University Daily Kansan Monday, May 18, 1959
Jays Walk Off With Championship
By Doug Parker
NORMAN—There was no doubt the morning of the final day of the Big Eight track meet here this past weekend that Kansas would win, but there was some doubt as to how much the winning margin would be.
Most observers saw a huge point total for the Jayhawkers as 23 track and field men got into the finals.
During the damp, overcast morning coaches and writers sat over cups of coffee in the hotel with a clear idea of the outcome—Kansas by a landslide
Track men assuredly ate filet mignon in their pre-game meal early in the morning.
And then, shortly before a light rain began to fall announcing the opening of the field events, a jet fighter zoomed over the field, giving a premonition of the speed to come in this 31st annual affair.
Kansas had a part in setting two records and tying a third conference record in running events in amassing 125 points, enough to win but not what was expected.
Oklahoma State nosed out Oklahoma with 18 points in the pole vault, the last event of the day, to take second place with 90 points to the Sooners' 7414.
Other scoring went as follows: Kansas state, 6634; Missouri, 5514; Colorado. 46; Nebraska, 2034, and Iowa State, 18.
It was great depth in the Jay-hawker squad that garnished the victory. Usually strong in the 880 and mile runs, Kansas didn't place a man in the top three of each event.
After a winning effort in the opening 440-relay by the Jayhawkers, it became apparent to the approximately 2,500 spectators that Kansas runners were off.
One fan sitting in the bleachers exclaimed caustically after Jayhawker runners didn't score in the 440-yard dash, "Where was Kansas in that race?"
Charlie Tidwell put on a brilliant display as a dash and hurdles man to win the Henry F. Schulte Memorial trophy as the outstanding athlete of the meet.
While failing in the long races, the Jayhawkers bit away at points in the hurdles and relays to gather 73 points in the track events.
Ernie Shelby, whose record-breaking effort in the broad jump in the Friday preliminaries held up in the finals, accepted the trophy for Kansas as the winning team.
In the field events, which gained momentum after the early rain stopped in a few minutes, Bob Cannon tied for first with Oklahoma State's Sammy Pegues at 6-5, $ \frac{1}{4} $ inch under defending champion Cannon's top mark of the year.
Jim Londerholm and John Book, Kansas javelin men, took third and fourth in the finals, the winning throw going to Bill Alley's record breaking heave of 256-10 in the preliminaries.
At the opposite end of the field, just out of range of the javelin, Bill Dryer took fourth in the shot out for Kansas.
After the javelin throwers finished slanting their spears into the wind, to be blown toward a scattering crowd of observers, the discus was thrown. Kansas' Jerry Foos took third in the event.
The sun broke out from behind the clouds for a short while immediately after the final event—the mile relay. A Kansas team of Cliff Cushman, Bob Tague, Paul Rearick and Bob Covey came in third.
While the crowd stayed on to watch the battle of Oklahoma State pole vaulters, the Kansas team boarded its charter bus and set off for Stillwater for dinner in the Student Union.
Kansas Baseball Team Wins Pair From State Crew
The KU baseball team won two of the three games with Kansas State at Manhattan this weekend, but dropped to last place in the Big Eight standings.
The Jayhawkers won Friday's game, 11-0, and the top half of Saturday's double-header, 8-7. But the Wildcats came back in the second game to win, 15-11.
In Friday's game, sophomore Tom Holler held the Wildcats to four scattered hits in the 11-0 shutout. Kansas bunched all its runs in three straight innings, the fourth, fifth, and sixth.
Curtis Melton and Carl Lauterjung stroked home runs for the Jayhawkers.
Win First Game
KU won the first game of Saturday's double-header, 8-7, by standing off a Kansas State rally that left the tying run on second base.
Two-run homers by Lauterjung, Melton, and Harl Hanson secured the Jayhawker victory. Bill Clinkenbeard was the winning pitcher.
K-State's Paul Bader hit a three-run homer to help the Wildcats score six runs in the second inning of the last game.
Melton hit his third home run in as many games for the Jayhawkers.
as many games for the Jayhawkers. In winning the last game, Kansas State broke a 21-game losing streak. Eleven of those losses came last year. Despite this steady string of defeats, the Wildcats have a 4-7 record since three losses to Missouri were forfeited by the Tigers.
3-10 Record
KU now has a 3-10 record and is in eighth place behind Missouri who swept a three-game series from Colorado.
The Jayhawkers close the season this week against Oklahoma at Norman.
Friday's Game
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Kansas State  000 000 000-1
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Kansas 323 000 0-8
Kansas State 010 131 1-7
Saturday, 1st Game
2nd Game
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Cowboy Duel Keeps Fans Glued to Saddles
NORMAN—Two Cowboys, one a muscular red-head and the other a lanky, drawling extrovert, rode high in the saddle in the Big Eight track meet here when both broke the meet record and the 15-foot barrier in the pole vault.
In an all-afternoon duel which kept spectators glued to their seats long after all other events had ended, Oklahoma State's auburn-haired Aubrey Dooley and confident Jim Graham soared higher and higher in a battle which left other competitors far below. Spurred on by friendly coaching from each other, the two left no doubt as to who were the best pole men in the nation.
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"I won the NCAA in 1930 with a jump of 12-10," he said. "I can't even talk about this boy Jimmy."
But he went up and threw his arm around the shoulders of "Jimmy" who had succeeded in edging out his teammate at 15-3¾.
He carefully adjusted the bar for each try by his former pupil.
"Let go of that pole, Aub," Graham would shout as Dooley shot into the air. If the bar fell, Graham would slap his side and offer advice even before Dooley had hit the sawdust;
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Then, when Graham had completed an unsuccessful run down the ramp, he would turn to Dooley and ask:
"I was reachin' for it, wasn't I. Aub?"
"You're reaching for it, Aubrey," he drawled. "You got all the power in the world."
Otto Endres, Graham's coach at Will Rogers High School in Oklahoma City, was judging the event.
"It's been a long time since high school, ain't it, coach," Graham asked with a grin.
"Yep, boy, it's been a long time."
Russian Is 'World's Greatest Athlete'
break by 55 points the mark that Johnson set last July 27-28 when he defeated the Russian in a face-to-face meeting at Moscow.
LONDON — (UPI)—The "World's Greatest Athlete" once again is a Russian—Vassily Kuznetsov, who has broken American Rafer Johnson's world record in the gruelling decathlon, according to a Tass report on Moscow radio.
Kuznetsov scored a total of 8,357 points in the 10-event competition to
Johnson at that time scored 8,302 points and became a popular sports figure in Russia. In so doing he broke Kuznetsov's previous record of 8,013 points.
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