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Repairs Prevent Baseball Field Use
Kansas will be unable to use its new baseball field this season, according to baseball coach Floyd Temple. The new field needs about two weeks work on it and the team can't practice on it while the work is being done, Temple said. New soil has to be put on the infield.
Temple pointed out that the new field will be one of two fields in the Big Eight to have an entirely enclosed field. Oklahoma State has this feature.
"We are just marking time. The weather is putting a crimp in our plans," Temple said.
The team has been unable to practice outdoors because of bad weather.
Some of the team members are now pitching for batting practice. The pitching machine was used to help in early season conditioning
Temple said pitchers Ron Wiley and Larry Miller would play in the outfield when they weren't pitching. Bob Marshall, outfielder, is still a doubtful starter because of a knee injury suffolk in football.
Temple pointed out that an all-conference player last year, Jim Trombold, is back with the team. Trombold, a first baseman, also made the fifth district all-star team.
1958 BASEBALL SCHEDULE
April 4 Rice Houston
April 5 Rice Houston
April 7 Houston Houston
April 8 Houston Houston
April 11 *Iowa State* Lawrence
 April 12 *Iowa State (2)* Lawrence
 April 13 *Missouri* Columbia
 April 19 *Missouri (2)* Columbia
 April 22 Central Mo. Lawrence
 April 25 *Okla State* Lawrence
 April 26 *Okla, State(2)* Lawrence
 April 29 Wichita Lawrence
 May 2 *Colorado* Boulder
 May 3 *Colorado (2)* Boulder
 May 9 *Nebraska* Lincoln
 May 10 *Nebraska* Lincoln
 May 16 *Kans, State* Lawrence
 May 17 *Kans, State(2)* Lawrence
 May 21 *Oklahoma* Lawrence
 May 22 *Oklahoma(2)* Lawrence
- Conference game (2) Doubleheader
Single games are at 3 p.m. and doubleheaders at 1 p.m.
Oklahoma is heavily favored to repeat as Big Eight swimming champions when they defend their title at Ames, Iowa this weekend.
OU Favored In Swim Meet
Every conference school has been swamped by OU in dual meets this season. Iowa State, picked as the runner-up, lost to Oklahoma 68-18. Kansas fell to the Sooners, 69-11.
KU coach Jay Markley, who guided the Jayhawkers to a 7-5 dual season will be relying heavily on butterfly specialist John Jeffery, and Jim Laidlaw, who will enter the 100 and 200 yard breaststroke events.
Markley will also be relying on divers John Adams and Bill Matthews to pick up points.
Spinner Steve Hill will move into the 1500 meters race. Captain Jon Poort will enter the 220 and 440 yard free-style and brother Ed Poort will enter the 60 and 100 yard spring events.
The Jayhawkers' best distance swimmer, Jared Piety, will be limited to relay duty. He is still recovering from a recent attack of mononucleosis.
If the Jayhawkers can pick up in the relays, they could climb as high as fourth in the meet. This would be a leap from the cellar spot which they shared with Kansas State last year.
Kansas is expected to compete with Colorado and Nebraska for the higher ratings.
The meet will open with the 1500-meter swim Friday and close Saturday night. Sixteen events are scheduled for the two day event.
Weatherman Keeps Easton's Outdoor Track Men Inside
Easton, just finished with another undefeated indoor track season, is now looking towards the sky in hopes of fair weather so his outdoor squad can get to work.
If you were to ask track coach Bill Easton who he thought was going to give his Jayhawkers the most trouble for the coming season, he would probably quickly reply "the weatherman."
Easton said his squad would be made up mainly of the personnel that carried KU through the indoor season. He added that some boys who are now out with injuries or sickness are expected to be back and in shape for outside work.
So far the squad has been limited to workouts on the 220-yard track inside Allen Field House.
With their first outdoor meet just four weeks away, Easton said the squad's biggest problem now it being able to get outdoors for practice.
Casting a backward glance, Easton said he was extremely pleased the way the indoor season had worked out and that the Big Eight meet had turned out about "like we'd expected."
Garden City High Star Plans To Attend KU
Sharer "Duke" Collins, a six-lettered athlete from Garden City High School, has notified KU football coach Jack Mitchell he will accept a football scholarship at Kansas next September.
Collins was selected All-Southwest Kansas end last autumn and earned honorable mention All-State. A 6-foot 190-pounder, he earned three letters in football, two in basketball and one in track.
Collins has been a near "A" student and was nominated by his high school faculty for a Summerfield scholarship.
Easton pointed out the outdoor squad will be especially handicapped not getting outdoors early this year because the Texas Relays, KU's first meet, is a week earlier than it has been in previous years.
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA., — (UP)—Owner Arnold Johnson today welcomed all comers who wish to deal with his Kansas City Athletics.
Johnson Will Deal With All Clubs
Easton expected the relays April 4 and 5 to be an especially tough meet.
Kansas State dual, Manhattan — May 3
Missouri University Relays, Columbia — MAY
Other meets scheduled are:
Drake Relays, Des Moines, Iowa — April 25 and 26.
Kansas Relays, Lawrence -- April 18 and 19.
Other meets scheduled are:
Arkansas Relays, Fayetteville — April
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Big Eight meet, Columbia, Mo. — May 17 and 18.
12 and 13 Relays, Fayetteville — April
11 and 12 Kansas Laurenu -- April 19
Realizing his club has become generally known in baseball folklore as "a farm club of the Yankees" because of all the deals he has made with the American League's perennial champions, he bluntly declared:
18th meet, Columbia, Mo. — May 17 and 18
Missouri Valley AAU, Shawnee Mission,
Kansas May 24
National collegiate, Berkeley,
Calif. June 13 and 14.
NAAU meet, Bakersfield, Calif. —
June 20 and 21.
Annual
"I'll deal with any club. Up to now the deals I've made have been with the Yankees and the Tigers because they offered me more in the line of what I wanted than the other teams.
"But the other club owners know the players I have on the market and I've always given them all an equal chance. It just happened, until that big deal with Detroit last winter, the Yankees always offered me more. That's why most of my deals have been with them.
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