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University Daily Kansan Friday, March 2, 1962
KU Jayhawkers Defend Conference Track Title
Kansas heads into the Big Eight track meet as favorites to retain their conference crown.
The preliminaries and semi-finals, plus the finals in the broad jump are scheduled for Kansas City's Municipal Auditorium tonight. Finals are scheduled for tomorrow night.
THE JAYHAWKERS' hopes are riding on miler Bill Dotson, middle-distance men Bill Thornton and Kirk Hagan, high jumper Ron Swanson, spinner Larry McCue and two-miler Charlie Hayward.
First places by these men, however, would not win for the Jayhawkers, therefore Coach Bill Eason is relying on overall team balance to capture seconds, thirds and fourths for the winning margin.
In this category are quarter-miler Bill Stoddart, hurdler Charlie Smith and Rich Anderson, pole vaulter Jack Stevens and shot putter Yule Yost.
DOTSON APPEARS to be a sure winner in the mile and could possibly double in the half-mile. The senior captain's best mile effort is 4:08.5, way in front of Paul Ebert who has recorded the league's next best time of 4:14.4.
Dotson does not appear as solid in the half-mile. Oklahoma's Neff and Nebraska's Ray Stevens stand ahead of him in pre-meet times. Neff has run 1:53.2 while Stevens owns a 1:54.7 mark. Dotson's season best is 1:55.2.
Bill Thornton's 600-yard dash time is second best in conference listings. His 1:11.8 established a new
Allen Field House record two weeks ago. Thornton has been battling a cold the past week-and-a-half and may not be at full-strength.
THE OWNER of the top time in the 600 also is ailing, but more seriously than Thornton. Colorado's Jim Heath ran a 1:11.1, but the Buffalo speedster may not run at the meet because of a sprained ankle.
Kirk Hagan appears solid in the 1000-yard run. Hagan who has only been defeated once in the event and that by Dotson two weeks ago owns the fastest time of 2:14.1 in the event. Oklahoma's Buddy Stewart and KU's Ted Riesinger are not far behind with 2:13.9 and 2:14.2 times respectively.
High-jumper Ron Swanson, a Moline junior college transfer this semester, will be thoroughly tested. Swanson's 6-7/4 is the league's second top effort. Oklahoma's Mark Brady, whom Swanson tied with at an earlier meet this year, owns a 6-8 jump.
SPRINTER LARRY McCue will meet a field of 10 participants under 06.4. Among these are Kansas State's Dale Alexander who defeated McCue last week, and Ted Woods, Colorado's Olympic sprinter.
Charlie Hayward has defeated three of his four top competitors. Hayward defeated Pat McNeal of Kansas State and Oklahoma State's Danny Metcalf last week, and Oklahoma's Lee Smith two weeks ago. The other competitor he has not faced is Colorado's Griffith.
Vital points have to be won by
Kansas in the 440-yard dash, 60- yard low and high hurdles, the pole vault and the shot put if the Jayhawkers are to win the conference title.
KU'S STODDART faces two of the conference's toughest runners in Jim Baker of Missouri and Charlie Strong of Oklahoma State. Baker's best time is 48.8 compared to Strong's 49.5 and Stoddart's 50.5.
Smith is but one-tenth of a second off the league's best hurdle times. Nebraska's Moore holds the league's best time, 07.4 in the highs while OU's Mark Sullivan and Nebraska's Wilke share 06.8 in the lows.
The Cornhuskers are strong as a team in the hurdle events. They have three men in the top listings in the high hurdles and two in the lows.
JACK STEVEN'S who is a second choice to Colorado's Don Meyer in the pole vault may have his chance to be bride instead of bridesmaid. Favorite Don Meyer who has vaulted 15-0 this year may have to bypass this meet because of a sore hamstring muscle. Stevens' best effort is 14-7.
Yul Yost will have tough competition in breaking into the scoring positions. His 53- $ 8 \frac{1}{2} $ ties him with Kansas State's Stout for fifth on the league charts.
Missouri's Dan Smith remains a solid favorite in the shot put with a 59-3 effort. The conference's second-best is Oklahoma's Inman's $54.9\%$.
Kansas Freshmen End Season With 80-57 Loss to Tigers
The Kansas Freshmen last night dropped their second straight game 80-57 to the Missouri Freshmen at Columbia. The loss dropped the Freshmen's record to 2-2.
THE JAYHAWKERS led once during the game, 11-9, with five minutes elapsed in the first half. The Frosh tied MU six times before their second half letdown.
