Monday, April 29, 1957 University Daily Kansas
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KU Wins 5 Medals At Drake Relays
KU dominated the 48th Drake Relays Friday and Saturday by taking home three relay titles and crowning two individual winners.
Al Oerter, completing his second triple crown in the discus where he has set new records at the Texas, Kansas and Drake Relays, sent the disc 177-10 off a slippery concrete platform.
The 4-mile team romped to an easy victory in 17:41.9 on a slow, soggy track Friday. None of the runners were below 4:20 as the team clocked nearly 45 seconds over its intercollegiate record set at the KU Relays.
His was the only record by the KU team, but was one of 11 broken during the meet. Ten of these were on Saturday as the sun livened up the track following a rain that wiped out all record possibilities on Friday except for Oerter's toss.
The Jayhawkers also won the sprint medley crown with Lowell Janzen anchoring in a good 1.3$5 mile. He was handed a 7-yard deficit but easily moved past Oklahoma A & M and Nebraska to finish about 10 yards ahead of onrushing Gary Parr of Oklahoma.
Kansas won the distance medley Saturday with the second fastest time in history. The Jayhawkers finished 1.3 seconds over their own Drake and American record of 9:50.4 set by the Wes Santee anchored team of 1954.
Lowell Janzen built up an untouchable lead for the Jayhawkers with a 1:49.7 half mile second carry. He came back with a 1:51.4 carry on the 2-mile relay team which finished second to Georgetown.
Chamberlain Surprise Winner
Chambleham Surprise Winner
A surprise winner for KU was Wilt Chamberlain, who threw his 7-0 frame across the bar at 6-6/4 to tie with SMU's Don Stewart for the title. Stewart beat him at the
KU Relays with a record 6-8 $ _{1/2} $ leap.
He overcame a 10-yard deficit in the college sprint medley anchor carry as he ran a 1:47.9 half mile. He brought the mile relay team home first with a fine 47.1 quarter mile to edge Pittsburg State's Bob Wooten.
Kansas anchorman, Ray Wyatt started off even with Notre Dame! Aubrey Lewis and ran his fastest quarter of the year, a sparkling 447.2. However, Lewis blazed 46. to pull the Irish to victory.
Oklahoma nosed out the Jayhawkers for second place as Sooner anchorman Gary Parr, two yards behind going into the final exchange, traveled a sensational 46.0.
Kent Floerke, KU's defending champion, bettered the Drake hopstep-and-jump mark of 48-3 by half an inch. But he placed second behind Houston's Jack Smythe, who went 48-51%. Smythe also beat Floerke at the KU Relays.
Bill Tidwell Outstanding
Emporia State's Bill Tidwell turned in two outstanding performances to jerk his team to victory in the sprint medley and mile relay.
Missouri set an intercollegiate record in the 480-yard shuttle hurdles when a team of John McIntyre, Karl Englund, Henry Wiebe and Charles Batch ran 58.4 to beat the mark set by Texas in 1940.
In a featured 100-yard dash event, Olympic sprint champion, Bobby Morrow of Abilene Christian tied the record of .09.4 in beating fellow Olympian Ira Murchison of Western Michigan and Orlando Hazley of Oklahoma A & M.
—(Daily Kansan photo)
HI THERE-A Varsity and Alumni player meet a bit abruptly in Saturday's game in Memorial Stadium which the old grads won. 20-6.
MU Wins Series From KU
In an effort to stave off the hard-hitting Missouri Tigers, Coach Floyd Temple started Ron Wiley in the second game of a double-header against the Tigers Saturday after his ace left-hander had won the first game on a neat 4-hit job. 6-3
The iron-man stunt failed and Wiley had to be relieved in the fourth inning by Larry Miller. The Tigers went on to gain a 2-1 edge in the series by winning the third game, 5-1. The defeat dropped the Javhawkers to a 4-4 Big Seven Conference record. The Tigers now stand 5-3 in conference play.
Missouri used four home runs and 7-hit pitching by Bob Cooper to defeat Kansas, 16-5, in the
opening game Friday. Butch Hankins, Tiger left-fielder, slammed a pair of home runs over the right field fence, each time with a man on base, for the Tigers.
Missouri scored six runs in a big fourth inning. All the other runs came in bunches of two in the 1st, 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th innings. KU scored three runs in the second inning and one in the sixth and eighth innings.
Charley James of MU and Jim Trombold of KU each homered in the first game and Bob Toft hit for the circuit in the nightcap.
Don Miller set Kansas down on three hits in the final game, with two of the hits coming from Wiley, his pitching opponent.
The golf team ran it's victory string to seven as it defeated Missouri Friday and Wichita on Saturday.
Golfers Score 7th Straight Victory
In Friday's match at Columbia, Mo., Kansas golfers dumped the Tigers, 11-4. Jim Davies of KU won No. 1 match as he shot 77 to gain a $2\frac{1}{2}$ victory over Tom Faeber who had an 80. Gene Elstun, playing No. 2 Friday, took medal honors with a 72 as he scored a 3-0 victory over Bill Hawks who came in with a 77.
Bill Toalson had a 73 to down Ira Smith, who shot a 76, 2-1. Bob Martiz picked up two points for Missouri as he shot a 75 to defeat Bob Woods who came in with a 79. Bill Sayler shot a 77 to give him a victory over Bud Chokoin who had an 80.
Saturday the Jayhawkers showed superior strength as they downed Wichita University by a 17-1 margin at Lawrence Country Club.
Mather To Speak At Colby
Football Coach Chuck Mather will speak at a joint Lions club-KU Alumni lancheon Tuesday in the Cooper Hotel in Colby.
Gene Elstun, playing in the No. 1 spot for Kansas shot a 75 to gain a 3-0 victory over Gary Mann who had an 82.
Jim Davies easily bested Wichita's Butch Van Dusen as he picked up three points for KU with a 76. Van Dusen finished with an 89. Bill Sayler's 75 gave him an easy 3-0 victory over Dan Bowin who came in with an 89. Bob Wood took medal honors Saturday with a 74 as he scored a $2\frac{1}{2}-\frac{1}{2}$ victory over Ben Witherspoon who had 77.
In the low ball matches, Elstun and Davies teamed up to give the Jayhawkers three more points, as they combined for a 72. They defeated Mann and Van Dusen who finished with a 76.
Sayler and Wood finished with a 70, giving them a $ \frac{1}{2} - \frac{1}{2} $ victory over Bowin and Witherspoon who had 74.
Coach Mike Chalfant's men will try to make it eight in a row this afternoon as they entertain Washburn University in a 6-man match at the Lawrence Country Club.
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