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University Daily Kansan
Friday, May 1, 1964
Now Steve Renko Is Batting Cleanup
By Russ Corbitt (Assistant Managing Editor)
11-24-23.
Sounds like football signals?
Well, that's partly correct. Those are the three numbers by which Steve Renko, sophomore three-sport letterman, is known to Big Eight sports fans.
EARLY IN THE FALL, Steve put on his pads and jersey No.11 for the KU football team. Renko was the starting quarterback the entire season.
After the footballs were stored away for the season, Steve suddenly decided to report to Coach Dick Harp for varsity basketball and was given jersey No.24.
He joined the team late, but scored 10 points in his first game, and was a starter off and on the remainder of the season.
Then came what is probably Steve's favorite sport—baseball. He reported for Coach Floyd Temple's pitching staff, and was issued uniform No. 23.
TOM HEDRICK, director of the KU sports network, said he thinks Renko is probably the only major college athlete who is starting on three varsity teams. Hedrick said he is positive Steve is the sophomore starter in three sports.
Renko, considered one of the best athletes ever to come out of Wyandotte High School, Kansas City, has been offered contracts by major league baseball teams.
Currently, he is leading the Jayhawk pitching staff with a record of four wins and no losses. He has an earned-run-average of 0.90, and has registered 28 strikeouts.
BUT HIS STRONG right arm is not Steve's only asset to the Jav Hawk team.
When he is not on the mound, Renko doubles by starting in the outfield so Temple can take advantage of his hitting power.
In the three-game series at Oklahoma State last weekend, Steve pitched a 6-5 victory in the opener, and unloaded a batting show of two home runs and seven hits in 12 times at bat in the series.
That hitting streak boosted Renko's batting average from .297 to .354, second only to firstbaseman-outfielder Steve McGreevy's .390 among club regulars.
THE PERFORMANCE ALSO caused Temple to move Steve into the cleanup spot in the batting order. That is where he will be this weekend when the Jayhawks try to overtake Iowa State in the Big Eight race at Quigley Field.
Renko will pitch the first game of Friday's doubleheader, scheduled for 1:30 p.m. A nine-inning game is scheduled for 1 p.m. Saturday.
KU Downs Creighton, 7-0; Face Wichita in Next Meet
During the match, Kansas dropped only five games in the 14 sets played.
The results of yesterday's match:
The next home match for the Jayhawks will be this afternoon when they meet Wichita for the third time this season.
In two previous matches KU and Wichita have won one apiece, both by the score of 4-3.
The results of yesterday's match: Jim Burns KU def. Jim Fogarty 6-0, 6-1.
Assistant Coach Quits For Washburn Post
Bill Jennings has resigned as KU assistant football coach to become athletic director and physical education chairman at Washburn University. Topeka
At KU, Jennings was offensive backfield coach, and had worked this spring with the Jayhawk defensive backs.
He will assume duties at Washburn July 1.
Lance Burr KU def. John Lammers 6-0: 6-0.
Jay Lysaught KU def. Terry Tomkin 6-0; 6-1.
John Grantham KU def. Tom Stabile 6-0; 6-0.
Barry McGrath KU def. Cathy Welsh 6-0: 6-0.
Burns-Burr 6-1; def. Fogarty-Tam-
mers 6-1: 6-1.
Lysaught-McGrath def. Tonkin-Stabile 6-0; 6-1.
After today's match, the KU team will play Nebraska and Iowa State next weekend, and in two weeks will participate in the Big Eight tournament. KU and Oklahoma are co-favorites to take this year's championship.
In other sports action, the KU track squad will participate in a meet against Southern Illinois.
The field events are scheduled to get underway at 7 p.m. with the first running event scheduled for 7:30 Saturday.
Southern Illinois will be led by George Woods, second place shot-putter in the KU Relays. Also figured to cause the Jayhawkers trouble are hurdler Herb Walker and quarter-miler Carv Carr.
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