Thursday May 21, 1959 University Daily Kansar
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Everyone Figures Jays' Chances
By Ted Dielman
With the NCAA track meet less than a month away it seems as if everybody is trying to figure out Kansas' chances.
This is only normal, for Kansas is the outstanding team in the Big Eight Conference this year, and many experts say the Big Eight is the outstanding league in the NCAA
Kansas track coach Bill Easton and the men on his team seem to share this opinion, with only a few minor reservations.
Coach Easton, taking the coach's conservative view, says:
"We are pretty banged up after last weekend. Shelby still wasn't able to jump due to his bad muscle. If we don't heal up we won't be much of a contender up at Lincoln.
at the Big Eight meet.
Bill Alley, Easton's national champion javeliner, savs:
"The team as a whole didn't do well at the Big Eight meet. We have to show lot better performances in order to win the NCAA title."
"If everybody on the team comes through in the way in which they are capable, I think we will come out all right. However, we will have to do better than we did last week
One of Alley's teammates, Cliff Cushman, star half-miler, is of the same opinion.
"If everybody does what they normally do," he says, "we will come out all right."
One star sportswriter predicted that Kansas would take first in the NCAA meet barring the loss of
Alley, Ernie Shelby or Charlie Tidwell by injuries.
Coach Bill Easton agrees with this statement wholeheartedly, "But," he says, "tlthough the loss of one of these boys would injure us seriously, so would the loss of about any member of the team.
"You have to have all your hoses kickin", Easton says.
"You have to figure that Alley is worth about ten points, Shelby and Tidwell are worth about 20 apiece," Cushman said.
Sugar Ray Fight With Moore 'Bunk'
NEW YORK—(UPI)—Sugar Ray Robinson today tossed aside reports that he is negotiating for a Light Heavyweight title fight with champion Archie Moore at Kansas City, Mo., in September. He called it "pure bunk."
The Kansas City Kansan said Tuesday that the fight may be held in Kansas City, Mo., this Sept. 24 and the Kansas City Star said last night that the decision would be made by Robinson, Moore and their representatives in New York.
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