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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
APRIL 16,1947
By BILL CONBOY
A comparison of the times and records made in three big relay meets held each year in the nation shows that the Kansas Relays often produce the best performances.
Lawler of Texas won the 100-yard dash here last year in 9.7 seconds. The winning time at the Pennsylvania Relays was 9.8, turned in by Carter of Tuskegee A.A.F. The victor at the Drake Relays was Martinezon of Baylor who ran the distance in 9.9. Both Martineson and Lawler will run the century in Memorial stadium Saturday, as will Charley Parker of the Longhorns who holds victories over both.
Tom Scoffold led the high jump field at the local relays last year with a leap of 6 feet, 5/7/8 inches. This mark exceeded the winning standard of both other national meets by 1 7/8 inches. Eddleman of Illinois and Shefield of Utah both turned in jumps of 6 feet, 4 inches in capturing firsts at Philadelphia and Des Moines respectively.
Scofield will be back to defend his championship this year. A leg injury suffered while playing intramural tennis kept him out of indoor competition, but he is rounding into shape once again. After an intrasquad meet Saturday in which he cleared 6 feet, 3 inches, Scofield said.
"I'm hitting my old jumping stride once again. My only concern now is building up condition for long meets."
The Jayhawk high bar artist is one of the nation's best when he is right. In the National Collegiate track championships held last year at the University of Minnesota, Scotfield jumped to a 6 feet, 7 3/8 inches mark which gave him a tie with Sheffield of Utah for second in the country.
Herb Grote of Nebraska tossed the javelin 197 feet, $6\frac{1}{2}$ inches at the Relays last year. Chyneweth of Army hit 189 feet, $9\frac{3}{4}$ inches at the Pennsylvania meet. Lowther of Louisiana State won the Drake Relays event with a 183 feet, $11\frac{1}{2}$ marks.
Grote will be back to defend his title this year. He was the javelin winner at the Texas Relays this spring. The Nebraska strong man holds the Big Six outdoor record for throwing the spear.
Missouri university came through with a championship in the 880-yard relay last year in the Relays. The Tiger quartet of Whitacre, Ault Guth, and Crowson edged out Texas in the fast time of 1:27.3. Navy won the same event at the Pennsylvania meet in 1:25.7. Texas captured the crown at the Drake meet in 1:28.1.
The 440-yard relay was won here last year by a quartet of Baylor sprinters, Isaacs, McGillberry, Cotten, and Martineson ran the distance in 41 seconds flat. Illinois, anchored by Herb McKenly, won the 440-yard relay at Philadelphia in 41.5 seconds. The Baylor team turned in another victory at the Des Moines meet, but the time was a slower 41.9 seconds.
Baylor will be back this year to try for their second consecutive title, but a swift foursome of Longhorns from Austin, Texas, will be here to offer strong opposition.
Try For Second Title
The Texas squad which is coming for Saturday's competition includes Allen Lawler, Perry Samuels, Charley Parker, and Charley Tatum. The last mentioned is a 209-pound tackle off the Texas football squad. His weight, plus feet which call for number 12 shoes, marks him as an oddity among sprint men.
Halpin To Attend Meeting Of Kansas County Officials
John Halpin, research assistant for the Bureau of Government Research, will attend the Southwest Kansas County Officials Association meeting in Meade, Thursday.
Nineteen counties in the southwest part of the state are to be represented by 100 officers. Mr. Halpin is to meet and become acquainted with the members as preparation for future work in the bureau.
Black To Compete In Decathlon; Nine Entered In Two-Day Event
Charley Black Jayhawker basketball and track star, will compete in the Missouri Valley A.A.U. decathlon at the Kansas Relays Friday and Saturday. The basketball "Hawk" and 1946 outdoor shot-put champion of the Big Six will enter for the Kansas K-club.
The decathlon consists of four running and six field events. Point ratings are assigned to the performances in each of the ten phases of competition. The athlete compiling the greatest total is declared the winner.
To conform with Olympic regulations, the 100-meter run, broad jump, shot put, high jump, and 400-meter run will be decided on the first day. Saturday the track stars will complete the gruelling schedule with the 110-meter high hurdles, discuss throw, pole vault, javelin throw, and 1500 meters run.
Strongest in Field Events
Black will be strongest in field events, having turned in previous top performances in the shot put, discus, and pole vault. His biggest handicap will come from the lack of time which he has had to prepare for the two day grind. His play with the West All-Star basketball team in New York and at Bartlesville, Okla., kept him from reporting for track practice till last week.
"My biggest fear is that I may tighten up in the middle of a race." Black said Tuesday. "I am in poor condition to undertake the workout I'll get this weekend."
Nine Men Entered
Nine men are entered in the two-day classic. Ray Ramsey of Bradley university will be strongest in the hurdles. He has turned in a 14.2 seconds time for the high barriers. He is a three-sport collegiate star, having participated in football and basketball as well as track.
Ross Nichols is entered unattached from Stillwater, Okla. He is a former Oklahoma Aggie wrestling star. He also holds a National A.A.U. championship in the high hurdles.
