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University Daily Kansan Monday, April 23, 1956
KU Gets 5 Firsts As Texas Breaks World Relay Mark
KU Edges Hawks 6-5
An estimated crowd of 15,000 saw the making of a world record and eight stadium or meet marks at the 31st annual Kansas Relays—one of the nation's greatest track and field spectaculars—in "Junelike" weather Saturday.
KU won five firsts.
The Kansas baseballers, although they were out-hit by the Rockhurst Hawks 11 to 5, still managed to put together 6 runs to come out on top. 6 to 5, in a game played at Rockhurst Friday and thus remain undefeated.
Mildly disappointed at a mere Relays record-breaking effort, the crowd registered only polite applause when the top-featured performers, Bill Nieder and Parry O'Brien, failed to live up to optimistic predictions of another world mark in the shot put.
Rc won five lives.
For most of the crowd, the big thrill of the day was the setting of a new world record in the university class 440-yard relay, a perennial favorite that combines the teamwork of the relay with the sizzling speed of the 100-yard dash.
Nieder missed 60, but managed to break the Relays record while trying, with a heave of 59 feet $^{78}$ inches. The old record, set by Chuck Fonville of Michigan in 1948, was $58 - \frac{1}{3}$.
The University of Texas knocked two-tenths of a second off their own history-making 1955 mark, by running the quarter-mile race in :40.1, with two of last year's team, Bob Whilden and Jerry Prewitt, who teamed with J. Frank Daugherty and George Schneider in Saturday's classic to edge the Bears from Baylor in a dead-heat.
That same Texan, Whilden, tied the 100-yard dash mark set by Cy Leland of TCU in 1930, with KU's Dick Blair only inches behind, running .09.4—the best time of his career.
OBRien, who has thrown more than 60 feet on several occasions and owns the world record with 61 feet $5\%$ inches, hit 60-2$ \frac{1}{2} $
during the preliminaries, but since he was competing on an exhibitionary basis, his mark does not count as a Relays record.
Leading the field, O'Brien also exhibited the best disc throw of the day, with a distant 176-9$\frac{1}{2}$. But Jayhawk Al Oerter won the event and claimed the victory medal with 170 feet 2 inches.
Completing the second weight-sweep of the season for the Jayhawks, and the first in Relays history, NCAA champion Les Bitner flung t he javelin 214 feet $6 \%$ inches, while teammates Jim Londerholm and John Parker followed closely for second and third.
With a weight-grand slam in both the Texas Relays and the KU festival, should Kansas capture the shot put, javelin, and discuss at the Drake Relays next weekend, it will be the first triple-triple sweep in history.
One of the closest finishes of the day occurred on the anchor-leg of the university distance medley, when Iowa's ace-miler Ted Wheeler dued four laps with Al Frame of Kansas. Frame trudged to a near-photo-finish with the 6-foot 4-inch Wheeler, but was overtaken in the final few yards. Wheeler clocked an unofficial 4:19 in his narrow victory over Frame.
Broad-jumper Kent Floerke of Kansas won the AAU hop, step, and jump with a mark of 48 feet $7 \%$ inches, and 7-foot freshman basketballer Wilt Chamberlain, performing unattached and wearing for his colors a plaid golfer's cap, placed fourth.
6 Prep Records Bettered As Eight Break Single Record
Last Friday's 52nd annual KU Interscholastic Relays saw six records bettered, one equaled, and a new set of champions reigning as the final tape was broken.
The Topeka Trojans failed to capture a single first place, but scored heavily from next-best efforts to edge last year's AA titlists, Shawnee-Mission. $32\frac{1}{2}$-29. Wichita East, winner of 11 of the last 13 AA crowns, finished third with $18\frac{1}{2}$ points.
Norm Boldridge of Efingham won the high jump, 220-yard dash and placed second in the 100-yard dash for a total of 14 points, to finish as the day's individual high scorer. Larry Wiggins of Wellsville was second with 12}.
The 880-vard run record was the most severely attacked, with eight performers surpassing the 1945 mark set by Bill Stuart of Shawnee-Mission of 2.01.2. Robert Tague of Rosedale recorded for the lowest time of the afternoon, a speedy 1.58.2.
McPherson's spear-thrower Jerry Barber erased the oldest mark, with a javelin tooss of 207 feet 41 inches. The old record, set by Earl Rittell of Rock Creek in 1932, was 194 feet $ \frac{9}{4} $ inches. Second place Therlo Conner of Hayden also broke the record with a throw of more than 195 feet.
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Sophomore Ron Wiley registered his third win of the season, against no defeats, as he struck out 11 and gave up 11 hits in pitching all the way.
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Rockhurst pitchers held the Jayhawkers to 5 hits, but seven walks and five errors by the Hawks gave KU the win. The winning run for the Jayhawkers was scored in the seventh inning on four straight walks given up by Rockhurst's losing pitcher Steffens.
Right-hander Wiley, who also plays in the outfield, aided his own cause hitting a double and a single for two for three at bat.
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The win gave the Jayhawks a 7-0 won-lost record against non-conference foes. They open the Big Seven slate today and Tuesday against Kansas State on the home field.
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They follow with Oklahoma here on Friday and Saturday in two more games. The games Monday and Tuesday will begin at 3:00 p.m.
Kansas ... 0 3 1 0 0 1 1 0 0—5
Rockhurst ... 0 0 0 1 3 0 1 0—5
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Rafer Johnson of Kingsburg, Calif., bettered Bob Mathias' world decathlon record by scoring 7,983 points in a meet at Kingsburg, June 10-11, 1955.
LONGHORN SPEEDSTER — Bobby Whilden, Texas sprint star, flashes to a narrow victory over KU's Dick Blair in the 100-yard dash, tying the record of .9.4. Whilden ran third on TU's world record-breaking 440-yard relay team, was voted the most outstanding Athlete, and ran on last year's 440 team which set the old record here.
Major Walter Wingfield introduced what is known now as lawn tennis in 1873, at a lawn party in Wales. He named his innovation of the old court tennis "Sphairistike."
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