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w 11 j,'r T Tuesday, January 30, 1951 THE DAILY NEBRASKAN PAGE 3 MM Bos Begin P BY JOHN REGO (Staff Sport Writer) Major league baseball teams wil be traveling to the regions of warmth and sunshine soon for spring training. Shedding excess fat, taking the kinks out of arms, sharp ening up batting eyes and re-learning the fundamentals will be the program at the various camps. So it was with the Big Seven champions from the University of Nebraska when they journeyed to the new field house annex to begin baseball practice Monday. The warmth and sunshine might have been artificial, but to the defending champions the annex is "Little Florida" en closed by steel and brick. "Little Florida" provides ample space for calisthenics, batting practice, distance throwing and infield workouts. So with the first rays of nature's sunshine and heat the boys are almost ready for competition. New Faces Husker baseball fans will be seeing many new faces on the school diamond this spring. Graduation last year took practically the whole squad. Absent from the out field will be All American Bob Cerv and Buzz Powley, a ball- hawk and power hitter. Cerv, incidentally, will be included in a group of 28 players to attend a pre-training clinic at Phoenix, Ariz., under the New York Yankees. Gone from the infield are Bob Grogan, stellar shortstop; Bill Denker, hard-hitting third base man; and Hobe Hoys, reliable second baseman. From the mound the losses in clude Linus Vrbka, Bob Camp, DEL KOPF .... wil be the only returning letterman on the Husker pitching staff. Ernie Behne and from behind the plate Tom Novak has de parted. The biggest job that faces Coach Sharpe in rebuilding will be filling in the positions up the middle. This includes the catcher, pitcher, keystone sack, and the center fielder. A weak link in this chain will prove to be a difficult handicap to over come, and to most coaches this weakness is believed to be one of the first overcome if a succes ful season is" to be had. Limited Experience Many of the boys who will re port to practice have had limited or no experience in Big Seven competition. Lettermen are few and include Bill Jensen, infield; or; Ray Mladovich, infielder; Bob Diers, outfielders; and Del Popf, pitcher. Jensen, Mladovich, and Diers saw service in most of the games last year and will be the back bone of the team. Jensen is a ballplayer with much natural ability and a very likely prospect Light For Cyclones Iowa State winter sports teams slow down from the heavy sched ule pace they maintained last week competing in only three contests in the next 6 days. Last week the four teams took part in seven contests. The cagers and swimmers do all the work this week. Creigh ton will be here in Ames to night (Monday) for a contest which will start at 7:30 p.m. It will mark the resumption of a basketball series last active in the 1941 NCAA plavofls. Mfm$i$& i ' - I i 5' j ' it boilers rdsiiiee for the major leagues. He is classy and has a sure glove hand. Mladovich played first string first base last season but seems to be destined for behind the plate work this spring. Poten tially, Mladovich has the mak ings of another Serv, though his batting average of last year shows otherwise. With experience of Big Seven competition and the fast baseball during the summer, Ray will prove to be a big factor in aaaing the necessary power to this year's squad. Diers is the brightest hope for the Huskers' retaining the cham pionship. He is a ball hawk in the outfield and capable of hit ting the ball over the fence at anytime. Tall, splinter built Dick Mc Cormick, up from the freshmen team, will be relied upon to carry a big load of mound assignments behind topman, Del Kopf. Dick, a big red-head from Silver Creek has plenty of poise and wide as sortment of pitches. McCormick looked very im pressive last spring while throw ing against the varsity. With RAY MLADOVICH .... reg ular first-baseman last year will be one of the mainstays on this year's edition of the Huskers. some of the same form and stuff. he will very likely bring back the smiles on Coach Sharpe's face. Also from the freshmen team will come Bobby Reynolds and Don Leach, two very capable in fielders. This year's team will lack the hitting power of last season, so speed on the base paths and good defensive play will be given the greatest emphasis. If you take away the batting power of Cerv, Denker, PowJey, and Novak, you cannot allow too many runs. To get those same runs you have to turn singles into doubles with ball players who are fast. Last season Sharne was re- lurtant about using the steal sig nals, because he always had a boy at the plate who could hit that long ball. This spring the fans will be seeing base stealing "Gas House Viang" style. ' j ' M-),y STUDENTS AT SCHOOLS WITH AN ENROLLMENT ABOUT THE SAME AS UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA SAVE AN ESTIMATED $100,000 ANNUALLY BY ALWAYS PURCHASING USED BOOKS. WHY NOT PARTICIPATE IN THIS ENORMOUS SAVINGS "BUY USED BOOKS" pads iiiiiiiiliiiiiiiiini tuttuttiiimiuilni skers In M Thinclads Rout Cyclones; Cagers, Gymnasts Tumble by