Netters win big; 9-0 sweep
- After starting the Big Eight conference race with a win and a loss last week, the KU tennis team took a day off yesterday by defeating Northwest Missouri State 9-0 at St. Joseph, Mo.
Led by number one man John Towner, Lawrence senior, and the number one doubles team of Sid Kanter, Prairie Village senior, and Dan Oram, Shawnee Mission junior, the Jayhawk netters won all six singles matches and three of the doubles matches.
"I didn't expect much of a problem with Northwest Missouri," Jim Burns, KU tennis coach, said, "but we're actually aiming at Wichita State tomorrow. We played them in Wichita last week and I was real disappointed to split with them 3-3. I feel we should win this one on our own courts."
The meet at Missouri State was the third for the tennis squad in the past five days, and they will play Wichita State, the University of Arkansas and Emporia State during the next four days. The respective meets will be played on the courts west of Allen Field House at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow, 10 a.m. Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Conference competition will not resume for the Jayhawks until May 1 when they will travel to Manhattan for a rematch with Kansas State. KU defeated K-State in their match of the season Tuesday at KU by a 5-2 margin.
Results of the singles competition against Northwest Missouri State yesterday:
8 KANSAN Apr.17 1969
Aaron tops Majors' stars in latest 'Who's Who' edition
NEW YORK (UPI) — The biggest "who" in the 54th edition of "Who's Who in Baseball" still is the very first name listed-Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron of the Atlanta Braves.
Literally hundreds of records of major league players follow Hammerin' Hank's in the little annual but you won't find any sparkling with more stars than his.
A star on the record indicates a category in which a player has led or tied for the league lead. And Aaron has 20 of 'em dotdotting his 15-year major league report.
Next comes Willie Mays of San Francisco with 14, the
with 11 each, Luis Aparicio of the Chicago White Sox and Maury Wills of Montreal with 10 each.
All-around player
Aaron, frequently dubbed the best all-round player of recent years, was a victim of the pitcher's paradise year in 1968 and failed to add a single star to his hefty total.
But over the years he has picked them up for games played, runs scored, total hits, doubles, bats batted in, home runs and twice for batting titles.
Last star for Mays was the 1965 home run championship and Willie's position as No.2 man is threatened by the fast closing Yastrzemski.
The Red Sox slugger added five stars in 1967 and another one last year. A home run hitter
as well as high average swinger, he's always a threat to boost his total.
Banks, Wills and Aparicio, all getting along in years, are unlikely to add any more but figure to hold their positions next year in the top six. After them comes Tony Oliva of the Minnesota Twins with eight.
In a general Who's Who, a person's prominence is reflected by the amount of space devoted to his achievements and on that basis the leader is 45-year-old Hoyt Wilhelm of the California Angels.
The ancient knuckle ball pitcher, who collected all his three stars as a rookie for the 1952 New York Giants, has a record so long it requires 46 lines of fine type to tell it all.
Mantle, second with 45 lines,
drops out of the book next year. The Mick's record was swelled by figures on his 12 world series.
Brunet a nomad
The travelling man, George Brunet of the Angels, still ranks as baseball's leading nomad though the left-handed pitcher hasn't made a move since reaching the Angels in 1964. Before that, he swapped uniforms 26 times and appeared in many a way-point between Baltimore and Hawaii.
Outfielder Willie Smith of the Chicago Cubs rates 27 lines for a career that's modest at best. Willie once was a pitcher and a pretty good prospect, at that. Listed with his regular batting marks is a five-year pitching record in which the high point was 14-2 at Syracuse in 1963.
Willie ...
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retired Mickey Mantle with 13,
Ernie Banks of the Chicago Cubs
and Carl Yastrzemski of Boston
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