The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, May 04, 1950, Page PAGE 3, Image 3
May 4, '1950 THE DAILY NEBRASKAN PAGE 3 :i ;.;t:..;f , -, : i;" :::. ' , ii -MaMi, -Simi..,. i 4 :T..W..,!'" mkmimmvMsg h js ; . , '; ' . mm CORNHUSKER OOI.F TFAM . . ,v . .t. .'vvunuuo in jix oi eigm auai matches thus far, will meet Iowa State here Saturday at Hillcrest country club. Members of the squad include loft to right; Douff Dale, Steve Flansburg, Dick Spangler, Joe Gifford and Coach Golfers Seek Seventh Win Saturday The Cornhusker golf crew will be seeking their seventh victory iit nine dual matches when they go against the Iowa State Cy clones this Saturday at Hilfcrest club. The team warmed up for their Big Seven match by thoroughly trouncing Creighton University aionaay aiternoon 5-3. Coach Marvir "Preacher" Franklin can look orward to some bright golf records for the next two years if his men live up to the record they are mak ing for themselves this year. The team is almost wholly dominated by sophomores who have been seeing most of the action this year. The only upperclassmen on the traveling team is Steve Flans- burg. He is a returning squad man from last year. Joe Gifford has been leading the golfers so far this year. He shoots in the low 70's quite con sistently. Dick Spangler occupies the number two berth. He also shoots in the 70's. These two men are followed by Flansburg and Doug Dale in the third and fourth positions to form a well-balanced squad. The first doubles team is made up of Gifford and Spangler. They are closely followed by Dale and Flansburg. Tennis Matches Eighteen tennis matches are on deck for today in the intramural tennis tournament Contestants are cautioned that finytime the matches are cancel led because of rain the next day's schedule will be in effect and postponed matches will be played several days later. They are also asked to watch the Daily Nebraskan sports page and the intramural bulletin board to find out the pairings. The following matches are scheduled to be played tonight Kansas Has First Punting Lineman in Big 7 Circles Since Nebraska's Pesek Punting linemen have been scarce in Big Seven football cir cles, but Kansas will come up 'ith three next autumn when Siki Sikes pulls the wraps off his third Jayhawk edition. Holdovers from last year are Dolph Simons, senior guard from Lawrence, and Bill Mace, bulky Coffeyville convert who has been shifted from fullback o fcuard. The newcomer is George Mrkonic, the 207-pound "esnmn tackle from McKees Port, p. Mce and Simons handled all Jaynawk panting last year, the prmtr finishing fifth among eig Sven kickers with a 38.1 average on 34 boots. Simons, ho filled the breach left by Frank Pattee's loss in 3948 so capably, ranked 32th with a 31.7 mean. Mrkonic has been kick ing long and hich all soring. All three, along with Charlie oag, the well-regarded fresn man halfback from Chicago, will see plenty of action Saturday Tvhen the Jayhawks collide in their third annual spring game l 2 p. m. in Memorial stadium. Hoag's accuracy may earn him the club's No. 1 booting chores next fall. First Since Pesek. If one of the linemen ascend jo that spot, however, he will b the first to carry the load Jor a Big Seven club since Ne braska's Jack Pesek was boom ing tremendous spirals for the Huskers three seasons ago. The son of the famous Ne braska Tigerman, John Pesek, averaged 41.1 yards on 51 cracks, vi-t.r.l"7rmm7Tr New Tennis Team Meets Iowa State Coach Bob Slezak will send an entirely rearranged tennis team against the Iowa State Cyclones this Saturday. The team seems to pack more balance than Slezak had antici pated. At the start of the sea son Jamie Curran occupied the number one berth. He was fol lowed by Frank Redman, Bob Radin, Andy Bunten and Jerry Magee. In a challenge match last night, Radin moved into the top berth by taking the full measure of Curran in two straight sets. The first set ended 6-3 in Radin's favor. He took the nod in the second set to the tune of 6-0. The team that will go against Iowa