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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1951
Along the JAYHAWKER trail
By ALAN MARSHALL Daily Kansan Sports Editor
The University of Oklahoma cinder squad seems to be shaping up as a real contender for the Big Seven conference title. The Sooners completely dominated the Texas Relays held last weekend in Austin, coping first place in four of the seven relay events and placing second and fourth in two others. Only in the four-mile relay, won by Arkansas's Razorbacks, did they fail to place. Kansas took the runner-up spot in this latter event.
Local interest probably centers about how the Sooners may be expected to show in the 26th running of the Kansas Relays on April 21. Interestingly enough, comparing them to last year's times in the Mount Oread Olympics, Oklahoma figures to equal or better only one mark, that being in the quarter-mile relay. Rice won it in .41.3 last year and the Sooners posted a .42 flat last Saturday, a difference of only .7.
The Big Seven representative missed the two-mile relay mark posted by Texas last year in 7:43.9 by :3.6. The Sooners covered the distance in 7:47.5. They ran the half-mile relay in 1:28.4, or :2.9 slower than the Oklahoma Aggies did it a year ago in 1:25.5.
O. U.'s spiked shoe men made their poorest comparative showing in the sprint medley event. Their time of 3:31.9 was :7.6 off the 3:24.3 mark posted in 1950 at Lawrence, also by an Oklahoma entry. Only Jerry Meader, current lead runner, is returning from that record-breaking team. The old standard of 3:25.2 had been held by the University of Indiana since 1941.
The K.U. distance medley relay team, only winning Jayhawker entry in the Texas carnival, is in about the same boat as Oklahoma. The Kansas time of 10:14.4 was :4.7 slower than the record-breaking time turned in by Michigan in 10:09.7. But the old Relays mark of 10:12.7 set by Emporia Teachers in 1936 was still better than the Kansas clocking.
Captain Emil Schutzel ran the 440, Jim Dinsmore the 880, Keith Palmquist the 1320, and Herb Semper the mile in this winning outfit.
Brands
KEUFFEL & ESSER
DIETZGEN
PICKETT & ECKEL
Razorbacks Enter Three
Sizes
REGULAR
POCKET
CIRCULAR
Types
MANNHEIM POLYPHASE DECITRIG VECTOR
Arkansas presented the Kansas Relays with its biggest single-school decathlon entry in post-war history here Tuesday when Meet Director Bill Easton accepted three Razorbacks for the all-around test on April 20 and 21.
CASES
MAGNIFIERS
BELT FASTENERS
Accessories
Topping the list is Dean Pryor, former Fredonia, Kan., high school track and football flash, who finished eighth in the National A.A.U. Decathlon trials at Tulare, Calif., in 1949. Pryor, now an Arkansas sophomore, scored 616 points in this event, missing seventh by just 14 points.
Replacement Parts CURSORS GLASSES SCREWS
STUDENT UNION BOOK STORE
His teammates include Bob Ambler, 6-foot 8-inch, 215-pound basketball center who owns marks of 130-0 and 185-0, in the discus and javelin, respectively; and Dick Hazard, a 23-foot broadjumper who also has flung the fujeng in 195-0.
STORE
The Relays also received a 20-man entry roster from Marquette, including John Vishnevsky, 1950 Central Collegiate conference shot put and discus champion and a 14-man list from Wichita. Three more college class schools also reached Easton's desk Tuesday, including Los Angeles City college, Kearney, (Neb.) Teachers, and Midland college.
A total of 438,245 veterans had exhausted their entitlement for training under the GI Bill in 1950.
IM Entries Due By This Weekend
Two deadlines for intramural entries will fall on Friday and Saturday of this week. Walter J. Mikols, director of intramurals, has set the date for swimming at Friday, April 13, with preliminary competition set for the following Monday, April 16.
Men's softball rosters must be in the office in 104 Robinson gymnasium not later than Saturday, April 14, Mikols said. The schedule for both softball and swimming will be made out over the weekend.