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University Daily Kansan
Friday. April 20, 1956
BACK FOR HIS THIRD YEAR—J. W. Mashburn, 1955 NCAA winner of the 440-yard dash, and Oklahoma A&M's Olympic hope, will take his final turn on the Memorial Stadium track Saturday when he leads the Aggies after three relay titles. At the Texas Relays, the big quartertime anchored the A&M mile relay team with a tremendous time of :46.4, but was unable to overtake the Texas Longhorns' Jon Totz, who led his team to a 3:14.2 victory. With the exception of KU's Bill Nieder, there will be no brighter Olympic prospect in the field than Mashburn, and if he can anchor the Aggies home in at least two races, he will press Nieder for the Most Outstanding Athlete award. The main trouble with the Aggie relay squads is that they leave Mashburn with too much distance to pick up on his anchor lap. Besides the loss at Austin, Mashburn had to spot Oklahoma's Big Seven Indoor toiletist Chuck Folsom 22 yards at Stillwater. He ran a :46.5, but was still two yards short at the finish. At last year's KU Relays, the 185-pound native of Oklahoma City led the Aggies to a blazing record of 3:11.6 in the mile relay.
Tennis Coach One Of Best
of 3:11.6 in the mile relay.
Dick Mechem, one of the outstanding tennis amateurs in the Midwest, is probably one of the major college tennis coaches in the United States. At the age of 28, he is in iis fifth year as KU's varsity coach.
Mechem, whose enthusiasm for the sport keeps him on the court the year around, usually practices with the team members to give them a work out.
After winning the Topeka junior high school championship when he was 14 years old, Mechem began to take the game seriously. Three years later he discovered he was actually left handed and began his ambidextrous playing.
He plays ambidextrously—that is, he switches hands to return rather than use a backhand—and thus is able to realize the difficulties of both the right and left handed members of the team.
Making the switch to two handed playing occupied his spare time in the summers and winters, but in 1954 he had time to win the state high school tennis championship.
After graduation from Topeka high school, he spent a year in the Army. Afterwards, he spent a year and a half at Stanford University, where he was ranked No. 1 on the freshman tennis squad.
He completed work on his bachelor's degree at Washburn University in August of 1951. While a student at Washburn, he won the Central Intercollegiate Conference championship two years in a row. Since that time, he has been a perennial contender for honors in tournaments throughout the Midwest.
Tennis Schedule
April 26—Iowa State at Lawrence
April 27—Missouri at Columbia
May 4—Washburn at Lawrence
May 5—Missouri at Lawrence
May 8—Kansas State at Lawrence
May 18-19—Big Seven Meet at
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