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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1951
Daytona Beach Hopes To Regain Old Racing Fame
Daytona Beach, Fla. (U.P.)-Men with a passion for speed have been scorching the storied white sands of Daytona for almost a half century now but they're grinding the groaning grains with a vengeance today.
Daytona Beach made its start as a racing center in 1903 when Alexander Winton piloted his eight-cylinder "Bullet" to a record run of 69 m.p.h.
middled the years fled by under the spinning wheels, all of the great names of auto racing took their erack at the gleaming white straightway bordered by dunes and waves. They came, and they conquered; Barney Oldfield, Ralph Depalma, Tommy Milton, Maj. H. O. D. Seagrave and Sir Malcolm Campbell.
Campbell, with his Bluebird and later his Bluebird II, made the greatest impression as he gradually worked the record up to 278.82 miles per hour. But the beach wasn't long enough for higher speeds and he shifted his operations to Utah's Bonneville salt flats where, eventually, John Cobb took over and ran it up to 394.2.
For a number of years, Daytona was in the shade. But then the sport of stock car racing took over and now the speding sands are a poor man's Indianapolis.
And this year there are more than the two national championships to attract the stock drivers. For Daytona got its mile-straightaway timing clock back from Bonneville and daily over the mile straightaway the men with the ordinary automobiles and extraordinary crazes for speed are shooting for national records in 20 different divisions. These are based on cubic inch piston displacement and means you can give it a whirl no matter what your automobile.
Nor are the ordinary stock cars the only attractions. Daytona is trying to get back some of the Bonneville records, and on hand are three Utah recordholders—the Xydiasbatchelor Southern California special, the Evans special of Burbank, Calif., and the Nelson Taylor Los Angeles special. The Xydias, fastest car in the U.S., will shoot for its 211 mph. Bonneville mark.
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Semper Is Out To Extend Distance Streak In Jayhawkers' First Indoor Meet Saturday
Herb Semper, Kansas' redhaired two-miler, will aim at his sixth and seventh consecutive racing triumphs Saturday night when the Jayhawkers open their 1951 indoor track season against heavily-manned Nebraska in Lincoln.
By DON PIERCE
Save for the N.C.A.A. and the Big Seven-Southwest Dual in Dallas last spring, the barrel-chested Forest Park, Ill. product hasn't been beaten at his favorite distance, two miles, in his last 13 races. He followed home Michigan's great Don McEwen and Jim "Super Chief" McEwen, U.S.C., at the N.C.A.A., missing the latter by a mere foot. He was nipped by an eyelash at Dallas by Colorado's George Fitzmorris who spun a meet record of 9:18.5.
Adding his smashing victory in the N.C.A.A. cross-country derby last November, a four-mile trek over East Lansing's frozen terrain, Semper now is working on a string of five straight wins over all types of competition. He reeled off three dual meet wins plus the conference championship in league two-mile competition last fall, before his somewhat surprising N.C.A.A. conquest.
He hasn't been whipped in dual or conference competition at two miles since one of his own stablemates, Cliff Abel, turned the trick almost a year ago in a tandem against Oklahoma. This string is spiked by two record performances in the loop indoor and outdoor derbies. Added to his 9:15.0 in the N.C. A.A., which went for a new school record, and his National Junior A.A. U. 5.000 meters victory last June, this provides a glittering list.
in nine of his last 12 two-mile starts, the gnome-like Kansan has rambled 9:27.0 or faster. In exactly
half these races he has established new records.
Here is his consecutive victory string:
1950 Fall Two-Mile Season
Dual vs. Kansas State 9:42.5
Dual vs. Oklahoma 9:25.2
Dual vs. Missouri 9:25.2
Conference meet 9:19.8
NCAA Cross-Citytr (4 ml.) 20.3.17
Saturday Semper will make his first serious bid for the distance double, going after the mile as well as his usual stint in the longer haul.
He has doubled over these distances in duals before but merely was running for points in the shorter race since Bob Karnes was available.
Now he must be considered a 10-pointer against the Huskers. Unless he耐 Lee Moore is available for the Scout, Semper's chief foes in both races will be his own teammates. Dave Brideental, Kansas City, Mo. senior, is down for the mile, with Abel and Keith Palmquist, Minneapolis, Minn. sophomore, scheduled in the two-mile.
Nebraska entries in these events haven't broken 4:33.0 in the mile or 10:10.0 in the two-mile while romping to easy wins as the Huskers scuttled Iowa State, 82-22, and Colorado, 76-28.
Ed Weir's defending outdoor champions, however, have flashed exceptionally good early season marks in nearly all other events.
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The score at the intermission of the non-conference game was 35 to 31 with Wesleyan in front.
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