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Tennis Team Opens Play April 12
"Oklahoma is the team to beat." tennis Coach Charlie Crawford said when asked to comment on the coming conference tennis season.
The Jayhawker tennis squad will open its battle for the league crown at Norman, Okla. April 12.
The Sooners can be classed as the favorites mainly because they return every man from last year's runner-up squad and they also can claim the Big Seven champion in senior Berry Waltraen.
wairaven dethroned Kansas' Bob Riley last year for the conference title. Their meeting at Norman looms as a big battle for both of the boys.
Of Walraven, Coach Crawford said, "He has enough competitive spirit for five people."
Coach Crawford plans to use the ladder system to decide team ranking. Under this system, the team members are ranked. Then the players challenge then men rated above them and if they win, move up the ranks until they are beaten.
The Jayhawkers boast four returning lettermen around whom they hope to build a championship squad. Bob Riley, Kansas City, Kan. senior, former Big Seven champion, is without a doubt the No. 1 man," Coach Crawford said.
4 Lettermen Return
The players will begin their climb up the ladder according to how they finished last year. Coach Crawford said one or two of the boys who were not ranked last year may start a little higher than some of the others because of their performance in intramurals and past workouts.
The top choice for the No. 2 slot is Gene Kane, Kansas City, Kan. junior who last year held down the No. 3 position. Two other lettermen, Del Hadley, Topeka senior and Bruce Wenger, Salina senior, will add depth to the squad.
—(Daily Kansan photo)
Some of the other top prospects are Roger Alberty, Olathe senior; Bob Patterson, Topeka junior; Phil Rein, Hillsboror senior and Ron Bevers, Wichita sophomore.
The Colorado Buffaloes finished
HA—PASSED YOU THAT TIME — Ron Bevers, Wichita sophomore, who is bidding for the No. 5 spot on the team, hits a practice shot. The Jayhawkers are after their first league crown since 1948.
Thursday, March 14, 1957 University Daily Kansan
first in the conference last year in year's champs they can't be consider a race that was one of the tightest ered in the favored role because in years. Although they were last they were hit heavily by graduation.
United Press Picks Mustangs Over KU In Regional Friday
NEW YORK — (UF) — From Dallas to Corvallis the round ball bouncers are in a tournament tizzy this weekend with frenzied action in both the NCAA and N.I.T.—and in this corner the results shape up this way:
Game Of The Week
SMU over Kansas—You've got to have rocks in your head to pick against the fabled Wilt (The Stilt) Chamberlain. But the Mustangs are playing in their own back yard in this Friday night special of the NCAA Regionals and Jim Krebs could spell the difference.
The remainder of the NCAA schedule shapes up this way:
Friday night
North Carolina over Canisius-
Tarheeled and feathered.
Syracuse over Lafayette—Cohen, Cohen, gone.
Kentucky over Pittsburgh—Rupp and ready.
Notre Dame over Michigan State —Redeeming those battered football fortunes.
St. Louis over Oklahoma City—Too little, too late.
San Frantisco over Idaho State— Without Russell.
California over Brigham Young— On Newell's coaching.
Saturday night
North Carolina over Syracuse—This is the game of the night as the Yankee Tarheels, with a starting five from the New York metropolitan area, shoot for their 30th straight victory in an undefeated season. Every game gets tougher as they try to protect that winning streak but they have the guns to peel the Orange.
Notre Dame over Kentucky--
This is a tough one with the
winner earning the unsviable right to
meet North Carolina in the
March 22 semi-finals at Kansas
City. Consolation: It's a nice trip.
Southern Methodist over St. Louis—The Billikins are steady but if SMU gets past Kansas the impetus should carry them on to Kansas City.
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