--charges have the rest of the week to revel in the success of their southwestern tour.
KU preparing for 'Cats after opening 5-4 jaunt
Just two more wins for the Kansas baseball team and the season can be chalked up as a success-at least by last year's standards.
Thanks to a recently-completed road trip which saw the Jayhawks bump off five opponents while falling four times themselves, KU can top 1968's victory mark of seven with a sweep of this weekend's series with Kansas State at Manhattan.
That will be no easy chore as KSU boasts a ballclub figured to battle defending champion Oklahoma State all the way for the Big Eight championship. But Coach Floyd Temple and his
"I was really pretty satisfied with the way we played," said Temple. "Like we thought beforehand, our fielding is a
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strong point and our hitting, with the exception of the Oklahoma series, was improved." Both were weak spots last year.
"Our pitching has been good."
too," the KU pilot added. "We had four shutouts on the trip and were generally effective all the way around. Robisch (Dave of basketball fame) pitched well in relief and should be ready to go nine innings now that he's rounded into shape. Randy Stroup and Rich Slicker have also done a good job for us."
No gloves,14 hits for Ted's Senators
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Ted Williams as a Major League hitter wound up with a .344 career average. In his debut as a manager, his Washington Senators hit .341 in their opening day contest against the New York Yankees yesterday.
Temple felt that the Texas swing prepared Kansas well for last weekend's Big Eight opener against Oklahoma. "They have some fine clubs down there, particularly when you consider the jump in number of games they had on us when we played them.
Nonetheless, the Yankees rolled to an 8-4 victory over the Senators and Williams' managerial record stood at .000.
For President Nixon and a record opening day turnout of 45,311 fans, the contest wasn't as close as the score indicated. The Yankees piled up an 8-0 advantage in the first four innings with two of the runs coming on back-to-back homers by Jerry Kenney and Bobby Murcer, and four others pouring across unearned on two Washington errors and a wild pitch.
Until the ninth inning, Washington fans had little to cheer about. Then big Frank Howard lashed a two-run homer over the centerfield fence to bring Nixon and the crowd to its feet, but any chance of ending a seven-year string of Washington opening day losses fell far short.
L. A.3, Cincy 2
CINCINNATI - The Los Angeles Dodgers survived back-to-back leadoff homers by Pete Rose and Bobby Tolan to edge the Cincinnati Reds 3-2
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in the National League's opening game behind the pitching of Don Drysdale and Bill Singer.
Drysdale allowed only two more hits after the first-inning homers before being forced to retire with a stiff arm after the sixth inning.
Singer blanked the Reds without a hit over the last three innings to the disappointment of a sellout crowd of 30,111 as the two clubs launched the second century of professional baseball in the city where the Cincinnati Red Stockings were organized in 1869.
Braves 5, Giants 4
ATLANTA - Sonny Jackson tripled in the tying run and scored the winning run on Mike Lum's single with one out in the ninth innings last night as the Atlanta Braves rallied for a 5-4 opening victory over the San Francisco Giants.
Jackson's triple off Frank Linzy came after Clete Boyer opened the ninth with a single and moved to second on Bob Didier's sacrifice. Jackson then tripped over the head of center fielder Willie Mays, who was drawn in close to the infield.
Lum followed with his single to left field to drive in the winning run.
"Still they don't quite compare with Big Eight opposition, so we're really going to have to play some good ball from here on in. If we continue to improve and show the eagerness that we did on the road trip, we'll be able to play anybody."
Anybody this weekend will be the Wildcats, and Temple plans to throw his best at them. Stroup and Slicker will go in Friday's doubleheader and Robisch will pitch the finale on Saturday.
KU ran a string of four consecutive triumphs after dropping two of three. St. Mary's spoiled the Jayhawk opener, 2-1, and Kansas traded shutouts in the next two games—blanking Trinity, 5-0, and being stopped by Pan American, 9-0.
Except for an 8-7 slugfest victory over St. Edwards in the sixth game, KU pitching became characteristically stingy. Victims were Pan American (2-0), Texas Lutheran (5-0), and Oklahoma (3-0).
Oklahoma bounced back to take the second game of last Friday's Big Eight twinbill, 5-0, then captured the series with a 3-1 victory Saturday.
Field sold out
COOPERSTOWN. N.Y. (UPI) Doubleday Field, the site of the Hall of Fame game to be played this year by the Minnesota Twins and Houston Astros, has been sold out.
SEATTLE, Wash.-Three KU gymnasts capped the most successful Big Eight finish in five years of competition with a respectable showing in the NCAA championships April 3-5.
"During his routine, Kirk used an illegal grip on his strength moves," Lockwood said, indicating that Gardner had curled his wrists. When the four judges rated his routine (9.5, 9.2, 8.8, 8.7), the head judge called a conference and ruled the maximum deduction of three-tenths point for each of the three strength moves.
Tying for first in the event was Iowa State's Ward Maythaler, who had tied Gardner three times during Big Eight competition.
Sophomore ring specialist Kirk Gardner, entering the meet among the favorites in still rings, placed 13th. Gardner sported a 9.3 average going into the meet—one of the best in the country—but had to settle for an 8.95 score as a result of what Coach Bob Lockwood termed "the most controversial routine and judging in meet history."
An equally strong performance came from Gerald Carley, who placed ninth in horizontal bar with an 8.75, beating Big Eight champion Ben Blea of Colorado and Brent Simmons of Iowa State.
It was the first time KU had gone to the national finals as a team.
Also competing for the Jayhawks was team captain Robert Pierson. The KU senior fouled in the preliminaries on his pike arch stunt in long horse vaulting and was eliminated.
"The experience that a man can bring back with him from the nationals and broadcast to the team is the important part of competing at the national level," Lockwood said. "You learn how your team should shape-up compared to other teams, not just in our conference.
Gardner, Carley rank in NCAA gymnastics
"I'm just happy we had two sophomores do as well as they did."
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