Page 4 University Daily Kansan Tuesday, May 26, 1953
Santee to Defend Title In Four Coming Meets
By DON TICE
Kansan Assistant Sports Editor
Wes Santee, who at present stands as the fastest collegiate miler in the country, is going to have plenty of opportunity to prove this title within the next few weeks.
He is entered in four meets in the next five weekends, and any one of them may produce a competitor that will give him a run for his money.
This whirlwind schedule gets under way this Saturday night when he competes in the annual Missouri Valley AAU outdoor track and field championship in Kansas City. In this race, however, he will not meet any of the other top milers in the country, and it may just provide a warmup for the meets to come.
Reiff holds the world two-mile record at 8:04.4, and ran the mile in 4:02.8, just one and four-tenths second over the world record in a meet at Antwerp, Belgium, in the summer of 1952.
Santee will meet the stifset competition of his young career June 5 when he runs the mile at the Compton (Calif.) Relays. This is an invitational race in which two of his competitors will be Gaston Reiff of Belgium, and Denis Johannson from Finland.
Johannson's best recent time is a 4:08.3 mile two weeks ago in the Los Angeles Coliseum Relays. He is capable, however, of running a better race under the pressure of competition.
The weekend of June 19-20, Sanite will go to the NCAA finals at Lincoln, Neb. Since he holds the fastest collegiate time in the 880 as well as the mile, he will be favored in both of these events. A double will be hard to get, however, since
only three running events separate the two distance races.
In the mile, the Ashland junior will face such men as Villanova's Fred Dwyer, John Ross of Michigan, and Joe LaPierre, of Georgetown, in the 880 he would have to beat Carl Joyce of Georgetown and Illinois' Stacy Siders.
Finally, Santee will wind up his post-season schedule with the National AAU meet in Dayton, Ohio, June 26-27.
Although comparatively young, as top milers go, Santee has won himself quite a national reputation, and is a good drawing card at track meets and relays.
If he can win the mile at all four of his meets this spring, you can rest assured that no one will contest him for the title of the top miler in the U.S., and perhaps the world.
Marciano to Scout Charles
Milwaukee — (U.P.)— Rocky Marciano personally will scout Ezzard Charles, one of the two top contenders for Marciano's world heavyweight title, tonight when Charles fights Larry Watson of Omaha, in the Milwaukee arena.
St. Joseph Beaten 7-3
St. Joseph — (J.B)— The league leading St. Joseph Cardinals suffered a 3-7 setback to second-division Muskegee last night in a Western Association game in the Cardinals home park.
Big Seven officials unofficially discussed the possibilities of an Orange Bowl tieup between the Big Seven and some southern conference at their Ames meeting last weekend, Dean T. DeWitt Carr, KU faculty representative to the Big Seven, said this morning.
Big 7 Discusses Orange Bowl Tieup
Dean Carr said that at almost every regular meeting they have discussed "rumors" concerning a bowl tieup.
"At the February meeting," he went on, "two gentlemen from Miami presented themselves and said they would like to talk to us, but made it clear that they were not official representatives." Dean Carr said they told the representatives at that time that no action could be taken unless an official offer was made.
Dean Carr pointed out that even if an offer were made to the conference faculty representatives, they would have to take them to their respective presidents for opinion before any action could be taken.
This matter was brought to the surface yesterday when John Cronley of the Daily Oklahoman said he had been informed that the
Sandy May Fight French Contender
New York — (U.R.)—Young Randy Sandy, who has fought only 13 bouts, winning 12 of them, may be rewarded for his latest triumph with the toughest match of his career—a 10-round bout against middle-weight contender Pierre Langlois of France.
Sandy was a decisive visitor in his widely-televised 10-rounder at Brooklyn's Eastern Parkway arena last night over rough veteran Tuzo Portuguez of Costa Rica.
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conference was close to an Orange Bowl tieup with a southern conference.
At the weekend Big Seven business meeting in Ames, reporters were told the issue had been "tabled." The seven-member loop officially disapproves of such New Year's Day features, but now Cronley declared that "the two parties are not far from full agreement."
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was disinclined, however, that the question of post-season competition, including the bowl possibilities, would "no doubt be discussed at the September meeting of the conference."
I was discussed officially-"
Van C. Kussrow, Orange Bowl schedule chairman, said in Miami the tieup "is news to us."
the tuep Orange Bowl officials have been considering a league tieup since the mismatch last New Year's Day in which Alabama defeated Syracuse 61-8.
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