Jayhawks host OSU in final home track meet
Tonight the KU Jayhawks compete with an equally strong Oklahoma State squad in Allen Fieldhouse.
This will be the last KU meet at home until the Kansas Relays in April.
TRACK COACH Bob Timmons is hopeful that his three ailing aces—Bob Steinhoff, Ken Gaines and Gary Ard—will be ready to participate in the meet, but indicated that their status will not be known until this afternoon.
There will be three freshman events in addition to fourteen varsity events. The 17-event show will start at 6 p.m. with the shot put and the pole vault. The varsity runnings will start with the mile at 7:30.
Steinhoff, the sophomore pole vaulter who has sailed over 16 feet, is bothered with a pulled arm muscle which he injured before the State Federation meet. Gains jerked a knot in his left leg last week while beating Oklahoma star Ron Tull with a high jump of 6-10 and Ard, KU's top broad jumper, has a strained back.
Jim Ryun, who has posted the season's best times among Big Eight runners in the 880,1,000 and two-mile, will restrict his attention to the 880 in the O-State dual.
His best time for the indoor half was against Southern Illinois when he ran 1:52.8, but he ripped off a 1:48.2 baton carry in his share of KU's two-mile relay victory at the Michigan State Relays.
Ryun's other season lows are 2:09.9 for the 1,000,4:02.2 for the mile and 8:44.2 for the two-mile. This last timing came during the State Federation met and it ranks as the sixth best in Big Eight history.
ONLY RYUN'S American record of 8:25.2 and four races last year by ex-Kansan John Lawson were faster than the swift sophomore cranked out in Allen Field House last Saturday.
Oklahoma State is not blessed with a great deal of depth, but the Coyboys boast three of the league's best in half-miler Jim Metcalf. 16-foot vaulter Larry Curts and two-miler Chris McCubbins, whose best time is 8:51.6.
Clay a1-A classed as minister
NEW YORK — (UPI) — Cassius Clay's draft status remains 1-A as his attorney still is attempting to get a Presidential appeals board or courts to count him out for Army duty.
The heavyweight champion's second bid for a draft deferment has been turned down by his local board. He has only two avenues of appeal left.
Hayden Covington, Clay's New York attorney, said he will ask immediately that a Presidential appeals board be assembled to hear the case.
SINCE THE deferment request was denied unanimously by a state appeals board, only the Kentucky Selective Service director or Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, national director, can file an appeal for a Presidential board hearing,
CLAY'S SECOND request for a deferment was on the grounds that he is a Black Muslim minister. It was rejected by a Texas appeals board but the decision was announced by the Kentucky Selective Service.
Covington said he would ask Hershey to grant the appeal, adding, "I feel confident that he will grant it."
"The champ has a strong case and Hershey knows this. If he fails to get a hearing before a national board or if the board upholds his 1-A classification, Clay's other recourse is through the federal courts.
Clay's first bid for a deferment on the grounds that he was a conscientious objector was turned down by his local board in Louisville and the Kentucky Selective Service appeals board.
"The champion is an evangelist of the Black Muslim faith." Covington maintained. "He preaches in a Muslim mosque on weekends in Houston and during the week."
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MU Frosh whip Frosh, 85-64
The Kansas University freshman basketball team lost to the Missouri frosh last night, 85-64. The triumph by Missouri is its second one over the Jayhawks this season.
Kansas looked premising as it took the lead 5-0 early in the game, but a determined Mizzou team caught up and passed KU when the score was 6-6. They never lost their lead after that.
High point honors went to Don Tomlinson of Missouri for his 26 point effort in subduing the Kansas Frosh. Chester Lawrence was high point man for the Hawks, with 16 points. Jim Hoffman had 14 and Richard Bradshaw and Bob Tyus collected 13 each.
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