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Cornhusker Touchdown Club More Scholarships For All NU Sports State wide Organization; And Tax Deductible, Too! i track, awarded 25 scholarships in that No Outside Help Also of interest is the fact help. Oklahoma receives $51,000 a that only Nebraska gets outside year from its Touchdown Club. Colorado University's administration writes off tuition for athletes. This amounted to $50,600. Missouri receives $45,000 each year through an alumni drive.

Kansas State has its Wildcat Club. Also there is partial payment of athletic department salaries by the state legislature. By DICK BECKER Staff Sports Writer Do you want Nebraska tearr.s to be the best? Do you long for the days of past glory? Do you want to help with a resurgence of Corn husker might? Well, you are going to have yur chance with the formation of a state wide Cornhusker Touchdown Club. Expected to be in operation this fall, the club will have as its main function the increasing and improving of the University of Nebraska's athletic grant in aid program. Athletic Director Bill Orwig made the announcement of the new organization Saturday, saying revenue from the club would be used to strengthen the entire athletic scholarship program, the so called minor sports as well as the major sports.

our Main Factor Orwig named these four factors as contributing to the decision to authorize the Cornhusker Touchdown Club: First, Nebraska's athletic grant in aid program needs more revenue to meet the tuition increase recently approved by the Board of Regents. It will also be necessary to offset revenue declines which may result in football gate receipts from an increase in student enrollment. 'More students means more tickets must be allocated and fold at the student price, reducing the number of tickets available at the public rate.) to $10,000 spent for fall football camp, which is actually a part of athletic scholarships. All of this ws financed through gaie receipts and concession profits. Least Scholarships Nebraska has less athletic scholarships than any other school in the conference.

Last year 121 boys were aided. Take this in comparison to other conference schools: Oklahoma 170, Missouri 148, Colorado 145, Kansas 133, Iowa State 126 and Kansas State 123. The cost of scholarships varies greatly, both from differing school tuitions and from the number of scholarships granted to out of state athletes. Orwig pointed out that it was only logical to assume that more scholarships would mean better teams. If give 34 freshman scholarships and get, say 10 good football players, it is only HiaiW able that if we had 40 freshman scholarships we would havP more good football players." Another shortcoming in the Cornhusker program is seen from the fact that Nebraska gives scholarships in just four sports football, basketball, track and baseball.

No Husker athlete receives a scholarship for wrestling, swimming, golf, tennis or gymnastics. Nebraska had 75 football scholarships, 20 basketball, 17 track and 9 baseball. In comparison Oklahoma had 80 in football, 24 in basketball, 21 in track, 9 in baseball, 20 in wrestling, 12 in swimming, 2 in golf and 2 in tennis. Second, up to this time Nebraska is the only school in the Big Seven Conference which has supported its athletic grant in aid pro gram solely from athletic revenue. Third, a significant number of Cornhusker boosters have asked for some approved plan which will allow them to help provide financial support for Cornhusker athletics and the intercollegiate program.

The Touchdown Club plan, Orwig explained, is approved by both the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the Big Eight Conference and is entirely in keeping with Nebraska's "all on the table" policy. Fourth, Nebraska's grant in aid program must be expanded to keep pace with similar efforts by other conference members and to permit the Nebraska athletic program to gain strength according to plan. Tax Deductible Orwig said attorneys are working on articles of incorporation for the Touchdown Club and that legal details will be completed before the end of the summer. Contributions to the club, he added, will be tax deductible. "There is no way, of coarse, to estimate accurately how much of a boost the Touchdown Club's operation will provide for the Cornhusker grant in aid Orwig said, "but we hope for an increase of from 25 to 30 per At the present time about $100,000 a year goes into the grant in aid fund from athletic department revenue.

The fund receives no additional support. Last school year Nebraska spent $104,000 which included the $9,000 Iowa State receives financial help from its administration through partial payment of salar Kansas has partial payment of its salaries through tax funds. Although Nebraska's expenditure of $104,000 was exceeded by four schools, the Husker athletic department had to lay out more money than any other school. Even Oklahoma with its 170 scholar jfjk a snips spent icss A 331 Orwig said the Cornhusker Touchdown Club MS mm will be operating this fall. He was unable to Orwig say just what the cost of a membership will be.

