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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1951
WES SANTEE STANDS BESIDE honors gathered on cinder tracks all over the world. The University of Kansas thinclad makes track history every time he dons his suit. Only a sophomore, he has a bright collegiate future ahead of him. Constantly striving for the four-minute mile, his immediate concern is making the Olympic team.
Wes Santee, KU Track Star, Has Made Collegiate History
By JERRY RENNER
Legends are already growing up around Wesley Santee, track star from Ashland. In high school he won 29 consecutive firsts for the mile and broke Glenn Cunningham's 4:28.4 mile high school record with his own of 4:26.
At the University Wes has set two new records. One intercollegiate record is in his possession. This sine-wey-legged human jet has knocked five seconds off the old freshman mile record. (4:25) with a 4:20.2 and cut the time for the mile-and-a-half from 7:15 to 7:02.
Not content with these he went ahead to make intercollegiate history by clipping almost 20 seconds off the 2 mile record. He lowered it from 9:40 to 9:21.6.
"Santee can't be stopped," fans said. At the national A.A.U. track meet in Berkeley, Calif., this product of western Kansas who grew up on a 2,000 acre ranch, took first in the junior 5,000 meter race. He clipped off 18 seconds from the old record of 15:21.4.
The following day he entered the senior 5,000 meter contest. He lost first place to New York's Fred Wilt, by four seconds.
This qualified Santee for a tour in Japan. He joined a party of 12 track men that included three Olympic stars. Mal Whitfield who holds the world record for 800 meters; Floyd Simmons, decathlon man and Vic Frank of Yale, discus and shotput star.
The team left the U.S. on July 5, of '51 and flew to Tokyo, stopping for a four day rest at Honolulu. There they put on an exhibition, swam, and went sight seeing. Wes said the weather was perfect for running.
At the three day meet in Tokyo, Wes broke the international record in the 3,000 meter contest with 8:44. Mrs. Ridgway, wife of the general, presented him with a medal.
At the meet in Osaka, Santee took second place in the 1,500 meter race, losing to Warren Druetzel. At Kagoshima, near the southern end of Japan, where the temperature was 95 degrees, Wes responded by capturing the 3,000 meter race with an 8:48.6.
Nagoya saw him take third place in the 3,000 meter contest with an 8:51.6. At Nigota he took first in the 3,000 meters again.
m Sapporo, on the northernmost island of Japan, his 15:54.6 gave him second place in the 5,000 meter race. At Yokohama, a few days later, he took second in the 1,500 meter contest, losing again to Druetzel.
More than 70,000 persons met them at the train in Sapporo. In Yokohama 30,000 spectators turned out, each with his umbrella, in a driving rain. The team ran in water four inches deep." You can't let that many fans down," Santee said.
During their six weeks' trip in Japan, sponsored by the Japanese Athletic federation, the U.S. team, with 19-year-old Wes the youngest member, ran against 12 of Japan's best runners.
Wes came home August 29 with three firsts, four seconds and one
third. In addition, the Japanese people gave him many souvenirs including vases, lamps, robes, track shoes and even a guitar.
When asked what his plan for the future were, Wes responded, "I want to make the Olympic team and go to Helsinki, Finland."
Musial And Fain Win Bat Crowns
New York—(U.P.)—Ferris Fain of the Philadelphia Athletics is the American League's batting champion with a .344 average and Stan Musial of the Cardinals is the National League champ with .355.
It is Fain's first title and Musial's fifth.
May Be Last Chance For Bums
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Player and Club G. **A. B. R.** **H. H. Pet.**
Fain, Phil. 117 425 63 146 344
Pearson, Phil. 116 460 83 149 343
Kell, Detroit. 147 598 93 191 319
Williams, Bos ton148 531 111 169 318
Fox, Chicago. 147 604 93 191 318
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Musiak, Sue - 154
Ashburn, Bunny - 154
Robinson, Brkn - 150
Robinson, Brkn - 152
Ninoy, I.V. - 148
Ninoy, I.V. - 148
Ninoy, I.V. - 148
Ninoy, I.V. - 148
Ninoy, I.V. - 148
Ninoy, I.V. - 148
Ninoy, I.V. - 148
Ninoy, I.V. - 148
Ninoy, I.V. - 148
Ninoy, I.V. - 148
Ninoy, I.V. - 148
This'n That; Here'n There
New York — (U.P.)—The current pennant playoff between the Dodgers and the Giants is the third in major-league history.
In 1946, the Dodgers and Cardinals tied for the National League pennant and met in a best two-out-of-three playoff. The Cards won the first game, 4 to 2, in St. Louis, and ended the series by taking the second, 8 to 4, in Brooklyn.
