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University Daily Kansan Thursday. May 19. 1960
By Jim Gardiner
With final week just around the corner many students will be planning that last fling of the year for this weekend. If you are one of them, why not plan on a trip to Ames, Iowa, for the Big Eight conference track and field meet.
The Kansas Jayhawkers will be gunning for their ninth straight league championship and are currently rated as the favorites with Oklahoma figured to give them a strong battle. Besides the returning NCAA championship team there will be 11 men who placed at last year's national meet including Kansans Charlie Tidwell, Bill Alley and Cliff Cushman.
The Big Eight, always one of the top track leagues in the country, will have one of the greatest conference meets in its 32 meet series. Many of the performers at Ames this weekend will go on to capture berths on the U. S. Olympic squad. All in all this meet should be the best of the season in the Midwest and well worth seeing if possible.
Along the track lines, the latest release of NCAA track and field figures shows that two Jayhawkers, Bill Alley in the javelin and Cushman in the 400-meter hurdles, are leading the collegiate ranks in their respective events. Alley has a 260-11 mark in the javelin and Cushman has a .512 clocking in his specialty. Cushman also is tied for ninth in the 440-yard dash with a :47.7 effort which is a new varsity record for two turns.
Tidwell is tied for first in the 100-yard dash with a .094. clocking and the Sprint medley relay team is in the top spot with a 3:19.8 mark. The mile relay unit holds down second at 4:09.7.
Still on the track scene, Terry Beucher who has come into his own this year in the javelin continued to improve his career high as he placed second at the Missouri dual with $ 2 2 8 - 1 _ { 1 } ^ { \prime} $ to pass his previous high of $ 2 2 5 - 9 _ { 1 } ^ { \prime} $ set at the Kansas Relays.
Again this year it looks like the lack of a wrestling team has hurt Kansas chances at the Big Eight all-sports trophy. With six conference titles already decided the Oklahoma Sooners hold a slim two point lead over Kansas but there are four titles still undecided.
In outdoor track it looks like Kansas will have a chance to cut the lead to one point but the Sooners are expected to battle for the championship and could possibly win it. They did win the indoor title. It is almost assured that Oklahoma will finish higher in baseball than Kansas, so that gives them back their two point lead if not more.
Kansas will have a chance to cut
Flatbush Hurt Over Says Carl Erskine
NEW YORK —(UP1) — The deep, angry hurt of being abandoned has faded from the heart of the Brooklyn baseball fan, Carl Erskine said today, and been replaced by the empty void of a washed-up love affair.
The man they hailed as "Oiskin" back in those daffy, delirious days, should know.
It was in the vanished park called Ebbets Field that he received his first big league tryout, pitched his first major league game, hurled two no-hitters, beat the Yankees in a world series game by setting a strikeout record and swatted his only big league home run.
"Oisik" didn't last too much longer than the Brooklyn franchise. He went west to Los Angeles, pitched and won the first major league game in the "City of the Angels" and then struggled through a year and a hall before calling it a career.
"I spent 10 years there and I have a lot of friends in Brooklyn," says the Hoosier Hurler who now peddles shirts and keeps his hand in baseball as a Saturday game-of-the-week announcer on ABC television. "But there is no baseball connection there any more."
the lead again in tennis so it may be the results of the league golf meet will determine the winner of this year's all-sports trophy.
Kansas took first in cross-country and tied for first in basketball while the Sooners have firsts in football, wrestling, swimming and indoor track. Kansas tied for last in wrestling because it did not enter a team. Oklahoma took last in cross-country.
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Former Kansas football and basketball star, Paul Turner, has returned to the Kansas high school coaching ranks.
Turner takes over as football coach at Newton high school next fall. After coaching at three Kansas high schools Turner went to Washburn University where he was line coach then on to Northwest Missouri State College as head coach and now back to Kansas.
Turner will be remembered as the man who kicked the field goal that beat Oklahoma the last time they were beaten in conference play until Nebraska turned the trick last fall.
At the present time another member of the Turner family is making a name for himself in football circles. Paul Turner's nephew, Ron Turner, is currently alternating at first team end on the Wichita University football squad.
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E. Texas Favored To Win Track Title
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — (UPI)— East Texas State is favored to win the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) track and field championship at Sioux Falls, S. D., next month.
Coach Delmer Brown's Lions, who missed the title by one point last year, boast two returning national champs—broad jumper James Baird and sprinter Sidney Garton.
But the big difference between the 1959 team and the 60 squad is that 21 trackmen are on the team this year, whereas the Lions could number only 11 last year.
Baird, NAIA board jump champion and record holder, already has exceeded his record leap of 25 feet $3/4$ inches of last year. He broke a 29-year-old record at the Kansas Relays with a $25-5/4$ leap.
Garton, who burst upon the scene with a startling. 19.6 in the 220-yard dash as a freshman last year, again is gunning down the sprint chutes in the No. 1 spot. He has chalked .09.5 in the 100 and .21.2 in the 220 around the curve.
One of this year's strong men is Roy (Buddy) McKee, a 14-second high hurdler who sat out last year with a sore leg muscle. McKee and Charles Bode give a good one-two punch in the hurdles. Bode was third in both the high and low hurdle races in the NAIA meet last year.
Hylke Van Der Wal, a Canadian national who has been timed in 4:17.8 in the mile run, gives East Texas State added strength in that event. And freshman Don Foster, owner of a 47.9 timing for the 440, has been a pleasant surprise.
Add to them the name of Socrates Bagiackas, the Lions' star half-miler. Bagiackas already has exceeded his best mark of 1959 with a 1:52.4 clocking.
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The NCAA championship track and field team and three individual national champions will spark the Big Eight's attack on conference records at Ames, Iowa tomorrow and Saturday.
Kansas, the defending national champion, will be shooting for its ninth straight conference title. Aiding the Jayhawk's cause will be two of the returning national individual champions, Charlie Tidwell. KU's brilliant sprinter and Bill Alley, the rugged Kansen javelin thrower.
Tidwell won the 1959 NCAA 100- yard dash in :09.3 and has several :09.4 clockings this year. Alley won his event with a $240-5\frac{1}{2}$ effort and has been hitting around that mark this year.
The other returning winner is Missouri's Dick Cochran, last year's discus champion. His winning toss last year was 178 feet and like Alley he has consistently been matching that mark this year.
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When you go home for summer vacation, don't overload your car so you won't have room to drive.
The meet this weekend is figured to be one of the greatest in the 32-meet series but it is hard to figure how it will beat the 1959 meet at Norman, Okla. where 10 records were set and one was tied. The only record to go unscathed last year was the 120-yard high hurdles and it produced a :14.1 winner.
But the current potential indicates that this year's performances will outshine those of last year. In addition to the winners at the NCAA meet last year there are performers returning that accounted for 12 other places in the national meet.
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Kansas has Tidwell in the low hurdles and Cliff Cushman in the 400 meter hurdles and the hop, step and jump. Oklahoma has Dee Givens in the 220-yard gail, Gail Hodgson in the mile, J. D. Martin in the pole vault and Mike Lindsay in the shot put and the discus.
Oklahoma State has Miles Eisenman in the three mile run and Audrey Dooley in the pole vault. Kansas State's Rex Stucker rounds out the field with places in both the high and low hurdles.
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