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v0 -Vis Wednesday, April 3, 1957 O'Brien Unanimous Choice: ATO's Place Two Men On All Stars; Greek Provide Powerful Hoop Squad By JIM COURTNEY Stan Sports Writer The pickings of the Fraternity A league's All-Star teams have been selected with a fairly equal Courtesy LtaooU Star O'BRIEN distribution of stellar cagers rep resenting various houses around the campus. Heading the list of the top fraternity standouts on the hard I ' 1 jU..;.-; ,: f -.-,,, J r : - J U V' I r it , v 4r i 1 1957 Fraternity A All Star Team First Team Second Team Bffl O'Briea Sigma Chi Dick Kleiber Alpha Tan Omega Bob Brandes ... Alpha Tan Omega Bill Krommenhoek Delta Upsilon Phil Hart Phi Gamma Delta Honorable Mention: Nels Kjeldson, Delta Tau Delta; Don Wenzl, Sigma Face Drake: ain Go Mway' Says asehall Nebraska's baseball team open their 1957 campaign Friday and . Saturday, but what happens in this opener will be no more of a sur prise to the public than to coach Tony Sharpe. Bad weather has bothered the squad all spring. The hardball men have only been out doors twice for practice despite the fact that they have been work ing out for over two months. Sharpe will start five lettermen and four first year candidates Fri day against Drake University at i p.m. A young pitching staff is ex pected to handle the bulk of work Higgenbotham Readies NU Tennis Squad The Husker net squad swings into action this weekend as they host Creighton University on All Sports Day, Saturday. The crew, mentored by Ed Hig ginbotham, has three lettermen back from last year to bolster Ne braska's tennis hopes for the 1957 season. This fact, coupled with the point that only one senior is on the roster, may prove to be a winning factor for the team this year and for the next couple of seasons. The net squad was saddened by the loss of Brent Donnelson when he failed to clear the scholastic hurdle but Bill North, swimmer and state tennis cham pion in high school, may well fill the vacancy created by the loss of Donnelson. Tom Stitt, two-year letter man and the lone senior on the team, will be re turning along with juniors George Fisk and Art Weaver. Fisk and Weaver played the No. 1 and No. 2 positions most of the 1956 season while Stitt start ed at both the No. 4 and No. S spots. The netters have been practicing indoors and competition for start ing positions has been intense. Weaver, Fisk and North have been battling for the first three posi tions while Charles Kress, service veteran, Stitt and Jack Clark will hold down the next three spots. Charles McAfee, a guard on the 1956-1957 cage squad, joined the netters recently and has shown much talent to credit the squad in Tying for a berth on the crew. Weather permitting, the netters will hold a sufficient number of matches in order that each candi date may be given an opportunity to prove his tennis ability, them, Dwight Siebler will get the opening nod. Siebler has a live fast ball and is expected to work into one of the squads' leading hurlers before very many RENTALS SALES SERVICE elcqo typeyriter exc;!::;:e 123 N. 13th 2-S25I court floor are teammages Bob Brandes and Dick Kleiber repre senting the Alpha Tau Omegas. Bob and Dick sparked the Tau cagers to a high season's finish in league standings and their cage talents earned the two Hastings men a berth on the fantasy five club which represents the basket ball standouts from every frater nity on the campus. Coming from off campus to stand in equal ranks with the cam pus basketeers is Bill Krommen hoek of Delta Upsilon fraternity. Bill, establishing his prowess on the basketball floor as well as on the floor of political debates, ranked high on the list of All-Star voting and easily garnered enough votes from opposing teams to earn a berth on the Daily Nebraskan All-Star squad. The Phi Gamma Delta contribu tion to the sport of intramural roundball is Phil Hart, nifty eager who sparked the Phi Gams through a good season this year. Filling the last position on the mythical five is Bill O'Brien rep resenting the trophy winning Sig ma Chis. The Sigma Chis, led by Bill through the season as well as through the tourney, blasted their Harry Tolly Bob Dressen Dave Fahrbach Jim Healy Keith Bauman Phi Delta Theta; Cal Johnson, Beta Nn; Randy Clark, Beta Theta PL Opener On in the first game to give some idea of what can be expected from games go by. He will probably work three innings before turning the chores over to another