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University Daily Kansan Friday. March 24.1961
University Daily Kansan SPORTS KU Outdoor Track Opens at O-State
The KU Jayhawks, Big Eight indoor and defending Big Eight and NCAA outdoor champions, open their 1961 outdoor track season tomorrow in the Oklahoma State Previews at Stillwater, Oklahoma.
Last year in the Previews, Kansas captured seven first places; one first place tie, and set three new records. Although total team points were not figured, the Jayhawks outscored their opponents by a large margin.
EXPECTED TO HIGHLIGHT the meet is a rematch between the Kansas and Drake two mile relay teams. Last week at the Kansas State Indoor, Drake finished ahead of the KU quartet to set a new meet record of 7:37.4.
Tentatively running for the Jaya-
hawks will be Bob Lindrud, Kirk
Hagan, Bill Dotson and Bill Thornton.
Dotson is a doubtful starter as
he has been bothered by a bad cold
the past week.
The KU javelin and discus corps will be competing for the first time this year since neither of these events are held in indoor competition.
IN THE JAVELIN Kansas will have Pete Talbott and Stan Ingram. Last year, as a freshman, Talbott won the conference postal meet with a heave of 212 feet. Ingram, throwing for Hutchinson Junior College, ranked fourth nationally in junior college distances with a cast of 204-4
Jerry Foos will be entered in the discus. Foos, a junior, has thrown beyond 160 feet six times in the past two years. His best distance is a 165-8½. He finished third in the Previews last year.
CURTIS McCLINTON and Kansas State's Rex Stucker, the only double winner at the Big Eight Indoor, will be pitted against each other once again, this time in the 120 yard high hurdles.
McClinton edged the K-State star to win in :14.3 last year in the Previews, a new record.
The pole vault could possibly steal
the show. Three vaulters who have cleared 15 feet are entered. They are: George Davies, Oklahoma State, the Big Eight Indoor champion; J. D. Martin, Oklahoma, who was detrohed by Davies; Jim Graham, ex-OSU star who holds the meet record.
Davies has been nursing a groin injury the past two weeks and might not compete. A dark horse entry is KU's Jack Stevens, who cleared 14-6 at the Milwaukee Journal games two weeks ago.
TEAMS ENTERED in the University division besides KU are Drake, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas State, Nebraska, Wichita, Southern Illinois, and host Oklahoma State.
Outstanding performers who will be competing unattached are: the Styron twins, Don and Dave, in the hurdles and 100 yard dash; Jim Depree of the Southern Illinois Track Club and Lee Merriam of the Kansas City Track Club who finished fourth and fifth respectively in the 400 meters at the Olympic trials; Archie San Romani, an outstanding two-miler from Oregon University.
KU Tennis Squad Plays At Washburn Tomorrow
KU's tennis team plays its first match of the season against Washburn University at Topeka tomorrow.
Coach Denzel Gibbens said, "If the team plays up to par, we can probably continue our winning streak." A win would give KU 10 straight dual meet victories. KU beat Washburn 7-0 twice last year.
Starting men in the five singles for KU will be Mel Karrle, St. Joseph, Mo., junior; Pete Woodward, Topeka sophomore; Jerry Williams, Olathe senior; Jan Cobble, Winfield sophomore; Ken Peterson, Topeka sophomore; and Del Campbell, Lawrence sophomore, in that order. In the doubles matches, Woodward and Karrle, and Williams and Cobble will team up.
The match will be at 1 p.m. on the Washburn indoor courts, or at 2 p.m. if the weather is good, on the outdoor courts.
Coach Gibbens said the team was hard hit by the weather this week, but "we are beginning to regain the lost ground."
KU begins its annual trip south next week to play last year's Big Eight tennis champ, Oklahoma State. Oklahoma State's winning streak of almost 50 matches will try to be snapped by KU.
According to Coach Gibbens, KU has a good chance of doing it.
During the Easter vacation, KU will play Wichita, Colorado, and K-State.
The most points ever scored by one team in KU's Allen Field House was 102 by Kansas against Nebraska in 1958. Kansas State tied this mark in 1959 against De Paul.
KU Olympian to Box Six Rounder April 7
Mel Karrle
RENO, Nev. — (UPI) — Former Kansas and Olympic shot put star Bill Nieder has consented to fight a six-round main event next month in his professional boxing debut.
The State Athletic Commission ruled Wednesday that Nieder could not fight a 10-round main event in his first professional fight with British Columbia boxer-wrestler Rayork Becarra April 7.
The Plaza Athletic Club named Carl Looney, former University of Nevada and NCAA champion as Nieder's tentative opponent for the six-rounder.
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