State in the singles matches will have Radin in the number one spot, Curran at number two, Magee at the number three posi tion, Bunten in the fourth berth, and Delton in the fifth position. In the doubles Curran and Bunten will play Radin and Ma gee for the number one doubles berth. Redman and Delton will prob ably challenge the losing team for the number 2 doubles berth. at 6 p.m. routt 1. IV. wilnm, uu v. iw.Aiiarews, BH. . .. . ourt 7 J. Horwicl), ZHT v. J. MfCK- nllv.li' Ph IleltK. Court .1. A. Amelia v. Norton, RAE. t'ourt 4. D. Llndjon vs. B. Sloan. ATO. Court .1: A. Bonn, Thtta XI, vs. B. Favman, Phi Dells. Court . C. Berffotten v. Harding. Dl'a Thua. Srhedulfd for 7:30 p m. r: Court 1: Dudley, SAE vt. I. Vietier, Ind. Court 2: 3. Trumpy, Phi Helta v. Han- cork, Phi OaVis. Court 3: B. l.irk, Betas . J. Pauloa, Slpna Chi. Court 4: p. Kirkman v. r. woodruii, Phi Dlt. Court 5: Lebsork, SAE vs. ARnew, DU. Court : M. Wright v. G. Green, Theta XI. Malchei to n played at 9 P m. are: Court I : B. Henkle. Phi Prltl v. Mueller. Helta Tan. Court 2: P. O Dea, Theta X) v, B. Oahorn. ATO. Court 3: Weaver, Phi Delta va. D. Walker. Methodists. Court 4: 8. Reynolds, Betas vs. Els- tedder. Phi ;amm. Court : C Moyer, SN vi. J. Wood ward. PM Helta. court 8: B. Lyons, DU v. kubltchek, SAE, that season for one of the na tion's better marks. He was preceded by Percy Gill, Missouri tackle-fullback in the early '30s. Still the most famous of all punting corference linemen was Cash Gentry, Oklahoma's hard rock tackle who earned all American acclaim in 1934. Gen try was unique in that he slammed the ball down with his right hand to meet the upcoming foot. , , Hood in Early 30 s. Frank Hood, Iowa State's all conference end in the early 30s, was another lineman who shoul dered his team's pedal duties. Kansas has had place-kicking linemen such as Tommy McCall, and Don Fambrough, both guards, but no punter since the old Bif! Six was founded who has seen regular kicking action until Simons. . . All four Jayhawk kicking can didates still were battling for first string jobs as the Hawkers j headed into their final week of j spring drills. Rimnns is one of three hold- j over lettermen who are battling an influx of youngsters. Most prominent among these are Art Spratt, the madeover ' tackle, George Abel and Jack Luschen. this - cang must come through if the Jayhawks are to field guards of starting Big Seven caliber next season. Mkp. although released early ucVmii is hieh in the pic ture. He turned in the club's best single-game joo oi imcunn."', last year against Arizona. Marvin Franklin. Gifford has Huskers. Iowa State's tennis team will have a dual match with Coach Bob Slezak's tennis team on Saturday also. Game Depends on Condition Says Good By Kimon Karabatsos "It will all depend on what kind of shape the Alumni will be," said basketball Coach Harry Good, when asked , what he thought the out-come of the Varsity-Alumni game to be held Friday night in the Coliseum. The game, scheduled to start at 7:30, will have all the trim mings of a real conference tilt. Both teams will have members of championship outfits playing. It will be a battle of "stars of yesteryears" against what Good nopes, -stars of tomorrow." Two of Good's most outstand ing playeis will be competing for the "Old-timers". Claude Retherford, the Indiana hot-shot, and giant Bus Whitehead will lead the grads star-studded field. Retherford established a new school scoring record last year only to have it surpassed by Whitehead this year. For a lot of the first year students, it will mean their first elanr at tho antics of holster-shooting Claude, who led the . Huskers to their first conference crown in many years in 1949. Bus in Farewell In Whitehead, the crowd will see Bus make his farewell ap pearance of college play at Nebraska. Whitehead, who re cently, turned down a profes sional offer from the Chicago Stags, will play for the National AAU champions Phillips Oilers. Standing as a paramont obsta cle to Whitehead will be the Varsity's Bob "Shorty" Pierce. The ex-Lincoln High whiz has improved a great deal over the past year and could make it a long evening for Whitehead if. he is hitting. Afone of the guard spots for Good will be Jim Buchanan, who like Retherford, is from Indiana. Buchanan has one year of varsity experience under his belt and won wide acclaim in the Big Seven with his long-shots from mid-court. Buchanan hit his peak for the 1950 season against Colorado and reports from spring drills have him better than ever. Two "B" team members who are up from the ranks for their remaining competition, also con stitute a threat to the favored Alumni. Two 'B Members Jess Sell, a 6-3 forward, and Paul Kipper . will be going BRING YOUR SHOPPING BAG AND been consistently low-man for the against top-notch players for the first time, but should add to the Varsity's scoring punch. Sell was high scorer for the "B" team last season with 134 points in 12 games. Kipper was close on his heels with 125. Eddie LeGrande had 80 and Rex Pettijohn added 40 for Coach Neal Mehring's Nubbins. Norm Wilnes, a substitute for ward on the 1950 I should also add a few points for me yasity. Wilnes, even though he did not see too much action last season, has shown definite promise and improvement thru out spring drills. Leading the pack of Freshmen who hope to make" good in the Varsity circle next year are Ro land Rivers, Joe Good, Bob Mer cier, Ted Connors and Jim Sny der. River's, an all-State center last year, was one of the Freshmen highlights during the past sea son. He stands six feet six inches and packs enough weight to give him plenty of authority around the backboards. Coach Good's son Joe has also shown plenty of skill in the back court. An expert on the long shots, young Good is one of the better ball-handlers on the team. Snyder Adds Height Adding more height to the Varsity is six-four Jim Snyder. Snyder, another Malacek when it come to re-bounding, is good on both set shots from the corners as well as slashing drive-ins. Ted Connors, three-sport star at Hastings high school, uses his 190 pounds to good advantage under the boards. He stands 6 2,2 and can work from either the pivot or forward spots. One member who would nrob- ably be seeing plenty of action Friday night with the Varsity will have to watch from the bench. Graves Holloway has been the hospital ever since Spring vaca tion. He had his ankle operated on then to remove a chipped bone. Good said that he will probably be seeing plenty of action for the Vasity next season. The Varsity will have to over come a lot of height as well as experience to beat the Alumni who might be a litte out of shape for the contest, so a fast running game will be in store as the two teams who have been trained by Harry "run-em-in-the-boards" Good. I .9 in IX, Ha a FFElfllN FCM 5c PER PUP .6 POUNDS F0R.25e Press Box Views By Kimon Karabatsos (Nports Editor, Dally Nehraakan) Students are funny, thousands turn out for University football and basketball games, but just a few take time out to watch America's number one sport baseball. Perhaps it would be different if the Husker's baseball team was losing most of their games, but they are resting in second place with a very good chance of re capturing the baseball crown that they lost last year to Kansas University. I-very team needs it's fans to give them a boost when they are down and out und every team needs loyal supporters to cheer them on to victory. It's not that I'm asking you to go out to a game which would bore you to death or the like, the brand of ball played in the Big Seven and by Ne braska is excellent as far as colleges go. You will see the same double plays and the same home runs that you would in any major league baseball park. Hits and plays that bring thousands of people to their feet In near crowd hysteria are not restricted to the majors. In fact, Nebraska has three power hitters who are just as apt to knock one out of the park as not. Howie Powley, Bob Cerv and Ray Mladovich have all con nected for circuit blows. In Liu Vrbka