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University Daily Kansan
Monday, May 23. 1955
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DIDN'T ANYONE ELSE ENTER?—Kansas scores a 1-2-3-4 sweep of the mile run as Al Frame, Jan Howell, Mike Swanson, and Bernie Gay cross the finish line in that order. The mile was the first event of Saturday's Big Seven Track and Field meet. The Jayhawkers scored 28 points in the mile and went on to take the meet with a record-breaking 173 points.
Scoring Record Falls As KU Wins Track Title
By JOHN McMILLION
Kansan Assistant Sports Editor
Kansas finished 1-2-3-4 in the mile run, first event of the day, and thereby served notice to the rest of the Big Seven of what to expect for the day as the Jayhawkers went ahead to win the Big Seven Track and Field meet with a record-breaking total of 17? points.
Oklahoma finished second, 69 points back, with a total of 104. Missouri was third with 103. Iowa State was fourth with $25\%$. Kansas State was fifth with 23. Colorado was sixth with 21, and Nebraska finished in the cellar with $15\%$ points.
The KU squad, touted as being the weakest for several years past and for several years to come, completely dominated the meet as they scored in every event but one, the pole vault, and smashed the team total record of 158 1/6 points set by Missouri in 1947.
Kansas captured 28 points to open the meet as Al Frame, Jan Howell, Mike Swanson, and Bernie Gay, crossed the finish line in that order in the mile run. Fifth man was Missouri's Keith Bacon. Frame's winning time was 4:16.5.
Frame and spinner Dick Blair were both double winners for Kansas. In addition to winning the mile, Frame took the two-mile in 9:27.9, the best two-mile he has run in his career. This made him the seventh man in the history of the conference to score a sweep of both distance events. The second place man in the race was 70 yards back.
Blair was a standout and received the Shannon Douglas trophy as the outstanding spinner of the meet. The smooth-running junior won the 106-ward dash in :99.8, took the 220 in :20.9, good for a new stadium record and only one-tenth of a second off the conference mark of 20.8 held by Thane Baker of Kansas State, and then ran an opening quarter in the mile relay, which gave his teammates a big lead. The Jayhawkers finished second in the relay, however, as Oklahoma's Johnny Dahl ran a sparkling anchor quarter to edge KU's Larry Frisbie.
Three conference records were broken in the preliminaries of the field events on Friday, Bill Nieler of KU, who received the Henry Schulte Memorial trophy for the outstanding performance, got off his best shot put heave of the year and the best in the nation by a collegian, as he set a new conference mark of 57 feet $11_{\frac{3}{4}}$ inches. This mark far eclipsed the old standard of 53 feet $10_{\frac{3}{4}}$ inches held by Jim Allen of Colorado.
Les Bitter established a new record of 219 feet $4\frac{1}{4}$ inches in the javelin as KU again dominated this event. Don Sneegas, John Parker, and Don Bracelin placed third, fourth, and sixth between Bit-
ner's winning effort, as second place went to Jake Muehlenthaler of Iowa State.
Bob Van Dee of Oklahoma set a new conference record of 165 feet $^{37}$ inches in the discus. This should be a one year record, however, as a KU freshman, Al Oerter, has thrown the discus 171 feet 6 inches in a freshman postal meet.
Leven Gray of Missouri tied the conference record in the low hurdles and established a new stadium mark with a time of :23.2. Missouri finished 1-2 in the lows as Bill Constantine finished second. Constantine won the high hurdles to give MU a sweep of the hurdles.
Kansas got excellent performances from broad jumpers Bob Smith and Blaine Hollinger and from runner Willie Jones, Smith and Hollinger got off the best bumps of their careers and were first and second in the event until Erwin Cook got off a leap of 24 feet $10\%$ inches in the finals to take first. Smith was second with a jump of 24 feet 7 inches and Hollinger third with 24 feet $67\%$ inches.
220-yard dash: dash) (1) Blair, KU, (2) Sweatte, OU (3) Fischer, MU (4) Hennessey, NU (5) McDaniell, KS (6) Merckxon, KS, Time=20.9 (new track record)
Jones ran what was probably the best quarter mile of his career as he finished second behind Oklahoma's Johnny Dahl, who ran a 47.6 for the fastest time in the Big Seven this year. Jones also finished a very close third in a stellar 220-vard low hurdle field.
100-yard dash; (1) Blair, KU (2)
Swette, OP, (3) McDaniel, KS (4)
Fischer, MU (5) Lang, IS (6) Mershon,
KS, Time—09.8.
