MONDAY, APRIL 26, 1948
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE FIVE
Medley, Two-Mile Teams Win Only Honors For KU
The University of Kansas track team placed third in the university two-mile relay and fourth in the distance medley relay at the 39th running of the Drake Relays Friday and Saturday at Des Moines.
These were the only events in which Kansasans placed. The Jayhawker tracksters finished behind Ohio State and Missouri University in the two-mile event. Ohio States winning tive was 7:45.6 ___ |
The distance medley relay was won by the fast stepping team from Texas composed of Kidd, Hanson, Sparkes and anchored by brilliant Jerry Thompson, the tiny distance star, Ohio State was second, Illinois was third ahead of Kansas. Dillard Wins Again
Harrison Dillard came through with his 55th consecutive win in the high hurdles, stepping the barriers in 14.1, which tied his own Drake Relays record last year. Dillard was pressed by Clyde Scott of Arkansas throughout the first nine hurdles but Bill Porter of Northwestern finished strong to beat out Scott for runner-up honors.
The only outstanding performance in the field events was the record-breaking discus toss of Minnesota's Fortune Gordien who threw the platter 165 feet 5 inches. This throw bettered the mark of 161 feet 4 inches by Al Blozis of Georgetown in 1941.
Hurdle Record Shattered
Lee Hofacre of Minnesota blotted out a ten-year Drake Reckel record for the 440 yard hurdle race. Hofacre's time was 52.7 seconds, bettering the old mark 53.2, set by Jack Peterson of Rice in 1938.
One of the surprise results of the meet was the defeat of Charlie Parker in the 100-yard dash. The blond haired Texas star lacked his usual fast finish as Charley Peters of Indiana handed Parker his first defeat of the year.
Parker's efforts were good for only third place, as Paul Bienz, Tulane, finished only a stride behind Peters. The condition of the track held the time down to 10 seconds flat.
If a team total had been kept Texas would have walked off with all honors for the meet. The Long-horns won the javelin, the four mile, 440, and 880-yard relays.
The Texans captured the 440 yard relay event when a team composed of John Robertson, Perry Samuels, Allen Lawer and Charlie Parker reeled off the distance in 421. Parker, Samuels, Lawler and Tatom teamed up to win the 880 yard relay in 1:26.4.
The other Texas first place went to Frank Guess, who won the javelin throw with a toss of 202 feet 7 inches.
3 IM Games Are Forfeits
Army and Theta Tau were winners in the Friday's only intramural softball contests. The Maverick's, Gusher's, and Aces Hi won by forfeits.
Bob Crawford's seventh-inning single brought in what proved to be the margin of victory as Army nosed out the Dog House squad 7 to 6.
The losers staged a three-run rally in the lower half of the frame but failed to match the Army scoring. Army shoved in two tallies in the second and last 3 when the Dog House team started its comeback.
Army 103 010 2-7 14
D. H. 020 010 14
George Stout, Army pitcher, struck out eight while walking three to gain the mound win. He was nicked for 11 safeties but his mates hammered out 14.
Theta Tau tumbled Oread Hall 20 to 17 a loose-scoring affair which was highlighted by a pair of 11-run innings. A last-winning Oread Hall attempt was squelched after five runs were scored.
Dillard Honored At Drake Relays
Oread jumped off to an 11 to 6 lead after driving in 11 runs in the second frame. Theta Tau rampaged for 11 markers in the upper half of the fifth to take over the lead. The victors rapped out 22 hits off Truman Casebourn, Oread hurler, while Morris Borene, Theta Tau pitcher, yielded 16.
Theta Tan 061 1(11)—20 22
Oread Hall 01(11) 1(15)—07 16
harrison Dillard, voted the most outstanding athlete of the Kansas Relays April 17, received the same award at the Drake Relays Saturday.
In wind and on a rain soaked track, Dillard skimmed over the timbers in 14.1 to tie the Relays record at Drake.
Tennis Trip To 'Okie' Land Results In Twin Defeat
The University tennis team not only dropped matches to the Oklahoma Aggies and the Oklahoma Sooners over the weekend but lost the services of Dick Cray, singles player, for an indefinite period. The Cowpokes defeated the Jayhawkers, 4 to 2, at Stillwater Friday, and on Saturday in their first Big Seven conference match the Jayhawkers lost to the Sooners, 1 to 6.
