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The big one that didn't get away
Bonner Springs prep football star David Jaynes leads the list of 35 prospects signed May 6 by the Jayhawk coaching staff. Pepper Rodgers and assistant Terry Donaghue personally visited Jaynes Wednesday for the signing.
Salb, Knop join team; track action to resume
KU weightmen Karl Salb and Doug Knop will accompany the Jayhawk track team to Ames, Iowa Saturday for a triangular meet with Iowa State and Southern Illinois.
It had been announced earlier that Salb and Knop would abandon their teammates for the weekend and travel to Fresno, Calif. to participate in the West Coast Relays. However, the meet was cancelled when California Governor Ronald Reagan closed all state colleges and universities until Monday because of growing campus tensions.
Golf team set to host Big 8 meet
The Kansas Jayhawk golfers take this weekend off while they continue preparing for next weekend's Big Eight championship tourney to be held at the Lawrence Country Club May 15-16.
Last weekend the team finished seventh in the Great Plains Invitational tourney in Wichita. A total of 12 teams from midwest schools competed.
Two weeks ago the Jayhawks took second place in play involving seven Big Eight teams. Oklahoma State, defending conference champ, beat KU by two strokes in that meet in Lawrence.
Haywood leads team
NEW YORK (UPI) — Spencer Haywood of the Denver Rockets, who previously was named the American Basketball Association's Most Valuable Player, led the All-Rookie team announced Thursday by the league.
Also named to the squad were Willie Wise and Mac Calvin of the Los Angeles Stars, Mike Barrett of the Washington Caps and John Brisker of the Pittsburgh Pipers.
LOS ANGELES (UPI)—Jerry West of the Los Angeles Lakers has scored more than 19,000 points in his 10-year National Basketball Association career.
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Salb had planned to throw the shot put and Knop the discus in preparation for the Big Eight meet to be held in Lawrence May 15-16.
Texas lass tries for 4
DALLAS (UPI)—Sandra Haynie, the hottest competitor on this year's ladies' pro golf tour, would like very much to join a very exclusive group, the fem pros who have won four tournaments in a row.
The 27-year-old Teaxs lass is halfway there. And, she will go for the third leg in the $25,000 Dallas Civitan Open, which started a 54-hole run over the 6,177-yard, par 35-36-71 Glen Lakes Country Club layout today.
Only two other women pros have turned the trick—Kathy Whitworth last year and Mickey Wright twice—in 1962 and 1963. The Dallas event, incidentally, was the third leg on Miss Wright's four-in-a-row surge in 1963.
"I'll have to do better than I usually do at Glen Lakes, however, if I'm going to make it three in a row," Miss Haynie said. "This is a course where the scoring usually is real low and I never seem to get my game going on it.
"It takes a lot of short iron play and those clubs aren't normally my cup of tea."
NY, LA to settle issues tonight
The New York Knickerbockers and the Los Angeles Lakers will square off in New York's Madison Square Garden tonight to determine the 1970 National Basketball Association's champion.
But, her irons must not have been too unwieldy since she brought back-to-back victories in the Raleigh, N.C., and Shreveport, La., invitations into this tournament and has won $9,358 in four starts. That is less than $600 behind top-money winner Carol Mann, who is the defending champion in the Dallas event. Miss Haynie and Mickey Wright, who—like Miss Haynie—is back on the tour after a long injury-enforced layoff, loom as the major threats to Miss Mann's title defense.
The outcome of the game may well depend on Willis Reed, the
Knicks' 6-10 center. Reed was injured in the fifth game of the seven game series, a game which saw New York come from behind for a 107-100 victory.
The Lakers, with Reed dressed in civilian clothing and watching from the sidelines, annihilated the Knicks Wednesday night, 135-113. A partisan crowd of 17,509 watched in the Los Angeles Forum.
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Reed, suffering from a painful muscle injury in his right hip, returned immediately to New York following the game for rest and further treatment.
New York Coach Red Holzman said Reed is about a 50/50 possibility for the series finale. However, Reed, who was the NBA's most valuable player this year,
said Thursday that even if he has to play on one leg,he will play.
The effectiveness of the Knicks without Reed is questionable. Reed's injury during the fifth game came with the Lakers leading. But surprisingly the Knicks came back with a brilliant fourth quarter to gain the seven point victory margin.
However, Wednesday night was a complete reversal.
Jerry West got the Lakers off to a 2-0 lead and the team was never behind. The Lakers led by 20 points after the first and second periods, 19 after the third, and surprisingly refused to let down in the fourth quarter. Los Angeles had been plagued in the past of experiencing a letdown in the final quarter.
The outstanding player was giant Wilt Chamberlain. The 7 foot, 2 inch former KU standout topped all scorers with 45 points and dominated rebounding with 27. Reed's absence was particularly noticeable in Chamberlain's play as the Knicks had no one who could stop the big man's movement inside.
Chamberlain, who said he was
Chief, a bay gelding who was the last cavalry horse in the U.S. Army, died May 14, 1968 at Fort Riley, Kan., at the age of 36 after 18 years in semi-retirement.
"truly sorry when Reed was hurt," said he didn't particularly go for such high scoring. He added that he would take advantage of the situation if the opportunity presented itself which it obviously did.
Dave DeBusschere, the Knicks leading scorer Wednesday night with 25 points, said his team will be fighting for its life tonight.
Walt Frazier of the Knicks said, "the home court has to be about a 10-point advantage for us . . . the Garden will be pandemonium and the crowd may dictate the pace of the game."
Rugby club to host KC
The KU Rugby Club closes out its spring season Saturday by hosting the Kansas City Rugby Club at 2 p.m. at Oliver field.
The ruggers suffered their first loss of the year last weekend in the annual Chicago tourney sanctioned by the United States Rugby Union. They lost in the first round, ending their victory string at nine.
If KU wins it will be their tenth win. The "B" team previously finished with a 4-0 record.
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