Football, horse racing? Survey results are vague but baseball is still No.1 NEW YORK - One more survey and I'm giving all my business to the ballet. I might as well. Who wants to be classified as a loser all the time? It's worse than being thrown into that column known as "undecided." The situation now has reached the point where I feel a little self-conscious walking into a baseball park. I notice 53.6 per cent of the sampling stare at me as if I'm committing some kind of misdemeanor. These surveys have me all shaken up. They say anybody who goes out to see baseball games isn't with it anymore, and then when I consult the same surveys and try to find out the best way to get with it I become more confused than before. On one hand I'm told pro football now is the big thing. Okay. I'll go along quietly. But on the other hand here comes another survey which says horse racing really beats 'em all and while I'm scratching my head over that, along comes survey No. 3 saying pay no attention to those other two, the sport that's actually No. 1 today is automobile racing. Kinsey had answer Like I say, I'm confused. These polls and surveys keep trying to prove the most popular sport and I thought a guy by the name of Kinsey took care of that some time ago. Apparently, different surveys come up with different answers about sports the same way they do about politics. One professional survey taker revealed that more than 40 percent of the people questioned were opposed to baseball's two chief innovations this year, lowering the pitcher's mound and reducing the strike zone. The major leagues took their IM softball Softball intramurals completed its first round of action yesterday evening as a full slate of contests were waged on the fields at Robinson Gym. Squash City, the Annex, Mallott Chemistry, and Manor all remained undefeated in Tuesday battles, in the Independent fast pitch league. In the senior circuit of the Fraternity division the Betas, SAEs, DUs, and Phi Pisis maintained their winning records through action yesterday. The results of Tuesday and Wednesday night's action: Tuesday **INDEPENDENT A** Squash City won by forfeit over BC&P. Annexn won by forfeit over Gas-light Gang. Mallott them, 14, Ellsworth 7N 0 Manor 18, Skepte 0 **INDEPENDENT B** McColum Fug won by forfeit over College Kidz. Grange Parson 13, Pearson 1 Jolliffe 9, Battenfeld 3 **FRATERNITY B** PK Tau 10, Lambda Chi 0 Phi Gipt 4, APIF 1 PK Theta 7, Theta Tau 6 Delts 12, DU 6 Theta Chi 19, PK Sigma #2 17 Beta No. 5, Gam No. 2 2 Kappa Sig 17, TKE #2 7 **WEDNESAY** **FRATERNITY A** SAE 8, Sigma Nu 5 Beta 6, PK Theta 5 DU 11, Acacia Phi Psi won by forfeit over Sigma Nu. **INDEPENDENT B** Grads 20, JRP #3 0 Naismith 9, Nesp 5 Rocket Fuelers 1, Wonder Alpha Sig. Tea Totalers 1, Negy and Bears 0 MBA 10, Desert Coolers 0 McColum 8, Los Borrachos 7 Imposters 13, NY Mugwamps 5 Radiation仰光器 (Xplore) Cuma 21 Detailed files Data Functions 7 Ellsworth 5N won by forfeit over Independent. own survey and found more than 90 per cent were in favor. 6 KANSAN Apr.24 1969 What do you do there? On my scorecard I voted it a draw. KANSAN Sports Then another point came up. Some of the baseball people said one of the poll-takers who showed football to be the leading sport had been retained by pro football once to do a survey on how good an area Atlanta would be for a new franchise. "That is correct," said Pete Rozelle, the pro football commissioner, when he was asked about it, "but I'd like to point out that at that time, that particular survey showed baseball to be No.1 and actually this is the first time football is rated ahead in the survey." Pete Rozelle is an eminently