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Friday, April 28, 1961 University Daily Kansan
University Daily Kansan
SPORTS
Twins Beat LA Move Into 1st
Minnesota's transplanted Twins have played only a handful of games so far, a baker's dozen to be exact, but have you noticed no one is calling them Cookie's Crum Bums any more.
By United Press International
Even old Ty Cobb is impressed by them!
COBB TOSSED out the first ball in Los Angeles yesterday and then sat back and watched Cookie Lavagetto's surprising Twins ruin the Angels' home debut with a 4-2 victory that catapulted them into first place in the American League.
The crowd of 11,931 was considerably below expectations but the Twins, whom Cobb last saw as the old Washington Senators, certainly weren't. They spotted the Angels a two-run lead in the second inning and then took over to register their ninth victory in 12 starts.
Earl Battye, a native of Los Angeles who played his early baseball there, was the local boy who came home to haunt the Angels. His three-run homer off Eli Grba in the sixth inning clinched the outcome and sent the new A.L. entry down to its eighth loss in nine games.
In other A.L. games, the New York Yankees defeated the Cleveland Indians, 4-3; Boston beat Detroit, 5-2; Chicago clipped Kansas City, 9-1 and Baltimore blanked Washington, 5-0.
CAMILO PASCUAL won his second straight game although Ray Moore relieved him when Los Angeles threatened in the eighth. Earl Averill's two-run homer in the second represented all the Angels' runs.
The Chicago Cubs downed the Cincinnati Reds, 5-2, in the only National League game scheduled.
MICKEY MANTLE WON the game for the Yankees with a tremendous triple in the seventh inning and then saved the game for winner
IM Golf Set
The date for the annual intramural golf tournament has been set for May 13. The meet will be held at 7 a.m. at Lawrence Country Club. Entrants will have to pay the regular greens fee of $1.54.
Art Ditmar with an even more tremendous catch in the ninth.
With two out, Tony Kubek on second and the score tied at 3-all in the seventh Mantle laid into an outside fast ball served up by Johnny Antonelli and rapped it 407 feet against the right center field bleacher wall.
Then in the ninth, Mantle made a brilliant one-handed, knee-sliding catch of Bubba Phillips' liner.
The victory boosted the Yanks to within a game of the second-place Tigers, who ran afoul of the Red Sox.
Hit Wertz and Russ Nixon each hit two-run homers off Detroit loser Jim Bunning, but the real Boston hero was reliever Dave Hillman. He took over for starter like Delock in the third inning and held the Tigers scoreless on three hits the rest of the way to post his first victory of the campaign.
Early Wynn pitched a five-hitter for the White Sox against the A's for the 286th triumph of his Major League career. The 41-year-old Wynn's job was made easy by Minnie Minoso, who drove in five runs, and Nellie Fox, who collected four of Chicago's 14 hits off loser Bud Daley and three KC relievers. Rookie Jay Hankins homered in the sixth for the losers' only run.
Lanky Dick Hall, recently acquired from the A's, scored his first victory for the Orioles with a two-hit effort over the Senators.
BROOKS ROBINSON'S DOUBLE,
an infield out and Russ Snyder's
sacrifice fly netted Baltimore's first
run in the seventh and the Birds
feathered their nest with four more
runs in the eighth.
The Cubs had to call on their relief ace, Don Elston, to save Don Cardwell's victory over the Reds. Elston, owner of a 4-0 record, took over for Cardwell with the bases full in the eighth and although he allowed one run he got the next two batters and then put down another threat in the ninth.
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Kansas Thinclads to Drake To Conclude Grand Circuit
The Jayhawks managed to get only a first in the 3000 meter steeplechase (Bill Hayward) at Texas and one in the 10,000 meter run (Bob Lindrud) here.
The Kansas track team goes into the third leg of the Midlands grand circuit, the Drake Relays, this afternoon and tomorrow holding only one first in each of the first two meets, the Texas and Kansas Relays.
"Our problem is the lack of outstanding individuals," continued Easton. "We don't have the great
"WE JUST GOT BEAT," said KU track Coach Bill Easton of KU's poorest showing in the Texas and KU meets in 12 years. "We don't blycheache; we have no alibis nor any excuses. Our competition was just better than we were on those weekends.
THE DISTANCE MEDLEY relay of Davis, Thornton, Bill Mills and Dotson is in somewhat the same position.
stars like Alley, Cushman and Tidwell of last year, and it is big stars that are necessary to win a big meet.
Kansas won the Abilene Christian Invitational two weeks ago defeating the host school and Baylor. These teams dominated the Texas and Kansas Relays respectively.
KU's hopes at Drake will be riding on a two mile relay foursome of Kirk Hagen, Gordon Davis, Bill Dotson and Bill Thornton.
THIS QUARTET BLAZED to the fastest time in Big Eight history, 7:30.8, here last week, only to finish second to Drake which tied the fastest time in the nation thus far this season, 7:30.
With Bob Covey running at Texas, the Jayhawkers ran the fourth fastest conference time, 7:33.9, to finish second to Southern Methodist.
Competition will be stiff for KU again this weekend. In addition to SMU and Drake, the Jayhawkers might have to face tough entries from Oregon State and Central Michigan.
At Texas this combine clocked a 9:53.8, the fifth best Big Eight time. This, however, was only good enough for second behind Abilene Christian which fled to a new Texas Relays mark of 9:51.5.
IT TOOK GOOD enough times for a new meet and a new school record to beat this KU team here. North Texas State's 9:43.3 new Relays mark and Missouri's school standard of 9:53.9 were enough to finish ahead of KU's 9:57.3.
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