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University Daily Kansan
Friday, April 17. 1959
Inexperience Hurts Baseball Team
Gene Dunigan signals . . .
Sport Clubs Supplement KU Athletic Program
By Doug Yocom
While fencing, gymnastics and volleyball-called KU sport clubs—do not receive either the financial support or the publicity of KU's varsity sports, the three teams still provide rugged competition for the participants.
Fencing is only in its second year at Kansas, and Coach John Giele's team has jumped right in the middle of some of the most rugged fencing competition in the United States. The first meet of the season was against the Air Force Academy, last year's Western Intercollegiate champion. The Faleons showed the inexperienced Kansans how a champion team performs, as KU came off on the low ends of both a 24-3 "A" team score and a 18-9 "B" team score.
The following week the Jayhawkers challenged another team of chapmions. This time the team was Illinois University and its title was last year's Big Ten and National Intercollegiate champions. The Illinois meet also marked the first formal inter-collegiate fencing contest ever to be held on the KU campus. Mt. Oread's fencers dropped 25 out of 27 matches.
When KU started into the milder half of the schedule it seemed the experience received from the nation's top fencing teams was proving valuable.
The next foe, Nebraska, was conquered. The Kansas City Fencing Club came to Mt. Oread, then left in defeat.
Coach Giele had stated at the start of the season that if he had
Two fencers, Jerry Old and John Dillard did make the grade and represented KU at the NCAA on March 27-28.
any fencers to merit going to the NCAA in March they would go.
The Kansas University volleyball team will be looking for another top position in the National Collegiate Volleyball Tournament this year.
Two years ago the volleyball team won third place in the tournament and last year it pulled down second place.
Volleyball coach Kevin Jones' only prediction of how KU will finish in the tournament this year was:
"We should place."
Another sport club that has not been around the campus long is the gymnastics team.
While gymnastics is only in its second year at KU, Coach Laptad already is building for the future.
"KU will probably be the only team in the conference that will have its entire team back," coach Laptad said.
The Jayhawk team failed to place in the All-College Gymnastic Meet at Boulder last month, although Dan Grover, Bob Lockwood, and Stan Allen advanced to the final rounds.
The Soccer team is trying to form a soccer league in the Big Eight. Colorado, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Missouri and KU already have teams organized.
This year's Jayhawker team, composed of 17 players from nine different countries, compiled a 1-4-2 record.
Spring Moves Intramurals Into Warm Out-of-Doors
By Dave Butcher
With the coming of spring and warm weather, KU's extra-curricular emphasis moves to the out-of-doors. As the snows recede, throngs of students can be seen driving to the country to commune with nature, or just sitting on lawns, enjoying the sun.
Not to be left behind in this mass return to nature, KU's intramural athletic program moves outside after spring vacation.
There is a wide choice of sports for the student who wishes to have fun in the sun. For the "team man,"
softball will be the order of the day.
The "individualist" may choose from golf, horseshoes, handball, badminton, and tennis. Tennis has the largest turnout among individual sports.
For the student who still wishes to remain indoors despite the warm weather, a two-day intramural swimming meet will be held in the middle of April.
Each year, about 2,650 male students participate in the intramural program which also includes football, basketball, bowling, and volleyball.
By Gabby Wilson
Weather has provided KU's baseball team and Coach Floyd Temple with a "headache" that could handicap the Jayhawkers once the regular season starts.
In fact, the Jayhawks were forced to spend over a month and a half indoors this year hoping the sun would soon shine their way.
"The weather has hurt us." Temple said. "It has put us behind from the start. We didn't take a southern trip this year so we had to rely upon getting good weather, which we didn't get. Before we were ever outside, Oklahoma had already played six games.
"Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, and Missouri are the teams to beat. We'll be able to hold our own with the rest, but those three are definitely tough." Temple continued.
It is hard to predict where the end of the season will find KU in the Big Eight standings. "It all depends upon how strong the other teams are. If we have a good year and the pitcher come along, maybe we can finish with the top four."
Inexperience is the biggest problem Temple faces. With only five returning lettermen, Bob Marshall, center fielder and team captain; Art Muegel, second baseman; Carl Lauterjung, catcher; Harl Hanson, shortstop, and Lloyd Nichols, at first base, the balance of the team must be filled with untried rookies.
"The bright spot at the present seems to be Tom Holler. He is definitely a Big Eight pitcher, but he has had no previous conference experience." Temple explained.
Rounding out the pitching staff will be Bill Clintonbeard and Joe Doolittle with Wayne Woodruff, Don Culp, and Norman Mailen fighting for the number four spot. The entire pitching staff is composed of rookies.
The other leading candidates for the remaining positions are Roger Hill at third base, Larry McKown in left field, and Curtis Melton in right field.
When asked how the team hitting would be this year, Coach Temple replied, "There's no way of telling this early. Lauterjung is the only one who has proved he can hit Big Eight pitching. There's no way of telling until the team gets more experience."
Tom Holler fires.
Glenn Cunningham Is Among All-Time Greats
Glenn Cunningham was one of the greatest middle distance runners in world track history.
This almost legendary figure was the only performer in the old Big Six and Big Seven conferences ever to win two American Olympic berths. He was a member of the 1932 team at Los Angeles and returned in 1936 for the Berlin games.
He realized his most bitter disappointments in the Olympics. He ran fourth in the '32 games as a college sophomore, and was second to New Zealand's Jack Lovelock at Berlin.
But disappointments were not the usual bill of fare for this great KU star. He once held, simultaneously, world records for both the indoor and outdoor miles. He ran the outdoor mile in 4:06.7 and the indoor in 4:08.4 in 1934. His paced mile of 4:04.4 on Dartmouth's board track in 1938 still is the second fastest indoor performance in history.
In 1933 he came within two inches of winning two events in the NCAA meet, losing to Indiana's Chuck Hornbostel in a 1:50.9 half-mile after winning the mile.
Mike Cassidy's 21:40.4 in the 1500- meter free-style broke the previous record of 22:02.0.
KU's Best Swimming Team Sets 11 New Varsity Records
The varsity team loses two sen-
This year's KU swimming team was the best the University has ever had, and next year's should be as good, Jay Markley, swimming coach, said in reviewing the past season.
In dual telegraphic meets this season the KU freshmen set new freshman records in nine of 13 events, and placed second in the conference postal meet.
The team won nine dual meets, lost four and finished third in the Big Eight conference meet.
"The fact that we finished third doesn't necessarily show the improvement of the team, but the fact that the team set new varsity records in 11 events does show the improvement over past teams." Markley said.
The top four record-breaking performances of the season were in the 60-yard free-style, the 400-yard free-style relay, the 100-yard back-stroke, and the 1500-meter freestyle.
Ed Poort broke the 60-yard freestyle record of 30 seconds flat with a clocking of 29.7 seconds.
The 400-vard free-style relay team of Bill Sitter, Steve Hill, Brad Keller and Ed Poort set a record of 3:40.7, erasing the old mark of 3:44.0.
Tom Herlocker set a new 100-yard back-stroke record with a time of 1:04.8. The record had been 1:06.6.
ors this year. They are Steve Hill, Lawrence, and Jon Poort, Topeka.
"We have built a strong foundation for a good swimming team-one that is at least recognized by the outstanding high school swimmers in the nation." Marklev said.
"Now it is up to the University to decide whether it wants a swimming
He said that the University must offer better swimming facilities and better swimming scholarships if it expects KU to develop an outstanding swimming team.
team that will compete in the Big Eight or one that will merely participate," he said.
Jon Poort and John Jeffrey toe the mark.