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University Daily Kansan
Monday, April 19, 1952
Santee Sets Record In Cunningham Mile
Bv DANA LEIBENGOOD
Kansan Sports Editor
Wes Santee put on a brilliant showing in his last appearance as a collegiate performer in the Kansas Relays to win the mile in 4:03.1 and anchor the distance medley relay team to victory after Kansas was trailing by 80 yards when Santee took the baton.
For this performance he was awarded the plaque as the meet's most valuable athlete, and thus became the first man in history to win the award twice. He had also won it in 1952.
Santee's 4:93.1 was the second fastest mile that he had ever run. His fastest was the 4:02.4 run at Compton, Calif., last summer. Santee's unofficial quarter times in the race Saturday were 59.5, 61.5, and 58.6.
In the spotlight with Santee was the University of Texas 440-yard relay team which was clocked in 49.3 and broke the Kansas Relays and world records. It will be counted as a new Kansas Relays record, but it may not be counted as a world mark because the race was run around only one curve and the wind, which ranged from eight to gusts of 25 miles an hour, was behind the first two Texas runners.
From the KU point of view the most thrilling relay was the distance medley in which Santee came from 80-yards behind and won by 40-yards with a time of 4:12.6 Frank Findrich ran a 48.5 unofficial first quarter to take a lead into Lloyd Koby. Koby added to this give a 30-yard lead to Art Dallzell However, Dalzell, evidently tired after carrying the anchor leg of the four-mile relay team in an unofficial 41.7, faded badly and was in last place when he handed the baton to Santee.
Sentee finally caught Missouri anchor man Jack Hodges in the back stretch of the final lap and won easily.
Two other KU athletes made their finest showings of the year to post victories. Don Sneegas won the javelin with a throw of 196 feet 9½ inches. The champion, the last two years, Wes Ritsch of TCU, finished fourth with a heave of 191 feet 1 inch. Leon Wells jumped 6 feet 6½ inches to the Bob Billings of Texas for first place in the high jump.
Neville Price of Oklahoma defeated the defending champion, John Bennett of Marquette in the broad jump. Price jumped 24 feet 9½ inches while Bennett was taking second place, three inches back.
Glenn Beerline, formerly of the University of Nebraska and now running unattached from Fort Sill, Okla., was upset in the hop, step, and jump finishing fourth. Last year Beerline jumped 48 feet $ \frac{4}{3} $ inches which broke the old record of 47 feet 2 inches, but the mark didn't count because of the wind. Saturday Beerline jumped only 45 feet 6 inches while Erwin Cook of Oklahoma was jumping 46 feet $ \frac{8}{3} $ inches to win the event.
In the high school relay Friday, Wichita East upset Shawnee-Mission to win its 11th class A title in 12 years. Haskell won the class A champion, and Lewis won the class B. The outstanding athlete in the meet was Charles Tidwell of Independence who won the 100-yard dash, 220-yard dash, and 180-yard low hurdles, to score 15 of his team's 17 points.
The Relavs summary:
Discus—1. Robert Van Dee,
Oklahoma, 153-9; 2. Bobby Gross,
Texas A&M, 152-2; 3. Jerry Helgeson,
Minnesota, 150-3; 4. Bob Thamm,
Drake, 147-3/4.
Javelin—1. Don Sneegas, Kansas,
196-9/8; 2. Marion Hudson, Dana
college, 192-5/1/16; 3. Pete Mayeaux,
Texas &M, 191-8/1/16; 4. Wes Ritchey,
Texas Christian, 191-1.
120 high hurdles—1. Bill Curtis,
Texas Christian; 2. Bill Biberstein,
Kansas; 3. Ronnie Fruit, Houston;
4. Arnold Hudson, SMU; 5. Jim
Buchanan, Pittsburgh State. Time
14:46.
Shot Put—Cordon Holz, Minnesota, 51-5; 2. Bobby Gross, Texas A&M, 51-1; 3. Bill Neider, Kansas, 50-7; 4. Kea Reiners, Nebraska, 50-23.
100-Yard Dash—1. Dean Smith,
Texas; 2. Alvin Frieden, Texas;
3.
Charlie Thomas, Texas; 4. Kirby Jett, Houston. Time : 09.6.
Four-Mile Relay—I. Kansas (AI Frame, Dick Wilson, Lloyd Koby, Art Dalzell); 2. Texas A&M; 3. Missouri; 4. Oklahoma A&M. Time 17:34.8.
440- Yard Relay -1. Texas (Dean Smith, Jerry Prewitt, Al Frieden, Charles Thomas); 2. Houston; 3. Baylor; 4. Minnesota. Time :40.9 (new relays record. Old time :40.5 Iowa 1935). Also betters world, American and intercollegiate records of :40.5 by Southern California, 1938.
Pole vault—1. Fred Barnes, Fresno State (14 feet); 2, 3; and 4, tie, Nick Piper of Iowa, Frank Dickey of Missouri and Joe Springer and Jim Harrington, Notre Dame, all at 3-1¹/₃.
3,000 meter steeplechase—1. Rich Ferguson, Iowa; 2. Bruce Drummond, unattached; 3. Eugene Hart, Iowa State; 4. Tom Rupp, Kansas. Time 9:20.4 new relays record, old record 9:27.0 by Tom Deckard, Indiana in 1927.
