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University Daily Kansan
Friday, March 26, 1965
Sebring Race Tight
sleek red cars of Ferrari, facing their toughest competition in years, have swallowed a bitter pill even before the start of Saturday's 12-hour endurance race.
The Ferraris, only co-favorite this year along with the multitude of Ford Products, rolled out for qualifying runs and night practice with two of their nine cars no longer in the running for world championship points.
The blow came at technical inspection Tuesday. Two of the prototypes—one of them a main contender — were disqualified from running in the prototype class because their ground clearance did not meet international standards.
This put them in the sports car class — which runs here for fun, not for points.
The pill is particularly bitter for Ferrari because it puts two of his cars in the very class that he refused, officially, to run against. None of the nine Ferraris here were entered directly from the factory because Ferrari was miffed over race promotors allowing the sports car class—mostly fast hybrid American cars —to run.
Two streaking white cars from the Texas plains unveiled a secret weapon to further plague the beleaguered racers of Ferrari, seeking their fifth consecutive victory in Saturday's 12-hours of Sebring.
The Ferraris, already beset by Ford and technical problems now must cope with the Chaparralrs, a pair of high bred racers which Thursday drove this 2.5-mile airport course faster than any car before them.
The lead Chaparral, driven by its builder-designer, Jim Hall of Midland, Texas, turned in a lap of 2:57.6 — roughly 105 miles an hour and about eight seconds faster than the competition course record.
Hall's partner, Hap Sharp, took the second Chaparral around only a mile an hour slower, qualifying it second.
Both Chevy-powered cars carry an automatic transmission — apparently the first successful device of its kind in road racing history. But no one will say where the transmission was built, who designed it or even how many gears it has.
Pierce Award Fixed
Rules Let Coaches Talk Now
CHICAGO —(UPI)— Basketball coaches can consult with officials next year, the Rules Committee announced today, but if it's an unjustified protest, it will cost the coach a time out.
Robin Lingle, Missouri's distance ace, was the relays' outstanding award winner last year. He will return to this year's classic.
The committee made three rules changes, effective next season. It allowed the consultation with officials for the first time in the only major change.
A coach can obtain the conference, while the clock is stopped and the ball dead, by requesting it at the scorer's table. The scorer will signal the officials to come to the table and they will confer with both coaches.
ANOTHER change will allow a team to call time out only in the first four seconds bringing the ball up the court after an out-of-bounds play, or in the first eight seconds after a basket or free throw.
If the coach requesting the conference is correct, there will be no time out. If he's overruled, his team will be charged a time out.
The outstanding competitor of the 40th annual Kansas Relays will receive the first Don Pierce Memorial Award, it was announced late Wednesday by the KU Relays Committee
The old rule allowed a team to call time out at any time during the 10 seconds allowed to bring the ball across the center line.
Bill Easton, University of Kansas track coach, often referred to Pierce as "Mr. Jayhawk."
The third change will designate a third space along the foul lanes on
Easton credited Pierce, more than any other journalist, with building the relays, promoting Kansas track and grooming the 30 All-Americans at the University in the past 18 years.
Pierce is the late director of sports information at Kansas. He was fatally injured in a New Year's Eve automobile accident.
Princeton Named Best
NEW YORK —(UPI)— Princeton, Ivy League champion and third in the NCAA major college tournament at Portland, Ore., was named the best major college team in the Eastern College Athletic Conference Thursday.
OU, OSU Track Teams Travel
Oklahoma and Oklahoma State face major competition in outdoor track meets on the road this weekend.
By United Press International
Oklahoma will go to Tempe, Ariz., for a triangular meet with Arizona State and California. The Sooners will stay over until Tuesday night to run an outdoor dual with Arizona at Tucson.
Tuesday night Oklahoma State, which lost an outdoor meet to New Mexico at Stillwater three weeks ago, goes to Fayetteville Saturday for the 14th annual Arkansas Relays.
both sides of the basket, which will be given to the defensive team during free throws.
Under the old rule only two spaces were designated on each side
with the defensive team getting the inside, the offensive team the No. 2 spaces on each side. They will retain these positions under the new rule.
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