Tuesday, April 1. 1958 University Daily Kansan
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University Daily Kansan SPORTS
Three Kansas Men Seek Relays Triples
Three Kansas men will be shooting for completion of triples in the 33rd Kansas Relays here April 18-19. The checklist includes Kansas Olympic discus champion, Al Oerter; another Jayhawker senior, Kent Floerke, and Gene O'Conner, Kansas State hurdler.
Plagued by illness through the indoor season, O'Conner failed to win a hurdles championship for the first time in four conference meets in the 1958 Indoor. He won four titles as a sophomore and junior. He likely won't be afforded a revenge chance at Cushman here since the latter is ticketed for full-relay duty.
There is some doubt concerning the last because of a severe muscle pull in the Colorado Indoor Invitational. However, if ready he can go after his third 400-meter hurdles title, an unprecedented feat in Relays history. Floerke will be seeking his third crown in another non-standard event, the hop-step-jump. Oerter, of course, will be going after a slam in his specialty.
Both O'Conner and Floerke were unhorsed by record performances as they sought triple completions last year. The former was nipped by Kansas freshman Clif Cushman who set a stunning record of .51.9 in his first start in this event. As a freshman, O'Connor had raced .53.7 to win, then set a record .52.2 in 1956.
Floerke was sidetracked by Houston's Jack Smyth. Like O'Conner he also saw his record lifted as the latter bounded 49-9 7/8, adding nine inches to the mark the tall Kansan wrought as a freshman. Floerke repeated in '56 at 48-feet 3 7/8-inches and went 48-feet $ 4^{1 / 2} $ -inches last year. However, he set a school record of 50-feet $ 2^{3 / 4} $ -inches two months later in finishing second in the National AAU.
Smyth is returning and already is over 24-feet in the broad jump this spring. He and Floerke collided in this event last weekend at the Texas Relays.
Both O'Conner and Floerke have an extra year in which to salvage triples since their events are among the four Olympic specials which have become fixtures on the Mt. Oread card. Oterter, of course, must collect his in successive years. And there is little doubt that he will add the third jewel.
He won as a sophomore on 170-feet 2-inches, second-longest throw up to that time in Relays annals. He fired 178-feet 1-inch last year to bring down Archie Harris' ancient ceiling of 171-feet $ 6^{34} $ -inches which had endured since 1941 for Indiana.
KU Coed Places Fourth In Intercollegiate Bowling
Rosemary Stebbins, KU sophomore, placed fourth in the high series in the Women's Intercollegiate Bowl last week with a 154-167 score for a two game series.
Other girls on the team besides Miss Stebbins are Polly Smith, Nancy Fugisaki, Sue Ann Moore and Barbara Panzer.
The Men's Intercollegiate Tournament will be held in about three weeks. Although the KU men's teams have never placed too well before, Bascom Fearing, recreation director, said he thought the team would do much better this year.
The teams consist of five men and an alternate. The six men who will bowl for KU are Wayne Hayman, Kansas City, Kan. senior; Wade Lampel, Chase senior; Carl Lauterjung, Colby senior; Ron Clark, Kansas City, Mo. senior; David Stein, Mission senior, and John Woody, Springfield, Mo. freshman. Other members of the team are Keith Harper, Phillipsburg senior; Sam Von Winbush, Jay Thornberry, Lawrence seniors, and William
Red Sox Open Without Top Hitter
The Boston Red Sox, touted by Casey Stengel as the Yankees' most dangerous American League Rival, faced the gloomy prospect today of opening the season without their possible No. 1 battery.
Tom Brewer, the leading Red Sox pitcher last year with 16 wins, and Haywood Sullivan, a husky rookie bidding for the starting job behind the plate, both suffered fractured fingers yesterday. Brewer will be sidelined at least three weeks while Sullivan will be out at least six weeks.
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Strickland, Kansas it is, Kyan, senior. The scores will be sent to Washington University, the Intercollegiate Bowling center this year, where the results will be tabulated and returned to the teams. No trophies or certificates will be awarded.
NEW YORK — (UP) — Bob Cousy and Bill Sharman of Boston, Bob Pettit of St. Louis, George Yardley of Detroit and Dolph Schayes of Syracuse were named today to the National Basketball Association All Star team.
The league announced that Cousy, who won the regular season playmaking honors, was the top vote getter in a poll of sports writers and broadcasters in league cities. He made the All Star team for the seventh straight year.
Woody Sauldsberry of Philadelphia was voted rookie of the year. However, no rookie was voted to the All Star squad.
NBA Names All-Star Five
Khan Downs Azam, Takes Squash Title
LONDON — (UP) — Hashim Khan regained the British Open Squash title by defeating Brother Azam, 9-7, 6-9, 9-6, 9-7, Monday in the final at the Landsdowne Club. The title victory was Hashim's seventh in the last eight years, his only loss being to Cousin Rosham Khan last year.
Dodgers Back To Brooklyn? Ted Friendly? No, Just April 1
NEW YORK — (UP) — Items you won't find in the sportsnews on this April Fool's day:
Walter O'Malley has decided to move the Dodgers back to Brooklyn because "I just don't have any roots in Los Angeles..."
Sugar Ray Robinson is insisting that Carmen Basilio be given "at least" a 30-30 split of the purse for their third middleweight championship fight...
