Thursday, May 17, 1962 University Daily Kansan Page 3 League Championships Here Strongest Track Field In Years Assembled By Steve Clark Only the national collegiate championships could provide more excitement and closer competition as the strongest Big Eight conference track field in past years moves into Lawrence for the league championships tomorrow and Saturday. In past conference meets a foreseeable winner could be picked since the Kansas Jayhawkers retained the crown from 1952 to 1961. This year there is no foreseeable winner. NEBRASKA COACH Frank Sevigne says Kansas, Oklahoma. Colorado and his own Cornhuskers' should battle it out for the crown. Oklahoma coach Bill Carroll forecasts a five-school race for the championship. "I feel that Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Colorado and Oklahoma will be very much in the running, and I believe the winning team will score a lower point total than any winner in recent years. Kansas coach Bill Easton is not so ambiguous. He says his team will place third. "I'm sorry to take a pessimistic viewpoint, but I don't see how we can finish better than third. I hope we look respectable on our home lot." WHO WILL WIN? Easton says Oklahoma or Nebraska. The Jayhawkers enter the conference championships with a list of injuries as long as the local draft board's. Hurdler Charlie Smith and twoiler Charlie Hayward are listed as definitely out at this time. Smith pulled a tendon Saturday after winning the high hurdles at Oklahoma. Hayward has mononucleosis and did not run at Norman. LARRY McCUE is on the indefinite list. The Kansas sprinter did not run at Oklahoma because of a pulled muscle, but is expected to try the league meet. McCue a senior has been bothered by a pulled muscle during his entire career as a Javhawker. Jack Stevens is almost fully recovered from his shoulder injury sustained at the Big Eight indoor Stevens who won the pole vault at 14-10 has only gone 14-6 in the outdoor season. Half-miler Kirk Hagan, quartermiler Bill Stoddart, hurdlers Dan Lee and Rich Anderson, javelin throwers Pete Talbott and Stan Ingram are all afflicted in some way. Ingram has two dislocated vertebrae in his back and Talbott has a sore arm. HAGAN HAS NOT been up to par the entire year because of tendonosis and a bout with the virus. Stoddart and Lee both have pulled hamstring muscles and Anderson has a stone bruise on his heel. Friday's qualifying heat starts at 3 p.m. with Saturday's finals getting underway with the pole vault at 1 p.m. THE QUALIFYING HEATS more this year since the Memorial Stadium track is only six lanes every qualifier will score for his team under the 10-8-6-4-2-1 system If the weather is right, record shattering may be at a premium. Seven meet marks have already been surpassed and an eighth tied. From last year's meet, seven defending champions and one set of co-champions return. Ten new records were set and one tied at Norman in 1959 and COACH BILL EASTON—"I don't see how we can finish better than third. I hope we look respectable on our home lot." this year's meet may approach that mark. WITH THE JAYHAWKERS at half-strength the Sooners and the Cornhuskers may shut Easton's squad out of the top two spots giving them lowest finish since 1951. The Jayhawkers won the cross-country and indoor titles for the Kansas's only league championships. Kansas defeated Nebraska at the indoor meet by a narrow $53_{12-$521 margin. Outdoor Records 100-194.4 Hubert Meier, Iowa Stat 1930 and Charlie Tidwell, Kansas. 195 1930, and Charlie Tidwell, Kansas, 1959 220—(One turn) 209. Orlando Hazley, Okahama State, 1959; (straightaway)— 204. Keith Gardner, Nebraska, 1958. 440—(two turns) —46.5 Chuck Carlson, Colorado, 1959, and Jim Heath, Colorado, one turn —47.1 Thane Ba- kers, Kansas, 1953, and Pete Ere Missouri), 1956. 800 - 1:49.9 J Joe Mullins, Nebraska. 1950 Milton - 4:06.2 Gill Hodgson, Oklahoma. 1850 Two-Mile : 9:04.8 Miles Elseman, Oklahoma State, 1959. 120 High Hurdles...14.0 Keith Gardner, 1958, and Rex Stucker, Kansas State, 1961. 220 Low Hurdles—(straightaway) — 22.5 Rex Stucker, Kansas State, 1960 (one-turn) — 22.7 Charlie Tidwell, Kansas 1959 Mile Relay 3:10.5 Oklahoma State Church, Ken Covert, Orlando, Havenley, J79 440 Relay... 41.0 Kansas (Bob Rearick Bob Lida, Bob Tilden well, 1599. Shot Put-60-3$^{34}$ Bill Nieder, Kansas. 1956. Javelin throw-256-10 Bill Alley, Kansas 1959 Discus throw-182-7 Al Oerter, Kansas 1956 Broad Jump—25-3 $ _{4} $ Neville Price, Oklahoma, 1954. High Jump-6-812 Bob Lang, Missouri. 1956. Pole Vault—15-104 George Davies, Oklahoma State, 1961. 908 Mass. BIRD TV - RADIO VI 3-8855 Shooting for its highest finish since the title year of 1949, the Kansas Jayhawker baseball team plays host to the Oklahoma Sooners this weekend in the final round of Big Eight play. Friday's doubleheader at Quigley Field starts at 1:30 p.m. Saturday's single game is scheduled for 10 a.m. to allow fans to attend the finals of the Big Eight track and field championships. Jays, Sooners Clash at Quigley KANSAS BROKE a six game losing streak by winning the finale of the Oklahoma State series 4-2 to reclaim third place with a 10-8 league record. To climb past Oklahoma State's defending champions for second place, the Jayhawkers must win at least two from the Sooners while the Cowboys drop all three matches with league-leading Missouri. Meets Threatened By Thunderstorms A wet blanket may be thrown upon the Big Eight track and field and tennis championships to be held here tomorrow and Saturday. The Jayhawkers are being pressured from the lower portion of the standings too. A