Jayhawk javelin champ to try for second title
Because of their traditional mastery in their specialties, Missouri's Gene Crews and the Jayhawk's Tom Purma go into tomorrow's Big Eight Conference track and field championships at Columbia, Mo., as strong favorites to win their events.
Crews, the best shot-putter in Big Eight history, claimed the all-time league record at the conference indoor when he splattered the chalk dust at the 61'-7 1/4" spot. This is a foot better than the outdoor record and previous all-time best held by KU's Olympic Gold Medalist Bill Neider.
In the javelin competition at this year's Big Eight Championships, the Jayhawks' Purma will be trying to win his second title in three years. He has a good chance.
NO ONE in the Big Eight has ever seriously challenged Crews in the shot. His top rival this year has been Nebraska's Jim Beltzer who has been throwing the 16-pound ball 58 feet all season. During this year, Beltzer has added three feet to his previous best efforts.
The third position on the list of the Big Eight's top shot-putters belongs to KU's Gary Barr. So far the Jayhawk, who weighs only 185 pounds, has thrown the shot 55'-6".
He has a good chance. PURMA has won the event at the Drake and Kansas Relays this year and at the recent KU-
Southern Illinois dual. He has consistently thrown the javelin around 236 feet which is 15 feet better than his nearest Big Eight competitor, Bud Roper of Kansas State.
Purma won the javelin at the Big Eight meet two years ago, but had to settle for second last year as he lost to Wildeat Bill Floerke. However, last year he was good enough to be chosen All-America.
The conference record of 256'-10" set by KU's Bill Alley in 1859 is probably a bit out of Purma's reach and definitely out of the grasp of any other Big Eight competitor.
ANOTHER JAYHAWK trying for a second title on the Conference circuit is Gary Schwartz, discus thrower. Schwartz is the defending Big Eight league meet discus champion and has this year thrown the platter 178"-9 1/2". This is only 5 1/2 feet behind the record set by another KU Olympian, Al Oerter in 1956.
Schwartz will probably have some rough competition this weekend in going after the record as Oklahoma State's Miles Lister, Oklahoma's Carl Pellegrini, and Crews and Barr will all be chasing him in the discus. Lister, Pellegrini, and Barr have all thrown over 165 feet, and although Crews has not competed in the discus too much, he is, according to his coach, capable of anything.
SPRING TOURNEYS
Big 8 teams vie at MU
By United Press International The Big Eight outdoor track and field championships are only part of the action headlining a busy weekend of Conference spring sports at the University of Missouri.
Missouri also plays host this weekend to the league's tennis and golf championships and at least six football bowl representatives were expected for the conference's annual spring football meeting Saturday.
Oklahoma's unbeaten Sooners were the favorites today at the opening of the two-day tennis championships.
The Sooners entered championship play with a conference dual record of 8-0.
Defending champion Kansas, 3-4 in league play, returns only John Grantham and Bill Terry from its championship squad.
Oklahoma State shoots for its ninth consecutive golf crown at the hilly, tree-lined, par-72 A. L. Gustin Jr. course.
THE COWBOYS, coached by Labron Harris, have been a national collegiate golf power for two decades.
Only state-rival Oklahoma and Colorado, headed by Buff football star and two-time state amateur titlist Hale Irwin, are rated a chance at derailing the Cowboys.
Bowl representatives were expected Saturday from the Blue-
bonnet, Cotton, Gator, Sugar,
Orange and Sun.
The Big Eight and Orange Bowl severed an 11-year relationship two years ago.
Presenting The Drinking Song for Sprite:
"ROAR, SOFT-DRINK, ROAR!"
(To the tune of "Barbara Fritchie")
Traditionally, a lusty, rousing fight song is de riguré for every worthy cause and institution. But we wrote a song for Sprite anyway. We'd like you to sing it while drinking Sprite, though this may cause some choking and coughing. So what? It's all in good, clean fun. And speaking of good, clean things, what about the taste of Sprite? It's good. It's clean. However, good clean things may not exactly be your idea of jollies. In that case, remember that Sprite is also very refreshing. "Tart and tingling," in fact. And very collegiate. And maybe we'd better quit while we're ahead. So here it is. The Drinking Song For Sprite. And if you can get a group together to sing it--we'd be very surprised.
Roar, soft drink, roar!
You're the loudest soft drink
we ever sawr!
So tart and tingling, they
couldn't keep you quiet:
The perfect drink, guy,
To sit and think by,
Or to bring instant refreshment
To any campus riot! 000000h--
Roar, soft drink, roar!
Flip your cap, hiss and bubble,
fizz and gush!
Oh we can't think
Of any drink
That we would rather sit with!
Or (if we feel like loitering)
to hang out in the stit with!
Or sleep through English lit' with!
Roar! Soft drink! Roar!
Yeahhhhhhhhhhhh, SPRITE!
SPRITE. SO TART AND
SPRITE. SO TART AND
TINGLING. WE JUST COULDN'T
KEEP IT QUIET.
By United Press International Title-consequence Oklahoma and pitching-rich Missouri clash today in a doubleheader at Norman, Oklah., which opens a crucial weekend of Big Eight Conference baseball.
OU, MU series crucial
MISSOURI, riding the crest of a five-game winning streak and searching for its fifth consecutive title, trailed the pace-setting Sooners, 8-3, by two games in the loss column as the league schedule headed into its next to last weekend.
The Tigers are 7-5.
The Tigers are 7-5.
In another crucial showdown, Kansas State met Oklahoma State in a doubleheader at Manhattan, where both clubs were deadlocked for third with 8-6 marks.
OTHER doubleheaders today found Iowa State, 6-5, at Kansas,
2-10, and Colorado, 5-10, at Nebraska, 8-7.
All sites conclude the weekend schedule with single games tomorrow.
The Oklahoma-Missouri series shaped up as a pitching dual with the Tigers' 2.60 ERA the best in the league and the 2.68 mark by the Sooner mound corps rated second.
KU closes out its home season with its three game series against the Iowa State Cyclones. The Jayhawks have one away series left with Oklahoma State at Stillwater, next weekend.
Daily Kansan Friday, May 13, 1966
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