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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, April 19, 1961
By Gabby Wilson
(Editor's Note: This is the second of a series of two articles predicting the outcome of the races in Major League baseball.)
As usual, the National League will turn out to be the closest pennant race in the Major Leagues.
Despite their slow start, the Los Angeles Dodgers are the team to beat in senior circuit. They have power, speed, defense and pitching. In fact, if the Bums get a few breaks they could walk away with the flag in mid August.
BUT AS THINGS generally go in the National League, the breaks are usually evenly divided. Because of this the Pittsburgh Pirates, San Francisco Giants, St. Louis Cardinals and Milwaukee Braves should stay hot on the Dodgers' heels and finish in that order behind L. A.
The Dodger squad has five pitchers who could each win 15 games or more—Don Drysdale, Sandy Koufax. Johnny Podres, Larry Sherry and Stan Williams. No other team in the league can match the Bums' staff.
THE PIRATES have a good pitching staff, but they don't have the hitting to go with it. The Bucs can't count on the last ditch rallies of last year to carry over to this season, and without them there is no chance to overhaul the Bums.
FOURTH PLACE should go to the Cardinals. The balance of the squad should keep it out of the second division and could possibly move it higher should the others falter. But there seems to be little hope of reaching the top.
In fifth place are the Braves. A few breaks could put the Braves near the top, but without them Milwaukee is a fifth place club.
SIXTH PLACE can only belong to the Cincinnati Reds. The Reds just aren't the caliber to finish with the top five and they aren't bad enough to finish with the Chicago Cubs and Philadelphia Phillies. That just leaves two spots in the standing.
The Phillies should finish seventh solely on the detrimental effect the rotating manager plan will have on the Cubs.
Tennis Team Beats Washburn, 9-0
KU's racket squad warmed up for its key Friday match with Oklahoma State's Cowboys with a 9-0 blanking of Washburn yesterday on the KU courts.
The match resembled KU's earlier 7-0 win over the Ichabods in the Jayhawkers' season debut last month. Yesterday the Jayhawks didn't drop a single set in the victory.
Bringing their season record to 5-3, Coach Denzel Gibbens' crew opened their six-match home stand in impressive fashion. They host the conference champion Cowboys Friday, and entertain Nebraska April 28.
Wilt Chamberlain, KU star in 1957-58, holds the Big Eight marks for the highest point per game average for one season with 28.3 and the best average for a career, 26.5.
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In Major League baseball action last night the Los Angeles Dodgers won a battle of homers as they downed the St. Louis Cardinals, 5-4. The win enabled the Cincinnati Reds to take over first place in the National League via their 9-1 shellacking of the San Francisco Giants.
Chicago Cubs, 5-3, and the Minnesota Twins topped the Boston Red Sox, 3-2, in the American League for their fifth win in six games in the only other Major League action yesterday.
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