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University Daily Kansan Monday, May 19, 1952
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Jayhawkers Fare Well in Big 7 Play
KU Thinclads Cop First Crown Since 1946 on Surprise Aid
With an expected point-producing punch in the track and an unexpected contribution in the field, Kansas used overall manpower, Saturday, to win its first Big Seven conference track and field championship since 1946. The Jayhawkers outpointed the second-place Oklahoma Sooners, $121\frac{1}{2}$ to $104\%$.
Only one record went into the Big Seven books as the 24th annual running of the conference meet took place on a rain-swept and waterlogged course in an almost constant downpour. Thane Boker, Kansas State's Olympic dash-berth hopeful, paced a 20.8 220-yard dash in Friday's preliminaries to break the old conference record of 21.2, set by Lee Alexander of Nebraska in the preliminaries of the 1951 meet.
Except for Baker, Kansas trackmen stole the show from the participating Big Seven teams. But with all their shine, the Jayhawkers came in for their share of the upsets.
Perhaps the biggest upset was Bub Semper's loss in the two-mile run. The Kansas distance ace, national cross-country champion, was beaten by unheralded Warren Rouse of Oklahoma.
The Souner—who won the intramural mile run as a freshman in 4:57 to make his only other claim to trink glory—took over the lead mate in the last lap and finished about 11 yards in front of the Jay-hawker. It was the second straight year Semper failed to win his specialty race. Missouri's Bill McGuire won last year.
Wes Santee, considered the most promising collegiate miler in the mule today, sloshed to a 4:22.4 mile win after posting a 2:05 first half. But Santee fell off the pace in the 880-yard run, placing fourth. Teammate Art Dalzell pulled in in first place with a 1:56.7 effort.
All-in-all, the Jayhawks won four firsts. Besides Santee and Dalzell, Capt. Bob DeVinney won the 220-yard low hurdle event with a 24.3 time, and Jim Floyd vaulted 13 feet. $5\frac{3}{4}$ inches to win the pole vault.
But the Jayhawks padded their point total with five second placings, a pair of thirds, plus a third in the mile relay, three fourths, a quartet of fifths and three sixths, plus a tie for sixth.
Kansas placed one-two in the mile with Semper running behind Saute. Keith Palmquist placed fifth. The Jayhawks picked up two more places in the 880 and another pair in the two-mile with Norm Bitner running third behind Semper.
Another one-two punch came in the low hurdles. Don Smith placed second. Larry Marsh and Merlin Gish gave the Jayhawkers a fourth and sixth in the shot put. Gish and Morris Kay grabbed off the fourth and fifth positions in the discus.
Jim Swin, with a heave of 180 feet, $11\%$ inches picked up a second place in the javelin throw. Jim Potts and Bill Brown placed fifth and sirth in the same event.
The 120-yard high hurdles race and the broad jump were the only events in which the Jayhawkers failed to place.
Kansas State's Hi Faubion romped home in front of Nebraska's Don Bedker to score an upset victory in the high timbers.
Oklahoma's Neville Price won his specialty, the broad jump, with a leap of 23 feet, 11 inches. Kansas State placed two-three when their Negro stars, Gene Wilson and Veryl Switzer hit 23 feet, $2%$ inches and 23 feet, $1\%$ inches, respectively.
But individual honors had to go to Baker. The wingfooted Wildcat sprite won the 100 and 220 events
Deer Give Golfers Trouble
Bend, Ore.—(U.P.)-Sand traps and water aren't the only hazards to plague golfers at the Bend golf club. Golfers getting in a few early spring rounds complained to the groundskeeper of wild deer browsing along the fairways.
with times of 10.0 and 22.8. Later, he anchored the winning Kansas State mile relay crew. Baker won the Henry Schulte award as the meet's outstanding performer.
the biggest—and most pleasing—surprise to the Kansan efforts was the stellar performances turned in by the Jayhawker fieldmen.
Besides racking up a track event total of 89 points to eclipse the field, the Kansas field athletes scored $33^{1/2}$ points for top total honors there.
Flovd won the only first in the field, but the Jayhawks picked up 22 points in the shot, discus and javelin.
Track Meet Results
Mile Run: 1. Wes Santee, Kansas: 2. Herb Semper, Kansas: 3. Ronald Reed Oklahombo, Kansas: 4. Oklahoma Palmquint, Kansas: 5. Harold Stephenson, Missouri, Time: 4.224.
