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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Sept. 19, 1958
SUBS TAKE BEATING . . .
Braves Can Grab 1st Tonight
MILWAUKEE — (UPI) — The Braves can wrap up the entire National League race and walk off with the title tonight.
All they need to do is defeat the Redles and then sit back and hone the Phillies do the same to the second-place Pirates. Their second straight title would then be clinched. The Braves will send rookie Carlton Willey against Cincinnati tonight. If he can't do the job, they'll
use Lew Burdette and Warren Spahn during the weekend.
Big Bob Rush posted the 9-3 victory over the Cardinals and increased the Braves' lead over the Pirates to six games. Milwaukee and Pittsburgh each have seven games to play.
Red Schoendienst paced Milwaukee's 13-hit attack with three doubles and a single while Johnny Logan and Andy Pafko contributed homers.
After the Saturday cheers fade out of the stadium and our heroes or goats tread off to the locker room, to remain in obscurity until another Saturday, it brings up the question. "What makes a person want to train and practice long hours to play football."
Bruised, Banged Subs Hope for Improvement
For some, who receive recognition for their feats against intercollegiate competition, the answer is easy to see.
But there are others who train and practice equally as hard, yet do not quite equal the standards necessary for them to compete on Saturdays. They have to be content as the subs, meat squad, or whatever other names they might be given. These are the men who do not get to share in the Sunday morning victory.
A Plaver's View
What keeps a substitute's desire to play so high? Here's how one player puts it.
"Practice is supposed to be hard," the 189-pounder said. "If you're going to have anything worthwhile you have to work for it. Practice isn't fun, but I always look forward to the day I will be rewarded for it."
Bill Allen, Kansas City, Mo. sophomore, is a third team end on this year's varsity team. He and the other third and fourth team members are called on daily in practice to provide opposition for the first two squads. Even though he has very little chance to be Saturday's hero, he expends as much effort during the week as any team member.
"First of all, you have to like the game to make it worth-while." Allen said. "The main things that keep the subs going to practice are a desire to play and a constant hope of improving themselves and moving up on the team."
Hope for Reward
To the onlooker, these rewards might seem to revert to the minus column for Allen. Even before seeing any action on the KU varsity, he has already received a broken tooth.
Allen began his football career at
Northtown in Kansas City.
"When I was a freshman in high school, I didn't have any special interest in football," he said. "I couldn't see too much sense in going out and getting knocked around, but I did it mainly because all my friends did."
"I made the freshman first team," he said, "but sprained my ankle the night before the first game and was unable to play. It was then that I first realized how much I really wanted to play. Now, I can't stand to watch someone else play while I'm sitting around."
Part of the Team
Even though Allen is now a substitute for KU, like all substitutes he feels he is a part of the team.
"When I sat on the bench during the varsity-alumni game last spring, (the varsity won, 9-8) I felt as if I was a part of the winning team. If it wasn't for the third and fourth teams, the other fellows wouldn't get the practice needed to have a winning team," he explained.
"Football is typical of all things in life." Allen concluded.
"Good things don't come easy—if you want it, you have to work hard to get it."
Claiborne Tops in Size
For the third straight season, Ron Claiborne, veteran Amarillo, Texas guard, is the biggest man on Kansas' football squad. The 6-5 senior scales 229. a drop of 12 pounds over his 1957 weight.
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KC Athletics Meet Chisox
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — (UPI) — Kansas City defeated Boston 4-1 yesterday and will meet the Chicago White Sox in a three-game set.
The White Sox and A's tangle tonight, tomorrow night and Sunday afternoon. Tonight's Athletics' choice will be Ralph Terry (10-13) facing Early Wynn (14-14) for Chicago.
Yesterday Bill Tuttle and Roger Maris hit back-to-back homers in the first inning and gave Bud Daley all the help he needed for the victory.
Bob Cerv added his 37th homer in the eighth.
The Red Sox, who collected only five hits includes a second inning home run by Pete Daley, lost their ninth out of the last 10 games and fell out of a fourth-place tie with Cleveland. The Athletics moved into sixth.
When Kansas City came to bat in the last of the first, Tuttle smashed his 10th homer to left and Maris his 26th to right on the first three pitches thrown by Ted Bowsfield, who took his second loss against three wins.
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