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Kansas Opens Defense Of NCAA Crown Today
By Clarke Keys
Sporting two 19:59 individua champions on a 10-man squad, the University of Kansas opens defense of its NCAA track and field crown today at Berkeley, Calif. Finals will be run tomorrow.
The Jayhawkers' bid will once again be spearheaded by sprinter Charlie Tidwell and javelin thrower Bill Alley. Tidwell won the NCAA 100 and finished second in the low hurdles last spring while Alley was winning his specialty.
But the KU forces are expected to be hard pressed in defense of the first title ever won by a Big Eight Conference school.
The favorite for the meet is Southern California — missing last year due to NCAA probation. The absence of the Trojans in 1959 likely played a part of the ease with which Kansas won the national title.
But figures indicated that the Jayhawkers would have scooted home first anyway. Such might not be the case this year.
Kansas Coach Bill Easton says his forces are aiming for 50 points, but figures it will take 60 to win the meet. The Jayhawkers have not finished below fourth in the NCAA in the last five seasons, leading up to the title with third, second, fourth and second-place finishes.
Tidwell is expected to skip the low hurdles, which he won as a sophomore in 1958, because that-event is not included on the final Olympic trials slate next month. Instead, he is expected to attempt to double in the 100 and 200-meter dashes (all events will be on the metric system in this Olympic year).
Just last week Tidwell tied the world record in the 100 meters, sprinting the distance in 10.1 in the Houston Meet of Champions.
He followed that up with a 208 timing in the 200, fastest for a collegian this year around a curve the same situation he will face at Berklev.
Alley uncorked one of the poorer throws of his career in winning the NCAA last, year, pegging 240-51%. He not only will be forced to do better this year, but has given every indication that he will.
Last week at Houston he set a new collegiate mark of 273-10^1/2.
Alley will be backed up by another senior, Terry Beucher, who did not compete in 1959. Beucher reached his career high of 242-8 $ _{2} $ last week and a repeat should put him high in the placings.
Cliff Cushman, who along with Tidwell and Alley were named All America last season, will be one of the favorites in the tough 400-meter intermediate hurdles. Cushman twice has lowered the KU school record in that event this spring.
He finished second in the NCAA in the event last year and also grabbed off sixth in the hop-step-jump.
Easton also will enter utility man Darwin Ashbaugh, miler Bill Dotson, 3-miler Billy Mills, half-miler Bob Tague, spinner Paul Williams and pole vaulter Ken Olson.
Williams finished fourth in the NCAA 220 last spring to rank as the only national point winner of that latter group. Dotson and Olson are sophomores.
Dotson ran the 1500-meter event in 3:44.8 last week — the equivalent of about a 4:01 mile. Mills was ninth in the NCAA 3-mile field last year and is expected to improve greatly on that.
Floyd Sees Visions Of Ingo's Knockout
BY FLOYD PATTERSON
(Written for United Press International)
NEWTOWN, Conn.—(UPI)—I'll be carrying seven more pounds and the first "mad on" of my career when I fight Ingemar Johansson on Monday.
This means I'll be giving away practically nothing in the weights and absolutely nothing in determination. At 189 pounds I'll be bigger and stronger than I've ever been before. And at the sharpest mental peak of my life I'll be looking to make Ingo wind up as boxing tradition says all good champions should: face down.
You can forget all that stuff about Floyd Patterson "the impersonal fighter who doesn't let emotion enter into his fights."
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NEW YORK—(UPD)—The buzz of thousands of engines will fill towns and hamlets from Daytona, Fla. to Laconia, N.H. this weekend as the nation's big northern motorcycle migrations shifts into high gear.
Pure instinct sends wild geese migrating to Canada, but it's the smell of burning rubber, the sound of revving motors and the quest for speed that drives motorcycles to Laconia in June for the national championship races.
These and other similar events in the country are giving the sales of both domestic and foreign motorcycle manufacturers a shot-in-the-arm.
Many people assume motorcycling had its heyday in the "roaring twenties" but actually the sport is five times as popular today.
More than 3,000 sporting events a year for motorcyclists are sanctioned by the American Motorcycle Association, but only 10 per cent are for prize money.
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Action enter into his nights.
*Let's face it, Ingo gave me a licking last time. It's this simple: I'm going to do it to him.*
The tale of the tape will disclose the physical difference. I've put on seven pounds in the right spots—in the shoulders and biceps. That's why I'm punching harder and sharper than ever before. It's why I'm thinking of a knockout and not just winning a decision.
People ask me if I fight "the fight" over and over in my mind. I tell them "yes" even though I know we're not talking about the same fight. They mean the first fight. But the one I've fought over and over is this one.
I'm fighting Ingemar Johansson when I'm rat-tatting the light bag and pushing around the heavy bag. I see him when I'm running in the woods and it's really Ingo's chin I'm hitting when I flick a quick left or right at a low-hanging leaf. And in my little gym here in the woods I see the Polo Grounds filled to capacity as I stand over Inge and hear them saying that Floyd Patterson is the heavyweight champion of the world again.
You'll have to see the fight to see the proof of my second point. Mad . . . angry . . . peeved . . . annoyed . . . these are words but they do not really describe how a man feels when he has a job to do that only his two fists can accomplish.
We'll both be tapering off now for the next few days, Ingo his way and me my way. I understand Ingo won't box at all. Well, I'll still be doing a good amount of ring work although I plan to relax by doing some trap-shooting with my friend, Lucky McDaniel, from Georgia.
No, I'm not planning to bring the gun with me Monday. I won't need it
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Tague has been one of the Big Eight's great half-milers, winning the conference indoor title three straight years, yet has not had good luck in the nationals. His best showing was a seventh place finish as a sophomore in 1958.
Missing from the KU lineup will be four hands who scored a total of 32 points in the NCAA triumph at Lincoln last year — Ernie Shelby, Berry Crawford, Jim Londerholm and Bill Tillman.
The Kansans could be hurt by lack of numbers this season. Last year Easton entered 17 men, about the size of squads expected today from West Coast schools.
The top six American finishers in each event will qualify for the final Olympic trials at Palo Alto, Calif., July 1-2.
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Schedule Announced For Watson Library
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The library schedule for the summer session has been announced. The library will follow the summer session schedule through August 6. It will be closed on July 4.
The summer session schedule:
Monday-Friday — 7:45 a.m.-10
p.m.
Saturday -- 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Sunday - Closed
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