(Columbia Daily Tribune, Saturday May 15, 1954)
Emil Kammer, Missouri's sophomore right-hander, who gave up infielding only because Coach John Simmons was shy on pitching talent this season, staged a one-man show as the Tigers routed the Oklahoma Sooners, 14-1 at Rollins field yesterday afternoon and took over undisputed possession of first place in the Big Seven conference.
The ex-third baseman set the Sooners down with three hits, fanned 11 batters, and clouted an eighth-inning homer in coasting to his fifth victory of the season. Oklahoma's lone run was unearned and came in the third inning when Shortstop Dick Dickinson, trying to complete a double play, threw wildly past first base, allowing Sterling Jones, who had singled, to cross the plate.
A victory over the Sooners today would stretch Missouri's lead to two full games, with only four contests remaining on both teams' schedules.
The Tigers scored in every inning but the fifth yesterday and kayoed Oklahoma starter Joe Mobra with a three-run uprising in the sixth. George Loving finished up and was touched for five unearned tallies in the seventh when the Sooner defense collapsed.
The Tigers lost no time in going to work on Mobra in the first inning. Dickinson rapped his first pitch for a clothes-line single to left and scored on Bob Musgrave's double. Bob Schoonmaker opened the second with a ground single through short, but was forced at second after catcher Buster Cloud missed Jim Doerr's pop fly. Doerr then stole second and raced home when left fielder Carl Allsion dropped Kammer's line drive.
Todd Sickel, leading off in the third, was hit by a pitch and Sooner Coach Jack Baer permitted Dick Adler to serve as a courtesy runner while Sickel went out for repairs. Musgrave walked and was forced by Jerry Schoonmaker as Adler took third, and after Schoonmaker stole second, shortstop Orville Rickey muffed Buddy Cox' grounder, allowing both runs to score.
Kammer's single, a sacrifice and a single by Sickel produced a run in the fourth and Mobra departed in the sixth after walks to Kammer and Musgrave. Jerry Schoonmaker's double and George Gleason's single were good for three more markers.
After two were out in the seventh, two errors, two walks, two stolen bases and singles by Musgrave and Gleason accounted for five unearned runs. Kammer's homer, a drive over the left field fence, came with the bases empty in the eighth.
In other conference action yesterday, Colorado drubbed the cellar-dwelling Kansas State Wildcats, 18-4, and Iowa State blanked Nebraska, 4-0.
Sickel Hit on Head
(Columbia Missourian, May 15, 1954)
A near casualty was Missouri's Todd Sickel. The top of his head was grazed by a pitched ball in the third, and he apparently was momentarily blinded when the ball creased a nerve.
Court Ruling Won't Change School Here Immediately
(Columbia Daily Tribune, May 17, 1954)
Neil C. Aslin, superintendent of schools here, said that the Supreme Court's outlawing of racial segregation in public schools will bring no immediate change in Columbia.
"We anticipated the ruling, but it came quicker than expected," he said. "Under present conditions Douglass schooled may be used for a long time."
"We have 3.000 youngsers in the Columbia school system today," he said. "It takes all our rooms to handle them. The fact remains we are going to have to have those same kids in all the rooms irrespective of the court decision."
The Missouri constitution of 1948 requires separate schools for white and colored children, except in cases otherwise provided by law.
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