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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1950
Here Are 1949 Kansas Relays Champions
BOB WALTERS, TEXAS, HIGH JUMP
BYRL THOMPSON, MINNESOTA, DISCUS
Thompson Not Safe
This big man from the North, Minnesota's Byrl Thompson, will be hard pressed to retain the Kansas Relays discus championship he has collected here twice.
Moving in from the Southwest conference as his top challenger is George Kadera, muscular all-round weight ace from Texas A. and M. The two will match grunts and spins Saturday in the silver anniversary of the Mt. Oread Olympics.
To date Kadera has out-thrown his Big Ten rival. He threw the iron-rammed plate 165 feet and 10 inches to win the Border Olympics at Laredo, Texas, three weeks ago and repeated at the Texas Relays with a fine sail of 165 feet $119\frac{1}{2}$ inches. Thompson, N.C.A.A. runner-up to Yale's Yale Frank the past June, reached 159 feet in his lone effort this spring, and it was only good enough for second at the Florida Relays.
It would be somewhat ironical if Thompson should fall victim to the swarthy Aggie. Kadera uses a style highly similar to the sudden, leaping whirl invented by Eob Fitch, former Minnesota record holder now track and football assistant at Iowa, and perpetuated by Thompson and Fortune Gordien, another Golden Gopher and current world record holder.
After unreeling a record peg of 172 feet $5^{1/4}$ inches to win the 1947 Texas Relays, Gordon stayed around a bit to go over his technique with Kadera. The latter hit 165 feet a week or so later and has been classed in the 160-foot class since. Now he'll be coming to Lawrence to end a traditional Gopher grip on the Kansas title.
Although only in his second varsity year, Byrl won a Kansas Relays title here in 1946 as a Camp Grant soldier with a toss of 142 feet 9 inches. His winning peg a year ago measured 16.1 feet 10¾ inches.
If Thompson can bag his specialty here next Saturday, he can join the shrine of eight individual competitors who have coped three K. U. Relays championships.
This means Minnesotans have captured the last four Relays discus titles, Gordien winning in '47 and '48.
Both men will have to exceed their best to kayo the meet record of 171 feet and $6 \%$ inches which Indiana's Archie Harris erected in 1941.
JIM ALLEN, COLORADO SHOT PUT
JIM McCONNELL, NEBRASKA, DECATHLON
Walters, Allen And McConnell Could Easily Lose KU Crowns
Should Bob Walters, Jim Allen, and Jim McConnell repeat their 1949 Kansas Relays victories Saturday, they ought to be pretty happy fellows. For each will be faced with the stiffest of competition.
Razzeto isn't entered, but the field includes such veterans as Vern McGrew. Rice Olympics leader; Jack Heintzman, Bradley perennial; Bev Baker, Arkansas; Dick Jones, Okla-
Heading the list of Walters' opponents will be Virgil Severn of Kansas State. Although previous to this year he was little more than an also-ran, Severn leaped to fame at the Texas Raleys when he set a new records at 6 feet $8_{14}$ inches along with San Diego-State's Jack Razzetto.
Walters, the blond Texan who soared to a new Relax record of 6 feet 8 3/16 inches a year ago when he was named the meet's outstanding performer, will probably have to equal or better his 1949 mark to win again. A host of jumpers who have leaped 6 feet 5 inches or better will oppose him.
homan who jumps minus one shoe; and Bob Gordon, Missouri. McGrew and Heintzman shared the Texas Relays third place at 6 feet 6 inches with Walters. Baker and Jones tied at 6 feet $5\frac{1}{2}$ inches at the recent Oklahoma Aggie Relays. Gordon tied Severn for the Big Seven indoor title at 6 feet 3 inches.
Allen won the Relays title last year with an effort of 50 feet 10 inches. The best he has ever done was 51 feet 3/4 inches a few weeks ago
But more competition still will come from Charles Fonville, the muscular Michigan Negro. Fonville set a world record of 58 feet 3/8 inch here two years ago, and now he is coming back after missing 1949 because of a back injury.
Allen, Colorado's best, scored an upset in 1949 by whipping such worthies as Byrl Thompson, Minnesota who captured the discus title, and Rollin Prather, Kansas State's always-threatening ace. That pair will be back on hand.
McConnell, Nebraska's jack of all events, who does best in the weight department, appears to have a better chance to repeat than either Walters or Allen. But because the decathlon
is not frequently held and therefore contestants are little publicized, a darkhorse could upset him.
And that darkhorse might well be Brayton Norton of Santa Ana, Calif., Junior college. Norton recently compiled a 6,907-point total in California.
Kansas will again have a decathlon entry. Delvin Norris, husky football letterman and ordinarily a high jumper with the Jayhawker squad, will compete. He, like Norton, is a darkhorse.
Returning for another crack at the 10-event grind are Cornelius Anderson of Missouri Valley, and Mickey Dunn of Wyoming. They placed fourth and fifth respectively in 1949. Rounding out the field of 10 will be freshman Ronnie Dobson of Tulsa, Willis Kleinsasser of Tabor College at Hillsboro, Kan., Herb Falkenburg of Trinity, Paul Berry of Tulsa, and Anthony Persha of Marquette.
Whether Walters, Allen or McConnell can come through won't be decided until Saturday. But it looks as though it will be interesting to watch and see.
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