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University Daily Kansan Monday, April 21, 1952
Four Records Set in Kansas Relays
Four Records Kansas Four-Mile Mark Best in 27th Relays
By JOHN HERRINGTON Kansan Sports Editor
Four records were added to the books along with a tie as performers from 63 universities, colleges, and junior colleges as well as AAU Olympic team aspirants tore up Memorial track here Saturday in the 27th annual running of the Kansas Relays.
Kansas' great four-mile relay team of Lloyd Koby, Art Dalzell, Herb Semper and Wes Santee knocked a full 16 seconds off the old mark of 17:34.3 as they romped to a 17:18.3 win. The time was just 2.2 seconds shy of the intercollegiate record posted by Indiana in 1937.
There was really no contest in the race after the first lap and the Jayhawkers were left running against nothing more than the clock. They beat that too. Wes Santee took the baton on the final leg needing a 4:27.6 mile to tie the existing Kansas Relay's record. The long-legged sophomore from Ashland turned in a 4:11.6 mile to shatter the record.
Santee came back later in the afternoon in the distance medley to put the Jayhawkers back in the race and give them a big boost toward their winning performance. His two remarkable showings earned him the "Outstanding Athlete" award.
Kansas, with wins in the fourmile and the distance medley, was one of three teams to score double wins during the afternoon.
Texas won the 440-yard relay and the 880-yard race and Oklahoma scored victories in the two-mile and the mile relay.
The mile relay was another race in which the record was broken. The old record of 3:15 set by Rice in 1950 was lowered to 3:14.8 by Oklahoma's revenge-bent quartet.
Disqualified at the Texas Relays two weeks ago, the Sooners fought Texas A&M all the way to the tape to win. J. W. Mashburn clocked a blazing 46.7 quarter on the final carry to nose the Aggie's Jim Baker at the tape. Mashburn took the baton with Oklahoma trailing by 10 yards.
Bob DeVinney, Jayhawker track captain, set a new Kansas Relays record of .52.6 in the 400-meter hurdles in the morning preliminaries. It shaded by .4 of a second Dave Bolen's record set in 1948 when Bolen ran for Colorado.
DeVinney's mark lasted four hours. In the afternoon final, Lee Yoder of Arkansas shaved another J. of a second off when DeVinney tripped on the last hurdle, fell, and was unable to finish the race. Jack Greenwood, formerly of Kansas and running unattached, placed second.
Jim Gerhart, unattached, leaped 47 feet 2 inches in the AAU hop, step and jump event to eclipse the 46 feet $9 \frac{3}{4}$ inch record set by Lloyd Cardwell of Nebraska in 1936.
Texas tied the 800-yard relay mark of 1:25.2 set by Iowa in 1935.
Jim Brown of Navy scored a 9:49.3 win in the AAU 3,000-meter steeplechase after trailing Iowa's Rich Ferguson for the first six laps. Ferguson tired and dropped to third
with Kansas' Norm Bitner placing second, 20 yards behind Brown.
Texas A&M's powerful Darrow Hooper scored a double win in the discus and shot put to move one step closer to a Midwestern relays grand slam. The tall Texan won both events in the Texas Relays and needs only a dual win at the Drake games to fill out the ledger.
Hooper threw the discus 152 feet,
8 $ \frac{1}{4} $ inches and shoved the shot 53 feet, 9 inches Saturday. Hooper won the events here last year with heaves of 145 feet, 5 $ \frac{1}{2} $ inches and 51 feet, 8 $ \frac{1}{4} $ inches.
Abilene Christian College had its college class mile relay string of 17 straight wins broken by Oklahoma Baptist. The Baptists won the event with a 3:19.6 clocking. Abilene Christian was second.
Savannah State earlier defeated Abilene Christian in another of the Texas team's specialties—the sprint medley. The Georgia crew recorded a 3:30.2 time in that race.
Wally Davis of Texas A&M and Arnold Betton of Drake tied for first in the high jump with a leap of 6 feet. $7 \frac{1}{4}$ inches.
In the feature Glenn Cunningham mile (1500 meters), Javier Montes. back for his third try in the event, once more had to settle for second. Iowa's Ted Wheeler stepped off the distance in 3:54.4-1.1 second off the mark set by Cunningham in 1933—to win the event.
Montes of Texas Western ran behind Don Gehrmann of Wisconsin in the games two years ago and trailed Fred Wilt of the FBI and Gehrmann last year.
