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Platoon baseball proposed
AMARILLO, Tex. (UPI) Bobby Bragan, never listed among baseball's most conservative figures, has come up with a new idea to make baseball "better and create new interest among fans."
The plan would introduce to baseball the familiar platoon system currently employed in football.
Bragan would have each team divided into three platoons-offensive, defensive, and running.
Bragan, a former Major League catcher, manager, and scout was recently appointed as president of the Texas Baseball League.
"It may sound strange now, but no more so than platoon football sounded when it first began," Bragan said.
Bragan said he supported the recently proposed idea to allow a player to pinch-hit more than once during a game. "But we still haven't gone far enough," he said.
The plan "would also give more players an opportunity to play in the Majors," he said.
If Bragan had a team with two platoons, his dream offensive squad would include Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Roberto Clemente, Carl Yastrzemski, Mickey Mantle, Rico Carty, Ted Williams, Pete Reiser and Stan Musial.
Mays and Clemente would go both ways for Bragan and be joined by Al Kaline in the defensive outfield. The rest of his defensive team would line-up like this:
Pitcher-Bobby Shantz;
catcher-John Roseborro; first
baseman-Dolph Camille; second
baseman-Bill Mazeroski; third
baseman-Clete Boyer;
shortstop-Neee Reees.
Defeat Washburn gymnasts
Gymnastics and basketball occupied KU's women athletes Saturday. The gymnasts played host to Washburn University, and the basketball squad traveled to Pittsburg for two games.
The KU gymnastics team became the first team ever to win a dual meet from Washburn. The KU women, in their first season, outscored the Washburn coeds, 109.55-106.50. The win avenged an earlier loss at the hands of the Icabod women.
Taking first for KU were Elaine Scott in trampoline and Cindy Pierce in uneven parallel bars. Paula Newton finished third in the all-around competition.
"I knew both teams were even in ability," KU coach Mrs. Gale Catlett said. "It was just a question of who would hit their routines best."
The women's basketball team split their two decisions. In the first game Kansas State College of Pittsburg outscored the KU coeds 43-35, but the Jayhawks came back in the second game to beat Cotney College of Nevada, Mo.. 59-32.
The split left KU's record at 5-4.
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1969 KANSAN 9
One of East's powers may unseat UCLA
(Continued from page 8)
But something has gone wrong with the club, and UCLA was forced into overtime by California two weeks ago then into double overtime last Friday night by Southern California before losing to the Trojans Saturday night.
Stale. perhaps?
The Bruins seem to be getting a bit stale. The fact that they don't have the superb guards of a year ago-Lucius Allen and Mike Warren seems to make them more vulnerable to a slowdown game. New Mexico State, which meets the Bruins tomorrow night, used a slowdown game against UCLA last year and is likely to try it again, considering the success USC had with it.
If UCLA wins, the Bruins meet the winner of the Weber State-Santa Clara clash in the finals Saturday afternoon with the winner advancing to Louisville the following week.
The winner meets the Midwest regional winner. It's Drake vs. Texas A&M and Colorado State against Colorado in that regional, although none of those four teams is given much of a shot at beating the Bruins.
The other strong challenge to UCLA comes from the East where five teams-Purdue, Kentucky, Davidson, North
East powerful
In the Mideast regional, it's Kentucky vs. Marquette and Purdue vs. Miami of Ohio in the semis tomorrow night. Purdue and Kentucky should win and meet Saturday with the victor advancing to Louisville.
Carolina and St. John's all are hopeful of making the finals.
The Purdue-Kentucky winner faces the winner of the East regional, which should be the
best of the four. North Carolina should beat Duquesne to face the winner of the St. John's-Davidson game, which should be a classic game. The interesting facet of this regional is that St. John's beat both Davidson and North Carolina during the regular season, even though the other two clubs have better records.
Anyway, one of those five
Eastern teams should make the finals. Odds are that UCLA will, too.
The Bruins still have to be favored to win it all-but the "third time" jinx won't be easy to overcome.
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