MITCHELL REPORTS
'Hawks look good in spots'
By Ron Hanson
KU's football team waged its most rigorous scrimmage of the spring practice sessions last Saturday with the offensive unit scoring four touchdowns.
Lasting for two and a half hours, the scrimmage was the second of the spring season. Head coach Jack Mitchell said that the team looked good in spots, but that the players were sometimes erratic.
MITCHELL said, "The team morale is good. The boys are playing like they like it."
Relating this spring's Jayhawk squad with last year's, Mitchell said the team is doing better with less ability, but last year the team had more experience in spots.
The standout player of Saturday's scrimmage was freshman quarterback Bob Douglass. The former El Dorado high school
star scored two touchdowns himself and passed for another. Mitchell said that although Douglass is strong, he has much to learn. He also said that he thought Douglass learned much Saturday.
Douglass scored his touchdowns on keeper plays from one and ten yards away. His pass for another counter was a 70 yard throw to Donny Shanklin. Douglass actually passed for two touchdowns, but one was made on an interception by defensive back, Bill Hunt. Scoring the only tally for the defensive unit, Hunt ran 38 yards after his interception for the touchdown.
THE FOURTH touchdown for
the offensive team was scored by another freshman, Junior Riggins. On his first carry of the day, Riggins galloped 70 yards for the score.
Concerning the outstanding players of the day, Mitchell simpled out backs Douglass, Riggins, Shanklin, John Jackson, Ron Goates, Bill Esters and tackle Keith Christensen as all having good practices offensively. All of these men are freshmen.
Defensively, Mitchell said that backs Tom Ball, David Morgan, and Bob Druten, middle guard Ken Wertzberger, tackle Bill Greene, and ends John Zook and Doug Knop all played well.
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TWO VARSITY prospects were lost to the football team Saturday as Larry Bill, defensive end, suffered two broken bones in his right leg and was taken to Watkins hospital. Also Rod Taylor, a
Pro-baseball nabs rich TV contracts
NEW YORK—(UPI)—It took baseball a while to get started but it's finally catching on to the knack of signing king-size television contracts.
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O-State nine leading Big 8
By United Press
Oklahoma State enters the home stretch of the Big Eight baseball race with an uncomfortable one-game lead and the unpleasant task of meeting resurgent Missouri in the Tigers' den on this weekend.
The Tigers, seeking an unprecedented fifth consecutive title, got off to a rocky start—losing five of their first seven games—before bouncing back last weekend against Nebraska.
A THREE-GAME sweep from the Cowboys could launch Missouri back into a contender's role. The Tigers, 4-5, host the Cowboys, 8-3, in a Friday doubleheader and a Saturday single game.
Second place Kansas State, 7-4,
plays host to Nebraska, 5-6; Iowa
State, 4-4, entertains Colorado,
4-8, and Oklahoma, 5-3, plays at
Akansas, 2-7.
Commissioner William D. Eckert announced Tuesday that he has ratified a $12.6 million contract with the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) for television and radio coverage of the All-Star and World Series games in 1967 and 1968.
The new contract amounts to a 68 per cent increase over the annual $3.75 million baseball is now getting under its three-year contract which expires at the end of the 1966 World Series.
THIS contract is independent of the current three-year $18 million pact with NBC for the nationallytelevised Game-of-the-Week. It compares favorably with the huge contracts football has been negotiating since each baseball club also signs a separate contract for local television rights.
The baseball players themselves will benefit most from the newly-signed contracts. Under the players-owners agreement, the baseball players' pension fund will gain 95 per cent of the All-Star game broadcasting revenue and 60 per cent of the World Series radio-television money.
The National Football League's new contract with CBS will enrich the NFL by $37.6 million for regular-season games and $4 million for the championship games.
Oread students to top positions in KRPA branch
Last Saturday on the Washburn University campus in Topeka college students from throughout the state unanimously decided to form a student section to the Kansas Recreation and Parks Administration (KRPA).
At the meeting which was opened to all representatives from all of Kansas' colleges and universities, only those persons representing KU and Washburn attended. The new student section to KRPA is open to all students with an interest in organizing recreation and recreational facilities.
At the first meeting of the student section of KRPA, Saturday, KU students were elected to the top two offices of the organization. Ira Corliss, Miami, Fla., senior, was elected chairman and Wally Thruston, Elmdale sophomore, was elected vice-chairman.
The aim of the student section of KRPA are to enable students to meet and discuss with leaders of their own profession and other students with the same interest. Another objective of the group is to give students an opportunity to be a participant in his own field of interest.
Any student interested in the new organization may contact the above officers for further information.
freshman defensive back, said that he will transfer to Miami University of Florida, according to Mitchell.
Mitchell said that part of the reason for Taylor's transferring is because his father, Bernie, is an assistant football coach at KU.
The younger Taylor was reportedly unhappy playing under the pressure of this situation.
The Jayhawks' next scrimmage will be Saturday. This will lead up to the annual intra-squad game scheduled to be played May 21.
