Wednesday, March 20, 1963 University Daily Kansan
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Ten KU Baseball Lettermen Return
Hitting, which cost eight one-run decisions last year, holds the key to KU's 1963 baseball fortunes.
Coach Floyd Temple returns all five members of a pitching staff which posted a combined 3.77 earned run average last year and three-fourths of what was considered the best defensive infield in his nine-year tenure. These were the chief reasons the Jayhawkers finished a surprise third behind Missouri and Oklahoma State while winning more games, 16, than any Jayhawker nine since 1907.
AS A TEAM the Jayhawkers hit .245 last year, a 19-point improvement over the previous season. But, graduation claimed second baseman Hugh Bumgardner, who led the club at .356. Thus, Temple is fretting over more plate power along with his usual concern over playable practice weather.
Also back is varsity catcher Keith Abercrombie .(220) and an improved outfield corps.
"We'll definitely miss Bumgardner's hitting." Temble commented. "In fact, hitting is our big question mark for the season. If we can improve this as much as we did last year we have a chance to contend. Our defense, fourth nationally at .961, should be as good as last year and we'll have more speed in the outfield. Pitching, and our infield defense, remain our strengths."
Returning moundsmen represent half of Temple's band of 10 hold-over lettermen. This corps includes Carl Neison (1-0 and 4.05); Jerry Waldschmidt (6-4 and 3.41); Monte Stewart (3-2 and 3.77); Roger Brock (5-4 and 4.39), and Steve Lunsford (1-1 and 4.84).
Two sophomores, Fred Littoy, Hutchinson, and John Higgins, Wichita, are giving the veterans strong competition for starting assignments.
KU Soccer Team To Open Schedule
The KU soccer team opens its spring semester at 2 p.m. in Kansas City's Swope Park against the Kansas City Internationals professional soccer team.
The KU soccer squad had a 5-2 record last fall. The team plays both a fall and a spring season. The team plans a spring schedule of approximately seven games.
Managing the team will be Tom Hedrick, director of the KU Sports Network.
KU Fencing Team Enters NCAA Meet
The KU fencing team will participate in the 19th annual NCAA fencing championships March 29-30 at the United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colo.
Coach John Giele said each school will be allowed to enter one man in each event. KU team members include: foil — Gene Carron, Emporia senior; epee — Jim Anderson, Wichita junior, and sabre — Tom Palmitesta, Venezuela senior. About 35 schools will participate
About 35 schools will participate in the two day meet.
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Abercrombie, holdover squadman Dave Culp, and sophomore basketball player Dave Schichtle, will handle the catching.
THE INFIELD is anchored by Dick Fanning, 200-pound first baseman, who won conference home run and r.b.i. titles last year as a sophomore on respective totals of 6 and 29. He also ranked fifth in the league batting race at .378.
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Dick Rader (257) and Don Miller (241) return at third and shortstop. Another basketball guard, Dick Ruggles, is considered the top prospect for the second base job, but must hold off a Kansas City junior college graduate. Keith Kimmerer.
The outfield will be entirely new. Graduation lifted Jim Marshall and Ken Hensley. Tony Leiker will not compete this season in order to concentrate on spring football. The top two prospects at his time are Steve McGreevy, Paola sophomore, and Ralph Pagani, Mesa junior college transfer. Four candidates are fighting for the third spot, Bob Tryon, converted pitcher; Jerry Brown, Kansas City junior college graduate; Jerry Thornton, Wichita sophomore, and basketball player Loye Sparks
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KU Cricket Team To Plan Season
With the arrival of warm weather. the KU cricket team is organizing for its spring season.
The group, which was formerly known as the Lawrence Cricket Club, is now operating under the sponsorship of the University and its athletic department.
The game cricket has been played since the beginning of the 18th century. First introduced in England, the game was later adopted as national sports in many European and Asian countries. These countries include: England, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, West Indies, India and Pakistan.
The team's first meeting will be held a 7:30 p.m. Sunday in the Oread Room of the Kansas Union. The meeting is open to team members and those interested in participating in cricket this spring.
Cricket has reached the height of popularity at KU during the past two years. The games are played on Sunday afternoons on the field east of Memorial Stadium.
Cricket is a game that requires discipline, alertness, and very often, much time to play. To the beginner, cricket appears a very complicated game, but it is not so.
The sport resembles baseball in that it requires bats, balls, leg guards, chest protectors and gloves. Cricket rests two teams of 34.
Cricket matches two teams of 11 players each, which play two innings. An inning is completed when 10 batsmen have been retired.
Scoring is based on runs, as in baseball. If the team that bats last passes its opposition in runs, then the game is over. A person is out when a hit ball is caught by a fielder.
Hits Wife With Loving Cup
LONDON — (UPI) — Betty Bennett. 33, was granted a divorce yesterday when she testified her former boxer husband, Dennis, hit her in the head with a silver loving cup he won in the ring.
Bennett, 39, contended it was in self defense.
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