and Bob Camp. Coach Tony Sharpe has two good pitchers. . For a sport that has made the hot-dog famous through out the world, baseball is given a poor rating- by students. You can see plenty of Nebraska students at Sherman field when the Lincoln A's are in town, but a lot of those faces can't be Seen on the baseball field west of the Coliseum when the Cornhuskers are home. Friday and Saturday, Nebraska is host to Kansas University in two important games games which might decide the confer ence championship. Nebraska baseball players will be needing plenty of support and only Kappa Sigs Slam A TO 's; Sig Nu 's BY BILL MUNDELL Assistant Sports Editor. Kappa Sigma roared into a second place tie in League I of intramural softball Tuesday night by slapping a 16-4 shel lacking on Alpha Tau Omega. The Kappa Sig win was defi nitely of the- upset class as the Taus were winners of three games and loser of only their contest with the league leading Sigma Nu's. As it was, the win was a gift to the Kappa Sigs as the ATO pitchers gave up 12 bases on balls and advanced three men to first base by hitting the batter. With all these men on base the Kappa Sigs needed only four hits to run away with the game. The losing Taus batted out six safeties off the efforts of win ning hurler, Wagner. The league leading Siga Nu's had a close squeak in racking up their fourth straight win. The leaders took a hard fought 6-5 victory over Sigma Alpha Epsi 3on. Weibles and and Altman on the mound for the victors, al lowed the SAE's only four hits, one of which was Hale's home run in the first inning with a mate aboard which gave the SAE's a temporary 2-0 lead. The Nu's in turn, clouted los ing pitcher Burris for ten safe hits but Burris kept the hits pretty well scattered. Goes Ten Innings In the longest game of the sea son, Tau Kappax Epsilon upset Brown Palace, 4-2 in ten in nings. The Tckes, winless up to Tuesday's contest, scored two runs in the top of the tenth to win. Successive singles by McDole and Bahde and then with one out, a base cleaning double by Anderson, were the blows that broke up a fine pitcher's duel by Williams of Brown Palace and Soder of the Tekes. The Tekes were outhit, 7 to 9, in the contest, but were behind only the first two innings after W mBOOK STORE yu ijffiK-flitfa iTmsi, i Jayhawk '9' Here In Two-Game Stand This Week's Schedule May 5-6 Kansas at Nebraska Missouri at Kansas State Coach Tony Sharpe's baseball team and the Kansas University Jayhawks will provide the fire works in Big Seven conference play this week end. Two excellent games are in the making and may prove to be deciding factors when the final tabulations are turned in at the end of the season for the Big Seven crown. The Big Seven's champ will play the winner of the Missouri Valley conference for a spot In the NCAA tournament to be held in Omaha next month. Jays Defend Kansas is defending champion and is currently tied for fourth with Missouri and Kansas State. Nebraska, tied for second with Oklahoma, was the 1948 cham pions. Getting the starting nod on the mound for Nebraska will be Lin Vrbka, the Huskers number one moundsman. Tom Novak will handle his regular catching cnores. Sharpe has indicated that he will use Bob Camp on the hill for the second game. This is the same battery that Sharpe used against Missouri when the Hus kers took a clean sween at Co lumbia. Bob Cerv is currently leading the Huskers on safe hits as well as extra base blows. He has knocked out 26 hits in 54 times at bat for a .484 average. His .484 puts him way ahead of the batters in the Big Seven conference. Two Home Runs Rightfielder Howie Powley gave notice to all power hitters that he was after the Big Seven's home run record as he pounded out two against Oklahoma one through you will they be able to get it. Maybe it isn't exactly right to plead with the students to go to baseball games, but if this is the only way that we can get them out, we from the sports desk will continue to do so. Take 4th Hohnstein of the Palace had slugged a four-bagger. Theta