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3 4mMik& TuasJoy, May 12, 1956 THE NEBRASKAN Poge 3 Homo Final: i H MSlIZQFS Split Wifk Ulissofmrl By BOB WIR2 SUff Sportt Writer Nebraska's baseball nine won one and lost one orer the past week cod. Hie Huskers split their final home series of the season with the Missouri Tigers. By doing so the squads almost knocked each other out of the Big Seven championship race for a sec ond straight year. The Tigers cur rently trail Oklahoma by only four teen percentage points, and the Huskers remain in a third place tie wiih Iowa State. Nebraska bested Missouri in the opener 10-7 behind Willie Green law who went the route and an 11 hit attack against Nona Stewart. Missouri scored single runs in the second and third innings to grab the lead. Then Nebraska evened things up on Greenlaw's fourth homer of the season wiih a mate on board. The Tigers bow ever bounced right back with four big runs in the fifth. Nebraska soared three in their half of the inning and trailed 6-3 into the sixth. Jim Kane's homer m the sixth put Nebraska ahead and it ap peared that tins might be suf ficient to tin until Gary Reimers misjudged a Cy ball in the ninth and Paul Stehr soared tying up the contest. But the Buskers were sot to be denied. Kane led off the Hosier ninth and was hit by a Stewart fast balL Al Karie sacrificed him to second, and Norm Coufal then Phi Psis Tennis By GEORGE MOTEB 1-M Sports Writer Phi Kappa Psi ended the Phi Gam's unbeaten string 5-4 Mon day behind the fast ball pitching of Bruce Miller. John Haessler, the Phi Psi's smooth fielding shortstop got his team off to a good start wiih a two run homer m the first inning off Big Ed Schmitt, the Phi Gam's crafty junk man. Haessler also drove in an insur ance run in the fifth wiih a stogie. It was quite a day for John who went three for three at bat and started a double play which killed a promising Phi Gam rally in the fourth. The teams will meet again today to determine the Fraternity A League championship. One champion has already been crowned. Phi Epsflon Kappa beat Navy ROTC 3-1 to become inde pendent champions. They wiE play the Selleck Quadrangle champion in sudden death playoffs starting 1 . FILTER CIGARETTES X bounced to Stewart but the big guy failed to throw him out and Nebraska had two men on base with Don Brown at bat. Brown, leading hitter on the squad, took a couple of pitches and then hit a towering Cy over the kftSeld fence and that was the ball game with Nebraska winning. However Saturday it was a dif ferent ball game with Missouri pounding their way to a 27-4 tri umph. The Tigers gathered 19 hits with 18 walks given up by the five Nebraska hurlers. The Tigers started by pounding starter Roger Bottorff for five runs in the first inning. They col lected two .more m the second sending Bottorff to the showers and bringing in Dick Geier. Dick wasnt much mors impressive and be lasted only until the fourth and then was relieved by Charlie Zie genbein a third southpaw hurler. The lanky Wisner chucker also had bis trouble and Brace Fair child and Marr Areosdorf had to finish the contest. The Huskers meanwhile pound ed Tiger burier Doug Gulkk for 13 bits but only four runs. The Huskers gat two markers m the first on a single, Green law's double and an error. They scored single runs ia the sixth and eighth. Carle sod Coufal led the Husk ers at bat in the horae final with four and three hits respectively. Nebraska will close the season this week end with two games at Iowa State. Winners, In Finals Wednesday. Alpha Gamma Sigma eliminated Beta Sigma Psi ifl-0 Friday to earn the other finalist berth in Fra ternity B League competition. They wiH play Alpha Gamma Hho for the championship and right to meet the winner of Fraternity A. Selleck Quadrangle play also saw finalists selected. Manatt defeated Gust arson n 4-3, and will face Maclean in the finals. Championship rounds is tennis doubles will be played this week as all finalists have been picked. Al Grave and Jack Clark of Delta Tan Delta beat Ron Nathan and Jerry Dierks of Phi Gamma Delta, 6-0, 6-2. They will face Bill Roy and Don Warnkk in the finals Thurs day. Intramural Director Ed Hig gexLbotham announced Monday that the Hole in One Golf Tournament scheduled for this week, has been cancelled. Higgesbotham said that, because there was bo golf course open this week the meet could not be held. 11 " ' TIP i It Golfers, Tennisfs Improve Nebraska's golfers salvaged dim consolation from a dismal sports weekend by finishing fifth in the J Big Seven golf meet at Manhat-j tan Friday and Saturday. John Butterfield posted the fourth best score ia the tourney, a 75-76-71 2T to lead the Huskers. Oklahoma, perenial conference favorites in anything, copped the title. They had a team score of 890, ten strokes ahead of runner up Kansas. Kansas did produce the outstanding individual performer of the meet. Bob Richards, who shot a 69-72-73-214 to lead all per formers. They finished with team scores following: Oklahoma .... S90 Kansas .....901 Kansas St. 822 Colorado M. 934 Nebraska M. 942 Iowa St. ii Missouri .... 