Wednesday, April 24, 1957
The Daily Nebraskon
Pace 3
First Place Battle:
Huskers Host Cyclones;
Face Conference Leaders
By JACK CARLIN
Staff Sports Writer
Iowa State's Big Seven leaders
Invade the Cornhusker diamond
Friday and Saturday for a three
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game series. The Cyclones took
two out of three from Missouri last
weekend to take the Conference
lead.
All-American catcher Dick Ber
tell and nine other lettermen will
head an aggregation which also in
cludes All-American basketball
player, Gary Thompson, a two year
letterman who plays shortstop.
Coach CapTimm, figured to be
weak on the mound this year, has
found his mound corps bolstered
by the addition of Jim Kudlinski,
quarterback on the 1956 football
team.
Bertell, a junior, has already
broken up a pair of contests this
year with timely hitting and his
defense against basertinners is su
perb. Mon Whitford, veteran coach
at Iowa Teachers, was quoted say
ing, "He's the greatest catcher in
college baseball today and he's
better than most of those in the
majors, too;" '
Courty Lincoln Star
BOTTORFF
Big Gtorca Buctall Standing!
Won tost Pet.
Iowa State 2 1 .687
Nebraska 3 2 .600
MlHouri 3 2 .600
Kansas 3 2 .600
Oklahoma 1 1 .500
Kansas State 2 3 -.400
Colorado J 1 4 .200
The Cyclone infield will be the
same as last years squad with the
exception of third base. Dick Brink
will move in from leftfield to take
over the chores vacated by gradua
tion. Jerry McNertney will return
at first base and Jack Taylor will
handle the Keystone assignments.
The outfield will include veterans
Dan Peters and Jim Chapman and
newcomer, Doug Borth, while hand
ling the pitching chores will prob
ably be Kudlinski, Gary Carstens
and letterman Phil Groth and Gene
Lafferty.
The Huskers will be battling for
the league lead and a chance to
shake themselves loose from the
three way tie for second place
they share with Missouri and
Kansas.
Unofficial Nebraska Averages
Player ....
Rcif ers ...... i .. , V U .... - cf
Pinkston . .v. .-, . . .ci
Lewis rf
Douthit rf
Torczon , .lb-lf
Erway If
Beideck .lb .
Newbill ..: lb
Karle 2b
Robinson 2b-3b
Kubacki is-3b
McKay ,. . . .ss
Dunne ss-p
Nappi 3b
Kane ...
Shaw ..............................
Bottorff TT. p
Flock p
Kremke p
Slebler p
Gleason p
Ziegenbein p
Position AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BA
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1 0 1 0 0 0 0
34 8 9 0 0 0 2
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Pitching Records
Innings Pitched Won Lost HO
Dunne 3 0 0 3
Bottorff .......11 1 1 14
Kremke ,.... Vk 0 0 1
Flock 9 0 1 8
Gleason .6 0 0 4
Siebler 14 .1 0 11
Ziegenbein 14 2 0 9
Kubacki ; 3 10 4
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offers Win Three
On Southern Trip
The University of Nebraska ten- v The Husker netters started their
nis team traveled through Kansas trek by invading Wichita, Kansas
and Oklahoma during the Easter
vacation to compile a 3-2 record
for that duration.
The Hot Corner
By BOB WIRZ
Staff Sports Writer
Another Skeptical Season ...
The early days of play in a new baseball season always present a
few odd results which are startling to fans and players alike. Some
of the old timers start real strong and everyone predicts a batting
title for them, someone hits several home runs and he is going to
beat Babe Ruth's mark, and some rookie hits or doesn t hit in the
opening games and he is either going to be an immediate star or failure
Anyone knows that Stan Musial isn't going to hit .500 for the sea
son but he has for the first five games. In two contests Stan has
poked four hits and he has three more in another one. He may
challenge for another title but certainly no one can keep up that pace
National league observers say the Cardinal star is hitting better this
spring than ever before. He is usually a slow starter but even in
spring training "The Man" hit .450 or a little above.
Given more rest in 1957 Stan definitely is a challenger for the
batting title but at 36 it is risky to predict anything.
Future Star ...
Then there is the man who they talk about all during spring train
ing and he doesn't get a chance when the regular campaign gets under
way. I am speaking of Tony Kubek the youthful infielder-outfielder for
the New York Yankees.
Everyone insisted that Kubek would start in leftfield for man
ager Casey Stengle. Did he start? No. After five games Kubek has
been at bat only three times. Two of the appearances were as a pinch
y - he t'll i3 looking for his first hit. Veteran but unsensational
Elston Howard has been playing in left. '
Cerv is benched . . .