Thane Baker, defending 100-yard dash champion from Kansas State, led a star-studded field to the tape in the century. Texas' Dean Smith and Charlie Thomas placed second and third, respectively.
Baker got off to a slow start behind Smith, but overtook the Longhorn speedster 10 yards from the finish to win with an @9.5 time.
A slow track from Friday's rain and a stiff seven mile per hour wind hampered many would-be record breaking showings.
A wind of more than three miles per hour directly at the back of any runner would discount any record set. Fortunately, all records set were in relay races and field events where the wind plays no part.
University 4-mile relay; 1. Kansas; 2. Missouri; 3. Wes Wesan; 2). Missouri; 3. Marquette; 4. Oklahoma A&M. Time -17:18:3 (relays) former record 17:34:3 by Kansas
The Summary:
UNIVERSITY—COLLEGE
Shotput: 1. Darrow Hooper, Texas A&M. 53 feet. inches; 4½ inches. 2. Jake Johnson, Texas A&M. 9½ inches; 3. Don Pratt, Texas A&M. 50 feet. 4¼ inches; 4. Dick Spillows, Houston. 48 feet. 9¾ inches.
440-yard university relay; 1, Texas (Dean Smith, Carl Mayes, Ralph Person, Charles Thomas); 2, Iowa; 3, Oklahoma A&M; 4, Kansas. Time: -41.
400-meter hurdles: 1. Lee Yoder, Arkansas; 2. Jack Greenwood, unattached; 3. Duwayne Dietz, Iowa; 4. Cyrus Taylor, navy. Time—$52.5 (relays record. Old record $52.6 by Bob Devlinny, Kansas, in the morning preliminaries).
Half-mile college relay: 1, North Texas
Jayhawk Basketball Team To Meet Caterpillars Twice at Hutchinson
College 2-mile relay: 1. Howard-Payne (Dan Owens, Berna Allen, Les Fambre, W. C. Burms); 2. Ft Hayes State; 3. Chilin (W. C. Burms); 4. Pittsburgh (Kan.) State. Time-7:53.3.
AUA 1,500-meter run; 1 Ted Wheeler;
Iowa; 2 Jacvet Montes, Texas Western;
3 Allan Eshbaugh, Arkansas; 4 Frank
Kemper Military Academy. Time=
3:54.4.
Javelin throw: 1. Wes Rilchie, Texas Christian Christian, Abilee Christian, 198 feet 83 inches; 3. Eli Romera, Wichita, 185 feet 92 inches; 4. Bill Fessler, Missouri, 184 feet
University 2-mile relay; 1, Oklahoma (Ronald Reed, Jim Wilkinson, George Mcorcick, Crabdite); 2, Texas A&M: 3, Drake; 4, Missouri. Time=7·41.5.
100-ward dash; 1, Thane Baker, Kansas State; 2, Dean Smith, Texas; 3, Charles Thomas, Texas; 4, Larry McBride. Houston. Time=-909.5.
State (Bill Walters, Walt Lindsay, Jerome
Zabinjol, Ray Renfro); 2, Howard-Payne;
3. Oklahoma Baptist; 4. Emporia (Kan.)
State. Time—1:27.1.
120-yard hard hurdles: 1, Charlie White, Howard-Payne; 2. James Harrison, Lincoln university; 3. Don Bedker, Nebraska; 4. Pot Hindman, Colorado. Time
College sprint medley: 1, Savannah (Ga.) State sprint, Turner, Curtis Harris, Bates Christian, Prince, Nancy); 2. Ableton, Christie; 3. East Texas State; 4. Washburn, Time--3.30.2.
Discus: Dwarf Harpoer, Texas A&M.
Fuisse: 8¾ inches; 2, George Holm,
4, Cliff Dale, Minnesota; 141 feet, 1¼ inches;
4, Cliff Dale, Nebraska; 140 feet, 11 inches.
The Kansas basketball team will meet the Caterpillar Diesels in Hutchinson June 25 and 27, according to Wendell Holmes, Hutchinson attorney.
University spirt medley: 1. Oklahoma
A&M (Paul Wells, Tom Elliot, John
Surrell, Bill Heard); 2. Arkansas; 3.
Kansas State; 4. Kansas; Time-3:26.
College invitation sprint midley; 1.
McPherson Kan.) (Paul Heidebrecht,
Bob) (Lake教师, David Metz-
tler) (Oakau Kan.) 4. Müssor-
Time.; 3-4:06.
