Field events may steal Big 8 show
Pole vault, high jump line-ups to be filled with stars
By Ron Hanson For the first time in the 59-year history of Big Eight conference track, a 16-foot pole vaulter and a seven-foot high jumper will be competing in the Conference Championships.
Colorado's Chuck Rogers, who rode his fiber glass whip to a height of 16"-5" last weekend, and Oklahoma's Ron Tull, owner of a 7"-1½" leap, give the Big Eight this unusual jumping distinction on the eve of this weekend's meet at Columbia, Mo.
DAILY sports KANSAN Scholarship halls exhibit track talent
By Girma Negash
Both men's and women's scholarship halls participated in a track meet last weekend in Memorial Stadium with Sellars winning the women's trophy and Grace Pearson and Battenfeld fying for the men's.
The track meet was sponsored by the Men's Scholarship Hall
Intramural softballers near end
Council, according to Don Potter, athletic coordinator of the event.
The 1966 Intramural softball season will come to an end at KU next weekend when the playoffs for the Hill Championship start on Monday.
But the champions must first face a Delta Upsilon team before they can claim the title of champion candidate for the Greeks against the Independents. The DU's have lost only one game.
As usual an exciting week will be opening up as the Independents try to snatch the trophy from the Greek's Sigma Alpha Epsilon, last year's champions who are rated high this year with an unblemished record.
THE INDEPENDENTS are racing neck-and-neck to the line also. The Delta Functions and the Scrocs have both lost just one game as they meet next week in semi-finals that will decide which one will face the formidable Greeks.
In the men's 100 yard dash Battenfeld and Grace Pearson tied with two freshmen, Mark Alley, Hiawatha, and Harvey Hutchison, Holton, breaking the wire in 11.3 seconds. With a time of 1:45.2, Battenfield won the 880 yard relay.
HARVEY HUTCHISON of Grace Pearson won the 440 yard dash in 56.3 seconds and Gerald Gentry, another Grace Pearson resident, won the 880 yard run with a 2:18.4.
The medley relay went to Jolliffe Hall with a time of 4:13. Joseph Fromme, Hoxie freshman from Stephenson Hall, won the 220 yard dash in 25.6 seconds. Battenfeld won the mile relay.
In the high jump, Rich Harrison, Hays freshman from Pearson, cleared 5'-5". Steven Davis from Stephenson Hall, Lyons freshman, hurled the shot put 43'-7". Paul Vighill, Shawnee freshman, Battenfeld, broad jumped $20^{-11} \%$
In the women's events, Neva Bender, Luray freshman, Sellards, won the 50 yard dash with an 8.2 seconds time, and the 100 yard sprint with a 13.5. The 440 relay also went to Sellards.
CAROL SWAIM, Manhattan sophomore, also from Sellards, long jumped 14'-1" to pile up more points for her hall.
Jane Zimmerman, Fort Scott junior from Watkins, threw 149' in softball throw. In the high jump, Carol Swaim of Sellards cleared the bar at 4'-5" to tie for first with Doris Johnson, Luray sophomore, also from Sellards.
Sellards compiled 39 points to win the women's trophy, followed by Douthart with 19 points and Watkins with 12.
Knicks to get 1st crack at Russell in NBA draft
NEW YORK—(UPI)—The New York Knickerbockers were expected to select Michigan All-America Cazzie Russell today in the annual National Basketball Association draft of college players.
The Knicks won the right to choose first on the basis of a last place finish in the Eastern Division and the winning of a coin flip with Detroit, basement dweller in the Western Division.
Detroit had the right to choose second, followed, in order, by San Francisco, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago.
THE NEW CHICAGO franchise,
which secured the nucleus of a
ROGERS and Tull make up only a portion of the pole vaulting, high jumping, broad jumping, and triple jumping field which has produced pre-meet performances well over the existing Conference records.
team in a recent league player pool, was to receive two choices in the second round as it picked third and fourth in the rotation.
Russell, the United Press International college player of the year for 1965-66, was available to the Knicks because the NBA abandoned territorial choices last year. Otherwise, Detroit would have had first crack at the high-scoring forward.
Detroit still had several strong selections in the offing, such as Dave Bing, of Syracuse, top college scorer Dave Schellhase of Purdue, Clyde Lee of Vanderbilt, Hank Finkel of Dayton, Jerry Chambers of Utah, Dick Nemelka of Brigham Young, and Jack Marin of Duke.
Even with Rogers approaching the intercollegiate pole vault record of 16'-9", and being chased by Oklahoma's Jim Farrell, who shows a seasonal high of 15'-7", an unparalleled group of high jumpers might take the spotlight.
TULL, teammate Jim Johnson,
and the defending outdoor champion,
Missouri's Steve Herndon,
have tied up in some spectacular clashes in head-on meetings this year. When going against each other, all have been above $'10^12''$, the previous varsity best in the Conference before Tull made his seven foot plus jump.
Each of the three top high jumpers has beaten the other in a big meet. After Tull won the Big Eight indoor, Hernndon beat him in the NCAA indoor championships. Johnson beat both of them at the Texas Relays with a leap of "6-11", his career best.
In the long jump, KU has a definite chance for victory with Gary Ard, also a triple jumper, leading the way. He has bested the current meet records in both events but he leads the pre-meet field in only the broad jump, even though his best at the hop, step,
and jump is some four inches over the standard.
THE TRIPLE jump belongs to Oklahoma's long-stepping Lee Calhoun, who uncorked a 48' -7½" at the Kansas Relays. This performance is topped by only three on the Big Eight all-time list.
Still being considered in both events is KU's Art Cortez. He has been over 25 feet in the broad jump this year, but has been on the sidelines the last two weeks with a muscle pull.
Surging into the jumping scene last weekend were Iowa State's Gerald Vande Garde and Colorado's Roger Allen and Bob
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Bauers. Vande Garde broke 46 feet in the triple jump while Allen joined Calhoun and Ard at the 47-plus plateau.
Competing collegately for the first time in the broad jump, Bauers, a Buffalo basketball veteran, hit 23" -8½", the third best in the league at that time.
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