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Thursday, May 10, J9SI THE DAILY NEBRASKAN PAGE 3 ooners In Series By Marshall Kushner Nebraska's baseball team fell before the powerful Oklahoma Sooners 7-5 in their opening of the'r two game series that might well decide the conference cham pionship. The Husker diamondmen found themselves hoping and ' praying for rain about the eighth inning when they were still in the lead, however the weatherman got stingy with the precipitation that held the Huskers indoors for a good part of the early season. The Sooners opened the game with two runs in the first inning. Nebraska starting hurler Dick McCormick allowed a base on balls to Wich and Margosh and Sheets followed up with a sin gle. First Homer It wasn't until the third inning thatt the two clubs were able to get any more runs. The Sooners Sheets smashed out a circuit clout over the 360 foot left field fenc The fourth inning was a big one of the Huskers. Bob Diers and Jerry Dunn both drew walks. Fitzgerald single and advanced to third on an error. Jensen walked and was the victim of a trap play. The play did net the Huskers a run, as Fitzgerald scored from third before Jensen was tagged out. At the end of five innings of play the teams were locked in a 3-3 deadlock. In the sixth the Huskers moved Into the lead when Fitzgerald powered a double between center and right field gardens. Kay Mladevich followed up with a sharp single to score Fitzgerald. Pitcher Helps Cause The lead changed hands in the seventh. The Sooners struck back to tie up the game when pitcher Shirley smacked a single and lead off man Wich duplicated the fate. Shirley scored on a passed ball. Not to be outdone, Nebraska catcher Bob Lodhrberg pulled a screaming four bagger over the left field fence to put the Huskers in the lead again. Then came the tragic eighth. McCormick gaveup three walks, a single and a double which .pulled ihe Sooners into the lead - for the first time since the fourth inning. Unfortunately the rains didn't come and the inning went to completion. i The Huskers had nothing to counter with in the eighth and ninth, while Sheets slammed an other home run for the Oklahoma nine.- It was the fifth straight win for the Sooners in the conference while the Huskers defeat showed the Husker ledger at 4-2. Sheets Top Slugger Sheets gunned the Oklahoma attack by cracking four hits in Preach Turns Deaf Ear on Homer Record Preacher Roe is a bit teed off about the gossip concerning his home run record. He has a 4-0 record for the season. Even so, the only talk that comes to his ears concerns the home runs he gave up last year. "Makes me think I'm lucky to be here," he said. "As long as I'm winning I won't worry about the homers. Let them talk all they want." "They got to beat me with a bat if they do. I , walked two against St. Louis the other night and they both scored. That hurt me more than the home run." The Preacher was tied for giv ing up the most home runs in the league ' during 1950. His port siders were hit for 34. The Dodger hurler gave up his seventh this year to St. Louis Catcher Del Rice with two out and two strikes on him when the homer came. "All you got to do is slip six inches with your control," he said, "and you can kiss it good bye" "The way I figure every pitch In the strike zone is potentially a home run. If you can perfect a way to throw to them they can perfect a way to hit it And they do more hitting than we do pitchinV "You got seven men out there behind you. And they're going to catch a lot more than will fH in. The fellows we got out there (in the outfield) who can get em." Main Features Start SUtt: "Belle Le Grand," 100, 3:58, 6:58, 9M. "Twilight In the Sierras,' 2:48, 5:46, 8:44. Husker: "Blazing Bullets," 1:20, 2 35 S:55, :05, 10:20. "Insurance investigator," 2:11, 4:26, 6:41, 8:56. Varsity: 'Second Woman," 1:47, 3 45, 5 43, 7:41, 3. 1 JOHNNY "MACK" BROWN "BLAZING BULLETS" CO-HIT "insimjir;: inVESTKftTOR" I aster Opener, J r RAT MLADOYICH .... came through with a timely single Wednesday to get credit for a run-batted-in. five appearances. Included in the barrage was two homers and two singles. Fitzgerald collected a double and a single to lead the Huskers at the plate. Aside from Lohr berg's homer, Mladovich and Reynolds were the only other Husker batsmen to hit. Shirley went the full distance for the win, striking out five and allowing five hits. McCor mick is charged with the loss, al lowing nine hits and striking out lour. Coach Tony Sharpe has indi cated that he will start Del Kopf on the mound for the Comhuskers in the two game series finale this afternoon. Game time is set for 3 p.m. Junior Legion Baseball About Ready to Go A fntfll f lis iiminr f9mt and 128 midget teams have been i entered m the 