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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 20, 1952)
If- IF T7Z By ED BERG Sports Staff Writer Fifty diamond hopefuls an wered Tony Sharpe's call as for. mal baseball workouts began Monday. Under the bright lights oi me university or Nebraska fieldhouse, the athletes began "spring training" activities de 1 signed to ready them for the Big Seven conference grind which gets underway April 15th. Greeting Sharpe at the Initial workout were seven lettermen, Bob Diers, outfielder; Bob Rey nolds, second baseman; Dick McCormlck, pitcher; Ray Mlad ovich, first baseman; Dale Bun en, pitcher; Jack Shull, catcher; and Jerry Dunn, out- xieiaer. turn on the hill. Ray Novak, ver sitile baseballer from Omaha, should also see plenty of action. Chuck Wright of Scottsbluff and Bill Fait of Omaha have shown enough in the past to warrant serious consideration. Because of their hitting ability, Novak and Fait might be seen at urst base or in the outfield. The best of the freshmen chuckers seem to be. Bob Kremke, Millard hotshot; Don Muenster, Omaha Benson High grad; Fran Hoffmaler, Mission Hill, South Dakota lefty; and Bob Gleason, strong armed Ful lerton right hander. Filling the first base position for the 1952 Huskers is about as The Benehivarmer Wednesday, February 20, 1952 THE DAILY NEBRASKAN B 7 ; 's'4,. iiiiillllliliili t P' Mii;S:;.:;j5 ;;;!;;ij':?,f :'i;ii!!S',:!5S I $ Also on hand were last year touchy a problem as the catching squad members John Leach, third department. Possibilities, ' along baseman; Al Benjamin, pitcher; and Henry Mullen, pitcher. Jim Snyder, first baseman, is to re port at the conclusion of the bas ketball season. Glancing over the roster, Sharpe said "this year's club should be better than lest seasons aggrega tion, which compiled a 10-5 rec ord, although we might not win as many games." He pointed out that improved pitching and more all - around experience should make the difference. Sharpe did express a need for "a good catcher, the take charge type." A problem facing Sharpe Is finding suitable replacements for five regulars that were lost through graduation or service calls. Gone are Del Kopf, pitcher; Bob Lohrberg, catcher; Bill Fitzgerald, outfielder; Bill Jensen, shortstop; and John Reto. third baseman. Kopf teamed with McCormick for the Husker pitching punch while Lohrberg handled the lion's share of the receiving duties. Jensen and Rego anchored the rieht side of the infield with some ton-notch defensive play beside providing some timely basejiits. Fitzgerald was one of the 1951 clubs leading swatsmen, compil ing a lusty .358 average. While Sharpe named Shull, Murray Backhaus, Jim Cederdahl, Chuck Jensen and Gerry Sand bulte as outstanding candidates for the backstopping job, he stressed the fact that the posi tion is wide open. Backhaus caught for the State Legion baseball championship Millard nine. Cederdahl is a fine all-around frosh athlete from Lin coln. Jensen hails from Pawnee City, while Sandbulte comes highly recommended from Sioux Center, Iowa. Hard working Jim Oliver should given them all a battle for the job. The Nebraska pitching staff lists eighteen candidates. Mc Cormick, the ace of last years mound corps, should capture one of the starting jobs. How ever, a wild scramble could de velop for the remaining pitching assignments. Besides return ees Bunsen, Benjamin and Mul lenis, an outstanding group of sophomore and freshmen pitch ing prospects. Pat Mallette, through his per formance on toe freshmen team last spring, has indicated he will be a good bet to win a regular , , . " -z5Lwrt"y Lincoln Star. TONY SHARPE . . . feels con fident for a good Husker season this spring. Fifty men have re ported for early workouts, In cluding seven lettermen. with Novak and Fait, are Bill Giles, Jim Snyder and Ed Bartels. Ray Mladovich could win the post with some improved stickwork. Sharpe has a wealth of tal ent battling for the infield jobs. Bob Reynolds has the inside track on the keystone spot. Competition may come from Dan Brown .or Dick Chrlstoph. Al Karle, Mladovich, Dirk Ral ston and Leach will compete for the important shortstop po sition. Karle, a freshman from Grand Island, showed up wellin fall drills. Leach is a topnotch fielder who has failed to reach his po tential at the plate. The hot corner will probably be handled by Bob Decker, Om,aha Holy Name three-sport star, or Fred Seger, varsity basketball standout. In the Husker outfield, Diers, Dunn and Milt Frei will be dif ficult to lodge from regular berths. Diers, a third team Ail-American choice last year, and Dunn proved to be the lead ing sluggers of last season. Frei demonstrated his ability with the bat in the summer Plo neer Nite league. Christoph or Cliff Hopp might earn a spot in the outer garden. By GLENN NELSON Assistant Snorts Editor Jim Buchanan. Nebraska's outstanding senior guard and captain of the Husker team, is coming dangerously close to the all-time JNeDrrska season record. When he hit 11 field Roals for a total of 22 points against the Oklahoma Sooners Monday night, ha boosted his season total to 357 points. The present season s'tandard was set at 384 by Bob Pierce 8 year ago. Three tames remain on the Cornhusker roster. The Big Seven cellar-dwellers will entertain Iowa State college