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What - Missouri Is Favored In Big Seven Indoor Track
Big Seven track teams gather in Kansas City's Municipal Auditorium Friday and Saturday for the 29th annual indoor track and field meet.
For the spectator there will be stars a-plenty to watch and for the athlete there will be competition a-plenty.
Missouri's well balanced Tigers, who handed the Kansas Jayhawkers a $59\frac{1}{2}-44\frac{1}{2}$ defeat Friday in Columbia are probably the team to watch for the team title, an honor which has gone to Kansas for the past six years. The Jayhawkers have won the indoor crown seven times out of the last eight years.
Missouri's Charles Batch, who did not run against Kansas Friday due to a pulled leg muscle, turned in a scratching 7.3 seconds in the 60-yard-high hurdles against Kansas State three weeks ago. The indoor mark is 1.4 seconds and is held by five men.
So far, in an indoor season which has seen Kansas go undefeated except for the Missouri meet, two of the indoor records have been bettered.
A 9:06:1 in the 2-mile run by Kansas' Jerry McNeal against Selwyn Jones, Michigan States NCAA 10,000 meter king, is. $ better than the 2-mile mark set by Jayhawker Herb Semper in 1954.
However, when McNeal runs the 2-mile in the indoor this weekend he will be doubling from having run the mile—a maneuver which will be necessary if Kansas is to retain its title.
McNeal Effective In Double
Against Oklahoma this season McNeal did run the mile then ran his specialty in 9:18 setting a meet record. McNeal, the only returning indoor champion, ran the 2-mile in 9:103 against Pittsburg State and hit 9:077 against Oklahoma A & M.
Batch, the man who defeated double 1956 outdoor 60-yard high hurdles champion Gene O'Conner of Kansas State, is probably the man most favored to break a record. The Missouri spied over the high hurdles in :073. 1 below the :074 indoor mark.
Keith Gardner, Nebraska's Jamaican star, and Missouri's John Maletty have both tied the mark. And O'Conner, who ran a very close second to Batch in an early dual, could well have finished in .974. Since all are capable of norex breaking times, all four could possibly win a share of the record.
The Municipal Auditorium's track is 147 yards long. This means there will be 48 curves in the 2-mile run, 16 more than are required in the normal indoor ovals. At Michigan State the track is 220 yards.
Batch, however, has missed the last two Tiger meets due to a pulled hamstring and Gardner will have to run a total of nine races in the two nights.
Batch Is Lame
In the 60-yard dash, Gardner and Colorado's Larry Chase have already tied the .06.2 mark. Although Gardner edged Chase in the Cornhusker-Buff dual at Lincoln, the later equaled the indoor mark against the Buffalo freshmen.
Another record could easily be in danger at the indoor if Kansas strengthens its already speedy mile relay team with the addition
of half-miler Lowell Janzen. The Jayhawker relay squad dipped to 3.21.6 in sweeping past the Spartans in East Lansing, Mich. The indoor mark of 3:20 was set by the Sooner last year.
One of the meet's closest races is expected to be in the 440-yard run where the favorite's spot must be conceded to Missouri's Pete Orr. Orr is the Big Seven 1956 outdoor champion and co-record holder. In a meet against Kansas last May, Orr ran the quarter in 48.2, 4 better than Kansas State's Thane Baker ran that race in the 1953 Indoor.
In the conference meet last year, Orrt bid Baker's :47.1 league record. On a large Iowa track, however, Orrt the quarter in :49.9 and against Kansas in Columbia he turned in a :50.0.
But outdoors and indoors are two different things and Orr, who has trouble with curves, may find it difficult because of the more numerous and sharper curves in the Auditorium's track.
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Orr almost has to do better than that if he is to win, however. Kansas State sophomore, Deloss Dodds, Colorado's Chuck Carlson and Kansas' Ray Wyatt, and Louis and Larry Stroup have all dipped below :51.0 this season. A :50.2 by Oklahoma's Chuck Folsom was good enough to win the quarter last year.
Orr Ties League Record
In the shot put, Kansas' Al Oerter, who set a new Brewer Field House record of 54-4 Friday, is probably a favorite but he does not figure to break Bill Nieder's mark of $59-$19. The pole vault appears safe too. KU's Dave Tams and MU's Bill England tied Friday at 13-10 against an indoor mark of $14-6\frac{1}{2}$ set by Oklahoma's Hendrick Kruger in 1956.
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Carol Heiss Leads In World Skating
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — (UP)— Seventeen-year-old defending champion Carol Heiss of Ozone Park, N. Y., held a narrow lead over Ingrid Wendl of Austria today as the second stage of women's competition for the world figure skating title began at the Broadmoor Ice Palace.
Miss Heiss, a pretty blonde who has been compared by American experts to Sonja Henie, scored 460.4 points yesterday when the first four compulsory figures were skated. Miss Wendl, the 1955 European campion, received 443.8 points in the complex judging.
Hanna Eigel of Austria, the 1956 European champ, ranked third among the 20 competitors with 436.9 points.
The National Basketball Assn. club owners, in their annual February meeting in New York, have reaffirmed the Philadelphia Warriors' draft rights to Wilt Chamberlain once he has been graduated from the University of Kansas.
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Villanova's Track Team 'Finest Ever'
NEW YORK—(UP)—Villanova's track and field team is the finest team I've ever seen," Coach George Eastment said today as he prepared his Manhattan team for its defense of the IC4-A indoor track and field title Saturday.
Villanova last Saturday became the second college team ever to take team honors in the National A. A. U. Championships and is heavily favored to dominate the college met at Madison Square Garden this Saturday.
Writers Win, 23-21 Over Radio-TV
For once they should have been listening instead of broadcasting.
A team composed of students in the radio-TV sequence of journalism challenged students in the news-editorial sequence to a basketball game. The game was played Sunday in Robinson Annex, with the challenged news team, winning 23-21.
The raido-TV team jumped into an early 8-0 lead, but the depth of the smaller news team preved too much in the second half.
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