Season tourneys keep Oread bowlers rolling
KU's varsity bowlers don't draw crowds of 17,000 but their record shows they are adept at bowling down opponents.
Bascom C. Fearing, Kansas Union recreation manager, coaches the men's and women's bowling teams which participate in four different types of regional bowling competitions each year.
THE BIG EIGHT postal tournament is one of the regional contests the KU teams participate in. Men and women roll once a week throughout the winter, their scores being sent to the Big Eight for recording.
In this year's postal the KU women's team currently holds first place with 54 wins and 10 losses. Oklahoma State is in second place with Oklahoma in third.
In the men's division, Iowa presently has first place with 47 wins and 17 losses, while KU holds third place behind Oklahoma University.
The Big Eight postal tournament concludes April 29-30 with the spring bowling finals for both men and women at Kansas State University.
THE ASSOCIATION of College Unions annually sponsors a series of February regional tournaments, some of which lead to national playoffs. In its fifth year, the Association sponsored competition this year in bowling, billiards, chess and table tennis.
Lyle Griffith, Lawrence senior, won the regional women's bowling competition and will represent KU at the national playoff in New Orleans, April 17. The Women's International Bowling Congress hosts the Intercollegiate Tournament.
Miss Griffith took four firsts in regional competition with high scores in the team event, women's doubles, women's singles—her high score of 1611 pins took the second place winner by 90 pins—and a first in all events.
Tom Branch, Kansas City senior, won the regional's men's bowling division. The KU men's team took fifth place in the team event. Tom Muniz, San Juan, Puerto Rico, freshman, and Rod Hefley, Bonner Springs sophomore, placed first in men's doubles and Hefley rolled a high of 685 to win first in the singles competition.
THIS YEAR the KU women's team is participating in the National Physical Education Bowling Championships. During the past five years, KU has placed teams in the finals to take several second places. The KU team won first place in 1965 and is presently in fourth place.
Wisconsin State leads with 81.5 points, Southwest Texas State ranks second with 75 points, Oregon State holds third place with 66 points, and KU follows with 58.5 points.
Participating women's bowling teams roll three games in December, February, March and April. Scores of 1-15 points are tabulated by mail for each school. Individual players may add 1-15 points to their team's total points by rolling the highest single game and the highest three-game series each month.
LAST SATURDAY, KU's men's and women's teams competed in a Big Eight meet in the Kansas Union. Kansas State, National Intercollegiate Bowling Association zone champions, won the men's division, Wichita State placed second and KU third. KU placed second in the women's division with 34 wins behind Oklahoma State which tallied 39 wins.
Three KU student-members of the Lawrence Boxing Club were among the club's four winners in the Golden Gloves boxing tournament held at Wichita last Saturday.
Jayhawk boxers take Golden Glove titles
T. J. DiBiase, Omaha, Neb,
sophomore, won the novice heavy-
weight title by knocking out his
Wichita opponent, Rus Qualls, in
58 seconds of the first round.
Les Steckel, Fullerton, Pa., sophomore and KU football halfback, defeated Gus Noble. Kansas Wesleyan, by a decision, to win the light-heavyweight crown.
Mark Brooks, Lawrence junior,
outscored Frank Lawson, also of
the Lawrence Boxing Club, to
win the novice welterweight title.
Tony Estelle, one of Lawrence's more polished novices, used crosses to the body and head to defeat Ted Hallay of Wichita in winning the novice middle-weight championship. In his semi-finals victory Estelle sent Leon Hines of Wichita through the ropes into the first row.
Wichita retained the team trophy by pooling the wins of two Wichita clubs.
Michael D. Murray, Prairie Village sophomore, fought Gene Nolan, Wichita favorite and pro hopeful, in a close bout which Nolan won in a disputed split decision.
Harry Rayton, from Lawrence, broke a two-year jinx by defeating his first opponent, but was later disqualified by Wichita officials because "he wouldn't hold up in the nationals."
8 Daily Kansan Tuesday, March 15, 1966
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