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Tuesdoy, March 1 8, 1958 Infield Worries Cloud Husker Pennant Hopes By George Moyer Sports Editor Catching is about the only thing Nebraska baseball men tor Tony Sharpe can be sure of in the infield as he readies the Cornhuskers for their first horsehide tilts of the season, beginning March 29 at Tulsa. In the backstop position, Sharpe has returning veter ans Milan Shaw and Jim Kane. Kane was top man at that spot last year as a junior and should rate as one of the top receivers in the Big Eight this year. Shaw, also a senior, has seen service both his under graduate years as the num ber two man behind Kane. However, trying to boost the Wisner sturdy from Sharpe's lineup has been like trying to take over for Yogi Berra. Shaw has yet to letter in his role as understudy. At first base, the picture starts to get muddled. Al Kewbill, Lincoln junior and veteran of the Lincoln Opti mist state champs of 1955, ap parently has the edge right now. Newbill shared the posi- Courtesy SaodJT Journal ul Star Kane tion with John Beideck last season but did not compile enough time to letter. Battling Newbill for the po sition are a pair of promising sophomore sluggers. LeRoy Zentic. Husker foo'baller and Ken Rusinger, graduate of Omaha Creighton Prep, are waging a strong battle for this position, according to Sharpe. Arthur fiedlcr mm4 zu Boston Pops TOUR OICNISTIA Community Concert Presentation S"awn 5lemlnfrhip 1.00 Aritiiahlr at Student I'ninn Main Of fire or Per thing Municipal Auditorium. 3TK 1 J" :r- I tr - - f t'v . T, i ; - LlJ THE PICTURE NOMINATED 6 ACADEMY AWARDS JncfucJtflcj BEST PICTURE BEST ACTOR BEST DIRECTOR BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Keep the Secret of the Surprise Ending! Zentic could see duty in out field as well as on the mound if his first base possibilities do not jell. The mention of second base brings a smile to Sharpe's face. There he has last year's incumbent and a two year regular back in Al Karle. Karle appears to have second base all to himself but Don Wenzle, sophomore and anoth er ex Optimist standout may provide pressure. Shortstop is not in such a happy position, however. Jim Kubacki had the job last year, but Sharpe plans to move Ku backi to third base to fill the spot left by the departed Frank Nappi. That leaves a first class battle at short be tween three men. a competent reliefer, which. Jerry McKay was the re placement last year when Ku backi went to the mound for relief pitching chores. Howev er, junior Gil Dunn also ap peared and did some tine early season hitting. Sopho more prospect Doug Seiler, newly recovered from a shoul der operation, is also in con tention to add to the muddle. At third, Kubacki is the man with a couple of b i g ifs. Jimmv injured a knee in basketball, and if the injury doesn't respond, third would be a wide open position. Fur thermore, Kubacki is expect Brand Tops Mat Scoring Dan Brand's four scored in the Big points Eight wrestling meet at Ames Iowa Friday and Saturday gave the 6'4" senior heavyweight a total of 38 points for the season, enough to win the wrestling scoring title. Only other grapplers to finish in double figures in the scoring column for the season were Jim Novotny, wno aaaea mree points ai Ames to total 14 for the sea-! son and Kent Walton, who l managed points. two Dins for Cyclone Club Tabs Petkus Tnua State 630 club. formed to honor outstanding I ! performances bv Iowa State I I - . j athletes, last week honored .irrrv pptkns the Cvclones'on occasion provide serious onlv swimming event winner in the Big Eiht swim meet. Petkus beat Bob Leonardt of Oklahoma in the biggest up set of the meet. The award given Petkus cited him for to the ideal coming closer i of the athlete , who performs better than is expected of hira than any other." Golf Meeting There will be a meeting of all those interested in University golf at 3:30 p.m. today in the N Club room at the Coliseum, according to coach BUI Smith. The meeting will concern quali fying, Smith said. 2t TYROiII POTIH! CSlffUS UUGfflOil ManuaaBTrt (Uufrru OTICB to rmmiTHi stenu or THI SURMISE EKOIMO, HO PATRONS WILL SE SEATED BUR IMS TNI flMAL 10 KINUTES. ed to provide the squad with makes it absolutely certain that depth will be needed. Sharpe thinks he has the answer in sophomore Bill Fisher and Ed Sears. Wenzel also is a possibility here. Cmrtesy Sunday Journal