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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1941
Nine Crack Sprinters In Century
The most hotly contested 100-yard dash in the history of the Kansas Relays is foreseen at the nineteenth annual running of the big meet, Saturday.
No less than nine crack sprinters are numbered among the entrants in the 100-yard dash, which means that three will be eliminated in the preliminaries Saturday morning. Only six men qualify for the finals.
Myron Piker of Northwestern, last year's Kansas Relays winner, is back in an effort to retain his
title. The competition, however, is the toughest any defending champion ever faced here.
From the University of Texas come Cartlon Terry and Fred Ramsdell, a pair of sprinters who ran a virtual dead heat in the 100 yard dash, timed at 9.5, at the Texas Relays.
Terry got the judges' nod that day, but Ramsdell has appeared the better of the two up until this year. At the 1940 Kansas Relays, Ramsdell was third in the century dash, in addition to running the anchor leg on the winning 440 yard relay team.
Big Ten champion outdoors the
past two springs and conference indoor sprint champion in 1939 and 1940. Piker is well fitted for the job ahead of him. His best time in the 100 is 9.5.
The University of Missouri is pinning its hopes on a relatively untried man, sophomore Don Walters.
Although Walters was beaten by Piker early in the indoor season at the Illinois Relays, he improved considerably later on and may now be good enough to lead the field to the tape. Saturday. Walters upset "Red" Littler at the Big Six meet
North Texas State has entered two men from its great sprint relay team. Welby Williams and Captain Olvis
Hicks, With John Jackson and Ed Rogers, Williams and Hicks raced to a new Penn Relays record of 1:25.4 in the 880 yard relay last spring. The world record is 1:25 flat.
Both men placed in the 100 yard dash at the 1940 Texas Relays. Williams winning the event and Hicks taking third. Williams has a number of 9.6 clockings to his credit.
Other standouts in the 100 yard dash include Johnny Towle of Wisconsin, Orville Mathews of Oklahoma and Gordon Learned of Colorado. Towle, a sophomore, ran the 100 in 9.8 in high school and is a highly regarded prospect. Mathews also was a high school sensation.
Sketches of some of the stars who will appear at the Kansas Relays Friday and Saturday:
BOB FITCH, MINNESOTA—Discus throw. In the fall, Fitch play, end on the Golden Gopher's football machine, but in the spring he sails the weighted platter at track meets. He copped second place in his favorite event here last year and a 160-foot mark in practice stamps him as a man to watch.
PETE OWENS, HOWARD PAYNE—High hurdles and sprint relays. From Gwinn Henry's alma mater comes this great hurdler, winner of the 120 yard high stick event at the Texas Relays for the past two years. Twice he hopped the barriers in 14 seconds flat and once in 13.9.
ROY COCHRAN, INDIANA—Mile, sprint medley, and distance relays. During the 1940 indoor season this Hoosier senior established a world indoor record in the 440-yard dash. The year before, he placed third in the 220-yard low hurdles at the national collegiate meet. When in trim, he whips off a quarter mile in 47.5 seconds.
JACK DE FIELD, MINNESOTA
—Pole Vault. Although he is just a sophomore, De Field already has a national junior A.A.U. championship (1939) on his record. Scholastically ineligible last spring, he came back in the Illinois Relays this winter to finish second. Runner-up was also his position in the Big Ten indoor meet.
MARVIN (SAILOR BOY) HODGES, BAKER—Decathlon. A four sport letterman is this Kansas athlete who spent four years in the Navy before enrolling at Baker. His 190 pounds should aid him in the grueling decathlon, an event he is competing in for the first time.
FRED RAMSDELL, TEXAS— 100-yard dash and sprint relays. Last year, Ramsdell finished third in the century dash here. He turned in a great performance in the Texas Relays, running in four events, and gaining second in the
Special Mile Run Tops Relays Card
Although Glenn Cunningham has finally hung up his spikes after running in nine consecutive Kansas Relays, the special mile run will still be the top attraction at the track and field carnival here Saturday.
Two of the greatest Big Six middle distance runners of all time and two Big Ten standouts will clash in the feature event. All four, having finished their collegiate competition, are real veterans of the cinder track.