Junior college sprint medley: 1, Kemper Military Academy (Jerry Hooper, Herb Waller, Memo Valinas, Nick Kristen, 2. Oklahoma Military Academy; Kcervin (Kan.) Junior College, 4. Hutchison (Kan.) Junior College. Time -3:42.3.
Pole vault: Tied for first and second: Paul Falkner, Ablena Christian and John Wilkin, Matthew Battie for third and fourth: John Wilkin, Iowa State, Jim Floyd, Kansas: Franklin Dickey, Missouri, Forrest Arnold, Missippi Phil Edwards, Doane, 12 feet 6 inches.
Broad jump! 1. Gene Wilson, Kansas
2. Karen Owen, Minnesota
A&M; 2 feet 8½ inches; 3. Yvie Switzer,
Kansas State. 23 feet 8 inches; 4. Paul
North Texas State. 23 feet 5½ inches.
Decathlon: 1, Dean Pryor; Arkansas;
2, Jim Philbee; Bradley; 3, Ed. Hosking,
4, Tom Brendon; 5, Bob Provore; Bob Provorce, Donee; 6, Stan Huntsman, Wabash; 6, Anthony Phansha, Camp Aturay;
7, Wendell Palmer, Garden City (Kan)
8, Junior college. Total points—
6,224.
High jump: Tie for first and second; Walter Davis, Texas A&M and Arnold Betton. Drake, 6 feet $7^{1/4}$ inches; 3, Bob Gorden. Missouri, 6 feet $6^{1/4}$ inches; 4, Holding, Texas State and Roscoe Zroman. Oklahoma A&M, 6 feet $4^{1/4}$ inches.
College distance medley: 1. Howard Payne (Bob Weekly, Berna Allen, Lee Farnsworth, North Texas State; 3. South Dakota State; 4. Ft. Hays (Kan.) State. Time=10:28.
University half-mile relay: 1. Texas (Dean Smith, Ralph Person, Jim Brownbill, Charles Thomas). 2. Oklahoma; 3. Hawaii. 252 (ties 252 to record by Iowa in 1935).
proved by Howard Hobson, Yale university, Olympic basketball chairman; Asa H. Bushnell, Olympic committee secretary; Coach Warren Womble of the Peoria Caterpillars, and Coach F. C. "Phog" Allen.
AAU 3,000-meter steeplechase; 1; James Brown, navy; 4, Norm B尉, Kansas; 3, Rich Ferguson, Iowa; 4, William Torp, Minnesota, Time—9:49.3.
The teams originally were scheduled to play only one practice game there, but orders for almost 10,000 tickets were received. This was 2,000 more than the Arena's capacity—so permission was granted to stage the second contest.
University distance medley: 1, Kansas (Bob Devineyn, Art Dalzell, Wes Santee, Herb Semper); 2, Oklahoma A&M; 3, Drake; 4, Oklahoma. Time—10-11.5.
Hop, step and jump: 1. Jim Gerhardt,
unintentional. 47 feet 2 inches; 2. Neville
Jordan. 45 feet 6 inches; 3. Glenn Beerline, Nebraska. 45 feet 33
inches; 4. James Kent, Iowa State. 44 feet
inches (new record, former record
Nebraska, by Lloyd Cardwell,
Nebraska, 1936).
Holmes said plans have been ap-
Other games in the series will be played in Kansas City, Peoria, and possibly in New York. Funds from the games will be used to cover expenses of the trip.
Members of the 1952 national collegiate champion Jayhawkers who will compete are Clyde Lovelette, Bob Kenney, Bill Hougland, Bill Lienhard, John Keller, Charlie Hoag, and Dean Kelley.
College mile relay: 1, Oklahoma Baptist,
Bob Peck (Ladgett), 2, Babcock, Bob
Peck (Leadett); 3, University of
Kansas
Intrasquad Tilt Tomorrow
With the cancer benefit game scheduled for tomorrow night in Topeka between the Jayhawks and the Stevenson Roofers called off, Coach Phog Allen and his Jayhawkers will make a special appearance in Topeka tomorrow and stage a full-length intrasquad game.
The former game was cancelled because of the professional affiliations some of the Stevenson players had. Officials did not want to hamper the Jayhawkers' amateur standing for the summer Olympic games.
