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Page 4 University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Nov. 5, 1958
University Daily Kansan SPORTS
No Advance Expected For KU Tennis Team
The Kansas tennis team, with only three of last year's lettermen returning, is not expected to improve over last year's record, said Denzell Gibbens, tennis coach.
Last year's squad had a record of 5-7. This earned the team a fifth-place tie in the Big Eight Conference.
The conference was won last year by Oklahoma State and Colorado.
"Both CU and Oklahoma State will be strong again this year," Gibbens predicted. "Kansas State and Oklahoma University will also be tough to beat."
The returning lettermen are Noel Sieverling, Burdett senior; Jerry Williams, Olathe junior, and Dave Coupe, Arkansas City junior.
Two members of last year's squad that did not letter will also be back. They are Phil Trotter, Kansas City, Kan., junior, and Bill Sheldon, Salina junior.
A transfer from Wichita University who lettered in tennis his sophomore year will also be on the team. He is Stan Allen, Wichita senior.
Two promising sophomores should also add strength to the squad.
They are Pete Block, Mission and George Hollingbery, Glencoe, Ill.
Coach Gibbens added that he hoped practice will start during the winter on inside courts.
Bob Mathias Voices Doubts On 1960 Olympic Victory
By United Press International Two-time Olympic decathlon champion Bob Mathias warned American athletes that it would take a super-human effort to prevent Russia from scoring an overwhelming victory in the 1960 Olympic games at Rome.
"But the Russians are training so many athletes in the minor sports that they figure to hand the rest of the world a bad beating for the over-all unofficial championship," Mathias explained.
The United States probably will win the track and field championship, he said. This is because America has so many top sprinters and middle distance men while European countries battle the Reds in the distances.
No New Record
Looking at his specialty, which he won at London in 1948 and in which he set a world record at Helsinki in 1952. Mathias expressed doubt that current world record holder Rafer Johnson of the U.S. would be able to create a new mark in the international games.
"The decathlon, in which you compete in 10 events in two days, is the most rugged event in sports. I have never been as tired, before or since, as I was the night I finished up at Helsinki."
That day he started at 10 a.m. and didn't finish until 10 p.m.
"You build yourself up to a peak effort and get your muscles all
loose," he said. "Then you take one turn and you have to go sit down and wait interminably while other competitors from all over the world take their turn. You're up and down like a yo-yo."
Mathias set a world mark of 7,787 in winning at Helsinki. Russia's Vassyl Kuznetsov eventually set a world mark of 8,014 but in a meeting at Moscow in July, Rafer Johnson defeated the Russian and set a new world mark of 8,037 points.
The Delay Hurts
"But the long delays between turns in the Olympics work against Johnson setting a world record in the games," Mathias said. "In that Russian meet, they ran the decathlon off in a space of about three hours. That way, Johnson could get up and stay that way. It's a lot different in the Olympics."
Mathias has left his athletic career behind him except for a brief workout to recapture his form for a current television appearance on the "Brains and Brawn" show in which he is competing against the Rev. Bob Richards, his former Olympic teammate.
Hicks Move to Finals
But he still keeps a keen eye on the international athletic situation.
"Track and field will find us all right," he insists. "We'll win more than our share there. But Russia has an over-all program, aimed at every sport on the program, and that's where we'll suffer. They well could wind up with the most decisive Olympic victory ever."
The unbeaten Hicks met and soundly defeated their sixth straight opponent yesterday when they climbed into the finals of the Independent league by rolling over Oread 41-0.
Rocky Leiker loosened up his pitching arm and threw five passes for five Hick touchdowns. He added the last point by kicking the extra point after the final touchdown. Leiker threw to Bob Lockwood, John Traylor, Chuck Hill and Sonny Heatwole.
an Oread back behind the goal line for a safety to complete the Hick's scoring.
Bob Lockwood tossed the other touchdown pass to Heatwole, kicked one extra point and tossed to Hill for another. Newell Rosewald nailed
Phi Delta Theta pinned a loss on Delta Upsilon to advance in the playoffs.
Don Pierce, KU sports publicity director, draws from a tremendous background to supply the nation with information on Kansas athletics.
Athlete-Writer Tells Nation of Kansas Sports
Peppercorn Injured
Pierce has been here off and on since the late 1930's. His interests have always centered around sports. In 1940 he was an All Big Six center on the Jayhawk football team. He was sports editor of The Daily Kansan the same year.
Tackle John Peppercorn was placed on the doubtful list yesterday, but Coach Jack Mitchell was cheered by the return of two lineemen.
After graduation, he was gone from the campus until 1945. But he kept close ties with athletics and the midwest. He played two years of professional football with Brooklyn and the Chicago Cardinals.
Peppercorn came out of last Saturday's game with Kansas State with a lame shoulder and was withheld from today's first hard scrimmage of the week.
Then, he began writing sports in the Midwest. He wrote for the Topeka State Journal, the Kansas City Journal, the Kansas City Star, the Topeka Daily Capital and the Oklahoma City Oklahoman, before returning to KU.
Last year the Nebraska football team won one and lost nine. In Big Eight play they had a 1-5 record and finished in last place.
Six lettermen return to KU's baseball team this year and Coach Floyd Temple begins rebuilding after the loss of several key players.
Key Player Losses Hurt Baseball Hopes
Gone from last year's squad are front-line pitchers Larry Miller, Ron Wiley and Gary Russell. Miller and Wiley signed professional contracts losing their last year of eligibility at KU, and Russell graduated.
Other big losses were shortstop Barry Robertson, catcher Barr Donaldson and first baseman Jin Trombold.
Returning this year will be outfielders Carl Hanson, Bobby Marshall, Art Miller and Lloyd Nichols; catcher Carl Lauterjung, and infielder Art Muegler.
"We would have had a good chance of winning the Big Eight Conference with Miller back, but now seven or eight games he would have won are questionable," Temple said.
Several sophomores will be counted upon to bolster the team. Tom Holler, from Wichita, is slated for a top pitching spot. Don Wrench, KU football player from Lawrence, is an infielder. Curtis Melton is an infielder from Lawrence. Jim Ragan, also from Lawrence, is an outfielder.
Another football player, fullback Doyle Schick from Lawrence, is an outfielder. Temple said he may try to make Schick into a pitcher.
The Jayhawkers will be playing on a new field this season. Complete with grass infield, it is located just south of Allen Field House. The field will be one of two in the conference to be completely enclosed so that the ball will continually be in play. Oklahoma State also has this feature.
Missouri University won the Big Eight conference last year and placed second in the College World Series. Temple said he expected Missouri, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State to be the powers in the conference this season.
The fences will be 340 feet distant at the foul lines and 385 feet in center field.
The Jayhawkers will play 27 games and will start the season with a road trip in the South.
The Schedule
The Schedule
April 10-11 -Okla, St., Stillwater
April 17-18 -Missouri, Lawrence
April 24-25 -Iowa State, Ames
May 1-2 -Colorado, Lawrence
May 8-9 -Nebraska, Lawrence
May 15-16 -K-State, Manhattan
May 20-21 -Oklahoma, Norman
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