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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1951
New Records Expected In Big Seven Indoor Meet
Two indoor conference records are due for certain fracturing' tonight and Saturday when Big Seven track and field squads compete in the 23rd annual indoor meet in Kansas City's Municipal auditorium. Herb Semper, the Jayhawkers' great distance runner, will be out to better his 9:26.4 two-mile record set last year as a sophomore.
Equally endangered will be Bill Carroll's 13 feet $11-7\frac{1}{8}$ inch pole vault record which the Sooner skymaster established last year. Nebraska's Don Cooper has bettered 14 feet in all six Cornhusker dual meets to date, reaching a zenith of 14 feet $5-7\frac{1}{8}$ inches against Kansas State.
Cooper's vault is the second most lofty leather in college circles this season. Only Illinois' Don Laz with a soar of 14 feet $ 8 - {1 \frac{1}{8}} $ inches has done better.
Semper, the red-haired junior from Forest Park,Ill., has his sights
Kansas State's title hopes in the Big Seven Indoor track championships Friday and Saturday nights in Kansas City's Municipal auditorium were boosted with the announcement by K-State Coach Ward Haylett that his ace high jumper, Virgil Severn, probably will be able to compete.
Severnns, defending indoor high jump co-champion, earlier was counted out of the indoor meet because he was in South America with the United States team in the Pan-American Games.
Tuesday Severns won the high jump with a leap of 6'43\". Haylett said his senior jumper was to take the first 'plane he could get out of Buenos Aires so probably he will arrive in time for the conference meet.
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set on defense of the two-mile championship which he won last March, following three straight years of domination by another Jayhawker, Bob Karnes.
In Semper's case, title defense and a new record quite likely will be inseparable. If he is to retain both of them he must again throw back the challenge of a game little man from Missouri, Bob Fox.
Both these harriers, along with the Tigers' Bill McGuire, ran well under Semper's current Indoor conference mark of 9:26.4 last Saturday, as the potent Bengals floored the thinly-manned Jayhawkers in a dual at Columbia. Pemerson pounded 9:15.6, fastest time ever recorded in league indoor history, while Fox and McGuire were rambling into a second-place dead heat at 9:20.9.
Only Michigan's great Don McEwen, who beat both Semper and Fox in setting a new N.C.A.A. record last June, has run a faster collegiate two-mile this winter.
With Fox again challenging, Semper can be expected to dip under 9:20.0, again Saturday night when he and his Columbia rival spin the 12th chapter of their furious twoman feud. Fox never won but he continues to force Semper into a faster gait.
Although he was only second, the Missouri junior pared more than 10 seconds off John Munksk's old dual meet mark of 9:32.6. Semper was 17.0 under this standard and 11.2 seconds under his current standards. The timer is going to take a severe battering for the third straight year.
If Semper can score another win in Kansas City it will give Kansas a string of five successive indoor two-mile titles, Karnes having opened the skein in 1948. It also would give the husky Jayhawk junior his fourth league crown in five meets at that distance.
This year's meet promises to present more possibilities of form reversals and upsets than an umbrella in a hurricane.
Nearly every squad has key men out with injuries or badly hampered
performers who will be operating below par.
Missouri and Nebraska season showings put them into a first place deadlock with 45½ points each and in track that's no advantage at all.
Closeness of the indoor meet, which is described by Reaves Peters, meet director, as potentially one of the best in league history, is shown on a rating rundown based on performances to date.
Past performances show Oklahoma also definitely in the running with 36. Others pre-meet point guesses are: Kansas $18\%$; Kansas State $16\%$; Colorado, 15, and Iowa State with three points.
Besides the record wrecking performances expected in the two-mile and pole vault by Semper and Cooper, records may also fall in the 60-yard dash, 60-yard low hurdles, 60-yard high hurdles, high jump, broad jump, and the mile run.
In the 60-yard dash, Colorado's Augie Raso has matched the existing record of .062 in dual competition this year. Three hurdles may topple Merwin Hodel's mark of .074 in the 60-yard high hurdles. Missouri's Frank Bardot, K.U.'s Don Greenwood, and Hodel himself have
Big 7 Indoor Records
60-Yard dash: Don Campbell (Colorado-1949), and Byron Clark (Missouri-1950). : 66.2.
60- Yard Low hurdles: Bud Gartiser (Missouri-1948). 06.8.
60-Yard High hurdles: Bud Gartser
(Missouri-1948), and Merwin
Hodel (Colorado-1950). :07.4.
440- Yard dash; Bill Lyda (Okla-
homa-1942). 449.2.
889- Yard run: Pat Bowers (Kansas-
1950) : 154.8.
Mile run: Bill McGuire (Missouri-
1549), and Bob Karnes (Kansas-
1950). 4:17.2.
Two-Mile run: Herb Semper (Kansas-1950), 9:26.4.
Mile relay: Missouri (Milton Vanet, Gil Phillips, Bob Schuster, Dick Ault-1949). 3.22.1.
**Shot put:** Rollin Brather (Kansas State-1948). 54 feet *4%* 4% inches.
Pole vault: Bill Carroll (Okla-
homa-1950). 13 feet $11\frac{1}{2}$ inches.
High jump: Tom Scofield (Kanas-
1948), 6 feet 5 inches.
Broad jump: Norman Pederson (Iowa State-1946) 24 feet $ \frac{1}{4} $ inch.
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Bud Gartiser's 60-yard low hurdle mark of .66.8 could be bettered by Missouri's Harold Carter or Nebraska's Wendell Cole who have been clocked at .69.9 in dual competition this year.
all recorded 07.5 times this season.
New records seem likely in the high jump and broad jump. Nebraska's Dick Meissner has leaped high enough to match ex-Jayhawker Tom Scofield's record mark of 6 feet $^{5-8}$ inches set in 1948. Missouri's Bog Gordon has a 6 foot $^{4-4}$ inch mark and Virgil Severn, K-State who has been with the Pan-American track team in South America, has topped 6 feet $^{4-8}$ inches.
In the broad jump, Herb Hoskins of Kansas State has leaped 24 feet $1-\frac{1}{4}$ inches to better Norman Pederson's (Iowa State-1946) record jump of 24 foot $ \frac{1} {8} $ inch.
Bill McGuire, Missouri's distance runner, is a possibility to better his mile run record of 4.172 set in 1949 and tied by K.U.'s Bob Karnes last year. McGuire has been clocked at 4.172 this year in dual competition.
The highly competitive performances of some 150 Big Seven track and field entrants is expected to keep the timers and judges busier than usual. These athletes should keep the fans wondering if each event isn't producing a new conference record and help to make the
23rd annual indoor meet the finest in its history.
Despite Semper's prominence, Bill Easton's injury-riddled and outmanned Kansans cannot be figured to make a strong bid for retention of the title they bagged last March.
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