Dennis Browne led the Tiger Frosh by scoring 22 points. The Tigers started slowly but led 37-32 at halftime. MU outscored the Jay-hawkers 43-25 in the final half to account for its 23-point game-winning margin and biggest lead of the night.
MU's Browne, who scored all but two of his points on field goals, not only bothered the KU defense with his drives down the free throw lane and under the basket, but played defensively sound too. Browne blocked several shots and stole several passes.
"Browne was up for this game because we talked to him so much about this Unseld (George of KU) boy," said Missouri Coach Paul Geyman after the game.
BUT LAST NIGHT it was Browne,
not Unseld, whom everyone was
talking about. Although he finished
the game with 13 points, Unseld
played less than half of the game.
With 7:35 still left in the first half, Unseld had already committed four fouls. The 6-7 Frosch center was replaced at that point in the game and didn't return until 13:45 was left in the last half.
Unseld committed his fifth foul with 9:19 left in the game.
THE TIGERS, who boast previous wins over the Iowa State Freshmen and Moberly (Mo). Junior College, now have a 3-0 record.
Two wins over Kansas State, a loss to Coffeville Junior College, and last night's loss comprise the Jayhawker season mark.
The leading KU scorer last night was David Schichtle who scored 15 points. Schichtle, 6-2 guard from Coffeyville, hit five of eight shots from the field and connected on five of five free throw chances.
MISSOURI'S GARY Garner and
Ron Mooney each scored 10 points. KU was out-rebounded 46-37. The leading KU and game rebounder was Mike Shinn who pulled down nine rebounds.
Unseld, the leading Hawker seasonal rebounder, grabbed only two rebounds.
Charles Sudholt, 6-6½ Tiger center, came off the bench in the last five minutes to score four quick field
goals which increased the Tiger final lead.
KU reserve forward Pete Townsend, 6-5, gathered in seven rebounds and scored five points.
The Tigers hit 47.7 per cent of their field goal efforts and had a 58-1 per cent record for free throws. The KU Frosh scored 35.3 per cent from the field and had a 62.5 per cent mark for free throws.
Baltimore Officials Say Yanks Will Have Shortstop Problem
United Press International
General Manager Lee McPhaill of the Baltimore Orioles viewed the American League situation today and came up with a surprising conclusion: The Yankees don't look so tough, after all.
McPhail based his analysis on the fact that the Yankees must find an adequate replacement for shortstop Tony Kubek, who was called into military service during the winter. The Orioles have lost shortstop Ron Hansen for the same reason but McPhail said they will have less trouble replacing him than the Yankees will replacing Kubek.
"The Yankees are going to have to use one of their two rookie short-stops" said McPhail. "But we've got Jerry Adair, who has already gotten through that tough first Major League season. Adair will be moving from second base but he was a shortstop by trade and was good enough to be voted the best short-stop in the minors two years ago."
The Yankees two main shortstop candidates are rookies Tom Tresh and Phil Linz.
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Sports in Brief
23rd & Iowa
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Coach Charley Wolf, looking forward to tonight's game, used his starters sparingly Thursday in a 137-108 loss to the Syracuse Nationals at Syracuse, N.Y. Wolf elected to rest his first unit after the Royals fell behind, 65-59, at halftime and the Nationals scored the first seven points of the second half.
CINCINNATI, Ohio — (UPI) — Cincinnati, already assured of at least a tie for the Missouri Valley Conference basketball championship, nearly took things too easy last night in a non-conference affair with Xavier.
The Bearcats were coasting along on a 12-point lead when Xavier began its final push. The 'Cats wound up winning 61-58.
In the only other Missouri Valley
Conference action, Wichita set a school scoring record in blasting North Texas State, 110-69, with four players in double figures.
It was Wichita's 18th win against seven defeats. The loss was the 12th in a row in conference play for North Texas State.
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CHICAGO - (UPI) - Wisconsin, fighting to held second place, meets Big Ten champion Ohio State in one of five games on tomorrow's basketball conference card.
The underdog Badgers once shared an unbeaten record with Ohio State and as recently as three weeks ago the match between the two leaders had the potential of a genuine showdown.
But the Badgers have fallen to a 9-3 league record and are in danger of being overtaken by Purdue in the scramble to finish behind the Buckeyes.
The Boilermakers, who have moved up steadily to an 8-4 mark, meet Indiana on the Hoosier court tomorrow night. A victory over Indiana would move Purdue into a tie for second unless Wisconsin can pull off what would rank as the season's biggest basketball upset.
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