FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1951 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS PAGE SEVEN Along the JAYHAWKER trail By BOB NELSON Daily Kansan Sports Editor If you're a track fan, we suggest you venture down Kansas City way tonight and Saturday night to see the running of the 23rd annual Big Seven indoor track and field championships. This year's affair is expected to be one of the most hotly contested gatherings in the history of the event with records likely to fall in at least four events. HERB SEMPER Jayhawker Two-Miler One of the top performers will be K.U.'s Herb Semper in his specialty, the Two-Mile run. The junior redhead from Forrest Park. Ill., set a terrific pace last year as a sophomore to cop his event with a 9:26.4 time. In Kansas' 29 to 75 dual loss to Missouri at Columbia last Saturday, the tireless Semper ran the fastest Two-Mile in the history of the Big Seven conference—a blazing 9:15.6—to let the conference track fans know that he's not near through carving in the record book. This mark against M.U. is 10.8 seconds less than the mark he set last March at Kansas City. lng, Mich., with a time of 20:31.7 over the snow-swept distance to pace Easton's distance runners to the number four spot. So far this year, Semper has won the Big Seven Two-Mile title with a 9:19.8 mark to provide Kansas with the individual winner and title for the fourthstraight year since Coach Bill Easton arrived on Mt. Oread. Semper won the N.C.A.A. Four-Mile cross-country championship this past fall at East Lan- K. U. Herbie, congratulations on your great indoor performance against Missouri last week in Brewer Field house. Here's hoping you clip another 10 seconds or so off the mark you established last year in your first Big Seven indoor championship appearance. We're predicting you'll get your time down around 9:12 or thereabouts for a new record and the meet's top individual performance if Coach Easton can spare your all-out efforts and doesn't elect to have you double in the Mile run or 880-Yard run. Coach Easton's Jayhawkers certainly rank as the No.1 "Tough Luck Club" this year after their surprising upset victory last year for K.U.'s first indoor crown since 1934. Graduation losses, enlistments into the Armed Forces, and injuries have all but ruined any chances Easton's 1951 club might of had to defend its title. Chief losses via the sheepskin route were K.U.'s dynamic distance pair of Pat Bowers and Capt. Bob Karnes who accounted for 18 of Kansas' winning total of 40 points last year. This 18-point total is about the figure expected from the entire team this year and will probably leave the Jayhawkers trailing Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma in the final standings. Losses through graduation also removed high jumpers Delvin Norris and Bill Richardson who added valuable strength to carry K.U. into the victory room last year. Enlistments took Easton's top men in the shot put and broad jump as Al Bouchard and Les Bittner switched track uniforms for Air Corps clothing. Latest losses were through injuries that robbed Easton of versatile hurdler and broad jumper, Bob DeVinney, through an appendectomy operation and greatly hampered hurdler Jack Greenwood. This pair along with Semper provide Kansas with its most potent point winners. Varking Meeters Do Pay! With DeVinney out and Greenwood operating greatly below par, Kansas can hardly be expected to make a real title defense this year. But, don't sell Easton's club short on highly competitive spirit and desire to make a good showing. We only advise, don't forget entirely K.U.'s last year's championship finish when the squad was only rated an outside darkhorse contender for the title. Belding, Mich. (U.P.)—City parking meters yielded $6,200 last year. The sum was enough to pay for snow removal in the business district, pay the salary for one full-time police officer, provide a new parking lot, pay for repair of the meters, and enabled the city to buy several new ones. Slash Gym's Seating Section Adams, Mass. (U.R.)-The C. T. Plunkett Junior High school was jarred when the state building inspector, David Milne, slashed its gymnasium seating capacity from 900 to 600. Besides losing one-third of its capacity, the school had to figure out what to do with the 900 season tickets sold. Jim Beam, Alpha Epsilon Pi Battle For A Spot In Sunday's IM Finals Bv ALAN MARSHALL Daily Kansan Assistant Sports Editor Intramural basketball moves into the final round this week-end with two all-University championships scheduled to be decided. Beta Theta Pi, fraternity "A" titlists, meet the Dark Horses, recently recrowned independent "A" kings, at 7 p.m. Sunday in Robinson Annex with the winner annexing the Hill title. Following that contest at 8 p.m. the all-University "B" championship game will be played between the Beta "B" team, winners of fraternity "B", and the winner of a game to be played this afternoon at 4 p.m. for the independent "B" laurels. Jim Beam meets Alpha Epsilon Pi in this contests. The fraternity "C" title game will be played at 5 p.m. this afternoon following the independent "B" game. The Phi Gam's oppose Maudie's Marauders in a game that should