KU wins second in tennis finals
By CHIP ROUSE
Oklahoma's tennis team captured all seven matches this weekend en route to its second successive Big Eight title.
KANSAS WAS SECOND.
The two-days tournament was moved to the Sooner field house Saturday due to a heavy downpour.
Oklahoma wen the championship with 66 points, followed by Kansas at 45.
STEVE STOCKTON of OU ran into trouble in the second round against Bill Terry of KU. The Sooner ace blanked Terry in the first set, 6-0, but the Jayhawk netter came back to take the second, 6-1. The third and deciding set went extra games before Stockton won, 7-5.
Sid Kanter of KU pulled the biggest upset of the tournament when he knocked off No.2 seeded Bill Austin of Oklahoma State in the first round of the No.3 singles. Kanter went on to defeat Ron Oxenhandler of Missouri in the second round, 10-8, 6-2, before losing to Gerry Perry of Oklahoma in the finals.
KU's Jim Keller pulled another first round upset downing K-State's Dennis Patterson, 6-4, 6-3.
Patterson was No. 2 seeded in the No. 5 singles.
THE JAYHAWK NETMEN fared well in the opening round, with all five men advancing to the second round. However, Terry fell to Stockton in the second round, and John Towner of KU lost to OU's Hal McCoy.
KU's Bill Debaun, Kanter, and Keller all advanced to the final round. But Debaun lost to Dick Gilkey of Oklahoma in the No. 4 singles, 6-4, 6-3; Kanter dropped his match with Perry, 6-8, 8-6, 6-2; and Keller lost to John Hampton of OU, 6-3, 6-2.
In doubles action, McCoy and Gilkey won the No. 1 doubles by defeating Terry and Kanter 6-4, 6-2. The same two schools batted in the No. 2 doubles with OU's Stockton and Perry defeating Towner and Debaun.
THE EIGHT POINTS which the Jayhawks picked up with Friday's victories broke a pre-meet tie with K-State and Oklahoma State.
Following Oklahoma and KU in the scoring were Oklahoma State with 39 points, K-State 35, Colorado 27, Missouri 18, Iowa State 8, and Nebraska 6.
Rains cancel Big 8 golf finals; OSU wins
A cold, steady downpour Saturday forced postponement of the Big Eight Conference golf championships after completion of 36 holes.
Oklahoma State captured top team honors for the ninth time in the scheduled 54-hole tournament with a combined total of 592. Grier Jones of Oklahoma State tied for medalist honors with defending Big Eight champion Hale Irwin of Colorado. Both had two-round scores of 146.
JONES COMPLETED the 18-hole University of Oklahoma golf course in 74 strokes Friday morning, and followed in the afternoon session with a par 72.
Irwin also tied Oklahoma State's Mike Dicello for the best round of the day with a one-under-par 71. Both scores were fired in the morning session.
OSU placed four golfers in the top ten for the day's action.
Oklahoma finished second with a score of 607. The Sooners trailed by only two strokes, 297-299, after 18 holes, but fell 15 strokes back during the afternoon round.
PACED BY IRWIN. Colorado placed third with a total score of 619, and Nebraska finished fourth at 626.
K-State finished fifth in the tourney with a 631. Ron Schmeedemed, who had two rounds of 68 to his credit this spring, fired a 77-76 for a combined total of 153.
A score of 639 placed the KU linksmen seventh in the team standings. Bill Hess led the Jayhawk squad with rounds of 78-76. Bob Wells shot 160, Charles Peffer 162, Bill Southern 163, and Jack Clevenger 168.
MISSOURI FINISHED three strokes behind KU.
Big Eight track meet is all wet
Nebraska's fastest, Charley Greene, had a big gripe about the condition of the track at Oklahoma last Friday right after he ran a 9.7 hundred-yard dash in Big Eight championship prelimits.
By MIKE WALKER
"It's a real bad track. They outa water this thing down," panted the Seattle, Wash., speedster.
Charley must have mentioned the condition of the track in his prayers Friday night, because before the sun came up Saturday, it started to sprinkle . . . then the sprinkle turned into a shower, and the shower into a day-long deluge of water.
The world's fastest looked towards the heavens and smiled. But as he smiled, a big drop plopped down on his famous trademark, his sun glasses. Undaunted, he just wiped them off and ducked back into the shelter of the Owen Field grandstands.
Inside, under the shelter of the stands, the athletes gathered with each other to talk. Some were nervous and paced back and forth. They would run around the dirt track that Oklahoma trackmen run on indoors. Others were standing in the doorway looking forlornly at the water-soaked track across the street. Some were happy and joked and punched each other.
KU's Gary Tucker wore a bright orange slicker. He wondered if the film the photographers were using was color. Plastic dry-cleaner's bags were one way that the trackmen solved the problem of getting wet. They would stick their heads through the hanger hole and poke their arms through the sides. KU's spikers solved this problem neatly. They were issued transparent plastic rain suits.
Meanwhile, the decision had to be made. While the Big Eight coaches conferred, the rain had now soaked the track so much that it had filled it to ankle-depth. Around the curves, it was much deeper.
The coaches had their conference inside the Sooner dressing room. In one corner, water was leaking through the roof and splashed on the shoes of one door guard who looked up unhappily.
The tennis courts looked like a rectangular asphalt lake. So the matches were moved inside the field house. A small crowd gathered to watch the singles competition. One of the reporters covering the match should receive hazardous duty pay. A sizzling smash by Gerry Perry, OU, went wild and thudded against the reporter's chest. Apparently no bones were broken.
Many of those who had driven to Norman for the championships were upset to hear that the finals had been postponed until Sunday afternoon, especially OU runners, because final exams were to begin Monday. But many welcomed the extra day to rest.
Next year's outdoor track and field Big Eight championships have been proposed to be held at Boulder, Colo.
America's cup
NEW YORK—(UPI)—The first America's Cup yacht race was one of the carnival features of the London Exposition of 1851, says the World Almanac.
The race, open to all classes of yachts from every part of the world, covered a 60-mile course around the Isle of Wight. The prize was a cup worth about $500, donated by the Royal Yacht Squadron of England and known as the "America's Cup" because it was first won by the U.S. yacht America.
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