Royals pick Wesley in draft
Walt Wesley, KU's All-America center, was the first choice of the Cincinnati Royals in the National Basketball Association draft held yesterday.
The "611", 235-pounder from Kansas was the sixth choice made in yesterday's draft. Wesley, considered the best big man in the draft, averaged close to 10 rebounds a game in college.
The Fort Myers, Fla., native helped lead coach Ted Owens' Jayhawks to the Big Eight championship and a second place finish in the NCAA Midwest Regionals at Lubbock, Tex., where the Hawks lost to Texas Western, the eventual winners of the NCAA crown.
WESLEY averaged 20.5 points per game in regular season play this year and finished second in the Big Eight scoring honors behind Chuck Gardner of Colorado. The big man scored 512 points for all games played before the NCAA competition.
Wesley, upon receiving notice
of the draft choice, said he definitely wants to play professional basketball. Of the team that chose him, the Royals, he said, "I think they are a great team. It would be nice to play for them. This year they were in contention for the league championship, and I'm quite sure they will be again next year."
WESLEY said he hadn't been contacted yet, but "I expect to be contacted within a week." As for receiving a bonus if he signs, Wesley said it is possible, but "less likely in basketball than in football because there is only one league."
Assistant KU basketball coach Sam Miranda, said, "We were very pleased that Walt was drafted by such a good ball club. They are in contention for the league championship almost every year."
He has no military draft worries, being deferred because of a 4F classification for being too tall. The army's height limit is "6'6".
MIRANDA said he is sure Wesley will sign. He said the Jayhawk giant can improve quite a lot, but that he will be an aggressive pro player.
"Right now he is a better shooter than either Wilt Chamberlain or Bill Russell. He has-a better touch." Miranda said.
"I don't think he is near his peak at all. He can be an outstanding professional," he added.
IN OTHER NBA draft action yesterday, the New York Knickerbockers drafted Cazzie Russell. The Knicks grabbed the best player in college basketball for the second straight season when they chose Russell as their number one pick.
Now they hope they don't fail to sign their top pick for the second straight year. Last year they drafted Bill Bradley, who became an American folk hero by leading Ivy League Princeton to the NCAA semifinals. But Bradley spurned a Knick $100,000 contract to go to Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship.
The Detroit Pistons, who lost a flip of the coin for the number one pick and a chance to get Russell, decided to settle for Syracuse's Dae Bing.
San Francisco had third choice and came up with a surprise by grabbing Vanderbilt's 6'9" center Clyde Lee.
Kansas nine to end season with series against I-State
By David Finch
The KU baseball team rounds off its home schedule this weekend with three games against the Iowa State Cyclones. Friday will see a double-header, with a single game on Saturday.
The chances of the Jayhawks winning even one game cannot be good. With a Big Eight record of 2-10 they face a 6-5 Cyclone team which boasts one of the outstanding pitchers in the conference in Tim Van Galder. Van Galder, also a star quarterback for the football team, pitched a no-hitter last weekend against Colorado.
THE JAYHAWKS also enter the game without their leading hitter, Bill Fenton. The Wichita junior has a .343 batting average, but has been dropped by coach Floyd Temple following "a conflict of personal opinion."
On the credit side, pitcher Sandy Buda, Omaha, Neb., junior, returns after missing three games because of an injured left
hand. Buda has an earned run average of 7.11 and a hitting average of .263.
The Jayhawks must tighten their fielding if they are to be in this series with a chance. In the 19 games this season they have committed 57 errors to their opponents 44. Three errors a game is too much for any team which hopes to win.
LAST WEEK'S series against the Sooners was particularly disastrous. In the three games the Jayhawks yielded 16 errors, making it all the easier for Oklahoma to score its 17 runs. The KU pitching has been steady, but this good work goes to waste if there is no support from the field.
The batting lineup this week end is: (1) Bob Skahan, CF, 236;
(2) Al Stoike, 3B, 191; (3) John Adams, C, 233; (4) Sandy Buda, LF, 263; (5) Ron Wallace, RF, 250; (6) Jim Shanks, 1B, 275;
(7) Bob Evilziser, SS, 248; (8)
Chana (1-1) will be the starting pitcher in the first game Friday, while Tom Cooper (1-1) will start the second. The Saturday game will be started by Bill Maddux (3-2).
Duane Lowry, 2B, .200; (9)) Fred
Chana, P., .009.
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ST. LOUIS had the fourth choice and took Lou Hudson of Minnesota; Baltimore selected Duke's Jack Marin, who may forego pro ball for medical school; Cincinnati then took Wesley; Los Angeles grabbed Jerry Chambers of Utah, who starred in the NCAA tourney at College Park, Md.; Boston chose Jim Barnett of Oregon; Philadelphia selected St. Joseph's playmaker Matt Goukas
There were eight rounds of drafting with Philadelphia passing on the final two. Chicago, which was to have drawn twice in the second round, sold one of the spots to Los Angeles for an undisclosed amount of cash. Boston ceded its fourth pick to Baltimore to complete a deal which sent Si Green to the Celtics last season.
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