1951 American Legion Junior r.nd Midget base ball program according to John Ditter of Grard Island, chair man of the Legion's athletic commission. American Legion posts must have their entries in by . rnidmght,.May .12, .Ditter said. League play will get underway June 3 for Class A, Class B and midget teams. Class A teams will compete in league play until July 22 when the district tourna ments begin to determine Ne braska's state champion. Class B and midget nines will compete in league play until Aug. 5 when their tourneys swing into action. Ditter said that leagues would be organized and a playing schedule arranged for all teams. A double round-robin schedule will be set up. Each league will consist of four to six teams. "Teams may schedule as many additional games as pos sible," Ditter said, "as long as they do not conflict with a regular scheduled game." Posts who have not entered teams in the 1951 season should do so at once, Ditter warned. Entries should be sent to War ren E. Baker, American Legion headquarters, state capitoL Lin coln, the state chairman con cluded. Russia To Try Hand at Tennis The world is beginning to won der whether Russia, who seems to be challenging for supremacy in everything else, is going to make a bid for the Davis cup, which is the plum of international tennis. According Soviet Sport, the of ficial organ of the Soviet commit tee on physical culture and sports, tennis should become a leading sport in Russia. j 71 H uskers 7 to 5 t iilillliiiillJi BILL FITZGERALD . ... was the leading hitter for the Huskers in their loss to the Sooners. His two blows along with Bob Lohrburg's homer almost brought the game out of the fire. AROUND THE r in 1 $ & I . nJ 1 1 illllliill lllillirt Seventeen Cyclones Honored in Grid List By Shirley Murphy. Seventeen Iowa State football players made the final "players of the week" list for spring drills. The Cyclone coaches devised this method of recognition the boys who perform exceptionally well each week The coaches said that this list considered play over the entire week but that the actions in the alumni game played a big part in the selections. The alumns won, 14-8. Centers among the linemen of the week are Rollie Arns and Jim Rawley. Stan Campbell, Jim Champlin and Ron Swanson are the final outstanding guards. George Heck, Bill Byrus and Bill Wilson are the tackles, while Mai "V , I- , . V-' , . ,., 4 ; h-y ...... w IRVING THODE .... will carry the Husker colors into the broad jump and high jump as the weakened Nebraska tracksters journey to Kansas State today. Thode has been showing good form during the entire season. STASTS TODAY . ,i i t - 1 HQ f VLr to! LJ Li S ... J LJ i-4 .JOHN SUTTON-HENRY CNOU FLORENCE BATES- MORRIS CARN0VSKY Relays Could Decide State Track Crowns Fast relay teams may be the answer to state track titles in the 1951 high school carnival. A half dozen schools have qualified relay teams in two events. These teams will repre sent Scottsbluff, Lincoln high, Omaha Central and Fremont in Class A. Albion and Broken will have double entries in class B. According to Nebraska cinder rules, relay teams do not need to use the same relay quartets which ran in the regions, so per sonnel who will represent their schools in the two has not been determined yet. The prep rules limit a runner to two races and one relay. This handicaps the Lincoln high aggregation which holds the best time in both the 880-yard and mile relays (1:33.1 and 3:31.3). These clockings were regis tered at the Grand Island Relays. Brian Hendricksen, the Link's star sprinter, ran anchor on both teams. Coach Bill Pfieff must choose Saturday, and he will probably select the mile relay since the Links are trying to better their 1950 State record of 3:32.8. LOOP... .Schmidt, Bob Voetberg and Bob Rohwedder are end men. In the backfield, Dick Mann shone out as quarter; Dick Cher pinsky and George Hess at left half; Emery Eichorn and Frank Congiardo as right halfs; and Maury Schnell at fullback. Kansas State's tennis team made a nice sweep through Drake in Iowa, Iowa State and Nebras ka by topping all three teams. They took both the Cyclones and the Huskers 6-1. ihe Drake score was 7-0. The golf team traveled with the tennis team and only tied one match and lost two. Kansas State finished conference play with a .500 average. The linksters won two, tied two, and and lost two in Big Seven play this year. in Makes a Man and a Woman Fraternities Complete Round; K Sigs, Tekes Fraternity softball competi tion completed its first round of tournament play Tuesday after noon with six more outfits ad vancing to the second-round. Kappa Sigma won its first encounter by dropping Sigma Chi by an 8-4 score. The Kappa Sigs jumped on Sig hurler Es pergren for three hits and three runs in