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Friday, April 5, 1974
University Daily Kansan
Aaron Ties Ruth's Record
CINCINNATI (AP) - Relentless Hank Aaron asenied into baseball's throne room yesterday by whacking his 714th career home run to tie Babe Ruth's record and become one of the most prolific sluggers in history.
But the Cincinnati Reds overcame a 6-1 deficit and nipped the Atlanta Braves 74. Pete Rose scored the winning run by racing Buzz Carver's wild pitch in the 11th inning.
Aaron hit his record-ying homer in the first inning off Cincinnati's Jack Billingham. The Braves had led 3-4 but the Atlanta ballpen was unable to hold a
With two outs in the 10th, Rose, the defending National League batting champion, doubled for the second time off Capra, Atlanta's fifth pitcher. He then reached his third, and he pitch that rolled to the corner of the Braves' dugout along the third base line.
THE GAME was less than five minutes old when the 40-year-old Aaron, a native of Mobile, Ala., crashed his historic homer before a sun-splashed crowd of 52,154, largest opening day turnout in the 106-year history of baseball's oldest team.
Aaron's 380-foot blast pulled him abreast of a record once considered unapproachable. The record-tying feat came 36 years after Ruth retired from the game he popularized. Aaron was 1 year old when Ruth hit his final homer.
Aaron's historic homer came after considerable dispute and drama. The question of his award to the Yankees had fud between baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn and the Braves' officials. The team announced earlier this spring that Aaron would be awarded the MVP title Monday.
THE HOME RUN was Aaron's 96th off his
favorite victims, the Reds, and his first season-opened run. It came at 3:40 am after a time限 time.
A roaring ingestion greeted aaron in his initial at-bat. Billingsham, the 19-game winner last year, had started shakily, walking Riggarr and yielding a single to Mike
The 31-year-old right-hander ran the count to 3-1. Aaron sent the next pitch over the left-field fence near the 380-footmark. He jogged around the bases and was mobbed by his teammates as he crossed the plate.
The tail was retrieved in a runway by a Cincinnati police officer, Clarence Williams, and was presented to Aaron by second base unipersonal near home plate. A six-minute near home plate.
Aaron certified the momentous feat by going to the edge of the stands to kiss his wife, Billye, his bride of five months. Sitting with her were Aaron's father and brother.
VICE PRESIDENT Gerald R. Ford, who
Aaron lined out to center field in the seventh inning and was removed from the game in the bottom of the sevent with the Braves leading 6-2.
"Thank you very much," Aaron said from the field. "I'm just glad it's almost over."
Aaron later grounded out to third base in the third inning and walked in the fifth, later scoring on an error. It was his 2,082nd place hit by a foul shot on the all-time list with Willie Mays.
earlier threw out the game's first ball, saluted Aaron, saying it was "a great day for you and a great day for baseball." Ford scored 715 and a good many more.
The soft-spoken Aaron talked after the game of the initial excitement but said it was dulled considerably when the Reds came back for the victory.
Jayhawks to Challenge League-Leading 'Cats
The University of Kansas will open a three-game baseball series against league-leading Kansas State at 3 p.m. today at the Knicks' home in a rainash in a double-banner at 1 p.m. tomorrow.
"It's just another home run now," Aaron said, "if we had won, it probably be over."
K-State will have a perfect 3-10 league record and a share of the early Big Eight Conference lead with Oklahoma at the start of the series. The Wilcatts are 1-18 in overall play. KU is 0-3 in conference play and 4-11 overall.
KU Track Team Travels To Wichita Meet Saturday
The University of Kansas track team will compete in the Wichita Ralts all day Saturday and according to head coach Bob Timmons the Jayhawks will be evaluating themselves for the rest of the outdoor season.
Timmons said he would be looking more at individual performances since there was such a wide spread of entrees, with men playing on one side and some running in as many as three races.
"We've got a tremendously difficult schedule coming up with the Texas, Drake and KU Relays and we need a smaller meet like this to find out some things about ourselves," Timmons said yesterday. "We have a lot of people in our third kind of meet, with relays plus individual events and it spreads a team too thin to do well on the team results."
There will be four other teams competing besides KU, the host team Wichita State, Kansas State, Missouri and Colorado State. Timmons said if there was a favorite for the team championship it would probably be one of their great indoor season this year.
Gregg Vandaverne, one of KU's top hurders, will not compete with Witichia because of a re-injury to a high muscle pull suffered during the ipod season at Oklahoma City.
The team will be leaving Lawrence early
there in our clubhouse drinking champagne."
"I knew I had hit the ball well, but I didn't know it was out," he said.
Relays Attract Record Holders
North Carolina's Taylor Waldrop, who recently set a world indoor mark of 3:55 in the mile, has accepted an invitation to run the New Hampshire Open Mile at the Kansas Relay.
Another entrant is John Gregoria, the
colorado star who has run the rule in
1985.
"With the others in the excellent field, I believe it is one of the best lines we have ever had," said Bob Timmons, Kansas track coach and director of the relays.
