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Friday, April 22,1960 University Daily Kansan
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Small Colleges a Threat In the 100-Yard Dash
The small-college field will have its most threatening Kansas Relays 100-yard dash contender since 1939 here today and tomorrow.
He is Ron Altenberg of Cornell college, who could break University dominance for the first time since Tuskegee's Mozelle Ellerbe clocked 09.5 to edge Michigan State's Wilbur Greer in that memorable burst of 21 years ago.
Altenberg must be ranked as one of the finest all-round athletes ever to come out of the Iowa prep ranks.
He gave up football after his junior season at Cornell, but averaged 28.2 as a guard in basketball over the past season.
With his senior hitch remaining, Altenberg already has won seven Midwest conference track crowns, the two dashes and low hurdles twice each and the broop jump once. He picked off two fifths in the 1959
By Warren Haskin
Looking back over the final National Basketball Association statistics, we notice that two of Kansas' former greats were among the top five in averages.
Witt Chamberlain scored 2,707 points the past season to break the old mark and also posted the highest average ever in the NBA, a 37.6 per game mark. It would take up too much room to list all of the records this former Jayhawker broke this year, but you name 'em, he broke 'em.
But the surprise to this writer came when he saw Clyde Lovellette finish with a 24.8 average. Only Chamberlain, Jack Twyman, Elgin Baylor and Bob Pettit had a better average than Lovellette.
The 6-9 former Kansas star, posted a better average than greats such as Paul Arizin, George Yardley, and Bill Russell. Although only playing in 68 games, Big Clyde scored a total of 1,416 points.
Another surprising fact is that Lovellette, who has been shooting more and more from the outside, finished third in the field goal percentage department with a 46.8 mark.
It was a great year for these two former Kansas All Americas and KU can be mighty proud of both of them.
One night last week this writer happened to be in the baseball dressing room after a hard practice. Doyle Schick, the hardrunning fullback on KU's football squad and the third baseman on Coach Floyd Temple's baseball team, walked into the dressing room with his leg bandaged.
Schick had a slight smile on his face as he sat down at his locker and shook his head. Finally, he locked over at Norm Mailen, another football player who is doubling in baseball, and told him what had happened.
NCAA at Lincoln, clocking :09.8 in the 100 and :23.5 around a turn in the 220 Lows.
It seems that Schick was almost too embarrassed to walk into the training room to get his leg bandaged while all of his football teammates were there because he knew the razzing he would get. And sure enough, the first thing he heard was — "Ah, come on Doyle, don't tell us baseball's that rough." Schick left the training room the instant his leg was bandaged.
Altenberg owns a career low of .095 in the century, a mark bettered by only seven collegians last year. He ran fourth at Kansas behind KU's Charlie Tidwell, Henry Wiebe of Missouri and Oklahoma State's Orlando Hazley. But he moved up to third at Drake, beating Wiebe, Tidwell, and Oregon's Roscoe Cook, who tied the world record at .093 later in the season.
"He performs best when he's owly," laughs his Coach, Bill Pflasterer, a Doane football teammate of former Kansas assistant Rex Grossart. "That means when he's jump and tense."
Altenberg won his first big 100 at the 1856 Drake Relways, even though he finished second. The winner, Dennis O'Brien of Des Moines Northailed to wear his issue number and was disqualified. The time was 69.9.
Now the two are teammates at Cornell, one-half of formidable 440 and 880 relay combines which will be bidding here also.
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Kansas' Terry Beucher Shines as No.2 Man
Any Midland's track fan can identify Bill Alley, Kansas' NCAA Javelin champion and intercollegiate record-holder. But who's the Jayhawker's new No. 2 man flinging behind him?
The name is Terry Beucher, who is shrouded in the same sort of obscurity that was the lot of good Jayhawker runners during the Wes Santee era. He is good, but the big guy inevitably dominates the limelight.
Beucher (pronounced By-shur) has one streak in motion even Alley cannot match, namely a weekly elevation of his career best. The 6-1, 135-pound Kansas Citian has inflated his personal best in each of his last three outings.
This started with a 213-9/4 for fourth place in last May's Missouri Valley AAU. He moved out to 215-9/2 to win the A game while Alley was defending his Florida Relays crown, then cast $218-1^{2}$ for fourth in the Texas Relays.
His ambition is "to improve enough to at least place in the NCAA."
A five-foot increase in two weeks isn't bad. Furthermore, it moved him past another veteran, John Book, into fourth place on KU's all-time list. Alley, Les Bitner, also an NCAA champion (1955), and Jim Londerholm, have done better. They fill four spots above 218 on still-select league list. It also includes Jake Muehlenthaler, Iowa State; Ken Yob, Colorado, and Dick Clark, New CU spearman, who fired 219-0 for second at Austin.
Beucher hands much credit for his improvement to a tip on his step from Alley. He pared his cross-over steps at the finish of his run-up from eight to six.
"This gets my body thru faster and therefore I have more momentum," Terry explains. "Weigh training with bench pullovers als has helped."
Beucher became a iavelin-thrower almost by accident. A baseball pitcher at a high school that had
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