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University Daily Kansan
Friday, April 24, 1959
Netmen Invade Neb., I-State This Weekend
By Tom Clark
It's not often that both winner and loser share in the spoils after a tennis match. But such will be the case for KU junior Jim Brownfield and Bill Sheldon when they accompany the Jayhawker tennis team when they play Nebraska this afternoon and Iowa State tomorrow.
Coach Denzell Gibbens' five-man squad will be playing without the services of No.1 player Lynne Sieverling and Sal Lekagul when they try to repeat an earlier 5-2 victory over the Cornhuskers.
Sieverling is home in Burdett with his mother who is seriously ill, while Lekagul passed up the trip in favor of pressing studies.
Coach Gibbens is counting on the services of juniors, Jim Brownfield and Bill Sheldon, to pick up the slack. Jerry Williams will again play the top singles assignment with Pete Block and Dave Coupe following in that order. Coupe is setting his sights on his fourth and fifth consecutive singles victories.
Brownfield and Sheldon started a playoff challenge match for the team's sixth spot Wednesday night aware that the winner would go if Sieverling remained at Burdett. They split sets, Sheldon winning the first 6-1, and Brownfield coming back for the second 8-6. Both agreed to wait until yesterday to play the final and deciding set.
Word arrived from Sieverling yesterday that he would stay in Burdett over the weekend. This left the fifth traveling spot hanging in the balance. Sheldon fought off four match points before yielding as Brownfield claimed a 6-4 deciding set.
But, Sheldon's face lit up as he left the court when Coach Gibbens shouted: "Both of you be ready to leave it six tomorrow morning."
"Both of us?" Sheldon asked unbelievably.
"Yep, Sal isn't going," Gibbens informed the Salina junior.
A happy Sheldon quipped: "I'll
he ready at four!"
While Brownfield and Sheldon were fighting for Sieverling's spot, Sal Lekagul told the coach he had a showdown match with the textbooks this weekend. A series of deciding exams are pressing the Thailand senior. Both Sieverling and Lekagul won their singles matches in KU's earlier victory over Nebraska, and Sieverling added a doubles win for good measure. The shakeup makes the matches a tossup.
Scholarship Halls Have Talented Stars
The first annual men's scholarship hall track meet, which is to be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Memorial Stadium, holds promise for some close and interesting races.
Of special interest are the dashes with some better than average talent participating. Robert Henderson, Battenfeld, who is an ex-varsity track man, will be competing against the Leich brothers, Warren and Dave, representing Stephenson, in several dash events. Norman Dudey, representing Foster in the half-mile and the medley is also a former varsity man.
Larry Daubert, Jollife, who will be entered in the shot, discus and 220-yard dash, is on the freshman track team this year.
KANSAS CITY. Mo. — (UPI) — Detroit's Tigers were here today for a three-game set as the Kansas City Athletics hoped to make up for Wednesday's humiliating loss.
McClinton, Crank Out Indefinitely
KU's backfield was hit hard this week as Bill Crank, No. 1 quarterback, and Curtis McClinton, highly-regarded right halfback, were sidelined indefinitely with knee injuries.
Topeka-Lawrence Race Set
The second annual canoe race for the KU and Kansas State chapters of Alpha Phi Omega, scouting fraternity, will begin early tomorrow morning at Topeka.
With Crank out, the Jayhawkers have only one experienced quarterback. Duane Morris played left half last season after being switched from quarterback.
The Chicago White Sox topped Kansas City 20-6 Wednesday night and the A's gathered a taste of revenge yesterday by beating the Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., Hilltopers 14-2 in an exhibition contest. Ralph Terry (0-2) will take the mound tonight for Kansas City against Billy Hoeft (1-0) of the Tigers.
The squad will rest Friday in preparation for the spring's first game condition scrimmage at 2 p.m. Saturday in Memorial Stadium.
Three teams from each chapter will be out to break the record for the 43-mile trip down the Kaw river.
A's Meet Tigers Tonight
Yesterday the A's unloaded on the Army All-Star team for six runs in the third, highlighted by a bases-loaded double by Preston Ward and a two-run homer by Roger Maris. Later, Frank House socked a two-run homer for Kansas City. The Army scoring was highlighted by catcher Roy West's home run with one on. It was the first time in history a major league team had played at Ford Wood in Central Missouri. The Army team members are all from minor league clubs.
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Six of the nine football teams that Dartmouth faces this fall were on the Big Green grid schedule prior to 1900.
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