and Star Sharpe Boozer, Wilt 'Look9 Picks Look magazine has picked Wilt Chamberlain and Bob Boozer from the Big Eight on their All-American team ac cording to S. 0. Shapiro, vice president o f the Crowl Collier pub lishing com pany. The maga z i n e picked ten squad members who shares V All-American i - jjLsJ Status equal-courlew Uncota Star ly. O t h e r Chamberlain members of the squad were Elgin Baylor of Seattle, Pete Brennan, North Carolina: Ar chie Dees, Indiana; Mike farmer, San Francisco; Don e n f ,m;ourSn.: Ba"y v - jr ten"' 'Mississippi aiaie Osrar Rnhprtsnn Cnc innati i and Guy Rodger?. Temple. The top ten were selected i by a 500-member Basketball! Writers Association. Look i said of the two Big Eight stars that "Chamberlain j . i 1 1 ' towered over the colleges couns tor tne secona straight t .nn TAA.AH .,U I year wnue jsoozer, "couia individual challenge even to Chamberlain. Hubert Reed of Oklahoma City University, Roy DeWitz of Kansas State and Robert son were named to the all Mid West team along with Boozer and Chamberlain. .,,1 mm S)S3UTm irftrslhs yodo it Insist cf Tf ar a 4. etkolos tosicco co whhtoh-i itn c 7'r1T7 ZZSV'W'X ' T7' ' ' fyryiyt'yayi wr """1""t 1 """"" "' "" TT'"'1" ""' IMwgwr menthol fresh rich tobacco tasto modern filter, too The Dolly Nebroskon Coliseum . . . The 48th annual state high school basketball tournament has faded into history, but hot stove speculation on the results is just beginning. As a prognosticator of champions, I should have stayed at home. Of the six classes, I picked only two champions, Byron in Class E and Clatonia in Class D. One consoling thought is that I had a lot of company. Even though Lincoln High was a solid dark horse candidate, Boys Town was the general pick for the Class AA crown. Fullerton was supposed to have been even more of a sure thing in Class D while no one particularly cared to argue with Alma's 36 game winning streak in Class C. The upset spattered results, however, just go once more to prove that anything can happen in the state tourna ment. Nothing was truer of the 1958 carnival. There were come from behind victories, upsets, general tournament hysteria and, to top it all off, the clock got stuck during the Class A finals and no one was sure how much time Ogalla and Omaha Holy Name had to play. The talent this year looked better than ever. More of the boys, especially in the top four classes appear to be de veloping the necessary skills to play college ball. A few cases in point include Has tings St. Cecilia's Jerry Sherman, Lincoln High's BUI Bowers and Neil Untersher, Omaha Centrals Gene Owen, Phil Barth and John Nared and Wilsonville's Bill H o 1 i-day. Calcium Hospitalizes Mullins Soph Postpones Track Till April Bv Elmer Krai i Staff Sports Writer Joe Mullins, the indefatig eable sophomore distance runner on the Nebraska track team is resting now, but it is not by choice. An orthopedic specialist re moved a calcium deposit from his ankle March 3rd and Husker track stock has dipped temporarily. An accumulat'on of calcium can be caused by a number of things but in Mullins case it is theorized that frequent irritations preceded by a hard kick on the ankle incurred during a high school Rugby game back in ova icotia were the causes of his con- dition. It was inevitable that he was going to be bothered by (these deposits and unfortu nately they hampered him at . i the wrong time After the .Michigan s t a t e n l - J :- 1 . . neiays me aupoMis uegau 10 react. His ankle was becom ing more irritated as each day rolled on and he quite ob viously suffered from pain while running at Kansas City, but it's all over now and Joe looks to the future wth op timism. He is encouraged by a re- Beat by george moyer These boys all did most things on the court well. It used to be sledom that you would see a tall man like Bowers or Holliday bringing the ball down court, much less dribbling it at all When I played high school ball (that was back in the late Pleistocene), our coach would have screamed bloody murder if a 6'5" center like Sherman had absented him self from the accustomed post position to shoot 15 jump i shots like a cuard. but Sher- man's coach deemed it de sirable that he keep the de fense spread out with these tactics. Jerry was devastat ingly effective from out front; so much so that he got many easier shots in close after faking his over-anxious guard out of position. Holliday