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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, March 31, 1959
By Doug Yocom
Soon the 1958-59 Big Eight All-Sports Trophy winner will be named.
And again, like last year, it probably will not be the University of Kansas.
The All-Sports trophy is given to the conference school that places highest in the most varsity sports. One point is given to the top team in each of ten sports: football, cross-country, basketball, indoor track, wrestling, swimming, outdoor track, tennis, golf, and baseball. The second place team receives two points, third place three, and so on. The team with the fewest points wins the coveted cup.
Oklahoma University won last year, edging KU in baseball, the final sport to decide the owner of the trophy.
The Sooners have taken home the trophy 20 out of the past 29 years. KU and Nebraska have each won it three times, Iowa State twice, and Missouri once.
Kansas was tops in the league during the 1956-57, 1931-32 and 1930-31 seasons.
Oklahoma is the champion for only one reason. It gives away athletic scholarships with a freer hand than any other Big Eight school.
Whereas Kansas is not stingy with scholarships in the three major sports—football, basketball and track—the other sports are given enough for a couple of full scholarships (sometimes) and one or two tuition scholarships.
Oklahoma, however, gives scholarships in all sports to motivate the high school stars to seek out the Sooner school.
Because of how the money is distributed, basketball, track and football have come to be designated as "major" sports while the other six varsity squads have received the name "minor" sports. Nobody particularly likes this labeling, most of all the "minor" sports coaches, but it has evolved because of the lesser amount of scholarships going to these sports.
Imagine that, baseball, the national pastime, is a minor sport at the University of Kansas.
The Sooners have a 60,000 seat stadium which may support some scholarships. But the business end of athletics should not be much different from any other business: If a person desires to make money, he must spend a little first.
There are two sports at KU that could be winning some titles in the next couple of years if they had ample scholarship money to encourage certain high school seniors to enroll here.
Pete Block, a sophomore, and Pete Woodward and Henry Karrle, two outstanding freshmen, could provide the nucleus of a powerful tennis team in a couple of years. But the team needs more balance to win the important matches. If KU would recruit two or three top freshmen next year, that balance might be achieved.
But if another school offers a top high school senior a full scholarship, why should he attend KU for less money?
Swimming seems to be in the same situation. This year saw coach Jay Markley producing the best swimming team in KU's history. His team was loaded with sophomores. His freshman team took second in the league postal match. How about next year's freshman team coach?
"Right now it looks like I will have $200 to give away for scholarships next year. That's tuition for one boy, Oklahoma will give the top boys in this area full scholarships," Markley said.
The team that wins the All-Sports Trophy often has under 30 points. If a school does not participate in a sport it is automatically docked $6\frac{1}{2}$ points.
Kansas and Missouri are the only schools that do not field teams in all ten sports. Neither has a wrestling team.
If KU had either more scholarships for the "minor" sports or a wrestling team the All-Sports Trophy would be within reach. This is because of the ten sports that count toward the trophy. Thanks to Bill Easton, KU has consistently won three of them for the last eight years. These are, of course, indoor track, outdoor track and cross-country.
The cards are stacked in KU's favor but a lack of money scholarships prevents Kansas from becoming "the" Big Eight power.
Arkansas Edges Emporia
EMPORIA, Kan. — (UPI) — Emporia State's baseball record stood at 1-5 today after the Hornets suffered a 10-inning, 5-4 loss here yesterday to the University of Arkansas.
The victors, upping their mark to 2-1, were led by Lew Hobson, who pitched the entire distance, and C. B. Newton, who socked a three-run homer in the sixth inning.
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NEW YORK —(UPI)— Salutes are in order today for Harry Craft of Kansas City and Cookie Lavagetto of Washington—but it's a matter of condolences as well as congratulations.
The man from Washington, as honest as George surprised at the cherry tree with hatchet in hand, admits gamely that his Senators are merely going to filibuster in the American League race this year. Craft intimates that his name is misspelled and that actually he's dealing in cheese.
The other 14 all profess to be looking fondly away from the basement and up at the bunting. Meaning that come September—and even earlier in most cases—it's either going to be awfully crowded in the big leagues' first division or there will be a bucketful of busted hearts.
These are the only two of the 16 major league managers who have no first division and/or pennant pretensions during this period where hope springs eternal in the hits, runs and errors camps.
Everybody in the National League is talking first division, which calls for either an eighteem team tie or some other minor miracle. No less than four managers, and possibly five, figure they could win it all, a situation mathematically impossible.
"Our pitching is good and we'll come up with a replacement at second for Red Schoondienst," confidently asserts the defending champ, Fred Haney of Milwaukee.
"If we stay healthy, we should win," chants Danny Murtaugh of Pittsburgh, and nobody is saying he can't.
"We have everything to win the pennant," says Mavo Smith of the
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"We'll certainly finish in the first division," points out Solly Hemus of the Cards, "and we might even win the pennant."
Reds, adding, thoughtfully,
"except, perhaps, the pitching."
Defying the potential overcrowding, the other four pilots look hopefully to at least making the first division. Walt Alston, whose Dodgers are tabbed by other skippers as the team to watch, admits to first division pretensions and Bill Rigney of the Giants says, "The race will be a scramble all year," inferring that his heroes will remain involved.
Eddie Sawyer of the Phillies, lacking power so badly that his pitchers are going to have to hurl an awful lot of no-hitters to compensate, says boldly. "We have first division potential." Even Bob Scheffing of the Cubs whisits past the graveyard by counting on "hustle" to make the top four, the only factor which could make it possible.
Over in the American League, Craft announces flatly. "Don't even
class us as contenders," while Lavagette says he hopes to win 70 games, which would be just about right for last place.
But from there on, it's a crowded first division with Casey Stengel automatically predicting a Yankee flag because, "We have players in the minors who would be on other major league clubs."
Meanwhile, Al Lopez of the White Sox advises Casey that, "We're going to beat the Yankees this season." Mike Higgins of the Red Sox allows that, "We're going to win more games than last season," in which Boston finished third, and Joe Gordon of the Cleveland Indians also anticipates "improving on last year's fourth place finish."
Bill Norman of Detroit shies away from contender conversation but counts on pitching "to make the first division." Paul Richards of Baltimore admits he's "two or three years" away from contention but adds that he has eager eyes on the top half of the standings.
Bobo Olson Takes 10-Round Decision
SAN FRANCISCO — (UPI) — As far as Rory Calhoun is concerned. Carl (Bobo) Olson can beat Archie Moore for the world light heavyweight title tomorrow—as long as referee Pete Morelli is on hand to help him.
Olson pounded out a gruelling 10-round decision over Calhoun last night at the Cow Palace to win his fourth fight in as many starts of a come-back attempt.
Plains, N. Y., boxer in the second and fifth heats.
The former middleweight champion had the free swinging Calhoun down from a left hook for what Morelli said was a five count in the seventh round and rocked the White
But Calhoun, who also was docked two points for low points for low blows, thinks that Morelli went a long way toward helping Olson post a unanimous decision.
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