Page 6 University Daily Kansan Thursday. May 10, 1962
Big Eight Preview
League Discus Field Packed
If there's a discus favorite in the 34th Big Eight track and field championships here May 18-19, it must be John Anderson, a 200-pound Oklahoma State junior who wasn't even throwing in this league last year.
Last year Anderson was competing for Phoenix, Ariz., Junior College, where he reached 167-212. With the conference meet still almost two weeks away, Anderson has almost matched his best this spring with a 166-0 throw, good enough for fourth in the Penn Relays and presently the loop's best.
MORE IMPORTANT he owns four more spins beyond 160-0 to qualify himself as the most consistent discus thrower in what has taken shape as a wide-open field.
There are four more entrants in the 160-foot class and six others who are beyond 152-0. Although there are no heavens in a class with the conference's recent Olympians, KU's Al Oerter and Dick Cochrane of Missouri, the point-scramble will be one of the wildest in history, made more so because of the frantic scuffle for the team championship.
This will be an important battle ground for two title contenders, Oklahoma's defending champions and Kansas' 1962 Indoor kings, each of whom will send two 160-footers.
THE SOONER PAIR of Walt Myers and Mike Miers hold an edge at present with respective seasonal highs of $164-21^{\textcircled{2}}$ and $163-6^{\textcircled{2}}$. Jayhawker left Barry Hanratty and sophomore Doug Stoner hope to reverse those spots here. Hanratty reached an all-time peak of 161-0 in winning against Southern Illinois Saturday. Stoner shock a slump with 150-10 in that meet. He opened the season with 160-5 against Stanford and San Jose State. He set a conference
freshman record of 175-5 last year, but has not approached that as vet.
This foursome will collide in a dress rehearsal Saturday at Norman as the two clubs resume outdoor dueling after a 13-year lapse.
THE SOONERS have a third contestant who figures in the picture, sophomore Dick Inman. He is primarily a shot-putter, but owns a seasonal high of 156-10 in the discus.
All save Johnson and Grant are scheduled to double in the shot put, which won't help their discus chances in this closely-packed field.
Myers and Stoner already have exchanged victories this season, the latter edging the Sooner veteran $2\frac{1}{2}$ inches for fifth at the Texas Relays then falling out of the money while Myers picked off third at the Kansas Games on 159-$5\frac{4}{8}$. Myers crowded Anderson 160-2 to 161-0 in the Aggie-Sooner dual last week. As a sophomore last year he picked off third behind Mike Lindsay's winning 164-2 to net the Sooners 16 big points as they ended a nine-year Kansas reign at Boulder.
In the same bracket are Larry Reiners, Nebraska, 153-4; Roland Johnson, Nebraska, 157-10; John Valenza, Missouri, $13.4\%^2$; Bob Crumpacker, Colorado, $13.8$; Dave Grant, Colorado, $159.5\%^2$, and Dick Pilgrim, Iowa State, $152.1\%^2$
1961 OUTDOOR SUMMARY (Returns in caps)
1. Mike Lindsay, CU, 164-2; 2. DICK PILGRIM, IS, 158-41₂; 3. WALT MYERS, OU, 152-81₂; 4. BARRY HANRATTY, KU, 152-11₂; 5. Al Wellman, NU, 150-4; 6. LARRY REINERS, NU, 149-71₂
KU Meets Defending Champion This Weekend
The Kansas Jayhawker baseball team meets the Big Eight conference's defending champion, the Oklahoma State Cowboys at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow at Quigley Field.
Leading the Big Eight is the Missouri Tigers with an 11-4 record. The Tigers meet last place Kansas State with an 11-1 record in a three-game set at Manhattan this weekend.
Saturday, the two teams meet in a single game starting at 1 p.m.
Coach Floyd Temple will send three left-handers against the Cowboys in Roger Brock, Monte Stewart and Steve Lunsford. Ready for relief duty is Jerry Waldschmidt, KU's pitching ace, who has been hit hard of late.
The Cowboys carry a 7-3 record into the series and are in second place one-and-a-half games out of first place. The Jayhawkers have a 9-6 league record and are in third place two games out of first place.
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Sayers, Leiker May Sit Out Alumni Game
Two of KU's most promising football players are injured for Saturday's spring training windup game with the alumni.
Halfbacks Gayle Sayers and Tony Leiker, both breakaway threats, have been relegated to the second unit for the varsity because of bad ankles. Expected to start in their place in the 11th varsity-alumni game at Haskell Institute are sophomores Bob Robben and Ron Oelschlager.
Orioles Rack Athletics Dropping K.C. to Ninth
BALTIMORE — (UPI) The Kansas City Athletics, nestled in ninth place in the American League standings following last night's 6-3 loss to Baltimore, will try to climb a notch tonight when they battle the Orioles in the second game of their series.
Kansas City's winningest pitcher, Jerry Walker (4-1), will oppose Baltimore's Chuck Estrada (1-3).
With the exception of tackle Karl Sartore, an unlettered squadman last year, and the two halfbacks, Coach Jack Mitchell will have veterans at all positions — Andy Graham and Jay Roberts at ends; Fred Eisenman and Sartore at tackles; Mickey Walker and Ken Tiger, guards; Pete Quatrochio, center; Rodger McFarland, quarterback; Robben and Oelschlager, halfbacks; and Ken Coleman, full-back.
The Orioles made short work of A's starter Ed Rakow last night, shelling him with a six-run second inning that featured a grand-slam home run by third baseman Brooks Robinson. Kansas City relief pitches John Wyatt, Jim Archer and Danny McDavitt blanked the Oriole's the rest of the way but the damage had been done.
Milt Pappas went the route to
pick up his third win in four decisions, spinning a five-hitter. He was in trouble in each of the first four innings but stiffened after that and closed out with five scoreless innings.
The A's lost the services of rookie leftfielder Manny Jimenez, the league's leading hitter, indefinitely when he was hit on the leg by a Pappa pitch in the first inning. He was taken to a hospital where the injury was diagnosed as a severe shin bruise.
Feller Set Homer Record
CLEVELAND — (UPI) — Cleveland Indian pitcher Bobby Feller, who recently was elected to baseball's Hall of Fame, allowed eight grand slam home runs during his career, a major league record.
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