Cray was injured when he pulled a chest ligament during his match with Oklahoma's West. Coach Jim Seaver said that Cray would probably be lost to the team for the season. Cray lost his first set to West, 3-6, but was holding the Sooner even in the second set when he was injured. He insisted on completing the match. He played out the set serving underhanded and West finally won, 6-4.
Tongier Wins For KU
Glen Tongier was the only Jayhawker to win at singles during the two matches. He defeated the Aggies' Smith 6-1, 4-6, 2-1. He also had a part in the two doubles victories scored by Kansas.
Against the Cowpokes he teamed with Hervey Macferran and the pair outlasted the Aggies' Barnhill and Smith, 8-6, 5-7, 6-2. Tongier and Macferran hooked up in a marathon tennis match with the Sooner's Gordon and Land on Saturday. The Jayhawker pair finally prevailed after over two hours of tennis, 6-4, 4-6, 11-9.
Loses Close Ones
Dick Richards, number one Kansas player, failed to win a match but battled right down to the wire in losing to McCune of the Aggies and Draper of the Sooners. Richards got off to a bad start against McCune, losing the first set, 0-6. Richards came back to take the second, 6-2, but dropped the deciding set to the Sooner, 1-6.
Draper, whom Kansas Coach Seaver calls the "class of the Big Seven" was nearly upset by Richards, but the big Sooner star pulled the first set out of the fire and went on to win, 7-5, 6-4. The Jayhawkers finished their match against the Sooners inside on wooden courts, after a downpour in the midst of the Draper-Richards match prevented further use of the concrete courts.
Weekend Losses Halt Golf Streak
The Jayhawker golfers ran into double-trouble in Oklahoma over the weekend. On Friday they had their three-game winning streak snapped by the Cowboys at Stillwater, $ _{13} \frac{1}{2} $ to $ _{1/2} $ , and the following day the Sooners walloped the Jayhawkers in their first Big 7 conference match of the year, $ _{17} \frac{1}{2} $ to $ _{1/2} $ , at Oklahoma City.
Kansas played without Dick Ashley, who remained at home to catch up with his studies. Ashley is regarded as number one player since Bill Jones has quit the team.
The last foursome of the Oklahoma match, Hal Delongy and Courtland Smith, Kansas, and Owen Panner and Dick Spiegel for Oklahoma, was rained out on the 17th tee by what coach Bill Winey described as "marble-sized hail."
Union Activities To Sponsor Cribbage Tournament
Student Union Activities will sponsor a cribbage tournament at 7 p.m. tomorrow and Wednesday in the recreation room of the Union.
Those who enter are asked to bring their own cribbage boards.
Applications will be accepted at the hostess desk in the lobby of the Union until 4 p.m. tomorrow.
Dr. Lane Will Be Released From Watkins Hospital Soon
Dr. H. H. Lane, professor of zoology, will probably be released from Watkins hospital in a few days. Doe report his condition as good today.
Dr. Lane was operated on in Watkins hospital April 21.
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Dillard, Gordien, Fonville Are Named Leading Olympic Hopes For Uncle Sam
New York, April 26—(UP)You can write down the names of the midwest's terrific trio-Harrison Dillard, Fortune Gordien, and Charley Fonville—today as sure leaders of the U.S. Olympic track and field squad this summer.
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Out of the heler-skelter of three relay carnivals, the Penn Relays at Wilkinson, the Drake Relays at
Out of the hinterland.
Philadelphia, the Drake Relays at Des Moines, and the Colorado Relays at Boulder, these three emerged as Uncle Sam's surest hopes for glory at London, Gordian and Fonville each broke a meet record, and Dillard smashed two.
Gordien set a new meet record of 165 feet, 5 inches for the discus throw at Drake to maintain his ranking as the world's leading discoser.
Fonville had a "bad day" at Penn, flipping the 1-pound shot "only 56 feet for a new meet record. The Michigan Negro has beaten that figure eight times this year, including a world's record loss more than two feet further at Kansas last week.
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