"We believe this is a good plan," Orwig concluded. "It will help solidify ns together as a state better than we have been." Seven Braves, Yanks Pour Sport Neb. Okla. Kan. Colo.

K. State Mizou I. Stile Football 75 80 85 75 66 84 75 Basketball 20 24 17 20 22 4 27 20 Track 17 21 25 20 18 26 12 Baseball 9 9 4 14 7 11 5 Wrestling ..0 20 Noteam 5 104 Noteam I Swimming ..0 12 1 3 0 Noteam 5 Golf 0 2 1 2 0 0 2 Tennis 0 2 0 2 0 0 2 Gymnastics 0 Noteam Noteam 0 Noteam Noteam Noteam Skiing 4 Total 121 170 133 145 123 148 126 Scholarships i 98.791 99.267 108,108 The Try That Failed Kansas 120.306 Iowa State Colorado 140,875 5unHag Jpurnal anir jtar NEBRASKA, SUNDAY, JUNE Lincoln Raps Demons For Two Wins, 5 3, 3 0 brother. Don, who took over after Emil Syngel tripled and Bob Pascal walked with no one out in the eighth. Don promptly got Dick Johnson on a pop fly, then struck out Je.

ry Sheehan and pinch hitter Gordon Massa. A walk to Chris Kitsos was Don's only interruption in the ninth. Miley's third hit led to the final Lincoln run in the eighth. He made a daring dash from first to third when Stuart grounded to the pitcher, and scored on Bill Onuska's single. The Williams brothers stranded 11 Des Moines runners, two others we out trying to stca! another was erased in a double play.

The shutout was saved in the second when, with the bases full and none out. third baseman Miley stabbed Dick Bertell's savage liner, and stepped on third for an unassisted double play. Another great play cut off a Demon run in the third when second baseman Wilson came in fast for Dick Johnson's slow roller and thrfw him out while falling to the ground. atnieuc aepanrnenc iunas. It On AL Pennant Race Tied By International Nervs Service The Yankees poured it on in the stretch Saturday for a come from behind victory over Kansas City, keeping the American League pen nenat race still deadlocked.

Trailing 6 to 1 in the fourth in ainf, New York scored four runs in the next three innings, tied it up in the ninth and pushed one over in the tenth to win, 7 to 6. The victory kept them tied for first place with Chicago, which had an easier time stopping Washington, 7 to 1. Ex Yankee Woody Held hit his second homer of the series against the Yankees and Vic Power added another for the Athletics. Yogi Berra and Gil McDougald connected for the Yankees to give Al Cicotte the win in relief. Jack Harshman made his second start in two 4fTf for Chicago and pitched a six hitter for his sixth win.

Jack Phillips and Jim Rivera homered for the Sox. Boston won its tenth game in its last dozen starts, trouncing Detroit, 12 to 4. Frank Malzone drove in six runs with two singles and the first grand slam homer of his career. Ted Lepcio and Jackie Jensen each drove in three more runs, Lepcio hitting a homer. Dick Sis ler went all the way for Boston.

In the Saturday night action th Cleveland Indians stopped the Bal timore Orioles short of records for shutting out the opposition by winning 2 1 before losing 5 1 in the second game of their twi night doubleheader. Baltimore was within two innings of tying the American League record of 47 straight shutout innings set hv Cleveland in 1348. Dirk Williams, former Oriole, crossed the plate on an infield out. The run tied the score 1 1. The Indians knocked Billy O'Dell off the mound in the sixth inning with another run to go ahead.

O'Dell's failure came after Oriole pitchers had gone the route in the previous ftfrj games and four of them had hurled successive shoutouts to equal the league record held by Cleveland and New York. O'Dell faced the minimum of 12 batters in the first four innings. A walk to Williams broke the spell before an estimated 35,000 fans. Reed Scores Hole in Oiie Lincoln's golfing ace Whitie added another honor to his coiiecuon Saturday. He shot a hole in one at the Hill crest Country Club.

