FRIDAY. APRIL 21, 1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
B THREE
Will They Regain Their Titles Saturday?
DON GEHRMANN WISCONSIN
GLENN CUNNINGHAM MILE
HERB HOSKINS, KANSAS STATE
BROAD JUMP
JERRY BIFFLE, DENVER, 100-YARD DASH
Jerry Biffle Must Fret Over Hoskins And Parker
Jerry Biffle, spectacular Denver university whirlwind, will likely be a busy and bothered man at Saturday's silver anniversary Kansas Relays. Biffle must worry about protecting his 1949 100-yard dash championship and how to beat out defending champ Herb Hoskins of Kansas State in the broad jump. Then he'll probably take time out to compete in the high jump, an event chock filled with stars.
Given any one of those problems alone, the Denverite could probably handle himself well enough. But his early performances this season indicate he may be best off in the broad jump.
Texas' Charlie Parker will be foremost of a strong field of entries after Biffle's 100-yard dash crown. Bothered by ill-luck and successive disappointments, Parker at last seems headed for the national prominence forecast for him when he was a schoolboy sensation at San Antonio.
Since then he has run 9.5 and 9.6 in the 100 and 21.0 in the 220.
In his first competitive start this season, Parker astounded Border Olympics fans at Laredo, Texas, by flashing the 220-yard dash in 20 seconds flat, 3-10 of a second under Jesse Owens's world mark. He also smoked through the 100 in 9.4, the equal of the Relays Record. But—you guessed it—the hard wind behind him.
Parker has ruled a pre-meet favorite for the past three Relays. Yet he has won only once, in 1948. As a freshman in 1947, he was upset by teammate Allen Lawler in a downpour. Last year he was forced out at the last minute by a pulled muscle which sidelined him nearly all year. Bigger things had been expected of a high school phenom who had ripped 20.5 in the furlong and matched 9.5 in the century several times.
JACK  GREENWOOD, KANSAS
120-YARD HIGH HURDLES
Until last week Hoskins, Ward Haylett's ace from Bennington, ranked a solid favorite in his specialty. He shared first place at the Texas Relays at 24 feet $11^{\frac{1}{2}}$ inches with Oklahoma A. and M.'s John Voight. He will be defending champion in the Big Seven outdoor meet and in March won his first league indoor title in Kansas City.
Parker and Biffle must be ready to tackle one of the toughest Relays sprint fields of all time. The competition lines up this way: Paul "No Leags" Bienz, Tulane; Don Fetty, Drake; Clark Rice, Minnesota; Byron Clark, Missouri; Marcellus Boston, Iowa; and Perry Samules, Texas.
Bienz is probably the most menacing. He beat Parker in 1948 at the Drake Relays and again at the N.C.A. that year. The Southeastern conference king is a chunky driver who runs with Parker's same power.
Rice recently was crowned Big Ten indoor champ, while Clark is king of the Big Seven indoors. Pettie is defending Missouri Valley titleist in the 100 and 220 and was second to Biffle in 1949. Samuels ran fourth here a year ago.
As a sophomore last year he unwrapped the second longest winning leap in K. U. Relays history, 24 feet $9\%$ inches to win the Wildcats' first Mt. Oread championship in that event. He went on to cop the National Junior A.A.U. championship
HARRY COOPER, MINNESOTA
POLE VAULT
Voight, of course, must be considered. He followed his effort at Austin with a 23-foot-75% inch span in Birmingham last Saturday to bag the Southern Relays crown. He won the Aggie Preview Relay at 25 feet 5% inches and the Border Olympics in 23 feet 1 inch. He also is defending champion in the Missouri Valley conference.
They placed third and fourth respectively at Texas, only an inch apart at 24 feet $ \frac{1}{4} $ inches and 24 feet at $ \frac{1}{4} $ inches.
Other top-flight contenders will be Jim Danielson, Hoskins's K-State stablemate; and Luther "Bugs" Fambro, North Texas State's all-purpose performer.
Buttle probably could go after the decathlon title with respect. He is defending Kansas Relays king in the 100-yard dash and also owns marks well over 6-feet in the high jump, an event in which he tied for second here a year ago.