sopho more, Dean Flock. Flock, also a member of the football squad, is another hard thrower. Always a hard worker, Flock could develop fast. The final three innings possibly will be handled by Bob Kremke or Bob Gleason. Kremke is just out of the service as is Gleason. Kremke starred for Millard in le gion ball a few years back while Gleason got his start in Fullerton. Charlie Ziegenbein will get the starting nod in the Saturday con test. Ziegenbein, one of the squads two leftys, is a ktterman from Wisner. Gleason or Kremke will handle the middle three and Roger Bottorff will finish up. Bottorff is the best hurler from a control standpoint on the entire squad. Gene Torczon was slated to hurl on Saturday but an infected foot will probably keep him com pletely out of the lineup. The catching will be split this weekend between Jim Kane and Milan Shaw. Kane, the better hit ter, will probably catch the Fri day opener and Shaw will see ac tion on Saturday. Sophomore La Vern Rogowski may see action in one of me contests. Lettermen are expected to get the nod at two infield positions. John Beideck and Al Karle are the vets ready to start. They will be at first and second base re spectively. First year men Gil Dunne and Frank Nappi will start at shortstop and third base. Dunne is a top sophomore from Omaha Campus Attractions Pairing Off fitr Cnrinn In naretK from RAGEE'S Eleanor Pifer Hamilton exits from class in new sportswear sepa rates due for a summer of fun. Note her Mepa Watch. $9.95 olus tax: guaranteed one year. t ' Elcek Blouse, $3.95 Quilted Skirt, $10.95 Women's Sportswear ... Magees First Floor way to a Fraternity A league championship. On top of the pack setting the pace however was the insupressible O'Brien Whose fine playing nets him the honor of an All-Star. The balloting for this team was very close and those who were unfortunate enough not to get enough votes to be placed on the first team had to earn their lau rels through second team ballot ing and Honorable Mention. Those members of the second five are Harry Tolly of Sigma Chi, Bob Dressen of Pioneer house, Dave Fahrbach of Sigma Phi Epsilon, Jim Healy of Phi Delta Theta, and Keith Bauman of Theta Chi. The Honorable Mention stand outs are Nels Kjeldson, Phi Delta Theta; Cal Johnson, Beta Theta Pi; Leonard Lindgren, Delta Tau Delta; Randy Clark, Beta .Theta Pi, and Don Wenzl, Sigma Nu. Friday's publication of the Daily Nebraskan will feature a story on the All-University team. This team will be composed of the stellar cagers that competed throughout the season in intramural play in all leagues and will be picked by the sports department of the Daily Nebraskan. Sigma Chi Pioneer Sigma Phi Epsilon Phi Delta Theta .....Theta Chi Theta Pi; Leonard Lindgren, Tony; Friday South, where he starred to high school and legion ball for four years. He may also do some pitch ing later on in the season. Nappi is a line drive hitter who should help the team quite a bit. First baseman Al Newbill, short stop Jim Kubacki and third base man Paul Robinson will also see infield action during the series. The outfield also has two vets. Gary Reimers and Larry Lewis will start in center and right field. Both are good hitters with fair speed. Reimers is fresh from a good year with Jerry Bush's basketball team. Lewis can hit the long ball. Jerry McKay may get the nod in left field. Torczon was to start at that spot. John Douthit and Darrell Pinkston will also see out field action during the series. Right now Sharpe' feels that tire diamond is in good shape and un less we get a lot of moisture the contests should go on as sched uled. If the Friday game cannot be played there will be a double header on Saturday at 10 a.m. The All-Sports day clash is at present scheduled to be a single game. Attendance at these games is highly appreciated by the coach and players. Perhaps, if you are doing nothing Friday afternoon, you would enjoy seeing the team in action. Boozer Honored hob Boozer, Kansas State basket baller, has been chosen "Outstand in Freethrower" for the 1957 Wild cat club. The 6'-7" sophomore hit 77 per cent from the free throw stripe this season. He will have his name engraved on a large trophy. v .0' J x " C n i fc Cm 4 X " :' f t 'if . t - v. . . fi.'i ... .. is ft' The Daily Nebraskan r Big Tom ALUMNI MENTOR . . Tom No- vak, Alumni football coach, will see action in Saturday's All Sports Day football game. The Set For Seventh: Draft Board Hits Giants; Rookie Shortstop Stars By