Lone Arkansas Safety Comes In 8th Inning(Columbia Daily Tribune, April 10, 1954)
Tiger baseball fans who showed up at Rollins Field yesterday afternoon didn't get to watch much in the way of a ball game, but for seven and two-thirds innings they had hopes of seeing a no-hitter by Emil Kammer, the Bengals' sophomore right-hander who started the season as a third baseman.
The Tigers gave the University of Arkansas an 18-0 lacing and it was obvious in the first inning that the Razorbacks weren't going to be too much of a stumbling block in Missouri's path. But few people left the premises as Kammer kept mowing down the Arkansas hitters inning after inning and two were out in the eighth when Catcher Preston Carpenter laced a clean single to left for the first and only Razorback hit.
Kammer, apparently tired, then went out for a pinch-hitter in the Tiger eighth and Harold Gastineau hurled a hitless ninth.
The Tigers, posting their first victory in collegiate competition after splitting two games with Ft. Wood, made only 11 hits, but the Arkansas defense was something less than air-tight and 10 Razorback errors played a big part in the scoring.
Missouri scored in every inning except the eighth and a six-run first in which 10 men went to the plate left little doubt as to the outcome. The spree came at the expense of Southpaw Charley Bogan, who pitched the first five innings for the Razorbacks and gave up 15 runs on eight hits while his mates played footsie with the ball.
Singles by Dick Dickinson and George Gleason, three walks and three errors figured in the first inning scoring. The only other big inning was the fifth in which five runs crossed the plate on a pair of singles, a double by Kammer, a walk and two errors.
Gleason led the Tiger attack with three singles and two walks in six trips to the plate and drove in five runs. Doubles by Bob Musgrave, Bob Schoonmake and Kammer were the only Missouri extra-base blows.
Kammer gave up eight walks during his eight-inning stretch and only in the fifth and seventh did the Razorbacks fail to get a man on base. Three double plays by the Tiger infield helped him over the rough spots.
Southpaw Ed Cook, another sophomore member of the Missouri mound staff, was scheduled to oppose Right-hander Edsel Nix in the series final this afternoon.
After today's game, the Tigers will be idle until next Friday and Saturday when they meet Oklahoma A&M at Stillwater.
Briggs Urges Colleges Allow Athletes To Play Minor League Baseball
Minor league baseball and the nations' college athletic departments have reached a curious impasse.
The colleges accuse organized baseball of killing the sport on campus by raiding them of talent. Other professional sports keep hands off collegians until their classes have been graduated on campus in recent years.
Whichever way it turns out the colleges get good and angry, particularly if the boy happens to be not only a baseball player, but also - in the case, for example, of ex-Purdue punting star Bill Skowron, now a New York Yankee - a star in another sport as well.
Latest to come up with a suggestion on the matter is Spike Briggs, the president of the Detroit Tigers. He suggests that the colleges relax their eligibility rules to permit boys to play in the lower classification minor leagues during the Summer months.
As he sees it, the minor leagues would benefit, college baseball would get more experienced players, the schools would get some publicity and the boy would be earning money just as he would on any other Summer job.
So far there has been no agreement by the colleges, who would have to make a basic change in their thinking.
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