Friday, April 15, 1955
THE NEBRASKAN
Baseball At Manhattan
Huslcers To Test K-State
Wildcats In Game Today
By BRUCE BRUGMANN
Sports Editor
Nebraska's rampaging baseball
team will cut their Big Seven mol
ars on the Kansas State diamond'
Friday afternoon in the first of
' a two game series at Manhattan.
The conference opener for both
aquads, the Wildcats will enter the
contest with a 2-1 win margin as
compared to the Huskers' 5-1 vic
tory skein fashioned in a southern
toad swing during spring vacation.
The Kansans opened the season
with a grand slam of Wichita at
K-State, 6-2 and 4-3, but lost to
Memphis Naval Air Station at
Memphis, 9-3. A second Wildcat
game with Memphis and one with
Mississippi University at Oxford
were rained cut.
Huskers Win 5 Of 6 v
The Husker leather-slapping com
bine, unleashing a 78-hit barrage
for an average of lb hits and 11
runs a game, clipped through the
citrus circuit with double wins over
Tulsa and Texas and a split with
Houston. In two games with the
Texas Longhoms thirty-four Husk
er runs crossed home plate. j
The Wildcat team is young and
we don't know iruch about them,
Coach Tony Sharpe told a Nebras
kan reporter Tuesday. "They hav
en't been too tough in the confer
ence for the last four years but
they can beat us."
In the last two years K-State
has won three of four games on
their home field. "When they beat
us in 1953," Sharpe said, "they
knocked us out of first place."
t' Solid Hitting Corps
Sharpe has a solid corps of stick-
men, who collectively cuffed Gulf
Coast hurling at an unofficial. .309
gait, to use in Friday's game. Don
Brown, dependable Husker third
sacker, leads the club with a .560
average, including three doubles
and a brace of home runs ...
Brown is followed by Jim Ceder
dahl with a .462 mrsrk and Bill
Giles, slick-fielding first baseman,
with a .423 average.
A question mark still blankets
the Husker mound corps. During
the oil derrick jaunt, no Nebraska
pitcher covered the full distance
as Sharpe juggled his -hurlers to
give them all work and loosen
up their arms. Roger Bottorff, a
cool sophomore flinger, was the
most effective chucker, going eight
innings and allowing five hits. He
recorded two wins. Fran Hofmaier
was also credited an unblemished
2-0 slate.
Looking for notches five and six
on the NU victory belt, Sharpe
plans to start either Frail Hofmaier
or Roger Bottorf, pitcher; Bill
Giles, first base; Murray Back
haus, catcher; Dirkes Folston, sec
ond base; Norm Coufal, shortstop;
Don Brown, third base, Olson or
Don Becker, left field; Jim Ceder-
dahl, center field, and either Wil
lie Greenlaw or Dennis Korinek,
right field.
K-State plays the Cornhuskers in
a two-game series Friday and
Saturday. Saturday's contest is
scheduled for 10.90 a.m. as the pre
liminary half of a baseball-football
duo-sports day. Saturday after
noon K-State's varsity grid team
meets" 'Wildcat alums in' a game
climaxing spring football drills.
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Huskers Slight Underdogs
Nebraska Tlnmhis Jo Meel BMaes
In Big Seven Dual Lhkh M Colorado
By BOB -COOK
Sports Staff Writer
Coach Jerry Lee's thinclads will
square off against a favored Colo
rado squad on the Boulder cinders
Saturday night. Despite the mid
April date, competition is docketed
for the Buff's fieldhouse.
Both teams should be fully re
covered from the floggings they re
ceived in their last outings. The
Cornhuskers were clobbered by a
strong Oklahoma squad in an out
door dual 98-33. Colorado was the
victim of the same malady and
took second place honors in a tri
angular affair finishing 77 points
behind powerful Arizona.
So it sfeould be a pair of victory
starved cinder crews haggling for
a mythical "second division" cham
pionship. Neither squad can be
figured as contenders for this
year's Big Seven outdoor laurels.
