Page 8 University Daily Kansan Fridav. May 20, 1955
Big Seven Track and Field Meet Starts Here Today
By JOHN McMILLION
BY JOHN MCCLELLEN
Kansan Assistant Sports Editor
What may well be the best field in the history of the Big Seven track and field meet was slated to start competition at 3 p.m. today in preliminaries of the two-day meet which will last through tomorrow afternoon.
Several conference records will be in danger and one, the shot put mark of 53 feet $10^{4/4}$ inches is almost a certainty to fall. Bill Nieder of Kansas has surpassed the 56 foot mark in nearly every meet this year and has been the most consistent shot putter in the nation. ___
The javelin record of 216 feet 4 inches held by Herb Grote of Nebraska will probably be bettered by one of KU's trio of spearmen, if not by all three of them. Les Bitter, whose throwing has been a little off par latically, tossed the javelin 296 feet $ _{3} $ inch at the Arkansas Relays and got out a toss of 223 feet $ _{4} $ inch in a dual meet with Oklahoma A&M.
The number two man in the Kansas javelin corps, Don Sneegas, has also bettered the conference record with a tosse of 217 feet 83 inches and has been below 200 feet only twice this spring. Third man in the group, John Parker, has been getting off throws of around 209 feet all spring.
Another Jayhawker, Dick Blair, looks like the favorite in the 100-yard dash in view of his improved performances throughout the year. Blair first let it be known that he would be tough this year back in the conference indoor track meet when he upset the dopesters and won the 60-yard dash in the record breaking time of : 06:2. Blair also had a : 09:6 clocking in the 100-yard dash outdoors at Oklahoma A&M and whipped the great J. W. Mashburn in the 220 at the same meet.
Oklahoma, home of the great quarter milers, will still reign the favorite in this event. The Sooner's Johnny Dahl ran a 47.9 quarter against Fort Sill and had a 48.6 against Nebraska. Dahl will have plenty of competition, however, with such runners as Bob Massengale and Pete Orr of Missouri, Marvin Chiles and Joel McGill of Kansas State, and Lou Stroup and Willie Jones of Kansas running against him.
For the first time since the conference's inception back in 1948 a school other than Oklahoma or Kansas may have a chance of winning the 880-yard run. Pete Beard, a slender Missouri junior, has been a consistent winner in the 880 all season and led a 1-2-3 sweep of the event for Missouri in the indoor meet. Last week Beard beat smooth-running Lowell Janzen of Kansas in 1:33.3 on a scavvy track.
Another furious duel should develop in the distance events between Al Frame of Kansas and Bob Buchanan of Oklahoma. In the conference indoor meet Frame won the mile and Buchanan won the two-mile. They have not met since. Frame has a 4:14.7 in the mile, the best in the loop this year,
Easterday's Star—Jim Hearn of the Giants, who beat the Braves, 3-2, to become the N.L.'s first six-game winner of the season.
whereas Buchanan has no better than a 4:19.
In the two-mile, however, Buchanan has a 9:17 compared to Frame's 9:31.4. Plenty of pressure should be applied to the two forerunners by Jan Howell and Bernie Gay of KU, and Lynn Roman and Keith Bacon of MU.
Strong competition is available in all events with Bob Van Dee of OU slated as the favorite in the discus, Stew Walker of CU in the pole vault, Bob Constantine of MU, Bill Biberstein of KU, and Bob Derrick of OU rated a tosupin in the high hurdles, and Erwin Cook of OU in the broad jump. Sophomore Blaine Hollinger may deal some trouble to Cook and teammate Leon Moore in the broad jump, however.
The preliminaries and the discus will be held at 3 p.m. today and the finals in all events will commence at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow, Price of admission will be 50 cents for students today and 75 cents tomorrow and $1.00 for the public today and $1.50 tomorrow.
Tennis, Track, Golf League Meets Begin
The Big Seven conference track, golf and tennis tournaments are being held here for the first time in 33 years. Play got underway this morning in golf and tennis, with preliminaries in the track meet starting at 3 p.m. today.
The track finals will be held in Memorial stadium beginning at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow, while the final 18 holes of the 54-hole golf tournament will begin at 8 a.m. tomorrow at the Lawrence Country club, and the tennis finals will begin at 1 p.m. tomorrow.
Admission for today's preliminaries in the track meet will be 50 cents for students and $1 for adults. For Saturday's finals the admission will be 75 cents for students and $1.50 for adults. There will be no admission charge for the tennis and golf meets.
