University Daily Kansan Friday. April 16. 1954
Cooperation Key to Broad Jump Fight
If two fine broad-jumpers maintain their unrehearsed spirit of cooperation, one of them may erase the second most ancient record on the Kansas Relays books when they meet here tomorrow.
Bennett's effort here was wind-blown. It grazed Ed Gordon's long-standing mark (since 1931 by $ \frac{1}{4} $ of an inch, thus taking rank as the second longest in Mt. Oread annals). But he was happy, for it was 13 inches beyond his previous best.
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The photographer got his shot of "the champ" all right, but it wasn't Price. Purely by accident he had chosen Bennett to pad out the picture. Bennett won at 25-4, just a fraction under the record. Price was third at 24-9]. The lensman scored too, for he was able to present his boss with a unique picture of the favorite and the un-ranked new king.
There was a humorous twist too. Bennett was publicized as Marquette's first Kansas Relays king in
The men in question are John Bennett, Marquette's tiny NCAA champion, and Neville Price. Oklahoma's three-time Big Seven king. It will be recalled that last year Price was a heavy favorite to win his favorite event. Bennett was unhairled, rating a bare mention on the pre-meet form chart, but he was happy to pose with the vet-crowned Oklahoma champion for at least one press photographer. It was a cold day . . . Price, a South African, spent much of the afternoon huddled in his sleeping bag. . . and the lensman wanted to get away with a picture of "the champ" before his fingers became too stiff to level the camera.
Once again Price unknowingly played a helping role; since he helped Bennett measure his stride. With the little Milwaukeean holding the steel at the pit, Price walked up the runway to mark off the distances. Bennett shot down the cinder stretcher for his winning jump.
"Later, relates Maury White in the Des Moines Tribune, "Bennett remeasured, and he found the distance 10 feet short. Bennett had yelled 65 at Price, but the mustached Sooner thought his rival had yelled 55."
Bennett has progressed from that point. He was undefeated in 10 Scandinavian meets last summer, and he won five indoor meets in as
history. When his coach, Bus Shimek, read this, he howled, for the old NCAA two-mile champion (1827) won the 300 meters here in 1927. That event was carried on the Mt. Oread card only briefly and now is extinct. Shimek's feat, therefore, was not listed in the record book. Bennett had to yield the initial honor, but his jump was the best in American collegiate circles throughout 1953.
Almost three months later, the 5-7, 14-pound Hill-topper proved his Kansas leap was no fluke. He bounded 25-3% off the Nebraska runways at Lincoln to snare the NCAA title, and there was no friendly wind in this one.
many starts this winter. Enroute he established a new Drake fieldhouse record of 23-5<sup>½</sup> in a dual against the Bulldogs, and reached his all-time indoor best of 24-6<sup>½</sup> in winning the Michigan State Rejays.
Bennett's success traces to two physical attributes . . . (1) His native speed, and (2) his tremendous leg spring. While in Scandinavia last spring he frequently trailed Kansas State's Thane Baker in the 100 and 220. At the 1953 indoor CCC he high-jumped 6-5, eight inches over his head, in pushing Drake's Arnie Betton to a new record. He still holds the North Dakota . . . his home is Grand Forks . . state high school record at 6-3].
Meanwhile, what of Price, who has been the casual victim of Bennett's successes? He retained his Big Seven indoor title in February at 24-41. He won the National indoor AAU at 24-53, a figure second nationally only to Bennett's Michigan State leap, on latest NCAA tabulations.
College Life Is Looking Up
Marshfield, Mass. — (U.P.) — Paul Barry, 19, a student at Boston University's College of Industrial Technology, commutes by plane between his home here and his classes. He says it's a lot easier than driving an automobile.
College Life Is Looking Up
The spare Sooner owns an all-time high of 25-24, which he used to bag the 1952 Texas Relays, and twice last year was within an inch of 25-0.
The pair met at the Texas Relays for the first time since the NCAA last July. Bennett jumped $25-8_{1/2}$ to set a new Texas Relays record, and Price took second with a leap of 25-2.
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