Reserve In Record Jump
Favorite In Broad Jump
Jack McEwen of Colorado university will be strongest in the broad jump. He has a leap of 23 feet, 8 inches to his credit.
Other entries are:
Everet Draper of Missouri Valley college; Bill Weaver, distance runner from Oklahoma university; Jack Hague of Ft. Hays; Kroencke, unattached from Lee's Summit, Mo. and a contestant from Arkansas university whose name has not yet been received by the Relays committee.
Oil Field Tactics Explained To Group
The mining and oil industries are two of the few remaining fields that offer opportunities for the rugged individual, Dr. Eugene Stephenson, of the petroleum engineering department, said Tuesday.
Speaking to the student section of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, Dr. Stephenson explained the unitization plan that has been adopted in several oil fields.
Under this plan, the several operators in a field determine the proportionate value of their holdings. They inject compressed gas into the oil pocket. This forces the oil to collect in one large pool which makes more economic for the drillers to recover. Dr. Stephenson said.
London.—(UP)—Joe Baki, eligible but apparently not very interested in meeting Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis, held out today for a September title bout, but New York Matchmaker Nat Rogers said his orders were to arrange it in June.
By economizing in the drilling process the operators are able to recover much oil that previously would have gone to waste.
Baksi Holds Out For September Match
Baksi, the Kulpmont, Pa., fighter, who eliminated Bruce Woodcock of England from the heavyweight title picture with a seventh round technique to meet Rogers today to decide when the bout with Louis will be held.
New York—(UP)—Except for Hal Newhouser, baseball's big-shot pitchers would have been just as happy today if the season could have started without an opening day.
Top Star Pitchers Bow In First Games
Newhouser, the Detroit ace, shut out the Browns at St. Louis, 7 to 0, on four hits.
Feller Loses to Lopat
At Cleveland, an all-time record major league opening day crowd of 55,014 turned out, hoping to see Bobby Feller duplicate his 1940 no hit no run victory. Instead they saw Little Eddie Lopat, a lefthander, pitch Chicago to a 2 to 0 victory. Feller did not finish the game. Lopat allowed six hits while Feller yielded nine.
At Boston, the American league champion Red Sox topped Washington, 7 to 6. However it wasn't 20-game winner Tex Hugheson who won. Hugheson held Washington hitless for five whirlwind innings but had to be replaced by rookie Harry Dorish who got credit for the victory.
The Yankees' Spud Chandler, who won 20 games last season, was defeated 6 to 1 by the Philadelphia A's at New York. Phil Marchidon allowed only six hits for the A's during the game.
Young Ewell Blackwell of the Reds mastered last year's top national league winner, Howie Pollet, a 21-game victor, at Cincinnati when he beat the world champion St. Louis Cardinals, 3 to 1.
The Brooklyn Dodgers defeated the National's other 20-game winner, Johnnv Sain, at Ebbets field when they came from behind to score a 5 to 3 victory on Pete Reiser's two-run seventh inning double that sparked a three-rally run.
Dodgers defeat Nationals
Hank Greenberg, late of Detroit, celebrated his entry into the National league by driving in the winning run for the Pittsburgh Pirates in a 1 to 0 pitching battle at Chicago. He doubled Hank Borowy's pitch.
The Phils, capitalizing on Sid Gordon's wild throw, came from behind to score three runs in the eighth and beat the New York Giants, 4 to 3 at Philadelphia.
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Head basketball coach, Dr. Forrest C. Allen, will return to the University April 23, Howard Engleman, acting Jayhawker basketball coach, said today.
"Doctor Allen wrote in a letter to me that he will start spring basketball practice on April 28," said Engleman.
Baseball Cemented Yanks, Southerners
Ames, Iowa. —(ACF) - Baseball helped to cement the "Rebels" and the "Yankees" into a nation following the Civil War! In that era, touring baseball teams visited the South and history reveals that is the reason baseball is called the "national sport."
But this was all before Abner Doubleday, a lad from Cooper-town, N. Y., worked out baseball's predecessor, "One Old Cat," with a base, a ball, and a bat. It was the centuries' outgrowth of people playing with spheres.
The first organized baseball was played in early 1845. Interest in the game increased until the Civil War, when all the players donned uniforms. Naturally baseball began to be played on the field by the roving teams developed sports-manship ties between the Yanks and the Southerners.
Today's Pitchers
Today's Probable Pitchers
Last Year's Won and Lost Records In Parenthese.
American League
Philadelphia (Fowler 9-16) at New York. (Brauns, 16-13)
Detroit (Trucks 14-9) at St. Louis (Municecr. 3-12)
Washington (Haefner 14-11) at Boston (Pearlw 0-0)
Chicago (Rigney 5-5) at Cleveland (Embree 8-12)
National League
New York (Ayers 0-0) at Phila-
debia, Kocher 0-8)
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Boston (C Barrett 3-2) at Brook-
lyn (Jhg. 17-8)
St. Louis (Munger 2-2) at Cincinnati (Eraust 0-0)
Pittsburgh (Roe 3-8) at Chicago (Wise, 14-12)
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