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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY,MAY15,1951
Sooner Track Squad Will Be Thin But Potent
Columbia, Mo.-Sporting a "faster hat" than the one stolen from his at the conference indoor meet in Kansas City last March, Sooner Coach John Jacobs will bring a thin, but richly talented, Oklahoma squad to the Big Seven outdoor track and field championships here May 18 and 19.
Anybody prone to write off the Oklahoma track team after their crack-up in the indoor meet failed to reckon with the Sooners' terrific recuperative power. Or with Jake's new headgear, for that matter.
Disaster waylaid the Oklahomaans at every turn during the Big Seven indoor show two months ago. Collisions and injuries beat the Sooners out of certain points in their strong events, and they hobbled home fifth. To top it all off, Coach Jacobs discovered on returning to his hotel that somebody had lifted his hat.
The sequel to that hard-luck tale has been most amazing. In the early outdoor campaign, O.U.'s squad blazed a brilliant trail of relay and individual triumphs wherever they showed for dual or relay meets.
Just last week came word from the Oklahoma camp that the team's rehabilitation was complete. Charley Coleman, last year's outdoor 440 champion, would be back to defend his title, officials said. It was previously feared he was through for the 1951 season, after pulling a muscle in the indoor meet.
With Coleman back, and anywhere near fit, Oklahoma's quarter-mile and mile relay staff, the latter Sugar Bowl kingpins, is even more formidable. Jake's 15-man Sooner troupe should come into the 23rd outdoor classic with a better-than-passing shot at the title. Not since 1935 have Oklahoma's track knights claimed the conference outdoor crown.
In at least nine of fifteen events on the outdoor card, Oklahoma figures to pick up places. In some cases—the quarter, half, mile relay and broad jump, for instance—thejr point-loot could be heavy. They are leanest in the short sprints, hurdles, longer distance hauls and the javelin.
Standouts in Oklahoma's strongest suits are Jerry Meader, George McCormick and Coleman, quartermilers; Don Crabtree and McCormick in the half; and Quanah Cox and Jimmy Smith in the broad jump.
Meader turned the quarter in 47-9. McCormick in 48-8 against the Oklahoma Aggies. Crabtree and McCormick arranged a tie, each in 15:5-5, to win the half against Nebraska recently. Cox leaped 24 feet 2 inches in the Oklahoma Aggie Relays, while Smith had a 23 feet 8% inch jump for runnerup honors at Drake.
There'll be no concessions any-
where along the line, but O.U.'s
QUANAH COX
middle-distance whizzers are a good bet to grab three first places—in the 440, 880 and relay, at 10 points per copy for the blue-ribbon finish, with possible extra rations at 8-6-4-2-and-1 for the next five places.
Moreover, either Cox or Smith, shot-putter Clair Mayes and high jumper Dick Jones are potential winners. If Kansas State's ailing Herb Hoskins should falter, the Sooners have the take-charge entries. Mayes, the squaty weightman who pushed the shot 52 feet at Austin, must get past Colorado's Wally Tanner, the 1951 indoor king, Jones, the Drake Relays bell-cow with his best all-time spring of 6 feet 7 inches, encounters a lustrous high-jump field, which includes three others who've gone 6 feet 7 inches.
Then there's vaulter Jerry Lemon, sure of a high-bracket finish with a 13 foot 10 inch peak at the Texas Relays. With Smith and Jones doubling back in the hurdles, Oklahoma can score here as well as in the mile (Jim Wilkinson), two mile (Bruce Drummond) and discus (Art Horkev).
How to stop the Sooner bid? That's the vexing problem other Big Seven coaches are stuck with.
Might help to steal Jake's newest derby.
"It's a lot faster than the old one," he chuckles.
Only A Strong Rebound Can Boost Phillies Into Race
New York (U.P.)-Can the Phillies rebound in defense of their National league crown or did their collapse in the world series last fall portend a rocky 1951 season for Eddie Sawyer's Whiz Kids?
Those were key questions Monday as the National league eastern teams went west for the first time this year.
The Phillies were two games below .500—with a 12-14 record—compared to their 14-8 record a year ago today. Moreover, they appeared to be in desperate need for (A) a starting pitcher to replace Curt Simmons, and (B) a power-hitting left-handed hitter to give them an even chance against the many good right-handed pitchers in the league.
Eight Runs In Last Two Innings Down 'Cats, 9-6
And behind all Sawyer's other problems was the biggest of all—what about Jim Konstanty—the league's most valuable player last season who has been battered freely in almost every appearance this year?
Sawyer admitted his key problem was replacing Simmons this spring and so far he has failed to find anybody. Ken Heintzelman has won one game and lost four, Ken Johnson
And even Robin Roberts—the strong-armed man of the staff who beat the Dodgers in the pennant clincher last season—has not been himself. Roberts has a 3-2 record but was knocked out in his last two starts by the Cubs and Giants.
