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University Daily Kansan Thursday. April 23, 1953
Kansas Seeks Sprint Medley Record In Annual Drake Relays Tomorrow
Already owner of more baton records among the Midwest's three major Relays than any rival school, Kansas sights No. 9 this weekend at the 44th Drake Games in Des Moines.
The target is the sprint medley mark of 3:23, which Oklahoma erected for a world record in 1942. Given a good day, the Jayhawkers also hope to better their own world-record run of 3:21.8 at Texas and complete their first sprint medley triple crown in history.
If the Jayhawkers can accomplish this feat against such contenders as Illinois and Iowa, they can add to an imposing list of seven outright records set in the Texas-Kansas-Drake relays competition.
Nearest approach to this feast is Oklahoma and Texas' ownership of three and a half records each.
Protection of the Drake four-mile mark, of course, will be necessary to maintain the above reading, And the Jayhawks must tackle revenge-bent Georgetown plus Michigan State and Indiana less than an hour after winning the medley. Both races are billed in Friday's opening session with the first called at 3:25 p.m.
All this means that Kansas must call on peak performances from its ace, Wes Santee. For, in succession, he must face Stacey Siders, Illinois' Big Ten 800 champion, and Charlie Georgetown's gauche star, in a pair of face races likely will furnish the opening day's top face-to-face features.
Siders' low is 1:51.2. He hit 1:51.4 against California last Saturday. And he'll have Willie Williams, a .09.4 spinner ahead of him in one of the 220 laps. The Illini feel they can topple the present Drake record, grim warning for the Kansans.
The Jayhawks ran only 3:26.0 at their own relays here last Saturday, but were hampered by a cold north wind which kept the temperature at 45. One significant fact was that Santee outsped Iowa's anchor man, Tied Wheeler, with a 1:52.2. Given a four-yard bulge, Santee stretched his margin to eight at the finish. And he was coming back from a 4:11.4 performance in the four-mile. The Hawkeyes are defending sprint medley champions at Drake, which means KU already holds a convincing victory over one contender.
Kansas may be obliged to smash its own meet record of 17:15:9 if it is to best the glittering four-mile field. But this is not out of reach. A unit of Dick Wilson, Lloyd Koby, Art Dallzell, and Santee already has accomplished this with a 17:14.0 mark at Austin.
The Jayhawks also will defend their distance medley title on Friday and hope to land high in the mile, in which they scored a surprise 3:13.1 record victory last year.
NCAA Hits TV Games
New York- (U.P.) -Hopes for wider telecasting of college football games were hit today by the NCAA television committee.
It announced that even last year's
at home schedule hurt
attendance at games.
The committee said a research group estimated the 1952 football attendance loss due to TV at 28.7 percent, and added that this loss "would have approximated 40 AAA's plan of controlling telecasting."
Limited to TV of football games is certain this season—the NCAA convention in January voted for it, 172 to 13.
The convention directed the TV committee to draw up a schedule for this fall. That schedule, believed to be built along the same lines as last year's which restricted TV to one game nationally per Saturday, was completed last week.
E-State Wins Track Meet
Emporia State won 10 events and tied another to down Ottawa University 71-60 in a dual track meet in Emporia yesterday, but lost a tennis match, 6-0.
Bucky Harris Enthusiastic Over'53 Senator Prospects
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"The league is so evenly balanced the way I see it," he said, "that we can go up or we can go down."
Bucky Harris terms his 1953 team the best since he returned to Washington for his third hitch as manager in 1950, but he isn't predicting any pennant. $ \textcircled{4} $
He is hopeful it will be up, but he lacks reserve strength, is weak in the catching department, and his pitching is spread pretty thin.
"But there isn't a club in the league that hasn't got a weakness so there's hope for all of us," Harris claimed. "We're going to be tough, but after all it's a long jump from fifth to first place and I've been in the game too long to forecast anything like that. But in baseball anything is possible."
His strong points are one of the best fielding outfields in the league and a good, sound inner defense. He hopes to make up in speed and defense for what he lacks in the power hitting department.
In Jackie Jensen, Jim Busby, and Gil Coan, Harris believes he has as fine a defensive outfield unit as there is around today. But Busby never has showed a liking for major league pitching—he hit only 244 last year—and Coan fell off to a miserable .25.
Harris isn't worried about his infield with Mickey Vernon at first, Wayne Terwilliger at second, Pete Runnels at short, and Eddie Yost at third. Terwilliger won the second
base job when rookie Leroy Dietzel had to be sent back down to the minors to recover fully from the broken leg he suffered last season.
Two rookies, Bob Oldis, who hit .227 at Chattanooga, and Les Peden, a .280 hitter at Los Angeles, are pressing Mickey Grasso for the No. 1 catching post.
With Frank Shea and Charles Stobbs on the shelf with recurrent
Ping Pong Wrecks Kansas State Star
Veryl Switzer, Kansas State's football and track star, may miss the Colorado relays at Boulder Saturday. The reason—he was injured in a ping pong game.
Switzer was playing table tennis with a friend Tuesday night when he felt his ankle snap. He said he thought little about it until later in the night when he couldn't sleep because of pain.
An examination showed Swissier had a sprained ankle. It won't be known until they whether or not will make the trip to Colorado.
--arm trouble, the pitching staff is uncertain. They both will be in the starting rotation if they recover along with Bob Porterfield, ace of the staff with 13 victories last season; Walt Masterson (9-8) and Connie Marrero (11-8). Shea won 11 and lost seven last season while Stobbos won seven and lost 12 with the White Sox.
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Pass Defense Added To Spring Grid Drills
A new feature, a short pass protection workout, was added by coach J. V. Sikes to yesterday's spring football drills. The 80 hopefuls went through about 30 minutes of pass defense at the end of the practice.
Most of the workout was spent in running through plays to acquaint the players with blocking and running assignments. A short dummy scrimmage rounded out the program.
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Dick Sandifer, considered the No. 1 quarterback candidate, twisted his troublesome knee again on a running play. Trainer Dean Nesmith said the speedy sophomore will be confined to the sidelines for several days.
Also on the injured list were Paul Leoni, all-Big Seven end, who had a pulled groin muscle, and fullback John Anderson, who was suffering from a charley horse. Both men worked out in sweat clothes.
Halfbacks Don Hess and Ralph
Moody stood out again yesterday in the scrimmage as well as junior fullback Frank Sabatini. John McFarland, fresh signal caller, also was impressive.
Softball Teams Score Heavily
TUESDAY'S SCORES
Heavy scoring predominated again as the intramural softball league closed out its second day of play yesterday. Ten teams have run their scores into double figures.
Independent "B"
AFROTC 14, Sigma B. Beta 0.
Pharmaca 15, Bays 4.
PBBJ 19, PBBJ six innings.
Pearson 23, KHK 19.
YESTERDAY'S RESULTS
**Fraternity "B"**
ATO 14, DU 13
Titian Chi Chi G. 6
Phi Gam 13, Phi Delt 3.
Beta 18, Kappa Sig 8.
TODAY'S GAMES (4 p.m.)
TODA p.m.)
Fraternity "A"
Field 1 Phi Gam-Phi Kappa
Field 3 bpta Ch-Sigma Nu
Field 3 TKE-Alpha Sig
Field 3 TKE-Alpha Phi Alpha
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