Going against Waldrop will be four runners who have run the rule in under four minutes. They are Rick Wolhuter of the Chicago Track Club, who is the world record holder of the 800 meter run; Byron Dyce of the Florida Track Club, who was just one-tenth shy of the world record in the 1,000-yard run during the winter season; Reggie McAfee of the Philadelphia Track Club, who runs 64 kms him as the nation's tenth fastest run; and Lowell Paul, the former Kansas star who runs for the Chicago Track Club.
Waldrop was undefeated in a sensational indoor season and was under the four-figure league.
Colorado coach Russell "Sox" Walseth and Oklahoma coach Joe Ramsey have been selected to coach the Big Eight contests, and that will tour Yugoslavia this summer.
The Big Eight team will play an eight game series. They will play four games against the Yugoslavian national team. The Yugoslavian teams will be against regional teams.
Big Eight Coaches Selected For Tour
He expressed one other disappointment of that day. Noting that it was the anniversary of the death of his friend, Aron said he and other black players had requested a few moments of silence in Dr. King's honor before the game "but someone with the Reds refused. We were all very happy."
The dates and the cities where the games will be played are:
June 1 - Jubilansa
June 2 - Juligara
June 6 - Alkika
June 8 - Mokura
June 10 - Ondo
June 14 - 15 - Zadar
June 18 - Nikola Lukava
 June 16 - Nhegada
The home run came in his 2,958th major league game. Ruth played in 2,503 games in 22 years. Aaron has had 2,800 more times at bat than Ruth.
Saturday morning by bus and returning
Saturday night.
KU entree for the Wichita Relays:
109 yd dash-Lusz, Edwards
102 mile hurdles-Hrauss, Long
mile run-Kopper, Kopper
104 intermediate hurdles-Long
105 mile relay-Williams, Hasker, Martines, McDonald
106 mile relay-Williams, Hasker, McDonald
mile run-Mander-Anderson
108 mile run-Long, Brach, Seeg
109 yd dash-Scawitz
2 mile relay-Wagner, Hauster, Frank, Anderson
2 mile relay-Wagner, Hauster, Frank, Anderson
2 miles run-S Williams, Willows, Kopper, Jel
Both teams played their Big Eight opening games last weekend. The Jayhawks suffered three embarrassing three-game series with R.K. Wepps its three-game series with Nebraska.
Coach Floyd Temple said yesterday that Kurt Knuff would pitch for the Jayhawks in today's game. Starting pitcher for the Jayhawks tomorrow will be Roger Slagle in the first game and Robert Strand in the second game.
`'Strand is starting because he has pitched two pretty good games with excellent pitching.`
20 vd. dall.-Law, Llewis
21 wd. dale-Donnell, Donnald, Martinjey Miley-Crawford, Wagner, Carter, Vacuum, Seffronstad, Wilkinson
Bachardt, Bachardt
Javelin-Tenni, Tommall, Kokakoff
Bachardt, Kokakoff
Triple Jump-Seay, Hamilton, Johnson
High Jump-Schub, Schuh, Scaery, Butterfly Jump-Seay, Hamilton, Johnson
Strand pitched eight shutout innings for the 'Hawks Tuesday against Friends University before allowing three runs in the ninth inning. Friends won the game 3-0.
TEPHNE sur son rêlier le plein play this season and keep little about it, but you have a good team. They do have one outstanding pitcher in (Aody) Rehluble. "Termule said."
Temple said he hadn't seen the Wildcats and have little about them.
Repologic, an All-Big Eight performer last year, is undefeated in five decisions this season. The fire-bailing hand rider has won six grand slam titles and compiled a 1.48 earned run average.
Among other returners from last year's Wildcat squad, which finished fourth in the conference, is Steve Anson. Anson, the Wildcats' center field, is batting .288 this season and picked up seven hits, including runs, in 11 times at bat against Nebraska.
ST. LAWRENCE CATHOLIC STUDENT CENTER
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By: Dr. Jorge Hoyos, Rector, Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia; Dr. Francis Ibaste, S.J., Dean, Universidad Centroamerica, El Salvador; Dr. Carlos Ariz, Rector, Universidad Santa Maria, Panama, Moderator: Dr. Robert Gilmor, Department of History, K.U.
St. Lawrence Catholic Student Center Presents: Informal Discussion on the Church and Its Role in Latin America Today
8 p.m. 1631 Crescent Road
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The University of Kansas tennis team will be trying to reverse last week's defeat by Arkansas when the two teams meet again at 2 p.m. today behind Allen Field House.
Last week at the Oral Roberts Tournament, Arkansas earned the Jayhawks in a 54-shirt that went to a third tie-breaker point before ending. Arkansas went on to defeat Oklahoma in the finals of the tournament by the same score, 54-46. The Big Eight this year, has been the Big Eight champion for the past seven years.
KU Tennis coach Mike Howard called today's match a "toss up."
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"I think we can beat the Arkansas team," he said yesterday. "They are a very strong team and have good players, but if we play well, we can beat them."
Howard said that Arkansas had an outstanding player in Brian Suekey, an Australian. At the Oral Roberts Tournament, Suekey defeated Oklahoma's top singles man and Big Eight singles champion for the past several years.
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