BILL MUNDELL Sports Editor Dally Nebraakan Husker athletes earned only one victory in three attempts for the University in mid-term com petition ending Saturday. That one win was saved until last by the Scarlet contenders and provided a much brighter note for the NU track enthusiasts. Coach Ed Weir sent his un tested crew of indoor thinclads against the cindermen of Iowa State and the Cyclone was well nigh blown away on the tail-end of a 22-82 rout. The Husker basketball team wt-re not so fortunate. The cagers journeyed to Colorado and ab sorbed a defeat while the gym nasts entertained Minnesota and were perfect hosts by losing 33 63. Jinx Stands The basketball loss at Boulder kept the Colorado jinx over the Huskers at Colorado intact. Ne braska has not won an athletic event from the Buffs at Boulder since Colorado became the sev enth team in the Big Seven. Three records fell by the way side in the Husker-Cyclone track meet and all three were felled by Coach Weir's boys. "Old Reliable" Don Cooper turned in the most spectacular showing during the evening as he soared to a new all-time confer ence high in the pole vault. "Moose" slipped over the bar at the height of 14 feet, 4V4 inches which was better than several records. The height eclipsed the duel record between the two schools which Don set at 13-7 2 in 1948. It beat the Nebraska varsity in door record of 14-2 established by Cooper during a Missouri duel two years ago. Tops League Marks The vault also bettered the Big Seven indoor record of 13 feet 11 inches and the outdoor mark of 14 feet I inch, both held by Bill Carroll of Oklahoma. It was also the top effort for Don, raising his all-time high by one quarter inch. He turned in a 14-4 effort while touring Europe with an American track squad last summer. Dick Mcissncr and Hobe Jones added the other two new records to the books. Dick cleared 6 feet 3 inches for a new high jump record. This was five-eighths of an inch over the the meet mark set by Don Smith of Iowa State in 1949. Hobe erased one of former Husker Bobby Ginn's records as he ran to a 1:59.5 half-mile vic tory. Ginn's old mark of 1:59.8 was set in 1947. Margin Surprising The Huskers were supposed to win but the margin of victory was even greater than the 73-29 rout of the Cyclones a year ago. Sophomores proved an invalu able help to Coach Weir's efforts in the first meet. Ten sophomores ) 1, )(0)n(Q)(Q)(0)nS)(0) USED BOOKS AVAILABLE - TEN TIMES NORMAL STOCK - j Vmn' IN Win On id-Year Competition broke into the scoring column Saturday night against the Stat ers. All tolled, the first-year candidates accounted for 33 points. Jones, Glenn Beerline and Bob Kruger, all sophomores, took first place honors in their events. Beerline paced a Cornhusker sweep in the broad jump with a 22 feet 10 inch effort while Kruger outlasted his rivals in the two-mile run to win in 10:10.6. Both wins were particular sweet to the Scarlet fans since both events have long had an absence of Husker contenders in its final placings. Other Husker first-place win ners were Don Bedker, Lee Alex ander, Kan Jacobs and Bill Hein. Jacobs Wins Mile Jacobs took top honors in the mile with a time of 4:33.8 while Hein copped the 440 in the time of :52.4. Alexander shot to first place in the 60-yard dash with a :06.4 effort. Bedker scored the only dou ble win of the evening sweeping both hurdle events. Don copped the 60-yard highs with a time of :07.7 and the 60-yard lows with a :07.3 clocking. The Huskers were kept from winning only one event as Jim Robertson tossed the shot 48 feet V2-inch to win that event for the Cyclones. Craren, Dunavan Score Eddie Craren and Capt. Al Dunavan were the only Corn huskers able to collect first place points in the NU loss to Minne sota. Eddie took top honors on the Trampoline and Al was awarded first place on the . I . i ffy '':k;?w I I f '"I f L jfy 1 y y i . DON COOPER .... shatters pole valt records as he soars to a new height of 14-4 1-4. His vault is the second highest mark registered by a college athlete this season. BUY THEM AT THE MEIUS" e. Lose 1. DICK MEISSNER Husker high jumper, established a new record in the Nebraska Iowa State track duel Satur day. Horizontal Bar. The Gophers took the top three positions in two events, placed three men in three other events and took second and third in the final event. Coach Jake Geier was handi capped with the loss of Paul Hughes. Hughes, competing with a broken thumb, however, picked up two fifth places in his limited action. He was counted on to help in all six events. Captain Dunavan led the Husker scoring with 18 mark ers on his first place, two second places, two fourth places and one fifth place. Craren con tributed six on his first and Jerry Tubbs added four more. Sorenson Tops Capt. Douglas Sorenson of the Gophers edged Dunavan for top honors with a total of 19 points ''"'yi i 1 I MM Two during the afternoon. Sorenson picked up his points with two first places in five events. George Patten of the Gophers tallied 14 markers. In the Husker Buff floor game the Buffalos beat off a Cornhusker threat in the closing moments of the game to win 51-45. The loss dropped the Huskers