Swimming, golf intramurals set
KU's intramural team golf tournament will be held at the Hillview Golf Course on Saturday, May 21.
The four man team scoring the lowest total in the nine hole medal tournament will be the 1966 intramural team champion.
This year there will be an added award included in the meet. The individual golfer who covers the par 71 course with the lowest score will be presented with a medalist trophy.
About 20 four-man teams entered the tournament last year which was taken by Sigma Chi No.3. Lockwood said.
THE DEADLINE for all golf entries is 4 p.m. Friday, May 13. The entry fee of $1 per team must accompany the entry form. Late entries will not be accepted, according to Robert Lockwood, KU intramurals director.
INTRAMURAL GOLF is no newcomer to the KU non-varsity sports scene. Records show the first season was held in 1930 with competition being held every year since.
Match tournaments for individuals are held in the fall and the medal team competition in the spring.
The deadline date for another KU intramurals sport is also at 4 p.m. Friday, May 13.
THE INTRAMURALS swimming meet will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday, May 17 and 18, in the Old Robinson swimming pool. Preliminaries in all events, except relays and diving, will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 17. The finals will take place Wednesday, May 18.
All preliminary events will be based on time. The eight best times in each event, except for the relays and diving events, will score one qualifying point. The four best times in each event will swim in the finals.
LOCKWOOD SAID each organized house will be limited to one free style relay and one medley relay team. There is no limit as to the number of swimmers each house may enter for each event, but swimmers are limited to two events.
Lockwood asked that swimming managers organize their teams and start practice sessions immediately.
He said, "Competitive swimming is a strenuous activity which requires a great deal of conditioning and work. Boys who hope to compete in the intramural swimming meet must get a minimum of six practice sessions of one hour each."
THE LIFEGUARD on duty will keep a record of practice sessions. Swimmers who fail to get at least six practice sessions before Saturday, May 14, will not be eligible for the intramural swimming meet. A list of swimmers eligible for the meet will be posted on the intramural board in New Robinson Gymnasium, Lockwood said.
Lockwood said there is a possibility that the new pool in New Robinson Gymnasium may be ready in time for the meet, but he presently has no way of knowing for sure.
"The locker room and other equipment is already installed and ready for use. It all depends if the pool itself is ready," he said.
Handball not a new sport at KU
By Girma Negash
A game seemingly not very popular, yet which has been a competitive intramural sport at KU since 1930 is handball.
Sixteen teams have entered into this year's competition which began its season tournament April 25.
ALL TEAMS have reached the second round of intramural handball and one team, the Spoilers, has entered the third round, thanks to a double forfeit by Delta Chi and Tau Kappa Epsilon.
Beta Theta Pi entered two teams and both survived the first round. Beta No. 1 beat Phi Gamma Delta No. 2 and Beta No. 2 beat Delta Tau Delta. In the next round of this knockout competition Beta No. 1 meets Old Timers,
who downed Phi Kappa Psi, and Beta No. 2 plays Phi Gamma Delta No. 1, first round victors over Kappa Sigma.
THE OTHER second round match sees Laws in action against Sigma Chi. Laws qualified at the expense of Phi Delta Theta, and Sigma Chi overcame Sigma Nu.
WHAT the players provide for this game is a glove and a ball about 3" in diameter. The three new courts in the new gymnasium provide the rest.
In the other first round match the Spoilers emerged triumphant over Phi Kappa Sigma.
Third round matches will be completed by May 9 and the final will be played by May 16.
A minimum of four players are needed to make a complete team, but more may be entered. A team
is composed of one doubles and two singles players.
The game consists of 21 points. The team winning two out of three points wins the match. The change of serving and point count is similar to tennis. Your opponent gets a point when you fault and fail to return his service.
FIRST SERVICE is determined by a toss of a coin or common consent. The ball must be bounced on the floor and struck on the first bounce. To be played it must first strike the front wall and then rebound across the short line to the floor before striking the ceiling, back wall or two side walls. The server has two attempts to make a good service.
It is considered to be short when a served ball fails to rebound past the short line or when
it rebounds from the front wall and touches the back wall or ceiling before touching the floor on or back of the short line.
It is considered a short ball too when it rebounds from the front wall, hits on side wall, and then hits the other side wall or back wall before touching the floor on or back of the short line.
It is considered a fault when the server steps over the service line. Two successive shorts, or two successive faults, or a short and a fault puts the server out. Ball hitting the front wall and floor at the same time, counts as a miss. Only one hand may be used to return the ball.
Handball rules are not complicated. The game itself is inexpensive. It is not a spectator sport, but very enjoyable. It is a good
exercise too, as a lot of running is involved.
Participation in intramural handball was strong in its first season 36 years ago, with 220 men entering competition. This pace of 200 or more competitors kept up until 1940 when for some reason participation dropped to 100 men.
Up until recently the number of players for both the fall and spring seasons has fluctuated with a high of 110 in 1957-58 and a low of 20 in 1944-45.
However, in 1963-64,121 men signed up,the highest number since 1940. Last year again the number rose with 175 men entering.
Handball may be making a comeback.