With the Big Seven indoor track meet coming Friday and Saturday in Kansas City, Mo., Jayhawker cinder coach, Bill Easton, is maintaining the same confident spirit he has had for the five years in a row his team has won the indoor championship.
By DICK BROWN
(Daily Kansan Sports Editor)
"Missouri, of course, will be our main challenger but Nebraska should finish a strong third and with same breaks could take the meet," Mr. Easton said.
Missouri beat the Jayhawkers $59_{1/2}-44_{1/2}$ in a dual meet Friday at Columbia but did not show awesome power in doing it. It was simply a poor showing by the Jayhawkers.
The Tigers showed real strength only in the hurdles, 440-yard pole vault and 60-yard dash. The other times posted by the Tigers would not be good enough to insure a high finish in these events in the Big Seven indoor.
For example, Missouri won the high jump at 6-1/2, which will not be good enough to gain a place at Kansas City. The Tigers also finished first and third in the mile run, normally a Jayhawker strong point.
The Jayhawkers' Bernie Gay actually won the event but was disqualified for bumping a Tiger runner while passing. Missouri took all three places in the 60-yard dash, with former Newton star, Henry Wiebe, winning in :06.3.
Kansas came out of the meet with a clear indication of its strength for the coming Big Seven meet. The Jayhawkers have likely champions in Bernie Gay or Jan Howell in the mile run; Jerry McNeal in the 2-mile run; Lowell Janzen in the 880-yard run; Al Oerter in the put shot; Kent Floerke in the broad jump; Dave Tams in the pole vault, and the KU mile relay team.
Depth Could Be Key
In addition, the Jayhawkers have good depth in most departments which could give them placings in every event. Last year Kansas was blanked in only one event, the quartermile, in amassing a winning 51 points. Oklahoma was a close second with $45\frac{1}{2}$ points.
"The difference between the first and second place team this year will probably be about three points." Mr. Easton said.
Last year the Jayhawkers had probably the strongest track squad in league history, which ranked second in the nation outdoors, and won the indoor championship by only 51/2 points.
"Our strength will be concentrated in the longer distances, shotput, pole vault, broad jump and mile relay." Mr. Easton said. "We will definitely double Jerry McNeal in the mile and 2-mile runs for added power."
"Blaine Hollinger, who has broad-jumped over 24 feet, will compete for us in this event. He will then catch a plane to rejoin the basketball team at Boulder, Colo.
"This could give us an unexpected lift although Blaine has not had a chance to work out this season."
Hopes NU Will Split MU
Hopes N. Witt Spat
Eastern Michigan Missouri
hurdling strength will be split by
Nebraska's Jamaican import, Keith
Gardner.
However, he will be striving for an unprecedented triple—60-yard dash, 60-year lows and 60-yard highs—in the meet—and must run in 9 preliminaries.
Just how high Nebraska finishes in the meet will be up to Gardner. If he can win all three events and the Huskers get peak performances from the rest of the squad, Nebraska could repeat its stunning 1951 indoor championship.
Easton's track squads have a reputation for winning the "big ones." Last year they were beaten by Missouri in a dual meet prior to the indoor championships and came back to take the title.
Easton summed up his team's chances pretty well with the remark, "After all, we're the champions you know."
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Thirty-six points is the "target for tonight" for Mississippi's Joe Gibbon in his last attempt to beat out Grady Wallace for the national basketball scoring championship.
Scoring Title Is Unclaimed
Gibbon, the baseball whiz, who has been pitching strikes on the court all winter, plays his last regular season game tonight against Mississippi State. He goes into it with a 30.3 points per game average, needing those 36 markers to overhaul Wallace's 30.4 mark.
Wallace, the South Carolina jumpshot artist, is idle until Saturday night when he plays his last regular season game against Clemson. But Wednesday night his lead withstood challenges by hot-shooting Elgin Baylor of Seattle and little Chet (the jet) Forte of Columbia.
Baylor wound up his regular season by scoring 28 points in Seattle's 95-81 triumph over Portland. Only one night before he scored 51 points against the same team, and 40 points last night would have boosted him into the lead. But instead he remained in third place with 30.0.
Fourth-place Wilt (the Stilt) Chamberlain of Kansas, who has three more games to go, was idle last night but Forte racked up 33 points for Columbia in an 80-62 win over Cornell.
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