The hole in one came on the 151 yard No. 12 hole. Par for the hole Reed used a five iron and the ball hit about seven feet short of the hole, but after two hops bounced into the cup. Playing with Reed at the time of the "hole in one" were Ed Dosek and Ed Smith. Reed finished the day with a 18 hole total of 70, two under th course par.

Omalian Ties In (iolf Meet CHEROKEE. Ia. Lfu Bob Astle ford of Omaha, former Nebraska amateur chamrion, and LeRoy Lanxon of Cherokee, fired two un der par 70s Saturday to tie for medal honors in the Sioux Valley Amateur Golf tournament over the Cherokee County Club course. Sixteen golfers made the championship flight and will start play this morning with final rounds Monday. Irv Sorenson of Sioux City, the defending champion who beat Astleford in the 1958 finale, came in with a 74 in the final round of three days of qualifying.

Ahead of Sorenson in the medal standii gs were Don Webb of Newton, and Gene Hagen, both of Sioux City, who had 71a and three men who tied with 72. Dean Prince of Sioux City, Joe Golds trand of Worthington, Minn, and Loyal Martin of Cherokee. Yankees In Net Plavoffs Seixm, Flam At Wimbledon only two American survivors in the sun scorched tournament when Bodge Patty, the 1950 champion, but came storming with a brilliant power display to defeat Australian "dark horse" Mai Anderson, 4 6, 6 3, 6 2, 6 2. The handsome Philadelphian, seeded sixth and Uncle Sam's No. 1 gun.

dazzled the huge crowd with flashes of the stylish form which won him the Wimbledon crown in 1953. Flam, seventh seeded entry from Beverly Hills, emerged as the only other American candidate nemaming from an original delegation of 18 in the men's singles when he easily disposed of Britain's Billy Knight, 6 3, 6 1, 6 3. The victory for the soft balling Californian served as a warmup for his crucial quarter final test against Australia's power laden Ashley Cooper, the second seeded 20 year old dynamite kid from down under. Fraser was exterded to four exciting sets by Patty before he defeated the veteran internationalist from Los Angeles and Paris, 6 3, 6 4, 10 12. 6 4.

The fifth seeded Aus Pralt Gels AAL Lead KINGSBURG. Calif If! The Army's Charlie Pratt, former Manhattan College star, won the 110 meter high hurdles Saturday night to boost his leading point score in the AAU national decathlon to 5.428 after six of the scheduled 10 events. His time was 14.1 seconds. In second place was Bob Law son of Southern California who ran the hurdles in 14.7 to boost his point score to 5,021. Third after six was Oregon freshman Dave Edstrom with 4.858.

He ran the hurdles in 15 1. Pratt collected 1.086 points for his tour of the barriers while Law son got 894. Pratt led after Friday night's first five events at the Kingsburg Hisrh School stadium with 4.342 points off convincing victories the 100 and 400 meter dashes, a tie for third in the high jump, a fifth place in the broad jump and 12th in the shot put. Pratt ran the 100 in 10.4 seconds, fastest ever in decathlon competition, the 400 in 48.3, broad jumped 22 feet, 7 15 inches, high jumped 6 2 and threw the shot 39 74. Those performances gave him a 215 point midway lead over Law son, from Aberdeen, Wash.

Melendez Hurl By Fouled Ball PES MOINES, la. If! Willie Melendez. Lincoln second baseman, was knocked unconscious when he was struck on top of the head by a hard hit foul off the bat of pitcher Dewey Williams into the Chiefs' dugout Saturday night. Melendez had not regained, consciousness at the time he was taken to a hospital for rays and observation. However, it was reported that he suffered a glancing blow and the injury was not believed to be aerious.