No meet records are in appar
ent danger as the contest will
take place indoors. Husker pace
maker Brien Hendrickson, fresh
from his stellar performance in
the 220 last week will run in the
60, 440, and nail down a leg on the
mile relay team. Hendrickson, who
was clocked in the fastest time of
the nation will not get to enter his
specialty as a 220 is not run off
indoors. Carroll Hardy,, all around
Buff athlete will make use of an
open date from the Colorado base-
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CARROLL HARDY
ball squad with whom he's been
competing and make an attempt at
bettering the old broad jump mark
he set two years ago.
. Colorado's point getting machine
COLORADO-NEBRASKA
INDOOR DUAL RECORDS
0-rdi. Hnttoi (N), Kelly (C), Ban (O.
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SO-Td.H.H. Hrndman (O ,..:OT.u
60-yd.L.H. Tole (M, Tolman (N . . :.
440-rdi. Jonei N) i5-5
88ll.yds. Kopf (N 1:59.7
MUt, Scott X) 4-2
Two-mile. Bariow (C) 10:01.8
Hits Jump. Gold (C) 6-3a
Broad Jump, Hardy (C 24-2
Shot Pol, Tanner (C) 51-3 V
Pole Vault, Cooper (N) A-W
Mile Belay, Nebraska S32.S
depends greatly on several vital
cogs. The Buffs can show power
in several events although they
lack the team balance and depth to
be a first-class cinder threat.
Hurdler Frits Hageboeck and
pole vaulter Stew Walker can hold
their own with most of the Big
Severn competition. From the soph
omore crop, miler Jim Funk, and
high jumper Terry Berg appear as
solid contenders for medalist per
formances. Berg soared 6-5V4 in
a varsity - frosh dual early in the
indoor season. Funk recently won
the mile with a 4:27.2 clocking.
The Bisons however, have only one
entrant in the pole vault, discus,
and shotput. This should give the
Huskers a chance to pick up a few
extra points.
Husker hopes lie on the shoulders
of their jumpers and weight men.
Cornhusker strength is not up to
par in the sprints. Coach Lee stated
that the Huskers "have not per
formed up to their capacities"
Coach Lee announced these
entries: 2 mile, Lee Carter, Blair;
mile, Hugh Osmera, Lexington;
880-yard run, Robert Anderson,
West Point; 440-yard run, Charles
Gibson, Lincoln; Bob Niemann,
Hebron; 60-yard dash, Brien Hen
drickson, Lincoln; Gibson; High
hurdles, Warner Olson, Holdrege;
Doug Gibson, Falls City; low hurdl
es-, Olson, Gibson.
- Shot, Leonard Rosen, Omaha, dis
cus, Rosen, Javelin, Carl Vondra,
Omaha; Lee Roberts, Omaha; pole
vault, Jim Hofstetter, Kearney;
Alan Aden, Gothenburg; High jump
Ray Kelley, Danbury, broad jump,
Kelley.
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Union Ping Pong
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Friday is the final deadline for
the Union ping pong tournament
entries, announced Dianne Knotek,
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Entries may be filed in the Student
Union Activities office for singles
or doubles.
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BB Player Depicted
As Strange Composite
By BRUCE BRUGMANN
Sports Editor
With the advent of major league baseball and the Husker's Big
Seven opening game at K-State today, I thought it would be fitting for
an article on "What Is A Baseball Player?" This is written with
apologies to Charles Loftus, who penned, "What Is A Football Player."
Between the innocence of boyhood and the dignity of man, wt
find a rather spindly, angular, loose-jointed sort of creature called a
baseball player.
Baseball players come In assorted weights,
heights, jersey colors and numbers, but all base
ball players have pretty much the same open
stance, the characteristic twirl of the bat, the same
clatter of cleats against cement in the dugout. -
Baseball players are in great abundance these
warm spring days and are found most anywhere
sliding underneath, stepping on top oi, jumping up,
falling down, twisting around, crashing into fences,
running into dugouts or falling into chuckholes.
Teammates rib them, officials strike them out,
students cheer them, kid brothers idolize them,
coaches criticize them, faculty members tolerate
them, coeds go for them and mothers sometimes
worry about them.
Eats Like Big Leaguer ...
