Net men open at KSU
By Ron Hanson
KU's tennis team, the Big Eight champions for the past two seasons, begins action this weekend against Kansas State in Manhattan with a completely rebuilt squad.
Only one of the Jayhawks' top five tennis players of last season returns this year. Three of the top five individual positions are not yet determined.
ALREADY DEGIDED as the top one and two players on coach
Mulcahy's team are John Grantham, Topeka senior, and Bill Terry, Hutchinson junior. Grantham was also the number one player on last year's team which compiled a 17-1 record. Terry received distinction last summer as the winner of the Kansas Jayhawk Open Tournament in Topeka.
Today the numbers three, four and five positions on the team will be decided from the results of a round-robin tournament
that has been going on for the past week.
According to Mulcahy, the number three position on the team will go to either Mike Allen, St. Louis, Mo. sophomore, or Bruce Landeck, Prairie Village sophomore, depending upon which one defeats the other in the finish of the round robin today. The loser of this match will become the fourth ranked player on the squad.
Rugby club teams tally double wins
KU's rugby club began the second half of its season successfully with both teams recording victories in Kansas City last weekend.
By David Finch
The first team, the Jays, beat Kansas City 6-0 and so recorded its first victory over this team. The points were scored by the captain, Bill Pritchard, graduate student from Wales, who scored a try, and Jack Lembeck, St. Louis, Mo., senior, who added the other three points from a penalty.
"This was largely a game of scrums," said Bernie Hayen, Erie senior and club president. "The narrow pitch-field made open rugby difficult and the forwards were unable to get the bail cut to the wings."
Hayen said he was particularly pleased with the performance of the second team, the Hawks, who beat Rockhurst College 3-0. The Hawks played a fine defensive game, being on their own 25-yard line most of the time. Often the Rockhurst team was foiled
when only inches short of the line.
The Hawks' tackling was the major deciding factor, Hayen said. They tackled low and hard. "There were some spectacular tackles when Rockhurst looked like scoring."
The Hawks' points came from a try by Dave McDonald, Admiire freshman, who scored after excellent approach work and a 25-yard run. But the extra two points for a conversion were missed.
After the game all four teams retired to "The Place" for traditional rugby refreshment.
Hayen reported no injuries, and so the teams will be little changed for their matches in Lawrence this Saturday The Javs will play Rockhurst College at 3 p.m. after the Hawks vs. Kansas City game at 1 p.m. Both matches will be held on the KU rugby pitch on Quigley Field, which is behind the baseball diamond and between the new dorm on Naismith and the Stouffer apartments.
THERE ARE at least four men vying for the fifth position on the team and they include: Don Gordy, Hutchinson junior; Jean Russel, Independence, Miss. sophomore; Jim Keller, Russell sophomore; and Ken Kreye, Lawrence junior. Mulcahy said there will be more players on the team than just five, but that is the number who can participate in the singles matches for the meets.
The two doubles teams have already been determined for this season and they are: Grantham and Terry, first team and Landeck and Allen, second team.
MULCAHY SAID, "Although we lost four of our top players through graduation this year, we still have the makings of a pretty good team. Our freshmen are real good and will add greatly to next year's team."
K-State's tennis team will open on Friday by meeting the Washburn Ichabods of Topeka on the Wildcat courts. Coach Karl Finney's netmen will play host to Kansas on Saturday.
Finney has three lettermen back in senior Bob Hauber and juniors Mike Kraus and Dan Millis.
Concerning the Kansas State match Saturday, Mulcahy said the Wildcats should be hard to beat because they have essentially the same team back this year that played last year.
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Kansas basketball players picked for All-Star games
Delly Lewis, KU quarterback, is one of the latest names to be added to the North's roster for the North-South All Star basketball game to be played at Wichita State University, April 2.
The other player picked for the North is Cazzy Russell, best college basketball player of 1965. Already named to the North's team are Chuck Gardner, the Big Eight's scoring champion from Colorado and Lewis Hudson, a sharpshooter from Minnesota. Walt Wesley 6-11 Kansas center, was picked for the team last weekend.
Tickets for the North-South All Star game went on sale at Wichita yesterday. It is not yet determined if the game will be televised, according to Phil Dynan, KU's Sports Publicity Director.
Practice for the game will probably start on March 29, three days before the game, at Wichita State's field house.
Walt Wesley, 6-11 All-American Kansas center, will play for the West in the East-West game at Lexington, Ky. Saturday.
The basketball game, sponsored by the University of Kentucky, will be played in the university's fieldhouse from where it will probably be televised, according to Dynan.
World's longest basketball game
Bellnap College, Meredith, N. H., has claimed the record for the world's longest basketball game. Two five-man squads of students played for 34 consecutive hours, pausing only for five-minute food breaks each hour. Team "B" defeated team "A" 2,865-2,400.
10 Daily Kansan Wednesday, March 23. 1966