440-yard Run: 1. J. W. Mashburn, Oklahoma; 2. A. R. Benson, Oklahoma; 3. B. Beulebalderson, Nebraska; 5. George McCornick, Oklahoma; 6. John Reiderer, Kansas. Time:
100-yard Dash: 1. Thane Baker, Kansas State; 2. Harold Rhode, Iowa State; 3. Ron Gray, Colorado; 4. Quannam Cox, Michigan; 5. Hossen Hess, 6. Adam Fischer, Missouri; Time: 110.
120-yard High Hurdles: 1. Hi Faubion, Kansas State; 2. Don Bedner, Nebraska; 3. Dick Knostman, Kansas State; 4. Pat Hindman, Colorado; 5. Ronnie Dobson, Oklahoma; 6. Bill Fessler, Missouri. Time: 15:3.
880-yard Run: 1. Art Dallazel, Kansas;
2. Don Crabtree, Oklahoma; 3. Jim Wilkinson,
Kansas; 4. Marion Smitte, Kansas;
5. Boucher, Boucher; 6. Dick Fowers,
Kansas State. Time: 1:56.7
220-vard Dash: 1. Thane Baker, Kansas;
2. Jeff Kinney, Kansas;
3. Frank Cindrich, Kansas; 4. Adam Fischer, Missouri; 5. Brian Hendrickson,
Nebraska; 6. Quannual Cox, Oklahoma.
Two-mile Run: 1. Warren Rouse, Oklahoma; 2. Herb Semper, Kansas; 3. Norm Bitner, Kansas; 4. Jerry Piper, Missouri; 5. Robert Fox, Missouri; 6. Bruce Drummond, Oklahoma Time: 9:42.5
220-ryd Low Hurdles: 1. Bob De-
Vinney, Kansas; 2. Don Smith, Kansas;
3. Ronnie Dobson, Oklahoma; 4. Don
Bedker, Nebraska; 5. Dan Tolman, Nebra-
ska; 6. Pat Hindman, Colorado.
Time: 24.3.
**Shot Put:** 1. Wallace Tanner, Colorado, 49 feet, 7 inches; 2. Paul Grim, Iowa State, 48 feet, 3½ inches; 3. Larry Marsh, Kansas, 46 feet, 5½ inches; 4. Nate Graham, Oklahoma, 46 feet 2½ inches; 5. Merlin Gill, Kansas, 45 feet, inches.
Discuss: 1. Jim Robertson, Iowa State,
142 feet, 1½ inches; 2. Dick Knostman,
138 feet, 9½ inches; 3. Cliff Dale, Nebraska, 140 feet, 9 inches;
4. Merlin Gilin, Kansas, 135 feet, 11¾
inches; 5. Morris Kay, Kansas, 134 feet,
130 feet, 1½ inches; 6. Dunstan, Colorado,
130 feet, 1½ inches.
**High Jump:** 1. Bob Green, Missouri,
6 feet, 6½ inches; 2. Dick Jones, Oklahoma,
7 feet, 5¼ inches; 3. James Nebraska, Bob Sand, Nebraska and Bob Whidden, Oklahoma (tie), 6 feet 1½ inches.
4. George House, Lyman Frasier,
6 feet, 4½ inches; 5. Churchill, Oklahoma (tie), 6 feet ½ inch.
**Broad Jump:** Neville Price, Oklahoma,
23 feet, 11 inches; 26. Gene Wilson, Kan-
sas, Switzerland;
Switzer, Kansas, State, 23 feet, 1½
inches; 4 Glenn Beerline, Nebraska,
2ee feet, 9¾ inches; 5 Quannah Cox, Oklah-
mia, Texas, Hingg Thode, Nebraska, 22 feet, 4¾ inches;
Javelin. 1. Bill Fessler, Missouri, 181 feet, $1\frac{1}{4}$ inches; 2. Jim Swim, Kansas, 176 feet, $1\frac{3}{4}$ inches; 3. George Colorado, 178 feet, $1\frac{1}{4}$ inches; 4. George Holley, Colorado, 175 feet, $4\frac{1}{4}$ inches; 5. Jim Potts, Kansas, 172 feet, $1\frac{1}{2}$ inches; 6. Brown, Kansas, 170 feet, $8\frac{1}{4}$ inches.
Pole Vault: 1 Jim Floyd, Kansas, 12 feet, 54 inches; 2 Frank Dickey, Missoula, 16 feet, 80 inches; 3 Ovidods, Colorado, 12 feet, 104 inches; 4 Jim Hofstetter, Nebraska and John Sutherland, Kansas State, 6 Charih Nelson, Kansas State, Chuck Crawford, Oklahoma, David Dlander, Oklahmia, Jim Sommers, Nebraska, Tom Machin, Kansas State and Ken Mallas, Texas.
