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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, May 6, 1953
Bill Easton, Ex-Drake Track Coach To Be on Familiar Track Saturday
Kansas track coach M. E. "Bill" Easton will be on familiar ground Saturday when he takes his team to Des Moines for a meet with Drake university.
Easton came here from Drake, in 1947 where he had coached for several years, and was faced with the job of rebuilding the Kansas track program. When he arrived, an outdoor championship in 1946 was the only track crown the Jayhawkers had won in 14 years.
His rebuilding took effect quickly, as his team won the Big Seven cross country championship in 1947, and has continued to do so every year since. In another long-distance event, the Big Seven two-mile, the Easton-coached teams have chalked up six straight titles.
In Big Seven conference meets, Kansas has won the indoor carnival in Kansas City for two straight years. KU won the outdoor crown last year and has a good possibility of a repeat this year in Ames.
Drake offers two good competitors in the distance events in Dewy Johnson and Ray Morris. Johnson is a good miler, who has run in times as low as 4:12, while Morris specializes in the half, with times well down in the one minute and 50 second range.
In dual meet competition, the Jayhawkers have not been beaten for two years. They will be looking for their 13th consecutive triumph in this department when they go to Drake Saturday.
These men will have to go some, however, to beat the strong array of Kansas distance aces such as Wes Santee, Art Dalzell, Lloyd Koby, and Dick Wilson.
Drake's main strength probably will be in the field events where they have much depth. The Bulldogs will receive some stiff competition from Bob Smith, Kermit Hollsworth, and Norm-Steanson in the broad jump, high jump and pole vault.
Wichita Wins League Tilt
By UNITED PRESS
All Western League teams saw action last night for the first time since April 26, making it only six nights since the opener, April 15 that the weatherman has let that happen.
The result, as can be expected this early in the season, was another general shakeup of the standings. Wichita drubbed Des Moines, 9-2, at the Kansas Stadium, driving the Bruins from their one-day perch atop the standings to third place.
Meanwhile, Colorado Springs opened a home stand on a sharp, 3-0 win over Sioux City, and Omaha invaded Pueblo for a 4-0 victory. The victories put the Sky Sox and Cardinals into a first-pace tie. Denver pleased 2,458 home fans by shelling Lincoln, 12-1, on 16 hits.
Colorado Springs' Bobby Hoffman turned in the best pitch performance of the evening with his three-hit shutout of Sioux City. The Sox gave Hoffman two runs in the fifth and another in the seventh.
Hugh Moxley of Omaha; Denver's Jake Thies, and Wichita's Bob Upchurch didn't do bad themselves in taking victories. Thies stopped Lincoln cold with a seven-hitter, while Upchurch gave Des Moines just five hits. Moxley limited Pueblo to eight scattered hits.
Don't expect the 1953 Kansas football squad to match those shiny 8-2 and 7-3 records set in 1951 and 1952. The Jayhawkers should be loaded in '54 and '55. But prospects look bleak for a winning season this fall.
By CHUCK MORELOCK
There are two big reasons for our pessimism. First, the Jayhawkers face a murderous schedule. Second, they must wade through this schedule with one of the greenest backfields in postwar KU history. The sophomores, and there'll be plenty of them this fall, are all potential greats, but you need experience to win in this league.
The non-conference contests won't be any pushovers. That's the understatement of the year. Kansas opens against always-rugged TCU in Fort Worth Sept. 19. Then must face the UCLA powerhouse the following weekend in Los Angeles. The Frogs have lost two in a row to the Jayhawkers and naturally will be out for revenge. All UCLA did last fall was to whip Big Ten Rose Bowl representative Wisconsin by a 20-7 score on the Badgers' home field. And the only Bruin loss was to USC, the Rose Bowl champions, 12-14. Unfortunately for KU, the California club has a flock of returning performers, including their great
tailback. Paul Cameron.
When the Jayhawkers get these tilts out of the way, they come home to open their conference season against Iowa State on Oct. 3. Then they hit the road again to meet Colorado and Oklahoma. This trip won't be guaranteed to produce Kansas victories. Colorado is very, very tough to beat in Boulder. Oklahoma? Well, the Soomers wrecked one of the finest teams in KU history in Lawrence last fall. 42-20. And the Jayhawks will be much weaker in '53.
The next team on the Kansas slate is SMU. Mustang supporters still haven't figured out how the Jayhawkers managed to win by such a one-sided score in Dallas last fall. Kansas took that contest 26-0, but SMU, which will be led by ex-Lawrence high school Chalmer Woodard, will be shooting for a return victory in Lawrence.
That leaves Nebraska, Kansas State, Oklahoma A&M, and Missouri. The Tigers and Cornhuskers will have veteran teams. K-State and A&M should be improved.
All of this boils down to one fact—it looks like a long, hard season for Kansas in '53.
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It was Popara's mount, Money Broker, which knocked Native Dancer off stride on the first turn of the Derby run and possibly set up his stunning setback at the hands of longshot, Dark Star.
Guerin, generally close-mouthed and reticent, blamed the incident on Money Broker and his jockey. But Popara attributed it to "racing luck."
"There were a lot of horses together when we hit the turn," Popara said, "and I couldn't get back of Guerin's horse. So I tried to circle him. I actually thought we had cleared Native Dancer all right, but my horse changed stride and I heard Guerin yell.
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"It's entirely possible the bumping kept Native Dancer from winning. But, you know, when you have a string of victories, racing luck is bound to catch up with you."
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New York—(U.P.)—Jockey Eric Guerin's charge that the bumping suffered by favored Native Dancer in last Saturday's Kentucky Derby "was no accident" drew a denial today from fellow rider Al Popara.
Guerin, nettled by criticism of his riding judgment in the Derby, said he confronted Popara after the race regarding the bumping incident.
"He (Popara) told me his horse was lugging in and he couldn't hold him," Guerin said. "But don't think it was an accident."
"We were knocked over and wound up on the heels of horses in front of us. If I hadn't pulled up, we would have caused a terrible accident. That's what made me so sore."
Native Dancer's trainer, Bill Winfrey, said he didn't have any idea whether it was deliberate or accidental.
"But it wouldn't make any difference to me now." Winfrey said. "It won't change the result."
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