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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE FOUR
TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 1948
Big Seven Trackmen Threaten Relay Titles
The Big Seven conference, which usually makes a successful raid on Kansas Relays titles, again will be a prominent figure in the sectional scuffle for honors here next Saturday when over 2,000 athletes throng into Memorial stadium for the 23rd running of the affair.
The new seven-team conference will boast at least one front ranking
The new seven-team contest threat in each of the individual events, six in two Olympic trials, the 400-meter hurdles and decathlon, and bid strongly for five of the seven relays crowns.
This parade will be paced by Missouri, the 1947 outdoor champion and 1948 indoor king, which will pour in a flock of good sprinters and hurdlers plus Ed Quirk and Mel Sheehan, standouts in the field. Must Beat Gordon
Sheehan will team with his topmost rival, Kansas State's Rollin Prather to battle Fortune Gordien of Minnesota in the discus throw. The Big Seven pair finished behind Gordien at second and third, respectively, in the N.C.A.A. trials the past June, but Sheehan edged out the big Gopher in the Drake Relays with a pitch of 155 feet 2 inches. Prather won both the shot put and discus at the Big Seven-Southwest conference dual meet last June. He finished behind Gordien in the shot put at the Texas Relays with a toss of 51 feet $^{71/2}$ inches, just two inches off the pace.
The 225-pound Wildcat will be joined by Quirk in the most brilliant shot put field in Relays history. There isn't much hope of a victory here as that would entail beating Charles Fonville of Michigan, who was consistently over 56 feet during the indoor season.
Quirk won the N.C.A.A. title in 1945 with a toss of 53 feet ½ inches. Prather's best mark is 53 feet 2½ inches which won him the Big Seven-Southwest dual title at Dallas.
Bob Holmer, graduate student and star of the Delta Chi volleyball finalists, was named most valuable player by a vote of competing teams at the Y.M.C.A. six-state volleyball tournament at Wichita this weekend.
There is an even chance that a Kansas man, either Bob Drumm or Bruce Benoch, could climb home first in the javelin. Drumm, a sophomore football tackle, arched a throw of 196 feet 5 inches in a dual meet against Nebraska Saturday. Henoch's best figure is 193 feet 2 inches. Top threat here will be Frank Guess of Texas who hit 189 feet 6¼ inches at the Austin Games.
KU Student Gets Volleyball Award
Could Con Javelin
Holme] was given a 17-jewel wrist watch in recognition of the honor.
KU's Tom Scofield, a two-time all-American trackster, will battle one Big Nine foe and an old rival from the Missouri Valley for high jump honors. The Illinois threat will be Dwight Eddleman. Big Nine Indoor champion who last year went 6 feet $7\frac{1}{4}$ inches. He and Tom tied for second behind N.Y.U.'s Moon Mondschien at the N.C.A.A. the past summer. The Valley banner-carrier will be Bradley's Jack Heintzman who won the Texas Relays crown two weeks ago at 6 feet $7\frac{1}{4}$ inches, nosing out Scofield who cleared 6 feet 6 inches for a second place tie. Cleared 14 Feet
Bill Carroll of Oklahoma is another Big Seven factor in this event. He went 12 feet 11 inches to gain a first place tie at the circuit indoor trials and placed second at Texas two weeks ago at 12 feet 6 inches.
Another Nebraskan, Don Cooper,
will be a favorite in the pole vault.
The bespectacled Cornhusker spohomore cleared 14 feet $2\frac{1}{2}$ inches during the indoor dual season but was on the shelf until last Saturday with a sprained ankle.
Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska all boast prime threats in the broad jump in Bob Teel, Bob Crowley and Harry Meginnis, respectively. Teel went 23 feet $2 \%$ inches to win the indoor title last winter. Crowley got 23 feet 1 inch at Austin for third place. Meginnis is defending conference outdoor champion and placed second here last year.
This trio's major rivals will be John Roberson, Texas '194 N.C.A.L. a champ who has brushed 25 feet, and Minnesota. Tough, Field.
Missouri's Harry Guth and Alan Thompson of Nebraska can't be overlooked in the 100-yard dash field. Guth is loop champion at every distance from 60 to 220 yards while Thompson picked off third place behind Texas' Charlie Parker and Maurice Fuquay of Oklahoma A. and M., at Austin. Thompson and Fuquay both were closing fast on
Pattee Moved To Halfback In Spring Backfield Shift
Last season several football opponents, including Georgia Tech, maintained Kansas sported the two best fullbacks they had faced during the entire autumn. The first major move Coach J. V. Sikes has unwrapped in spring practice here is to put both of them in the same backfield.
