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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1951
11 Individual High School Titlists To Defend Relays Crowns Friday
By JIM VAN VALKENBURG
Eleven defending individual champions or co-champions will go to the post Friday in the 47th annual Kansas Interscholastic Relays.
Most of the returning champs will find that two straight first place medals in the big K.U. meet is a tough assignment. In 1949 only seven of 16 champs repeated, and last year the totals were again seven for 16.
While the total of eleven is lower than usual, the second place winners in no less than 18 events are back to push them. In this group are some potential record-breakers, such as Bob Flowers, Wyandotte javelin thrower. But the records are especially tough at K.U. because they are recorded by events only and not by classes.
Flowers, one of two returning titlists in Class AA, will be shooting at the meet record of 194 feet $9\frac{1}{2}$ inches set by Earl Rittel of Rock Creek in 1832. Flowers threw 191 feet 4 inches at the Pittsburgh Relays and reportedly has thrown 212 in practice. He beat both KU and the state last year and his hockey 180-180 earned him a place on the National Honor Roll in the event. Flowers will also be a threat in the shot put and high jump.
Kenneth Kelly of Atchison has the next best throw this year with 166 feet 7 inches. Kelly was a runner-up in all three weight events here last year. He has thrown 150 feet 5 inches in the disc, close to the record of 151 feet $ \frac{8}{2} $ inches by Bob Knight, Salina, 1945, and owns a 51 feet $ \frac{6}{4} $ inches effort in the shot put, second
only to the 51 feet $9\frac{1}{2}$ inches by Wichita East's Alvin Price. However, the meet record of 58 feet 10 inches seems out of reach.
Don Feller of El Dorado tied for first in the pole vault last year at 11 feet 7 inches. All four boys who tied behind Feller at 11 feet 4 inches are returning to push the big El Dorado in Hutchinson, Kenneth Reeves of Topeka, Eddie Allen of Wichita North, and Gene Perry of Shawnee-Mission,
Reeves tied for first in the Inter-
scholastic two years ago. Last year
he went as high as 11 feet 10 inches
and tied Feller for second in the
state. He has vaulted 11 feet 8 inches
and 11 feet 7 inches against Shawnee-
Mission and in winning at the Ottawa
Relays.
All four of the defending champs in Class A are in the 880-yard and mile runs. In addition, two Haskell stars will be added since that school has moved from AA to A. The competition will be terrific in both events.
In the 880, Hershel Brown of Kinsley ran 2:05.4 in winning his section last year, and Floyd Niernberger of last
Ellis won his section at 2:05.5. Ray Walkemeyer of Hugoton, Howard Denison of Kingman, and Gene Ostrander, Seaman's defending state champ, are all potential winners. Rudy Carnes of Haskell posted the best AA time of the season last year at 2:02.1. The meet record is 2:01.2.
Allen Eshbaugh of Fredonia will shoot for a rare three-straight feat in the mile this year. Bob Cannon, Haskell high jumper, and Arthur Dalzell, Spring Hill half-miler, reached that select circle last year.
Esbaugh's time of 4:36.9 at the Pittsburg Relays is the best this season. He ran 4:49 two years ago and 4:33.7 last year in winning his section. The other section winner, Manuel Savala of Rosedale, is also back, as is Grower Adee of Minneapolis. The third place finisher, Bill's Leo Peters defeated Savala by a wide margin in the Ottawa Relays with 4:47.
In Class B, Bill Chance of Mount Hope will be a good bet to repeat in the shot put if he can duplicate his 40 feet $2\frac{1}{2}$ inches throw of last year.
Don Grimm of Conway Springs also has a good chance to win again in the pole vault, altho his marks have not been outstanding. He won at Ottawa with 10 feet 11 inches, best in the class so far.
The other Class B titlist, Maynard Goodman of Mount Hope, a winner over Bernard Gay of Gardner in the 880, has been entered in only the shot put and discuss this time.
Lack Of Red Sox Power Puzzling
New York (U.P.)—Where, oh where is that Red Sox power and what in the world has happened to Jim Konstanty?
The Red Sox, those bumptious, bat-happy belters from Beantown, have scored exactly one run in 18 innings off Yankee pitching and a not-so-grand total of just eight singles. And Konstanty, whose appearance on the mound last year automatically sent the foe scurrying for cover, was rocked mercilessly as the Dodgers rallied to beat him and the Phillies, 4 to 3, in the ninth inning Wednesday.
Lefty Ed Lopat even had a no-hitter within his grasp for the Yankees against the Red Sox for six and a third innings yesterday, but settled for a glittering two-hit, 6 to 1 triumph.
