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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, May 9, 1956.
WESTERN KANSAS TRIO—Bill Toulson (left) and Jim Davies (center) size up Noel Rooney's four-foot putt as it rolls toward the cup. All three
—(Daily Kansan photo)
are from Dodge City, Kan. Toalson is a freshman, Davies is a sophomore, and Rooney is a senior.
KU Golf Team Bolstered By Dodge Citians
Perhaps the town of Dodge City, Kan., is most well-known for its gunfighters of the past, and Boot Hill in which many of them were buried, but recently it also has done a pretty creditable job of supplying the University of Kansas with capable material for its golf squad.
Noel Rooney, Jim Davies, and Bill Toalson, all three being from Dodge City, have proved to be flight one golfers.
Rooney, a senior, started playing golf as a sophomore at Dodge City High School. The following year, Frank Toalson, Bill's father, who is superintendent of schools, started a high school golf team, and Rooney was a member of the first golf squad
Although he played in several matches as a sophomore at Kansas, Rooney won his first letter last year as a junior. He claims his biggest thrill in college competition came when he sank a hole-in-one on the 145-yard second hole at the Lawrence Country Club last spring in a dual meet with Nebraska.
Began In Melbourne
Sophomore Jim Davies got his golfing start at 12 in Melbourne, Australia, where his father was a
representative of the International Harvester Corporation.
Davies and freshman Bill Toalson teamed up to win the state high school two-man title in 1953 when the tournament was played in Kansas City. The following year the pair finished second when the tourney was played at the Topeka Country Club.
last summer equaled the course record. He played in two National Jaycee tournaments—Ann Arbor, Mich., and Columbus, Ga.
Davies was a four-time junior champion in Dodge City, and also traveled to the National Jaycee golf tournament in Ann Arbor, Mich., and Albuquerque, N.M., when he was in high school.
MANHATTAN (UP) — Kansas State College's golf team defeated Drake University 7-5 here yesterday and the track team followed with a $71\frac{1}{2}$ to $59\frac{1}{2}$ dual victory over Nebraska.
Started At 8
Sophomore Davey Smith of Stafford was K-State's top shooter with a 71.
K-State Wins In Track, Golf
Bill Toalson, a freshman, began playing golf when he was only eight years old under his father's tutelage.
Gene O'Connor, sophomore from
Toallson's first tournament win came when he capped a caddy title when he was 10. At the age of 15 he won the city tournament.
Hoisington and the nation's fastest 400-meter hurdler, won both the 220-yard low and 120-yard high hurdles.
A five-under-par 67 by Toalson
Jimmy Foxx, Ted Williams Van Musial, and Yogi Berra are the only four baseball players who have won the Most Valuable Player Award three times.
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