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Monday, April 23,1956. University Daily Kansan
10 Olympic Prospects Here
In the array of stars that competed in the Kansas Relays, possibly 10 will represent the United States in the Olympics at Melbourne this year.
Bob Whilden, the Texas whippet, blazed a :9.4 in the 100-yard dash to tie the record in that event, and was closely pressed by Kansas' Dick Blair.
Sophomore Gene O'Connor, K-State hurdler, stood out by winning the 400 meter hurdles at :52.2 being only .2 off the American record, as well as a new Kansas Relays mark.
Charlie Dumas, Compton College freshman, soared 6 feet 88 inches in the high-jump to top the stadium record in that event.
The U.S. should have little worry in the shot put with Parry O'Brien and Bill Nieder as No.1 and 2 in the world.
J. W. Mashburn is still one of the U.S.'s best 440 men and proved it Saturday by running an unofficial :47.5 quarter in anchoring the A&M mile relay team to victory.
In other field events, Les Bitner, Al Oerter of Kansas, and Bryl Thompson of Minnesota are strong contenders to wear the U.S. colors in the javelin and discus respectively.
Jim Graham of Oklahoma A&M could up with a 15-foot vault in the pole vault, giving the U.S. added strength in that event.
Kent Fleerke, Kansas broad-jump artist could very well win that event in the Olympic tryouts this summer. He has done 24-61/2 in the broad-jump and did a 49/2 as his best in the hop-step-jump.
The tennis contest between U.S. and British women for the Wightman Cup has been won by the U.S. team all but four times since the annual tournament was initiated in 1923.
Missie Shelton of Southern California won the NCAA meet in 1955 with a high jump of 6 feet $11 \frac{1}{2}$ inches.
—(Daily Kansan photo)
WILT STEALS STYLE SHOW—KU's most casual sports dresser, Wilt Chamberlain, sails over the high jump bar with seeming ease in his plaid golfers cap, which he never removed. Clad also in a clashing green warmup. Wilt jumped 6-2½ in the high jump and placed fourth in the hop, step and jump.
Golfers Suffer Double Loss, Netmen Meet Tulsa Today
The Sooners, defending Big Seven team champions, defeated Kansas $7 \frac{1}{2}$ to $4 \frac{1}{2}$ at Norman. Captain Bob Richards fought to a draw with Bob Vickers, OU's One. 1 man.
The Kansas golf team's string of three victories was broken last week end as the KU linksters were beaten by Oklahoma and Oklahoma A&M.
At Oklahoma A&M, the strong Cowpoke team rolled up a 16 to 2 victory over KU. Tom Parnell grabbed the medalist honors with a two-under par 68 as he defeated Dickens who fired a 73.
With a second victory tucked away, the Kansas tennis team headed south early this morning to face, once again, the netmen from Tulsa University. KU swept Tulsa 6 to 0 in the first meet of the season, April 14.
The Jahwhaws won their second victory of the season Saturday at Lincoln, defeating Nebraska 7 to 0. The meeting with the Cornhuskers was the first Big Seven opponent this season for Coach Dick Mechem's conference-title hopefuls, and gave KU a record two wins and one loss. The loss came from archrival Washburn of Topeka, 4 to 3.
Top Award To Whilden
For the second straight year a Texas sprinter was chosen the outstanding athlete of the Kansas Relays. For his part in the world-record-shattering :40.1 440 relay, and for equaling the Relays 100-yard dash record, Bob Whilden of the University of Texas was voted the "most outstanding athlete" by sportswriters.
The Longhorn sprinter edged out KU's Dick Blair in Saturday's 100 with the fastest time of his career, a windblown ... 09.4—equaling the Relays record set by Cy Leland of Texas Christian University in 1930. Both Whilden and Blair qualified in the preliminaries with 09.5.
Others considered for the title of most outstanding athlete, included Iowa's great miler Ted Wheeler, and
Whilden ran in the No. 3 position on the record-breaking Texas 440- yard relay team. Whilden and team-mate Jerry Prewitt were two members of the 1955 world-record Texas 440 relay队.
Kansas shot-putter Bill Nieder.
Dean Smith, one of Whilden's teammates on the record-setting 1555 quarter-mile baton team, was chosen the most outstanding athlete last year. Smith ran the 100 in :99.4 also, but was aided by a strong wind, and anchored the Longhorn team to victory in the university 880 relay.
At the senior AAU track championships held at Brien, Colo. last year, Parry O'Brien won both the shot put and the discus events. His shot mark was 58 feet 54 inches, he threw the discus 175 feet 7 inches.
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