Monday, April 22, 1957 University Daily Kansas Page B
Fourteen Records Broken At KU Relays Saturday
Only 24 hours after a quick rising April shower had drenched the track and seemingly wiped out all record possibilities,14 new track and field marks were written into the KU Relays record book Saturday afternoon.
Included in the new marks was a world record 440-yard relay run by the same Texas team that lowered the 880-yard record at the Texas Relays earlier this season.
Texas, which set a world record in winning here last year, blazed :39.9 out of the chute and around one turn to beat its own world record of :40.1.
Competing in a special event, Nieder won his first duel from O'Brien as the former Southern California strongman could do no better than 59 feet 6 inches.
In one of the biggest upsets of the day, Bill Nieder, former KU shot扑utter beat world record holder Parry O'Brien with a personal high of 62 feet 2 inches.
In another big surprise, Cliff Cushman, freshman at KU, and competing unattached, upset two-time Relays 400-meter hurdle champion, Gene O'Conner of Kansas State in a meet record: 51.9.
First Time For Cushman
First Time For Cushman
This was Cushman's first competitive effort in the difficult race although he is the Big Seven freshman record holder in the half mile with a 1.54.6 clocking.
Al Oterer gunned down one of the oldest records on the books with a 178 feet 1 inch tosst, six feet under his previous best, but still seven feet over the record set by Indiana's Archie Harris in 1941.
KU tore down the Relays and intercollegiate record for the 4-mile relay when a team of Hal Long, Tom Skutka, Jan Howell, and Jerry McNeal raced 16:57.8.
After Long led off with a 4:12.9 effort to open up a 100-yard lead, the leather lunged Jayhawkers
ran by themselves with only the time clock for competition.
Kansas wiped out the 2-mile relays record with a fine 7:32.3 effort that cut almost nine seconds off the old mark set by Oklahoma A & M. Lowell Janen anchored for the Jayhawkers with a sparkling 1:50.7 half mile.
Bill Tidwell, Emporia State's
great middle distance runner, was voted the meet's outstanding performer award, as he ran the day's best half mile and quarter mile.
Anchors Two Winners
Anchors Two Winners He anchored winning Hornet relay teams in the mile and two mile races. He tacked a :46.5 quarter mile on the end of the mile relay
team and spun a fine :49.5 half mile to bring the Hornets home in the two-mile relay.
Whilden Second
He barely edged Texas sprinter, Bobby Whilden, winner of the award last year, who anchored two winning Longhorn relay teams, including the world record 440-yard team. He finished second to Hazley in the
100-vard dash.
THIS IS A FOOTBALL—Coach Chuck Mather entertains four California high school football stars who were here for the KU. Relays.
—(Dally Kansan photo)
They are Ron Kiczenski, San Francisco; Joe Doolittle, Canoga Park; Mather; Bob Campbell, Canoga Park and Mickey Flynn, Anaheim.
Orlando Hazley, sophomore sprinter from Oklahoma A & M took on all comers in the 100-yard dash and won two races with identical times of :09.5.
He won the regular Relays event, beating the Texas aces. Whilden and Hollis Gainey. Then he came back an hour later to decisively defeat KU's Charlie Tidwell and Ernie Shelly, both competing unattached, in a special race.
Another two-time defending champion, KU's Kent Floerke who was seeking his third hop-step-and-jump crown, although only a junior, was a victim of a new Relays record by Jack Smythe of Houston.
Smythe bounded 49 feet 99% inches, almost nine inches better than the former record of 49 feet ½ inch set by Floerke two years ago. A mild upset occurred in the distance medley relay, when Kansas winner in four of the last six years, was beaten by Texas which set a record of 10:04.3.
KU Also Under Record
KU Also Under Record The Jayhawkers were also under the old record of 10:09.7 set by Michigan in 1950 but trailed the Longhorns by about 15 yards.
Another upset saw Olympic performer, Eddie Southern of Texas, beaten in a low hurdles race by Missouri's Charlie Batch. Southern won at the Texas Relays in 14.1 but fell victim to the fast closing Batch, who ran the fastest 120-yard high hurdles race ever by a Big Seven athlete, with a fine 14.1 effort.
The Jayhawkers won three relay events to tie with the Longhorns for the most baton titles. The Longhorns reined supreme in the 440, 880-yard and distance medley relaies while Kansas took the mile, 2-mile and 4-mile titles.
A mass onslaught on the record books is expected again next year as 8 of the 11 individual winners are underclassmen, including three freshmen.
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