Monday, Feb. 10, 1958
University Daily Kansan
KU's Pool Facilities Don't Attract Swimmers, Fans
(Editor's Note—This is the first in a series of three articles dealing with swimming at Kansas as compared with the Big Eight and the nation—what we now have, what we can do and why we need it.)
By GEORGE ANTHAN
(Daily Kansan Sports Editor)
"How can we ask a boy to come to Kansas to swim when we can offer him only a worse pool and facilities than he had in high school and little or no financial aid," said Jay Markley, KU swimming coach.
For Markley, this is a very real problem because he sincerely believes that if he could only recruit the best swimmers in Kapsas every year, he could turn out a swimming team that could compete favorably with the nation's best.
But KU cannot even offer the high school swimmer facilities and a program comparable to that of their own high school.
The Kansas pool is 60x20 feet Regulation NCAA pool is 78x42 feet
Four of the Big Eight schools, Colorado, Iowa State, Nebraska and Oklahoma, have regulation pools and are equipped to handle the annual Big Eight swim meet.
KU Fans Get Splashed
All these schools have adequate spectator seating—KU's spectators sit in wooden bleachers not four feet from the edge of the pool, getting splashed frequently. The temperature and humidity inside the pool here is sometimes unbearable.
In order to reach the pool, spectators must walk through either the men's or women's dressing rooms. Markley said a capacity crowd of 150 is the rule rather than the exception.
The Kansas pool should have
regulation 1-meter and 3-meter diving boards. Instead, KU's only board, a 1-meter, is 11-inches lower than it should be because the ceiling is only 10 feet high instead of the required 22 feet in NCAA pools. In fact, the ceiling is so low that divers have to throw their arms over their heads to protect themselves while diving.
The continuous contact of diver with ceiling has scraped a hole, about one half inch deep, in the ceiling directly over the board.
Ventilation is almost nil. Three small fans attempt to do the job but battle mighty odds.
There are no exercising facilities for the swim team. To warm up, the team runs laps around Robinson's basketball courts upstairs.
The state's leading high schools have better pools than does the University.
Topeka has a new pool and excellent facilities. Wyandotte in Kansas City, Kansas has a fine pool and facilities plus a spectator section which seats 300 in a balcony well away from the water. Wichita West and East high schools have good swimming facilities and Coffeyville uses the Emporia State pool and turns out state championship teams year after year.
The top swimmers graduating from these schools seldom come to Kansas.
Money, of course, is a problem. While Oklahoma is spending nearly $14,000 per year for swimming scholarships, KU is spending $14,000 less than that. Actually there became available last year $2,000 for scholarships at KU. That is all gone now, given to three or four boys in $300 chucks. When another sum will become available is anybody's guess.
Can't Give Aid
"We can't plan to give aid to a boys over a 4-year period," said Markley. "We therefore cannot begin to offer him a fraction of what our competitors do."
What is needed and how much money will it cost? We'll try to answer that Tuesday.
Is Kansas fulfilling its obligation as a university when it comes to physical education? We are one of the few major universities which does not have a physical education requirement.
Has the national apathy on physical education and individual sports—the same apathy in the U.S. which enabled Russia to win the 1956 Olympics and which has alarmed President Eisenhower and his Physical Fitness Council—hit KU?
There is a long run danger here. The nation will collect the dividends of a good program or pay the penalty for a poor one.
Jayhawker Dressing Room A Happy Place Saturday
The Kansas dressing room was a happy place Saturday night following the Jayhawkers' recordbreaking 102-46 victory over the Nebraska Cornhuskers.
(Tuesday—What we can do and how much it will cost.)
The Jayhawkers seemed to feel the victory made up, in part, for the loss five days earlier to Kansas State. They also seemed to feel that they would have a tough game tonight with the Colorado Buffaloes.
Dick Harp said the men put on a "great performance" and definitely played a "spirited" game.
Forward Ron Loneski commented after the game that he was glad to see the game turn out the way it did.
"I think we just got out there and played ball," he added.
"This is going to help us a lot," forward Monte Johnson commented. "It's just what we needed."
He added that, in his opinion, Colorado had a fine ball club and Kansas was going to have to play good ball to defeat them.
Starting forward AI Donaghue said he felt the team hustled well and just wanted to "play a good game to make up for last Monday."
Donaghue agreed with Johnson that Colorado had a good ball club. "They are a good shooting ball club. If they get hot they can really be tough for us," he said.
Guard Jerry Johnson said he felt that Kansas played a fine game but added he felt Nebraska "more or less gave up" before the end of the game.
Guard Bob Hickman said he felt the Jayhawkers probably played harder in this game than they ever have before. He also said he thought the announcement of the 51-51 tie at Manhattan was a boost for the players. He added that the Big Eight race isn't over yet and Kansas State could still be knocked off.