University distance medley relay-1. Kansas (Frank Cordrich, Koby Kowalski, Marvin Swanete) Missouri, Missouri; 3. Arkansas 4. Oklahoma A&M, Time 10:26.4
1-mile college relay—1. Abilene Christian (George Adrian, Burt McCoy, Don Conder, Leon Lepard). 2. Compton; 3. Emporia State; 4. Southwestern. Time 3:16.2. New Kansas relays record, old record 3:16.8 by Abilene Christian in 1950.
1-mile university relay-1. Southern Methodist (Ad Bartek, Al Bartek. David Weaver, Don Morton) 2. Iowa: 3. Missouri. Time 3:15.8.
Broad jump—1.  Neville Price, Oklahoma, 24-9; 2.  John Bennett, Queque, 24-6; 3.  Earl Smith, 23-10; 4.  Bob Kansas, Kansas 23-8).
University spirt medley relay-
1. Southern Methodist (Don Morton,
Delbert Barte, Tommy Armstrong,
Dave Weaver); 2. Notre Dame;
3. Oklahoma A&M; 4. Baylor.
Time: 3:26.6
AAU 400-meter hurdles—1. Jay Chance, Oklahoma Baptist; 2. Bob Chance, Oklahoma Baptist; 3. Ray Russell, Kansas State; 4. Jerry Parks, Drake State; 559.
Glenn Cunningham mile -1. Wes Santee, Kansas; 2. Bjor Bogerud, Oklahoma A&M; 3. Bruce Drummond, unattached; 4. Ray McConnell, Drake. Time 4:59. (New Kan. old.) Old. Held held by Blaine Rideout, North Texas State, 1940, and Don Gehrmann, Wisconsin, 1949).
Hop step and jump—1. Erwin Cook, Oklahoma, 46-8; 2. Roy Vallery, Louisiana Tech, 45-7; 3. Glenn Beerling, unattached (Fort Hood), 45-6; 4. Quanah Cox, Oklahoma, 44-8].
University 880-yard relay —1
Texas (Dean Smith, Jerry Prewit,
Charles Thomas), Houston
3. Baylor, 4. Missouri.
Time 1:25.5
WES SANTEE set a Kansas relays record with a 4:03.1 mile run. Santee is pictured breaking the tape on his record breaking performance. Santee also ran a 4:12.6 mile anchoring the Kansas distance medley relay team.
High Hurdles Champion Nearly Failed to Compete
Relav Sidelights:
By CLARKE KEYS
One 1954 Kansas Relay champion nearly failed to even compete in his event Saturday. Texas Christian's Bill Curtis, the greatest hurdler to ever compete in Oklahoma high school circles, was scratched from the 120-yard high barriers Friday night at the drawings when his coach failed to appear or send word.
When Curtis came onto the new Saturday morning for the preliminaries, he found the five heats completely filled and no spot open for him. Relays officials agreed to let him run IF one of the other runners who had said they would run would happen to scratch at the last minute.
But luck ran true for Curtis and a scratch enabled him to enter the preliminaries. He went on to win the event in the afternoon and dethrone defending champion Bill Biberstein of Kansas in the process.
--through with flying colors was Roger Ruth, an instructor at Lawrence Junior High. Ruth, a former athlete at Emporia State college, occasionally gives KU Coach Bill Easton a hand with the pole vaulters and high jumpers.
The name of one of the competitors in the 3,000 meter steeplechase might have sounded familiar to many of the 16,000 assembled for the meet Saturday, but it is doubtful that many realized they were watching the drum major of the KU band running the grueling course.
Glemm Opie, who likes to work out with the Jayhawker cindermen as a hobby, decided about a week ago to give the steepechase a try. It was his first try at competition and although he finished sixth in the field of seven, he earned the admiration of many who realized his accomplishment.
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Eskridge Will Return to KU For Grad Work
Jack Eskridge, a KU basketball player in the late 1940s, resigned his basketball coaching position at Atchison High school effective in June, and announced that he would return to the University to do graduate work.
Speculation as to whether Eskridge would assume a coaching position at KU arose immediately, but Dick Harp, present assistant basketball coach said Saturday that he would remain at the University. Harp said that Eskridge could be given a part-time job in the athletic department, and that he (Eskridge) might help the football and basketball staffs.
Eskridge was graduated from KU in 1950, and coached at Shenandoah, Iowa, before going to Atchison. He coached at Atchison two years and his team last year won the school's first Northeast Kansas league title.
Reds Trade Hatton For Lipon, Cash
Detroit—(U.P.)-Grady Hatton, who played every position except pitcher and catcher during eight seasons with the Cincinnati Reds, was hailed today as the solution to the Chicago White Sox' troublesome third base spot.
Frosh Baseball Meeting Today
The 32-year old left-handed hitting infielder was acquired by the White Sox in exchange for infielder Johnny Lipon and between $20,000 and $40,000.
KU freshman baseball players are to report to assistant coach Dick Gilman in the KU dressing room for a meeting at 2:30 p.m. today. Coach Gilman will work out with the freshen for about two weeks as he did last year. Special attention will be given to the boys who will help the team next year.
5. 460 points for runner-up honors in the 5-man field.
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Included in his showing was a winning pole vault leap of 13 feet.
The meet this year was one of the swiftest in history. Several times races had to be held up because the time schedule was ahead by as much as 15 minutes and athletes were going by the established schedule for their warmups.
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