Mile Relay: 1. Kansas State (Jerry Rowe, John Caldwell, Dick Towers and Thane Baker); 2. Oklahoma; 3. Kansas; 4. Missouri; 5. Colorado.
Time: 3:34.3.
Golf Team Wins Third Place as OU Takes Title
The Kansas Jayhawkers finished third in the Big Seven golf tournament played over a water soaked course Friday and Saturday at Norman, Okla.
Conditions were bad enough to keep any of the golfers from touring the final 18 holes in less than 80 strokes.
The Oklahoma Sooner foursome, Bob Meek, Jim Vickers, Bob Noever and Johnny Johnson did the best job, to maintain the early lead they gained and to win the tournament by 10 strokes, 934-944.
Rourke and Hunt were both back to defend their crown this year but on the soggy course, neither could gain his previous form. Rourke finished ninth in the race for individual honors with 238. His three round totals were 78-78-82.
Meek and Joe Gifford of Nebraska tied for the individual crown with 54 hole totals of 229. This is three more than Gene Rourke of Kansas and Graham Hunt of Kansas State tied with last year.
Nebraska, the pre-tournament favorite, placed second. The Jayhawkers total was 969, leaving them far out of the running but 10 points ahead of fourth place Missouri.
Jim Vickers' 36 on the back nine Saturday following his morning round of 45, clinched the team title for the Sooners. He came in third for individual honors behind Meek and Gifford with a 233.
Hunt was far out of the running in 25th place. His 54 hole total was a sad 253. His 92 over the last 18 holes was the highest total of any of the participants.
Others in the top ten were Erv Peterson, Nebraska, 234; John McGuinness, Iowa State, 235; Noever, 235; Johnson, 237; Dick Spangler, Nebraska, 238; Rourke, 238, and James Clark, Missouri, 240.
Rourke's teammates in the tournament were Harlan Hise, 241; "Ham" Lynch, 244; Bob Dare, 246, and John Prosser, 252. Only the top four scorers were counted in the team's total of 969.
Intramural Golf Taken by Delts
Delta Tau Delta won the intramural golf championship yesterday in the finals at the Lawrence Country club with a total team score of 158.
the championship was decided in nine rounds of play instead of the sechduled 18 holes because of rain.
The members of the Delta Tau Delta team are Miles Nichols, 41; Tom Crahan, 42; Phil Johnson, 41; and Frisbie, 34.
Dean Frisbie won individual medalist honors with a par 34 for the nine holes.
Beta Theta Pi took second with a score of 164. Sigma Alpha Epsilon won third with a 183 score.
Members of the Beta team are Charles Dunne, 38; Innes Phillips, 45; Lee Phillips, 42, and Bob Blanchard, 39.
Dado Marino Loses Flyweight Crown
Members of the Sig Alph team are Dave Clordell, 40; John Ball, 44; Dick Bowen, 47, and Hank Gerling, 52.
Tokyo—(U.P.) Yoshio Shirai, 28-year-old challenger from Japan, hammered out a 15-round decision tonight over aging Dado Marino of Hawaii to win the world's flyweight boxing championship.
Marino, 35, started fast but faded in closing rounds under a merciless rain of head and body punches from the brawny challenger.
Close LosstoOklahomaDrops KU Tennis Team to Second
Kansas netmen aiming for the Big Seven championship were styled by the Oklahoma Sooners Friday and Saturday.
day and Saturday
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Pitcher Misses 2nd No-Hitter
By UNITED PRESS
Lady luck side stepped pitcher Bill Connelly of the Toledo Mudhens by just six inches yesterday, preventing him from becoming the second hurler in American association history to toss two no-hitters.
The Mudhen hurler fired a no-hitter against Louisville on Sept. 6, 1949. Charles Hall of St. Paul is the only pitcher ever to throw two no-hitters in the league. His first came in 1918, his second in 1920. Both were against Columbus.
Connelly had gone seven innings toward association immortality in the Mudhens' opener with Milwaukee when catcher Al Unser, with two away in the eighth, connected for a double that missed being foul by six inches. Connelly held the Brewers hitless the rest of the way to gain a 4-0 decision but his big chance was past.
There was more sharp mouno work in the second game, which the Brewers won 1-0 to retain first place. In the latter contest, Milwaukee's Dick Hoover and the Mudhens' Clarence Beers each allowed only three hits.
Toledo connected with three Milwaukee pitchers for nine hits.
