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Show COMMENTS- -j By Guy Stevens Let's see how the score stands between the Big Nine and the Pacific Pac-ific Coast Conference. Northwestern Northwest-ern outclassed UCLA; Minnesota trimmed Washington; Michigan whipped Oregon and Ohio State gave Southern California a neat drubbing. On the other side of the fence, California gave Wisconsin a one-sided licking. Perhaps we should add here that Lynn Waldorf, Wald-orf, California's mentor, coached at Northwestern a long time before be-fore taking over the Golden Bears. That's four wins for the Big Nine and one for the West Coasters in their little jntersectional feud. It's definite proof that the Coast teams are not in the same league with the Big Nine. -And you can bet your nickel that the five-year Rose Bowl pact between the two Conferences will not be renewed in 1951. . ' ' I tied for homerun honors. Each hit j 40. Last year they finished togeth-' togeth-' er with 51 each, j j Several candidates have been I mentioned for the managerial job with the New York Yankees but i it looks as though Casey Stengel j might have the inside track. Co-owner Co-owner Del Webb couldn't have picked a better man. Stengel, who didn't have the punch to score one single touchdown all season. In a ! way, Notre Dame and Carnegie Tech have things in common. The Irish may finish their third straight season without a , loss. The Tartans may finish their ! third straight season without a win. once nancuea me erooKiyn uuu-gers uuu-gers and the Boston Braves, is one of the smartest managers in baseball base-ball and knows how to get the most out of his players. And besides, be-sides, he puts on a little show of his own while coaching at third. His clowning would go over big with New York fans. But Stengel, now skipper of the Pacific Coast Oakland club, may decide to stay right with the Oaks where his job is more or less of a permanent nature. nat-ure. There's no telling how long he'd last in a major league berth. One year with the Yanks and he may find himself out looking for another job. This may or may not be Tulane's year but the boys from New Orleans Or-leans are beginning to show promise pro-mise of going places. This is Coach Henry Frnka's third season One by one the Dodger veterans are receiving their walking papers. Boss. Branch Rickey is cleaning house and the' old Mahatma swings a wicked broom. Even Hugh Casey has received his . release. How fleeting his fame. Only last year Casey was the big . hero of the World Series. He pitched in six of the seven games played and got credit for winning two. But the bigwigs don't pay off on fame it's results that count. Thi3 year Casey won only three games all season. If Durocher has his say, Casey will be with the Giants this next year. Perhaps you may have wondered wonder-ed what's happened to Carnegie Tech. As far as being a big football foot-ball power, they've dropped out of the picture completely. The great Tartans, who used to meet such teams as Perm State, Notre Dame and other gridiron giants, are now meeting small college teams and getting 'beat so regularly reg-ularly that the once proud Skibos are finding it hard to take. At this writing, they have not won a game since 1945. In 1946, they Speaking of losing streaks, Kansas Kan-sas State just established a new losing record that will be mighty tough to top. Even Carnegie Tech will have to go some to beat it. In 1945, Kansas State opened its season by defeating Wichita 13 to 6. That was the last time they tasted victory until two weeks ago when they scored a 37 to 6 win over Arkansas State.. Between i those two victories, Kansas State lost 27 straight games. Hank Greenburg may have to visit California over the winter months and give ' Ralph Kiner a few more pointers on hitting. The Pittsburgh slugger wound up the season with a batting average of only .265, even though he did hit 40 round-trippers. Maybe if he had concentrated on getting singles instead of homers his average may have been higher. Incidentally, Johnny Mize and Kiner again finished the seasoh |