University Daily Kansan Tuesday, April 8, 1958
University Daily Kansan SPORTS Jayhawkers Again Dominate Relays
KU's Al Oerter set a new unofficial world record in the discus throw and broke the magic 200-foot barrier to overshadow all other performances in the Arkansas Relays Saturday.
Oerter, with his toss of 202-feet 6-inches became the first man in history to break into that magic circle of track greats. He also won the shot put with a 54-foot 9-inch heave to become the only man in the relays to win top honors in two events.
Kansas dominated the meet, winning four of the seven relays events, taking five individual firsts and sharing top honors in the high jump.
Oklahoma State won three short relay races and two individual titles. Arkansas the host team, took only one individual first.
Oerter's teammate, Ernie Shelby, took first place in the broad jump with a 25-foot 9-inch jump, one of the best of his career. The world record in this event is held by Olympic great, Jesse Owens, who leaped 26-feet $8\frac{1}{4}$-inches in 1935. Bill Tillman gave KU a first place finish in the 120-yard high hurdles with a clocking of: 14.4.
Kansas' 4-mile relay team of Barry Crawford, Verlyn Schmidt, Don Greenlee and Jerry McNeal put forth one of their best times. 17:42.4. to take first in that event.
Jim Londerholm won the javelin for Kansas, tossing it 207-feet 4-inches.
KU's 2-mile team of Clif Cushman, Dale Lubs, Tom Skutka and Bob Tague won first in that event with a 7.50:8 clocking.
The sprint medley team of Ray Wyatt, Verne Gauby, Charlie Tidwell and Tague took first with a 3:27.2 showing.
The distance medley team of John Davis, Lubs, McNeal and Skutka won first with the time of 10:38.5.
KU's Bob Cannon and Dick Keith tied Pittsburgh State's George Daniels in the high jump with leaps of 6-feet -2 inches.
The next meet for Kansas will be a dual with Oklahoma State at KU Friday.
Southern Ran Only Two 440's Before This Year
Most amazing item on Texas' Eddie Southern, who could set a new world 440 record any time out, is that he ran only two competitive open quarters in his college career before this year.
Furthermore, he won neither of them, clocking :47.2 behind Ohio State's Glen Davis in the Meet of Champions last year and :47.1 behind Jim Lea and J. W. Mashburn as a freshman in the 1956 Modesto Relays. Lea set the present world mark of :45.8 that night as Southern ran a fine early pace.
Now a mature junior. Southern will be the most electrifying runner going to the post in the 33rd Kansas Relays here April 18-19. If anyone needed further conviction that he is a serious threat to Lea's mark they got it in the Texas Relays when Southern ran a :45.3 anchor carry to pull the host Longhorns within a second of the ancient national collegiate mile relay record of 3:09.4.
Although that unofficial figure represents Southern's best effort to date, it should have surprised no one. Two weeks ago at the Southwestern Recreational he tied Herb McKenley's intercollegiate standard of :462, then came back in :458 for his mile relav anchor.
How come such good marks so early? Southern had great talent all along. So much so, in fact, he earned an Olympic intermediate hurdles berth as a freshman, chasing Davis to a world record of :49.5 in the final trials and sharing the Olympic mark with him at :50.1.
"It's the fact he's concentrating on the 440 this year," points out Steer Publicist Wilbur Evans. "Last year, you'll recall, he was running the hurdles and on our relay teams, of course. He wasn't working enough overdistance for the quarter. Now
Southern was something special in high school, of course, setting a national schoolboy mark of 46.7. As a freshman he set Southwest conference records of 20.5 in the 220, and 14.1 in the 120 Highs.
Just a year later, he chased Davis in 149:7 as both broke the world record in the Trials at Los Angeles. Only bad weather or an injury can keep Texas from toppling the 3:11:6 Kansas Relays mile record. The Steers didn't even have regular leadoffer Wally Wilson when they set that 3:10:4 at Austin. He had kinked a calf muscle opening night.
he's out of the hurdles and is aiming at the quarter. He's got more confidence too."
Southern, who had run two flights of highs and a 440 relay carry previously, gave way to Wilson in the anchor leg here last year with the result that the favored Longhorns were beaten by Kansas, Colorado and North Texas in a blanket finish. Eddie had run the No. 2 leg on the 440 quartet which blazed a new world mark of 39.9.
Four other Kansas marks were bettered at Texas from entrants expected here. Oklahoma State spun a surprising 1:22.9 in the 880, more than a second under Texas' 1:24.2 here last year. Oklahoma clocked 9:45.4 in the Distance Medley, almost ten seconds under the 10:04.3 Texas scored here a year ago. KU's Al Oter reached 188-feet 2-inches in the discus, and another Javahawk. Ernie Shelby, bounded 26-foot $3^{1/2}$-inches in the broad jump. This is impressive even in front of a 5 mph wind against the ancient 25-feet $4^{3/4}$-inches Relays standard Iowa Olympian Ed Gordon erected in 1931.
In the Defenestration of Prague in 1419, the Hussites threw the burgomaster out the window of the city hall.
Casey Stengel Unsatisfied
All spring long Casey Stengel has been complaining that his New York Yankees "ain't doin' enough hitting," but now that they have staged springtime's biggest slugfest, is Casey happy?
No, he isn't. Because the fractured wrist suffered by Harry Simpson took a lot of joy out of the 20 to 1 walloping the Yankees handed the Philadelphia Phillies Monday at Greensville, S. C.
Simpson's right wrist was fractured in the fourth inning when he was struck by a pitch thrown by Phils southpaw Curt Simmons. The wrist was placed in a cast and he will be out of action about four weeks. He was due in New York today for further examination.
The Yankees really slugged like the "bronx bombers" of old in Monday's rampage and the leading man one again was Bill Skowron. The former Purdue football star slammed two of the six homers, giving him a grapefruit-league leading total of 10 for the spring—
including seven in the last five games.
Mickey Mantle, Elston Howard,
Don Larsen, and Bobby Del Greco
hit the other homers and Mantle
added three doubles and a single
in a five-for-five day.
Larsen get back in the running for the opening day hurling assignment by shutting out the Phils on four hits for the seven frames he worked.
Two other pitchers turned in seven shutout innings Monday—Johnny Antonelli of the San Francisco Giants and Lindy McDaniel of the St. Louis Cards.
Southpaw Antonelii, striving to come back from a poor season, dolled out four hits in his seven innings as the Giants beat the Cleveland Indians for the third straight time, 7-0. Paul Giel allowed two singles in the last two frames while Jim King's solo homer led the Giant attack. The Giants got a scare when Willie Mays was hit on the elbow by a pitch thrown by rookie Chuck
Curn, but he escaped serious injury.
McDaniel worked his seven scorceless frames in the Cards' 8-0 victory over the Chicago White sox. Brother Von McDaniel and Hern Wehmeier cleaned up the 5-hitter.
In the other exhibitions:
Hank Aaron, who hit a right-field homer off lefty Johnny Podres earlier in the game, drove in the winning run with a sacrifice fly in the eighth inning as the Milwaukee Braves downed the Los Angeles Dodgers, 3-2.
Jim Lemon drove in three runs, two with a homer, to lead the Washington Senators to a 7-3 win over Cincinnati despite back-to-back ninth inning homers by Frank Robinson and rookie Vada Pinson.
Ronnie Kline became the third Pittsburgh pitcher to go the full route, allowing the Boston Red Sox four hits in a 4-2 victory.
And the Baltimore-Chicago Cubs game was called after one inning because of wet grounds.
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