BOB WIRZ Staff Sports Writer The New York Giants are lead ing the Major Leagues in victor ies after three weeks of spring training but once the regular cam paign opens the situation is ex pected to change. Bill Rigney is back, for his sec ond year in the major leagues, as skipper of the Giants. Rigney guided his squad to sixth place in 1956 but to finish this well again will take much improvement over the present ball club. During the winter months the Giants lost Jackie Brandt, Bill White and Willie Kirkland to the service. They received another jolt when Jackie Robinson decided to retire after the club had bought his contract from Brooklyn. One final touch of hard luck was suf fered the opening day of spring training when a heart ailment sidelined catcher Bill SarnL This means three of last year's regu lars, and two good prospects were lost. It appears unless Rigney pulls some tricks the squad will finish ahead of Chicago in seventh. John Antonelli is the only real good hurler on the squad. Antonel li won 20 and lost 13 last season. Al Worthington and Ruben Gomez are other starters back from 1956 but they each had poor years and are doubtful. Max Surkont, 34- year old right bander is being groomed for a starting berth. Also in line for top jobs are Gordon Jones, Pete Burnside, Curt Bar clay and Jim Constable. All four of these hurlers have done most of their hurling, thus far, in the minors. John McCalL Marv Grissom, Dick Littfield and Steve Ridzik form a fair bullpen crew. Joe Margoneri or Ramon Mon- zant could surprise. Catching also is questionable without Sarni. Wes Westrum will probably handle the 'bulk of the work. Westrum can still help the hurlers but. cannot hit very welL Rookie Bob Schmidt will back up Westrum, unless the management can deal for a better receiver. The infield has two rookies IT'S AMAZING! FANTASTIC! i INCREDIBLE... 1 Con A Shrunken Moo T Tall I . . . SurriT. In Our World? Is H I Natural Or Supernatural? r-- S INCREDIBLE... ) Bel or Your Terrified yes ... Tou Will See The Horror Of A I Mob Shrink . . . And Shrink ... I And Shrink! ' 7 i A Courtesy Sunday Jour oil and Stir former Husker AIl-American will probably start at center for the grads. scheduled for starting berths with the regular campaign only two weeks away. Andre Rodgers will get the nod at shortstop, and Ossie Virgil will be at third. Both men have looked exceptionally good in spring ball Gail Harris is getting another trial at first base. He failed to make the grade last spring. Red Schoendienst com pletes the infield. The super sec ond baseman hit .302 last year despite spending several weeks on the bench with a shoulder injury. Red was recently named captain of the squad. Foster Castleman is getting a try at both first and third base. He was the regular third base man last season but did not hit. Daryl Spencer and Hank Thomp son also are on hand for utility work. The outfield is also a question mark. Willie Mays is, of course, a fixture ia center field. His bat ting mark slipped below .300 last year but will probably again go high in 1957. Hank Sauer is scheduled to play in left and Don Mueller in right field. It is doubtful that Sauer can play all the time and Mueller showed signs of slowing up last year. Bill Taylor, Dusty Rhodes and Bob Lennon are relief men for the outer garden. One final fixture on the squad is Wis ley Lockman. Lockman re turned to the Giants from St. Louis this spring in a trade. Rigney doesn't know where to play the former star. Lockman can play either first base or the outfield and may see action at both spots. He also may be given a trial at the hot corner. It looks like Rigney will be in for another long season in 1357. NCU Beard Grower One North Carolina sophomore by the name of Don James vowed early in the season to wear a beard until the Tarheels won the national title. He missed being a Rip Van Winkle by the skin of his whiskers as his team squeezed by the Kansas Jayhawks in the NCAA finals at Kansas Cily, Mo. ! f 3 if A" KEEP THE EECZET OF THE TERRIFYING EN&ING1 . . . Ka one wiH fce seated during tbe ao1 7 tBinuteel Spmasts, Swimmers On Ml Spsrls Day Program By STAN WIDMAN Staff Sports Writer Included in the All-Sports Day features will be exhibitions by the Varsity Swimming and Gymnast ics teams. Swimming Coach Hollie Lepley plans to put his tankmen through eight short sprints and relays. The distance for each race will be 50 yds. Also in the exhibition will be div ing by Bill Tagney, Gene