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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, MAY 24, 1948
Kansas Captures Big 7 Tennis Title
Richards And Tongier Lead Jayhawkers By Annexing Singles Championships
By FRED BROOKS
With Glenn Tongier and Dick Richards playing inspired tennis, Kansas upset favored Oklahoma to capture the Big Seven championship Saturday on the sun-baked courts of the Lincoln tennis club.
With the Jayhawkers and Sooners tied at 12 points each, Richards supplied the clincher for the Jayhawkers, chopping down Oklahoma's mighty Stanley Draper in straight sets. 6-1. 7-5, to win the conference singles championship
Kansas totaled 14 points and the Sooners were a close second with 12. Missouri and Colorado tied for third with seven points, and Iowa State was fourth with six. Kansas State and Nebraska brought up the rear. The Huskers failed to win a match, scoring their lone point on a first round bye.
Tongier and Richards accounted for nine of the Kansas points. Tongier, probably the most improved player in the conference, didn't lose a set in winning the number two singles crown. He trounced Oklahoma's Ross in the finals, 8-6, 6-1. He also teamed with Richards to annex the number one doubles title, eliminating Oklahoma's favored Jerry Badgett and Draper in the first round.
Richards, who may represent Kansas in the N.C.A.A. championships at Los Angeles June 21, staged a masterful exhibition in winning over Draper, conceded to be the class of the Big Seven.
A sentimental favorite with the gallery, Richards forced Draper to take the defensive and was in compliance without except briefly in the second set.
Richards won the first two games to make it seven games in a row, but Draper settled down and pulled up even at 4-4. The tow-headed Sooner went to the net and won the next game to gain a brief 5-4 lead, the only time in the match he held the advantage over his Kansas rival.
In the tenth game Draper had Richards at set point three times, but Richards rallied magnificently to win the game and went on to take the match, 7-5.
In the semi-finals Richards ran up against rough opposition in Rip Manning, Missouri's 28-year-old star. Richards was holding a slight advantage over Manning in the third set when Manning suffered a cramp in the calf of his right leg. After first aid, Manning was able to leave the court under his own power, but could not resume play. Richards was awarded the match by default, 7-5, 2-6, 3-2.
Sharp-shooting Dick Cray, blond Kansas lefthander, went to the finals in the four singles bracket before he was eliminated by Oklahoma's Bill Ewton, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3. Hervey Macferran and Charlie Carson failed to win in singles, but contributed an important doubles victory, trouncing Oklahoma's West and Ross in the semifinals of the second doubles division, 4-6, 6-1, 7-5.
Harmon Picked To Win PGA
St. Louis, May 24—(UP)—Claude Harmon, the princely putter from White Plains, took off in his semi-final match with Mike Turnesa today the most dangerous man remaining in the P.G.A. golf tournament. Joshing Jimmy Demaret met Ben Hogan in the other 36-hole match play semi final.
All the survivors were well under regulation figures for their time so far on the 6,467-yard course, and there was little doubt that the first to slip over par would be eliminated. It was that tough a tournev.
Harmon, who won the Masters' championship in his only other start this year, had by far the roughest path of any contest up until today. He climaxed the drive yesterday with a 1-up, 42-hole victory over Slammin' Sam Snead of White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.
It was nearly dark before Harmon came in from the endurance struggle
Sooner tennis coach Walter Mead summed up the situation very well after watching his number one player Stanley Draper bow to Dick Richards in the first set with the championship hinging on the outcome of the match. "I guess about all we can do now is to pray for rain," the popular Sooner coach equipped. Five minutes later it sprinkled slightly, then stopped. . . Draper, who is fast on his feet, went halfway into an adjoining court to return a Richards' lob in the first set. . . When Draper had Richards at set point in the second set, the Kansas star turned to Coach Jim Seaver and said, "you aren't nervous are you?" More than one rival player has been heard to remark about Richards' coolness in action. "That guy has got icewater in his veins" . . . "He was just too good," was Draper's world - shattering statement after he lost the championship to Richards. . . The official top temperature at Lincoln over the weekend was 83, but it must have been 10 degrees hotter out on the courts. . . Richards demonstrated the sportsmanship that has made him one of the best-liked players in the Big Seven during his match with Draper. The referee called a shot by Draper outside, but Richards, who was right on top of the ball, said it was good and the referee was forced to reverse his call. . . When Rip Manning suffered a muscle cramp against Richards in the semifinals, it looked at first as if the Missouri star had slipped. The calf of his leg swelled to twice normal size.
Golf Gossip
Paul Merchant, Oklahoma's basketball star is also an accomplished golfer. Merchant turned in a creditable 74-80—154 over the 36-hole route. Several of the players complained about the rough conditions of the greens. The greens had been colled with a spike-roller leaving them poek-marked and tough on the putting. Apparently they didn't bother Coe. Bill Jones and Charlie Coe are almost exact opposites physically. Jones is a 210-pounder built long the lines of a football tackle, while Coe is a sim 150-pounder. Coe stands feet 3 inches. Next year's Big Seven golf championship may be played on a neutral course, possibly Kansas City. Rumor has it that a driving contest will be added and that the match will be over a 72-hole route instead of the present 36. Kansas coach Bill Wine in explaining the high scores of some of his boys said they were trying to shoot over their heads. They saw Coe out there cracking birdie after birdie and they tried to shoot 70 instead of their usual 75". Doug Russell, Nebraska golf coach is also backfield coach for the Huskers. Wayne Speegle and Owen Panner are the Oklahoma squad flew to Lincoln after taking final exams Thursday evening. The ages of the members of the Jayhawk golf tournament range from 19 to 27. Fred Brinkman is the baby at 19 and Bob Meeker is eldest at 27.
to join Hogan, 1946 P.G.A. champion, Demaret, one of the 1947's leading money winners, and Turnesa for today's torrid scraps.
Harmon has had to go 113 holes in match play to get this far, and he turned back his opponents by being 22 under par over that stretch. Purnesa has been 15 under par for 104 holes, Hogan 12 under par for 107, and Demaret, a significant 27 under for 103.
OU Golfers Win Easily
Led by Trans-Mississippi champion Charlie Coe, favored Oklahoma surprised nobody by winning the Big Seven golf championship Saturday at the fashionable Lincoln country club. Kansas placed fifth.
Despite two bogeys, the slender Sooner star set a new course record with a brilliant second-day eight-under par round of 64. His mark shattered the previous record of 65 set by Bud Williamson, Lincoln club professional. Coe's first-day round of 72 gave him a 136 total for the 36 holes and the individual Big Seven championship.
Oklahoma's team score was 584.
Nebraska, playing on its home course, mildly surprised by taking second place with a 597 score. Colorado placed third with 603; Iowa State fourth with 619; Kansas fifth with 625; Missouri sixth with 627; and Kansas State last with 634.
Kansas, which went into the tournament conceded a chance to knock off Oklahoma, failed to exhibit the power which carried it to conference victories over Nebraska, Colorado, and Kansas State earlier this year.
Bill Jones, who matched Coe stroke-for-stroke last summer in the Trans-Mississippi tournament before losing to the Sooner in 26 holes, tied Colorado's Les Fowler for third individual honors. The 210-pound Jayhawker posted twin 73's for a 146 total. Jones might have broken par had he not three-putted four times on the first 18 holes.
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