A baseball player is a composite. He eats, sleeps and dreams, lika
a big leaguer, but more often than not plays like a Nebraska Corn
husker. To the opponent's publicity man, he has the speed of s
gazelle, the strength of an ox, the size of an elephant, the cunningnesi
of a fox, the agility of an adagio dancer? the quickness of a cat, the
nimbleness of a grasshopper, legs which drive like pistons in a steam
turbine and hands with the grip of a vise on the manual training bench.
To his own coach he has, for press purposes, the stability of mush,
the fleetness of a snail, the mentality of a mule, the ruggedness of
excelsior, the cohesive force of adhesive tape, baling wire and sponge
rubber and absorbent cotton and has about as much chance of playing
in the next doubleheader as might a renegade from La Fittte's
buccaneers.
When Home Team's Behind ...
When the home team is behind, a baseball player is incompetent,
careless, indecisive, uncoordinated, stupid, lazy and a fugutive from
the ice cream parlor.
Just when your team threatens to turn the tide of battle, he muffs
a pop fly, goes down swinging, gets picked off third, kicks a ground
ball into the bleachers, gets caught stealing home, slams the batter
with a pitched ball, or completely forgets an assignment.
When your team forges into the lead, he is a brilliant fielder, a
dangerous hitter, a slick base thief, a great competitor a terrific clutch
performer and a classy ball player.
To an alumnus, a baseball player is someone who wilf never hit as
well, steal as many bases, catch as many flies, score as much, fight
as fiercely nor generate nearly the same amount of spirit as did those
participating players of his own yesterday.
Baseball Players Like ...
A baseball player likes game films, trips away from 'nome, easy
practice sessions, hot showers, pop flies, home runs, the roar of the
crowd, the crack of the bat against horsehide, the smack of ball
against glove and the quiet satisfaction that comes from being a small
part of a well played game. He's not much for wind sprints, sitting
on the bench, strikeouts, aftergame compliments, ankle wraps, calis
thenics, sore arms and batting slumps.
No one else looks forward so much to March or so little to
October. Nobody gets so much pleasure out of making a couple of
good hits, snagging a long drive, backhanding a sharp grounder or two
or outguessing an opposing player. Nobody else can cram into one
mind an assignment for a hit and run, a double steal, a pitchout, a
pickoff play, a double play combination or a high inside curve on the
cleanup batter.
Nobody else can spend hours cataloguing a pitcher's weaknesses
or a batter's faults. No one else can stand in the sun, drenched with
perspiration and the sun's blistering rays, during a hot spring after
noon. No one else can toss down as many bottles of pop or stash
away as many hot dogs after a game is over.
Nobody, that is, except a baseball player.
B3 Team Feted
A group of Lincoln businessmen
and professional men feted Jerry
Bush and the Nebraska basketball
team at a dinner Wednesday night
at the University Club in Lincoln.
Gary Renzleman and Bush gave
short talks.
NU Linksmen To Play
At Kansas State Today
Kansas State and Nebraska golf
teams will open Big Seven links
play when the Wildcats entertain
the Cornhuskers in Manhattan Fri
day. K-State golfers are winless in
two starts, showing losses to Ok
lahoma A Si M and Wichita. Ne
braska is winless in four starts on
a pre-conference swing through
the South.
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Bazant Receives
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Shirley Bazant, sophomore in
Teachers College, is the 1955-56 re
cipient of the Women's Athletic
Association Mabel Lee Scholar
ship. At the annual banquet Wed
nesday evening Miss Bazant re
ceived the award for her contri
bution to the organization's pro
gram. Miss Bazant was a sports board
member and is the newly selected
intramural co-ordinator for WAA.
Sports Reporters Needed
Throe persons interested In writ
ing for the sports page of The Ne
braskan are urged to talk with
Bruce Brugmann, sports editor, In
the office. No previous experience
Is necessary.
Union Movies
"A Streetcar Named Desire' Is
the Union Sunday night film for
this week.
The7 picture stars Marlon Bran
do, who won an Academy Award
for "On the Waterfront," and
Vivien Leigh. The picture will be
shown at 7:30 p.m. in the Union
Ballroom,
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