Basketball coach Adolph Rupp of Kentucky has volunteered to play all of Kentucky's future NCAA tournament games outside the state of Kentucky. . .
Slugger Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox has presented friendship rings to all the Boston sports writers. . .
Cus D'Amato, manager of heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson, has signed a contract giving the International Boxing Club exclusive control of Patterson because "Jim Norris is a good friend of mine." . . .
Manager Casey Stengel of the Yankees announced that he's going to stick to the same lineup in every game this season because, "I can't keep track of all them fellas runnin' in and out."
Ben Hogan said he's competing in this year's Masters Tournament "just for fun" because "It isn't winning that counts but the relaxation you get from the game." . . .
H. A. (Jimmy) Jones, Calumet Farm trainer, said the stable won't have an entry in this year's Kentucky Derby because "all our 3-year-olds are allergic to roses."
The Boston Bruins and New York Rangers are holding a mutual tea party tonight "So we can get to know each other better." . .
The Australian Lawn Tennis Assn. is presenting a special award to tennis promoter Jack Kramer
as the "man who has done the most to build up Australian tennis." . . .
Coach Paul Brown of the Cleveland Brown's said his pro football team next season will have a line averaging 154 pounds because, "It's about time somebody gave the little fellow a chance in this game." . .
Mile Star Ron Delany of Villanova said he'll be shooting for a world record in every race from now on because "That's what the fans come out to see." . . .
Manager Fred Haney of the Milwaukee Braves announced there will be no curfew for his players this season. He says he thinks "The boys are entitled to step out for a little fun after night games." . . .
Inficlared Billy Martin of the Tigers thinks the Yankees' George Weiss is the greatest executive in baseball. "He knows just when to trade a guy away," says Billy. . .
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Hoyle Is Pole Vault Favorite
Early pole vault favorite on the 33rd Kansas Relays form chart is a Marquette senior who could do no better than 10-feet 6-inches in high school. The name is Ed Hoyle, who'll be here April 18-19 for the KU Relays, second stop on the midlands' grand circuit.
For the record Hoyle, who is 2-time school heavyweight boxing champion, has what is believed to be the best leap of the national collegiate season, 14 feet, 10 inches. He achieved that new career high in a tie for second at the Chicago Daily News Relays. It placed him in eite company. Sharing the spot with him were post-grads Jerry Woulbourne, Don Laz and Don Bragg. The winner was Occidental's Bob Gutowski, the world record-holder who also has used up his college eligibility.
Hoyle also logged indoor marks of 14 feet, 9 1/8 inches to set a CCC and Western Michigan Fieldhouse record; 14 feet, 8 inches to bag the IC-4A at New York, and 14 feet, 6 1/4 inches for a fieldhouse record at the Michigan State Relays.
A few hours before the last jump, he won an afternoon dual against Eastern Michigan at 13 feet, 4 inches then drove to East Lansing for the big one. He opened the season by tying Welbourne and Michigan ineligible Eales Landstrom at 14 feet, 4 inches in the Chicago Invitational.
All that is for the record. The real story concerns Hoyle himself and the obstacles he has overcome to claim recognition as the next potential 15-footer.
For one thing he must practice during the indoor season off the basketball floor of ancient Marquette Gym. To furnish himself with the 135-foot run he requires for top efficiency he must tie back the arena's double doors so that he may originate his approach from the hall. The box is sunk in the regular basketball floor. The pit is no pit at all, but an elevated pipe
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"Ed used that long run-up because he doesn't have good speed." Warrior publicist Jim King said. "That 135 feet allows him to gain some momentum. He has arms like a blacksmith and does everything right once he gets into the air."
At the IC-4A and Daily News meets, Hoyle was forced to back up on the running track to extend his run. When he came off that he had to run across the base floor of the arenas and then on to the regular pole-vault runway. His coach, Bus Shimek, thinks he'll do 15-feet.
If he does it will be safe to say no pole-vaulter ever worked harder to achieve it. Little wonder he had cleared only 10 feet, 6 inches at Chicago St. Ignatius. He was only a 5 foot 9 inch 140-pounder when he enrolled at Marquette. He moved up to 12 feet that year. As a sophomore he added another foot. Last year he reached 14 feet to tie for second in the Outdoor Central Collegiates at his home stadium.
Last summer Hoyle placed himself on a Spartan-like routine. He worked out two hours daily. Twice per week he vaulted. The rest of the days were given over to weight lifting and calisthenics. He already has been presented the Con Jennings award as Marquette's outstanding athlete of the year.
At least three other 14-footers will be in the field here, two of them sophomores. One of the rookies is Aubrey Dooley of Oklahoma State who tied Missouri's Bob Davis at 14 feet, 2 1/4 inches for the Big Eight Indoor championship. The other, Oklahoma's Larry Neeley, attained 14 feet two
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weeks ago in a second-place tie against Arizona State.
Only two Warriors ever have won Relays titles. The first was Shimek, who won the now-extinct 3000-meter run in 1927. Twenty-six years later, John Bennett won the broad jump at 25 feet 4 inches.
But no Relays pole vault champion save record-holder Don Cooper of Nebraska ever has matched Hoyle's best three jumps of this year. Cooper became the first collegian to clear 15 feet outdoors when he set the mark at 15 feet 1/8 inch here in 1951.
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