Xi took over undis puted position of first place in league III as the TX boys had dropped Sigma Alpha Mu, 7-2, behind the one-hit pitching of Torczon. The win now jjives TX a record of three wins and one loss and coupled with the Brown Palace loss, breaks the tie be tween the two outfits. The winners, rallying behind the chucking of Torczon, touched Sammie hurler. Madid for nine safeties. Delta Sigs Roll Delta Sigma Phi cilmbed into second place in League III Tues day, taking Farm House in stride 7 to 3. A four run last inning was needed by the Delta Sigs, how ever to notch their second win of the season. A three run lead of the win ners was quickly swallowed up by the Farm House men in the second frame as the first three men at bat, walloped mighty home runs. The blows by Lam bert and Watson were legitimate while the hit by Johnson was a bit doubtful, touching the glove of the Delta Sig left-fielder. Tho ruled as an error, Johnson came all the way home to score. Wallick, chucking for the winners, kept the Aggies in con trol after that big inning, and al lowed only two hits from then on. Longest blow by the victors was Arter's first inning double to right. Pioneer Co-op remained in a first place tie in league IV by downing Theta Chi, 4-1. for their ; fourth straight win. One-hit pitching by Pioneer Holmes took the spotlight. Lead-off man Hoi- ling for the Theta Chi's got the only safe hit off Holmes in the third frame. Max Hanson led the Pioneer seven hit aljack, getting three hits in three trips to the plate. I Four Straight Cornhusker Co-op rolled to their fourth straight victory and remained in a tie with Pioneer. I BUY A FEW HE POUMB ) tfi - : I Vl v. I iiiiiii (Courtesy Tha Lincoln Journal) Bob Cerv with the bases loaded In the first game. In the second game, Powley sent one over the center field fence with one man on to ac count for two of the Husker'i three runs. Colorado, leading the leagus with one lonely win, holds off their league play until Monday and Tuesday when they are host to fourth place Missouri. Colorado has held first place since their single victory over Kansas University, which was the Big Seven's season opener. The game was clayed at Boulder before 2,500 Buffalo students, representing one of the largest crowds ever to wittness a Colo rado baseball game. Missouri and Kansas Stats tangle this Friday and Saturday and both teams will be after a clear claim to fourth place. Kansas State, having split with Nebraska and Oklahoma, rate as a slight favorite to clip the Ti gers. The home field also helps in giving the Wildcats a slight edge. Iowa State is at Lawrence for a two-game series with the Jay hawks on Monday aftd Tuesday. Straight by crushing Kappa Phi, 13-2. The Co-op slugging attack, clouted 15 safe hits off Pi Kap hurler, O'Neil, and really went to town in the fifth frame when seven Co-op runs crossed tha plate. Nelson on the mound for tha victors, allowed the Pi Kaps only two hits and sent six down swinging. Another two-hit performance was chalked up by Sigma Pi, pitcher Hinkley, as the Delta Sig Pi's rolled to a 9-1 win over Acacia. Hinkley, superb in the clutches, struck out seven, five of these were with men' on base. The D. S. Pi's hitting grabbed eight safeties from Menefee. tha Acacia hurler. Phi Delts Rally Phi Delta Theta rallied for two runs in the last inning to grab a 5-4 decision from Delta Unsi- lon Tuesday night. The contest, close all the way, was eventually decidde by the 11 bases on balls given up by DU pitcher, Britt. The six Phi Delt hits were used primarily to bring the men in from third. Bloomer, chucking for the .win ners, allowed the DU's only three safe hits. The win was number three out of four starts for the Phi Delts and moved them into a tie for second in league I. MAIN FEATURES START s-r Ia' "Rock Island Trail" 1:37, 3:35, 5:33, 7:31, 9:30. I let ANO0T "San Antone Ambush" 1:15, 4:11, 7:07, 10:03. "Adventure in Balitmore" 2:27, 5:23, 8:19. POUNDS" ('J i ijMl l a, in. I, . wjmmam am i IW I I M r i rtmiinl b,V,ii. iii i I