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Page 3 Friday, April 23, 1954 THE NEBRASKAN ITUCQS) seers, omieifs ms Series perns Today; n n i inmost Hofmaier, Sanders Probable Pitchers In Opening Contest By GARY FRANDSEN Sports Editor Today the two giants meet! Nebraska's high-riding baseball team, sizzling after two excellent pitching performances in their initial taste of Big Seven play against the University of Kansas, clash- this afternoon with the classy Oklahoma Sooners, de fending conference champs, in the first of a two-game series which could blast the young loop race wide open. Everything takes place at Norman. A sweep of the crucial series by one club could be the extended invitation of a merry breeze into the College World Series in Omaha this June. A split between the two nines would leave it up to how the Huskers and Sooners, the league's pre-season favorites, do against the rest of the Big Seven opposition. It's no secret that both clubs are solid favor ites for conference laurels. It will be the first look at Big Seven competition for Coach Jack Baer's veteran-loaded Sooners. On the other hand, Nebraska op ened with a 12-1 and 1-0 victories over the Jayhawkers in Lincoln earlier this week. Both games were marked by extra-fine mound :v::::::x-:-::::-':; rvv . i stints by - southpaws Fran Hof-, maier and sophomore Dick Geier, the latter spinning a remarkable no-hitter in the second contest. J . COACH TONY Sharpe hasn't definitely named any pitching se lections for the two-game brawl with the Sooners, but it is ex pected that Hofmaier, in his third season as a Husker twirler, will get the opening call today. It's our guess that either righthander Pat Mallette or Geier will be called on for Saturday's game. If lefty Mac Sanders, the ace of the Oklahoma staff, gets the expected nod, Sharpe will prob ably open with Dirkes Rolston or Norm Coufal, shortstop; Virg Gottsch, third base; Fred Seger, second base; Jim Cederdahl, cen ter field; Ray Novak, first base; BUI Giles, left field; Don Becker, right field; Murray Backhaus, catcher; and Hofmaier, pitcher. If a richthander like Larry Foley or Jack Van Pool should be nominated to pitch the op ener against the Huskers, Mal lette will then probably open up in right field in place of Becker. Other Huskers making the southern trip which includes games with Kansas State on y f t . J Mil Ill HI ii Hill llllitf1H Monday and Tuesday are Dan Brown, utility; Bob Lohrberg, catcher; Jerry Shaw, pitcher; and Charlie Wright, pitcher. CEDERDAHL, WHO doubled to start the one-run rally which gave the Huskers their slim 1-0 squeeze past Kansas, will go into this afternoon's tussle as the Huskers' leading regular-playing hitter. The Lincoln junior has been batting the ball at a .423 pace, including one of the team s two homers. Jim is also leading the club in runs-batted-in with eight. Seger, pacing the squad in total hits with 13, has a .371 average. Part- time regulars Mallette and Coufal are hitting .455 and .429 respee tively. Baer has a fine pitching nucleus returning from last season's championship crew. The nifty Sanders was their top winner with 6-8 mark. Foley and Van Pool, seniors along with Sanders, had 2-2 and 1-1 records respectively. Another vet back Is Junior right hander George Loving who com piled a 1953 mark of 1-3. Best-lookin of the new pitcn ing crop are Joe Mobra and Frank Minton, the latter who has a twin brother, Fred, a hard hitting outfielders Mobra, who could get the second game can against the Huskers, is a 21-year old sophomore standing 6-2, weighing 205. He throws from the right side.xMinton, on tne other hand, is Tmilt like a War ren SDahn. 6-1. 160 lb. and throwing lefthanded. Sooner Stars Two of Oklahoma's top hit ters this spring are Shortstop Orville Rickey (left) and Third Baseman Bill nKox. Rickey last season. The two infielders armle well over the .300 mark and Knox both rattled the also hit a total of five homers and batted tween them. in 25 runs De- NU Baseball Statistics I" layer Mallette. lb-of. Becker, of Giles, lb-of .. Lohrberf. e . . Korlnek, of . . Mallette, lb-of fitter, p Wrifht. p .... Novak, p-lb .. Berer. 2b Backhaus, e . . Cottaeh. 8b . . Cederdahl ef Coufal, FIELDING G PO A E 1 0 1 IS n 10 7 l o 7 .. 1 .. 4 .. .p Pet. dp pb 2 t 1.000 1.000 l.ono l.ooo 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 Mi .44 ,M .017 .000 .MM Hofmaier, p ... 