Towner leads racketmen to triumph over E-State
By TOM PETTIT Kansan Sports Writer
The KU tennis squad defeated Emporia State 5-2 yesterday on the Jayhawks' home courts, winning four out of five singles matches and splitting the two doubles.
John Towner, Lawrence senior, played first man in the singles competition, beating Charles Cannon of Emporia State. He then teamed up with the regular number one singles man, Bill DeBaun, Leawood senior, to defeat Cannon and Joe Alshire in the number one doubles match.
Juggled line-up
"We juggled our line-up a little bit because we thought we could afford to this meet," said Jim Burns, KU tennis coach. "They were stronger than we thought, though. Much stronger than
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Burns said the Wichita State meet, postponed from last Friday because of rain, has not been rescheduled. He had hoped to schedule it this week, but said he doubts it will be played soon.
The next meet for KU will be Saturday when Oklahoma City University travels to Lawrence. The meet will be at 2:30 p.m. on the courts west of Allen Field House.
Results of the singles competition:
Number one man-John Towner, KU, defeated Charles Cannon, Emporia State, 6-3, 6-1; number two man-Dan Oram, KU, defeated Larry Reiswig, Emporia State, 6-2, 6-8, 6-4; number three man-Joe Alshire, Emporia State, defeated Dudley Bush, KU, 6-4, 5-7, 10-8; number four man-Jim-Ballinger, KU, defeated Randy Bridges, Emporia State, 6-2, 6-4; number five man-Jack Kilroy, KU, defeated Ben Ford, Emporia State, 6-4, 7-5.
Results of the doubles competition was:
Number one doubles team — Towner and DeBau, KU, defeatedannon and Alshire, Emporia State,number two doubles team—Bridges and Reasig, Emporia State,defeated Wells and Kanter, KU, 4-6,6-1, 6-4.
Kansas claims cager
College basketball coaches have long agreed that their teams play from December to March but win from April to September—the months during which the head men must convince enough young prep stars to enroll at the school of the coach's (and hopefully the prospect's) choice.
For KU mentor Ted Owens half the recruiting war—in Kansas at any rate—was won yesterday with the signing to a letter of intent 6-10 center Randy Canfield of Southeast high school in Wichita.
That leaves just one big in-state prize left-6-8, 240-pound Leonard Gray of Kansas City Sumner who like Canfield made just about every all-star squad in high school roundball circles this season.
Top scorer
Canfield, the most prolific scorer in Wichita prep history, averaged 20 points and 13 rebounds a game this year in leading the Golden Buffaloes to the runner-up spot in the Kansas State 5A championship play-offs. He was chosen along with Wyandotte's Walt Williams as the co-Most Valuable player of that tournament.
The big center cited the winning tradition and medical school facilities at Kansas as the main reasons for his selection. Canfied also said that he wanted to stay in his home state to play his college ball.
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Negotiations proposed
GENEVA - The Soviet Union offered yesterday to negotiate on a step-by-step basis a program for preventing nuclear attack as a first stage of general and complete disarmament.
The Soviet proposal before the 18-nation Geneva disarmament conference contained the same provisions as a plan submitted seven years ago, except that it offered to negotiate each point separately instead of demanding a package deal.
Battleship calls at Tokyo
The U.S. Navy command announced that the 46,000-ton battleship had called at its Yokosuka base south of Tokyo for "logistic support."
TOKYO — The battleship USS New Jersey made a seven-hour port call near Tokyo yesterday, then steamed back to sea, possibly to join Task Force 71 assembling in the Sea of Japan off North Korea.
Slovaks protest Husak
PRAGUE — An estimated 20,000 students yesterday joined a growing number of sit-ins throughout Czechoslovakia protesting the fall of Alexander Dubcek and the reformist movement he led.
Students in at least 20 schools—12 of them in Prague—voted to quite classes to show their anger over Dubcek's replacement by Gustav Husak, the Soviet-approved Slovak Communist leader as first secretary of the Czechoslovak party.
Buildup draws concern
A State Department spokesman said that first deputy Foreign Minister Vasily V. Kuznetsov summoned American Ambassador Jacob D. Beam in Moscow to express Soviet alarm.
WASHINGTON — The State Department disclosed last night that the Soviet Union has expressed concern over the U.S. naval buildup in the Sea of Japan supporting American reconnaissance flights off the coast of North Korea.
Sirhan jury is split
LOS ANGELES — The jury in the Sirhan B. Sirhan murder trial argued through a second day yesterday on the punishment for the killer of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and the prospect increased that the panel might fail to reach an unanimous agreement.
A jury deadlock on whether to send Sirhan to prison for life or to execute him in the gas chamber, would bring about a lengthy new trial on the penalty. California law requires the jury's decision on punishment be unanimous, as was its verdict of first degree murder.
'Spineless' officials scoffed
WASHINGTON - Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W. Va., terming campus administrators "weak-kneed and spineless," introduced legislation yesterday to make it a federal crime to disrupt any federally-assisted school.
Byrd's bill would provide a one-year prison sentence, a $1,000 fine or both for anyone who prevents, obstructs or interferes with the administration or operation of a school.
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