The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 39, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 5, 1949 Page: 3 of 4
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THE THRESHER
Three
New Baseball Coach Appointed;
Dickie Kerr Added To Staff
by Norris Keeler
Rice is fortunate to have as one
of its baseball coaches, a man who
probably has more baseball experi-
ence than any coach in the South-
west Conference. He is Dickie Kerr,
who spent three years in the major
leagues pitching for the Chicago
White Sox.
Kerr started his career pitching
for a small professional team in
Arkansas, and then spent nine years
in the minors, in the Texas league,
Southern and American Associa-
tions, and finishing up with Milwau-
kee in the American Association.
He ran up such an excellent record
there that he was called up by the
Chicago White Sox and won thirteen
games for them in 1919. The Sox
Spring Training
Sloshes Forward
by Howard Martin
Spring football training, like our
beloved Postal Department, sloshes
forward, come hail or high water.
The beautiful Houston weather has,
of course, put a cramp in the coach-
es' progress plans. However, the
big Blue squad was looking forward
to getting some much needed scrim-
mage at the end of this week.
Encouraging for Owl supporters
will be the news that Bobby Lantrip,
Owl starting fullback last year,
returned to the wars after recuperv
ating from some ankle trouble. On
the other side of the ledger, J. B.
Virdell, a Bluebolt lineman last year,
is out with a broken arm, but has
returned to classes. George Glauser,
second-string fullback last year, is
on crutches. Glauser had a separa-
tion of two bones in his ankle, and
has had a screw put in to aid heal-
ing. Both boys are on the way to
recovery, and minor bruises com-
plete the list of the Rice agonies.
* * *
S. M. U.'s battling Mustangs upset
highly favored Texas, in both teams
Conference finale, and won going
away, 54-40. Bob Prewitt of S. M.
U. was high point man with 22
points. Slater Martin paced Texas
with 14, while George Owen, whose
last minute field goal beat the Owls
at Dallas, tallied 13. Texas closcd
the season with a 7-5 record in con-
ference play, while S. M. U. finds
itself two games behind with 5-7.
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won the pennant that year, but Kerr
did not start in the first game of
the World's Series, as there were
two pitchers on the White Sox staff
who had won over twenty games. He
pitched the third and the sixth
games, however and won them, 3-0
and 5-4 in ten innings. This was a
remarkable feat since some of the
players had accepted bribes to
"throw" the series. With this bad
supporting cast the White Sox lost
the series to Cincinnati, 3 games to
5.
Kerr won 21 games the next year
but the White Sox did not win the
pennant. In a two-way tie with the
Cleveland Indians four days from
the end of the season. The White
Sox lost seven of their best players,
who were suspended by commis-
sioner Landis for accepting bribes,
and collapsed completely.
His last full season with the
White Sox, Kerr won 19 games, al-
though the team finished last.
Kerr considers his best game a
3 hit shut-out of the Philadelphia
Athletics. He had a perfect game
until the 7th inning when two men
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The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 39, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 5, 1949, newspaper, March 5, 1949; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth230794/m1/3/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.