Tuesday, October 15, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Speaking of sports Yatesop's Fables:'Fighting giants'
By Ron Yates, Kansan sports editor
Once upon a time there were two giants with the unlikely names of Kan and Neb.
Kan and Neb were actually neighbors 364 days of the year, but one day out of every year the two met for a footrace.
Neb had won most of the footraces, but in recent years Kan was beginning to give Neb a bad time.
One year, Kan and Neb were considered by many giant watchers to be among the ten fastest giants in the whole universe. Everybody looked forward to the meeting of the two giants.
Finally, after much preparation and practice, Kan and Neb met face to face in Neb's homeland.
"Neb gonna win," cried Neb followers. "He gotum big and much muscles." (Neblanders speak kinda funny.)
"Kan can win if anybody can," said Kan supporters. "We faster than that big fat Neb, and smarter, too." (Come to think of it, Kan supporters talk kinda funny, too.)
Well, as I was saying, the two big giants came face to face and for a while it looked like they would finish at the same time. They were running neck and neck. Neb jumped out ahead of Kan and then Kan caught up and passed Neb and finally Kan just ran so hard and so fast that fat Neb was left behind about 10 spaces.
"No one can beat ole Kan," they boasted. "Kan is number one giant in all of Giantdom."
Well, after this, all of those Kan people just yippee'd and holdered all the way home.
A few days later, a giant came up from the South to see Kan. His name was OklaSt. (Kind of a funny name).
"Bet I can whup ya," OklaSt said. OklaSt had just won a race from one of the fastest giants who ever lived—Hous von Texland. No one knew how OklaSt did it, either.
"Silly old OklaSt. How could he ever beat Hous in a race?" Kan people asked.
Nobody knew how he did it, but he did do it and that was the important thing.
“Whadya say, Kan. Wanna race?” OklaSt asked.
“OK, OK,” Kan sneered, hoping that after the race OklaSt would go away forever and never bother him again.
The two giants lined up for the race. Kan was much bigger and looked much stronger than OklaSt.
"Kan will beat OklaSt by 35 paces." the experts said.
The gun was raised and the two giants were off. But before they had gone 5 paces, OklaSt stuck his foot out and tripped Kan and Kan fell flat on his face. While Kan was getting up, OklaSt had run almost to the finish line.
"Oh me, oh my," Kan fans whimpered. "So that's how silly little OklaSt beat speedy Hous. He tripped him when he wasn't looking."
MORAL: When giant run race, giant must look where he go and not run with head in clovels. The great land of the post season is straight ahead and not up in the sky.
Pro football predictions
NEW YORK (UPI)—The Los Angeles Rams and Baltimore Colts are strong favorites to remain unbeaten and tied for first place in the Coastal Division of the National Football League Sunday but the Dallas Cowboys are only seven-point choices over the Minnesota Vikings.
The Rams are favored by 19 points over the Atlanta Falcons and the Colts have been made 14-point picks over the Cleveland Browns. Each is seeking its sixth straight victory of the season.
In other NFL games, the St. Louis Cardinals are six over the Washington Redskins, the New York Giants five over the San Francisco Forty-Niners, the New Orleans Saints two over the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Chicago Bears are rated even with the Philadelphia Eagles
The New York Jets are six
over the Houston Oilers, the Boston Patriots $3 \frac{1}{2}$ over the Buffalo Bills and the Cincinnati Bengals and Miami Dolphins are rated even in American Football League games.
MEXICO (UPI)—Jim Hines and Randy Matson collected America's first two gold medals of the 1968 Olympics. Monday.
U.S. strikes gold in Mexico
Hines placed first in the 100-meter finals and set a new world and Olympic record of 9.9 seconds.
Matson, winner of America's first gold medal, fingered it proudly around his neck Monday and said he was prouder of it than he was of his world record.
"I don't think there's anything that can compare with winning a gold medal in the Olympics," said the 6-foot, $5\frac{1}{2}$-inch, 220-pound shot putter from Pampa, Texas.
Wyomia Tyus, Margaret Johnson Bailes and Barbara Ferrell tied the Games 100-meter dash record, Jay Silvester set a discus mark and the Yank team rolled to its second straight lopsided victory Monday.
Miss Tyus, who shares the world record at 11.2 seconds with Miss Ferrell and Irena Szewinska of Poland, won her heat in the trials with room to spare, while Miss Bailes had a little tougher time. Miss Ferrell made it a clean sweep when she capped the six heat trials with a two-yard decision over Russia's Liudmila Zharkova. All three Yank girls were timed in 11.2 seconds, tying the Games mark set in 1964 by Miss Tyus.
Silvester, the big strongman from Smithfield, Utah, who holds the world discus record at 224 feet, 4 inches, needed only one throw to qualify, and he did it with an Olympic record toss of $207.9\%$. Old record holder A Oerter of West Islip, N.Y., and Gary Carlsen of Rock Island, III, also qualified with respective throws of 194-9 and 198-5.
The Yank basketball team, which opened Olympic competition on Sunday with an 81-46 victory over Spain, found Senegal even easier. 93-36. Spencer Haywood of the University of Detroit paced scorers with 16
KU frosh lose
The Jayhawk freshman football team lost their first game of the season last night to Oklahoma 55-20. The game was played at Oklahoma.
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Miss Tyus, of Griffin, Ga., Mrs. Bailes, a native of New York now living in Portland, Ore., and Miss Ferrell, from Los Angeles, came back later in the day for the second round of the 100 dash with the semifinals and
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