Sawyer's search for a lefthanded power hitter has brought few results. Rivals all save their right-handed power pitchers for the predominantly righthanded hitting Philly batting order.
has yet to win, Jocko Thompson has lost two of three games and Russ Meyer has split two decisions and been knocked out in two of his three starts.
Sawyer's other—and perhaps biggest problem—is Konstanty. Big Jim has appeared in 13 of the Phillies' 26 games but his appearance no longer signals the quieting of the enemy's bats. His record is 2-3 and he has been hit hard in most of his appearances.
Only a top left-handed power hitter can reverse the trend and Sawyer has little more than a month before the June 18 trade deadline to find one.
The Jayhawkers' ace righthander, big Carl Sandefur, will hurl today's game facing K-State's Perk Reitemeier.
Hub Urlrich's Jayhawker baseball club rallied for four runs in the eighth and four more in the ninth to defeat Kansas State, 9 to 6, Monday afternoon at Manhattan.
With Kansas holding a scant 5 to 4 lead going into the ninth, first baseman George Voss hit a four-run homer to put the game on ice for the Jayhawkers.
In winning his second conference game of the season, Jack Stonestreet allowed 10 hits and was in trouble in only two innings, the first and ninth. The Wildcats scored three in the first inning on Reitmeier's homer and added a pair resulting from two K.U. errors.
The Wildcats threatened in the ninth with a pair of runs. With the bases loaded, K-State scored on a wild pitch and an error. Stonestreet ended the rally and game by throwing a called third strike past shortstop Jack Collier.
Kansas snapped out of its batting slump with a 13-hit attack against starter Jim Iverson and Gene Kubicki with every player securing at least one hit.
Voss drove home five runs with his homer and single while catcher Galen Fiss and Walt Hicks drove home two runs each with a triple and double in four trips respectively.
Kansas ... 000 100 044-9 13 4
Kansas, State ... 300 010 002-6 10 4
Batteries: Iverson (lost), Kubicki (9) and Holder, Woods; Stone-street and Fiss.
Boxing Famine Still Prevails
By OSCAR FRALEY
United Press Sports Writer
The heavyweight fastic famine still is in full force today and for indisputable proof you have the slow waltz which two tired old warriors will put on at the Polo Grounds on June 13.
One of the participants will be Joe Louis, a venerable gentleman probably remembered by all the grandparents in the audience. A true tipoff on the heavyweight situation is that old Joe still is regarded by many as champion of everything except Ezzard Charles.
Ezzard, at such future date, will be guaranteed protection from any possible assault and battery charges which result. There is no truth to the rumor that either Louis or Savold once fought John L. Sullivan. But they've been around too long to be swapping fisticuffs with the Cincinnati rapper.
The limping Louis, who was 37 on Sunday, has been installed a 2 to 1 choice. This is because his opponent will be 35-year-old Lee Savold—world champion of Great Britain and Paterson, N.J.
Old Joe, with tears in his eyes, announced last Sept. 27, after he had been chopped to pieces by a then unconfident Charles, that he was through. After due consideration of his checking account and a bill from Uncle Sam on back income taxes, Joe changed his mind.
Illustrating the sad state among he would-be heavyweight challengers are the recent records of both Louis and Savold.
Golfers Win Missouri Match
Since then he has fought five opponents and looked somewhat less than a Tiger. He earned the nod over awkward Cesar Brion. Then he kayed Freddie Beshore, an oft-complished feat which does not call for a man of fistic distinction. Then followed the first of two dull affairs with unwilling Omelio Agramonte and a knockout over someone called Andy Walker.
The golf team wound up its dual meet season Monday with a $10\frac{1}{2}$ to $71\frac{1}{2}$ victory over Missouri. The meet was held at Columbia and will be the last competition for the Jay-hawkers until the conference meet Friday and Saturday in Kansas City.
Jim Patton (M), 73, defeated Bob Dare, 77, 3-9.
Donn Everett (K), 74, defeated Bill Scroggin, 75, $2^{1/2}-1/2$
Patton and Scroggin, (M), defeated Dare and Everett, $ 2 \frac{1}{2}-\frac{1}{2} $
feated Dare and Everett, 272-72
Gene Rourke (K), 74, defeated
Jim Clark, 77, 3-0
Jim Houghton, (K), 77, defeated Sam Larner, 78, 2-1
Rourke and Houghton (K), defeated Clark and Larner, $2^{1/2}-1/2$.
teacher Charlie. Missouri's Jim Patton won medalist honors with his 73 strokes around the 18-hole course. Donn Everett was only one stroke behind Patton with a 74, tops for Kansas.
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