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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1951
Herb Semper Sets Sights On 9-Minute Two-Mile Run
Bv DON PIERCE
K. U. Sports Publicity Director
No Kansas track athlete ever set a more lofty goal than K.U.'s redhaird Herb Semper. The sturdy Jayhawk distance steed has his sights set on a 9 minute two-mile before the year is out.
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He won't get a chance to fly this time for size today and Saturday when Texas Relays, but he'll be a central figure in Bill Easton's Austin plans nonetheless. Easton, who guided his club to three relay titles at Texas last year, will anchor two-mile and four-mile bids with Semper.
This means the gnome-like pound out of Forest Park, Ill, will drop down to less familiar distances of mile and 880 for the Jayhawk's first major outdoor test of the year. Semper ran legs on both these title teams last year, plodding the second carry of a blazing 17:20.9 four-mile effort, which shattered a 19-year-old Texas mark and came within five seconds of tying the American record.
Semper has whirled as low as 4:18.5 in the mile and 1:55.0 in the half. He is expected to do better under the pressure of the competition Kansas will run into at Austin.
There isn't much doubt he now ranks as the Big Seven's top distance ace, a mantle he scooped up when teammate Bob Karnes graduated last June. Most American two-milers are content to focus their ceiling at 9:20.0 for the two-mile. Yet, although he's only a junior, the 9:00 clocking Semper has established as his goal isn't out of the question.
He demonstrated this clearly in his Big Seven Indoor windup last month when he strummed the green spruce planks of Kansas City's Municipal auditorium in 9:11:30, to smash his old conference record by 15 seconds.
A week earlier he had unraveled a 9:15.6 against Missouri over the cinder paths at Columbia.
He opened the year by sweeping to the N.C.A.A. cross-country title over the East Lansing snowbanks, establishing a new course record of 20:31.7 for the four-mile grind. He had prefaced this by copting the league fall two-mile pennant in 9:19.8 in November.
Last year as a sophomore he dipped as low as 9:14.6, while gaining third place in the N.C.A.A. at Minneapolis. He also unreelled clockings of 9:18.5, in gaining second at the Big Seven-Southwest dual, and 9:20.2 in erecting a new dual meet mark against M.U. He hologored through the mud and rain every foot of the way to hang up a new loop record of 9:21.0 in the conference Outdoor.
Only Michigan's great N.C.A.A. champ, Don McEwen, has run faster than Semper during the Indoor season. The swarthy Wolverine owns five marks under that figure.
What will it take to reach 9:00?
Herb thinks he'll need a little more determination and a lot more speed.
"These relays should help - my speed," Semper predicts.
HERB SEMPER Kansas Distance Ace
"A 9:00 certainly is not out of the question for Semper." Easton will tell you. "That boy is a great competitor and he thrives on lots of work. Look what he did at Kansas City running on a 146-yard track with all those curves (the K.C. track is 24 laps for two miles) and the 'heavy traffic he had to go through."
Semper modestly credits his old tablemate Karnes, who won 13 conference mile and two-mile crowns, and Easton for his successes.
"When I came back as a sophomore I weighed 170 pounds." Semper explains. "Bob made me work. Sometimes I was so tired I couldn't walk. But he made me walk then jog, then run. I got down to 148 and found myself ready to go. He never let me rest on that Hill course." (Throughout the year Easton sends his runners over the slopes of Mt. Cread, on which the University is built.)
"Coach is great about knowing how much work to give his runners. He'll run you hard at the right time and ease up at just the right time. He is great in getting us ready to run a race."
This boy is serious about that 9:00 stuff. He runs every race on a prescribed pattern, because as he points out, "the clock doesn't let you stand still." He even keeps a card file on his performances, with the times noted by quarters. It also includes performances of other good distance men he is likely to meet. The next card is marked "Texas Relays". . . . . . .
Red Sox Hurling Staff Gives Promise Of Depth Needed For Pennant Drive
Sarasota, Fla. (U.P.)—Steve O'Neill named his starting Boston Red Sox pitching staff for the 1951 season today and it was a deadly warning of how much he thinks his club has been strengthened this season.
Only one of the five starters he named was a starter last season southpaw Mel Parmell.
The others are Bill Wight, Ray Scarborough, Willard Nixon and Harry Taylor.
"I may have to change my plans because Charley Stobbs and Mickey McDermott are looking great thus far and could crowd into that starting rotation. And they'll get the chance if they keep on going like they are. But right now I'd have to put both of them in my second line."
