KU Favored Again To Dominate Big 7
Bill Easton's trackmen will be seeking an unprecedented fifth consecutive team title today and Saturday in the Big Seven outdoor track meet in Manhattan.
Rated as possible national team champions, the Jayhawker thinclads enter the annual league meet with several blue ribbons already conceded to them by sportswriters in this area.
KU captain Dick Blair has been clocked as low as :09.5 in the 100 and :20.8 in the 220, while the next best 100 time in the league is :09.8, owned by Colorado's Larry Chace. No other Big Seven sprinter has dipped below the 21-second mark in the 220-yard dash this season.
Nieder Unchallenged
Bill Nieder, who became the secre-
tion man in history to throw the iron
cast the 60-foot horizon with an
air-season toss of 60 feet 3
inches, has a monopoly on all throws
over 55 feet in the Big Seven.
Oerter, a sophomore, will concentrate mainly on the discus. During the outdoor season Oerter has been undefeated, his best throw being slightly over 182 feet.
The best non-Nieder put belongs to teammate Al Oerter, whose fartest heave went 54 feet 7 inches.
The last third of the weight events, the javelin, will no doubt see NCAA champion Les Bitner and teammates Jim Londerholm and John Parker occupying the majority of winning berths.
Distance Power
Drawing talent from his undeated four-mile relay team—Al Frame, Jan Howell, Jerry McNeal, and Hal Long—Coach Easton can expect little trouble in the long range events.
Kent Floerke, along with teammate Blaine Hollinger, should place high, if not win, the conference broad jump.
The discus is today's only final among preliminary rounds that include the shot put, javelin, broad jump, 100, 120 high hurdles, 220, 220 hurdles, 440 and 880-yard events. The finals begin at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, with the field events the opening attractions.
Kansas golfers teed off today in an attempt to win the Big Seven conference golf title at the Manhattan Country Club.
Golfers Tee Off In Big 7 Match
Captain Bob Richards, Jim Davies, Ed MacGee, Bill Sayler, and Gene Elstun are representing Kansas in the meet. The four lowest scorers for the 54-hole tourney will be counted for KU for the team title competition.
Oklahoma, rated the favorite in the meet, is expected to receive trouble from Colorado, Kansas State, and Kansas. Oklahoma and Colorado tied for the team crown last year when the tournament was played at the Lawrence Country Club.
Defending individual champion Bob Richards is expected to receive a strong threat from Kansas State's Dave Smith. Smith beat Richards by one stroke in a dual match here, but Richards came back strong and claimed a nine-stroke victory over Smith in the return match at Man-hattan.
In conference matches this season, Oklahoma defeated Kansas $7\frac{1}{2} - 4\frac{1}{2}$ at Norman, KU split with Missouri, defeated Nebraska and Iowa State one each, and holds two wins over Kansas State. The Jayhawks beat K-State 7-5 here and claimed a $7\frac{1}{2} - 4\frac{1}{2}$ victory at Manhattan.
Cardinals Beat Haddix 5-4
The St. Louis Cardinals kept pace behind league-leading Milwaukee Thursday with a 5-4 victory over Philadelphia and former Cardinal pitcher Harvey Haddix. Ken Boyer collected a home run and a double to break a 2-2 tie in the eighth inning.
OU Favored In Tennis Tourney
Though they prefer to describe themselves as "young, green, and entirely home-state," Oklahoma, defending Big Seven tennis champions, will without doubt present the strongest threat to KU's aspirations for the 1956 title in the coming conference tournament, Friday and Saturday at Manhattan.
The team which may surprise both Oklahoma and KU is Colorado. The Buff team developed well through the season, to the point that in its fifth meet of the season it upset top-seeded OU by a slim, but decisive 4-3 score.
The KU team won five of nine meets this season—two defcats came at the hands of non-league Washburn, and one meet went to Missouri, a defeat revenged the following weekend.
K-State, the other team to better the Jayhawkers, pulled off two of the biggest surprise victories of the tennis season when they won five straight matches to beat the Washburn team 5-2, after having lost to the Ichabods 7-0 earlier in the season.
Unlike baseball and other team sports, season records in tennis do not figure in the conference championship. Meets before the tournament serve only as practice. The winning team is decided by the number of points it makes at the tournament, with each victory by an individual counting one point.
There are seven separate brackets in the Big Seven tournament. The singles play is divided into five parts, with each team's No. 1 man playing in the No. 1 bracket, and so on down to the No. 5 man. The same is true of the doubles.
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MU Close To Baseball Title
LINCOLN (UP)— Crafty Norm Stewart, Missouri's pitcher, today was scheduled to face Nebraska with hopes of pulling Missouri one step closer to the Big Seven baseball crown. The Tigers play Nebraska again tomorrow, and wind up the season at Kansas Monday and Tuesday.
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Athletics Tied For Last Place
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UP) — The Kansas City Athletics, plagued with pitching troubles, more losses and more injuries, rated no better than a last place tie in the American League today. The A's dropped another to Boston last night, 6-1, to come up with a 9-16 record and tie Detroit in the cellar.
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Baseball Team Meets Colorado For 3rd Place
Kansas, currently holding down fourth place in the Big Seven race, will meet the Colorado Buffaloes today and Saturday in a crucial two-game series at Boulder.
Coach Floyd Temple has named' Bob Shirley, Grantville righthander to start today's game, and will send Ron Wiley, another righthander against the Buffalooes on Saturday.
Colorado, currently third in the Big Seven behind Missouri and Oklahoma, probably will send its two top hurlers against the Jayhawkers, last year's leading Buff piffar, Harold Sprehe, and Phil Prody.
Colorado, who knocked off Missouri in its second loop game, will still have an outside chance to move into the conference lead, if they sweep this series.
In Shirley's last outing, he was tagged with an 18 to 1 romp by Missouri. Wiley too was given his first loss of the season, against four wins, when the Tigers continued their domination of the Big Seven by battering the Jayhawkers 14 to 5.
Colorado carries into the game a team batting average of .279, with two returning lettermen carrying most of the batting load. Shortstop Jim Nyland, last year's leading hitter, is leading the Bucks
again this year with a .360 average through 15 games. Bruce Klaas, two-year letterman at first base, is the other long ball hitter with a .353 average.
The Jayhawkers return to Lawrence Monday to meet the Tigers in the second pair of games, while the Buffaloes are idle until May 25 and 26, when they meet the Oklahoma Sooners at Norman.
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