Trackmen to battle for fifth consecutive crown
The Jayhawk track team is rated a solid favorite to win its fifth straight Big Eight indoor track championship in the meet that begins Friday night in Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City.
Exceptional team depth is the strong point for the Hawks in their quest for their 16th title in 21 years.
"On paper, we are the team to beat," Coach Bob Timmons said Wednesday, "but the meet isn't run on paper. There are many good competitors in the conference."
Although the Hawks return only one champion from last year's team, Karl Salb in the shot put, several other KU athletes are rated to be favorites in their events.
Among those Jayhawks who
have a good chance to win is Salb's teammate, Steve Wilhelm, who won in an earlier meeting with a toss of 65-3. Salb has the league leading throw of 67-5½.
Phil Reaves of Kansas has the longest long jump in the conference with a leap of 24-9, but he could be pushed by Missouri's Mel Graw whose best effort is only $3/4$ inches shorter.
In the two-mile Jay Mason of KU has the best time with a run of 8:44.5. His chief competition figures to be Peter Kaal of Oklahoma State. Either of these two could snap the Big Eight indoor record of 8:51.0.
Freshman Brian McElroy has a good chance of taking home the 880 crown for the Hawks. His league leading time of 1:50.2 is almost two seconds under the event's standing record.
Celtics struggling for final playoff
By United Press International
The halcyon days of playing on three Boston Celtic championship teams may be over for Don Nelson, but the flavor lingers. The Hub City star scored a career high of 40 points Wednesday night in leading Boston to the 147-124 victory over the San Diego Rockets.
Boston, $4\frac{1}{2}$ games away from the fourth and final playoff spot in the Eastern Division, set a league record by scoring 54 points in the final quarter. The feat erased previous highs of 52 for a single period held jointly by Boston and Baltimore.
The Celts needed all the help they could muster in countering the 46 points scored by Elvin Hayes. Trailing by four points entering the last quarter, Boston tied the score at 108-all and then went on an 18-4 spurt to put the game on ice.
Milwaukee closed to within six games of first-place New York in the East by defeating Baltimore, 115-113; Chicago whipped San Francisco, 112-104; Philadelphia humbled Detroit, 122-105, and Seattle upset Atlanta, 120-112, in other NBA games.
Braves picked N. L. favorites
LAS VEGAS (UPI)—The world champion New York Mets are only 9-2 favorites to repeat as National League titlists and are rated behind Atlanta, San Francisco and St. Louis, according to the first line on the coming baseball season by Las Vegas odds-makers.
The line, issued through the Del Mar Sports Book by oddsmaker Bill Dark, while not breaking the leagues down by division, listed the Braves first as 3-1 picks to take the National League title.
Next came the Giants at 7-2 and the Cardinals at 4-1. After them the Mets and then Chicago 5-1, Los Angeles 6-1, Cincinnati 7-1, Pittsburgh 12-1, Houston 15-1, Philadelphia 30-1 and Montreal and San Diego coupled as a single entry 150-1.
Baltimore was listed 2-1 to repeat as American League champions. The rest of the junior circuit order were: Oakland 3-1, Minnesota 4-1, Boston 5-1, Detroit 6-1, California 10-1, Cleveland 10-1, New York 15-1, Chicago 20-1, Washington 30-1 and Kansas City and Seattle as an entry 150-1.
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Baltimore, losing Kevin Loughrey in the second period with cracked ribs when he was hit by Lew Alcindor's knee, played with seven men in the second half against Milwaukee. But the Buckets showed a bit more power as Alcindor netted 27 points, Jon McGlocklin scored 24 and Flynn Robinson tallied 22. It was three quick baskets in the fourth quarter by substitute Len Chappell, however, that stopped the Baltimore attack. Earl Monroe paced the Bullets with 27 points.
A 12-3 surge midway in the fourth quarter clinched Chicago's win over San Francisco. Reserve Shaler Halimon scored eight of the Bulls' last 12 points to help push the Warriors deeper into sixth place in the West. Bob Love of Chicago topped all scorers with 32 points, while Jerry Lucas led San Francisco with 20.
The Big Eight record of 16-3 in the pole vault appears in danger with Mike Wedman of Colorado and Jan Johnson of KU set to battle toward the 17-foot mark. Johnson who was injured two weeks ago in the Houston Astrodome meet is now ready to compete.
Philadelphia, which hasn't lost to a visiting Detroit team since 1965, kept the whammy alive on Hal Greer's 29 points. The Pistons couldn't score from the field for the first 7:29 of play as the 76ers ran off a 2-4 lead. Dave Bing's 32 points were the highlight of the Detroit effort.
Field goals by Barry Clemens and Dick Snyder and Bob Rule's two foul shots with less than four minutes to play pushed Seattle past Atlanta. Rule finished with 27 points. Atlanta, led by Lou Hudson's 32 points, dropped its lead over second-place Los Angeles in the west to $ \frac{1}{2} $ games.
Coach Timmons said his 'Hawks were very fortunate that they had no major injuries or sickness to weigh them down in this meet.
The 440 shapes us to be close battle with any of six runners capable of winning the event. Julio Meade of Kansas is expected to push the leader in this event, Fran Lang of Iowa State.
Marcus Walker of Colorado appears ready to take both the 60-yard low and high hurdle events. Mike Bates of Kansas could slip by Walker in the highs as his :07.1 is only a tenth of a second behind Walker. The meet record in this event is :07.1.
The mile is up for grabs with the defending champion, Jerome Howe of Kansas State returning to competition after a leg injury. Peter Kaal of OSU has shaken his previous injuries and is rated the favorite. Doug Smith and Mike Solomon of KU have times among the leaders.
Ray McGill, of Kansas State, could dominate the high jump and possibly break the record. Coach Timmons said both Larry Reineke and Gary Johnson of KU have a good chance of placing high in this competition.
Earl Harris of OSU has a share of the world record in the 60-yard dash with a time of :05.9. He is closely pursued by seven others which include Mickey Mathews, Frank Johnson and Phil Reaves, all of Kansas.
The KU mile relay team composed of Marvin Foster, Randy Julian, Mike Larimore and Julio Meade will battle with Oklahoma for both the title and the meet record.
Coach Timmons said the 'Hawks strongest competition in the team title race will be K-State, Nebraska and Colorado in that order.
Timmons said that pre-meet forms can not always be expected to hold up, especially in this meet. He said the large and biased crowd puts a lot of pressure on the performers and this has caused numerous upsets in the past.
Not only were the Jayhawks in good physical shape, he said, but they were also definitely in good mental shape which could be just as important.
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