947 Nebraska's tennista finished last m a field that was one of the best in years. The Huskers improved over their last year's showing how ever by winning two matches. Last year the Scarlet won only one, and that by forfeit. Sophomore Art Weaver scored one cf the wins with s bye m the singles. The doubles team of Wea ver and George Fisk drew the other Nebraska win, beating Mike Demoss and Jerry Dykroeger of Missouri 6-4, 6-3. Colorado won the team title by winning 12 matches. The Buffs were followed by Iowa State CIO); Oklahoma W; Kansas CS9; Mis souri (5); Kansas State C3) and Nebraska CI). UCLA Athletes Lose Eligibility The Pacific Coast Conference took farmer steps Monday against the University of California at Los Angeles. In the new ruling all members of the 1955 varsity and freshman squads will forfeit a year's eligibil ity. This action will probably end the celebrated career of Ronnie Knox, who only has one year of I eligibility left. O Lff X , jfL' f 0 XXi 'Jr 9 W" if if j 11 20 Sal v:0$:x ;,. ! Yi Stock up cat yoar itoci&g: trsrdr&b 4nd xatc x rjretly penny loo r - I x - far your Taca.13.oa fucd. Your favorite Eeasrlifid Bryzxis are cow vn x " ' l u i prices that brizg you wonderful eavkfs ... ta4 oiler you JC I" 1 ' ft f&suon prizei of the year. Cboose t rora sprirg aod rJiaraer anadt ft ! 0 ia j3mporkmt krgli of drees tbetrt, mzl&A thsers, sezstie O O , tad ftrtlch styles. 0 S4LE J55 g ft Rrrular 1.93 ttkinfs SAVE 40e ft j A i 'FT' A 1 lo J30 A I i 0 Eefular 1.65 atockiugs SAVE 35c . .6 4 1 ; f J u v l ' i 1 I H I it hosiery, nnsT HOOK k 1 ' L f ftl raj I J Strictly Sportstallc By BOB MARTEL Nebraska Sports Reporter Next year? , , The Nebraska thine! ads lived up to expectations in the Big Sevrn meet last weekend in Manhattan, They were expected to finish seventh and they did. But why Si tt ' v Smita . Uira ia tfiscac such a poor severno? The Huskers finished in the cellar 2Vt posits behind sixth place Iowa State. The only local entry who showed anything at all was Larry Smith who won third place in the discus with a toss of 155-10. Al Oerter of Kansas won tbe event with a heave cf 1S3-S. Smith, 1953 Big Seven discus champ, was the only Comhusker to fimdh ia the top three in any event. Next year, things can get noth ing but better for Frank Sevigne. With the addition of some fine Hook ing freshman, the Huskers should at least finish a gracious seventh. I bope, I hope How a team can look so good one day and so terrible the next is puzzling. Let's bope that Saturday was just an off day far Tony Sharpe's crew. This week w21 decide the . Big Seven baseball championship. Ne braska wiH have to win its re maining two games against Iowa State and hope that both Okla homa and Missouri lose their two last contests. i f? i U.I Mffiioaaire Nashua became the greatest money winner in racing history Saturday when be won the $30,000 Camden Handicap at Garden State Park, New Jersey. This win brought Nashua's earn ings to $1,100,365, which is $14,604 more than Citation won in four years of racing. While Nashua was setting this record, Kentucky Derby winner Needles was being defeated in the Preakness Stakes in bis attempt at the triple crown. Needles, who was defeated by Fabius, couldal quite make it in a home stretch drive. Good Deal The "rookie' baseball league which will begin operating m Ne braska next month will be a great boom to young major league as pirants. In the past young ballplay ers have been getting lost in the shuffle and have not had the op portunity to be observed closely by major league clubs. With the inauguration of this "Rookie League, the young ball player and the major league scouts will both be able to find out in one season whether the individual is a good prospect or not. The rookies will get a chance to play every day and those who cant quite make it will not be wasting three or four years finding it out in "D" balL WEDDING STATIONERY Large Selection GOLDENROD 21S.Norih.14 nil of f 9 i 4 J , Last Wrung: Nebraska Palters In Track Finale By BOB MARTEL Staff Sports Writer The University of Kansas won its fifth straight Big Seven track title as five meet records were broken ! and another tied in the two days of competition. The Jayhawks scored strongly in all but two events and provided two new meet records. The Kan sans failed to qualify only in the low and high hurdles. Bill Nieder, Kansas weight ace, heaved the shot put 60 feet 3s inches to better the collegiate rec ord of 59 feet 2l inches set by Parry O'Brien of Southern Cali fornia in 1953. Nieder also bet tered his meet -record of 57 feet j inches set last spring. . Al Oerter, Kansas sophomore, threw the discus 183-5 in the pre liminaries Friday while Ken Yob You've We (now It! That Regents Bookstore will give you the best deals on your used text hooks. Come in and compare prices tcith us. REGENTS BOOKST pfi frA of Colorado heaved the javelin 222-10 feet in qualifying. Other records were set by Bob Lang of Missouri who went 6 feet 84 inches in the high jump and Hal Muliison of Iowa State, who topped 14 feet 23 inches in the pole vault. Peter Orr of Missouri tied the 440 yard record of 47.1 seconds in the qualifying round on Friday. The best Husker effort was put forth by Larry Smith who won a third place in the discus event with a heave of 158-10. Leonard Rosen was fifth with a toss of 148-10. Ken Reiners took sixth place m the shot put event, throwing the iron ball 45-U1 feet. In the high jump, Dale Knotek tied for fifth with a leap of 6 feet 24 inches while Hugh Osmera won sixth in the mile. The Husker mil relay team placed fourth in their event. 0 t) 6 Heard It! s. h I! ill ii ii l."7 I s I f i h t. f f f t. f s