triple loss could drop Kansas to seventh place, just a notch above their 1961 finish. Hubert Bumgardner is leading the Jayhawkers in hitting for 24 games with a .356 average, and the only Jayhawk above .300. Ken Hensley is second on the squad with a .292 average. Hensley leads in the most runs scored, 23, and has hit eight doubles, high for the squad. - Quality Parts JERRY WALDCSHMIID, who won the finale against Oklahoma State, is scheduled for Saturday's nine-inning single game. Coach Floyd Temple will switch from his diet of left-handed starters to send two righthanders against the Sooners. Carl Nelson, who worked $5^{2}$-innings of scoreless relief against Oklahoma State, will draw tomorrow's second-game assignment behind lefty Roger Brock who will start the opener. The Topeka Weather Bureau reported last night that scattered thunderstorms may hit the Lawrence area tomorrow afternoon. The Bureau added that southerly winds from 15-18 m.p.h. were possible. CAR RADIOS - Guaranteed Power-hitting Dick Fanning has cla- tured 286 average for third, but has clu- ted four home runs and leads the club in runs-batted-in with 20. Expert Service Waldschmidt leads the KU hurriers with a 3.67 earned run average and in strikeouts with 61. Waldschmidt's season record stands at 4-4. Fourth in the hitting ranks is pesky leadoff man Dick Rader. Raider's batting .267 and is third in runs-scored with 17. Roger Brock leads the club in victories with a 5-4 record. Brock's earned run average is 3.85 and he has struck out 40. Kansas Tennis Hopes Dimmed by CU Defeat By Roy Miller KU's tennis team received a sampling yesterday of the kind of competition it will have to defeat tomorrow and Saturday in the Big Eight meet if the Jayhawk squar is to capture the conference title. Colorado, a title favorite along with defending champion Oklahoma State, downed the Jayhawks, 5-2, in a dual meet here. THE LEAGUE MEET begins tomorrow at 9 a.m. on the courts south of Memorial Stadium. Two rounds of singles and one doubles flight will be played tomorrow. Semi-finals in doubles action will be held Saturday morning. Singles and doubles finals begin 1:30 on the courts west of Allen Field House Saturday afternoon. Kansas, which has placed second in the league meet the past two years behind Oklahoma State, is also expected to place high in the meet. The Jayhawkers enter the meet with a 12-4 record for the dual season. Del Campbell's strongest opponent may be Cowboy Larry Cooley. Cooley defeated Karrle earlier in the season when he was playing in the number one position for State. Campbell beat Colorado's Kirkpatrick, 6-4, 6-2, yesterday. The Campbell-Cobble doubles team lost to Colorado's Bierig-Whistler duo, 6-3, 6-2, and the Colorado pair could provide the major hurdle blocking KU's effort to gain the number two doubles crown. CU'S RED BIERIG defeated Coble, 6-4, 6-2, yesterday, and is one of the top number four singles contenders. Other possible title-winners are Oklahoma's Bob Latham and O-State's Will Stansberry, who is the number four singles defending champion. MEL KARRLE, St. Joseph senior and number one singles player, is KU's top hope. Karrle has lost few matches against conference opponents during the dual season. According to Coach Denzel Gibbens, Karrle has a "good chance of winning" the top singles title. Karrie's strongest opponent will probably be Bob Folz. Oklahoma State's number one player. John Whistler, Colorado's top player whom Karrie downed yesterday, 6-1, 6-4, is another contender for the title. Colorado poses the strongest number one doubles team next to KU's own Karrle-Woodward duo. The Buffs' Owen-Roger Kirkpatrick combination defeated Woodward and Karrle, 9-7, 6-4, vesterday. Coach Gibbens also believes Pete Woodward, Topeka senior, can gain a singles crown. Woodward's toughest opposition for the number two singles crown may come from O-State's George Felz and Iowa State's Tom Line. WOODWARD LOST TO another threat, Bob Owen, 6-3, 6-3, in the dual with Colorado yesterday. Col. Sanders Recipe KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN "it's finger lickin' good" Dinner – plus cole slaw ___ $1.25 Tub – 15 pieces, 5 hot rolls ___ $3.50 Barrel – 25 pieces, 10 hot rolls ___ $5.00 BIG BUY Colorado's Dave Reed defeated Ken Peterson, 6-0, 6-0, 6-3, yesterday. Reed, like Whistler, Owen and Bierig on the Colorado squad, has lost only two matches this year and has a good chance at the crown. Coach Denzel Gibbens' squad placed a close second behind perennial champion Oklahoma State in 1960. Karrle and Pete Woodward placed second in their respective singles positions to lead the KU cause. LAST YEAR, the Jayhawkers placed an even closer second, losing 16-14 to the Cowpokes. Cobble placed first in the number five singles division in that meet and the Campbell-Cobble doubles duo gained another Hawk title. Due to graduation losses, Oklahoma State is weaker this year. KU beat the Cowboys, 6-3, in a quad-rangular meet this spring. The Buffers downed O-State, 5-2, in a dual. Karrie gained a runner-up spot in singles and the Woodward-Karrie combination placed second in doubles last year. Campbell placed second in number four singles play. COACH GIBBENS is pleased with the Hawkers' 12-4 dual season performance. The Jayhawk mentor feels the Hawks have a good chance in the league meet. Gibbens said after yesterday's meet that wind has hurt the Hawks in recent dual meets and practice sessions. Finals Are FUN When You Take a Study Break To Order Hot Donuts from Joe's Bakery Open 24 Hours Except Saturday Order Now-- VI 3-4720 Or Come to 9th & Ind.