Gty Softball SATVRDAY fcaxaiene 16, Bpmrtb MeUuxiut J. Milwaukee Holds Lead By International News Service The Milwaukee Braves re mained atop the National League i pile by thrashing Pittsburgh 13 to 6 Saturday. Del Crandall, Felix Mantilla, Hank Aaron and Ed Mathews all belted homeruns for Juan Pizarro, who won in relief. The Pirates collected 13 hits but only two were for the distancehomers by Dick Groat and Paul Smith. St.

Louis, in second place by .004 percentage points ahead of Cincinnati, locked in a sensational scoreless duel with the rampaging New York Giants. Time nut the bottom of the tm rung am Miller throw ng shutout ball tor M. Louis However, alter the ram the Giants tallied an important in to defeat St. Louio, 1 0. The Redlegs have handed the sagging Philadelphia Phillies their third straight defeat.

8 to 3. The Redlegs came from behind to tie it with two runs in the fifth and then kayoed Robin Roberts for his tenth defeat with a five run eighth inning. Smoky Burgess and Don Hoak homered for Don Acker, who won his ninth. Harry Anderson connected for the Phils. Bob Rush held Brooklyn to five hits but one was a two run homer by Roy Campanella in the filth, beating Chicago 2 to 1.

Optimists Stop Salina, 2 1 The Lincoln Optimists scored two important runs in the bottom of the seventh inning at Sherman Field Saturday night to win a 2 1 Junior American Legion baseball victory. Lincoln sewed up the I Salu Kar when Gar Stei iiller tripled. The hit scored Dick Welch, who had previously walked. The Optimists got their winning run when Steinmiller tallied on George Mechling's infield bant single. Don Bert went the distance for Al Karle's Optimists.

He gave up six hits and one run. Monday's Games Having ai North F'latte MFRK AN LKU.lF bicaw at Detroit (niKhw. Kanwi City al Cleveland m.chn New Vnrk at Baltimore nk ht. New York (light). Pittoharik 'ninhO IATION York Open Is July 7 The annual York Open Golf Tour nament, postponed because of high water, has been re scheduled for July 7.

Rains poured more than six inches of water in York and the surrounding area during the four days preceding the tourney originally scheduled for June 16. The water sent Beaver Creek out 1 of its banks, flooding two greens on the nine hole course and making play impossible. Omaha Golf Site i OMAHA The next professional I amateur golf tournament is sched I uled Monday, July 1, at Omaha. John M. Schumacher, executive secretary of the group, said the i tournament would be held at the Omaha Field Club.

Standings Elston Howard flips into the boxes chasing Vic Power homer. (AP) New TV Sports Show Hopes to Fill of Revised Sports Fan DES MOINES. Ia. I) Dick Stuart i seventh and eighth home runs in 14 games helped Lincoln sweep a day night doubleheader from Des Moines Saturday, 5 3 and 3 0. Stuart hit a two run homer in each game and his second broke a scoreless tie in the sixth inning of the nightcap.

A tender elbow in the first game forced Des Moines starter Dave S'enhouse to retire at the start of the fifth though he had pitched three shutout! innings after Dick Stuart's homer in the first inning. Dick's seventh homer in 13 games followed Sam Miley's run scoring single to cap a three run The Demons came up with three of their own in the fifth, two on catcher Bill Onuska's two base throwing error. Jim Snyder's single brought in th other. Pitcher Bob Anderton of Lincoln also suffered physical damage in that session when be collided with catcher Onuska as both went for an overthrow back of the plate. Anderton was unconscious for a few moments, but quickly recov ered Except for three hits in the fourth and two harmless singles in the sixth.

Anderton was untouchable. He retired the first eight and last eight Demon batters in order. Lincoln got its extra run on a hit batsman, a throw that hit base runner Miley as shortstop Chris Kitsos tried to complete a double play and an infield out in the eighth. Wilson's homer over the right field fence had opened the inning. It was a bases empty home run by Jack Wilson in the eighth inning that decided the opener.

