Wednesday, Nov. 18, 1959 University Daily Kansan
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TOP DISTANCE MAN-Billy Mills, Denver, Colo., junior, placed second in the Big Eight cross-country meet two weeks ago. Monday he will enter the NCAA meet, along with Bob Lindrud, KU sophomore. Mills is shown here in the Big Eight meet, with Linsey Easton, daughter of KU head track coach Bill Easton, cheering him on.
Mills and Lindrud To NCAA Meet
Billy Mills and Bob Lindrud will fly to East Lansing, Mich., to represent KU in the NCAA cross-country meet there Monday morning.
They will be accompanied by assistant coach Al Frame.
Last year as a sohomore, Mills ran the four-mile NCAA course in 20:35 minutes, placing fifth.
Mills was the leading Kansas runner in four of five meets this season.
He won first place with a time of 15:51.8 in the season's opener against Missouri, cut his time to 14:54.5 when the Jays ran against Arkangas and placed second as Kansas won the Big Eight conference meet.
Mills didn't run in the Missouri Valley AAU meet held last week.
"The NCAA field will be tougher
Bowlers Defend Big Eight Title
Kansas will open its defense of the Big Eight Bowling league title at 9:30 a.m. Saturday when the Jayhawkers entertain Oklahoma State at the Jaybowl, in the Kansas Union
Oklahoma State returns most of the bowlers from its team which last year defeated Kansas once in the three times the two teams met.
The Jayhawkers are being coached by B. C. Fearing, Kansas Union recreation manager.
Coach Fearing said today that he hasn't selected his team for the meet as yet but the Kansas bowlers will come from a field that includes Robert Burke, Tony Miller, Dan Grover, Wayne Haymen, Ted Dichl, Dan Gomez, Sam Von Winbush and Fred Leport.
Pirates Had Large Margin
PITTSBURGH — (UPI) — The largest victory margin ever recorded in a major league pennant race was $27\frac{1}{2}$ games by the 1902 Pittsburgh Pirates managed by Fred Clarke. The Pirates won 103 games and lost 36 that season.
Lefty Grove had the lowest earned run average in the American League nine seasons while pitching for the Philadelphia Athletics and Boston Red Sox.
than usual." Mills said. "Many of the competing schools have imported runners that are faster and older than most of us," he said.
Mills says he is not in as good condition as he would like to be, but said he would give the meet all he had.
"As for Bob, if he could relax a little more no one could defeat him. He's just a little too tense. He's due for a good race, though, and this might just be it." Mills said.
Lindrud, a Moline, Ill., sophomore, has run in all six of the meets Kansas entered this season.
He started the season by placing sixth in the Missouri dual cross-country meet, stepped up to fifth in the Oklahoma meet and then climaxed the season by placing second in the Missouri Valley AAU meet only four seconds behind the winner —KU freshman Bill Dotson.
MIAMI—(UPI) — Georgia, Louisiana State and the University of Miami were named in that order today as major contenders for a berth in the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day.
Georgia Top Bet For Orange Bowl
Iowa State could clinch the bid and the Big Eight conference championship Saturday by beating Oklahoma at Norman. But the sooners are two touchdown favorites and haven't lost to Iowa State since 1931.
As for the "host" team, Orange Bowl officials confessed they were pulling for the "Dirty Thirty" of Iowa State.
Orange Bowl Chairman Van Kusrow said Tuesday race regulations in certain states may determine which team meets the Big Eight representatives in the post season classic. Some of the Big Eight contenders have negro players, he said.
"Georgia can play against teams with Negro athletes. But I don't know if such schools as L.S.U. and Mississippi can," he said. "We're looking into that."
That was the reason, he said, why Georgia heads the current list.
In order for Miami to get the nod, the Hurricanes would have to defeat Michigan State and Florida in their last two games.
Pettit Picks Chamberlain To Win NBA Scoring Title
NEW YORK—(UPI)—Bob Pettit, who set an all-time National Basketball Association scoring record last season, today counted himself out of the 1959-60 race which he predicted will be a three-cornered battle among Wilt Chamberlain, Elgin Baylor and Jack Twyman.
"I think all three of them will average more than 30 points a game for the season and easily break my record," said the St. Louis Hawks' star who played his college ball at Louisiana State University. "I can't see myself beating any one of them. I think I reached my limit last season."
"It's so hard to choose from among them," he said when asked who he thought would succeed him as scoring champion. "If forced to make a choice, I guess I'd have to pick Chamberlain—he's the biggest guy."
Pettit, a 6-foot, 9-inch, 218-
pounder with a velvet touch around the basket, averaged 29.2 points a
game and scored 2.015 points last season—both records—but has averaged "only" 24.5 points in the Hawks' first eight games this year. He was held to a mere 11 points as the New York Knickerbockers beat the Hawks, 105-97, last night.
The Syracuse Nationals overcame a 38-point performance by Jack Twyman to down the Cincinnati Royals, 121-116, and the Boston Celtics scored a 132-129 double-overtime victory over the Detroit Pistons in the other games last night. The victory was the Celtics 11th in 12 games.
Pettit, 26, said he will play less and shoot less when he is playing this season on orders from Coach Ed Macaulay and General Manager Ben Kerner.
"We talked things over before the season and agreed I would be of more value to the team by doing more rebounding and passing off," said Pettit. "Also, I'll be playing only about 33 minutes a game this year."
compared to about 40 a game last season."
The big tettow was hardly a glamour-boy last night as the Knicks held him to three field goals, three points in the second half and repeatedly "boxed" him out under the offensive basket. But Pettit pulled down 15 rebounds—high for either team—as proof he was following orders.
Chamberlain currently is averaging 37.1 points for the Philadelphia Warriors, Baylor 34.3 for the Minneapolis Lakers and Twyman 34.7 for the Royals—and Pettit thinks they'll be that close at the end of the season.
Photo Finish Increases Ties
NEW YORK — (UPI) — From 1910 until the photo finish camera was introduced in 1936 very few dead heats for first place were called and none for the other positions. Last year there were more than 400 of them.
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