That means that Ellis Kinder, who has won 37 games for the Red Sox the past two seasons, will be used strictly for relief.
"Of course, if any of those five fail me as starters—and if Stobbs
That should be bad news to the other seven American League clubs because it means that with the exception of Parnell, O'Neill's first line pitching of last year will be his secondary strength this coming season.
and McDermott don't measure up—then I always can go back to starting Kinder," O'Neill explained. "But I don't think it will be necessary."
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Texas Standout Heads First Of Relays Entries
The first four team entries in the Kansas Relays were announced today by Meet Director Bill Easton. They are the forerunners of the all-star cast expected to be on hand for the 26th running of the Mount Oread Olympics on April 21.
An eight man team will wear the Texas A. and M. banner. The Aggies are defending champions only in the discus throw, but this year's outfit includes some nifty relay runners. Also on their traveling squad is Darrow Hooper, a 6-foot 223-pound shot putter who holds the national interscholastic 12-pound record with a heave of 59-feet 10-inches. He has already tossed the 16-pound ball this year for a distance of 52-feet 9-inches.
The University of Minnesota plans to send only three men this year, but their roster includes lanky Tom Carroll, a pole vaulter who snared third place this year in the Big Ten indoor meet with a 13-feet 8-inch effort.
Eill Conrod, who finished fourth in the Glen Cunningham mile run last year, will return for another try. Conrod is a member of a nine man team from Loyola of Chicago. He should run into stiff competition from Don Gehmann, who owns a half-share of the K.U. Relays record in 4:10.1, and Fred Wilt, an ex-Indiana ace.
Pete Elliott Takes OU Coaching Post
The fourth entry comes from McMurry college of Abilene, Texas. The Texans will send a seven-man squad.
Pete Elliott, former All-American halfback at the University of Michigan, has accepted a new job as assistant football coach at the University of Oklahoma. He had been the end coach at Oregon State for the past two years, where another Michigan star, Kip Taylor, is head coach.
Elliott was a daring, confident quarterback who led Coach Fritz Crisler's Michigan teams to Big Nine conference titles in 1946 and 1947 and to a 49 to 0 overwhelming of Southern California in the 1948 Rose Bowl classic.
Elliott is helping Coaches Bud Wilkinson, Gomer Jones, Elli Jennings and Frank "Pop" Ivy with the Sooner spring drills. The red-headed Elliott replaces George Lym who is now coaching at Stanford.
He called signals for his famous brother, Chalmers "Bump" Elliott. stocky little All-American maize and blue wingback. The Elliott brothers were a major spark in Michigan's domination of the tough Big Nine conference.
Gibbs Sees Need Of Three Officials
Springfield, III.(U.P.)—Referee Ronald Gibbs said today he has recommended the use of three referees in important Big Ten, Big Seven and Missouri Valley conference basketball games.
Gibbs said three referees were used "for the first time in a major tournament" at last week's National Campus tourney at Peoria. Gibbs, one of the three, said "it worked fine."
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Jack Kramer Withdraws From Pro Tennis Until Promoter Finds A Worthy Opponent
New York (U.P.)-Jack Kramer is quitting the pro tennis circuit because he's too good, so promoter Bobby Riggs was set today to comb the amateur ranks for a fellow who might be able to give big Jack a good battle.
Kramer, who has cleaned up about $250,000 since he joined the serve-for-shekels ranks in 1948, announced yesterday that he won't play in any more tennis tours until "somebody fresh, with color" comes along.
Riggs himself was Kramer's first tour rival, and Jack walloned him all around the nation. Then Pancho Gonzales, the amateur king, turned pro and took on Kramer—and Kramer took him by four to one. Little Pancho Segura of Ecuador was next, and Kramer trounced him by two to one.
"Jack just feels there's nobody in the pro ranks now whose good enough to beat him," explained Riggs, "and he's right, of course.
"But we'll have another tour in the fall, with or without Kramer. There is an awful lot of tennis to be played this summer, and I'll be watching it carefully to get the very best players for the tour."
"Perhaps Art Larsen of San Francisco or maybe Frank Sedgman of Australia will come along to clean up all the big titles," said little Bobby, who once held all those amateur crowns himself. "And then maybe we'll have a rival for Kramer."
But Big Jack showed his vast superiority over the current crop of pros last Saturday by winning first prize of $2,850 in the Philadelphia Inquirer charities world professional Round Robin championship in Philadelphia. For the fifth straight year, he beat Gonzales in straight sets in the final, 6-4, 6-3.
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