Around the Big Eight
Oklahoma State
Riddled in three infield positions by professional baseball raiding, Oklahoma State's 1958 baseball team will move into the new season March 18-21 with four games in Houston. O-State opens with Rice in two games and plays a pair with the Houston Cougars.
In addition, Greene's third best hitter of last year, centerfielder Bob Sloan, and his second baseman, Dale DeHart, ran into scholastic troubles. Catcher Elli Holderman and first-baseman Bob Warner graduated.
Pro ball scouts signed Jerry Adair, shortstop and leading hitter; Jerry Webster, second in hitting and third baseman, and Lowell Townsend, OSU's leading long-ball hitter who played rightfield last year and was ticketed for firstbase this season.
Oklahoma
Eud Wilkinson, Oklahoma's football coach and athletic director, will receive a National Brotherhood Citation from the National Conference of Christians and Jews March 19 at a dinner in the Persian Room of the Skirvin Tower hotel in Oklahoma City. In 1958, the Sooner coach received a national award for his advancement of Americanism and citizenship responsibility from Bna'Brith, Jewish benevolent organization.
Kansas State
Friday, March 13, 1959 University Daily Kansan Page 7
Kansas State's greenhorn wrestling team will scramble for points in the Big Eight wrestling tournament at Oklahoma State Friday and Saturday, March 13-14. The Wildcats, mostly sophomores, show no
place winners from last year's loop tourney.
Fritz Knorr, K-State wrestling coach, announced early this week that seven of the eight mat berths were decided, but said a three-man battle was underway in the 177-pound class. Six sophomores are certain to be among Wildcat grapplers at the meet, and a seventh may vie in the 177-pound competition.
Only non-yearing represented for sure is Pat Doyle, Douglass senior who won the Big Eight 157-pound title in 1957 as a sophomore. He has been sidelined by a knee injury since the season's third dual match, but has recovered to rate a berth in this meet. Doyle won two of the three matches he has wrestled in this season.
Noise and Hustle Carry Fort Hays Into Semi-Finals Of NAIA Tourney
Ey Jack Harrison
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Fort Hays State, the Kansas entry in the NAIA tournament, vaulted into the semifinals with a 98-83 victory over West Virginia Wesleyan last night in Kansas City.
The Kansas won on hustle and noise, with the Tiger ballplayers displaying the hustle and the 400 plus western Kansas fans supplying the noise.
At times the din raised by the Fort Hays students seemed sufficient to blast the West Virginians off the Municipal Auditorium court. The Tiger fans were seated in a group high in the southwest corner of the balcony and displayed enthusiasm second to no frenzied high school cheering section.
West Virginia Wesleyan had been second seeded. Fort Hays State, in
its first NAIA tournament, is one of four teams left out of an original field of 32 of the nation's best small college teams.
It wasn't Big Eight basketball being played last night, but few of the fans would have traded the reckless, run-and-shoot small college ball for anything else.
The Tigers took command early in the game, and built a 16-point lead, at 33-37, at the half. Wesleyan cut into the lead as the second half progressed, and pulled to within four points at 60-56 with 12 minutes to play.
Tiger captain Gary Casey then lion a Fort Hays charge which widened the gap to as much as 16 points shortly before the end of the game.
With victory assured in the last two minutes of play, the screaming Tiger fans broke out with a chant
It was a loosely played and wide open type of basketball in the final few minutes. When the Wesleyan full-court press got overanxious, leaving a man open downcourt, a Tiger pass was hurled the length of the floor, to be gathered in on the run by a sprinting forward, who dropped in a setup to widen the lead.
of "We want a hundred." Don Bigham's free throw was the 98th point, but two shots from the field by Fort Hays substitutes were no good, and the fans had to be satisfied with a 15-point margin and a total of 98 points.
The national tournament has been a seemingly unattainable dream world for Fort Hays Staters for many years. But now the CIC champions are right in the thick of the runoff for the title.
Coaches Sing Blues
NEW YORK — (UPI) — Coaches Tony Hinkle of Butler and Joe Lapchick of St. John's, whose clubs won opening round games in the National Invitation Basketball tournament, sang the same tune today—they'll have to do better the next time.
Hinkle sang it softly, for his Bulldogs gave a pretty sharp exhibition with a 53 per cent field goal accuracy in beating Fordham, 94-80.
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But Lapchick sang it loud and clear, not at all pleased by the way his Redmen struggled to victory over a green Villanova team.
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Greek Week Dance
March 21, 9-12 p.m.
Kansas Union Ballroom
Sauter-Finegan Orchestra
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