-Staff photo by Bill Stephens
WALT WESLEY All-American
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Frosh swimmers win Big 8 postal
Kansas, at least temporarily, has broken Oklahoma's domination of Big Eight Conference swimming honors by winning the league's freshman postal meet, according to results released yesterday by the Conference office.
Topping seven of the individual events, one of the relays, and placing at least one man in all but one of the events, the Jayhawks were able to roll up 120 points.
IOWA STATE, with points in all but three events, was a distant second with $ 80_{1 / 2} $ points. Oklahoma (61) and Missouri (58), both in the second year of intercollegiate swimming, rounded out the first division.
Oklahoma, the perennial champion and the winner of last year's freshman postal and varsity championship and the favorite in this weekend's Big Eight varsity competition, was fifth with 49. For the first time in freshman postal records, a Sooner individual did not garner a first place.
Heading the balanced Kansas
effort were the meet's triple winners, Roy O'Connor, Lawrence, and Jim Kent, Wichita. O'Connor won the 50, 100, and 200 freestyle sprints, carding a 1:49.6 in the 200 for a new conference freshman mark. In the 100, he was only a tenth off the current standard. He also swam on the winning 800-yard freestyle relay team.
KENT TOOK both distance freestyle pushes, the 500 and 1,650, in addition to showing his versatility by adding the 200 butterfly to his collection. Mark Meeinger, Topeka, won the 200 breaststroke to round out the Kansas title runs.
Wesley adds bigness' to Jayhawk basketball
Walt Wesley, KU's biggest basketball player in every sense of the word since Wilt Chamberlain, has been named to the United Press International All-America second team it was announced yesterday.
A double winner was Oklahoma State's Ken Lemaster, who gave the Cowboys their first Conference swimming titles by winning the 100 butterfly and 200 individual medley. A second Poke getting into the act was Bob Workman, 100 backstroke champion. Missouri also got its initial league swimming first with Mike Dupre in the 400 individual medley.
By Ron Hanson
The 6-11 Jayhawk pivot was also named to the Associated Press All-America third team, the Sporting News All-America first team, and to both the AP and UPI All-Big Eight Conference teams.
WESLEY, who is playing his last games for KU with his senior season almost completed, ranks third only to former all-Americans Clyde Lovellette and Chamberlain on KU's all-time scoring list.
Wesley, the Big Eight's top scorer, was not always a great player as he did not even go out for basketball until his sophomore year in high school at Fort Myers. Fla.
"I wouldn't say I made the team as a sophomore in high school, let's just say I was on it," Wesley said.
HE AVERAGED only 12 points a game in high school and was only a part-time starter as a KU freshman. Wesley played only one semester as a sophomore, although he averaged 10.5 points per game before becoming ineligible that year.
Last year, "Big" Walt came into his own as he guided the Jayhawks to a second place finish in the Big Eight with a 26.5 scoring average and nine rebounds a game.
Wesley's scoring last year was second only to Chamberlain's 1958 average of 28.3, but Wesley bested Chamberlain's field goal record and set a Big Eight record as he hit 150 goals from the field last season.
WESLEY IS AGAIN the leading scorer and rebounder for Kansas, hitting 49 per cent of his field goal attempts and 62 per
cent at the free throw line. He has scored a total of 481 points in 23 games for an average of 20.9 per game.
Wesley has taken the KU rebound leadership with a slight edge over teammate Al Lopes. The big man has a total of 198 rebounds compared to 181 for Lopes.
Wesley is currently the leading scorer of the Big Eight Conference with 252 points in 12 games for an average of 21.0 points a game. He is fourth in the conference in rebounding with a 9.3 game average and fourth in field goal accuracy, hitting a smooth 52.6 per cent.
WESLEY'S SCORING average is considerably below what it was last year, but there is a reason. The Jayhawks do not gear their attack toward Wesley as much with a better balanced club and his back-up-man, 6-6 sophomore Rodger Bohnenstiehl, who leads the Big Eight in field goal percentage with 64 per cent accuracy.
"Our club is better balanced this year and now our attack isn't geared for me," Wesley said.
Presently, the Big Eight basketball race is in a deadlock as KU and Nebraska both have 11-1 records. After clobbering NU last week, 110-73, the Jayhawks will play Kansas State Saturday and must win if they are to stay in the race. Should KU and the Corn-
huskers win their remaining games, a playoff will be held in Manhattan to determine the conference champion.
OF THIS WESLEY said, "I think we have a very good chance to win the Big Eight—even a good chance in the NCAA, more so now than at the beginning of the season. We are a more relaxed team now; and we have great confidence; it will be hard to beat us now."
KU has a background full of great postmen who have led the Jayhawks to the NCAA. KU rooters are hoping big Walt Wesley will do the same.
Relays ref named
Carl V. Rice, attorney at law,
Kansas City, has been named
honorary referee of the 41st Annual Kansas Relays to be held on April 21-22-23, Bob Timmons, KU head track coach, announced yesterday.
A graduate of KU, class of 1918, Rice was an outstanding track athlete during his university career.
Rice has been an official at each Kansas Relays since the start of the meet in 1923.
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