MU Choice Tonight In League Indoor
Friday, March 1, 1937 University Daily Kissan Page B
The 29th annual Big Seven indoor track and field meet opens tonight at the Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Mo.
In a change from the usual scene, Missouri University will be slightly favored to win the team championship. The Tigers earned this hot spot by slamming Kansas, $ 59\frac{1}{2} -44\frac{1}{2} $ in a meet on the Tiger's track.
However, the Tigers face strong challenges from the Jayhawkers, who appear to have more all around depth, and Nebraska, which will see its hopes riding on the fleet feet of Keith Gardner.
Preliminaries in the 60-yard dash and high and low hurdles, 440- and 880-yard runs, and shot put are scheduled for tonight. The broad jump will be completed tonight.
MU Hopes On Hurdles
Missouri will pin its hopes on a strong hurdling stable headed by Charles Batch and John McIntyre. Batch has a :07.3 in the high hurdles, best ever by a conference hurdler. However, he has been bothered with a sore leg and may not be ready for the meet.
Kansas is hoping the Huskers and Tigers will split enough points in the hurdles and dashes to make the Jayhawker distance strength the deciding factor in the meet.
McIntyre has been clocked in :07.4, same time as Gardner's best. Gardner has a :66.9 in the lows and will enter the 60-yard dash in a rare attempt at a triple.
The Jayhawkers will send up a powerful distance corps and will be favored to win the half-mile, mile and 2-mile runs.
Depth Is Important
three events if it wants to retain the championship.
The Jayhawkers could run 1-2 in all three events, especially if Jerry McNeal, Big Seven indoor 2-mile champion last year, can successfully double in the mile-two mile combination.
Minor powers, Oklahoma, K-State, Colorado and Iowa State, could decide the eventual champion. All have enough individual power to cut into the point totals of the three favorites.
Kansas State will send up Gene O'Conner, league outdoor champion in the high and low hurdles last year, in an attempt to prevent a Missouri-Nebraska hurdles sweep.
O'Connor lost a close race to Batch in both flights in a dual meet this year but must not be counted out of the running. K-State also has good strength in the 440-yard dash with sophomores Deloss Dodds and Dave Burton ranking behind Missouri's Pete Orr as early favorites.
Oklahoma, normally the biggest threat to Kansas in the meet, is not up to its usual standards but has a 880-yard threat in 6-5 Gary Parr, who beat Lowell Janzen and Hal Long earlier this year in a 1:56.3 effort.
Sooners Not Up To Par
Javhawker Coach Bill Easton, in his 10th year as head track coach at KU will be seeking his sixth indoor crown in a row and seventh in the last eight years.
Jayhawkers To Boulder As Title Race Tightens
Two Big Seven basketball teams head for foreign courts Saturday and both will be playing games they have to win.
Kansas meets Colorado's dangerous Buffaloes in Boulder and Kansas State will play Iowa State in a game the Wildcats must win if they are to remain in contention for the conference title.
The Jayhawkers will try to end a four-game losing streak at Boulder where Kansas has defeated Colorado only twice in the last seven years. In 1951 the Jayhawkers came from 13 points behind to win 58-65 and the next year Kansas defeated the Buffs as Clyde Lovellette scored 41 points.
Slim Pickings In Boulder
There have been slim pickings for Kansas teams in Boulder. In 1953 the Buffs edged the NCAA runners-up, 73-68 and repeated in 1954. A switch to Manhattan brightens the picture. There the Jayhawkers have won four straight.
The road Kansas must travel between now and season's end is truly a dangerous one. A Jayhawker loss to Colorado plus a K-State victory at Ames Saturday night would jump the latter into the Big Seven lead with a 9-2 record while KU will drop to second with 8-2. If K-State can defeat both the Cyclones and the Jayhawkers they would be assured of a tie for the title. One loss along the way for Tex Winter's squad and they will be virtually eliminated.
Dick Harp is worried and he has a right to be. But he and his team are taking the games one at a time, he said.
Harp does not think Iowa State can defeat K-State Saturday night. "I think our game in Manhattan will decide it" he said.
Kansas has not met Colorado for two months. The Jayhawkers scored an 80-54 victory in the Big Seven tournament finals, Dec. 30 in Kansas City. After being behind by one-point at halftime, Kansas surged ahead as Wilt Chamberlain scored 45 points.
Met Buffs In Tournament
At Boulder Harp will again start Chamberlain at center with Gene Elstun and Ron Loneski at forwards. John Parker and Maurice King will start at guard. The team will leave Lawrence tonight by train.
Tankers Meet NU For Finale
The Jayhawker swimming team will try to raise its season record above the .500 mark in its last dual match, against the Nebraska Cornhuskers in Lincoln Saturday.
Nebraska finished third in the Big Seven conference meet last year behind the winning Oklahoma Sooners and Iowa State. The Jayhawkers split two dual matches with Nebraska last season.
KU, fresh from a 57-29 victory over Emporia State Tuesday, may find things somewhat rougher against the Cornhuskers.
Chuck Edwards, student and swimming coach, said he expects the Cornhuskers to be very strong. There is a possibility that he might juggle the Kansas line-up to overcome the depth problem which has plagued the squad during this season.
Edwards, swimming the 60 and 100-yard freestyle, Dusty Milleidge, 220 and 440-yard freestyle swimmer, and Tom Clevenger, in the 200-yard butterfly and 200-yard breast-stroke races, have been the top Jayhawk performers this year. They captured six of the 10 first places in Tuesday's meet with Emporia State.
After the Nebraska meet, KU will have four days in which to prepare for the conference meet at Norman, Okla. March 8-9.
The KU golf team, after a second place finish to Oklahoma in last year's Big Seven tournament, has already started practice and "should be even stronger this year," Coach Mike Chalfant said Thursday.
Kansas Golfers Should Be Even Stronger
The graduation of Bobby Richards, who won the Big Seven individual last year, is a big loss to the team, but the three returning lettermen in Bill Sayler, Jim Davies, and Gene Elstun, and a promising group of sophomores, Chalfant has a lot to work with. Last year Elstun, after practicing for only three days, finished third in the individual.
Invited To Houston Event A good indication of the team's strength was shown when it was asked to play in the annual Houston University Invitational. Only the
Practice has already started at the Lawrence Country Club for the team's first match with Houston, at Houston, on April 1. Chalfant is trying to schedule additional matches with SMU and Texas to be played on this trip but confirmation has not yet been received.
Freshmen Best Ever "The freshman team this year is the best ever," Chalfant said. Jerry Krause, winner of the Missouri State high school championship and Fred Rowland, winner of the Kansas City Junior tournament and runner-up
in the Arizona State high school championship, are just two of the rounding group.
Also on hand is Brian Bogess, a transfer from North Texas State and runner-up to Rowland in the Kansas City Junior, and Craig Dollahan, who played in the USGA National Junior championship last year. This star-studded aggregation should be a big help to next year's team.
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