from third place in the Big Seven standings into sixth place. Only Iowa State stands below the Scarlet. In absorbing their second con ference loss against one win, the Huskers were led in scoring by Bob Pierce. The tall center dropped 1 7 points through - the nets to be the game's high scorer. Guard Jim Buchanan tallied for the Scarlet. Tucker was top man for the victorious Buffs with 14 coun ters. Armadas and Amaya each contributed 12. The next games for these three Husker aggregations are as fol lows: Coach Weir and his track sters entertain Minnesota this Saturday in the stadium; Coach Geier takes his gymnasts to Den ver for a meet on Thursday, Feb. 1; Coach Harry Good and his cagers will travel to Ames this Friday to meet the Cyclones in their second meeting of the year. Basketball, Ice Hockey Resume Play Intramural competition got under way again this week as ice hockey and basketball games were seated. Basketball got the jump on its outdoor rival with 12 games Monday night. Hockey resumes its action Tuesday. Phi Delta Theta and Phi Kappa Psi will set out on their first attempt at the ice sport Tuesday when the two outfits meet on the Oak Lake ice. Game time is 4 p.m. At the same time Al pha Gamma Rho and Sigma Chi will tangle. Thursday's hockey card calls for games between Delta Tau Delta and Pioneer House and be tween Alpha Tau Omega and Sigma Phi Epsilon. Only Three Contests Tuesday's cage schedule is very limited with only three five o'clock games on tap. Powerful Ag Extension Annex and the Ag Men's club "A" outfit will clash in an all-important bat tle on the Ag College floor. The Ag Men's club is currently the number one independent team in the University while the Annex is rated number seven. Zeta Beta Tau and Cornhusker Co-op meet in what should be a good game from start to fin ish. The Zates are the tenth fraternity "A" outfit in the U while the C0C0 boys are not far behind. In the third game of the after noon, Norris House will face Delta Sigma Pi. Norris is the number eight team in the frater nity "A" ratings and should win handily over a weak Delta Pi outfit. Wednesday's schedule is high- n Wildcats Face Long Island in Showdown Tilt The nation's basketball spot light will be focused on Man hattan Wednesday night, when Kansas State and Long Island U. clash in a showdown battle which should cause a national ratings upheaval. The visiting Blackbirds, 'win ners of 15 straight before un dertaking a rugged five-game road trip, were rated nationally last week while Kansas State held down a seventh spot. The Birds must win this one to keep their rating, while a K-State win should move the Wildcat! up the ladder. . The largest crowd over to wit ness a basketball game in Kan sas, some 13,000, is expected for the 8 p. m. tipoff. All tickets have been sold for weeks. The game will be aired by five Kan sas radio stations to those fans who weren't able to obtain tickets. Out for Revenge Coach Jack Gardner's cageYs are out for revenge. LIU hand ed the Purple a 59-60 setback in the season opener for both crews as a late K-State rally in Madi son Square Garden fell short. Only other loss marring the Cats' record is a 52-58 defeat by Indiana. Stopping all-American Sher man White and his skyscraping crew will be a Herculean task for the K-Staters. Last week's NCAA ratings had the Brooklyn club rated second in team of fense with a game average of 78.4 points; first in field goal percentages with a torrid 40.5 average per game; and seventh in free throw percentages with 68.4 percent of charity tosses be ing successful. In White, Coach Clair Bee has the nation's second leading scor er. Squirmin' Sherman hit a fabulous 63 points in one game last year. He dropped through 42 as the Birds trampled Floyd Bennett Field 110-55 recently. The Gardner men are facing a tremendous defensive task be cause the visitors are a cloud pushing crew which runs and shoots with wild abandon. It tallied 1195 points to its oppo nents' 869 in 15 games. "We don't have anyone -to match height with these boys," Gardner groans. "Lew Hitch is 6-7, but Ray Felix, their center, must be at least seven feet talL and White is 6-7." Gardner has assigned his de fensive 'ace, Jack Stone, to White. The Los Angeles senior threw a blanket over the dusky sharpshooter last year in the Garden, holding him to eight points. White managed 15 off Stone in the first encounter this year, but that still is way below his 28.1 season game average. Nagle, Strasheim Added to Staff Two Cornhusker graduates of the 1950 football team, Don Strasheim of Kimball and Fran Nagle of West Lynn, Mass., will be added to the varsity coaching staff for spring drills, Coach Bill Glassford announced. The spring practice sessions will start March 5 and will be climaxed April 14 by a game be tween the varsity and the alumni. lighted by the struggle between Phi Delta Phi, number two inde pendent team and sixth in the University, and Sigma Gamma Epsilon, number eight independ ent team and defending inde pendent champion. UALEHTiriES Spnriali for relativrt, tweet heart i, good friendt and enemie. Goldenrod Stationery Store 215 North 14th Street B w I i i i I- J 'I t i I 1
