Promising Frosh Team To Open Track Season
By DON TICE Kansan Sports Writer
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"This is one of the finest overall freshman teams I have had since I came to Kansas," Coach M. E. "Bill" Easton said yesterday as he went over the accomplishments and capabilities of his freshman track team that opens its indoor season with a telegraphic meet against Colorado tomorrow.
Dick Blair from Osborn holds the edge in the 60-yard dash with a time of 30.3, followed closely by Gale Wetmore, Ralph Moody, Paul Hunt and Ellis Evans.
Bev. Buller and Jerry Kindig, with
;08.1 and ;08.3 are doing the high
hurdle chores, and Kindig and Hunt
are running the lows.
Coach Easton said the hurdles are the weakest points as far as depth is concerned, and that he would like to see more boys come out for these events.
Dick Blair is leading the way in the 440-yard dash at :526, only 3 off of the freshman record. He is followed by Tom Pott, Ed Talbott, and Jim Elliott in that event.
As usual, Easton has a good crew of distance men in Allen Frame, Talbott, Tom Jones, Bill Griswold, Don James, and Elliott. Talbott is leading in the half mile at 1:55, and Frame has the best efforts in both the mile and two-mile at 4:27 and 10:01.6.
Al Lange from Chicago is the leader in the broad jump with 21 feet $6\frac{1}{2}$ inches. He is followed by Hunt, Don Wildrig, Bill Hogan and Ed Chementi. All have leaped over the 20-foot mark.
Bill Neider leads the field in the shot put with a toss of 46 feet 2 inches. Neider is the holder of the second best toss on the United States inter-scholastic records. He is followed by Gene Blasi with a 45 feet, 7-1 2 inch heave, and Leo Heliman, Dale Birney, and Jim Curry, with marks in the 40-foot range.
Leon Wells set a new freshman record this year in the high jump with a 6 foot $3 \frac{1}{2}$ inch leap. Lange is close behind at 6 feet $1 \frac{1}{2}$ inches.
Bob Stinson teams up with Lange and Wells to make a strong trio in the pole vault. Their marks are 11 feet 11 inches, 11 feet 6 inches, and 10 feet 6 inches.
Coach Easton said he could still use more depth in several events. "You have to have a lot of depth to win in this league," he said.
"I am sure there are a lot of good boys on the hill with high school experience who could make our team." Easton continued. "If they would only come out and try, we would be more than glad to help them in every way possible."
Kansas State Drills For Oklahoma Game
Marhattan —(U.P.)— Kansas State moved into its last day of preparation today before meeting Oklahoma in an important Big Seven conference game here Saturday night.
The Wildcats smoothed their offense yesterday in a practice session, as coach Jack Gardner tried to keep the polish on his team which showed championship form in downing Iowa State earlier this week.
Wichita Upsets Aggies, 73-62
New York —(U.P)— The Oklahoma Aggies held fast to first-place in the high-powered Missouri Valley conference basketball race today despite their first league loss of the season—a 73-62 surprise by last-place Wichita.
The Aggies, ranked sixth nationally by the United Press board of coaches, had won five straight conference battles before last night's upset at Wichita.
The Wichita Shockers were really "hot," sinking 24 out of 45 field goal shots for a blazing 53.3 per cent, and, in addition, put on a hustling, ball-stealing show. The Aggies hit a respectable 24 per cent of their shots and had the game's high scorer in center Bob Mattick, who tallied 21 points.
Manhattan took a long stride to a tournament berth when it whipped New York university, 68 to 55, at New York's Madison Square Garden. It was the 15th victory in 17 games for the Jaspers.
Sophomore Cleo Littleton became the highest scorer in Wichita history when he paced the Shocker attack with 15 points, thus making his total for $1\frac{1}{2}$ years of play 928 points. The previous Wichita record of 925 was set last year by John Friedersdolf after three years of play.
Big Boris Nachamkin of NYU led the scoring with 18 points, but Manhattan's rugged defense stopped the Violets far short of their previous per-game scoring average of 78.5 points.
St. John's edged Westminster (Pa.) 69-68, on Marty Salatino's last-minute jump shot; 6-foot, 6-inch Larry O'Connor scored 33 points to lead Caniusus to a 69-59 victory over Buffalo, and Rhode Island trounced Massachusetts. 88-69.
Mississippi beat Birmingham Southern 85-71, and Indiana State beat Butler, 56-51.
In other leading games last night Duke outfired Wake Forest, 101-99. Richmond beat Virginia Tech, 77-71, and Maryland trounced VMI, 67-41, in southern conference games.
The Aggies now have a 5-1 league record followed by Tulsa with 4-2.
Leading games tonight may do much to settle the Southern Division race in the Pacific Coast conference. California, out in front with a 5-1 record, meets last place UCLA tonight and tomorrow night. Meanwhile, Stanford and Southern California, tied for second at 3-3, also meet in a pair of games.
KU-Iowa State Swim Match On TV Saturday
Kansas and Iowa State will clash in the first televised swimming match to be held in the midwest at 7:35 p.m. Saturday at Ames.
WOI-TV, the Iowa State college station, will carry the telecast. Kansas coach Phil Krutzsch said the telecast will produce the largest midwest audience in history to see a swimming match.
The Cyclones, always a powerhouse in swimming, were the Big Seven dual champions in 1952. They lost the conference meet to Oklahoma.
Coach Krutzsch said the Jayhawkers had been working on conditioning and endurance this week. Kansas took its first win of the season last week by edging Nebraska at Lincoln, 50-43.
He said that Dave Moxley would replace Bill Payne in the 220 and 440-yard freestyle events as Payne has the ftu. He added that Jerry Jester will swim in the 300-yard relay in place of co-captain Dek Edfin.
The Kansas entry list will have Jester, John Welsh, and Jerry Scott in the 300 yard medley relay; co-captain Sam Perkins and Moxley, 220-yard freestyle; Mahlon Ball and Terry Williams, 50-yard freestyle, and Efin and Ken Reid, individual medley.
Jester and Dallas Chestnut are the 1-meter divers. Ball and Efin will swim the 100-yard freestyle, Perkins and Moxley, 440-yard freestyle, and Jester, Moxley, Ball and Williams will swim the 400-yard sprint relay. Welsh and Dean Glance are the backstrokers and Scott and Jean Schanze the breastrokers.
Friday. February 13, 1953 University Daily Kansan
KANSAS CO-CAPTAINS--Dick Efflin and Sam Perkins (in pool) are the co-captains for the 1953 Kansas swimming team which meets Iowa State in a televised match at Ames tomorrow. Perkins, business senior from Olathe, has been swimming the 220-yard and 440-yard freestyle events this season. Efflin, engineering sophomore from Wichita, usually swims the 100-yard freestyle and the individual medley. Both have been turning in top-notch performances for the Jayhawkers, who have won one and dropped two this season. These boys will have rugged competition tomorrow against Iowa State, one of the nation's powerhouse in collegiate swimming. Efflin and Perkins have posted some very fast times in the Robinson gym pool and will be pointing for the conference meet to be held soon at Norman. Oklahoma is the defending Big Seven champion, but Kansas could surprise
this year if these two men can continue to sparkle.
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