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University Dally Kansan Thursday, May 4, 196
University Daily Kansan SPORTS Davis to Battle Baker Saturday
By Steve Clark
The 440 yard dash is expected to be one of the top events of the Missouri-Kansas dual meet Saturday at Memorial Stadium. Pitted against each other will be two outstanding quarter men, KU track captain Gordon Davis and Tiger Jim Baker.
Baker holds Missouri's indoor record for the 440 at :49.2. Outdoors his fastest time is :45.8 in a relay.
Davis, who sees mostly relay duty,
has hit 47.1 also in a relay carry this
Gordon Davis
year. Expected to tumble is Missouri's Pete Orr's four-year-old record of :47.9.
This will be the last home performance as a Jayhawker for Davis, a 6-1½, 165 pound, Wichita senior.
DAVIS HAS HAD a successful career at Kansas. He led off championship two-mile relay teams at the Kansas and Drake Relays as a sophomore. Last year he started winning relay combines in the two-mile relay at Kansas and Drake, a record-breaking mile relay at the Abilene Christian Invitational, and the 440 yard relay at the Central Collegiate Championships.
At the Big Eight Indoor this year Davis clocked 1:12.7 for second place in the 600 yard run.
Davis has carried the second leg on Kansas' two mile relay aggregation. Last week the foursome compiled the fastest time in the nation this year with a 7.28.6. The time was also the fastest ever by a Big Eight contingent.
In addition to the two-mile relay Davis anchors the 880 and mile relay quartets.
"WE REALLY WANTED to win at Drake," said Davis of the relay win. "We had barely been beaten in the Texas and Kansas Relays and we had to try hard to keep from being disappointed. I think maintaining our team spirit helped us to win. Our team (Kirk Hagan, Bill Thornton, Bid Stone, and Davis) roomed together, ate together, and went places together. This helped a lot."
Davis got out of bed with a 102 degree temperature to run in the Drake meet. Despite being weak from the flu he displayed his competitive spirit by turning in a respectable 1:54.6 half mile. He also ran on the 880 and mile relay teams.
His best half mile time for the year is 1:52.5, in the two-mile relay at Texas.
"I wanted to be on a championship team," answered the KU captain when asked why he came to Kansas. "I knew I wouldn't ever be a big star here but I mainly wanted to be on a championship team."
DURING HIGH SCHOOL at Wichita East Davis played football and basketball in addition to track. He quarterbacked in football and played center on the basketball team. Oklahoma, Dartmouth, Kansas State, and Arkansas were among the schools that offered him a football scholarship.
In track he started a winning tradition. East won the state track title his junior and senior years. His fastest prep times were 50.1 in the 440 and 1:55.9 in the 880 on a relay carry.
"Ive had two big track thrills," Davis said. "My first was last year in a triangular meet with San Jose State and Stanford. We had to win the mile relay, the last event, to win the meet. Cliff Cushman, Bob Tague, Charlie Tidwell, and myself were on the mile team. We won, and while I didn't have a particularly outstanding quarter it felt extra good to win the event and the meet.
"My second thrill was last week at Drake.
"MY GREATEST TRACK honor was being elected captain of the track squad. A second honor was being on the same team and competing with such great stars at Ernie Shelby, Cushman and Tidwell. The latter two taught me a lot of what I know about running.
"I believe I will run my best at the Big Eight meet," said Davis looking ahead to the conference meet at Boulder, Colorado on May 19-20. "The 440 yard dash will be tough. Jim Heath of Colorado and Jim Baker of Missouri are great runners. Either could place in the national meet.
"We will win the meet," said Davis confidently. "I believe our team has instilled a team spirit into an individual sport. I believe if we keep this up we will win. This is what carried us through at Kansas City in the indoor meet."
DAVIS' FUTURE PLANS include more school, marriage, and work. He has one more year to complete his architectural course. Upon completing this he hopes to work with an architectural firm and possibly later on going into business for himself.
