On sports scene
Amazons of athletics, you've come a long way
NEW YORK (UPI) - On the sporting scene these days we have lady auto race drivers, horse jockettes, and airplane pilots competing against men.
You've come a long way, baby, as a current television commercial keeps reminding our mini-skirted moderns.
A few gal tennis players have competed on men's varsities, and occasionally a mermaid slips into a swimming race against the boys.
A knockout at 13
Up in the Boston area, a 13-year-old girl boxer recently retired undefeated after knocking out all the boys who climbed in the ring with her.
But Amazons of athletics have been with us before, and we seem to have weathered the storm without collecting a bevy of lady quarterbacks, second basewomen, or goalielets in the major contact sports.
For obvious reasons, you can expect the NFL, AFL, NBA, ABA, NHL, NL, AL and WBA to preserve all-male casts for their various enterprises.
But you can't blame the gals for trying in sports that do not require konocking other people down. The competitive fire burns just as brightly in them as it does in the men.
Trudy, Babe greats
Our most famous lady athlete in the Golden Twenties was Gertrude Ederle, who swam the English channel in 1926. Trudy not only was the first woman to beat the stormy waters, but her time for the crossing was more than an hour faster than the handful of five men who had succeeded before her.
The late Babe Didrikson Zaharias, one of a kind in almost any contest you want to name from speed-typing to hurdling to basketball to golf, shook up the U.S. Golf Association a few years back by filing an entry for the U.S. Open.
Fencing squads duel Air Force this Saturday
Travelling to Colorado Springs this weekend, the KU fencing squad will face one of the year's toughest opponents.
"The Air Force Academy usually has one of the top teams in the nation," said Coach Steve Keeler. "If we beat them, it will be an upset—but it could happen."
Four KU fencers placed in the Kansas Open last weekend in Kansas City, Mo. Ken Muller ranked second in the epee competition, Keeler second in men's foil. Tom Fenton took fourth in sabre and Nancy Campbell second in women's foil.
Frosh to help plan Relays
The Kansas Relays Student Committee has chosen 10 freshmen to aid in the planning, preparation and organization of the 41st annual KU Relays April 17-19.
Selected to the committee were:
John Allen, Salina; George Chase, Overland Park; Paul Conderman, Iola; Paul Dewey, Garden City; Randy Frost, Lindsborg; Ken Klasen, Overland Park; Bill Pogson, Pittsburg; Steve Wamser, Emporia; and Pat Williams, Wichita.
The usually unflappable Joe Dey, then USGA director, finally spotted some fine print in the contract that stipulated "men"—so the Babe was hit with a rejection slip.
Jockeys still have to prove they're better than jockeyes, but the clock, tape-measure and scoring systems already have outlined the wide disparity between male and female competitors in most sports.
The best gals just don't come close to the best guys.
The doubtful area, however, is in the school systems which produce really good girl tennis players, swimmers or runners. Are they or aren't they to be allowed to compete against the boys?
And it boils down not to a matter of competition but of the law suits that might come up if a gal is injured.
TOPEKA (UPI) — Gov.
Robert B. Docking will present
Pennsylvania Gov. Raymond
Shafer a Buffalo next Tuesday.
The animal is Shafer's prize for Penn State's 15-14 victory over Kansas in the Orange Bowl football game.
Docking said he would make the presentation while en route to Washington next week for the National Governor's Conference.
The animal will be transported to Harrisburg, Pa., by a personal friend of the governor's Fred Sears of Colby. The buffalo was donated by the U.S. Highway 36 Advertising Association of Seneca, Kan.
Docking and Shafer had made a "friendly wager" on the outcome of the Orange Bowl game, played New Year's night in Miami. Had Kansas won, Docking would have received a pine tree.
Broncos rising in college polls
NEW YORK (UPI) — Mighty UCLA is still the unchallenged king of the hill in college basketball, but the brash Broneos of Santa Clara University are making it known that they too play a pretty good brand of ball.
The Broncos, moving toward an almost certain showdown with the wizards of Westwood, improved their status Tuesday by moving into the No. 2 position in the 11th weekly United Press International major college ratings.
Santa Clara, boasting a 21-0 record and one of two major schools unbeaten this season, replaced North Carolina in the runnerup spot. The Tar Heels slipped to third place after an upset loss at the hands of South Carolina.
For the 11th consecutive week the 35-member UPI Coaches Rating Board made Coach John Wooden's UCLA squad a unanimous choice as the nation's top-ranked team. UCLA is unbeaten in 19 outings this season and has won 35 straight
extending into the last campaign.
Barring upsets, UCLA and Santa Clara will meet in a rematch in the NCAA Far West regional playoffs.
Davidson (20-2) replaced Kentucky in the No.4 position while LaSalle, the nation's top independent with a 20-1 record, advanced from seventh to fifth spot.
11TH WEEK
Teams Points
1 UCLA 19-0 350
2 Chicago 21-0 68
3 North Carolina 19-2 246
4 Davidson 20-2 184
5 La Salle 20-1 179
6 Kentucky 15-1 155
7 St. John's NY 18-3 185
8 Purdue 14-4 84
9 Villanova 17-4 54
10 Quincy 16-2 54
11 South Carolina 17-3 30
1 Tulsa 18-4 27
13 New Mexico State 1-2 18
14 Iowa 16-2 15
15 Ohio State 14-4 12
16 Illinois 14-4 11
17 (tie) New Mexico 15-7 10
18 (tie) Columbia 17-3 7
19 Kansas 18-4
Others receiving votes: Arizona, Boston College, Dayton, Tennessee, Colorado State U., Marquette, Weber State, and Texas A&M.
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