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University Daily Kansas Monday, April 15, 198
Monday, April 15, 1957
Wiley's Pitching Hitting Sparks KU
The Kansas Jayhawkers opened Big Seven conference play Saturday afternoon at Norman by splitting a doubleheader with defending champion Oklahoma. The game scheduled for Friday afternoon was cancelled because of bad weather.
The Jayhawkers won the first game 2-0 behind the one hit pitching of veteran righthander Ron Wiley, and dropped the second contest, 1-0, as sophomore Larry Miller pitched a three hitter, but failed to get adequate offensive support. In winning, Wiley snapped Tony Risinger's 2-year Big Seven win streak.
Wiley Fans Six
Wiley, besides striking out six and walking only two, won his own ball game with a 2-run homer in the fourth inning. First baseman Jim Trombold started the inning off with a double and Wiley, who led the conference in home runs and runs batted in last year, followed with a high smash over the left field fence.
"Wiley pitched one of the best games of his career, and Trombold's hitting has been impressive all along," Coach Floyd Temple said Sunday.
Miller struck out four and walked one in his 3-hit performance, but was beaten, 1-0, by Sooner Eddie Fisher, who allowed only one Kansas hit.
Lone Threat By KU
The Jayhawkers put together their only threat with two outs in the first inning as Trombold walked and Wiley hit a high fly to deep left field.
Sooner left fielder Bill Leeper lived up to his name as he made a diving catch and fell over the low
outfield fence to give Kansas its third out.
Oklahoma scored its lone run in the second inning on a bit of weak defensive play by the Jayhawkers. Sooner Bobby Burr reached first base on an error as third baseman Don Steinmeyer jugged his hard grounder.
Then Dennit Morris, who also plays football for Oklahoma, hit a triple to right field to score Burr. The only Kansas hit was a single over second base by Eddie Dater.
"Miller has thrown good ball, and has pitched better than well enough to win, but we haven't given him any runs," coach Temple said. The promising lefthander has pitched in three different games, a total of 23 innings, and has been given only one supporting run by his mates.
Temple: Hitting Must Improve
"We looked pretty good. If our hitting improves, we will be a challenge." Temple said. He added that had the Jayhawkers won, "We would have had a better than even chance of winning the conference. Now that we split, we'll really have to work."
"Our defensive play had been good until that second game. We just haven't been getting the runs. We need more power in there.
Next weekend the Jayhawkers will travel to Manhattan to meet Kansas State. The Wildcats finished last in 1956, but are improved this year. Last year Kansas State beat KU and Oklahoma once each.
Riley Is Lone Tennis Winner
Oklahoma defeated the Kansas tennis team, 6-1, Saturday at Norman, and although Bob Riley, the KU captain, did not meet the Big Seven singles champ, Barry Walraven, he defeated the current No. 1 Sooner, Don Cross, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 in a match that lasted two hours, 40 minutes.
The match was played inside due to the weather and Coach Charles Crawford said, "If we had been able to play outdoors things might have been a little different, but Oklahoma is used to those boards and they have played quite a few matches already this season."
Walraven defeated Del Hadley, 6-1, 6-1, Joe Harris defeated Bob Peterson, 6-1, 6-0; Bob Markley defeated Ron Bevers, 6-4, 6-0 and Dennis Cross defeated Lynn Sieverling, 6-1, 6-4.
In the doubles Harris teamed with Walraven to defeat Riley and Hadley, 6-1, 6-0 and Don Cross combined with his brother Dennis to defeat Peterson and Bevers, 6-3, 6-2. The Jayhawkers travel to K-State Tuesday.
By GEORGE ANTHAN
(Assistant Sports Editor of The Daily Kansan)
Chuck Mather showed off his defense minded 1957 squad Saturday, the Boston Celtics won their first NBA championship, the Russians invited a U.S. track team to Moscow and the St. Louis Cardinals defeated the mighty Kansas City Athletics in a 3-game cup series.
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Locally the first team (Reds) scored six points against the third team (Whites) then the second team tallied 21 more points for a, 27-0, Red victory Saturday in Memorial Stadium.
Defensive Play Stressed
Both squads showed defensive ability early in the contest but the Whites could not withstand the Red team's greater power and speed.
The game opened with the Whites taking the advantage and driving 60 yards only to be stopped on the 5-yard line. The Reds then followed
Major Leagues Open Season
The flags fluttering in the wind . . . the shrill shouts of the vendors hawking their hotdogs, peanuts and scorecards . . . the familiar huddle at home plate . . . and finally the first official pitch all add up to the long-awaited opening day of another baseball season.
President Eisenhower gets the major league campaign in motion at Washington today when he throws out the first ball prior to a game
between the Baltimore Orioles and Washington Senators.
Then, tomorrow, all the other clubs swing into action. Detroit will be at Kansas City, Chicago at Cleveland, Boston at Baltimore and Washington at New York in the American League, while in the National League Milwaukee opens at Chicago, St. Louis at Cincinnati, New York at Pittsburgh and Brooklyn at Philadelphia in a night game.
suit with a 54-yard drive but they too were stymied.
David Harris returned a punt 75 yards for a touchdown and after the game Mather commented: "Harris has good speed and size but needs experience and defensive ability."
Red Outrush Whites
The Red team outrushed the Whites, 285 to 89 and completed four passes to the latter's one.
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Veteran fullback Bill Horn and quarterback Larry McKown as well as Harris all scored touchdowns for the Red team in the second half.
Horn scored on a drive through the middle from the 1-yard line after Dale Remsberg had recovered a fumble on the 21.
The third touchdown of the afternoon came when McKown powered into the end zone from one yard out. He had completed a 15-yard pass to Harris to reach that point. McKown then proceeded to kick the extra point after the first two had been blocked.