Friday, April 19, 1957 University. Daily. Kansan
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Death, Taxes And KU Sure Things This Year
By BOB HARTLEY
(Of The Daily Kansan Staff)
The wheat crop or semester grades may be doubtful, but one thing is sure. The smart money will be on the KU track team in the spring outdoor track season.
Proof of this came earlier this year in victories over strong opponents in indoor meets when these teams fell before the Jayhawkers:
Out of these indoor duels some individual performances have gained recognition.
Pittsburg State Teachers College Michigan State University, Oklahoma A&M, and Oklahoma University.
These victories were climaxed by a sweeping KU triumph in the Big Seven indoor track meet, March 4-5.
Lowell Janzen turned in a 1:54.6 half-mile Allen Field House record against Oklahoma A&M.
In a dual indoor meet with Michigan State at Lansing, Jerry McNeal, junior distance runner, ran the third fastest two-mile in KU history. 9:06.1.
Al Oerter, Olympic discus champion, established himself in the shot-put event with a 54-4 heave in Allen Field House against Missouri University. Oerter's toss was a Field House record.
Hollinger Wins Broad Jump Blaine Hollinger donned his track suit for the first time this year and jumped 23-6 to win the Big Seven indoor broad jump title.
If it's more proof you want, there's more to come.
Hollinger Wins Broad Jump
The Jayhawkers started off the indoor stason with a 76 $\frac{1}{2}$ - 84 victory over the Oklahoma Sooners on February 4.
Two records tumbled before KU in this match. McNeal ran the two-mile in 9:18, breaking Al Frame's 1956 mark of 9:26.7, and Jan Howell ran the mile in 4:17.9 to break the record of 4:22.3 by Bob Karnes in 1950.
The Jayhawks kept their muscles working as they won all but two events in soundly trouncing the Pittsburg State Gorillas, 118-50 at Pittsburg, February 11.
Janzen became the first double winner of the season with times of 21.37 in the 1,000-yard run, and 15.66 in the half-mile. McNeal made a 9:10.3 showing in the two-mile and Dave Tams vaulted 14-1.
McNeal established a new Field House record in the two-mile with a 9:07.7 reading; Janzen was clocked at 1:54.6 in the half-mile, and the mile relay team clipped two-tenths of a second off the old mark, winning in 3.24.3.
In defeating the Aggies, three new Field House records fell. KU swept all places in the mile, pole vault, two-mile and the half-mile, and won first in seven of the 12 events.
Three days later, February 14, the Jayhawkers faced and defeated their strongest competition to that date as they took an 88-53 decision from Michigan State.
Kent Floerke became the second double winner of the indoor season by capturing both the high jump and the broad jump. It was in this dual that McNeal ran his fastest two-mile of 9:06.1. The Jayhawkers won 11 of the 15 events.
The Jayhawkers continued to roll with an impressive victory over Oklahoma A&A,M,67-37, at Allen Field House.
The lone defeat of the indoor season came at the hands of the Missouri Tigers, $ 4 4 _ {1} ^ {2}-5 9 _ {1} ^ {2}, $ February 22 at Missouri.
Oerter Sets Shotput Record The only bright spot of the poor showing was Oerter's record toss of 54-4 in the shotput.
Oerter Sets Shotput Record
To everybody's surprise, except Coach Bill Easton and the KU team. Kansas captured its sixth straight Big Seven indoor track meet crown, March 4 and 5.
A summary of the meet:
Hollinger won the broad jump with a leap of 23-6.
McNeal's Distance Brilliance Big Factor In KU's Power
JERRY McNEAL —(Daily Kansan photo)
Kent Kloerke tallied eight points with second place in the broad jump and high jump.
For the second straight year McNeal was the two-mile champion with a time of 9:29.1.
Oerter took the shotput crown with a toss of 53-8/4.
Bernie Gay won the mile in 4:15.1.
Ray Wyatt took first with a :49.8
reading in the 440-yard dash.
It may be smart to jump on the bandwagon and join the Bill Easton-KU track team fan club while it's still taking members.
One of the main factors in KU's complete domination of Big Seven cross country, indoor, and outdoor meets for the past two years is twomiler Jerry McNeal, a junior from Wyzata, Minnesota.
Jerry has been elected captain of next year's cross country team, and is an honor student in the school of business.
He won the conference indoor and outdoor two-mile as a sophomore and has won the indoor two-mile this year.
Jerry's cross country record is equally impressive. He won the Big Seven championship this year at Ames, Iowa in 15 minutes and 10 seconds, and placed eleventh in the NCAA championships at East Lansing, Michigan. Teammate Jan Howell placed eleventh to aid the Jayhawkers in their second place finish.
Jerry is also a miler and a member of KU's four mile relay team, which won the Texas Relays, Kansas Relays, and the Drake Relays last year.
"I'd like to get my time down around 4:15 in the mile, and possibly 9:00 or under in the two mile," Jerry said.
At an indoor dual meet with Michigan State this year McNeal was clocked at 9:06, the best time of his career. His lowest outdoor mark to date is 9:18, set last spring in the Central Collegiate Championships at Milwaukee, where he finished third.
This is an improvement of 12 seconds in less than one year and the 9:06 time was run indoors, where twice as many turns are necessary. At this rate McNeal could be a record breaker before he graduates.
The collegiate record for the twomile event is 8:57.6, owned by Fernando Ledezma of the University of Southern California. He broke Wes Santee's 8:58 record last year.
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