Wednesday, May 16, 1962 University Daily Kansan
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The Kansas Jayhawkers, now second with $ 21_{1}^{2} $ points, seem to have the 21st chance of dethroning the Cowboys. To win the Jayhawkers will need a second-place finish in track, second in tennis, third in baseball and fourth in golf.
Along the Jayhawker Trail
Bv Steve Clark
Oklahoma, third with 2312 points,
needs to win track, climb to fourth
in baseball, finish second in golf
and third in tennis.
Another year of Big Eight athletic competition comes to an end this weekend when the conference track and field, and tennis championships are held here and the golf championships are held at Columbia. Mo.
OKLAHOMA STATE is in fourth place with $ 24_{1/2} $ points and will need to capture first in both golf and tennis, second in baseball and fifth in track.
COLORADO is leading in the race for the all sports title with a low of $ 20 \frac{1}{2} $ points. Even though the Buffers lead, their chances to win appear slim.
Four teams seem to have a good chance of winning the conference's all-sports title. Last year the Oklahoma State Cowboys, in their first full year of league competition, wrested the title away from the conference veterans showing that the league fathers had made a wise choice in taking a school with a strong overall athletic program.
The baseball series this weekend between the Jayhawkers and the Oklahoma Sooners here could decide the all-sports title. Presently, the only thing that seven weeks of Big Eight baseball play has decided is last place.
The Kansas State Wildcats have a 1-14 record (their only win having come at the expense of the Jayhawkers) and can not do any better than last.
TWO TEAMS. Missouri and Oklahoma State can win the baseball crown; four teams, Missouri, Oklahoma State, Kansas and Iowa State, can finish second; six teams, Oklahoma State, Kansas, Iowa State, Colorado, Nebraska and Oklahoma, can finish third.
Nebraska has the best chance of bettering its record when it meets Kansas State at Manhattan. A sweep could give the Cornhuskers an 11-10 record and a chance to move into first division.
IF THE JAYHAWKERS can take two out of three from the Sooners they can pretty well wrap up an all-sports title for KU.
With three-year veterans Pete Woodward and Mel Karrle leading the way the KU tennis corps appears to have a solid chance of finishing second in the Big Eight. The golf team should finish fourth and could do better if John Hanna and Reid Holbrook can both shoot low scores.
Oklahoma State has the toughest job. The defending baseball champions MUST defeat league-leading Missouri three straight at Columbia.
BOTH HANNA and Holbrook are capable. If both have good days then KU could place higher than fourth. Usually when Hanna has a good day, Holbrook does not, and when Holbrook shoots a low score, Hanna does not.
If both shoot low and Paul Carlson, Dick Haitbrink and Doug Kieswetter have good days KU's golf fortunes could rise. This would not hurt the Jayhawkers all-sports title chances at all.
The fight for the league's track championship is going to be a tough one. It appears that Oklahoma is the favorite with Nebraska and Kansas having good chances of defeating the defending champion Sooners.
In lieu of Oklahoma's stinging defeat of the Jayhawkers Saturday at Norman the Sooners have to be classed as the favorite. But, where the Jayhawkers may win the meet is in the middle distance, the distance and the field events.
OKLAHOMA and Nebraska both field top sprint corps and could cut each other out of the title. With Larry McCue ailing and Charlie Smith probably, out of the meet, the Jayhawkers' chances of placing in the dashes and hurdles are nilh.
But, with a middle distance - distance corps of Bill Thornton, Bill
PETE TALBOTT should place second and could win the javelin. Ron Swanson and Charlie Twiss have good chances for the 2-3 spots in the high jump with Swanson given an outside chance of placing first.
Dotson, Charlie Hayward, Tonnie Coane, Ted Riesinger, Kirk Hagan, and Mike Felghum, and Pete Talbott in the javelin, Jack Stevens and Roger Schmanke in the pole vault, Ron Swanson and Charlie Twiss in the high jump, Kansas could pick up the necessary points to win.
Jack Stevens is not favored for first in the pole vault, but can be
With Bill Thornton, Kirk Hagan,
Tonnie Coane and Ted Riesinger placing in the 880 yard run, and Bill Dotson and Riesinger in the mile and Charlie Hayward, Dotson and Fulghum picking up points in the two - mile, the Jayhawkers will sweep the middle distance-distance field.
conceded second place. He has not even tried 15-foot since the Big Eight indoor when he injured his shoulder and it looks as if 15-foot will be needed to win. If Schmanke can tie for third as he did at Kansas City, the Jawhaykers could win.
BARRY HANRATTY and Doug Stoner both can place in the discus which will give the Jayhawkers their strongest support in the field events overall that they have had in several years.
Not to be discounted is the shot put and the discus. We have always had utmost confidence in Yul Yost, the muscular 6-4, 225 pound Yugoslavian, and can envision him surprising the league with a put of 56-57 feet which could give him second.
All the Jayhawkers need is second for the all-sports title, but a first place finish would not be frowned upon.
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