Thursday, Dec. 5, 1957
University Daily Kansan
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RON LONESKI—Kansas basketball veteran, Ron Loneski, displays his talents as disc jockey for campus radio station KUOK. Loneski also exhibited his ability on the basketball court against Canisius Wednesday night when he scored 13 points and nabbed 12 rebounds, which put his game totals in these two departments second only to the Jayhawkers' Wilt Chamberlain. (Daily Kansas photo by Rex Parsons)
Basketball Future Bright, Says Loneski
KU's star forward, Ron Loneski, had high praise for Kansas as a school and also said he thought Jayhawker basketball fortunes would be high again this year in an interview with a Daily Kansan reporter Tuesday night.
"When I was a little kid in grade school I always used to follow Kansas," Loneski said. "I always dreamed of coming here but I never thought I could. I had a chance to go to North Carolina, but I thought I'd have the best future at KU."
He said that KU's former basketball coach, Phog Allen, talked to his folks about his coming to Kansas.
"They were really impressed with Phog and also with Dick Harp," he said. "I think that what makes Harp such a great coach is his sincere desire to win and his method of building character.
"I think we're going to have a real good ball club this year," he said. "We thought that we had a long way to go, but since Monday night we feel we can get the job done. Our sophomores have come through a lot better than we'd ever hoped for. Our feeling now is to play each game as we come to it, but we're sure going to do our best to win one."
Praises OS
Loneski had high praise for KU's first opponent this season, Oklahoma State, and said that he thinks their coach. Hank Iba, is one of the finest in the nation.
"We felt they would really give us a good game," he said. "All the boys who had played down there last year when we lost by one point in the closing seconds were really looking forward to going back."
Loneski said he thought the Cow-
pokes were tougher this year than last year and attributed the victory to the fact that every player did "the best job he possibly could."
Loneski, a 6-foot, $4\frac{1}{2}$-inch junior from Hammond, Ind., played four years of football and basketball at Bishop Noll High School. To see him it is much easier to imagine this 215-pound starring on the gridiron rather than on the basketball court, but this imagination is cut short when one sees him maneuver on the court. He is fast, a good rebounder, a top scorer and one of the most aggressive players Kansas has.
Last May, according to rumors which were circulating around the state, KU was faced with the threat of losing not only Wilt Chamberlain but also Loneski.
Likes Kansas
In reply to these rumors, Loneski said, "I couldn't leave here because the people of Kansas have been too good to me."
In return, Loneski has and probably will continue to be a big reason Kansas has been one of the top basketball teams in the nation.
"Deep down inside we are looking forward to playing in the NCAA championships again this year," he said, then cautiously added, "but you just don't know. Right now it's sort of questionable. The thing we're working for right now is to be ready for conference play."
Karras Is Best Lineman
NEW YORK - (UP) - Alex Karras, Iowa's hard-crashing tackle,
was named today by the United Press as college football's "lineman of the year" for 1957.
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Track Team Starts Indoor Workouts
The Jayhawk track team has moved indoors for many practice sessions before the opening meet of the indoor season on Feb 8.
Retiring from the cross country season after setting a new record of 11 straight conference victories, Kansas will have what Coach Bill Easton terms, "one of the finest indoor schedules we've ever had."
Easton is putting together another formidable squad despite the lack of a pole vaulter and a shortage of high hurdlers. The Kansas team will be going for its seventh straight indoor title this season.
Opening with Oklahoma here, they will face Michigan State in East Lansing, then return home to face the Wolverines here, followed by arch rival Missouri here and then the Big Eight Conference meet in Kansas City Feb. 28-1.
"We want to have anyone who is interested to come out and try for the indoor team," Coach Easton said.
Another Top Squad
Thirteen lettermen return from last season, Bob Cannon, a high jumper scholastically ineligible last year, and Jim Londerholm, javelin thrower, who was sidelined with a bad elbow will return to the squad after a year's layoff. Eleven were lost through graduation.
Most noticeable improvement will occur in the dashes and low hurdles with Charlie Tidwell eligible after low grades held him back last year. He had a time of :60.1 in the 60-yard dash and a :69.7 for the 100-yard dash.
He'll be joined by Ernie Shelby, two-time NAAU broad jump champion, who also excels in the sprints and low hurdles. He was ineligible last year due to the junior college transfer rule.
Junior lettermen Bob Lida in the 60 and 100-yard dashes and John Davis and Verne Gauby will give KU added strength.
Tillman Gives Strength Bill Tillman, who gained a third in the conference outdoor low hurdles, will join Tidwell in the low hurdles. Tillman will also compete with Dave Freeman, senior veteran, and Bob Henderson in the high hurdles.
Tillman Gives Strength
One loss will be felt from the lack of the Stroup boys, Larry and Lou, who were place winners in the 440 yard dash.
Taking up the slack in the 440 and 880-yard dashes and mile run will be Mike Cummins; Ray
Wichita Defeats Texas Western, 71-48
WICHITA — (UP) — Wichita employed the zone defense's greatest antidote, torrid outside shooting, Wednesday night to win its second straight hardwood victory, a 71-48 decision over Texas Western. The Shockers, touted as the school's strongest representative in at least three seasons, pulled away to a 20-10 lead midway in the opening period and used substitutes freely the rest of the way.
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The two-mile event will include Jerry McNeal, two-time league two-mile indoor champion; Berry Crawford; Verlyn Schmidt; Bob Harrison, and Travis.
Kent Floerke and Shelby will give Kansas a one-two punch in the broad jump. The graduation of Dave Tams and Bob Lewis left Kansas without a pole vaulter. As for the relays, with all the talent, Easton should be able to get together an adequate crew.
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