New York—(U.P.)-This was the third straight year in which the Dodgers and Phillies played each other in an extra-inning game on the last day of the season with the National League pennant in the balance.
In 1948, the Red Sox and Indians tied for the American League pennant. They met in a single-game playoff at Boston, Oct. 4, and the Indians won, 8 to 3, behind southpaw Gene Bearden.
On Oct. 2, 1949, the Dodgers won the pennant by beating the Phillies, 9 to 7, in 10 innings as Jack Banta pitched two-hit relief ball for 42% innings and Duke Snider and Luis Olmo each drove in a run in the 10th frame.
On Oct. 1, 1950, the Phillies won the pennant by beating the Dodgers, 4 to 1, when Dick Sisler slammed a three-run run in the 10th inning.
Sunday, the Dodgers gained a tie with the Giants for the pennant by beating the Phils, 9 to 8, when Jackie Robinson hit a homer in the 14th inning.
New York—(U.P.)—Allie Reynolds, no-hit hero of the champion Yankees will pitch the opening game of the World Series—but manager Casey Stengel said today "those guys are making me work up double strategy so I gotta have two sets of plans after that."
Stengel said if the Dodgers win, he will pitch lefty Ed Lopat in the second game and use Vic Raschi for the first game in Ebbets field. He doesn't want to trust the soft-stuff southpaw in the little Brooklyn Park against the predominantly right-handed Dodger lineup. But if the Giants are the opponents, quick Vic Raschi will pitch the second game in the stadium, and Lopat will open up in the Polo grounds.
St. Louis—(U,P)—Drawling Cary Middlecoff, who "played it cozy" won his second straight St. Louis Open Golf crown and headed for Kansas City today $2,400 richer as a result of his 15 under 269 victory.
New York — (U.P.) - Baseball glory, in the form of its most modern miracle, beckoned the New York Giants today.
Home in their Polo grounds, they had the Brooklyn Dodgers, cheered as one of baseball's super teams in July and jeered as one of its biggest busts since then, facing suddend-death elimination in the playoff series for the National League Pennant.
Having beaten the fading Dodgers, 3 to 1, in the opening game of the series yesterday at Ebbets field, the Giants needed only a triumph today—or, if that should escape them, a triumph tomorrow—to win the right to face the American League champion New York Yankees in the opening game of the World Series Thursday.
Pitchers Hold Own Despite Lively Ball
Durochoer indicated he would gamble by starting Sheldon Jones, an in-and-out righthander who has won only six games this season while losing 10.
It was plain that Durocher was looking ahead of today's big game—to the World Series opener against
New York—(U.P.)-Despite the lively球, the 1951 major league season has wound up producing 13 pitchers with 20 or more victories, the largest number to reach that magic total in 31 years.
There were seven 20-game winners in the National League and six in the American, topping every previous mark since 1920 when the American League had 10 and the National seven.
the Yankees at Yankee stadium on Thursday. Should Jones start and beat the Dodgers, Durocher would be in a fine position with both Sal Maglie and Larry Jansen, his other ace, ready for the Yankees.
Dressen could not afford to look beyond today's game. Charley would like to start either of his aces, Preacher Roe or Don Newcombe, but neither has had sufficient rest.
20-game winners: W
Magile, N.Y. Giants 22
Roe, Brooklyn Dodgers 22
Cleveland Indians. 22
Jansen, N.Y. Giants 23
Spahn, Boston Braves 21
Lopat, N.Y. Yankees 21
Raschi, N.Y. Yankees 21
Roberts, Philadelphia Phils 21
Newcrome, Brooklyn Dodgers 21
Garcia, Cleveland Indians 20
Wynn, Cleveland Indians 20
Garcia, Cleveland Indians 20
Dickson, Pittsburgh Pirates 7*
Dressen's problem was not only to win today to keep the Dodgers' hopes alive, but to win tomorrow, too. Otherwise that super-team of July is going to go down in the record books as the biggest bust the sport has ever known. For on August 11 they were leading the league by $13\frac{1}{2}$ games, looking every inch one of the diamond's all-time greats.
That was long ago and today, in the home of the hated Giants, these same Dodgers were fighting for their pennant life. They had lost their first big gamble—and could afford to lose no more.
The first gamble came when, at a coin toss-up to decide the playoff sites in case they were needed to decide the pennant, the Dodgers won the call and chose to open at Ebbets Field.
They figured they could take the Giants in the first one for that all-important edge, but they overlooked three Giants in the process—pitcher Jim Hearn, third baseman Bobby Thomson, and outfielder Monte Irvin. This tri ganged up on Ralph Branca and the rest of the Dodgers to score that 3 to 1 win yesterday. Now the Durochermen need only one more triumph to reach what seemed a forelorn hope just a few days ago.
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