Former Cornhusker great absent
Charlie Green, ex-Nebraska sprinter and winner of the past two KU Relays 100-yard dash will not return this year to defend his title. But a strong group has been fielded for the event including John Carlos, Ivory Crockett and Earl Harris.
Chiefs sellout season tickets
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPI) It took less than two hours today to sell 9,500 remaining season tickets for the World Champion Kansas City Chiefs' 1971 season.
Long lines still stood at more than a score of ticket locations scattered over the city when the last of the 70,000 tickets was sold.
The Chiefs had announced Tuesday that fans who held 1960 season tickets had taken 60,469 tickets for the Chiefs' first season in the new Harry S Truman
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Sports Complex. The figure was the largest number of season ticket sales in the history of professional sports, according to Chiefs vice president and general manager Jack Steadman.
Steadman said the Chiefs will now begin accepting non-confirmed orders only, for what amounts to a waiting list. Each non-confirmed order will receive a priority account number. When cancellations are received orders will be confirmed in priority number sequence.
About 5,000 tickets for each game will be held back, for sale on a single game basis.
NEW YORK (UPI)—Commissioner Jack Dolph of the American Basketball Association is "quite confident" the league will merge with the National Basketball Association after the next three seasons.
ABA boss confident
Dolph said Tuesday that the ABA has agreed to the general terms of the merger outlined by the merger committees of the two leagues.
The general agreements call
Baltimore, Cards picked as favorites
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (UPI)—The Baltimore Orioles at 7-5 and the St. Louis Cardinals at 4-1 are major league baseball's 1970 pennant favorites in the latest odds issued from Las Vegas.
The Orioles also are 3-5 to win the Eastern Division championship in the American League with Minnesota 6-5 to score in the West.
The Cardinals were listed at 2-1 to win the National League's Eastern Division while Atlanta, Los Angeles and San Francisco all were 1-5 in the West.
American League — Baltimore 7-5, Minnesota 3-1, Oakland 5-1, Detroit 12-1. Boston 12-1, California 25-1, Cleveland 30-1, Chicago 30-1, Washington 50-1, New York 50-1, Seattle 250-1, Kansas City 250-1.
League races:
National League—St Louis 4-1,
Atlanta 5-1, New York 5-1, Chicago 7-1, Los Angeles 7-1, San Francisco 7-1, Pittsburgh 8-1,
Cincinnati 10-1, Houston 30-1,
Philadelphia 50-1, Montreal 500-1,
San Diego 500-1.
for the ABA to pay $11 million to have all 11 of its teams included in a merged league. The terms also call for mixed exhibition games next season as well as a championship series and an All-Star Game between the two leagues. However, the leagues would remain separate for the next three seasons and retain separate negotiating rights for national television. There would also be a common draft, beginning next year.
"I'm quite optimistic that the merger can be worked out," Dolph said. "If we don't merge both leagues will have made a serious mistake."
Franklin Mieli, president of the San Francisco Warriors of the NBA, threw up a roadblock in the path of the merger, however, by saying he needs only one more vote from NBA owners for a veto.
"Ive got three votes to block this merger and I hope to have a fourth which would guarantee defeat." Miouli said. He added that the admission of all 11 ABA franchises would bring the NBA "to its knees."
Use Kansan Classified
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES MAJORS!
Undergraduate Teaching Assistantships are available for next fall in the new Biology Dept. and certain undergraduate lab courses in biology.
- Salaries start at $500.00 per semester.
- Approx, ten hrs./week and enrollment in Bio. 83 (Laboratory instruction, 2 hrs.) is required.
- Obtain application forms in Biology Office, 249 Snow.
- Deadline for application: April 24, 1970