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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
APRIL 15,194
By BILL CONBOY
Kansas Relay Sidelights
In 1926,49 white gold watches were presented to the first place winners of the various events.
One-hundred and one schools took part in the 1926 Relays. Charley Hoff, the great Norwegian polevaulter, was one of the contestants.
Fielding H. Yost was referee in 1926. That was also the year in which the Relays were insured against rain for $5,000. Nebraska broke the world's record for the 880-yard relay by running the distance in 1:26.6
In 1928, 225 trophies, medals, watches, and cups were awarded the contestants.
The International Indian Marathon was held in 1928 with braves from the United States, Canada, and Mexico competing. A 26-mile distance from East Topeka to the stadium was used. The race was held in 3 hours, 53½ minutes. He ran the last five miles in his stocking feet.
In 1931, the directors of the Big Six discussed dropping the Relays because of the nation-wide depression. Attendance was very poor at all athletic events.
The first queen of Kansas Relays was Margaret Kilbourne from Sterling High school. She was chosen for the honor in 1931.
Alfred M. Landon was honorary referee for the 1933 event. He came in second in his own big race three years later.
Archie San Romani defeated Glenn Cunningham in the special mile races of both the 1937 and 1938 Relays. San Romani attended Kansas State Teachers College at Emporia during his collegiate career
He ran the anchor lap on the 1936 Emporia State distance medley relay team which set the present Relays record of 10:12.7 for the university class. The Emporia State team was so strong in the event that year that the school entered an entirely different quartet in the college distance medley race and brought home a second victory.
Gene Venske, chief United States mile competitor of Glenn Cunningham when the Kansas star was in his prime, picked the Relays queen in 1934. Cunningham was honorary referee for the 1942 meet.
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East Texas State will send five men to the Relays Saturday. They will make up the 880-yard and mile relay teams for the school. Two of the Texans, Carlos Salinas of Laredo and James Green of Commerce, ran on the East Texas team which established the present Drake Relays record of 1 minute, 27.5 seconds in the half-mile event.
The Kansas Relays standard for the college 880-yard relay is 1 minute, 26.7 seconds. With East Texas and Texas University pressing each other, the mark may fall this Saturday.
Chandler's Secretary Lashes Out At Critics
Boston—(UP)—Walter W. Mulbry, the major-leagues' secretary-treasurer, lashed out today at newspaper critics of the one-year suspension of Brooklyn manager Leo Durocher and accused them of "reading into the decision so much that was not there at all."
Mulbry, secretary to Baseball Commissioner A. B. Chandler since Chandler was a U. S. senator, said in Chicago that he Garens of the Boston Traveler.
"A long time ago, the Commissioner told Durocher that he had already had too much unfavorable publicity and the next offense would be his last."
"Yet any number of columnists have said, 'as many things as Durocher has done, why did the Commission have it?' Haiva for a year's suspension?"
Relays Vaulters May Top 14 Feet; Shotmen To Toss At 52 Foot Mark
Pole vault and shot put records may fall Saturday at the 22nd annual running of the Kansas Relays, but the records in the discus and javelin seem to be safe.
The man apt to break the pole vault record is Nebraska's bespectacled freshman Don Cooper. He has the top ceiling among the host of entries with a mark of 13 feet 9 % inches, which he set at the Nebraska-Missouri with dual steers.
high bar at 13 feet in his first outdoor start this season to take the Texas Relays crown.
His chief competitors will be Sewell, Northwestern, who has vaulted 13 feet 6 inches; Harry Cooper, Minnesota, who is credited with 13 feet of vaulting; Warren Bateman, titlist, Warren Bateman, Colorado, who has reached 13 feet.
With the aid of the weatherman, one of this group may clear the 14 foot 2 inches mark. Beefus Bryan of Texas set the present record in 1939.
Little Chance For Shot Record
Although standout weight men are entered in all three field events, not one can be considered a title threat.
