University Daily Kansan Monday. April 9,1956.
KU Wins 6 First Places To Top Texas Relays
Led by a strong array of field performances, including new records in the shot put and javelin, plus two first places in relay events, Kansas University's Jayhawkers completely dominated the 29th annual Texas Relays Friday and Saturday in Austin, being voted the meet's most outstanding team.
In their first outdoor appearance of the track season, Kansas' NCAA hopefuls were voted the meet's outstanding team, winning a total of six first places to equal last year's feat by Oklahoma A&M, but falling short of the record of seven first places set in 1941 by Texas University.
Nieder Top Performer
Overshadowing all other events were the efforts of shot-putter Bill Nieder, whose near-miss in trying for 60 feet gained him the acclaim and admiration of Texas sportswriters, who selected him as the meet's outstanding performer following his record-shattering throw Friday of 59 feet 9 inches, the second best of his career.
His best throw, 59 feet $94^{2}$ inches,
came during this year's Big Seven
Indoor Track Meet. His toss Friday
was 61 feet. Hooper's record of 66
feet $24^{2}$ inches.
Nieder, who has been crowding the 60-foot mark for nearly two years, actually tossed the shot an arm and drove him into the maries, but fouled on the attempt.
The second KU record-setting field performer, Les Bitner, threw the javelin 220 feet 8 inches, bettering the old mark of 216 feet $ 8_{2} $ inches, set back in 1937. Placing second in the javelin was sophomore Jim Londerholm with a heave of 213 feet 2 inches.
Oerter Wins Discus
Another sophomore, Al Oerter, won the discus Saturday with a toss of 165 feet 3 inches. His nearest competitor was Oklahoma's Bob Van Dee, last year's Big Seven discus titlist, who threw 163 feet 5 inches. Oerter also placed fifth in the shot put with a mark of 51 feet $ _{13/4} $ inches.
To complete KU's domination in the field events, sophomore Kent Floerke won the broad jump with a leap of 24 feet $6 \frac{1}{2}$ inches, defeating Oklahoma A&M's Kim Ellis, last year's Kansas Relays broad jump champion.
Floerke, however, only managed to finish third in his Olympic event specialty, the hop, step, and jump, jumping 46 feet $7 \frac{1}{2}$ inches.
In the track events, the Jayhawkers picked up two first places, nipping the strong Texas Longhorn distance medley relay team on Friday, then following up Saturday with an easy victory in the four-mile relay.
The distance medley team, composed of Dick Blair, Lowell Janen, Hal Long, and Al Frame had a winning time of 10:10.9, while the four-mile relay team finished with a slow time of 17:35.1.
Blair Third
Spinter Dick Blair picked up third place in the Olympic 100-meter dash, behind Longhorn speedsters
Golfers Drop 3 Holiday Duals
Although Bob Richards, Big Seven golf champ, won two matches on the southern golf trip, KU went down to defeat three times.
On Tuesday, the KU golfers were nosed out by Tulane at New Orleans by a score of $ 9 \frac{1}{2} $ to $ 8 \frac{1}{2} $ At Houston on Thursday, Richards was the only Kansas golfer to score a point as KU suffered a 5-1 defeat.
Rex Baxter, Houston's No. 2 player, did not compete, as he was entered in the Master's Tournament in Augusta, Ga.
Southern Methodist won over Kansas on Friday also by a 5-1 score as only Jim Davies was able to win his match. Davies sunk six putts of more than 15 feet on the last nine to eke out a one stroke win.
The matches by meets went like this:
Tulane
Bob Richards, KU (72) defeated Stanton Shuler. (73) 2-1.
Dick Lyle (73) defeated Jim Davies, KU (78) 2-1.
Schuler and Lyle defeated Richards and Davies 2-1.
Ed MacGee, KU (72) tied Neal Hobson (72) 1½-1%.
Fritz Dahlberg (72) defeated Bill Sayler, KU (80) $ \frac{2 1}{3} - \frac{1}{1 2} . $
MacGee and Sayler defeated Hobson and Dahlberg $2\frac{1}{2} - \frac{1}{4}$.
Houston
Bob Richards, KU (73) defeated Frank Wharton, UK (1,0)
Jim Russell (75) defeated Bill Savier, KU (79) 1-0.
Wharton and Russell defeated Richards and Sayler 1-0.
Jim Hiskey (74) defeated Jim Davies. KU (81) 1-0.
Rich Pravino (74) defeated Ed MacGee, KU (78) 1-0.
Hiskey and Pravino defeated Davies and MacGee 1-0.
Frank Wear (75) defeated Bob Richards KU (79) 1-0
Tom Towry (76) defeated Bill Savler. KU (78) 1-0.
Wear and Towry defeated Richards and Sawyer 1-0.
SMU
Jim Davies, KU (79) defeated Ken Scott (80) 1-0.
Bobby Whilden and J. Frank Daugherty. Finishing fourth was former Texan Dean Smith, who edged out Blair in the 100-yard dash in last year's Kansas Relays.
Jerry Pittman (72) defeated Ed MacGee (85) 1-0.
Baseballers Win 3 On Road Trip
The KU baseball team began its season with a successful road trip over the Easter holidays, winning three games and losing none. The first win was over Memphis Naval Air Station 13 to 0, the second and third over Arkansas State 7 to 1 and 11 to 9.
In the opening game against Memphis, the Jayhawkers won easily with a 10 hit attack behind the three-hit pitching of sophomore Ron Wiley. Leading the hitting was Barry Robertson with a double and a triple in four trips to the plate. Barry Donaldson got two singles.
The game was called at the end of six innings because of a curfew law. The second game was rained out.
Strikes Out 9
Behind the five-hit pitching of Bob Shirley, the Jayhawks ripped to a 7-1 win over Arkansas State. Shirley struck out nine and walked two in handing Arkansas its fifth loss in eight starts.
The Jayhawks got ten walks in the game, nine of them coming in the first five frames, in which Kansas scored all but one of its runs. Jim Trombold led the hitting with two for four.
Come From Behind
The second game of the Arkansas series saw Kansas coming from behind to win 11 to 9. A bases-loaded double with two out by relief hurler Gary Fenity in the top of the ninth gave KU the victory. Fenity relieved Wiley in the seventh with the bases loaded, one out and one run across the plate. Fenity then retired the side allowing only one more run to score.
In other Big Seven games over the holidays, Missouri defeated Tulsa 14 to 6 and 8 to 6, while Colorado dropped all three games of its Texas road trip, losing to Texas State 11 to 6 and 10 to 7, and to Ft. Bliss 13 to 7.
Cunningham Hits At AAU
Glenn Cunningham, former KU holder of the American Mile and an Olympic champion, claimed Sunday the National AAU needs a revamping and discarding of many of its "prehistoric thinkers" if the U.S. is to keep abreast of the rest of the world in athletics.
Going further, he panned the AAU concerning the Wes Santee case. "The minute someone like Santee gets a bit more than a base existence out of performing, the call it professionalism and an understanding of solution, he suggested incorporating the AAU under the NCAA
"After all, the vast majority of your athletes are in the colleges and universities and, it's only natural that these institutions, with their learned men should govern the AAU."
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