One more extreme is the man who gets traded during the winter
and is supposed to spark his new team. Bob Cerv is a good example
here. The Lincolnite went from New York to Kansas City and his
big bat was to help manager Lou Boudreau's squad a great deal. Well,
Cerv started the first game and went two for two before being
replaced by Jim Pisoni. The next day Bob hit a triple and scored
the winning run. Since then he has been riding the bench with Pisoni
getting the nod. Nevertheless, the A's have got off to a great start
and we hope they have the best of luck in the entire season.
Teams also start poorly . . .
Individuals are not the only ones that get a lot of publicity because
of fast or slow starts. The Cincinnati Redlegs won their first game
Monday night mainly because of the six St. Louis errors that I men
tioned earlier. Previously the Redlegs had dropped four straight
contests. They are costly losses but don't give up yet. Last year
Eirdie Tebbctt's outfit lost six of their fir3t seven games and then
scrapped dewn to the wire before losing to Milwaukee and Brooklyn
by a mere three games.
The tables will turn sooner or later and it will probably be another
normal season with no .400 hitters or thirty game winners on the
hill. Managers will get booted out of ball games, players will get fined
and fans will get angry because their favorites are losing. It is all a
game and a big one, but it is the odd things that make it our "Na
tional" Pastime.
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Accdemy To Hear Problems Of Soil
Two Ag College faculty mem'
bers will speak at a business
meeting of the Nebraska Academy
of Sciences Friday at 1:30 p.m. in
Room 20 of Morrill Hall.
Dclno Knudsen of the Agricul
tural Extension Service will talk
on the use of soil test summaries
to evaluate the general soil fer
tility status of Nebraska soils.
Explaining differences in the
Fertility Status of Nebraska Soils
will be the title of a talk given
by Robert Olson of the Agronomy
Department,
The annual banquet and busi
ness meeting of the group will be
held Friday evening at 6:15 in the
Union
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NORTH
on April 15. There the Huskers
turned back the bid of the hosts
by dumping them 5-2. Winning for
Nebraska were Art Weaver, Bill
North, Jack Clark, Fisk-K r e s s
doubles, and Weaver-North dou
bles. After dumping Wichita the net
men moved to Norman, Oklahoma
where they dropped their first de
cision for the vacation trip. The
Sooner's tennis team shut out the
Huskers with a score of 7-0.
On the 17th of April the netters
gained revenge for their Oklahoma
defeat by stomping the Golden
Hurricanes of Tulsa 6-1. Art Weav
er was the only Husker to be de
feated in his singles match while
George Fisk, Bill North, Charles
Kress and Jack Clark, won their
respective matches. The doubles
teams of Clark-Weaver and Fist
North also won their matches.
After the Huskers left Tulsa
they proceeded to gain their sec
ond consecutive win by beating
Washburn 5-2 two days later. The
next day, however, they moved
into Kansas University and were
defeated by the same score they
won by the previous day, 5-2.
The next match for the Huskers
will be April 26 when they move
to Des Moines, Iowa to compete
against the Drake tennis team.
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Biggest meeting of the year for
Y members will be a Pow Wow
scheduled for May 2nd, afternoon
and evening in Pioneer Park.
Y members from City YW, Ag
YW, City YM, Ag YM and Wes
leyan will attend the meeting, ac
cording to Barb Sharp, City cam
pus president.
The theme of the Pow Wow will
be leadership.
Keynote speaker for the Pow
Wow will be Micky Mills of the
University of Kansas. He is past
president of the KU YMCA and is
now serving as treasurer of that
group. Mills is delegate-at-large on
the Rocky Mountain Regional
Council of the Y. His other activi
ty at KIT inrlndp- vice nrefiident
f tha rviiwi-it rntinnH nf h ' tentlon
United Nations, Religious Empha
sis Week Chairman, member of
Student Religious Council, presi
dent of United Student Fellowship,
chairman of steering committee of
the KU Campus Chest, member of
debate squdd, and officer in Sigma
Alpha Epsilon Fraternity.
Scheduled to participate in a
panel discussion at the Pow Wow
are John Burbank, Luci Switzer
and Nancy Carter of Wesleyan.
The Pow Wow will start with a
party for all Y members, accord
ing to Bev Ellis, chairman of the
event. Discussion, the keynote
speech, panel discussion, small
and large group discussions and
worship will highlight the session,
she said.
A discussion of the Rocky Moun
tain Regional Conference, sched
uled at Estes Park, Colo., the 9th
15th of June will also be held,
Miss Ellis said.
