Thursday, May 9, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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OU boycotters voice gripes
NORMAN, Okla.—(UPI)—Athletic Director Gomer Jones said Wednesday he believed Negro athletes who boycotted an awards banquet at the University of Oklahoma Tuesday night "wanted to get something off their chests."
Jones met with the athletes Wednesday afternoon and planned another meeting with the group at 5 p.m. Monday.
Jones said the group presented him a list of 27 grievances. One asked why no Negro quarterbacks were being recruited for the football team. Another objected to
saying "yes sir" and "no sir" to coaches. It said "why can't a yes or no suffice."
The athletes also wanted to know why there were no Negros given scholarships in baseball, golf, tennis or swimming in the university program.
Jones quoted Granville Liggins, UPI lineman of the year, as saying he enjoyed his four years at OU but he could have enjoyed it more "if there were not these grievances."
"I want to get this straightened out," Jones said. "I certainly don't
think the coaching staff practices discrimination."
"A group of Negro athletes have been upset for some time over the treatment of their race by coaches and officials here." Liggins said before the afternoon meeting. "We felt we had to do something to bring attention to some of the injustices . . . we had to be heard."
The banquet which the Negro athletes boycotted honored the university's top athlete-scholars of the current school year.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—(UPI)—Colin Chapman withdrew from the Indianapolis 500-mile race Wednesday following racing deaths of Jimmy Clark a month ago and Mike Spence Tuesday.
Chapman quits Indy race
Chapman, president of Lotus Cars, Ltd. and designer and builder of four turbocars at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for
this year's 500-mile race, said he "just doesn't have the heart" for this year's Memorial Day race.
Spence, of England, died Tuesday night of injuries suffered earlier in the day in a practice lap smashup in one of the Chapman-Andy Granatelli turbines. Clark was killed a month ago in a European race accident.
Football Saturday
The University of Kansas football team will conclude spring drills with a game-type scrimmage at Memorial Stadium at 1:30 p.m. Saturday. The white-clad offense will take on the blue-shirted defensive unit in a three-period game scored under coach Pepper Rodgers' special scoring system.
KU students will be admitted to the scrimage by presenting their ID cards.
Hunter has perfect game for Oakland
OAKLAND, Calif.—(UPI)—Jim "Catfish" Hunter joined baseball's immortals Wednesday night when he retired all 27 batters he faced in pitching the Oakland Athletics to a perfect no-hit, 4-0 victory over the Minnesota Twins.
The six-foot righthander from Hertford, N.C., also recorded the first perfect game in regular American League competition since 1922 when Charlie Robertson of the Chicago White Sox bested the Detroit Tigers, 2-0.
The last perfect major league game to be recorded before Hunter's masterpiece was by southpaw Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers when he turned back the Chicago Cubs, 1-0, on Sept. 9, 1965.
Hunter fanned a total of 11 batters including pinch hitter Rich Reese in the ninth who ran the count to three and two before the right hander fired across the strike which ended the game.
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