So far as the standings were concerned, Sunday's game accomplished nothing. All teams split double-headers.
Kansas City's Ed Coregheh fashioned a four-hitter as the second place Blues beat Columbus 3-0 in their opener. The second game went two extra innings before the fast-improving Red Birds won, 7-6.
Birmingham—(U.P.)-The athletic situation at the University of Kentucky, blasted by a New York judge as full of "over-emphasis," will be given a "complete and thorough investigation" by Commissioner Bernie Moore of the Southeastern Conference.
Judge Slams Coach Rupp
Moore received his orders for the inquiry today from the conference's executive committee after a five-and-a-half hour meeting here yesterday.
The university had requested such an investigation, but Moore said that league heads would have taken the step uninvited—"We waited until now until the court action in New York was over," said Moore.
The conference commissioner referred to the proceedings in New York, in which Judge Saul S. Streit, in giving suspended sentences to three University of Kentucky students, to fixing scandal, described athletics at Kentucky as "the acme of commercialism and over-emphasis."
In a long statement issued April 30, Judge Streit attacked Kentucky Basketball Coach Adolph Rupp on the grounds in the grounds that he "aided and abetted in the immoral subsidization of the players." The judge said he had investigated both basketball and football at Kentucky and found "covert subsidization of players, ruthless exploitation of athletes, cribbing at examinations, illegal recruiting, a reckless disregard of their physical welfare, matriculation of unqualified students, demoralization of the athletes by the coach, alumni, and townpeople, and the most flagrant use of the 'athletic scholarship.'"
Sooners narrowly 10-9 as the meet moved into the third round of play. But the meet had to be moved into the Oklahoma fieldhouse because of wet courts, and again the Jayhawkers couldn't find the range on the boards.
The meet was a nip-and-tuck battle between Kansas and Oklahoma with neither team having a definite lead until after the final doubles matches were played.
Oklahoma led Kansas by a team score of one match, 14-13, at the start of the final doubles competition.
Charles Crawford and Gene Fotopoulos, No.1 doubles players, took the first set from Sooners Glen Land, and Ken Taylor, 6-4. The Kansans dropped the second set 6-4, but were leading 4-2 in the final and deciding set before the Oklahomans rallied for the doubles win. 7-5.
The victory for Oklahoma gave it 15 points and the championship. Kansas garnered 13 points for second place honors. Colorado was third, Kansas State, fourth, Nebraska, fifth, Missouri sixth, and Iowa State, seventh.
Charles Crawford, KU ace, received his second defeat of the season in the singles from Roger Coad, K-Stater who dealt him the first loss. The second round singles match between Crawford and Coad was interrupted by rain Friday afternoon. The match was moved to the fieldhouse Saturday morning.
Two Kansas players finished first in their divisions. John Freiburger in the No. 3 singles matches completed the tournament with a win. He dropped the first set of the final match to Don Hilgers of Colorado, 3-6, but roared back to take the title, 8-6, 6-1.
Al Hedstrom met another Colorado player in the finals of the tournament. He defeated Dan Luna in straight sets, 6-1, 6-4.
It was the 15th conference tennis title for Oklahoma in the 21 years of the Big Six and the Big Seven have sponsored the sport. It was the fourth consecutive win in tennis for the Sooners.
Slammin' Sammy Wins Palm Beach
Snead, who withstood a terrific finish by Cary Middlecoff to win the Palm Beach yesterday by just two points, will return home to White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., because his wife is expecting their second child.
New Rochelle, N.Y.—(U.P.)—Slammin' Sammy Sneed added $3,000 to his bank account today for a resounding victory in the Palm Beach round-robin golf tournament and announced he'll pass up the next stop on the tournament trail, the Colonial open at Fort Worth Tex.
Snead, who now has notched five wins on the tourney trail this year, said that his next appearance would be in the Western open in St. Louis, May 29-June 1.
But Middlecoff, the Memphis, Tenn., dentist who stole Snead's thunder on the final round by gaining 12 points, announced that he'll be going to Fort Worth for the playing opening Thursday. Middlecoff won the Colonial title last year.
Under the complicated scoring in this meet, each player in the 16-man field played five rounds—playing in foursomes and meeting every other player once. In each round, he received "plus" or "minus" points according to the number of strokes he was ahead of or behind each rival.
Snead was not particularly happy over his Palm Beach victory—he disgusted called it the 'worst I've ever played to win a tournament"
Snead headed into the final round with a "plus 57 score," while Middecoff had "plus 43." Snead finished with that 57 points, while Middecoff came roaring up to finish with 55 points.