Monday, Feb. 25, play host to Kansas State college Saturday, March 1, and finish the season on Monday, March 3, at Columbia against the Missouri Tigers. With three games remaining on the Husker slate and a 17.0 points per game average. "Bucky" should have little trouble setting a new all-time scoring mark for a Husker flipper. And the list of Nebraska record holders In that department snows pieniy or ciassy scarlet stars have held that honor. Claude Ketherford. who still holds the 3-year NU scoring record. was followed by Milt "Bus" Whitehead, now with the Phillips Oilers. Retherford wore the scarlet Jersey during the 1947, "48 and '48 seasons, and Whitehead shone as a top Husker scoring power 1948-1950. Buchanan, often spoken of as "Nebraska's All-America candi date," has been the sparkplug and playmaker of the club through out the entire season. The lone senior on the starting five, Jim haa been the team's backbone in every contest. Standing only six feet even. "Buckv" has the disadvantage of being the shortest member on Coach Harry Good's squad. Yet he leads, the team In rebounds. Following the Colorado contest on Feb. 11, official figures showed Buchanan to be Nebraska's top rebounder with a total of 92. Bill Johnson was close behind with 90, followed by Fred Seger who had 80. A 40 for bo free throw accumulation by "Buc ' places him close to the lead in that department, also. His gift toss percentage is .606. in neid goal averages, Jim led the squad with a hefty .372 following the Buff contest, with 140 buckets for 376 attempts. This average has gone up since the Kansas and Oklahoma contests. Jim's difficult shots deserve some consideration, too. Being much shorter than the average Big Seven player, he must confine his shots to jump shots, running shots, or set shots from backcourt. Seldom have his points been scored on easy shots. Coach Good will have a number of returning lettermen on next year's squad, but his big problem will be the replacement of Jim eucnanan. mm s, Aiflbiis, Important Role 1: f 1 W j if ma- to y t Tallest Man Shows Improvement y: o: ' : : : : : ' - J " 4 f f- . v: t BILL JOHNSON , . . Made a good showing on defense against Colorado Monday night while scoring ten points. He will face Iowa State's big Jim Stange next Monday night on the Coliseum maples. The tallest membef of coach Harry Good's squad, John son has shown great Improvement during the season. Squash,Volleyball,Water Basketball Tourneys Set Entries for the all-University Squash championship tournament i match consisting of three games. All independent and fraternity must be submitted to the Physical I ams desiring to compete in " " . , ieither the shallow-water or deep- Education building by Tuesday, water basketball leagues must Feb. 26. Pairings will bepostedfile entries at the Physical Edu on the bulletin board in the! cation building by Tuesday, Feb. 2b. Court e Lincoln Journal. DON WEBER . . . Although not In a starting forward position since the early part of the season, this Estherville, Ia sophomore has been playing an Important role In Coach Harry Good's basketball plans for the future. (Courtesy of LincMnJlournal.) Phys ed building soon after en tries are received. Games will be scheduled ac cording to times the handball courts in the Coliseum are avail able. Two out of three games will constitute a match. Winners of the match will advance in the tournament. A trophy will be awarded to the championship Fraternity on point basis, and a medal will be given to the individual champion. Rules will be posted on the Coliseum basement squash court walls, and players may check out equipment daily and practice. Entries for volleyball will not be accepted later than 5 p.m. on Feb. 26. Rosters must accompany the entries. Schedules will be announced on Monday, March 2. Official volley ball rules will govern all matches, which will determine the cham pionship. A trophy, will be awarded to the champions of the fraternity groups, and the inde pendent champions will receive medals. ' Teams are expected to provide their own officials as in softball. Leagues will be set up in single round-robin style, with each All contestants must secure swimming permits from the Stu dent Health center. These swimming permits must be on file in the equipment cage before contestants may enter the swimming pool. Contestants can not wait until the last minute on getting their permits, as no ex ceptions to this rule will be permitted. Fraternity or independent groups may enter a team in each league. The use of time out pe riods has been eliminated thig year. By BILL MTJNDELL Intramural Sports Writer The Pluggers found their play off chances a little slimmer Mon day night after the Warriors in general and Marv Lawton in par ticular sent them reeling to a 43 46 defeat. The Pluggers had romped past the Warriors In their first outing of the year, blasting them S5-36, but things were entirely different in this contest. Lawton reigned supreme dur ing the entire contest, dunking a grand total of 29 points and doing a lion's share of the re bounding. Mighty Marv hit his peak during the second period by sinking 15 counters and probably would have gone well above the 30 mark If the War riors had not adopted a stalling game throughout the entire fourth quarter, The Pluggers, seeking their win to clinch their