Thursday. March 30,1961 University Daily Kansan
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University Daily Kansan SPORTS Rookie New York Pitcher Sparkles
There will be a lot of new faces on the scene when the 1961 Major League baseball season opens in 11 days, and one of them could be young Roland Sheldon.
By United Press International
THAT GAVE SHELDON, who is attempting to become one of a handful of players to make the big jump from Class D to the Majors, a total of 14 innings pitched in spring practice games in which he has allowed only three runs and 15 hits for a 1.93 earned run average.
Sheldon, a 21-year old University of Connecticut "pheenom" who hung up a 15-1 record last year with Auburn (N. Y.) of the Pennsylvania—New York League, turned in five more shutout innings yesterday to send the New York Yankees on their way to a 5-3 victory over the Detroit Tigers.
Yankee manager Ralph Houk was practically bustin' his buttons with pride over Sheldon's latest performance, and Detroit General Manager Rick Ferrell, who took in the game at Miller Huggins Field in St. Petersburg, Fla., echoed Houk's praise.
"This boy has very good control and a fast curve," Ferrell observed. "It's no secret my club is hurting for pitchers, and I'll tell you one thing, if we had this kid, I know I'd look at him a long time."
AS THE GAME TURNED out, the Tigers were doing a lot of looking, too. Shieldon, a native of Woodstock, Conn., who received a $50,000 bonus for signing with the Yankees a year ago, merely breezed through the Detroit lineup, and one of the hits he gave up was a slow roller which just stayed fair.
Game Postponed
The scheduled Kansas-Washburn baseball game which will be have been played yesterday will be played as part of a doubleheader next Tuesday. KU will try again to open its season today, facing Emporia State.
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--times, taking fourths in the 220 and 440 yard freestyles and second in the 1500 meter freestyle.
Robin Roberts, who has set a goal of 17 victories this season which would give him a career total of 250, strung out seven more scoreless innings as Philadelphia breezed over the World Champion Pittsburgh Pirates, 7-2. That gave Roberts, who is about to embark on his 14th season, 17 innings of shutout ball this spring.
CHUCK HINTON AND Charley Boak, two more rookies who may be in the opening day lineup, propelled homers to lead the Senators to a 5-4 victory over the Cincinnati Reds "B" team. the Red Sox nipped the Indians, 6-4, the White Sox whipped the Dodgers, 10-6, the Athletics clipped the Cardinals, 3-2, the Braves dropped the Minnesota Twins, 6-2, the Giants shut out the Cubs, 8-0, and the Orioles shaded the Reds, 9-8, in other games.
Iowa State Dominates In Swim Meet; KU 2nd
The lone KU first was in the 400 yard medley relay as the team of George Winter, Tom Hutchinson, John Kemp and Bill Mills nudged Nebraska and Iowa State.
The Kansas freshman swimming team edged past the usually powerful Oklahoma Sooners for second place behind dominating Iowa State in the recent Big Eight Postal meet.
Five of the seven Kansas swimmers placed in three events with Winter leading the way with two seconds, in the 200 yard backstroke and 100 yard breaststroke, and the relay.
NEBRASKA FINISHED THIRD with 45½ points with Colorado and Kansas State a distant fourth and fifth.
The Cyclones took 10 firsts, of 13 events, to amass a point total of $ 116 \frac{1}{2}. $ Kansas took one first while the Sooners copped two, but the Jayhawkers outscored Oklahoma, $ 68 \frac{1}{2}-63 \frac{1}{2}. $
KEMP TOOK a second in the 200 yard butterfly and third in the 100 yard butterfly in addition to the relay. Mills added thirds in the 220 and 440 yard freestyles to his relay performance as did Hutchinson with thirds in the 100 and 200 yard breast-strokes.
Stew Anderson also placed three
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DAVE McCONACHIE finished in sixth twice, in the 50 yard freestyle (a tie) and the 100 yard breaststroke. The other KU swimmer, Don Pfuetze, placed sixth in the 100 yard butterfly.
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