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University Daily Kansan Thursday, April 18, 1963
Little Cal Bowser Tosses Big Stick
The smallest competitor in college javelin-throwing will be vying for that crown on Friday and Saturday in the 38th Kansas Relays.
He is 5-5, 180-pound Cal Bowser of North Texas State, who owns a top of $238-9\frac{1}{2}$ for the season. A sophomore, Bowser hauled all the way to Denton, Texas, from Butler, Pa., to join Pop Noah's cinder menagerie.
"NO. I WASN't skeptical about taking him even though he is a little guy," says Noah, who'll referee the Mt. Oread Games. "He has a fine pair of shoulders and tremendous arms.
"I know we're a long way from Pennsylvanian, but the boy wanted to get down somewhere where there is more sunshine for track. I first heard about him through a friend of mine. I met him when we went to the Penn Relays in 1961. We corresponded back and forth a few times and he agreed to come."
KU Tennis Team Defeats Washburn
The KU tennis team stopped a Washburn victory string at three yesterday. The Jayhawks defeated the Ichabods here, 9-0.
KU defeated the Topeka school by the same score in the season's opener. Washburn had won every match since then. Both teams now have 3-2 records.
The results (KU players listed first):
Jim Burns def. Allen Keller, 9-7,
7-5; Del Campbell def. L. E. Eckles,
6-2, 6-4; Lance Burr def. John Lord,
6-2, 6-0; Jan Cobble def. Charles
Brooks, 6-0, 6-2; Barry McGrath
def. Verland Miller, 6-1, 6-2; John
Guyot def. Julius Rebek, 6-0, 3-
6-3; Burns-McGrath def. Keller-
Eckles, 6-1, 6-3; Campbell-Cobble
def. Lord-Brooks, 5-7, 6-2, 7-5;
Burr-Guyot def. Miller-Rebek, 6-3,
6-1.
The Eagles' school record was 208-7 when Bowser arrived. He added almost 10 feet to that on 218-0 as a freshman. He moved up to 222-10 in the Southwest Recreational to open the season, then pitched $238-9^{1/2}$ in the Border Olympics. He followed with 221-3 in the San Angelo Games.
ODDLY, BOWSER didn't win a single meet on those three good pegs. His conqueror each time was Abilene Christian's Jerry Dyes, who won at the Kansas Relays last year on 237-4. Dyes is not scheduled to defend his crown here, which means Bowser may have the best mark in the field pending developments of the next weekend's meets.
Bowser does own one major victory this spring, casting 228-1, on his home lot at the North Texas State Relays. No Missouri Valley flinger has won this event here since 1933 when Oklahoma State's (the Cowpokes were then members of that circuit) Carl Rigney threw $184 - ^{2</sup>³⁴, lowest blue-ribbon mark in Relays history. No North Texas State thrower has won here since 1941 when Alvin Mikeska hit $190 - ^{3</sup>¹² in the days before the Eagles became members of the Valley.
Bowser modeled his throwing style after the most famous of all javelin-heaving shorties, Villanova's Al Cantello, still holder of the American record at 282- $3_{1 / 2}$ . This consists of an explosive closing burst in the last four steps of his run-up and a belly whipping dive, pulling to the left, at the finish.
"WHEN HE DIDN'T place at the Texas Relays," grins Noah. "I told him he just didn't want to dive into that mud."
The javelin was completed under trying circumstances, namely a one-inch deluge of rain, in Friday night's opening session.
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