the opening frame and were never headed. They added another in the second and two in each the third and fourth sticinzds The Sigs made a game of it in the first two frames by tally ing three counters but were rudley stopped by Kappa Sig chucked Wagner. Wagner hurled three-hit ball to win the contest and struck out nine. His only weakness was his wildness and he allowed nine men free passes to first Trie Sigs stood out defensively with rightfielder Ofe making the play of the game, a sensational over the shoulder catch of a smash by Munk. Ten Hits The victors relied on power at the plate and speed on the basepaths to win. They clouted a total of ten safeties. Hughes, Schaberg and Wagner each contributed two hits to the winning cause. Munk clouted a homer for the victors. Holder was the only Sig to collect two safeties. Tau Kappa Epsilon and Theta Xi hooked up in a real duel in their first round encounter. The Tekes managed to outlast a be lated TX rally and won a close one, 5-4. Theta Xi Leads Theta Xi took charge at the first and held a 2-0 lead for two innings. A hit by Bob Bale and two errors on the Teke shortstop paved the way for the two tallies in the initial frame. The victors bounced right back in the third and took the lead with a four-run outburst. Hits by Jones, Sterkle, Marqnart and Fisher led this rally. They added what proved to be the winning run in the sixth inning as Sterkel's single drove home Jones who had doubled. The TX men were far from beaten, however, and roared back with two counters in the sixth. An error and a mighty home run by catcher Pat O'Dea produced the tallies. Left Stranded Leadoff man, Jim Jensen dou bled to open the "do-or-die" in ning for Theta Xi, but the Tekes bore down and left him stranded there for the win. Finlay hurled a good five-hit contest for the Tekes. He struck out three and walked none. McCracken twirled for the losers and issued ten hits, walked seven and struck out three. Phi Kappa Psi struck early and then held on to down Beta Theta Pi, 6-5. The Phi Psi's bunched all their scoring in the opening two frames and then staved off all Beta threats to take the lead. Lehman Winner Buster Lehman was on the hfll for the winners and hurled seven-hit ball. He struck out four and walked ten. His mound op ponent Weeks gave up only four hits and struck out three. He issued five bases on balls. Snow of the Betas led all the bitters in the contest with three hits. Teammate Smaha collected two. Bob Britton garnered two safeties for the Phi Psi outfit Alpht Tau Oemga repeated an early season win over Phi Gam ma Delta to make their tourney opener a successful one. The Taus blasted the Fijis, 13-6. Fijis Roll The Phi Gams looked like they were out for an upset of big proportions as they tallied four times in the opening frame and added another in the third to take a 5-0 lead. The Tans proved they could come from behind, however, as in their half of the third they poshed six runs across the plate and then sent the game into the root stages by bpnehing five more in the fourth. Altogether, the Taus collected a total of nine safe hits, the Fijis getting four off the ATO hurler. Eight glaring Phi Gam errors were a major factor in their downfall. Scott Leads Verl Scott led the Taus with a double and two singles while teammate Bick had three singles. Hunt also was a big factor in the Tau win with a double and a Love a Pipe Love a Man -Ate- JHMWtj, .w., (fSjlfM CboieawfiSM Barley Sraoetfc ami riM single. Ron Raitt led the losing hitters with one double. Sigma Phi Epsilon bunched five runs in the fourth inning of their first round contest to sew-up their victory over Beta Sigma Psi. The Sig Eps were winners by an 8-2 score. The losers tallied first with one run in the first. They saw the Sig Eps take the lead in the second with two counters and then tied the count at 2-2 in their half of the third. The Sig Eps tallied what proved to be the winning run in their half of the same stanza. On The Mound Dannehl toiled on the mound for the losers and gave up seven hits while striking out five and walking four. Jim Walsh was the Huskers Have Track Woes In Preparing for Loop Meet For a coach whose squad won last year's conference outdoor track meet, and followed with an indoor triumph last March, the Hsukers' Ed Weir is opsrating un der surprisingly little strain as the Big Seven outdoor carnival draws nigh. In reference to Weir's strip ped-down track forces, Nebraska Publicitor John Bentley would be bold indeed to apply the his toric watch-word, "We're load' ed!" his highly-quotable allu sion to the 1950 Nebraska foot ball team voiced at the pre-sea- son press and radio session. Nobody ever dares sell the Comhuskers short, but most track observers agree it would take some stupendous effort