Dewey Williams pitched a shutout, with help from his twin is i BOB Snyder. 2BOnusi Rieder HO StenJ SO Anderton 5. Rieder 1 in 5. ER i. JfcaeEi Leavenworth.

1 2:01, A 288. LINCOLN DES MOIN Male rf 0 1 0 Kitsos lliams 1, Burri.ttr 1 4. Don Will.Hms Dew. Win tans in 2. ER Bur 3 3.

Dew. William I Haadck. 2 08. A 1826. Many Needs JIM KEVSIL NEW YORK A new television program bows next week, a program packaged to fill perfectly the demands of tnat pe cularly American individual, the TV sports fan.

Unlike his ancestor, the plain old sports fan, this newcomer who has grown up with the 10 inch screen, is a mighty selective fellow. He leaves the ball game in the third inning via a flip of the dial, or doesn't even bother to tune in the fight if a couple of nobodys are the card. "The Big Moment." which ar rives on NBC TV Friday night, July 5. at 8:30 p.m., EST. can meet these stipulations.

It is short on only one commodity suspense. And the shortness will be in proportion to the shortness of the individual TV sports fan's memory. A half hour filmed snow, "ine ig Moment" is billed as a series which will present "some of the McCook Wins. 1 McCook, Neb. 10 Two McCook pitchers struck out a total of 18 North Platte batters Saturday night as McCook won a 9 to 4 Nebraska State League victory.

Jim King was the winning pitcher. He was relieved by Bernard Poupore in the sixth. Ted Northerns three run homer in the third started McCook off and it was never headed after that. 93 220 20X 9 8 3 and McFarlaod. Kioj.

Poupore and Raneau. M.BR ASK A STATE 1 ASSOCIATION Saturday's Results WESTERN LEAGUE Cincinnati Philadeli lMERICAN LEAGU1 Sunday's Gaines Detroit at Burton. ketball Assn. playoff between the Boston Celtics and the Syracuse Nats; the famous 1938 match race between the two great horses. War Admiral and Seabiscuit.

and the 1954 "Mile of the Century" in which the original 4 minute boys, John Bannister and John Landy, matched strides. Sports Slate Sunday Local Baseball Lincoln Chiefs It Tes Moines, Radio KFOR, 7:45 p.m. State Golf Gordon Open; Seward Open; Plainview Open. Auto Racing Stock cars at Rocket Speedway, 8 p.m. Tennis Midwest Open Tournament at Omaha.

Monday Local Baseball Lincoln Chiefs at Topeka, Radio KFOR, 7:45 p.m.; Lincoln Optimists v. Omaha Legion team, Sherman Field, 8 p.m. Swimming Lincoln Swim Club midget meet, Lincoln Country Club pool, 7 p.m. State Golf Nebraska Sectional Qualifying Round of USGA 1957 Junior Amateur Championship, Happy Hollow Country Club, Omaha. I most dramatic and exciting events in sports history." The urst week's offerings live up to the advance i publicity.

With sportscaster Bud Palmer handling the commentary, the kickoff show will feature Bobby i Thomson's pennant winning 1951 I home run for the New York Giants; Lew Worsham's 140 yard I approach shot for an eagle two and $25,000 top prize in the 1953 i Tarn O'Shanter Golf Tournament; (Pane ho Gonzales' tremendous 'comeback in the 1949 National I singles tennis championships; the fight marred 1954 National Bas Hastingfl Loses, 3 1 HASTINGS, Neb. Superior defeated Hastings 3 to 1 in a Ne braska State League game Saturday night despite the fact Hastings outhit the visitors 8 to 3. Superior scored in each of the first three innings. Jim McLean's triple for Hastings was the only extra base hit of the Pen Pirates Win The Nebraska State Penitentiary Pirates defeated Cudahy Wreckers Saturday in a softball game by the score of 7 1. Pirate pitcher Gilbert Walking Bull paced the winners with, a home run and triple.

He also struck out 13. Wreck.r, 100 000 0 1 1 1 Pirate 410 7 0 cX, Patterson and Upw. Walking a. iJ 'iatlieW,.