Cindermen
Prep For
DU Games
Drake University will be the
scene of many stellar performers
representing all sections of the
country this Friday and Saturday
as they present the annual Drake
Relays, famed invitational that
brings competitors from all over
the nation.
Nebraska will be on hand at the
relays displaying their best of ta
ent in two relay teams and three
individual performers.
A shuttle hurdles relay team
will be composed of Ken Pollard
Bill Hawkins, Bill Marten and
Keith Gardner. Ken Pollard has
been using his talents as a pole
vaulter and has been doing a very
commendable job of it but mentor
Sevigne will place him with the
other three stick veterans for the
relays.
me other relay team will con
sist of Keith Gardner, Don Phil-
lipps, Dick Jahr and Knolly
Barnes. This group of runners
placed second to a swift Oklahoma
relay team in the University spring
medley in the Kansas Relays over
the vacation.
Robert Elwood, stellar distance
runner from Iowa will represent
Nebraska in the open 2-mile
event.
Dale Knotek, high jumper who
finished third at the Kansas re
lays behind Don Stewart's 6 foot
inch leap and Wilt Chamber
lain's 6-4 clear, will represent the
Huskers in his specialty.
In the javelin event the Nebras
ka delegate will be found in either
Dean Brittenham or Bill Lafleur
Oops
It has been called to our al-
that the cut line underz
tentlon that ' the cut line under
Keith Gardner's picture in Mon
day's Rag could have been read
to infer that Gardner was partici
pating In the hurdle events in the
Kansas Relays, Gardner did not
run the hurdles but ran with Ne
braska's relay team which placed
second In their event, the Unlver-
ily rprlnt medley.
52 IM Teams
Kickoff Spring
Softball Play
The annual Intramural softball
tourney got underway last night
with a field of 52 teams entered in
the double elimination affair. Five
games were played last night.
There will be four different brack
ets in the tourney including: (1) 15
fraternity "Red" teams; (2) 13
fraternity "White" teams; (3) 14
Selleck teams; and 10 indepen
dents.
I-M softball director Ed Higgen'
both am said games will be played
at the four Ag campus fields and
at the "Peter Pan" at 31st and
W this season. They will be played
six days per week, excluding Sunday.
Inasmuch as there are so many
teams signed up and the weather
is so unpredictable, it is not known
for certain whether there will be
time for double elimination before
school is out. It may be turned into
a straight elimination tourney.
Higgenbotham also said there
will be games played on Spring
Day and that the season will prob
ably have to be over by May 25,
the last day of regular school.
All games from Monday
through Thursday will begin at
5:30 p.m. Teams may start earlier
though if they can get all person
ell on hand.
At the end of the season, the
tourney champs of the four re
spective brackets will participate
in another tournament to deter
mine the All-University victor.
Results oi last night games
will be published in Friday's Rag.
Meadows Elected
Dr. Paul Meadows, professor of
sociology, was elected president of
! the Midwest Sociological Society at
1 its annual meeting at Des Moines.
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wood, ace distance runner for
the Husker thinclad crew, will
be competing in the open 2-mile
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event in the Drake Relays this
Friday and Saturday in Deft
Moines, Iowa.
First Round Tomorrow:
Female Linksfers To Vie
In Western Golf Open
When the 28th Invitation Open
is played at Montgomery C.C. in
Montgomery, Alabama it will be
the Women's Western Golf Asso
ciation's first venture in the state
of Alabama. Also the first time
the big names in women's golf
have held a tournament in the
state.
Practice for fun will be over
Thursday a.m. April 25th when
the real contest starts. Prize
Marlene Hagge, winner of the
Beaumont Open; Mary Lena
Faulk, winner of the St. Peters
burg Open; Wiffi Smith, the sen
sation of the winter, last week
(April 15) won the Dallas Open
beating Patty Berg by 2 strokes.
Wiffi has been in the money in
every tournament this winter. Jac
kie Pung of Honolulu who has been
out of tournament play this winter
is a late entry. Other Pros entered
money of $5,000 for the Pros and' are: Joyce Ziske, Bonnie Ran-
flock of fine trophies for the
Amateurs will be the goal for the
125 entries.
The WWGA for 25 years used
match play to determine the Open
Champion and then in 1955
changed the tournament to a 72
hold medal play championship.
The winners of all the winter
circuit opens are entered: Mickey
Wright, winner of the Sea Island
and Jacksonville Opens; Betsy
Rawls, the only girl in the tour
nament wearing the Phi Beta Kap
pa key, winner of the Tampa and
Lake Worth Opens; Fay Crocker,
winner at Miami Beach of the
Serbin Open; Patty Berg, winner
at Havana and the Titleholders;
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