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University Daily Kansan Monday, April 6, 1959
Alley's 270 Peg Best Ever in U.S.
After heaving the javelin 270-feet $ _{1/2} $ -inches in the Texas Relays to smash the existing American and Intercollegiate records, Bill Alley said he thinks he can throw farther.
The 217-pound KU junior, who was voted the outstanding athlete in the Relays, says his goal is to win the Olympics. The world's record is held by Norway's Egil Danielsen at 281 feet, 2 inches.
Last month Alley threw a standard hand-grenade 298-6 in a demonstration for KU ROTC officers.
"A grenade weighs three pounds. A javelin weighs almost half as much. This leads me to believe it can be thrown 300 feet." Alley said.
His toss bettered the previous American record set by Franklin Held of the San Francisco Olympic Club by $1_{1/2}$ inches. It also topped the collegiate record of 257-feet 1-inch set by John Fromm of Pacific Lutheran in 1958.
The Jayhawker team was named the best team in the Texas Relays as the 'eligible and able dozen' tied their Texas hosts for the most points of the University Class with 58 points.
Kansas won the four-mile relay and the 400-meter hurdles Saturday and was also victorious in the broad jump and sprint medley titles on Friday.
Three Kansas runners broke 4:20 in the mile; Tom Skutkta 4:16.0, Billy Mills 4:19.2 and Cliff Cushman 4:19.3. Cushman, also a half-miler, was close to Alley in the voting for the out-tending athlete.
Cushman won the 400-meter hurdles in 52.2, with Ken Sweeney of Iowa State second at 53.8.
Other University class records included a pole vault mark of 14 feet
Tennis Team Loses 3
STILLWATER, Okla. - Oklahoma State easily defeated the Kansas tennis team here Saturday, taking a 7-0 victory without losing a set. It was the fifth victory for the Cowboys this season and their 15th straight over a two-year period.
For the Jayhawkers, it was their third straight loss on the southern trip. KU lost Thursday to Wichita 7-0, and lost to Oklahoma, 6-1, Friday.
$ 8^{1 / 2} $ -inches by Jim Graham of Okla-
homa State and a mile relay of 3.10.3
set by Texas.
Eddie Southern of Texas chipped in with a 45.7 anchor quarter-mile in the University Division mile relay to equal the world's record for the distance although it cannot be considered since it was from a running start and not in a flat race.
Two records and a tie were established in the college division. Texas A. and I. set a 3:13.5 mark in the mile relay. East Texas State hit 41.0 in the 440-yard relay in the preliminaries only to lose in the finals to a 42.0 by Texas A. and I. when the first runner, John West pulled a muscle.
Alley Hurls Grenade Past World Record
Cadet Sgt. F. W. Alley, KU trackman, has made a strong bid for a new world record for throwing the U. S. Army hand grenade
Alley, a javelin specialist with Olympic game aspirations, used his javelin technique to hurl a grenade 298 ft. $47^{\frac{1}{2}}$ in. He heaved the handtype missile from one goal line of Memorial Stadium football field toward the other. Me missed the opposite goal line by $19^{\frac{1}{2}}$ in.
When asked if he had thrown as hard as he could, Alley replied, "I have not thrown my best. I warmed up with the grenade out of curiosity and conviction that I could better the record at Ft. Benning, Ga., infantry school." The record throw is 280 feet.
Trojans Capture AAU Swim Title
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — (UPI) — It's Southern California by an eyelash over Michigan in their strictly unofficial battle for the national swimming championship.
Led by triple winner Murray Rose of Australia, the Southern Cal Trojans ran away with the Men's National AAU swimming crown in the tournament that concluded here Saturday night, accounting for five of the 15 records set and scoring 62 points to 29 for the runner-up New Haven Swim Club. Michigan won the NCAA championship last week. Southern California, under suspension, wasn't eligible to compete in that tourney.
That situation evened up here because Michigan was barred by Big Ten conference rules from competing in the AAU tourney as a team. Swimming as individuals, the Wolverines scored 60 points—two less than Southern Cal.
Rose was the big gun for the Trojans, winning three individual championships. He also took the individual scoring trophy with a 21-point total. Rose captured the 1500-meter, 440-yard, and 220-yard freestyle events. He set a new American and meet record in the 440 Saturday with a brilliant 4:18.8 clocking.
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KU Nine Opens With 24-8 Rout of Forbes
Kansas struck early in opening its 1959 baseball season here Friday with a 24-8 rout of Forbes Air Base.
The Forbes pitchers were all too eager to help the Jayhawkers to their first victory as the Topeka moundsmen walked 16 and threw eight wild pitches.
Forbes also booted the ball 10 times. The Jayhawkers were on hand almost every time to take advantage of the breaks.
Centerfielder Bob Marshall swung the big bat for KU as he rapped out a single, a double, and a triple, to drive home six runs.
The first inning spelled the downfall for Forbes, as KU pushed across 12 runs before the side was retired. After that the game was as good as over but the Jayhawkers wouldn't let up and they brought in six more tallies in the second inning.
Tom Holler started on the hill for KU and struck out 10 men and allowed only six hits in the five and two-thirds innings he pitched. Holler weakened in the sixth and was bailed out by Bill Clinkenbeard. Clinkenbeard struck out three and
gave up no hits in his one and a third inning stint.
The game was called at the end of seven innings by agreement.
Clinkenbeard summed up his feelings of the game by saying, "There'll be a lot rougher games."
The ball team plays Forbes again today, this time in Topeka. Joe Dooolittle is the likely starting choice for the Jayhawkers.
WEST PALM BEACH. Fla. — (UPI) There are only four more days until the Athletics arrive in Kansas City for the start of the 1959 season.
The A's open with three games against Cleveland at Municipal Stadium in Kansas City, beginning Friday afternoon. The Saturday and Sunday games following are also afternooners.
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