University Daily Kansan
Friday, April 17, 1953
Prep Stars Aspire To Top 4 Marks
By CLARKE KEYS
Track records become mighty good after 48 years of constant attack, but the high marks in the 49th annual KU Interscholastic Meet today will be subjected to another buffeting from nearly 1,500 Kansas prep athletes here for the occasion.
The marks for the KU carnival are highly respectable, but at least tour can be considered in real danger. Sunflower cinderlands are still far from their top form, but the usual rate of improvement and a decent day (something that hasn't been around for some time) could combine with talent to topple some old standards.
It's the fellows from the smaller
stores that get written up the
greatest challenge duel session.
grants a challenge this season.
One record, the 120-yard high hurdle mark, already has been equaled in the yet-young season. Willie Jones of Arma won the high sticks at the Ottawa Relys in :149, equaling a 1938 KU record set by Walter Revell of Girard.
But that isn't all. Jones went on to capture the Class B low hurdles in 29.7, just 4 second off the KU record set by Dillon Feller of El Dorado in 1950, and the 220-yard dash in a creditable time of 23.5.
Two class AA boys have turned in good hurdle times in early meets thus far, but they don't compare with Jones' high stick mark. Don Jordan of Wichita East run a 15:32 flight in the highs as did Dodge City's Larry Snodgrass last week. Jordan came back to run the lows in 20:7 while Snodgrass topped them in 29:9.
Quite a few eyes will be on Mike Swanson, Abilene's fine half-miler, when the lad cuts loose for the 2:01.2 record in that event. He has already spun a 2:02.8 in the Ottawa Relays and could easily topple the mark now held by Bill Stuart of Shawnee-Mission.
The last two inches will be hardest, but if anyone can erase the high jump mark of 6 feet $ _{5}^{2} $ Junior Carder of Perry is the lad to do it. He jumped 6 feet $ _{3}^{4} $ in the Ottawa meet for his best mark so far.
Parson's Bob Franklin will be out for records in the 100 and 200-yard dashes, but he will be hard pressed to get them. The nearest appears to be the 220 where he ran a .225 last week. That's just .5 second over the record now held by Dick Overfield of Independence set in 1938.
Charles Bernard, Hutchinson weightman, threw the discuss 145' 1" in the Sterling Relays and with another seven feet could break the present mark of 151' 8".
Top pole vault mark of the year thus far is the 11' 83" vault of Jere Potts of Ottawa. This is still quite a bit below the record of 12' 63" set by Don Bird of Arkansas City in 1934.
It's hard to tell how well the two relay marks might stand up with personnel of teams changing so often, but Pittsburgh could top the mile mark of 3.12. Returning three boys off of last season's track squad, the Dragons have run a 3:36.7 this season.
At least six marks appear able to withstand all the battering they will receive in this year's carnival. Foremost of those is the second oldest mark on the books, the javelin. Earl Rittel of Rock Creek heaved the spear 194 $ _{9/8}^{3}$ in 1932 for the present standard. Other sure-fire marks are in the broad jump, the shot put, 440-yard dash, mile run, and the 100-yard dash.
KU Interscholastic Relays meet records:
100-yard dash: 99.8, Dick McGillin,
Immaculata (Leavenworth), 1950
220-yard dash: 22.0, Dick Overfield,
1950
Award gasp. 222W, Dick Overheld
Independence. 1938.
Jarrin' Jim Remains KU's Greatest Star
Still regarded as the greatest athlete in Kansas history by some authorities is Jarrin' Jim Bausch, 1932 Olympic decathlon champion.
But Bausch didn't confine his activities just to track. A power in Kansas' first Big Six championship backfield in 1930, he was twice all-conference football player. He was KU's first representative in the East-West Stirr game in 1931. He also earned a basketball letter as a junior in 1930.
440-yard dash: 50.2, Frank Cindrich,
Wyandotte, 1950.
880-yard mission : 2:01.2, Bill Stuart,
Shawneye-Mission ,1945.
Mile run: 4:29.9, Bob Karnes, Overbrook,
1943
120-yard high hurdles. 149, Walter Revell, Girard. 1938.
180-yard low hurrles: 20.3, Don Feller,
Fl Dorado, 1950.
er, 13] Dorado, 1955.
880-io. Madrid: 1315. Wyandotte,
1932.
Mile relay: 3.31.2, Atchison, 1942.
Pole vault: 12" 61", Don Bird, Arkansas City, 1934.
Shot put: 58" 10", Elwyn Dees, Lorraine, 1930.
Tampa, BCA. 1937.
High jumps: 6' 5½". Winston Rogers,
1929.
Discus: 151' 81", Bob Knight, Salina,
1945
Javelin; 194' 91", Earl Rittel, Rock Creek, 1940.
TOUGH COMPETITION—These four boys on Texas A&M's 4-mile relay team will provide a stern test for the Kansas bid for a fifth straight victory in the event tomorrow in the 23th Kansas Relays. Left to right are Frank Whitmore, Charles Hudgins, Dale Derouen, and James Blaine.