"We're still hoping," Hickman added.
Hawks Return From Rocky Road Trip
The world's largest bats, the "flying foxes" of Java, have a wingspan of nearly five feet, says the National Geographic Magazine.
Coach Alex Hannum may learn his future in St. Louis today upon the Hawks' arrival home from a rocky road trip on which they dropped four of their last five games.
The Hawks managed to win only one game in five starts since then. Philadelphia, hottest team in the circuit at the moment, defeated St. Louis, 105-98. Sunday for its seventh victory in eight starts. Despite Bob Pettit's 29 points, the Hawks suffered their 12th straight defeat in Philadelphia. Paul Arizin paced the warriors with 25 points.
Hannum is in an unusual position. His Hawks lead the Western Division of the National Basketball Assn. by six games but club owner Ben Kerner delivered a curt "start-winning-or-else" ultimatum to his coach eight days ago.
TWO MORE—Ron Loneski shoots, Bob Billings watches.
Bierhawks, Pickers Win
The Chicken Pickers pulled ahead in an overtime Friday night to defeat the Butterballs 42-40 in intramural Independent A action. The "Pickers" Kriake had 13 points, Burke 9, Hillad 0.
For the "Pickers" Krisko had each, Odell 3, and Porter 2.
The Butterballs were Gibson 13, Dole 10, Buksty 9, Letcavits 4, and Horn 2.
Templin, unable to keep former varsity man Elstun from hitting 32 points, lost to the Bierhawks 58-23. Assisting Elstun were Brenner 8, Carlson 6, Cox 5, and Harrington and Winter 4.
Two Independent B games were forfeited Friday. McCook forfeited to Don Henry, and NROTC forfeited
For the losing Pharmaists, Dick Kraus hit 13, Jack Geyer 10, Bob Dall 5, and Bill Geyer 2.
In another Independent A game, the Radicals, led by Bud Malter with 24, defeated Pharmacy 37-30. Others scoring for the winners were Les Monroe 4, Roy Walkinshaw 3, and Charlie Swank, Larry Herrelson, and Gerald Peterson 2 apiece.
Scoring for Templin were Sandy Yeats 15, Don Allen 8, Norm Krisle and Mike Zakoura 4 each, and Dale Koehn 2.
to Delta Function. In the only Independent B game played, Nu Sigma Nu defeated the Boosers 54-18.
Fraternity B—Tau Kappa Epsilon lost by a forfeit to Phi Delta Theta; Sigma Phi Epsilon 32, Delta Tau Delta 22; Kappa Sigma 36, Sigma Nu 34; Beta Theta Pi 34, Acacia 25; Sigma Alpha Epsilon 38, Delta Upsilon 33; Delta Sigma Phi 35, Alpha Phi Alpha 32.
Other results:
Todav's Games
Independent C—Pokes vs. Cisabs
6:30; 1800's vs. Naval ROTC I 6:30;
Kappa Eta Kpape vs. NROTC II 7:15.
Fraternity A—Phi Gamma Delta vs. Kappa Sigma 6:15; Sigma Phil Epsilon vs. Delta Chi 7:15.
Independent B—Liahona vs. Grace Pearson 4:15; Nuggets vs. Newman 4:15; Pearson vs. Carruth 5:00; Chemical Engineers vs. Air Force ROTC 5 p.m.; Clods vs. Jolliffe 5:45; Oread vs. Concordia 5:45.
Independent A—Blackhawks vs. Jolliffe 5:15.
Mighty Oklahoma Swim Team Upends Kansas
KU's swimming team absorbed its worst defeat of the season Saturday, losing to highly rated Oklahoma. 69-11.
The Sooners, ranked among the top ten in the country, won first place in all ten events.
The meet lived up to the predictions of KU's coach Jay Markley. He had said last Thursday that the Jayhawkers had almost no hopes for the meet since Oklahoma had 10 or 12 experienced swimmers while Kansas had only seven
Markley said then he planned to enter some of KU's better men just to give them a chance to compete with the Sooners and also see what his Jayhawkers could do against them.
Swimmers who placed and their events are:
Jon Poort, third in the 220-yard freestyle.
John Adams, third in diving.
Ed Poort, third in the 60-yard freestyle.
Steve Hill, third in the 100-yard freestyle.
Jared Piety, third in the 440-yard freestyle.
Jim Laidlaw, second in the 200-yard breast stroke.
In sweeping the meet, Oklahoma broke two meet records, four pool records and tied one record in each of these.
The Concord grape which is grown in western New York and in California today was developed in Concord, Mass, by Ephraim Wales Bull from the seeds of a wild Labrusca grape vine which he found.
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