He has participated in other outside activities besides track. He has served on the Athletic Board of the ASC, pledge class president and intramural chairman in his fraternity, Alpha Tau Omega. He is a member of the American Institute of Architecture, and Scarab honorary architectural fraternity. He is a good student, with B- average.
He has been active with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. He has preached sermons and participated in conferences for this organization.
His two immediate goals are to place in the NCAA meet and to make one of the track teams touring this summer.
Spahn's 2 Hitter Defeats Dodgers For 291st Win
By United Press International
Warren (No-Hit) Spahn, the 40-year-old miracle whip of Milwaukee, finally has convinced everyone—including the once skeptical but no longer Los Angeles Dodgers.
IT USED TO BUG Spahn that he never could seem to beat the Dodgers. It annoyed him that the fact was regularly bandied about in National League dugouts and it bothered him even more that the Braves would accommodatingly skip his turn each time they met Walt Alston's gang.
Perhaps as a reward for his nohitter against the Giants last Friday, Spahn was allowed to start against the Dodgers in Milwaukee last night for the first time since June 3, 1959.
THE HAWK-NOSED southpaw wasn't able to turn in another no-hitter, but he came close with a sparkling two-hit 4-1 victory that was the 291st of his Major League career and left him only nine wins shy of Lefty Grove's 300-game total.
Spahn struck out nine and walked only two in bringing his season record to 3-1.
Spahn, who has allowed a total of only four runs in his four starts so far this season, did his part with the bat, too, last night, collecting a double and two singles in his first victory over the Dodgers since July 30, 1958. He now owns a 2-9 record against the Dodgers since the Braves came to Milwaukee in 1953 and a lifetime mark of 15-30 against them.
SAN FRANCISCO REGAINED the National League lead with an 8-4 victory over Chicago while St. Louis dropped Pittsburgh into second place with a 3-1 decision. Cincinnati stretched its winning streak to four games by beating Philadelphia. 9-3
The New York Yankees climbed into a tie for first place in the American League by defeating Minnesota, 7-3, and Washington downed Detroit, 5-4. Cleveland won its third straight by clipping Chicago, 4-3, Kansas City bounced Boston, 9-8, in 10 innings and the Los Angeles Angels came from behind to beat Baltimore, 7-6.
Wichita Beats O-State
WICHITA — (UPI) — Oklahoma State tasted its first defeat in 45 dual tennis matches here yesterday when Wichita won a marathon battle, 5-2. Oklahoma State, the Big Eight Conference tennis champion, managed only two singles victories in the $8\frac{1}{2}$-hour match, which was concluded indoors because of darkness.
NOW!
thru Sat.
8 ACADEMY AWARDS!
English Vets Win, 14-0
Including Best Picture — Best Actor
(Editor's Note: This is the season of the so-called baseball games in which students pit their athletic prowess against older, wisfer faculty members. The story below was taken from a massive thrust file filed with Fitch Research by our Fraser Hall correspondent. The UDK does not vouch for the authenticity of the account.)
"THE APARTMENT"
Show At 7:10
"ELMER GANTRY"
Show At 9:15
Gerhard Zuther and Stuart Levine shared the pitching duties and fashioned a two-man no-hitter as the English Department Senior Staff shut out the English Department Graduate Assistants, 14-0, in the department's annual baseball game at Anderson Field Saturday. Although hampered by the absence of two of its athletic scholarship holders, the senior staff had an easy time.
Highlights of the game: C.I.J.M.
Stuart, who had never before seen a
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Walter Johnson, who had a 25-20 record in 1916, was the last major league pitcher to win and lose 20 games in the same season.
Double Record
Charles W. Bassett, a graduate assistant who did the umpiring, was awarded a Ph.D. at the conclusion of the game.
baseball game, led the onslaught with two doubles and a stolen base. W. P. Albrecht's base-running kept the crowd on its feet. Kenneth Rothwell made an unassisted double play, Dennis Quinn set a series record with five straight putouts at second base.