Ray Harris, lanky Jayhawk runner,
and John Munski, Missouri's
lonesome miler, will uphold the prestige of the Big Six. From the Big Ten will come Mel Trutt of Indiana and Ralph Schwartzkoph of Michigan.
Harris, who has been assisting Bill Hargiss with the Kansas track team this winter, is coming into his own after a collegiate career marked by injuries and ineligibility.
Munski, twice national collegiate mile champion, ran that race in 4:12.2. With a full season of indoor running under his belt, Munski should be primed for a great race in his first start outdoors this spring. Truth Impresses Fans
Nosed Out Mehl
Trenton, Mo., is his home town, where he ran on the high school track team and later for Trenton Junior College. With only two years of competition left, he enrolled at Kansas. In his only race this winter he nosed out Walter Mehl, Wisconsin's ace miler, in the Missouri Valley A.A.U. championships at Kansas City in 4:12.8.
Trutt, former Indiana star, made quite an impression among the railbirds with his apparently tireless running in the same meet when he copped the two mile run in 9:10.5 miles.
Michigan's entry, Ralph Schwartzkopf, has been timed in 9.03 for the two mile this season and has jogged the mile in 4.12. This will be the first appearance at the Kansas Relays for Schwartzkopf, who placed high at the national collegiate meet each of the past two years.
Recurrence of an old high school back injury caused Pollom to fail to show any of his former speed and after a physical examination, it was decided that it would be best for him to give up the sport, at least for the time being.
Pollom Drops Track On Doctor's Orders
Don Pollom, holder of the national high school record in the low hurdles, today dropper out of track competition at the University of Kansas, on his physician's orders.
100 with a time of 9.5 seconds. WALTER ARRINGTON, MICHIGAN STATE-High jump and broad jump. As a sophomore, the lanky jumper leaped 6 feet 4 inches and last year placed second in the broadjump in the national collegiate meet. At the Kansas Relays last spring, he gained third in the decathlon and fourth in the broad jump.
Earl Meadows To Vault Here
The loss of Polllom is a particularly tough blow, as Coach H. W. Hargiss does not have any other hurdors on his track squad. The Jayhawks will compete in the Kansas Relays, Saturday, and have a dual meet scheduled with the University of Wisconsin, here, Tuesday.
Kansas Relays track fans will have a chance to see Earle Meadows, holder of the world indoor record in the pole vault, try to break the world's indoor pole vault record at the Kansas Relays Saturday afternoon.
The injury did not bother Pollon any last fall, when he was a first string halfback on the football team. Just how it will affect his chances of playing next fall is not known yet.
At the recent Texas Relays, the former University of Southern California ace cleared the bar at 14 feet 6 inches and earlier this winter set a new indoor record by vaulting 14 feet 7 and one-fourth inches. In 1937 he set a world outdoor record of 14 feet 1 inches, which has since been surpassed by Cornelius Warmerdam.
Activity Books Admit Students
In the Olympic games at Berlin in 1936, Meadows won the pole vault.
Students will be admitted to the Kansas Relays Friday and Saturday by presenting their activity books at the gates on the west side of the stadium.
Only 2 More Days 'Till Kansas Relays
With the nine of the nation's fastest sprinters among the field of outstanding athletes who will compete here Saturday.
The Red Cross life saving and water instructor's course began last night when nearly 25 prospective instructors met in Robinson gymnasium with William T. Raney, Red Cross field representative for this area.
Raney conducted a successful school here last year with more than 25 enrolled. The Red Cross representative is a graduate of Springfield (Mo.) Teachers College, and also attended Springfield College at Springfield, Mass.
Only holders of senior Red Cross life saving certificates are eligible to attend the school, Raport said.
James Raport conducted a refresher course recently in preparation for the course.
Softball
Raney Instructs Life Savers
Thursday's games are Beta I vs. Phi Gam, PI K.A. vs. T.K.E., D.U. vs. Kappa Sig, Newman II vs. Carruth Hall, Triangle vs. Kappa Eta Kappa, and Alpha Kappa Psi vs. P.A.D.
Softball games scheduled for tomorrow will be played if it does not rain again, Dr. E. R. Elbel, director of intramural athletics, said this morning.
Games that have been postponed will be played at the end of the regular schedule.
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