Thursday. April 2. 1959 University Daily Kansas
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Shorthanded Team Leaves for Texas
By Ted Dielman
After an impressive victory last week at the Abilene Christian meet, the Jayhawker track team, headed by Coach Bill Easton, will head south once more this week-end.
This time it will invade Austin to participate once again in the Texas Relays April 3-4.
Last year the swift-footed, strong-armed team dominated the Relays by sweeping the meet with 103 points. The closest competitor was host Texas with 64 points.
Last year Shelby's 26-foot 3-inch leap won first place in the meet and established a new Relays record. Last Thursday at Austin, Shelby bettered this mark by one inch, only to have it disqualified. Shelby still won first, however, with a 24' 6" mark.
Two Relays marks were broker, by the Kansas team last year, one by Al Oerter in the discus and the other by Ernie Shelby in the broad jump.
This year Kansas looks much stronger in the javelin with Short Hills, N.J., junior, Bill Alley, throwing. Alley threw a record-smashing 258" 4" at Austin Thursday.
Although Kansas' prospects looked bright last Thursday with this year's team running away with first place against the already-seasoned Southern teams, things have dimmed a little this week. Coach Easton said he did not think the boys would come out as well this year at the relays.
The damaging factor this year is the shortage of men to participate in the weekend Relays. Easton said only twelve men would go. The only relays the team will participate in are the four-mile and the distance medley.
Bob Tague and Bob Covey will be out because of injuries. Charlie Tidwell and Paul Williams will stay behind to keep abreast of studies.
A's Slip Past Tigers
LAKELAND, Fla. —(UPI)—The Kansas City Athletics will be aiming for a repeat victory over Detroit today after edging the Tigers, 5-4, in dramatic fashion yesterday.
Preston Ward socked a two-run, pinch-hit homer in the ninth inning yesterday to give the A's a come-from-behind victory.
Kansas City trailed 3-1 entering the eighth but Hector Lopez made it 3-2 with a circuit clout.
Lary went the distance and got the loss while reliefer Jack Urban gained the triumph.
With two gone in the ninth, Harry Simpson walked and Ward blasted Frank Lary's first pitch over the fence for the game-winning blow.
Larry Doby and Frank Bolling each clubbed homers for the Tigers. The win was the A's 11th in 21 spring starts. The Tigers stand at 8-11.
Bobby Shantz May Regain Winning Form
NEW YORK — (UPI) — There's new hope in the heart of Bobby Shantz today despite the admission that seven innings don't make a season.
Little Bobby has been through six years in which he ranged from utter desolation to mediocre misery. This has been just another lacklustre spring for the mite who was the American League's Most Valuable Player in 1852.
Until this week.
Oh this week was looking good, or even fair. At one stage the New York Yankees sent him back from an exhibition trip so that he could be given more work at their St. Petersburg, Fla., base. There he threw one good game against minor league opposition but Bobby brushed it off with the discouraged remark that "anybody should beat those kinds of hitters."
Everything looks brighter since Monday, however, when he pitched seven shutout innings against the
power-packed Cincinnati Reds.
"And what's even more encouraging," glows the five-foot, six-inch southpaw, "I could easily have gone nine."
Casey Stengel was happy, too. "He still has that major league arm," Casey said.
Shantz seemed ticketed for greatness right from the start. The 140-pounder from Pottstown, Pa., led the Western League with 18 victories his first season in organized ball and moved right up to the Athletics. It took him a year to get started but then, in 1951, he won 18 games for the A's. The following season he won 24 against a mere seven losses. Then disaster struck.
Bobby was hit on the pitching wrist in a game against Washington and suffered a broken bone. The next season his delivery was so altered in an unconscious attempt to guard his wrist that he developed shoulder trouble. He was 5-9 that year, and it was to get worse.
A pulled shoulder tendon virtually washed him out in 1954, in which he pitched only eight innings. In the spring of 1955 he thought of leaving baseball but stuck and had a poor 5-10 mark. The next year he lost his control, along with everything else, for a 2-7 record.
Then Stengel, who had always been high on the little man, got Shantz in a trade. Bobby repaid that faith with an 11-5 mark in 1957 and the league's lowest earned run average. But last season shoulder trouble struck again and Shantz finished at seven wins and six losses.
This spring appeared to spell the beginning of the end. He was throwing "nothing" balls and his control was off. But those seven innings against the Reds made a big difference. Only time will tell what happens next to the little man who has been fate's football. But at least now he has fresh encouragement to go on fighting.
Basilio Halts Seifer With 3rd Round TKO
AUGUSTA, Ga. — (UPI) — Carmen Bastilio, former welterweight and middleweight king, added another victory to his long string but gained little stature in scoring a third round technical knockout over little-known Arley Seifer of Pittsburgh last night.
The end came at 2:31 of the third round when referee Eddie Coachman halted the bout to keep the outclassed Seifer from absorbing any more punches.
Girls' AAU Teams Advance
The bout was Basilo's fifth this year in a campaign for a return bout with Middleweight Champion Sugar Ray Robinson. The fight was part of a Master's Golf Week celebration that attracted 2,300 fans.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. — (UPI) — The script has lived up to form in the 31st annual Women's National AAU basketball tournament.
The three top-seeded teams rolled into tonight's semifinals by winning quarterfinal games last night. The number 4 seeded team, Gus's Gals of Kansas City, was upset by Omaha Commercial Extension, 36-34. But top-seeded and defending champion Nashville Business College whipped Clarendon, Tex., Junior College, 58-43, in a quarterfinal tussle last night. Second-regarded Iowa Wesleyan of Mount Pleasant, Ia., downed the Atlanta, Ga., Tombows, 52-44. Third-ranked Wavland, Tex., won
over Dowell's Dolls of Amarillo,
Tex. 58-35.
Guy's never led in losing to Omaha. The Kansas City team did tie the score 32-32 late in the fourth period. Rita Houser hit 15 points for Omaha and Darlene Everhart collected 12 for Guy's. Nashville was led by Joan Crawford's 28 points while Gay Ivey bucketed 12 for the losers. Nashville hit a blistering 53 per cent of its shots.
KU Adds Texas Tech
Kansas University has added Texas Tech to its basketball schedule for next season. Tech will play Colorado at Boulder, Colo., Dec. 5 and will be at KU Dec. 7.
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