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University Daily Kansan
Friday, March 22, 1963
University Daily Kansan SPORTS Nebraska Boasts Strong Pitching
The future of this year's Nebraska baseball team depends, to a great extent, on whether the Huskers can perk up their hitting attack to go along with what appears to be a strong pitching staff. Nebraska hitters batted a woeful .234 team average last year and the top two hitters from the 1962 club — Steve Smith and Pat Salerno — have graduated.
Coach Tony Sarpe has eight returning lettermen and five squadmen on his 25-man roster but feels that NU will have to get a maximum effort from all players to match last year's fourth place tie finish. The Huskers won 10 and lost 10 against Big Eight foes last spring and won 15 and lost 11 overall. This record will be tough to equal.
"EVEN WITH potentially good pitching, the lack of experienced players and lack of hitting will make it a struggle to finish as well as we did last year," Coach Sharpe commented. He warned that all the other loop clubs should be just as strong, if not stronger, than last year and tabbed Missouri and Oklahoma State as "the teams to beat." Nebraska closes its 27-game schedule against the Tigers and Cowboys and this late scheduling could work in favor of the Cornhuskers, if NU can jell by then.
Sharpe feels the team's strong points this year are pitching and a fairly sound defensive infield. The Huskers' major weaknesses are over-all hitting and team speed. There are four starting pitches on hand and two squadmen back from last year's team to bolster the mound corps but there are no returning lettermen who hit over 300.
PITCHING — This is the Huskers' number one asset. Lefthand Ron Havekost, last year's earned run average leader with a 2.21 ERA, returns, along with righthanders Ernie Bonallist (5-3, 3.08), Keith Seick (3-2, 5.45) and Jan Wall. All are two-year lettermen with the exception of Seick, a junior from Lincoln. Wall missed last year due to a knee injury but the lanky fireballer posted a 4-4 won-loss record and 3.75 ERA in his junior year in 1961. Havekost won four and lost three last year and together with Bonallist, were the team's workhorses, toiling 53 innings apiece.
Also on hand are two squadmen from last year — George Landgren and Jim Kahrhoff. Landgren, a righthander, worked 13 frames last spring and looked good in early workouts this year, said Sharpe. Kahrhoff, a 6-3 southpaw, was used sparingly in relief last year and posted a 2.84 earned run average.
Ed Johnson injured his arm last summer and did not report this spring. Tom Ernst, who also saw mound duty last spring, is not listed for hurling action this year, although he could pitch if need be. Sharpe expects the new enlarged strike zone to be beneficial to fast-ballers Wall and Sieck.
CATCHING — There are no experienced receivers in the Husker camp so the starting catcher's job may go to sophomore Larry Bornschlegl. He is a good defensive
backstop and may develop into a top hitter. Bochnschlegl may share the catching duties with Dave May, 6-3 200-pounder from Omaha, who was on the squad last spring and is slated for heavy duty at first base this year. Squadman Fred Young-scap is also on hand.
INFIELD — The NU infield line-up appears fairly set although Jim Faiman, senior utility man from Omaha, may be able to break in. Faiman, Husker football quarterback, also may be used in the out-field. May, a junior who hit .308 with four hits in thirteen trips to the plate last spring, is slated for duty at first base. Junior monogram winner Ron Douglas (.205 last year) is the leading second baseman candidate with senior veteran Tom Ernst at short. Ernst, a two-year letterman, batted .240 last spring. At third, Sharpe has another experienced veteran, Dale Anderson (.281), a two-year letterman.
The infield appears strong defensively but the hitting may be subpar. Either Faiman or second baseman Rod Beckman, a sophomore who is considered a good glove man, could crack the lineup.
OUTFIELD—This appears to be one of Sharpe's biggest problems. The only returning outfielder is senior Don Schindel, who hit .333 as a sophomore but dropped to .245 last year. Schindel and Wally Duff, a 1962 squadman from Omaha, are the fastest men on the Husker team. Sharpe indicated he may switch Schindel from center to right field this spring with Ron Michka manning the left field spot. Michka,NU gridler, is a former standout of Legion ball in Omaha and could become one of the Huskers' top stickers.
The third outfield berth is up for grabs between Duff, Faiman or Phil Gilbert. Gilbert is a sophomore grad of Lincoln High.
The Cornhuskers open their season with three games at Tulsa, Okla. Thursday.
LOS ANGELES — (UPI) — Boxing had three new world champions today and one ex-champion, Davey Moore, in a hospital with head injuries that threaten his life.
That's the harvest from the first triple-championship fight show in a quarter century — a show in which Cubans Louis Rodriguez and Sugar Ramos became champions, along with Roberto Cruz of the Philippines.
Boxer Loses Title, Fights For Life
IT WAS 23-YEAR-OLD Urtimio (Sugar) Ramos, a Cuban exile, who wrested the world featherweight (126-pound) crown from 29-year-old Moore of Columbus, Ohio, on a 10th-round knockout that sent White Memorial Hospital
The statement was made after a throat operation (tracheotomy) had been performed to assist the unconscious boxer's breathing.
There Dr. Philip Vogel, a staff neurosurgeon, examined Moore and said "He is in a deep coma and his chances of living are poor."
The Ramos-Moore fight was staged shortly after the star title bout in which Cuban Rodriguez, 26, took the welterweight (147-pound) title from slightly favored Emile Griffith of New York on a unanimous 15-round decision before a crowd of 26,142 paying fans at the Dodgers' baseball stadium.
WHETHER A BRAIN operation will be necessary or of any use, physicians at the hospital were not certain.
It was ironic that Moore, 29, had won the featherweight crown four years ago last Monday in Los Angeles by knocking out Hogan (Kid) Bassey of Nigeria in the 13th round.
LAST NIGHT Moore — father of five young children — was making his sixth defense of the 125-pound title and seeking his 19th straight victory. He weighed $125_{1/2}$ pounds, exactly the same as Ramos.
During his four years as champion, it seemed that mustachioed Moore would achieve his 30th knockout and 58th victory in 65 fights. He staggered young Ramos twice in that second session with head shots and seemed to have control.
But Ramos came back in the third with a swarming attack of repeater left jabs and solid hooks with both hands to knock Moore back onto his heels three times and begin a surge
Judge Fines Himself
LOS ANGELES — (UPI)— Judge Roberts yesterday fined Judge Roberts $22 for running a red light.
Judge Roberts, 34, was fined by Municipal Judge Raymond R. Roberts.
that carried on to the knockout at the end of the 10th session.
RAMOS BUCKLED Moore's knees with a left-right to the chin in the sixth and cut his lower lip on the inside by he seventh, when Moore was staggered three times by head blows.
The bell may have saved Moore at the end of the ninth round. He was on rubber legs during most of that session and bleeding from the mouth, nose and a cut on his left cheek. At the bell, he was draped over the second strand of the ring ropes.
to chin. He was up at the count of two and graggly took the rest of the mandatory eight-count on his feet. Then the bell rang.
Early in the 10th, Moore slipped to the canvas while avoiding a punch and later he was floored by a combination of left to body and rigint
Because of the battering Moore had absorbed, manager Willie Ketchum asked referee George Latka to end the fight. Latka immediately waved his arms in token of "that's all." He awarded Ramos victory and the title on a 10th-round knock-out, since the bell had not rung to start the 11th and there are no technical knockouts in California.
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Moore was escorted by Ketchum and trainer Teddy Bentham to the dressing room, where Moore held a press conference. Shortly afterward, he complained of a headache and then became unconscious.
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