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CHARLE THOMAS of Texas is breaking the tape on the anchor leg of the world's record 440-yard relay team which won in 40.3, breaking the existing record of 40.5. Thomas also placed third in the 100-yard dash, and anchored the Texas mile relay team.
By STAN HAMILTON
Santee Peeved at Track Runs Poor First Half
Wes Santee, who was married almost exactly 24 hours after he had turned in the second swiftest mile ever run by an American, said after the Saturday race that had he "had the urge to run the last half well" he might have cracked the "magic" four-mile bar-
"I was just peeved with the track and the wind, so I didn't think I could do well," he said after he had run. "I heard my time and tried to do that last 880 real well. I ran a poor first half (2:01 unofficially) because I didn't feel like running."
The tanky Jayhawk, who ran the Glenn Cunningham mile for the first time, said before the start of the race that because the track was in poor condition he was going to run just hard enough to win whether or not he set a record.
"The track there (the south curve and a 150-yard stretch on the east side) is loose on top and is sandy," he said.
But the man for whom the race is named, Cunningham, said prior to the run that "this is about as perfect a day as I've seen for a KU Relays, don't think the wind will warm. We know it will wind will be a hindrance. If he ever does it he ought to be able to do it to say."
Santee admitted surprise at his good time of 4:03.1 and said the rolling had helped him considerably.
Then just before the race, KU coach M. E. "Bill" Easton had Louis Stroup one of his frosh trackmen, roll the track. He made two complete tours of the oval on the power-driven roller and went over the east straightaway three extra times.
Easton said he thought that although conditions as the wind and high temperature were not "ideal," Santee had run a great race. He stressed that he thought another aid was the constant cheering of the partisan home crowd.
Although Santee, voted most valuable man in the Relays, disapproved of the way he had run Curteichingham opined that he ran correctly.
"I saw wrong wrong with his race," the ex-KU great said. "I thought he had it timed just right, but a little water might have helped bit. I still think the mile will be in four minutes or less."
What does it feel like to run against such an individual?
In the words of Bjorr Bogerud of Oklahoma A&M, the second place unisher by about 100 yards, "He purses me so I could do anything about it."
Santee took the lead in the first turn of the initial lap and increased the gap throughout.
Unofficially, Santee's quarter times were 59.5, 61.5, 63, and 59.9. Three official watches had these times for the race: 4:03.1 by Reeves Peters, Big Seven executive secretary; 4:03 by Marion Miller, Missouri Valley AAU executive, and 4:03.3 by Louis House, track and football coach at Southwest High of Kansas City, Mo.
The wind, according to Bill Buck, a sophomore Relays student committee member and caretaker of the anemometer, varied from 4 to 8 miles per hour during the running.
After Cunningham presented the trophy to Santee, Cunningham offered to safeguard the award so the runner could get warmed up for another race to follow, but the 22-year-old senior handed it to a policeman in the stands who in turn gave it to Miss Danna Lou Denning, now Mrs. Wes Santee. She is from Elkhart, Cunningham's original home town.
The defending title holder, John Bennett of Marquette, found when he was on the way here that his right jumping shoe had a broken spike, so he purchased a new pair in Milwaukee.
He used the new shoes for the first time in his preliminary and first three final jumps, then had to switch back to the old pair because the new ones were too tight.
An upset of some proportion occurred in the broad jump because of both a new pair of shoes and an old pair.
He taped up the broken spike as best he could but it was not enough as Neville Price of Oklahoma outdid him by three inches to win. Bennett won last year with a leap of almost seven inches better than Price's winning effort Saturday.
Righthanders Redlegs Needed Were on Bench
Most persons in the stands did not know that J. W. Mashburn of Oklahoma A&M had only that morning run the first hurdle race in his collegiate career.
By UNITED PRESS
The right-handed pitching when Cincinnati was seeking to become a strong first division contender may have been sitting on the bench in full view of Manager Birdie Tebbets all the time.
"We can be pretty tough as we are, but give us a little more right handed pitching and we could give everybody trouble," said Tebbetts as he praised the Cincy power hitting.
