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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, April 9. 1958
University Daily Kansan SPORTS
Tennis Team Wins Golfers Lose One
The Kansas golf team dropped matches to the University of Houston and Texas Christian University last week on its first competition of the year. The tennis team defeated Washburn last Wednesday.
Houston defeated the Jayhawkers 6-0 on Friday and TCU won over the squad, 4-2 on Saturday. "In both matches the men played good enough golf to win a lot of matches, but we are just behind Texas teams this year," said Jerry Waugh, golf coach.
In defeating the Jayhawkers, the fourth man on the Houston squad was four under par on a difficult course, Waugh said. Houston has been NCAA national golf champion for the last two years.
Today the team plays Wichita University in a dual meet at the Lawrence Country Club.
The Kansas tennis team defeated Washburn University in their first match of the year last Wednesday, six matches to one.
"The team will have two matches this weekend," said Denzell Gibbons, Kansas tennis coach. It meets Oklahoma State University Friday and Wichita University on Saturday. Both matches are at 1:30 p.m. on the home courts.
Monday IM Deadline
The deadline for entering spring intramural sports competition is Monday, April 14 at 4 p.m. Information was sent to intramural managers during the spring vacation and a managers' meeting will be held Tuesday, April 15 at 4 p.m. to discuss playing fields and conditions. Softball competition will begin Wednesday, April 16.
K-State Drill Will Begin Thursday
Walter J. Mikols, Intramural Director, said that he hoped to have a playing schedule set up by the time the manager's meeting was held.
MANHATTAN, Kan. — (UP)— Football coach Bus Mertes will send his Kansas State Wildcats to the football field Thursday instead of today, as previously planned.
Mertes said the shift was made so the workouts would end May 16 when the K-State coaching staff plays host to a Kansas high school coaches clinic.
The final Wildcat drill will be under the lights on the practice field in conjunction with the clinic. The annual Alumni-Varsity game is slated May 10.
Arkansas State Stops Missouri
JONESBORO, Ark. — (UP) — Arkansas State stop Missouri University, 3-1 Tuesday after Don Riggs scored on Bill Caldwell's long line drive to center field to break up a pitcher's door.
Braves, Bums May Lose Stars
The winning run came in the bottom of the 10th inning. Missouri had beaten Arkansas State 13-2 Monday. A. L. Gatewood of Arkansas State was the winning pitcher and Missouri's Hauss was loser. Both gave up 3 runs.
The Milwaukee Braves and the Los Angeles Dodgers today faced the possibility of opening the 1958 season without star outfielders Wes Covington and Duke Snider.
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Covington, who sparked the Braves to victory over the Yankees in last year's world series, twisted his left knee in an exhibition game against the Dodgers at Austin, Tex. Tuesday and may miss next Tuesday's opener against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Hampered previously by a pulled thigh muscle, Covington injured
Snider's trouble also is centered in the left knee, which was operated on last December. There has been some swelling in the knee this spring and Duke told one reporter Tuesday "I think it'll have to be drained."
his knee as he slid home on the business end of a squeeze play in the 13th inning that gave the Braves a 5-4 victory.
However, he later declared, "There may not be any need for that (draining)" and added he "will try to play" in today's game against the Braves at Dallas.
The San Francisco Giants, meanwhile, received good news when x-rays revealed Willie Mays suffered
only a mild hemotoma (bruise) just above the elbow when struck by a pitched ball in Monday's game against the Cleveland Indians at Austin.
Mays sat out Tuesday's game at Corpus Christi, in which the Indians rolled to an 11-7 victory over the Giants, but will be back in center field for the season opener.
In other Tuesday Exhibitions, the Phillies edged the Yankees, 3-2; the White Sox turned back the Cardinals, 5-4; the Senators rolled to a 10-3 victory over the Redlegs, and the Cubs downed the Orioles, 6-5, on Dale Long's 10th inning clutch single.
Long Toss Earlier Than Expected
Olympic discus champion Al Oerter said Sunday he had expected to throw over 200 feet but he hadn't expected to do it this early in the season. Oerter was reflecting on his performance at the Arkansas Relays Saturday when he surpassed the world discus record three times and, on one throw, became the first man to break through the magic 200-foot barrier.
It may be some time before it is known whether Oerter's toss will go down as the official world's record. His discus was one ounce over the required minimum and meet officials said they thought the field where he made the throw would
In his record throw, Oerter became the first man to break that famed barrier. Just as the 4-minute mile has been run and the 7-foot high jump has been conquered, Oerter's name will go down in track annals as the first to conquer this imaginary barrier.
Celtics Minus Russell In Crucial Game
BOSTON —(UP)— The Boston Celtics will call on veterans Jack Nichols and Arnie Risen to replace the injured Bill Russell tonight when they clash with the St. Louis Hawks in the fifth game of the all-even National Basketball Assn. playoffs.
Russell, the league's rebounder, is lost to the Celtics for the rest of the series with a sprained ankle and a chipped ankle bone.
That leaves it up to the 6-foot 7-inch Nichols, now in his ninth pro season, and the 6-foot 9-inch Risen, in his 13th campaign, to do the board work for Boston as it tries to break the 2-2 series deadlock.
probably meet the slope requirements. His toss of 202-feet 6-inch bettered the record held by Fortune Gordien by exactly eight feet.
Kite flying is a favorite sport on the Maldives Islands.
Oerter says his throwing is still in the 190-foot range. That in itself is quite a range, according to track standards.
Oerter said Sunday he is anxious to meet Southern California's Rink Babka.
The order of events in the various meets has helped the husky thrower, he admits. He said in both meets he has thrown in this year he has had the shot put preliminaries first, thus enabling him to warm up for the discus.
Olerter won the discus throw in the Olympic games at Melbourne in 1956 with a toss of 184-feet $ 10^{\frac{1}{2}} $ -inches. He had bettered that mark in the NCAA games last year with a 185-feet 4-inch throw.
Until the meet last weekend, Oerter's best throw was a 188-feet-2-inch throw he made at the Texas Relays one week previous.
Oerter said recently his extra work on weight lifting and running, as well as his knowing more about just how to throw, were going to help him this season. He said there is a possibility he could break the 200-foot mark again before the NCAA games later in the season.
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