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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, February 14, 1968
Hitting means success
More hits are a must for the KU baseball team this year if they are to have a successful season, Coach Floyd Temple said.
"We are strong defensively and we have some fine pitchers but we are going to have to improve our hitting."
Last year, KU hit only .207 as a team.
Cold weather has forced indoor practices, as KU prepares for the Riverside, California, Tournament, scheduled for March 18-23.
KU will play seven teams in the tournament, including Pittsburgh, Riverside, Mississippi State, Oregon, UCLA, Brigham Young and Tennessee.
Most of the teams in competition at Riverside will have started their season long before the tournament. KU will go in without having played a single game.
"We'll have a tough time there but it will be great experience for the boys," Temple said.
With much the same personnel back, KU hopes to lick the hitting problem and top their 12-victory 15-loss-record last year.
All home games start at 1:30 p.m. Friday and 1 p.m. Saturday.
KU's Big Eight baseball schedule; April 5-6, Kansas State; April 12-13, at Nebraska; April 19-20, at Colorado; April 26-27, Iowa State; May 3-4, at Oklahoma State; May 10-11, Missouri; and May 16-17, Oklahoma.
Delta Sigs win tourney
After traveling to Omaha, playing four basketball games in one day and edging Missouri in an overtime, the KU Delta Sigma Pi's, professional business fraternity, won first place at the annual Midwestern Regional Tournament.
The team upset Creighton of Omaha, who had monopolized first place since 1930. Creighton captured second place.
Other schools attending were from Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa.
Players on the KU squad include John Kyees, Shawnee Mission senior; Mike Donabauer, Lincoln junior; Peake Leaps, Kansas City, Mo.; senior; Russ Roth, Palo Alto, Calif.; senior; Phil Roth, Kansas City, Mo., senior; Wayne Courtney, Merriam senior; Porter Guttery, Alton senior; Chris Wells, Aurora, Colo., junior, and Ron Thompson, Independence, Mo., senior.
Alum receives award
Mrs. Lyndon Morrison, a KU graduate, has been named one of the nation's outstanding early education teachers by Grade School magazine.
Mrs. Morrison, one of 180 women cited, teaches at Antioch School in Overland Park.
Study in Guadalajara, Mexico
The Guadalajara Summer School, a fully accredited University of Arizona program, conducted in cooperation with professors from Stanford University, University of California, and Guadalajara, will offer July 1 to August 10, art, folklore, geography, history, language and literature courses. Tuition, board and room is $290. Write Prof. Juan B. Rael, P.O. Box 7227, Stanford, California 94305.
PRACTICE INDOORS
Cold weather has forced pitcher Randy Stroup, Webster Groves, Mo., senior, and the rest of KU's baseball team to practice in Allen Field House.
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McDermott captures surprise silver medal
GRENOBLE, France—(UPI)Terry McDermott of Birmingham, Mich., the only gold medal winner for the United States in the 1964 Winter Olympics, picked up a surprise silver in the 500-meter speed skating race today to touch off a banner day on three fronts for the American team.
Tim Wood of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., the U.S. national figure skating champion, jumped from fourth place to second following the completion of the compulsory
figures and Billy Kidd led the American ski contingent safely through the slalom qualifying test.
Wood, who said "I think I still have a chance for the gold," scored 237.6 points on the fourth figure, a changed loop backward on the left foot, for the highest mark of any individual during the school figures. This left him with 992.4 points for the five compulsories, trailing the 1,006.6 of Austria's Wolfgang Schwarz.