Cotter and Bill Baker. Tagney and Cotter are the two who dueled in every meet this sea son. Tagney winning six times and Cotter four. Their exhibition will consist of straight and clown diving. This will be the last time that three of the men will be swim ming in the NU Red and White. Fritz Helmsdoerfer, Tagney and Cotter are all seniors which means that this will be the last chance Husker fans will be able to see them in action. Helmsdoerfer was the Number one Breaststroke and Butterfly man on the squad. Tag ney also swam the 50 yard free style and in several relays be sides diving. Other varsity men In the show include Carl Bodensteiner, Bill North, Jerry Farrell, Ron Renfer, John Holeman, Charlie Arizumi, Jim Pokorny, Doug Thorpe and Paul Shoor. North, Jerry Pokorny, Doug Thorpe and Paul Shoor. Also to be included in the ex hibition are the freshmen swim mers who will be bidding for vari ty berths next year. Outstanding among the y?arlings are Frank Thompson, Jtnu Bucklin and John Griffith. The swimming show will take place in the coliseum pool and will begin at 5:00 p.m. The gymnastics exhibition will feature the six letter winners of the past season. Heading the list will be Wayne Strickler, top point man on the team and judged the outstanding gymnast in the recent All-College Invitational held in Manhattan, Kansas. Wayne will perform on the high bars, his spe cialty, and do man-to-man work with several members on the team. Demonstrations in tumbling and Big Seven All-Stars Wilt Chamberlain, Gary Thomp son and Jack Parr are three Big Seven cagers named to the 1957 Helms Athletic Foundation All America. For Thompson of Iowa State and Chamberlain of Kansas, it was the third AS-American first team hon ors handed them. Parr was chosen on the Helms second team. Len Rosenbluth of North Caro lina is the Helms choice as player of the year. Other members of the Helms selection were Grady Wal lace, South Carolina; Joe Gibbon, Mississippi; Chet Forte, Columbia; Jam Krebs, SMU; Rod Hundley, West Virginia; Jim Ashmore, Mis sissippi State and Jim Quiggle, Michigan State. JEFF CfflMDlFR SHOCKING! ID ri AFt 1 V T -J ucz. 1 Page 3 diving will be given by Larry Brown, Ervin Krist and Chuck El lis. Kenny Kohler will show his form on the side horse while Krist will be the main attraction on the trampoline. Bob McDonald the oth er letterman will also perform. Besides the lettermen, the Fresh men and all the non-letter winners will also be put through their paces by Coach Jake Geier. The only senior on the squad is Strickler. Coach Geier has said cf Strickler that he is one of the finest gymnasts he's ever coached and urges all Husker fans who want to get a last look at him in a Husker uniform to come to the exhibition. It will be held in the Men's PE building and will begin at 4:30 p.m. Other features of the day will be Baseball at 10:00 a.m. against Drake, Tennis at 10:00 a.m. against Creighton, Track at 12 noon against Colorado A&M and the Alumni-Varsity football game to be held in the Memorial Stadium at 2:00 p.m. Tickets for the day can be purchased in the Coliseum ticket of fice for one dollar. Pirates Loss Is Stars' Gain Dick Stuart has been sent to the Hollywood Stars of the Pacific Coast League. The ex-Lincoln slug ger has been leading Pittsburg in the Grapefruit League with five home runs, but his fielding and overall batting average has been so poor that manager Bobby Brag- an of the Pirates couldn't afford to keep him. Skipper Clyde King, new man ager of the Hollywood club, says "Stuart will have to earn a job with us, otherwise we'll ship him back to Lincoln. He's not going to make a ball club on what he's done in the past or on all the pub licity he has had." King is hoping that Stuart will be a pleasant surprise but reports that there won't be any favors for Dick or any one else on the ball club. King was also quoted on Stuart's over confidence and cockiness, as saying, "that's all right with me as long as bell hit 50 home runs for us." The slug ger is expected to report to the Hollywood camp in Ft. Myers, Flor ida today. The Stars have been searching for a long-ball bitter to stack up against the Los Angeles Angel's Steve Bilko, last year's record breaking home-run bitter in the Pacific Coast Circuit The Hollywood boss is hoping that Stuart will start to concen trate more on his fielding and hitting percentage instead of con sistently looking for the bome-run ball. 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