4 1 Shaw, p t 0 Brown, Sb-of ... S 0 S 1 .O0 1 SI .750 1 0 0- .000 0 v.hr..k.Ttl. 8 204 R9 14 .054 8 t ntinnn.nl. f nt I. M vim In .Ml O 1 NEBRASKA'S RECORD: (Won , lost 2.) (Big Seven games Won 2, lost 0.) i i. n T T n... . KIavbIt ncDrnniia iuib. ' . . - Nebraska 18, Tulsa 17. Winner: Hofmaier Nebraska 3. Houston 2. Winner: Mallette Nebraska 3, Houston 2. winner: naw w.k...if. c T.v.iin lAtpr; Oeier Nebraska 4, Texas 0. Winner: Hofmaier Nebraska 12. Kansas 1. Winner: Hofmaier Nebraska 1, Kansas 0. Winner: Geier Two High-Classed Relays Ready For This Weekend BIGGEST LOSS on the Sooner club is the absence of Ail-Amer ican Second Baseman Gene Sheets who is now in the Chicago White Sox organization. Best of this season's stickmen are Catcher Buster Cloud, Shortstop Orville Rickey and Third Baseman Billy Knox. Cloud, dividing the catching duties last season, hit at a .391 din. Regulars Rickey and Knox both swatted the ball well over the .300 mark. Rickey had a solid .358 average and Knox rapped the horsehlde at a .348 pace. Back again is Buddy Leake, who let tered during his freshmen year, but who skipped baseball last season. Leake is working at) Sheets' vacanted second sack po sition. Last season the two clubs di vided in their two games at Lin coln. Sanders was beaten 3-2 in the first contest and Van Pool came back to beat the Huskers 9-5. Kansas State, the Husker foe on Monday and Tuesday, lost three out of four games to Ne braska last season. The Wild cats won the first game 4-1 at Monhatten, but dropped the sec ond 5-3. In Lincoln, Sharpe s squad racked them 9-7 and 16-8. Wright, a veteran Husker right hander, should be ready for the two-game series with the Cats. The Scottsbluff senior has been recently bothered by a blistered finger. Novak, the Scarlet mound ace last season, is still being bothered by his ailing flipper. r; -3ilu:. u .... 1- .:J .? r?:'-- i - "MaM"ii.iiiiiii -i ' '' -' ', " ' 'A. "t"Af a'ww''w mmmmlmmmmmmaimmmmmm Geier's No-Hit Flipper Centerfielder Jim Cederdahl, who started Nebraska's win ning rally with a two-out dou ble in the fifth frame, lifts sophomore Dick Geier's left arm, a talented flipper that shut out the visiting Kansas Jay hdwkers Tuesday without a run or a base hit. Geier also faced only 27 men, the minimum, as the Huskers squeezed out a 1-0 triumph. The Lincoln Courtesy Lincoln Etsf chucker also sent back ten Kansans to the bench via th strikeout route. Today Geier, Cederdahl and their Husker mates are meeting tough Oklahoma Goffers Play NU Baseball Statistics BATTING Plarer T h Mallette, p-of-lb 11 5 Coufal, as 14 4 S Cederdahl. cf 2 7 H Sege. 2b 35 10 13 Giles, lb-of 16 1 5 Gottsch, 3b zs o o Becker, of 20 1 5 Lohrberg, c 1 2 Novak, lb-p 24 5 5 Brown, 3b-of 11 1 2 Rnnkhaus. c 15 1 2 Hofmaier, p 11 1 J Korlnek, of i' a i Rolston, 16 4 0 Geier. p 8 0 0 Wright, p 3 0 0 Keiser, p-2b 1 1 ? Shaw, p 1 0 0 Pet. .455 .429 423 .371 .313 ,206 .250 .250 .208 .182 .133 .091 .059 .000 .000 .000 .000 000 lb 7 8 18 15 6 10 5 3 11 4 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 2b 0 0 2 2 1 I Sb 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 hr 0 1 0 0 0 . 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ah sb bb hb rbl to Drake Relays Draw Four Nebraska Track Specialists Four Cornhuskers 'will partici pate Friday and Saturday in the Drake Relays at Des Moines. Nebraska Cinder Coach Ed Weir has named Cliff Dale, FaUs City, for the shot put and discus throw; Ken Reiners, Indlanola, shot put; Charles Hunley, Falls City, javelin throw, and Phil Heidelk, Falrbury, high Jump. Reiners was the lone Nebraska place-winner in last Saturday's Kansas Relays at Lawrence. He was fourth with a heave of 50 ft. 2y4 in. Meanwhile, two squad members are on the injured list. High jumper Merle Brestal, Chappell, out with a broken toe, ana Jack Skalla, pole vaulter from Beatrice, is recovering from a knee sprain. Friday afternoon an all-squad (varisity and frosh) tryout meet is scheduled at Memorial Stadium as a warmup for the Cornhusk ers who face Colorado in a dual Nebraska Totals 263 48 66 Opponents Total 254 39 56 .251 .222 90 72 4 41 35 4 37 32 PITCHING Pitcher CG Hofmaier 2 Shaw 0 Mallette 0 Geier 1 . . ovale 0 Wright 0 L Pet. 0 1.000 0 1.000- 0 1.000 1 .500 1 .000 0 .000 Actual number of batters faoed. TP 23 2S 7 23 20 23 4 S AB R 98 9 37 3 34 4 90 12 20 3 31 8 er ah bb hb so wp bk Era 10 8 5 10 5 8 10 4 4 14 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3.04 .235 3.86 3.92 .675 1.80 Two of the nation's largest track and field meets, the Penn sylvania and the Drake Relays, will be run off this weekend. Competition will be tough in both meets. A third meet, the Colo rado Relays, will also be held tills week. t In the Drake affair' at Des Moines, recently-married