The blond former Oklahoma uni- is still in use at Watch Hill, R.iversity student and one of the Originally it was turned by a dra flavors in the race pulled uphorse.
Well, thus far, right handers have started every game but one and Cincinnati is tied for first place with the Phils at four victories and one defeat.
Big Jim Greengrass was a genuine heavyweight at bat, driving in four runs with a three-run homer and single in a 6-4 first game victory, then driving in two more in the 5-3 second game sweep at Milwaukee before he went out with a pulled muscle in his back. However, he said he felt fine later and it was believed he would not be out of action for long.
In the iner, Howie Judson, who had been cast as卧但 was brought back from the minors after winning 11 straight games without a defeat at Tulsa last season, gained the victory with relief held from Herman Wehmeir. They combined to give Milwaukee six hits. In the second game, Bud Podielban pitched 7 1/3 innings for the win, after which big Frank Smith protected his margin. Ed Bailey, rookie catcher for Cincy, hit his first big league homer while Jack Dittmer homered for Milwaukee.
The Phillies, who have been getting phenomenal pitching, swept to 6-0 and 7-1 victories, over the Pirates as Robin Roberts scored his first victory with a four hitter and lefty Curt Simmons followed with a seven-hitter in the second game. The Giants topped the Dodgers, 6-3, as Sal Maglie beat them for the second time, while the Cardinals won, 6-4, from the Cubs after which the second game was called after two innings of scoreless play because of darkness.
In the American league, the Senators pounded out 13 hits for a 9-3 win over the Yankees, while Chicago cashed in on three homers to defeat the Indians 5-2 in a six-inning rain-shortened game. Steve Gromek pitched his second straight victory for the Tigers over the Orioles, 8-3, while at Boston, rookie Bob Trice hurled the Athletics to a 6-4 victory, then the Red Sox retaliated with a 4-3 victory in 13 innings in the second game when Jackie Jensen broke it up with a homer. Jensen also hit a first game homer.
Earl Torgeson supplied Roberts with a three-run homer in the first inning of the opener at Philadelphia while Del Ennis was the big batsman in the second triumph driving in five runs with two homers.
The Cardinals scored all of their six runs in the seventh inning as rookie Tom Alston hit a three-run homer and Stan Musial blasted "two" doubles. Umpire Lee Ballan-fant called the first one foul and Manager Eddie Stanky howled himself out of the game. Then Musial drove in the first run of the rally with a second blast which Ballanfant ruled fair.
after falling over the fifth barrier in the 400-meter hurdle event. He also hit the ground after clearing the second hurdle.
While he had been a high school hurdler, he said the qualifying race he had run Saturday morning was the first hurdle race he had run in college. It might be noted, however, that Mashburn, who won the decathlon here last year, did have to run the 110-meter hurdles as one of the 10 events in that event.
Monday, April 19, 1954
University Daily Ransan
FRED BARNES of Fresno State is shown clearing the 14 foot mark to win the pole vault at the Kansas Relays. Barnes attempted three jumps at 14 feet 6 inches after winning the title, but failed in all attempts.
KU Golfers Lose to Wichita $ 4^{1 / 2}-13^{1 / 2} $
Results:
Coach Donn Everett's golf team dropped its second dual meet in four starts when it lost to the University of Wichita on the Shockers' home course on Saturday $ \frac{4}{3}-13\% $
Sam Sadler, W, defeated John Prosser. K. 3-0
Bob Richards was KU's only golfer to win his match. He shot a one-under-par 70 to defeat Dick Gardner 2-1. Rickard sank three 15-foot putts on the last three holes to win over Gardner, who shot a 72.
Fritz Probst, W, defeated Ed Mac-
Gee, K-3, 0.
Joe Korst, W, defeated Noel Rooney, K, $ \frac{2}{3} - 1.$
Sadler and Gardner, defeated Richards and Prosser, 2-1.
Probst and Korst, defeated Mac-
Gee and Rooney, 2-1.
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