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University Daily Kansan Thursday, May 21.1957
Close Weight Matches Slated in Big 7 Meet
Ames, Iowa—There may not be any world record performances coming out of the weight events at the Big Seven track meet at Iowa State Friday and Saturday, but they'll be mighty closely contested.
Best shot mark of the year so far is the 50-foot-9 inch tooss by Jim Robertson, the Cyclone weight star who has won the conference title. Robertson is due to give up that crown but might take the shot title instead.
Right behind him with another 50-foot plus toss is teammate Jack Cozad. All in all there are six shot men within four or five inches of each other. The others in the top group are Larry Horne of Colorado, not Salman Ahmadi of Chelsea, Paul Grimm of Nebraska. There are a flock of 48-foot tossers who might get the good one to break 50 here Friday or Saturday.
In the discus, where Robertson has reigned supreme for two years, there are two fine throwers who have consistently bettered the champ this year. They are Dale and Larry Smith of Nebraska, both at least two feet better than Robertson.
"Robbie," a great competitor when the chips are down, is capable of topping 165 feet and might just pull one out. He wants that triple in the event and might just be tough enough to successfully defend his crown.
Just as with the weight men, the Big Seven jumpers will not break many records but they'll display some of the most closely matched performers in the history of the conference.
Not a man in the three events-
high jump, broad jump, pole vault
will be likely to break records. But there are more than half a dozen men in each event so closely matched that no one can forecast a winner.
The only man likely to have a record chance is South African Neville Price of Oklahoma. Price three times has bettered the 24-8 mark in the broad jump. But he has not hit that high in recent meets.
He'll get tough competition from Veryl Switzer of Kansas State, Glenn Beerline of Nebraska, and maybe Carroll Hardy of Colorado. He is better than 24 feet in the event and might be on hand for the meet.
In the high jump, there are 12 men who are capable of bettering 6-1, yet none of the dozen has hit 6-4 yet. Closest to that mark are Bob Whiddon of Oklahoma and Phil Heidelk of Nebraska. Both have topped 6-3 or better, Kirk Hirshey of Missouri, Kermit Holllingsworth of Kansas, and Ray Kelley of Nebraska, have bettered 6-2.
It's the same thing all over again in the pole vault. Seven men are over 13 feet yet none has hit 13-7. Best of the marks is the 13 foot 6% effort of Norm Steanson of Kansas
It might mean a flock of ties for the 31 points each event holds as prizes—at any rate the competition will be keen here, just as in all the other 14 events of the Big Seven meet.
By ED HOWARD
KU Coaches Seeking Guards For 1954 Basketball Season
Although forwards Harold Patterson and Allen Kelley, and all-American center B. H. Born all will return for the 1953-54 basketball season, coaches "Phog" Allen and Dick Harp admit they have a long ways to go to equal this year's triumphant season.
During the recently finished spring practice, the coaching staff discovered that they must find a durable pair of guards to replace firebrands Dean Kelley and Gil Reich. Dean, a member of one of the top basketball brother teams of all time, always played a good game all-around, and never let up under any circumstances.
Reich, one of the finest athletes ever to attend KU, and an all-American defensive football choice of Look magazine, added the spark that was needed in tight spots with a quick field goal or stolen pass.
Coach Allen must find replacements from four top-flight reserves and seven promising freshmen for these departed guards.
Bill Heitholt, Jerry Alberts, Larry Davenport, and LaVannes Squires are the returning lettermnt, all but Squires, being sophomores. From the freshman team, Allen and Harp McElroy, Bill Brainard, Jim Tout, Chris Divich, Loren Martin, and Dan Robison.
Divich is a K-State transfer, while Toft, a 6-6, 225-pound, probably will be groomed to replace Born, who was the leading KU scorer this year. Born set the Big Seven single game scoring record of 44 points against Colorado in a game played in Hoch auditorium in March.
Squires is a speedy, sure-shooting guard who was out part of this season with a lung ailment. He probably will nail down one of the
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Davenport, while not so quick, was used in the clutch because of his tremendous long-shot ability. Alberts is a lean reserve forward, whose speed will greatly help the newly-found KU running offense. Heitholt is an aggressive, good-shooting guard-forward, who, like Alberts and Squires, can add a great deal of speed to the offense and close-guarding defense.
TOUGH TO BEAT—Jayhawker distance ace Art Dalzell should provide the Kansas track squad with plenty of points in the conference meet in Ames, Iowa, this weekend. Dalzell, a junior from Spring Hill, is one of Kansas' top postwar runners. He'll be back next year.
Sig Alphs Capture Handball Crown
Sigma Alpha Epsilon turned back Phi Gamma Delta in both singles and doubles play last night to win the Hill handball championship, marking the first time Sig Alph has won the title.
Bill DeVry concluded his undefeated season by capturing the singles championship 21-8, 21-3, and the doubles team of Bill Henson and Hugh Armstrong won 21-9, 13-21, 21-18.
Also slated for this week are the finals in horseshoes and badminton. Beta Theta Pi will tangle with Delta Tau Delta for the horseshoes crown, and Sig Alph "A" will meet Sig Alph "B" in badminton. Sig Alph won last year.
Dancer, Dark Star Preakness Choices
Baltimore — (U.P.)— Native Dancer and Dark Star were expected to head a field of seven as entries were accepted today for Saturday's $100,-000 Preakness Stakes—48 hours before the 77th renewal of the classic.
And, for the first time in three years, the second of the triple crown extravaganzas shaped up as a "real" horse race with the Dancer trying to avenge his Kentucky Derby defeat and Dark Star trying to make it stick.
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Two Independent Squads Take Semi-Final Contests
Two teams in each of the two independent intramural softball leagues moved past semi-final playoff opponents yesterday as the first day of the intramural playoffs got under way. The Fraternity "A" quarter-finals will be held tonight, with the "B" division champions to play tomorrow.
Sigma Gamma Epsilon came up with seven tallies in the fourth inning and six more in the seventh to trounce Jollie fall, 18-7, in one of the Independent "A" clashes. In the other "A" game, two home runs by Dion Hortor helped Pearson hall to whip Last Chance, 12-1. The losers got only two hits, singles by shortstop Correll.
Pharmacy had little trouble with Pearson in a "B" game, winning 20-1. Pharmacy pitcher Ira Stebens didn't allow the losers a hit in the three innings played. The game was called off at that point.
Playoff games in all divisions probably will be played Saturday with the Hill title to be decided Monday.
Home runs by Alberts and Divich and a five-hit pitching performance by Dallas Dobbs gave AFROTC an 8-4 decision over Physics in the other "B" clash.
Today's games (4 p.m.):
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Field 1: DU-Kappa Sig.
Field 3 ATO-Phi Gam.
Field 4 Phi Spi-Sigma Chi.
Field 5 SAE-Phi Deit.
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