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University Daily Kansan
Friday, April 12, 1957
Track Squad Opens Outdoor Season
The KU track team, at full strength for the first time this year, opens outdoor dual competition today when it goes against the Oklahoma Aggies at Stillwater.
The Jayhawkers ran past the Aggies in an indoor meet Feb. 18 in Allen Field House by a comfortable, 67-37, margin as they grand slammed four events and scored heavily in the others.
However, the Aggies have been strengthened considerably since then by the addition of sprinter Orlando Hazley.
Hazley Favored In Dashes Hazley will be heavily favored to win the 100 and 220-yard dashes. He ran second in the Texas Relays 100-yard dash to Olympic sprint champion, Bobby Morrow, in a 69.3 race.
Hazley will probably add 10 points to the Aggie total with firsts in the sprints as KU has no sprinter to approach him.
But KU will have several new faces in the lineup who could score points. Blaine Hollinger, Big Seven indoor broad jump champion and Wilt Chamberlain, who set a conference freshman high jump record at 6 feet 4% inches last year, will help.
Then too, two events, the discus and javelin, are added outdoors. The Jayhawkers' Al Oerter, who won the shotput against the Aggies in the indoor meet, will be throwing the discus. He's the nation's best college discus toser and last year won the Olympics with a record 184 feet $10 \frac{1}{2}$ inch heave.
Won Easily At Texas He threw 180 feet $ \frac{9}{2} $ inches to easily take the event at the Texas Relays.
In the javelin the Jayhawkers have two veterans, John Parker and Jim Londerholm from last year, both of whom threw over 210 feet. Londerholm has been bothered by a sore arm but is expected to be ready for the event. Also on the List is a sophomore, Terry Boucher, 1956 Big Seven freshman javelin champion at 189 feet $5 \frac{3}{4}$ inches.
The Aggies should take the 440- yard relay, the high and low hurdles with Eddie Roberts and have a chance in the javelin, broad jump and high jump.
But Kansas looks like money in the bank in the 880-yard run, the mile, 2-mile, discus, shotputs, pole wault and mile relay.
Broad Jump Duel Expected The broad jump could be the most spirited event on the program. Kent Forkerke, who finished second in the event at the Texas Relays, will duel Kim Ellis, Aggie broad jumper, whom he defeated in the indoor meet.
With Jerry McNeal, Lowell Jangen, Hal Long, Tom Skutka, Jan Howell, Bernie Gay and Verlyn Schmidt available, it is doubtful if the Aggies can break into the distance scoring.
A Rebuilt Vejar Meets Tiger Jones
SYRACUSE, N. Y. — (UP) — A rebuilt Chico Vejar—boxer, businessman and movie actor—promises some fast action tonight in a 10-ground middleweight bout with favored Ralph (Tiger) Jones.
Jones, the fifth-ranked contender from Yonkers, N. Y., was a 2 to 1 favorite to spoil Vejar's winning streak of six bouts.
Al Oerter, at 6-3 and 230 is the biggest man on the KU varsity track team.
But 25-year-old Vejar of Stamford, Conn., believes he is "bigger and stronger" as a middleweight, although he fought as a welterweight most of his eight-year professional career. Each fighter expected to weigh about 158 pounds although Vejar weighed nearly six pounds less for his last fight.
Bill Nieder, KU's graduated shot-putter, holds the 28 best all time conference throws.
Net Team Meets Favored Sooners
Kansas University's inexperience tennis team moves into Norman, Oklahoma this afternoon to open its season with the favored Sooners. The Jayhawkers go into today's match with only two players that have been exposed to college competition.
Bob Riley and Del Hadley will carry most of the load for Charles Crawford's inexperienced squad. Riley has been No. 1 for the past two years and Hadley was No. 4 last season. Hadley was recently moved up to the No. 2 spot when Gene Kane became ineligible because of scholastic difficulties.
Top Players In Duel
The feature of today's match will be the battle between KU's Bob Riley and Berry Walraven of Oklahoma who is the defending Big Seven Champion. Riley won the championship when he was a sophomore and was dethroned in the Big Seven finals last year by Walraven.
Kansas is facing a highly experienced Sooner team. The players are all returning lettermen. The Sooners have also been playing matches for the past two weeks which gives them a slight edge.
Bob Peterson, Ron Bevers and Lynn Seiberling, No. 3, No. 4 and No. 5 respectively have never played college tennis before. Crawford, however, feels that even though they are inexperienced they will be able to hold their own at Norman.
A's Rally Defeats Bums
Call them what you like—the Kansas City Athletics or the New York Yankees' American League farm club—but Lou Boudreau's team gave the fans something to talk about in their 1957 home debut.
The Jayhawkers dominated the first KU Relays held in 1923 as they won two relay events. John Pannucci will captain the Syracuse University baseball team this spring.
The first major league team to reach home, the ex-Yankee sprinkled Athletics rallied with four runs in the ninth inning Thursday to shade the Brooklyn Dodgers, 5-4.
A crowd of 8,531 sat in 35-degree weather as the Dodgers piled up a 4-1 lead only to have the Athletics pull it out of the fire with the aid of an error and five singles in the ninth.
Irv Noren singled in the bottom of the ninth to cap a five-hit, four-run rally by Kansas City.
Al Oerter will be seeking his second triple in the discus this year after winning at the Texas, KU and Drake Relays last year.
The A's rally came to reliefer Don Bessent after the K.C. first baseman, Vic Power, was hit, between the eyes with a thrown ball. Power was in "fair" condition and would be in hospital for several days.
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