Topping the favored list is Missouri's big Ed Quirk. He took the NCAA championship in 1945. Returning to Big Six competition this season he won the indoor crown with a toss of 50 foot $34 inches.
Quirk's best mark is 53 feet 1 inch. If he can duplicate that here Saturday, he'll walk off with one of the day's brightest records. The present 52 feet $ _{1/2} $ inch record was set by Kansas State's Elmer Hackney in 1939.
K-State Has A Shot Threat
Another Kansas State giant, Rollin Prather, will be one of Quirk's potent challengers. The big Wildcat won both the shot and discus at the Texas Relays. He was runner-up to Quirk at the conference indoor meet with a toss of 49 feet 9% inches.
Two other weight men must be considered. Fortune Gordien, the brilliant Minnesota two-event ace, who is second ranking competitor, has a mark of 52 feet 11 inches.
Another contender is Iowa's football fullback, Dick Hoerent. His best heave so far is 50 feet 10 inches. Gordon Idis Discus Favorite
Gordien will be favored in the discus. He won the 1946 NCAA title on a toss of 161 feet 3 inches. Prather and Missouri's Mel Sheehan, who won the Big Six crown last May with a toss of 153 feet 2 inches, will push him to the limit.
A fourth contender in this event will be Orivelle Yocum of Peru, Nebraska, Teachers, who has thrown the plate 149 feet 3 inches.
Javelin competition may be a duel between two Big Six men, Herbe Grote of Nebraska and Karl Ebel, Kansas sophomore. Grote is the defending champion. He won last year's event with a toss of 197 feet $6 \frac{1}{2}$ inches. His best mark is 216 feet 2 inches.
Even though the field event may be closely contested, Archie Harris record tosse of 171 feet $6 \frac{3}{4}$ inches seems to be safe.
Ebel heaved the spear 193 feet 9 inches to take third place here last year. This year he made a 189 foot 3 inch toss for fourth place at the Texas Relays and a toss of 188 feet $11 \frac{1}{4}$ inches in the rain and mud at Emporia State.
Mrs. Natalie Calderwood, chairman of the Union book committee, said the books will be collections of stories, current popular novels, and photo annuals. The committee selected books for short leisure reading.
Jim Jones of North Texas State took third in the Texas Relays with 190 feet 3 inches.
The javelin record of 229 feet $ 2 \frac{1}{4} $ inches, by set Terry of Hardin-Simmons back in 1937, will probably stand.
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Distance Star
Here is Hal Moore, outstanding Kansas distance runner. His times for the mile are second only to Glenn Cunningham in University track annals. He finished second to Bobby Ginn of Nebraska in the mile at the Big Six indoor meet this spring.
Shorten Betting Odds On St. Louis Cardinals
St. Louis.—(UP)—James J. Carroll, the nation's leading betting commissioner, today shortened the odds on the St. Louis Cards and the Boston Red Sox to take the National and American league baseball pennants.
Carrill quoted the Cards as 3 to 5 and the Red Sox as 3 to 4.
American League—New York 3 to 1; Detroit 3 to 1; Cleveland 6 to 1; St. Louis 20 to 1; Chicago 20 to 1; Washington 25 to 1 and Philadelphia 40 to 1.
Other odds:
National Leggue—Brooklyn, 3 to 1; Boston 5 to 1; Chicago 5 to 1; Cincinnati 10 to 1; Pittsburgh 30 to 1; Philadelphia 30 to 1 and New York 30 to 1.
(1946 won-lost records in paren-theses)
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Majors Open Season
American League
Detroit at St. Louis
Newhouser (26-9) and Galehouse (8-12)
These Relays Marks In Danger Friday
Lopat (13-13) and Feller (26-15)
Pibladelphia $g$ New York
120-yard high hurdles—14.9, Revell, Girard, 1388.
100-yard dosh - 69.9, Overfield, Independence, 1938.
Chicago at Cleveland
Mile run -4:29.9, Karnes, Overbrook, 1943.