was perhaps the most impressive of the three, however. Bill is just a sopho more, but he played with the poise many seniors lack. Not only that, but he had a good variety of shots both from the inside and the out side and moved well enough to be stamped college ma terial. Among the tournaments lit tle men, Owen, Untersher and Pawnee City's Tom Col well were impressive. Owen was a member of Central's gold medal mile relay team last spring and he used his speed to good advantage on the court. He was not par ticularly impressive as a scorer, but his defensive abil ity and ball handling stamp him as possibility. If high schools around the state keep turning out better port from his doctor who be-1 outdoor world record for the lieves that he should be ablejgso 1.47.5 an(i for tne 440 10 ao ngni worxouis arouna April 1st. Allowing for anoth er three or four weeks for conditioning, he should be back in top form for the Scarlet and Cream around April 25th. At any rate, he will be under close observa tion by his doctor and coach Sevigne. Joe came to Nebraska with a good basic knowledge of running. He learned the es sentials of long distance run ning from his high school coach at Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, and has since im proved due to added instruc tion from Sevigne. As a freshman, he followed a very rigorous training j schedule. It was not uncom mon to see him run a dozen 440's under 60 seconds two or j three days a week. There was j a day last spring when he had i to be helped back to his room after an extremely strenuous! workout. Sevigne has stated' in the past that Joe has to be watched so that he doesn't overwork himself. Last spring on the outdoor track, he posted times of 4:12, 1 1:50.6, and :47.1 in the mile,! 880, and 440 respectively. The I A new idea in smoking! 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He is 5-11 and weighs 165. and better boys every year as they appear to be doing, perhaps Nebraska will be able to claim a few Hirsch Turners, Oscar Robertsons or Al Maxeys too. :45.8. There is, at thL time, no indication that he cannot improve on his marks before graduation. Looking to the future, he is naturally anxious to get back on the Husker track :eam. He wants to be with the Huskers as soon as possible especially for the Big 8 outdoor finals for that return match with Kansas. He also intends to: take part in the Canadian tri-1 als in June which qualify men I for the British Empire Games in July. Last but not least he j looks w ith enthusiasm to the f 1960 Olympic Games sched-i uled for Rome, Italy. j ROMANO'S PIZZA DRIVE-IN 226 No. 10th St Phone 2-5961 Free Delivery 21 Variety Pizza Pies 75c $1.00 $1.50 $2.00 Poae 3 Brand Loses One Pointer Husker s Last In Big Eight Nebraska got four points from senior heavyweight Dan Brand and Jim Novotny add ed 3 at 177 pounds, but the Huskers couldn't avoid the Big Eight wrestling cellar for the second year in a row. Both Brand and Novotny won their first match at Ames, but lost in the semi finals. Brand, wrestling furi ously, nearly upset Iowa State's Roger Pohlman but fell 8-7. Pohlman won an early season meeting 8-4 when Brand was docked for slamming his opponent to the mat. Novotny dropped his de cision 11-1 to Iowa State's un beaten Frank Powell, who wound up the champion of the 177 lb. class. Iowa State emerged with the team championship. The Cyclones finished their regu lar season undefeated winding up with seven wins, and two draws. Iowa State's two close calls came at the hands of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State, ranked second and third in the nation on the mat. The two Oklahoma schools tied for second, each grabbing 65 points. Iowa State had 67 points and three champions. The only wrestler to make the finals who was not either from Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, or Iowa State was Kan sas State's Gary Haller. Hal ler was forced to forfeit the 177 lb. championship to Pow ell when he sprained an ankle. Want Ads Typing School Paper Professional Quality Grace O. Carney 5-4781 For sale: One yellow formal, size 12. Phone 7-134. PREVniVG Fraternity, Sorority & Organ ization Letterheads ... Let ters . . . News Bulletins . . . Booklets . . . Programs. GRAVES PRINTING CO. 312 North 12th. Ph. 2-2957 DR. BLOCH'S DIRECTORY OF MAGICIANS WORLD'S LARGEST DIRECTORY DR. 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