BILL CARROLL, OKLAHOMA POLE VAULT
Bifille's recent leap also was 3 inches beyond the ancient K.U. Relays record hung up by Iowa's Olympic champion, Ed Gordon, in 1931. Given fair weather the Hoskins-Biffle dual could threaten this standard for the first time since it was erected. Gordon is the only 25-foot jumper on the Relays books.
Gehrmann Will Have Least Trouble
The personal score between the two leapers stands at 2 to 1 in Hoskins favor. He clipped Biffle by $ \frac{1}{4} $ inches for the A.A.U. title last June and also sent him into second place here. Biffle outscored the K-State junior at the N.C.A.A. by finishing second to champion Fred Johnson of Michigan State. Hoskins sunk to eleventh there at 22 feet $ \frac{5}{4} $ inches far below his usual standard. Biffle reached 24 feet $ \frac{3}{4} $ inches.
Don Gehrmann should win. Jack Greenwood might. Harry Cooper and Bill Carroll will probably have to fight amongst themselves again. That sizes up the situation for the defending champions in the Glenn Cunningham mile, 120-yard high hurdles, and pole vault at Saturday's 25th annual Kansas Relays.
Gehmann, Wisconsin wonderman who rates as the nation's No. 1 miler, last year equalled the 4:10.1 record for the Cunningham mile. This year he may better that. He'll be opposed by five men.
Topping the list are Alf Holberg of Tennessee and Javier Montez of
in Los Angeles at 24 feet 7 inches,
his second best jump of the year.
If the sparkling Negro all-round ace can approach that mark here, Hoskins will be obliged to top his previous best effort to win. It remains to be seen whether or not Biffle's Boulder feat was a singleton flash. His previous high was 24 feet $5\%$ inches.
Since April 1, however, Biffle has assumed a high rating. He let go with an indoor leap of 25 feet $7\frac{3}{4}$ inches at the Colorado Invitational Relays. This is just $1\frac{1}{4}$ record off the world's indoor record and .3 inches better than any United States broad jumper was able to accomplish last year even outdoors.
West Texas State. Others are Bill Conrady, Loyola of Chicago; Frank Price, Savannah, Ga., State college; and Howard Johnston, Trinity of San Antonio.
Holmberg is a transplanted Swede who won the Sugar Bowl mile Jan. 1 in New Orleans. Montez is mile champion of the Texas and Arizona Relays.
Kansas' own Greenwood will have his biggest barrier to a repeat high hurdle championship in Bradley's Roy Greive. Greenwood, clocked in 14.6 while winning in 1949, was beaten by Greve at the Texas Relies in 14.7, although the Kansan had the best qualifying time of 14.5. Since then Grewe ran 14.4 at the Southern Relays, the best early outdoor time recorded this spring. More impressive, the Brave ran into the wind.
Elliott ran third at Texas and, like Greenwood, always is better outdoors. He beat the Jayhawker by an eyelash last year for the Big Seven outdoor title, both runners being timeed in 14.4 while running
Greenwood's Big Seven mates will furnish the remainder of the serious opposition. This lineup includes Earl Elliott of Kansas State, defending conference outdoor king; Nebraska's Ray Fagsam, the indoor champ, and Bob Berkshire; and possibly K. U.'s sonhombre Bob Devinney.
over a heavy track into a raw wind. Elliott also finished third in last year's field here.
Magsamen, a tough competitor who'll also be a threat in the javelin, won the Big Seven indoor 60-yard crown. Berkshire has been high in the loop picture for two years and was second to Greenwood in last week's K.U.-N.U. dual.
Minnesota will present two other threats in Fred Brass and Jim Nielson.
Cooper and Carroll simply appear due to perform an encore.
Minnesota's Cooper did no better than third place at the Big Ten indoor this year. But he has been consistently between 13 feet 6 inches and 14 feet for two years and still can be classified as a major threat.
Carroll, the lanky Oklahoman, has climbed 14 feet twice this year, the latest occasion being for a first-place tie at the Texas Relays with an even 14. He hit 14 feet $ \frac{3}{4} $ inches indoors in a dual against Kansas and later came within $ \frac{3}{4} $ inch of the 14-foot mark in the Big Seven indoor.
Paul Faulkner of Abilene Christian, Ed Ulvestad of Michigan, and Don Cooper of Nebraska appeared the top three in the league but just week Cornhusker Cooper barely missed 14 feet in a dual meet with K. U.
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