by the Scarlet and Cream squad to snare a third, straight loop crown when the conference's trophy hunt takes place here May 18 and 19. Friday Action Preliminaries in all events ex cent the mile, two-mile, mile re lay, pole vault and high jump will be held on Rollins i ieia nere Friday beginning at 3 p.m. Sat urdays finals get under way at 1:30 and if. when tne iinai re turns are in, Nebraska has to vield to a new crown-holder, the reasons will be pretty odvious, Perhaps the most appalling statistic confronting Coach Weir is the knowledge that he does not return a single performer who corralled points in the run ning events at Lincoln last spring. Of the sixteen men sharing in the Huskers 'total 'bag of 105 SA points, only four are back. They are: Don uooper ana jjeonara Kehl, pole-vaulters; Dick Meiss ner and Robert Sand, high-jump ers. Last May this quartet gatn ered in 17 points. Handv Men uone Gone are such hustling, handy guys as Harry Meginis, 100 and 220-vard dash kingpin: Bob Berkshire, winner of the highs and third in the lows; Wendy Cole, third and fourth respec tively in the highs and lows; Loyal Hurlbert and Harold Kopf, middle-distance "money" run ners; versatile Jim McConnell, who placed in four field events; Wayne Sees, discus; Warren Monson and Ray Magsmen, javelin. , x Tough shoes to fill, these, but Weir somehow managed to put his 1951 track affairs in order, and a keyed-up Nebraska outfit tallied 40 points to make off with the indoor bunting at Kan sas Citv two months ago. Then the roof fell in when Air Force reserve calls took three key Comhuskers Hobe Jones, Wen dell Cole and Ken Jacobs. Jones Wins Jones, an outstanding newcom er, had won the leagues 880 yard crown indoors, and was fifth in the mile. Cole, who plac ed in both outdoor hurdle events a year ago, ran second in the indoor lows. Jacobs finished third in the mile. Together, they con en school There is no doubi 111 111 iiiifl I iilsjfl nuiim iMiiirirTn-- 1 trj'fo-mm.n.ni "1 Mil" mwmm,- r s NORFOLK OMAHA NORTH PLATTE SIOUX CITY, IOWA. ADD UNION BUS DEPOT First Win1 winning pitcher as he hurled a neat three-hitter and struck out four. Maskell, Sig Ep secOud sacker, led the hitting attack with three hits including a four-bagger. Anderson also had a home run for the Beta Sigs. The other first round faternity contest went to Acacia via a for fiet from Norris House. Thursday's schedule calls for the second round for the frater nity tourney with seven games on tap, four slated for the Coli seum grounds and three on the Ag College fields. Friday's action is highlighted by the Interdenominational finals and the Independent semi-finals. The fraternity quarter-finals will also take place on Friday. tributed 13 points t othe N. U. cause, almost one-third of the team's winning figure. While Nebraska's team poten tial has been sapped both by graduation and military demands, the Lincolnites stil should field at least three individual stand outs here in the persons of Don Cooper and Leonard Kehl, pole vaulters, and Dick Meissner, the Big Seven's most-improved high jumper. Cooper elevated himself into elite vaulting society at the Kan sas Relays, sailing over the bar at 15 ft. Vt inch. That's more than a foot above the existing conference record of 13 ft 1VM inches, marked up by Oklahoma's Bill Carroll just last year. Bespectacled Don is another of the loop's extraordinary per formers, who is currently nurs ing an ailment. He pulled a mus cle at Drake after bailing out at 14 ft. 6, but should be ready for the Big Seven trackfest KehC the brush-haired south paw, is a two-time indoor cham pion who'd be headline material in any other camp except Ne braska. His 13 ft. 6 inch hoist won the indoor meet two months ago. Scarcely a threat to the Bob Gorden-Virgil Severns high jump monopoly last year, Ne braska's Meissner went 6 ft. 7 at Drake recently to defeat Miz zou's Gorden, the 1950 outdoor titlist, , and Dick Jones, Okla homa's stellar and highly-consistent entry. Jones paced the 1951 indoor field with a winning lea? of 6 ft 3 inches. Feller Burned; Out of Action Bob Feller, the Cleveland In dians mound star, is nursing bums on his legs and lower torso along with a previous back injury and may be out of action for another two weeks. Feller suffered the first and second degree bums as he pre pared to take a whirlpool bath for the back injury. He lost con trol of the hose and the near boiling water squirted on his body. Feller's loss is only one in the growing list of injuries that are striking at the American League contenders. It had been hoped that Feller would be ready to start against the league-leading New York Yankees this weekend. His record this years stands at three wins and no losses. 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