fair man and of course he was happy about that survey which puts football in front, and rather indifferent about those which rate horse racing and auto racing at the head of the pack. "I think," he says, "surveys are good indications of fan interest at the time they are conducted. I'm sure that fan interest in football would be at its highest right after the Super Bowl game and interest in baseball highest right around the World Series." Popularity swings Rozelle not only is a fair man, he's a smart man, too. He knows the public is like the pendulum of a clock. It can go either way. He's happy about the popularity pro football enjoys today but doesn't crow about it. He feels baseball is a fine game, too. The professional mourners who moan that baseball is dying are not unlike those who have been saying for years that boxing was dead. That rumor's proved greatly exaggerated. All it took was a Cassius Clay to come along and boxing suddenly was alive again. Bowie Kuhn, the new baseball commissioner, realizes baseball needs more excitement. He's quietly going around asking people what they would think of managers being permitted to argue ball-and-strike decisions by the umpires again. Kuhn thinks allowing managers to do that again would restore some of the excitement to the game. The last anybody heard from Leo Durocher, he was all for it. Anyway, Kuhn likes the idea, too, and is doing something about it. What exactly? You'd never guess. He's taking a survey. Let's see how football and horse racing come out in that one. Big 8 Averages Hitting Player and School Adrian Flaia, Nebraska C 5 14 1 H 7 RBI 2B 3B HR Avg. Mike Tate, Oklahoma State 1B 9 35 8 17 20 4 0 4 486 Mike Sweinton, Oklahoma RF 9 29 7 13 11 5 1 4 148 Bill Huisman, Kansas State 2B 6 22 6 9 4 1 1 0 409 Tom Tidball, Nebraska 3B 4 10 3 4 1 1 0 1 400 Terry Edwards, Oklahoma State RF 9 33 4 13 2 2 0 0.394 Bob Randall, Missouri SS 6 23 1 9 7 1 1 1 0.391 Paul Pfail, Missouri LF 9 29 1 11 3 0 0 0.379 Larry Corrigan, Iowa State 1B-P 7 19 3 7 5 0 0 1.368 Tom Goodman, Iowa State LF 7 17 4 6 2 1 0 0.353 Steve Houck, Oklahoma State LF 9 29 8 10 7 0 1 0.345 Steve Mohr, Iowa State SS 7 18 2 6 3 0 0 0.333 Steve Patchin, Missouri C 9 30 7 10 6 1 0 2.333 Bob Tate, Oklahoma SS 9 34 6 11 4 2 0 0.324 Roger Manaugh, Oklahoma State CF 9 38 8 12 11 3 2 1.316 Pitching Player and School G CG IP H R ER BB SO W L ERA Dick Slicker, Kansas 3 2 221₃ 19 4 2 9 14 3 0 0.81 Ron Hall, Oklahoma 1 1 9 5 1 1 2 7 1 0 1.00 Al Furby, Nebraska 2 2 15 10 2 2 2 7 1 1.20 Paul Marek, Nebraska 2 0 11 10 2 2 1 9 1 1.64 Joel Markert, Iowa State 4 1 15 10 4 3 2 5 0 1.80 Dick Brown, Oklahoma 3 2 192₃ 14 4 4 5 10 2 1.83 Bill Maxwell, Okla. State 3 1 191₃ 14 8 4 6 11 2 1.86 David Weaver, Oklahoma 2 0 112₃ 12 9 3 4 7 0 2.31 Dave Robisch, Kansas 3 1 162₃ 11 6 6 15 14 0 2.24 Bob Dobbs, Okla. State 3 3 21 20 6 6 3 27 3 0.27 Bob Sheetz, Missouri 3 1 171₃ 20 8 5 4 9 1 1.26 Bob Lingle, Iowa State 3 2 17 14 9 5 5 6 1 2.65 Sports briefs NEW YORK — John Kerr is considered the iron man of the National Basketball Association, having played in 844 consecutive games over an 11-year period. BALTIMORE - The biggest betting day in Maryland racing history was the 1968 Preakness Day at Pimlico race track when $2,852,878 passed through the pari-mutuel windows. NEW YORK - Wilt Chamberlain holds the National Basketball Association's single season scoring record, pumping in 4,029 points in 1961-62. CHICAGO — The Chicago Bears-Green Bay Packers series is the oldest rivalry in the National Football League, the two teams have met 100 times with the Bears holding a 54-39-6 edge. 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