Not a Red Socker had gotten a hit until Ted Williams singled with one out in the seventh off Lopat. Lopat then yielded a walk and a second single to Bobby Doerr.
That gave Boston its only run, but Lopat, acting almost red-faced about it, stepped up and blasted a two-run homer in the eighth. The Yankees already had scored four runs on a collection of singles in the fifth. Mickey (Merriwell) Mantle drove in two of those tallies off Harry Taylor, who had pitched shutout ball himself until that frame.
In Brooklyn, Preacher Roe was saved considerable embarrassment by the final rally against Konstanty. He had given up on seven hits but the trouble was that three were outside the park. Willie Jones banged two homers and Dick Sisler connected for one.
But the Dodgers rebounded. Konstanty relieved Bubba Church after he walked pinch-hitter Hank Edwards to start the inning. Bespectacled Jim tossed out Don Thompson on a sacrifice bunt that put pinch-runner Eddie Miksis on second. Then Konstanty threw out Carl Furillo and needed only one more man to insure victory. But on the first pitch, Duke Snider smashed a triple deep against the right field screen to score Miksis and Jackie Robinson followed with a single to score Snider with the winning run.
Sam Jethroe also climaxed a bottom-of-the-month rally with a three run homer in Boston that gave the Braves an 8 to 5 triumph over the Giants. New York had tied it at 5-all in the top of the ninth after Walker Cooper had homered for Boston in the eighth.
Cleveland also received superlative pitching for the second straight day, Early Wynn yielding only four hits to gain a 4 to 2 victory at Detroit.
Hornet Trackmen Win
Emporia (U.P.) — Emporia State, finishing first in ten events, easily downed Ottawa university in a dual track and field meet here yesterday.
Ottawa swept the discus and was first and second in the two-mile run.
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They're Pulling For Russ Christopher To Make Big Time This Year
By OSCAR FRALEY
United Press, Sports, Writer
United Press Sports Writer
Maybe he'll make it and maybe he won't, but they're happy in baseball that Russ Christopher at least is getting another chance.
Christopher is the tall, skinny man who for six years labored effectively and yet fruitlessly for the lowly Philadelphia Athletics. Then he was sold to the Cleveland Indians and realized the dream of every big leaguer—to play with a pennant winner.
But that was the end of the baseball trail for the six-foot, four-inch pitcher described by everybody who knew him as a "sweet guy." At least everybody thought it was.
But when your heart, even a weak one, is wrapped up in a boyhood dream, you don't count the cost. Russ didn't. From 1938 through 1941 he labored in the minors, at El Paso, Clovis and on up to Newark. Then, in 1942, he got his big league chance with the A's.
For throughout his baseball career,
big Russ was pitching on a prayer.
As a youngster he suffered rheumatic
fever. It left him with a dangerous
heart condition. He shouldn't even
have attempted to play baseball.
For two seasons he was handicapped with a sore arm and poor control—as well as by that reluctant heart which sapped him so quickly of his energy. Then, shifting to a side-arm and underhand delivery, he caught his control and blossomed into a pitcher who was a standout in the league. He nels. It was a feat to win 14, 13 and 10 in three years with a ball club like that—even if you forgot that crippled but courageous heart.
But his ambitions were greater than his strength in 1948, when he moved to the onrushing Indians. Still, with his baseball days rapidly running out, Christopher was one of the pennant stars as a relief pitcher, appearing in 45 games and saving more than a dozen of them.
But with the flag won, doctors told
For two seasons the baseball world heard nothing from Big Russ. Then the big man with the heart which was both strong and weak, heard of a new operation being performed experimentally at a Philadelphia hospital.
him he was through. That ailing heart had brought him to the end of the baseball road. Russ could have been a scout or moved into a front office position. But that wasn't for him. He wanted to be in baseball competitively or nowhere.
Russ flew east from his San Diego home and took the big gamble. The outcome might be death or it might win. It could be a life he wanted—pitching baseball.
That was last December, and the gamble paid off. The doctors said after it was over, that Big Russ could look forward to a normal life. By January, the tall righthander quipped:
Soon there was a visit to Cleveland and a glowing promise from General Manager Hank Greenberg when he met a lady who was open at the Indian clubhouse.
"I can run across the street now without getting tired."
So Christopher is ready to give it a try. He may get no farther than the San Diego Padres, right there in his own town. He may not get that far.
But the fact that he has been able to walk out there to the mound once more is great news to the guys who know him.
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