(Columbia Daily Tribune, Monday, June 14, 1954)
Missouri will meet Michigan State at 8 o'clock tonight in the fifth round of the NCAA college world series, after the Tigers posted a pair of wins in tournament play over the weekend.
Radio station KFRU will broadcast the Missouri-Michigan State baseball game at 7:55 o'clock tonight. Jack Sandler of station KOWH, Omaha, will handled the play-by-play.
The Missourians ousted Oklahoma A&M , 7-3, yesterday afternoon.
Missouri is expected to be at near-top strength for the contest with the heavy-hitting Spartans although shortstop Dick Dickinson is nursing an injured ankle. He sprained it alighting from a taxicab Saturday night.
Missouri and Michigan are two of the 'bigs' in the series, and they are tangling to see who plays Rollins College, one of the smallest ever to get to the tourney. That game, at 8 o'clock tomorrow night, will decide the championship.
Missouri, Michigan State and Rollins now have tourney records of 3-1. The meet is a double elimination affair.
Back-to-back homeruns in the fifth inning featured Missouri's 7-3 victory over Oklahoma A&M in the fourth round of the series.
The defeat dropped the Aggies out of the running with a 2-2 record.
Missouri actually wrapped up the ball game with three runs in the third and two in the fourth before the crowd was thrilled by the back-to-back homers.
The first was hit by Jerry Schoonmaker and landed in the left field light tower. It was the longest home run of the tourney to date. George Gleason slammed one over the left field wall.
The homers were hit off pitcher Don Anderson, a surprise starter in place of J.B. White, who was held out due to a sore shoulder.
Sophomore pitcher Norm Stewart for Missouri gave up 12 hits but kept them well scattered
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