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AL OERTER—Shows the form that won him the only double in the Texas Relays last Friday and Saturday.
Kansans Dominate 1st Outdoor Meet
The University of Kansas track team opened its 1958 outdoor season by running up a tremendous point total that dominated the Texas Relays at Austin Friday and Saturday. The Jayhawkers piled up 103 points. The closest competitor was host Texas with 64 points.
KU broke two Relays marks, one in the discus and the other in the broad jump. Captain Al Oerter threw the discus 188-feet 2-inches and the shot put 56-feet 1-inch for the greatest double in the history of the relays. His discus toss set a new meet record. Ernie Shelby set a new broad jump record with a 26-foot 3-inch leap.
Kansas was selected as the outstanding team by sportswriters at the meet. This is the second time in three years the Jayhawkers have been selected for this honor.
Oerter was the only competitor to win two events. He won the shot put Friday night. His record discus throw was also made Friday and stood un under competition Saturday.
The Kansas team of Tom Skutka, Don Greenlee, Dale Lubs and Jerry McNeal took first place in the 4-mile relay.
Jayhawkers Take 14 Places
The Jayhawkers took four first place honors, four third place and two fourth, fifth and sixth places.
KU's sprint medley relay team took third place. Kent Floerke placed third in the broad jump with a 24-foot $8\frac{1}{4}$-inch leap. John Book finished third in the javelin throw and the Jayhawkers' distance medley relay team took third place in that relay event.
Charlie Tidwell finished fourth in the 100-yard dash. The KU 2-mile relay team also finished fourth.
Bill Tillman took fifth place in the 120-yard high hurdles and the 880-ydrel relay team also placed fifth.
Brian Travis took sixth place in the two mile run and Tidwell came in sixth in the 100-yard dash.
Coach Easton said the team did better than he'd anticipated, mainly because the Texas weather was better.
"We did even more than we'd expected to. Due to the weather and the lack of practice we didn't expect to show too well. I think over-all the boys did a wonderful job. Oerter and Shelby came through especially well." Easton said.
Two Accept Scholarships
Eddie McQueen, All-Ark Valley fullback from Hutchinson and Jerry Cooper, All-Northwest Kansas League halfback from Atwood will accept football scholarships at KU next September, according to coach Jack Mitchell.
McQueen, 5-10 170-pound captain of the Hutchinson team, was twice named Ark Valley player of the week. He also lettered in basketball at Hutchinson. He will enroll in the School of Business here.
Cooper, 187-pound nine letterman, was an All Area selection and also made the All State second team. Cooper earned three letters in football, four in wrestling and two in track.
Beta, Sigma Nu and the Whipits won the final match of their respective divisions in intramural volleyball Friday.
Beta, Sigma Nu, Whipits Victorious
Kansas City NIBL Franchise Lifted
DENVER, Colo.—(UP)—A shaky Kansas City franchise in the National Industrial Basketball League was lifted this weekend as the NIBL looked to possible West Coast expansion.
President Lou Wilkie cited a disastrous gate receipt record as the chief reason for the dropping of the Kansas City Kaycees. The team had joined the loop three months before the start of the 1957-58 season.
Beta defeated DU, 15-13, 15-13 in Fraternity B play. They earned the right to play the Whipits, who won the Independent B final match by defeating Templin, 11-15, 15-4, 15-9. The B championship game will be played today.
Wilkie, however, said the NIBL had received word that Seattle, Wash., interests hoped to compete in the industrial league next season. At present, the loop has five teams, Peoria, Ill.; Bartlesville, Okla.; Chicago-Denver Truckers; Wichita, Kan., and Akron.
Gene Johnson, coach of the ill-fated Kayeees, was reported seeking to align a team in the tri-cities area of Moline, Davenport and Rock Island for next year.
The NIBL president said league directors had not reached a decision on the possible inclusion of Seattle.
Kansas City finished its lone season in the league mired deep in the cellar. Attendance at home games was alarmingly low.
Sigma Na defeated Beta I, 15-10.
15-8 in the final Friendship C match
Softball will be the next major team sport to be played. Information will be sent to house intramural managers during spring vacation.
Homage Paid Knute Rockne
SOUTH BEND, Ind.—(UP)—Homage was paid to the memory of famed football coach Knute Rockne Palm Sunday on the eve of the anniversary of his death in a plane crash 27 years ago.
More than 300 persons attended the 27th annual Knute Rockne Memorial Mass and breakfast on the Notre Dame campus yesterday, and then took part in a wreath-laying ceremony at Rockne's grave in Highland Cemetery.
Rockne, who gained fame with gridiron powers he built at Notre Dame, died March 31, 1931, in a Kansas plane crash. Each year services are held in his memory at Notre Dame on the Sunday closest to the anniversary of his death.
Wertz Injured, Out At Least 10 Weeks
Monday. March 31, 1958 University Daily Kansan
TUCSON, Ariz. — (UP)— Vic Wertz, a hard luck guy who made a successful comeback after an attack of polio in 1955, was sidelined again today with a broken right ankle.
The 33-year-old Cleveland Indian first-baseman was sliding toward second base while trying to break up an attempted double play against the San Francisco Giants yesterday when his spikes dug into the ground and snapped the fibula just above the ankle.
General manager Frank Lane and manager Bobby Bragan said Wertz would be put on the inactive list for at least 10 weeks.
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Three returning lettermen and the team's most promising sophomore make up the foursome which will tackle Houston University, Monday and Texas Christian University, Wednesday. Bob Davies, Dodge City senior; Bill Toalson, Dodge City junior, and Bob Wood, Liberal junior, are the returning lettermen. The rookie is Jerry Krause of Kansas City.
Davies finished tenth and Wood ninth in Big Eight medal play last year. In that meet the Jayhawkers placed second to Oklahoma University for the team title.
"We have not gotten much outdoor practice because of the weather. This could hurt us on the trip south," added Couch Waugh.
The golf squad, represented by four men, left Saturday on a Houston-Fort Worth trip which opens the 14-match season, said Jerry Waugh. Kansas golf coach.
The squad will open at home, April 9, when they play Wichita University. April 16 the team will meet Kansas State. The home matches are held at the Lawrence Country Club.
Golf Team Heads South To Open Season's Play
Bobby Jones Out Of Hospital Today
ATLANTA —(UP)— Old Master Bobby Jones was expected to leave the hospital here today and doctors said he still may be able to attend the Masters Golf Tournament he founded.
Jones, 56, was taken to the hospital Friday. Physicians said he suffered a "circulatory collapse" described as "a mild shock-like state characterized by a drop in blood pressure."
Past KU Stars To Tour Russia
DENVER, Colo. — (UP)— Three former Kansas University basketball stars were named yesterday to a 12-man squad which will represent the United States on a tour of Russia.
B. H. Born and Dean and Allen Kelley were selected at a meeting of the AAU National Basketball Committee and Coach Warren Womble of the AAU champion Peoria, Ill., Caterpillars. All three were instrumental in Peoria's 74-17 victory over the Denver Truckers in Saturday night's four-overtime finale.
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