880-yard run) (1) Reed, OU (2) Beard,
MU (3) Janzen, KU (4) McQuinn, MU
(5) Kelley, MU (6) Duncan, MU, Time
-1 33.3 (ties track record)
440-yard dash; (1) Dahl, OU (2) Jones.
KU (3) Folsom, OU (4) Massengale, MU
(5) Frisbie, KU (6) Stodgell, IS, Time—
47.6
Two-mile run; (1) Frame, KU (2)
Williams, MU (3) Wyatt, CU (4) Ladd,
OU (5) Rupp, KU (5) Roman, MU, Time
-9:27:9
120-yard high hurdles: (1) Constantine,
MU (2) Bibernet, KU (3) Derrick, OU
(4) Hagebock, CU (5) Puckett, MU (6)
Frazier, UO. Time: -14.5
Mile run; (1) Frame, KU (2) Howell,
KU (3) Swanson, KU (4) Gay, KU (5)
Bacon, MU (6) Osmera , NU.Time—
4:16.5
KU (3) Hollinger, KU (4) Philmon, IS
(2) KS (6) MOE, OUR, DC
- 24'10" 7.8
220-yard low hurdles; (1) Gray, MU
(2) Constantine, MU (3) Jones, KU (4)
Mueller, KU (3) Lang, IS (6) Hagebook
record and sets new track record
Discuss: (1) Van Dee, OU (2) Knowles, KU (3) Salmon, MU (4) McDaniel, CU (5) Nieder, KU (6) Rosen, NU, Distance - 165' 3.7' 8' (new conference record)
Mile Relay: (1) Oklahoma (2) Kansas
Bissoura (3) Nebraska (4) Colorado
(6) Owakona
Shot Put; (1) Nieder, KU (2) Blasi
KU (3) Van Dee, OU (4) Salmons, MU
Muecke, KS (6) Rosen, Distance-
57 11 3.8" (new conference record)
Broad Jump; (1) Cook, OU (2) Smith.
Javelin, (1) Bitner, KU (2) Muelenhart, IS (3) Sneegas, KU (4) Parker, KU (5) Powell, KS (6) Bracelin, KU, Bracelin - 219" $4/1\frac{4}{9}$ new conference record.
High Jump; (1) Lang, MU (2) Wells KU (tie for 3rd, 4th between Kelley Rangles, Rampels) (tie for sixth between Chelsea, Chelsea, Stewart, IS Metkze. UN, Height '6' S $ 3 4''
Pole Vault; I) Kruger, OU (2 & 3)
England, MU, Miller, KS (4, 5 & 6)
Mullison, IS, Fellinger, IS, Mallas, IS
Height—13' 8 1/8"
Yesterday's Star—Early Wynn of the Indians, who pitched a one-hitter against the Tigers.
OU Wins Tennis Meet; Singles Crown to Riley
By SAM JONES
By SAM JONES
Kansan Sports Writer
The Oklahoma Sooners stayed true to form as they took first place in the Big 7 tennis tourney over the weekend.
pairs.
Sooner netmen won 15 matches, including two singles finals and the
two doubles finals.
Ken Taylor, rated as the best singles player in the tournament, was upset by Kansan Bob Riley in the No. 1 singles, final, 6-2, 7-5.
Second seeded Colorado picked up only seven wins for a fourth place. The Buff netmen, attempting to hold onto the Big Seven crown they picked up last year, couldn't quite find the mark for more wins.
Missouri finished second with 10 wins, while the Jayhawkers picked up eight wins for third place.
Oklahoma came through again in the No 2 doubles, as John Martin, playing with specially made shoes, and Russell Fuller, wearing two knee braces, handily defeated the Kansas State duo of John Teas and Bob Hansen, 6-2, 6-3.
Fifth place went to Iowa State with five wins, while Kansas State placed sixth with three wins, and Nebraska finished in the cellar with only a bye for a win.
In the No. 1 doubles, Ken Taylor and Barry Walraven took the win for Oklahoma by defeating Missourians Bill Wickersham and Bob Simpson, 6-3, 6-2.
The longest match of the entire tournament came in the No. 5 singles final. Dave Stewart, Colorado, and Bob Markley, Oklahoma, battled for 41 games, with Stewart winning out after 31 hours of play. The score was 3-6, 11-9, and 7-5.
Barry Walraven, the Sooners No. 2 player behind Taylor, took the win in the No. 2 singles with a decisive win over Missouriian Bob Simpson. 6-0. 6-3.
In the No. 4 singles, Coloradoan James Landin took the win with a 6-2, 11-9 match over Ted Hampe, of Iowa State.
John Martin, Oklahoma's No. 3 player, won the No. 3 singles with a 6-0, 6-3 win over Kansan Don Franklin.
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