Major League Leaders Home Runs
BIG SEVEN OUTDOOR TRACK AND FIELD RECORDS
Mantle, Yankees ... 11
Snider, Dodgers ... 11
Kluszewski, Redlegs ... 10
Zernial, Athletics ... 10
Furillo, Dodgers ... 9
Runs Batted In
Snider, Dodgers ... 36
Campanella, Dodgers ... 33
Zernial, Athletics ... 29
Vernon, Senators ... 29
Furillo, Dodgers ... 29
100-Yard Dash, Hubert Meier, Iowa State, *90.4* ... 1906
220-Yard Dash, (one turn) George Kooettel, Oklahoma, *21.3* ... 1940
(straightaway) Thane Baker, Kansas State; *20.8* ¶ 19¶
440-Yard Dash (two turns) Frank Cindrick, Kansas; *47.9* ¶ 19¶
(one turn) Thane Baker, Kansas State :47.1* 1953
880-Yard Run, Wes Santee, Kansas, 1:50.8 1953
Mile Run, Wes Santee, Kansas, 4:06.3 1953
2-Mile Run, Bruce Drummond, Oklahoma, 9:19.0 1952
Mile Relay, Kansas State (Jerry Sartorius, Jervis Rowe, John
Caldwell, Thane Baker) 3:15.4
120-Yard High Hurdles, Bud Gartiser, Missouri, 14.2
Pat Hindman, Colorado, :14.2
220-Yard low hurdles (one turn), Dick Ault, Missouri, :23.3
(straightway) Don Smith, Kansas, :23.3* 1953
Pole Vault, Frank Dickey, Missouri, 14' 3% " 1940
Javelin, Herb Grote, Nebraska, 216'4" 1940
Shot Put, Jim Allen, Colorado, 53'10" 1950
High Jump, Tom Scofield, Kansas, 67' 3% 1947
Discus, Edsel Wibbels, Nebraska, 160' 5" 1940
Broad Jump, Neville Price, Oklahoma 25' 34" 1954
*established in preliminaries
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Oklahoma and Colorado have been rated as the first and second choices of the teams to beat in the Big 7 tennis tournament today and tomorrow on the Stadium courts.
Oklahoma, Colorado Favored In Big Seven Tennis Play
Though Colorado is the defending champion, Oklahoma has the best two singles players in the tourney and the returning No. 2 doubles runner-up team from last year.
Highly touted Ken Taylor, an OU senior, is rated as the top singles player in the tournament. He has won the last two Big 7 singles titles. Passionate and courageous, Raven sophomore, who has been close on the heels of Taylor all year.
In the doubles, Russ Fuller and Joa-
Martin, OU are considered the best bet.
Colorado's defending champions could upset the dopesters and retain their title, even though their No. 1 singles player, Don Luna, has graduated.
Returning are Gerry Starika, runner-up in the No. 2 singles; Carl Huter, runner-up in the No.4 singles; Dave Stewart, runner-up in the No.5 singles, and Bun Hunsberger, who plays against No.1 on the No.2 doubles. He has been playing the No.1 singles spot for the Buffs, moving up from No.2 last year.
Kansas will have an unbeaten entry in Bob Riley who has won all of his starts this year. He'll be playing the No. 1 singles and doubles.
Two doubles matches are slated to begin at 4 p.m. today which should prove to be good spectator matches. KU's Bob Riley and Dave Kane
Major League Standings
National League
| | W | L | Pet | GB |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Brooklyn | 25 | 7 | .781 | 7 |
| New York | 17 | 14 | .548 | 7¹ |
| Chicago | 18 | 15 | .546 | 7¹ |
| St. Louis | 15 | 13 | .536 | 8 |
| Milwaukee | 17 | 16 | .515 | 8¹ |
| Cincinnati | 12 | 18 | .400 | 12 |
| Pittsburgh | 11 | 20 | .355 | 13¹ |
| Philadelphia | 9 | 21 | .300 | 13 |
American League
Cleveland 21 10 677 —
New York 19 10 633 1/4
Chicago 18 11 621 2
Detroit 17 15 531 3/4
Boston 15 19 441 7/4
Washington 12 18 400 8/4
Kansas City 12 19 387 9
Baltimore 12 19 323 11
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The finals in tennis will begin at 1 p.m. tomorrow.
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