Wes Santee, Kansas' great miler, will be the big attraction. The Jay hawk star will not run his pet event, the mile, but will run as anchor man on four of Kansas' rplnv teams. The two-mile race is-slated to be a close one too with the bust ing of record possible. Included in the field are Iowa's Rich Fer guson, Purdue's Gene Matthews and Washington's Dennis Myers. Ferguson is NCAA champion. It will be the 60th year for the fabulous Penn Relays In which a record list of 3,212 contestants from 511 colleges and high schools The meet is being held on the large Franklin Field layout in Philadelphia. Gordon RiddeU, Colorado A&M's great vaulter, is the big headliner of the Colorado meet. Connor To Tackle For All-Star Game Ted Connor, Husker tackle, will play in the annual College All-Star football game scheduled to be held in Chicago next August. The big tackle from Hastings was one of Coach Glassford's gridiron mainstays, turning in outstanding performance in game after game. He won All-Big Seven honors last fall. He has had an offer to play pro football with the Philadelphia Eagles. However, he has not accepted the pro grid contract. Fencers Schedule Match For Sunday The Nebraska Fencers Club will meet the Omaha YMCA fencers Sunday at 1:30 p.m. in the Physical Education Building. Ten University- students will comprise the Nebraska team entered in the dual fencing match. The fencers are: David Kistler, Doug Henry, H. J. Ball and Robert Higgs, foil; Jim Rog ers, John DePutron, Cyril Har vey, epee; Rudolph Link, Dick Dahl and Bob JDay, sabre. Track Awards Go To 106 Prep Stars Coach Ed Weir of the Univer sity of Nebraska track and field sauad has recently awarded some more numeral winners in the state track and field circles. Seventy-four high school ath letes received the full blue num eral while 32 performers acquired the half blue award, making a grand total of 106 ath letes receiving the honor. McCook High School had six boys receiving the full blue and four boys receiving the half blue while Kearney had five boys receiving the full blue awards. York High School, Hebron, Su perior and Bridgeport each had four prepsters receiving the full blue. A total of 46 Nebraska high schools were involved in the latest honors. outdoor competition here a week from Saturday, May 1. University of Kansas golfers tangle with Coach Bob Hamblet's Nebraska links squad on tne hih crest Country Club course Satur day at 10 a.m. Nebraska golfers have won one, lost five and tied one so far this season. Nebraska entertains Creighton University of Omaha in tennis on the Cornhusker courts nere Fri day afternoon. Kansas Jayhawks will appear here lor matcnes Saturday. Both affairs are sched uled for 1 p.m. The Huskers nave a 0-6 record to date. NU Grid Contract Limit Suggested Senator George Syas of Omaha stated Wednesday he plans to in troduce into the Nebraska State Leeislature next week a resolu tion directing the University of NeKfaska Board of Regents to limit the duration of contracts with athletic coaches to four years. Head Football Coach Bill Glass ford has a five-year contract, but a five-year option in effect gives him a 10-year pact. Glassford earlier this year was under some pressure to resign, but was protected by the contract. "We all know that coaching is a hazardous business, but this is not a Glassford-should or Glassford-shouldn't proposition," commented Syas. Use Nebraskan Want Ads For Best Results Husker 'B' Team Meets Hastings The University of Nebraska "B" baseball team will meet tha Hastings College nine on tha University diamond Friday. Game time is slated for 3 p.m. Amone those playing for tha Husker reserves in Friday's tilt include Don Keiser, Denny Kori nek, Brian Sievers, Bill and Diclc Thimigan and Larry uunning. All are also members of tha Nebraska varsity baseball team which is currently down souin for a four-game series with Oklahoma and Kansas State. Sake fuir om lit jn. Thirteen Alumni Ready For ISC A total of 13 lettermen, cur rently enrolled, will be the nu cleus of the 1954 Alumni team which will attempt to even the five-year football series with the Iowa State varsity May 8. Bill Wilson, guard who is in charge of the alumni squad, listed 12 members of the 1953 squad and two others now back in school for graduate work. The non-1953 veterans are Bill Weeks, All-Big Seven Quarterback, and Emory Eichorn, former halfback. Wilson said a number of grad uates had indicated they'd be back for the game and expected to have a squad of about 25 let termen for the game. 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