defeating the Jayhawker "B" squad. George Williams downed the Kansas first team in the second round and Michigan State dropped the Jayhawker "B" team out of the tourney.
The Jayhawkers beat Michigan State again in the semi-finals to pit themselves once again against George Williams. The Chicagoans had some trouble suppressing Kansas, but they emerged as the national champs after three sets—15-13, 11-15 and 15-6.
"We lost to a good team," KU Coach Kevin Jones said last night in Des Moines. "George Williams was surprisingly powerful and quick."
"The teams we were afraid of were there though." Coach Jones added.
Coach Jones earlier had expressed his disappointment with the small number of teams competing in the tournament this year.
The "A" team, composed of Bob Russell, Dick Hougland, Glen Buell, Dick Laptad, Bill Henson, Bruce Wells and Reuben Heatwole, is staying over in Des Moines today to compete in the National Open Volleyball Championships.
The National Open field is made up of 33 teams with most of the entrants being YMCA and Air Force squads.
The Jayhawkers were scheduled to kick off the National Open action this morning by meeting a team representing the Fort Worth YMCA.
Members of the fourth place national collegiate team are Dick Lee, Bob Lockwood, Jim Vise, Larry Meuli, Bob Harper and Jim Husser.
Flashes of Greatness Win Chance for Idaho Slugger
CHICAGO — (UFI)— Flashes of greatness during spring training got Harmon Killibrew a chance to be the Washington Senators' starting third baseman and now the Idaho slugger isn't letting the opportunity get away.
He leads the American League in home runs with eight, boasts a .286 batting average, and manager Cookie Lavagetto said today "he's coming up with some great plays in the field nearly every day."
Killibrew, from Payette, Idaho,
can't explain the change except that
"I'm getting to play more."
"They aren't pitching me any different and I'm not hitting any different. Maybe I've got more confidence because before there was always Eddie Yost and it doesn't help to be second string."
Killibrew didn't figure as a solution in Lavagetto's plans when he traded Yost to Detroit last winter. but he took over the job on his performance in the last 13 games of the 1958 season, and he showed signs of readiness this spring.
"Last year, it looked like he'd learned a lot fielding." Lavagetto said, "but the major league pitchers were just a little too advanced for
him. This spring he'd show flashes of greatness in a spurt, then taper off, and then he'd be great again.
"Now I think he might be a great one, because he's improving every day. He's hitting everything, a screwball, a fast ball, a curve. I thing he's even hit the knuckle ball. And he's improved in the strike zone too."
five years ago at the age of 17, also believed he had room for improvement.
Killibrew, a $30.000 bonus baby
“There’s a lot of things I’ve got to learn,” he said, “both hitting and fielding. Hitting never bothered me much, but I can still learn things. Roy Sievers told me that he’s hit better the last two years because he’s hitting strikes. That’s what I’m trying to do—hit strikes.”
Delta Tau Delta Captures Division A Softball Crown
Delta Tau Delta scored five runs in the first inning then coated to a 6-3 victory over Sigma Alpha Epsilon and the division championship.
By winning the division championship the Deits are now able to compete in the playoffs for the Hill Championship. The first and second place teams in each division are eligible to compete for the Hill Championship.
In the three B division games Alpha Tau Omega defeated Sigma Nu 14-0 behind the two hit pitching of Stu Luder, Phi Gamma Delta edged out Beta Theta P 8-7, and J. R. Pearson slipped by Newman Club 3-2.
Independent A — Joe's Pro's vs.
Hilltopers, Splinters vs. Vipers.
Tomorrow's Schedule
Fraternity A — Phi Gamma Delta vs. Sigma Chi.
Fraternity B — Kappa Sigma vs.
Phi Delta Theta. Sigma Alpha Epsilon vs. Beta Theta Pi.
Independent B — P. Ph. A. vs. Nu Sigma Nu.
Thursday, May 7, 1959 University Daily Kansan
Boone Dons KC Uniform; Appears in Pinch-Hit Role
Boone, a 10-vear major league veteran, joined the A's last night and appeared as a pinch hitter in the ninth inning in Kansas City's 7-4 loss to New York.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — (UPI) — Ray Boone, former Chicago White Sox first baseman who balked at his being traded to Kansas City, was in an A's uniform today.
He joined the A's after saying he would quit baseball before playing for Kansas City.
The White Sox said they were prepared to pay cash to keep Simpson, but Boone changed his quitting plans after talking with Sox co-owner Bill Veeck.
Boone went to the A's in trade for first baseman-outfielder Harry Simpson, who joined the Sox Tuesday.
Boone drove into Kansas City from Omaha where he stopped to pick up a new car.
Ottawa Sets 3 Records
At Doane College Relays
CRETE, Neb. — (UPI) — Ottawa,
Kan., accounted for three of the
seven records eclipsed here last
night in the 11th running of the
Doane College Relays.
Ottawa set new marks in the 440 and 880 yard relays and the discus.
Galen Huffman of McPherson,
Kan, set a new pole vault mark at
13 feet, two and one-quarter inches.
The control surface of one U.S. guided missile is about the size of an office desk top but is strong enough to support six heavy cars.
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