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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, March 24, 1964
Two Swim Team Members To Compete in NCAA Meet
Two members of the 1963-64 Jayhawk swimming team, which finished its dual meet season with a perfect 9-0 record, will represent KU in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) championship competition this weekend.
The two swimmers, Jerry Higgins,
Wichita sophomore, and Mike Downey,
Coffeville junior, will leave
Lawrence Thursday for the event at
Yale University in New Haven,
Conn.
Higgins, who made the all-Big Eight squad in the 200 freestyle, the 500 freestyle and the 1650 freestyle, will be swimming the 200 and 1650 in the national meet. He won two second and one third place in the Big Eight Conference meet.
In the 1650, which runs no preliminaries, Higgins established a new Big Eight record time of 18:43.3, besting the old conference mark set by Charles Schutte of Oklahoma in the loop meet last year.
Schutte came back later in this year's meet and bested Higgins' mark and won the event.
When asked about Higgins' chances in the NCAA competition, Coach Dick Reamon said he thought Higgins had a good chance to win All-America honors in the 1650.
"Jerry hadn't swum the 1650 before this year's Big Eight meet." Coach Reamon said. We don't have that event in our regular dual meet season. It's not a popular distance
because of its distance. The only time the teams encounter the 1650 is in conference or national competition.
"Higgins has been working very hard for this meet and I now expect him to swim the 1650 in a time of 18:20—which should get him All-America honors," Coach Reamon said.
Downey, who set a new Big Eight record in the 100-butterfly, will be swimming in that event in the NCAA meet.
Coach Reamon said he thought Higgins to be a better all-round swimmer than Eldon Ward, KU's only All-America, who graduated in 1962.
Downey swam the record time of 55.1 in a preliminary race in the meet at Norman, placed second in the conference meet due to a judge's decision.
Coach Reamon said he thought Downey would swim in the low 54 second range at the NCAA meet.
"I think" Coach Reamon said, "that Mike would have swum the 100 in the low 54's in the Big Eight meet, except that he was working on the 200 and 400 individual medleys as well. I believe he'll do very well at the national meet."
Coach Reamon pointed out that this is the first time in the history of swimming at KU that anyone from the Jayhawk team has represented the school at the NCAA meet.
Jayhawk Tennis Team To Open Season's Play
By Glen Phillips
The Kansas tennis team will open their season this year with a dual meet Wednesday with Washburn University at Topeka and, according to Coach Denzel Gibbens, the Jayhawkers should win the contest easily.
This, according to coach Gibbens, should be the first of many victories for the Jayhawkers as they move into this season with what Coach Gibbens describes as "one of the best teams we have ever had here." Last year, KU finished second in Big Eight conference competition. This year the varsity squad with seven men is strengthened by the return of four lettermen, Jim Burns, St. Joseph, Mo., junior, was one half of the Big Eight doubles championship team from last year. His teammate Barry McGrath, Topeka junior, won the no. five singles matches conference competition.
Lance Burr, Salina junior, held down the #2 position on the KU squad last year and John Guyot, Arkansas City junior, is rated by the coach as an excellent threat in the doubles events. There are also three sophomore prospects moving up to spark the Jayhawkers' effort. John Grantham, Topeka, was the Kansas State High School champion for three years. Likewise, Jay Lysaught, Oklahoma City, was the Oklahoma State High School champ during his senior year. They are backed up by Chris Pinet of Lawrence.
This year's Jayhawker squad has, according to Coach Gibbens, depth. He says there are no "stars" that will outshine other members of the team.
"There should be no great difference between the man in the number one slot and the man in number five," Coach Gibbens said. Also, tennis has been granted a small amount of scholarship aid to be offered to prospective members who might not otherwise attend KU.
One week after their first meet with Washburn the Jayhawkers will begin their annual week-long southern trip. Special scheduling has allowed the KU team to travel to Oklahoma and Texas to meet the Oklahoma and the Oklahoma State teams as well as Oklahoma City University, North Texas State University, and TCU. This trip lets the Hawkers meet the Oklahoma schools and some of the north Texas schools without excessive travelling by either team.
According to Coach Gibbens, the battle for the Big Eight crown this year will be between the Sooners and the Jayhawkers.
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"The fact that they qualified for the national meet," Coach Reamon said, "indicates that they are top men in their events. Both men are underclassmen and I think it's fine to have them qualifying for national competition."
Coach Reamon said the two swimmers were the best in the history of KU swimming in their respective events.
Cagers Select Twinbill Teams For Next Year
Opponents for the 1964 Sunflower Doubleheader at KU and Kansas State next December will be Loyola of Chicago and Penn State. Dates for the event are Dec. 11-12.
The two Kansas teams continue a tradition of inviting intersectional basketball powers to compete here. Loyola, 1963 N.C.A.A. champions, built a 22-5 record this season and entered national playoffs. The Ramblers were derailed by Michigan in the Mideast Regionals.
Penn State finished 16-7 for the season's competition.
Following the usual pattern of the traditional doubleheader, the two Kansas teams will face guest teams at Manhattan the first night, then reverse opponents in Allen Field House the second night. Pairings for the Friday, Dec. 11, games at K-State match KU against Penn State in the first game and K-State against Loyola in the second. In Allen Field House Dec. 12, K-State will play Penn State in the first game; KU will meet Loyola in the second.
The doubleheaders were begun in 1957 and have become an annual basketball highlight for the Kansas teams.
This season's guest teams were U.C.L.A. — this year's N.C.A.A. champion, and U.S.C.
Senator Hits Pro Boxing
WASHINGTON, —(UPI)— Sen. Philip A. Hart, (D-Mich.), said today that professional boxing was the "object of general public disrespect and distrust."
"Time is running out for the boxing business unless something is done." he declared.
Hart, chairman of the Senate Antitrust and Monopoly subcommittee, said there was "a growing suspicion that the sport is controlled by hidden manipulators and that the men who go into the ring and take the knocks are the ones who profit least from the gate receipts."
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