By JOHN HERRINGTON Kansan Sports Editor
It was nearly unanimous in the press box Saturday that Wes Santee be chosen the "Outstanding Athlete" of the 27th annual Kansas Relays. The amazing sophomore was really "outstanding" in the opinion of the majority of the sports writers assembled. A few picked Texas A&M's double-winner Darrow Hooper for the honor. A few more chose Santee's running mate Herb Semper.
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Any of the three, in this writer's opinion, would have been a good choice, with Santee getting the nod. At any rate, we're well-pleased with the final selection and thoroughly convinced that one of the finest performers to ever enter the Kansas Relays was presented the "Outstanding Athlete" plaque by Relays Director Bill Easton.
While we're discussing action in the press box, it was interesting to note that several scribes became disinterested—at least for the time—in the races long enough to form a "Coke bottle brigade" to put out a fire underneath some of the seats. Coke bottles, however, don't hold enough water and the local fire department had to send some representatives to take care of the blaze.
Relays fans — some 9,000 — saw some curious events Saturday. Added to the regular card—because of the Olympic year—were the 3,000-meter steeplechase, 400-meter hurdles and hop, step and jump events. The water hole in the steeplechase produced some interesting sidelights—and some wet feet.
tian; 3. Savannah (Ga.) State; 4. East Texas State. Time—3:19:6.
University mule relay; 1, Oklahoma
Muskogee; 2, Texas A&M;
mam. J. W. Mashburn; 2, Texas A&M; 3,
Kansas; 4, Houston. Time- 3:14.8
record; record former 3:15 by Rice in
HIGH SCHOOL.
Kansas City High school 880-yard relay; 1, Southwest (John Handley, Bob Smith, Roger Orrudiff, Tom Albert); 2,腥要; 3, Paseo; 4, East. Time—1:32.
Kansas high school mile relay. 1,
Wichita East (Warren Johnson, Jim
Pittsburgh, Dawn Swearer); 2,
Pittsburg; 3, Shawna Mission; 4, Wyan-
dotte. Time-3.32.8.
Wes Santee
Wes Santee "Outstanding Athlete"
KU-K-State Tennis Match Slated for 2 p.m. Tomorrow
The Kansas tennis team—victorious in two matches during vacation—will meet the Kansas State team tomorrow in what Coach Dick Mechem terms "the most crucial conference match."
The Wildcats with a team of all lettermen will play the Jayhawk netmen at 2 p.m. on the concrete courts south of the stadium.
Roger Coud, Chris Williams and Don Upson—the top three Wildcat players—have all lettered for three years and are all seniors.
"As Iowa was our toughest match, the experience-laden K-State team promises to be our most crucial conference match." Mechem said. "It's going to be a close one, but we hope to win it," he added.
Kansas State carries a record of four wins and one loss to Iowa university.
Kansas blanked the University of Nebraska and Omaha university last Friday and Saturday. The Jayhawkers took the Cornhuskers 7-0 in the first conference match and defeated Omaha by the same score.
John Freiburger defeated John
Charles Crawford, No. 1 Kansas player who has not been beaten this year, won an easy victory from Mike Holyoke of Nebraska 6-0, 6-0. Gene Fotopoloups took the No. 2 game from Walt Weaver 6-0, 6-1.
Tatom 6-0, 6-2. AHedstrom had a little trouble with Nebraska's Harrington but won 6-3, 2-6, 6-2. Hal Titus defeated Nebraska's Fahnback 6-0, 6-1.
Crawford and Fotopoulos team in the doubles match to defeat Hoyoke and Tatom 7-5, 6-3. Freiburger and Titus won over Harrington and Weaver in the second doubles match 5-7, 7-5, 6-4.
Kansas again won all the matches with Omaha university. Saturday, Crawford's Pislele 6-2, 6-4 in the No.1 game. Foulisouls defeated The Tom Burke 3-6, 2-1.
Freiburger turned back Don Blocker's threat to defeat him 6-4, 2-6, 6-1. After dropping the first set 6-4, Al Hedstrom went on to stop Carl Carlson 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 in what was the closest game of the match. Hal Titus defeated Brenden Gallagher 6-1, 6-2 to sweep the singles matches.
In the doubles Crawford and Fotopoulos defeated Pisalle and Burke 7-5, 6-2. Freiburger and Titus kept the slate clean by defeating Blocker and Gallagher 6-2, 6-3 in the final doubles match.
After the Kansas State match here Tuesday, the Jayhawkers will go against Washburn university of Topeka here Thursday and Missouri university, in the third conference match, at Columbia Friday.