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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, February 9, 1968
Jayhawks ready for cage test at Boulder
The Jeyhawks, back in the thick of the Big Fight title scramble after a pair of narrow victories over Oklahoma rivals last weekend, will try to maintain their momentum when they collide with the cellar-dwelling Colorado Buffaloos Saturday afternoon in Boulder.
Although the Buffaloes have lost eight straight games going into Saturday's clash they are not to be taken for granted. Pat Frink, Colorado's leading scorer the past two seasons, appears to be back in form after a month-long slump.
Frank took two weeks off from the game during semester finals and it seems to have solved his problems.
The senior guard hit 19 of 35 attempts from the field as he had 17 and 28 point nights against Nebraska and Iowa State last weekend. He had slumped to a dismal 28 per cent accuracy during the previous month.
If Frink can stay on target the Buffaloes could give the defending Big Eight champions quite an argument. Kansas won handily, 66-50, in the first meeting of the two teams in Allen Field House last month.
Colorado also has the advantage of playing on their home floor in Colorado Field House long known as a nemesis to opposing coaches. Despite a poor season this year, the Buffalohes have been able to
win 17 of their last 19 games at home.
Against Kansas, Colorado holds a 13-7 home floor advantage since the two became conference mates in 1948. The Buffs have won twice in three shots at coach Ted Owens' teams in Boulder.
Lost year the Jayhawks absorbed their only loss of the conference season there, 62-59, when Colorado drilled home a free shot and field goal with only one second left on the clock.
Kansas finally looked ready to go after its third straight conference title when the Jayhawks maintained their poise in the closing minutes of the Oklahoma State game Monday night. The Jayhawks came on in the final minutes to win in a game in which they trailed almost the entire distance.
Coach Owens said after the game, "this is the best we've played with poise this year, unless it was in the double overtime game at Louisville."
An interesting sidelight of Saturday's game should be a personal dual between KU's all-Big Eight guard Jo Jo White and Frink, Colorado's second - ranking all-time scorer.
White and Frink now rank 10th and 11th respectively in the Big Eight scoring race with 15.3 and 15.0 point averages.
Tip off time will be 1:10 p.m. (CST) for the regionally televised Big Eight TV-game-of-the-Week.
Frosh face Matson
For Karl Salb and Steve Wilhelm, KU's top freshman shotputters, the frequent predictions that they are headed for the Olympics are little more than hopeful dreams.
"You've got to be realistic about this," Salb, Crossett, Ark., said Wednesday. "My chances for the Olympics are slim when compared with those of Randy Matson and Roger Orwell. After all, Matson has thrown 71 feet 5 inches. My hurt throw this year was 50 feet $ \frac{1}{2} $ inch."
Wilhelm. Los Altos. Calif.
agreed. "To get into the Olympics
I have to break 60 feet. The best
throw Ive ever had was 59 feet.
So, to be perfectly frank, I haven't
even been thinking about it."
Sabi and Wilhelm, who last year were rated first and second on the national high school shotputting list, will get their chance at some really stiff competition tonight when they participate in the Fort Worth Invitational track and field meet. The man to beat there will be Randy Matson of the Houston Striders track club, who holds the world record in the shotput with a throw of 71 feet 5 inches. Another strong contender will be Roger Orwell of Abeline Christian College whose best throw is 62 feet 4 inches.
"Right now I'd say that either Orwell or Wilhelm or I will take second place." Salb said. "As far at Matson is concerned, if he has a decent night at all he'll be so far ahead of us there'll be no catching up.
"Actually, all either Steve or I expect from this meet is a chance to test ourselves against some stiff competition. If we do a good job we'll be invited to other meets and have a chance to move up in the national rankings." he said.
Also competing at Fort Worth will be Gary Ard, Modesto, Calif., graduate student, in the long jump, and Ron Jessie, Yuma.
Ariz. , sophomore, in the long jump and high hurdles.
Jessie is a junior college transfer and will not be eligible for interscholastic competition for Kansas until second semester next year.
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KU track team to run at Michigan State Relays
Kansas has a real good chance to win the 45th annual Michigan State Relays at East Lansing Saturday according to Bob Timmons, Jayhawk track coach.
KU will have entries in 11 individual events and four relays. This year team point totals will be compiled for the first time.
Timmons wants a good performance from his distance medley relay team. "We are trying to qualify the team for the NCAA championships," he said. The Jayhawk foursome is composed of sophomores Jim Hatcher and Roger Kathol, senior Gene McClain and junior Jim Olson.
The 240-yard shuttle hurdle relay team is hopeful it can better its current best time of 28.8 seconds, Timmons said.
The same four boys ran the event last year at Michigan State and broke the previous meet record only to finish third. This quartet is made up of seniors Dave Stevens and Lee Adams and juniors Ken Gaines and George Byers.
Jim Ryun, Kansas' world record miler, is in New York to run the mile in the Madison Square Garden Invitational tonight. He will join his teammates at Michigan State Saturday and run in the
open mile at the East Lansing meet.
This will mark the first time the 20-year-old junior has run open miles on consecutive days. He will attempt to win both races with quality times.
Kansas' mile relay unit, possibly one of the strongest in the nation, also figures to make a strong showing against the classy field of 28 schools including both Big Eight and Big Ten powers. Jayhawk mile relay men will be senior Ben Olison and sophomores Mark Ferrell, Randy Julian and Julio Meade.
George Byers, who placed first in the 70-yard low hurdles last year with a record of 7.8 seconds, hopes to do as well this year in a strong hurdle field.
Other Big Eight teams competing in the Michigan State meet will be Kansas State, Missouri and Iowa State, three of the possible powers in the conference this spring.
The Jayhawk squad flew to East Lensing this morning for tomorrow's meet. The finals in the long jump and the preliminaries in the hurdles and dashes are slated during the afternoon. All other finals will be Saturday night.
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