produce its share of thrills. PROBABLE STARTERS Mendenhall F Williams Champion F Wilson Brownlee C Tomlinson Winter G O'Neal Altman G Kennard Place: Robinson annex. Time: 7 p.m. Sunday. When the Beta's meet the Dark Horses it will be nothing new to intramural fans who have followed the sport during recent years. They met last year under exactly identical situations. Each had enjoyed an undeafed season all the way through division and league play and when they met in the all-University championship game the pressure was on. Beta led all the way in the 1950 contest but had to fight off a last- Volleyball Deadline Extended to Monday The deadline for intramural volleyball entries has been extended to Monday, March 5. Henry Shenk, chairman of the physical education department, announced today. Team entry blanks are now available in the intramural office. This year's volleyball program will be the largest in the 17-year history of the sport at K.U. There will be five divisions—fraternity A, B, and C, and independent A, and B. The C division is new this year. Matches will consist of the best two out of three games of 15 points each. Games will probably be scheduled twice a week and no postponements will be permitted except under unusual circumstances. The official 1951 volleyball rules will be followed. The 1950 winners were Phi Delta Theta in the A division and Sigma Alpha Epsilon in the B division. minute rally before they could earn a 37 to 34 victory. That stretched the Beta winning streak to 11, which they have lengthened considerably this year until it now stands at 21. The Dark Horses have lost only the one game in the two years of their existence. Championship Slate For IM Basketball Here is the schedule of all intramural basketball games to be played tonight and Sunday. Each of these is a title game, with the all - University championships scheduled for Sunday night. Tonight 4 p.m.-Jim Beam vs. A.E. Pi for independent "B" title 5 p.m.—Phi Gam vs. Maudie's Marauders for fraternity "C" title Sunday 7 p.m.—Beta's vs. Dark Horses for all-University "A" title 8 p.m.—Eeta “B” vs. winner of independent “B” game for all-University “B” title. KU Cagers Prepare For I-State Game After getting a day's needed rest on Wednesday, the Jayhawker basketball team returned to practice Thursday to prepare for its final two games of the season. Kansas will play Iowa State here next Wednesday in its final Big Seven game of the year and ring down the curtain on the 1950-51 cage season three nights later playing the nation's No. two team Oklahoma A. and M., at Stillwater. A K.U. victory over the Cyclones from Ames would give the Jayhawkers an 8-4 conference record and assure at least a second place tie for the Allenmen in the final standings. Missouri, with a 6-4 league mark, is expected to down Colorado and Nebraska in its two remaining games at home for an 8-4 record and a second place tie with Kansas. Oklahoma is only a half game behind the Tigers with a 5-4 record must play in the finals and in Lincoln K-S, Manhattan, and finish with Colorado at Norman. This duty should give Bruce Drake's club a fourth place spot in the final standings with a 7-5 mark and keep the Sooner coach's record intact of having never finished below the .500 percentage mark. Forming around a nucleus of veterans, the Beta's have run up impressive scores throughout the season. They defeated Sigma Chi 42 to 20 in a quarter-final game, stopped the Phil Gam's 38 to 29 at the semi-final stage, and then overwhelmed D.U. 56 to 25 in the fraternity "A" title game. The Dark Horses have been almost as impressive although their attack bogged down in the championship game against the Draggin' 5. While they won 34 to 29, the Dark Horses were missing the aggressive offense that has characterized them all season. Odd Williams, former varsity basketball player, leads the Dark Horses from the scoring angle. He dumped in 23 against the Unmatural 5 in a semi-final game and his 13 counters against the Draggin' 5 was tops for the team. Dick Tomlinson, all Big Seven guard in 1948 and 1949 and a member of the Pittsburgh Steelers last season, holds down the post for the Horses and, along with Chuck O'Neal and Press Wilson, makes up a formidable rebounding combination. George Kennard is the playmaker. Five members of last year's championship aggregation are again on the Beta roster. Joe Mendehall, Bill Champion, and Jack Winter all start, while Ralph Moon and Don Stickrod form their highly potent second line which may be a decisive factor against the Dark Horses, who have only six men on their entire squad. Jerry Brownlee and Wally Altman, both sophomores, fill out the Beta line-up. Both have been important cogs in the well-rounded Beta attack and their performance under pressure will be of utmost importance. Thursday's College Basketball Results EAST Siena 54, St. Bonaventure 45 Carnegie Tech 70, Grove City 58 SOUTHERN CONFERENCE EAST Tourney at Raleigh, N. C. Maryland 50, Clemson 48 Duke 64, Virginia Tech 61 North Carolina State 83, South Carolina 53 William & Mary 88, West Viv. 67 MIDWEST Heidelberg 73. Capital 54 Cincinnati 79. Miami of Ohio 51 St. Thomas 63. Augsburg 58 Jack Greenwood, KU Big Seven Indoor Hope