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Fewer Prep Participants Emphasizes Relays Quality
This all means that the state's six or eight best prep performers, regardless of their school's class, will be running in the same race or competing in the same field event.
The mile run may bring together two of the state's all-time best schoolboy milers, Concordia's Bill Dotson and Wichita East's Archie San Romani Jr. The setting would be ideal, since San Romani handed Dotson his last defeat in winning a 4:26.5 duel in the Junior Olympics on the same KU Memorial Stadium track here last June.
The streamlined 1958 edition of the Kansas Interscholastic Relays won't have the thousands of high school participants as in recent years but the cutdown in quantity undoubtedly will result in better quality.
Dotson came back last fall to deal San Romani a smashing cross-country defeat. The Concordia senior now ranks as the state's second fastest schoolboy miler in history after his 4:24.6 clocking in the State Indoor meet late last month.
San Romani all-time best was in the Junior Olympics here last June. Heromed in with a 4:29.6 effort in the State Indoor, breaking his old record by some six seconds.
Only three individual running events—the 120-yard high hurdles, the 100-yard dash and the mile run—have been retained from the old Interscholastic lineup. These races along with the six regular field events, will be conducted in only one class.
Aim For State Record
Both milers will be aiming for Billy Mills' all-time state record of 4:22.8, set last April. The former Haskell Institute sensation also holds the KU Interscholastic record of 4:28.7 set last year.
There's some doubt at this stage whether San Romani will be entered against Dotson here. Wichita East coach Bob Timmons has hinted he may use San Romani
But it may be, too, that Dotson doesn't need San Romani's competition to run a great mile. He didn't have any competition at all in running the 4:24.6 indoors and he's determined enough to break 4:20 this year that he may do it by running all alone.
If San Romani doesn't run in the mile here, then Dotson's top threat will come from Washington's Fred Robinson. The Kansas City runner finished second at the Indoor meet after burning out under a fast early pace. He clocked 2:01.8 in the prep 880 at the Big Eight Indoor and is capable of dipping into 4:30 in the mile.
The best of the little school class is Linn's muscular Dave Ohlide. The long-striding senior won the indoor in 4:42.3 and is aiming to break 4:30.
in a two-mile relay team in an effort to break the national interscholastic record for that event.
Other Milers Expected
Other top milers expected to enter here are Haskell's John Thomas, Wyandotte's Tom Cunningham, Shawnee Mission's Bill Hayward, Oskaloosa's Rich Wellman, Hutchinson's Forrest Tennant and Maize's Phil Bricke.
In the other two individual running events, competition should be keen. These are several standouts but no favorite.
The hurdles will draw such stars as Arkansas City's Lloyd Buzj, Junction City's Charley Smith, Great Bend's Clarence Peterson, Emporia's Garv Robinson, Highland Park's Charley Anderson, Shawnee Mission's Bob Bradley, Leoi's Jerry Hooker, Belle Plaine's Terry Wegmett, Wakefield's Larry Lynch, Quinter's Jim Boone and Plain's Russell Vail
Buzzi and Smith captured the Class AA indoor hurdles titles while Hooker and Lynch won both flights in Class A and B, respectively. Peterson and Vail may be the best of the lot, however, since neither competed indoors.
In the century, two of the three class champions from last year return to battle it out in the single race this time. Hays' Dale Alexander and Douglas' Tom Ferguson won the A and B titles, respectively, last year.
Alexander, a junior, could be one of the state's all-time great sprinters. He won State Outdoor titles in the two shorter sprints as a sophomore and appears set for a great year this spring. Ferguson was nosed out in the Indoor '60' but he is known to be better at the longer distance.
Other Sprinters On List
Shawnee Mission's Dave Butts, the Indoor Class AA '60' winner, Garnett's Duane Rankin and Arma's Jan Kalusha head the list of remaining sprinters. This list should also include such standouts as Leaventworth's Frank Robinson, Emporia's Ne O'Mara, Wamego the Bob Morgan, Clay Center's Kelly Rankin, Dwight's Harold Haum, Augusta's Kent Adams and Topeka's Larry Wynne.
The three running events all are scheduled for Friday afternoon. This year's program integrates the high school program with the college and university relays and gives the preps two days of action instead of one.
Besides these events, Friday's schedule also calls for finals in the shot put, javelin, pole vault, high jump, and two-mile relay. Saturday morning's program lists finals in the discus and broad jump with the afternoon being devoted to the remaining relays—sprint medley, quarter mile, half mile and mile.
Weimer, Belisle Sign With Kansas
Kenny Belisle, all-area halfback from Derby, and Larry Weimer will accept football scholarships to Kansas next autumn, Jack Mitchell announced.
Belisle is a 5-foot $10\frac{1}{2}$-inch 165-pounder. In addition to earning all-area honors, he was selected on
Officials of KU and Kansas State have agreed to stop revealing names of prospective football candidates, it was announced Saturday.
Won't Reveal Prospects
The announcements from KU have stated that the boy had agreed to accept a football scholarship, although the school can't actually offer the scholarship until the boy has graduated from high school with sufficiently high grades. The scholarship committee must also approve the scholarship.
Officials have stated that a school is subject to embarrassment when a boy changes his mind, which he has a right to do.
the all-state squad. He also is a double letterman in track and a triple monogram winner in basketball.
Officials have had the pact because they say announcing the intentions of a player puts pressure on the boy to follow through, even though the announcement in no way binds the player.
The agreement isn't a new one, but a renewal of an old agreement between the schools. The original agreement was made eight years ago. Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy and President James A. McCain announced the pact had been renewed.
Kansas coach Jack Mitchell was apparently unaware of the agreement. He has announced the names of more than a dozen boys who are expected to accept scholarships at KU.
The announcement of the renewal came shortly after Mitchell had announced that Lawrence High School All America back John Hadl had decided to accept a scholarship at KU. Hadl had offers from 15 schools throughout the country, including Oklahoma University and others. It was reported Oklahoma's Bud Wilkinson had planned to visit Hadl in the near future.
K-State had apparently waited before finally releasing names of some of the boys they had recruited. K- State named five men in about a 4-day period.
Weiner, all-area fullback from Clay Center also is a letterman in basketball and track. He plans to enroll here in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Houston Nips KU
Gary Russell was the losing pitcher. Ravford Hamil was the winner.
Houston came up with a run in the 10th inning in Houston Monday to win a 7-6 decision over Kansas in the first game of a 2-game series.
Hamil began pitching in the bottom of the eighth and didn't allow Kansas on base the rest of the game.
Hamil also picked up the hit in the 10th inning that put the winning run on base.
The Jayhawkers collected just six hits on starter Charles Pieper who lasted 71/3 innings. Houston had 14 hits. The Cougars made six fielding errors, the Jayhawkers two.
Each team collected four extra base hits, three doubles and a homer for Kansas and three homers and a double for Houston.
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