Thursday. March 31. 1960 University Daily Kansan
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Racketers Open Season at Wichita
A grudge match with Wichita and two key matches that will fog or brighten KU's conference title hopes provide motivation for the Kansas team tomorrow.
Coach Denzel Gibbens sends two sophomores, and three seniors against Wichita today, and defending champion, Oklahoma State, and runner-up, Oklahoma, tomorrow and Saturday in the Jayhawks' most trying weekend of the season. Wichita trimmed KU twice last season.
KU will be paced by two sophmores, Mel Karrle and Pete Woodward, battling neck and neck for the top singles assignment. Karrle, from St. Joseph, Mo., won the assignment with a three-set victory over Woodward yesterday, but the former Kansas State high school champion from Topeka, isn't familiar with that second rung.
Playing the last three positions will be three returning lettermen including senior Dave Coupe. Coupe played No. 4 singles last year and owned the best single record among the varsity players. This year, he moved up to the No. 3 post.
An unknown last season, but rapidly gaining the praise of both Coach Gibbens and Aide B罗 Riley is Jim Brownfield. Bill Sheldon another senior is playing No. 5 behind Brownfield. In the doubles, Gibbens will pair Woodward with Karrale and Brownfield will team with Coupe.
The season started out with a bleak outlook with the loss of three returning veterans. This put a damper on the Jayhawk title hopes, but things dipped even more as winter
Big O Gets Award For Player of Year
CINCINNATI — (UPI) — Oscar Robertson, college basketball's all-time top pointmaker, has been presented the United Press International Player of the Year award and the UPI All America award.
The presentation was made by Haskell Short, Ohio news manager for UPI, at the annual University of Cincinnati banquet with about 1,000 persons in attendance.
weather forced the tennis squad indoors. Quarantined by Old Man Winter, the Jayhawks still held regular practice sessions on the mud courts in Allen Field House, but these were a poor substitute for the concrete courts upon which conference matches are played.
The Jayhawks' hopes were given a boost with the return enrollment of KU's last conference singles champion, Bob Riley, Riley, a 1957 grad, won the conference title as a sophomore in 1955. His most recent conquest came in the Greater Kansas City Open last summer where he conquered the best in the area. Riley is working out with the team, and gives Gibbens a needed extra hand,
All men interested in Freshman baseball should report to Coach Floyd Temple Friday afternoon, April 1. at 4:30 in the K room at Allen Field House.
Freshman Baseball Meeting Friday
Track Rehabilitated
Beginning next week the track at KU's Memorial Stadium will be rehabilitated in preparation for the annual Kansas Relays which are to be held on Friday and Saturday, April 22 and 23.
To have record breaking times the track must be firm and solid. The first step includes harrowing and dragging of the track. Then a new cinder top will be worked in. Finally, a top dressing of fine cinders will be laid. The runways for the broad jump, high jump, and pole vault are slated to be hard surfaced with rubberized asphalt.
The over-all picture of the track's physical plant is good, but these additions may make the difference between a good jump or time and a record breaking one.
Doug Evans, Oklahoma freshman swimmer from San Pedro, Calif., won the Southwest AAU 100-yard free style race at Dallas last week in 51 seconds flat.
Sigma Chi will meet the Hicks for the Hill Championship in the intramural volleyball "A" league at 5 this afternoon on the East court of Robinson Gymnasium.
Sigma Chi, Hicks Play for Hill Title
At the same time Phi Gamma Delta will play Sigma Gamma Epsilon on the West court for the "B" league Hill Championship.
Yesterday afternoon Sigma Chi defeated Phi Gamma Delta 15-11 and
Easton Sends 17 To Texas Relays
Seventeen members of the Jayhawk track squad left by plane for Austin, Texas and the Texas Relays this morning.
Coach Bill Easton's crew will be lead by defending champions Bill Alley in the javelin and Clif Cushman in the intermediate hurdles.
The squad is composed of Alley, Cushman, Bob Albright, Darwin Ashbaugh, Gordon Davis, Bill Dotson, Bill Dryer, Jerry Foos, Dan Lee, Curtis McClinton, Bill Mills, Ken Olson, Clarence Peterson, Paul Rearick, Bob Tague, Charlie Tidwell and Paul Williams.
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. —James Thurber
15-6 to win the Fraternity league playoffs.
The Hicks recovered from an 11-15 loss to defeat the Hawks 15-6 and 15-12 clinching the Independent "A" league title.
"A"
Yesterday's "B" league action saw
Horse Was Big Winner
NEW YORK —(UPI)— Sword Dancer, named "Horse of the Year" for 1959, had the biggest earnings for the year with a total bankroll of $537.004.
Phi Gamma Delta win the Fraternity playoffs by defeating Sigma Chi 15-10 and 15-8. Sigma Gamma Epsilon had no trouble with the Independent league, winning over Delta Function 15-10 and 15-6.
No Middleman
NEW ORLEANS —(UPI)— Officials of the American Totalisator Co. told the Thoroughbred Racing Associations at its convention it hopes to field-test unmanned $2 machines during 1960.
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