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University Daily Kansan
Friday, April 16, 1954
Gross Hopes to Shine With Hooper Shadow Gone
BOBBY GROSS OF TEXAS A&M
Darrow Hooper is departed, but Texas A&M has come up with another discus-thrower who may stretch the Cadet chain to five consecutive victories here Saturday when Midwest and Southwest spiked-shoe hopefuts unravel the 29th Kansas Relays.
The name is Bobby Gross. You may not recall it since he labored deep in the shadow of Hooper in both the discus and shot put throughout last season. He already has exceeded his 1953 ceiling four times with the brass-rimmed platter. Gross finished third here last year behind Hooper and Nebraska's Cliff Dale.
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But Oklahoma sophomore Bob Van Dee has stamped himself as the big threat. He won the Texas Relays at 159-3. Other Big Seven muscle-men like Dale, and Kansas' football duo of Dick Knowles and Morris Kay, are likely to project themselves as 150-footers.
Gross' best peg, is his winning cast of 156-9]$^4$ at the Border Olympics. He threw 154-7]$^4$ in a triangular against Texas and Houston, opened with a 151-10 toss against LSU and Rice, and had his poorest showing at the Texas Relays with 151-4.
inaugurated the current Aggie streak in 1950, was one. Hooper attained the charmed circle last year. Minnesota's Byrli Thompson hit 161-10% with his 1949 victory. And Archie Harris, Indiana record holder, spanned 171-6% in 1941.
Nick Spillios of Houston will be another to watch. He also has improved his best 1953 performance of 149-31. He whiried 156-0 behind Gross at Laredo and 155-2 at Texas. He is defending Missouri Valley
The latter heave was three inches beyond his 1st 1953 effort of 151-1. Continued improvement would lift him into the 160-foot class, which only four men have attained in Relays history. George Kadera, who
champion in both the discus and shot.
If Gross is able to win here, he will hoist Col. Frank Anderson's weight brigade into a tie with Minnesota for the most consecutive Mt. Cread discus crowns captured by one team.
The Gopher's five-year skein is somewhat tainted in that Thompson, last in a lengthy line of tremendots flingers, copped his first gold medal in 1946 while representing Camp Grant. Bob Fitch, one-time world holder, opened the string in 1942 with a cast of $158-9\frac{1}{2}$ up until then the second-best on the Relays books.
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