The soft-spoken former southerner won't go so far as to say the arrange-
The soft-spoken former southerner ment is permanent, but as the sec- and week of hot weather drills closed Frank Pattee was operating from left halfback and Forrest Griffth was at full.
This pair already has strenued a lot of wreckage around the Red and Blue practice field and if Sikes decides to let them hammer shoulder to shoulder off his standard T-formation the Jayhawker backfield might develop into a powerful unit. Both Are Gainers
Although they both played the same position last year, Griffith and Pattee both finished in the conference's top ten ball carriers. Forrest smashed 499 yards in 86 carries, losing only 16 for a net of 483, good enough for second place in the league ladder. He also was the loop's top scorer on 54 points.
PATTEE GRIFFITH
Pattee gained 391 net for ninth among the circuit's leather tooters. He also chalked six touchdowns and did a major share of the punting.
Best part of the experiment is that left half is not totally new for Pattee. The swift Smith Center had played the slot creditably for Henry Shenk's 1945 club, which operated both off the "T" and single-wing. Although he hasn't heaved a pass for two seasons he is rated a capable aerialist, which is another reason why Sikes might keep Frank at Ray Evans old spot.
'Still an Experiment'
"We know that Patte can play that fullback position well," the new Jayhawker ringmaster explains. "We are simply familiarizing him with left halfback. It is no sign he will play there next fall."
Parker at the finish. The Longhorn sophomore won in :099. Allen Lawler, the defending Relays champ, and Perry Samuel, both of Texas, will be threats in this one along with Baylor's Stonie Cotton.
With the sturdy veteran, Hoyt Baker, gone, the Griffith-Pattice switch means the new staff must find more fullbacks. Right now that is the source of another experiment which finds Johnny Ambry, a
No one expects anyone but Harrison Dillard of Baldwin-Wallace to win the 120-yard high hurdles. However, Missouri's Bud Gartiser, the conference indoor record holder, should be close up in this race.
Three 400-Meter Threats
The loop will furnish three terrific powers in the 400-meter hurdles to battle such a standout as Dillard's teammate, Gunthar Katzmar, Ohio conference 440-yard dash champ. He also finished sixth in the N.C.A.A. quarter mile field last year. League threats will be Landon West-brook of Oklahoma; Dick Ault of Missouri and Dave Bolen, once of Colorado, who will run unattached. Bolen was second in the 1947 N.C.A.A. quarter.
promising young runner from Shawnee-Mission, pedaling from the middle slot in the back line. Amberg, a stout 174-pounder, was a first string quarterback with the frost last season. Jim Sackrider, the big, battering yearling from Wamego, also is getting plenty of action at full. Sherwood To Tackle
Still another bucker, Gene Sherwood, the tank-selayer from Sublette, is the center of another tentative change which finds him at tackle. This promises to be the sore spot in the new assemblage for the 48 season and Sikes and his new aides, Norman Cooper and Cliff Kimsey, hope to uncover help in Sherwood's 205-pound frame. The latter played behind Griffith and Pattee last season after a regular turn in 1942.
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51 Entries In Softball Play
Fifty-one teams are entered in this seasons softball race this spring Jack Greer, student intramural manager said today. Thirty teams are composed of independents and 21 teams come from the fraternities. Over 500 men have been registered to play.
The first games were scheduled for Monday but were called off because of
Because of poor sod, the varsity football teams will practice on what was field 5 and the games that would have been played there will be on the old varsity practice field which is called Stadium field, Greer said.
"There will be a shortage of capable officials," he added. "Any who feel capable of working the intramural games should come to the intramural office and see either myself or Don Powell." All intramural officials are paid by the athletic office.
Last year the Phi Delt's captured the championship. They defeated the Sig Ep's 9 to 1. This year there are several teams that will bear watching. The Beta's have a fine pitcher in Bill Conboy. The Phi Delt's will field an experienced team but will have to find a way to make up their loss of Ray Evans, their star pitcher. The Phi Gam's, Sigma Chi, the Beta's, and the Sig Alph's will also be hard to beat.
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