Marchildon (13-16) and Chandler (20-8)
Kansas Relays High School Inter-
scholastic track and field records:
440-yard run--50.8, McCaskill,
Wichita North, 1933.
880-yard relay—1:31.5, Wyandotte (Shiffer, Lewis, Jenkins, and Vickers), 1932.
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200-yard low hurdles—22.1, Poliom, Topeka, 1938.
Boston at Brooklyn
880-yard run—2:01.2, Stuart,
Shawnee-Mission. 1945.
Washington at Boston
Wynn (8-5) and Hughson (20-11)
Sain (20-14) and Hatten (14-11)
220-yard dash—22,0. Overfield Independence. 1938.
Medley relay-3.31.4, Elhart (Coffield, Mills, Coleman, and Cunningham). 1930.
Mile relay-3:31.2, Atchison (Wilson, Richey, Ewing, and Bratton), 1942.
Washington at Boston
Pole vault - 12 feet, 63% inches.
Bird, Arkansas City, 1934.
New York at Philadelphia
Viscoil (9,15) and. Roue
Voiselle (9-15) and Rowe (11-4)
St. Louis (9-15) and Rowe (11-4)
Pollet (21-10) and Blackwell (9-13)
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Shot put- 58 feet, 10 inches, Dees,
Lorraine. 1930.
Discus throw -151 feet, 8½ inches,
Knight. Salina, 1945.
Sewell (8-12) and Borowy (12-10)
BILL'S GRILL
High jump- 6 feet, 5 3/8 inches,
Rogers, Independence, 1939.
Javelin throw-194 feet. $ 9 \frac{1}{2} $ inches.
Rittel, Rock Creek. 1932.
Broad jump=23 feet, 31/2 inches,
Woods, Coffeyville, 1940.
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Boston.—(UP)—The mid-western packer who uses everything in a pig but its squelag has given the Yankee fishermen an idea—he's going to utilize everything in a fish but its wiggle.
Yankee Fishermen Use All But Wiggle
Harold E. Crowther, director of the Atlantic Coast Fisheries company's laboratories, disclosed that research has begun to reclaim millions of dollars worth of fish liver and other waste material now tossed into the sea before trawlers reach port.
Can Relay Visitors Beat These Records?
Here are the present Kansas Relays records:
120-yard high hurdles—14.2, Wolcott of Rice, 1938.
100-yard dash-09.4, Leland of T.
C. U., 1930.
880-yard relay (university class)-1:25.2, Iowa. 1935.
880-vard relay (college class)
Two-mile relay (college class)
: 748.4. Abilene Christian, 1940.
1:26.7, Riverside, Calif., J. C.
Two-mile relay (university class)
7:45.7, Kansas State, 1935
Glenn Cunningham mile 4.10.7
Rideout of North Texas State
Shot put—52 feet, $1\frac{1}{2}$ inches,
Hackney of Kansas State, 1939. *i*
High jump= 6 feet, 7 9/16 inches
Crater of Colorado. 1938.
Sprint medley relay (university class) 3:25.2, Indiana, 1941.
Pole vault—14 feet, 2 inches, Bryar of Texas. 1939.
Four-mile relay (university class)
17.37.8 Illinois, 1931.
Distance medley relay (college
1323) 10-06.9, North Texas State
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440-yard relay (university class)
-405, Iowa, 1955.
Broad jump—25 feet, 4 3/8 inches Gordon of Iowa, 1931.
Distance medley relay (university class) 10:12.7, Emporia State Teachers College, 1936.
Sprint medley relay (junior col lege) - 3.36. Fort Scott, 1939.
Diseus-171 feet, 634 inches, Harris of Indiana. 1941.
Mile relay (colleg) - 3:17.3, Pittsburg State Teachers College 1933
Sprint medley relay (college)-
3:36.7, Baker, 1940.
Milt relay teachers College '18
Milt relay (university) - 3-161
Texas, 1935
Javelin- 229 feet, $2\frac{1}{4}$ inches, Terr. of Hardin-Simmons, 1937.
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