playoff berth, took command during the first quarter and led after the first ten minutes 15-12, holding Lawton to six. The second quarter was all Lawton as the big boy grabbed all but five of his team's points in that stanza and the Warriors held a 32-29 halftime lead. Ten points to the Pluggers' three in the third frame gave the Warriors a comfortable ten point cushion going into the final ten minutes and the Warrior stall was dominant. The Pluggers came close, but the margin was too great and the Warriors had a coveted victory. Behind the Lawton machine came Jaok Mankameyer with seven points and Scott Cast with six. Rod Pope topped the losing scorers with an 11 total fol lowed by Ron Powers with ten counters. The Dorm A Stars and Shortys clinchied their playoff berths from league X by dropping NKUIL and Dorm B-C, respectively. The Stars wound up their reg ular season in a 25-24 squeaker over Navy. The Stars, leading most of the way, had to fight off a determined Middle rally in the final period and stall most of the game out. The quarter scores were all in favor of the winners, reading 12-6, 20-10 and 25-21. The Stars went scoreless throughout the fourth period, ball control being more to their pleasure. Keith Kohrs and Bill Kennedy led the way for the victors with ten points apiece. Vondrarer with seven and Jim Clark with six were tops for Navy. Shortys got an unexpected bat tle from Dorm B-C all the way before ending up on the long end1 of a 49-44 tally. Only an early fourth quarter splurge gave the winners breathing room from where they coasted to the win. Charlie Bush topped all scorers with 23 counters while teammate Al Karle added another ten for the winners. Chuck Huestis led the Dorm men with 19 points fol lowed by Don Lindberg with 15, A free-throw by Bill Apklng after the end of the overtime stanza gave the Alibis a 26-25 victory over Delta Theta Phi. With five seconds to go In the extra period and the score knotted at 25-all, Apklng drew a foul and dunked his winning toss. Both teams had scored a goal in the overtime to set the stage for Apking's gratis shot after the lawyers had rallied in the final quarter to gain a 23-23 tie at the end of the regulation time. In pushing the contest into overtime, the shysters had to overcome a sevqn-point third quarter deficit. "Xoe Kroese of the Alibis topped the evening's scorers with 11 while mate Hubka tallied seven, Otto Kovar and Bevin Bump each garnered six for the losers. Unbeaten M-S t r e e t Boys rolled to their ninth straight win by dropping the Pill Rollers, 57-31. The Pharmacists kept the score close for the first half but wilted under the M-Street power In the final 20 minutes. Bill Thayer with 14 and Jim Evans with ten led the way for the victors while Dick Peering potted nine and Jack Donnelson and Maurice Russell each gar nered seven for the Pills. The Methodist clipped Inter Varsity, 29-16 in their final game of the season. The MethocUtts led throughout the game, but the out come was never certain until they fashioned a final seven-minute scoring burst. Forrest Stith was the scoring leader as the Methodist potted a 12-polnt total. Daryl Bohl helped with another six. Ed Nel son topped the I-V scoring with eight points. The Bearcats spurted In the first and fourth periods to romp past the Ramblers, 44-29. With Verl Claussen and Doug McPher son leading the way, the Cats rolled up a 16-4 first period mar gin and then teamed with Ray Svehla in the final period to stretch a 29-24 margin into vie tory. Claussen's 14 points with Mc pherson's 11 and Svehla's eight led the Cat scoring charts. Jim Worth topped the Ramblers with 12 while Gene Bishop added an other seven. Leads Nebraska Swimmers Two Platoons Cuts Iron Men Football's sixty minute iron men. not oniy aon t exist any longer under the two platoon sys tem, but never were, according to a sports article in the current is sue of People Today. Tiuea, "now Much Actual Playing Time In a Football Game?" the article quotes, as source of authority, George Allen, once iritz urisier s fireball assistant at Michigan and currently head coach at Whittier College in California. Coach Allen conducted an astonishing experiment during the 1951 season by having two men with stopwatches assigned to all games. The stopwatch, however, was not started until the center had snapped the ball and it was stopped immediately upon the referee's whistle. Only the actual time of body contact was re corded, with time taken in hud' dies, approaching the ball, calling signals, time exchange of the ball and penalties, all discounted. ! iv i 4 ' BUELE BALDERSTON ... Is currently the leading scorer among Nebraska's swimmers and will lead coach Hollie Lepley's team against Grlnnell college in the Coliseum pool Friday, Feb. 22. The Huskers are hoping to forget their string of defeats and gain a needed victory. Felfon and Volf Your Exclusive Smith-Corona Dealer in Lincoln Rent a NEW portable type writer. If you desire to purchase the portable, rental cost will be deducted from price of type writer within S months period. Phone 2-8577 1 228 P V;J lyWfoitdalli i x2 . j 'mm') !!,;: tin Look! Another man twitched to Kentucky Club' the thoroughbred of pipe tobaccos iieMUiP iwajin iff "ffe5? E f'""fV?H'"1'- fTWT1" ' DO IT TODAY! 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