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University Daily Kansan Monday, February 21, 1955
Santee,32 Other Stars Named to Pan-AmTeam
New York—(U.P.)—Eight national indoor track and field champions, including a newly-confident Wes Santee, are among 33 stars named today to represent the U.S. in the Pan-American games at Mexico City, March 12 to 26.
The team was selected by the Olympic track and field committee after Saturday night's national championships at Madison Square garden.
It was described by Chairman Jim Kelly of the University of Minnesota as so strong "it could have won any previous Olympic games," and, in fact, it includes four Olympic champions.
Santee, America's top miler, snapped a two-race losing streak by gunning from behind in the last lap to win the indoor mile title by three yards over Denmark's Gunnar Nielsen. The 22-year old Kansan's 4:07 9:clocking wiped up the old meet mark of 4:08.3 set by Gil Dodds.
But the cocky Santee, who will compete in the 1,500-meter run at Mexico City, indicated he didn't have much interest in mere meet records. He said the triumph over Nielsen and Fred Dwyer had restored his confidence and that his immediate goal was to regain the world indoor mile record.
Santee set a world indoor mark of 4:03.8 three weeks ago in Boston but a week later Nielsen lowered it to 4:03.6 while Santee and Dwyer put on their celebrated "wrestling" act in the Wanamaker mike.
Besides Santee, the newly-crowned champions selected to compete in the Pan-American games are Lt. Parry O'Brien of Los Angeles, Arnold Sowell of the University of Pittsburgh, Bob Richards of Los Angeles, Horace Ashenfelter of the New York Athletic club, Roseylan Range of Los Angeles, Bob Backus of the New York AC, and Ernie Shelton of Southern California.
O'Brien retained his shot put title by bettering his world indoor mark of 59, 4 inches with a 59-foot, 51- inch performance.
Sowell produced a brilliant last-lap sprint and equalled Don Gehrmann's world record of 2:08.2 while beating Norway's Audun Boysen by 10 yards in the 1,000-yard race.
Richards pole vaulted 15 feet, 4 inches, to better Corneius Warmerdam's met record of 15 feet, 31 inches. Ashenfelter kept the three-mile title with a 13:54 clocking; Range leaped 25 feet, 1 inch to win the running broad jump; Backus retained the 35-pound weight crown
Nats Appear To Win Title
By UNITED PRESS
The Syracuse Nationals appear to have the Eastern division title in the National Basketball association locked up, thanks to a sweep of a week end two-game series with the second place New York Knickerbockers.
After an 80 to 78 victory in New York Saturday the Nats scored an easy 104 to 84 triumph yesterday on their home court to go four games ahead with 11 left to play.
The third place Boston Celtics pulled within a half game of the Knicks yesterday by beating Philadelphia, 114 to 99. In other games yesterday the Fort Wayne Pistons retained their $ \frac{3}{2} $ game lead in the Western division by beating Milwaukee, 96 to 87, as second place Minneapolis downed Rochester, 105 to 92.
KU Track String Broken by Missouri
The Missouri indoor track team snapped a 33-metre victory string over Big Seven fees held by Kansas when the Tigers beat the Jayhawks, 57 to 47. Friday night in a dual meet at Columbia.
Seven meet records fell in Friday's meet, which is hailed by many as a preview of what is to come in this week end's Big Seven indoor meet. Bill Nieder of Kansas set a new record in the shot put with a heave of 53 feet, $6\frac{1}{2}$ inches. Teammate Leon Wells set a new standard of 6 feet, $5\frac{1}{2}$ inches in the high jump.
with a toss of 60 feet, $4\frac{1}{2}$ inches, and Shelton tied John Hall of the Armed Forces team for the running high jump title when each cleared 6 feet, $8\frac{1}{2}$ inches.
A forfeit to YMCA by Don Henry co-op left only two "A" games on the schedule Friday. Out of these two games, victories were chalked up by Beta Theta Pi and Lambda Chi Alpha.
Beta, Lambda Chi, YMCA Capture IM 'A' Triumphs
Beta 50, Sigma Chi 33
Don Franklin led the winning Beta team by scoring 17 points. The losers were paced by Louis Daharb, with 16.
Lambda Chi 63, Phi Kap 16
Lambda Chi 63, Phi Kap 16
Lambda Chi scored an easy victory with the able shooting of Jim King and Dick Walt. They scored 20 and 16 points, respectively.
**Fraternity " B"**
Kappa Sig 38, PiKA 19
Beta 52, Alpha Phi Alpha 21
Deltar 38, Sig Ep 31
ATO 34, Delta Chi 23
Phi Deltar 24, Sigma Chi 16
Phi Psi 28, PiKA 23
AKL won by forfeit over TKE
Fraternity "C"
Sigma Chi II 22, DU III 16
Beta II 29, AKL 19
Phi Delt won by forfeit over ATO
Independence
Phi Beta Pi 32, AFROTC 9
Theta Tau 21, Hoopoes 12
Jim Beam 25, Jets 12
IM Schedule
**Fraternity "A"**
4:00 ATO-Phi Tau
5:00 DU-Sig Ep
6:00 KTE-Delta Chi
Fraternity "B"
8:30 Sigma Nu-DU (E)
8:30 Lambda Chi-Phi Kappa Sig (W).
9:15 Sigma Pi-Phi Gam (E)
Independent "B"
9:15 Hashers-Rochdale co-op (W)