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The Doily Nebraskan
Wednesday, May 19, 1965
The PIG Board
by Peggy Speece
What is track?
Track is thrills . . . like Nebraska winning the Big
Eight Indoor crown two years ago . . . Ray Stevens setting
the conference mile record in 4:04.9 on a rain soaked
track at Manhattan, Kansas ... and high schooler Jim
Ryun setting a national prep standard in the mile at this
year's Kansas Relays. Thrills like seeing world record
holder Randy Matson put the shot as if it were a base
ball . . . thrills lika meeting distance star Tom O'Hara and
thrills like watching spunky Dave Crook coming from be
hind to anchor the mile relay to a 3:09.3 Drake Relays rec
ord. Track is fun . . . driving long distances with a best
chum . . . singing There is No Place Like Nebraska with
the '63 indoor championship squad as wc swept through
Kansas City's Municipal Auditorium . . . meeting an
athlete only to discover your father and his father played
football together on the 1933 York High squad. Fun times
like Missouri's sophomore delegation suggesting you enroll
at MU this fall so you can take pictures of theni the next
two years . . . O-State coach Ralph Higgins asking if Jie
can call you if his car breaks down outside Lincoln in re
membrance of the time you called him when you burnt
out a crankshaft 25 miles out of Stillwater.
And track is disappointment . . . Husker Gil Gebo
meeting with bad luck in the indoor 600 two years in a
row . . . Jim Miller, Colorado's outstanding hurdler, pull
ing a muscle at this year's Big Eight indoor . . . Ne
braska's mile relay losing by inches at the Kansas Re
lays. It's little disappointments like watching a good
friend have trouble hitting the pace after an excellent
sophomore season and big disappointments like not seeing
Robin Lingle go after a sub-four minute mile.
But track is mostly people . . . people who compete
people you meet in strange towns, people who enjoy
track. Track is KU Snorts Infoi matinn Dirpr-tni- Phil riir.
nan sending free tickets for the Kansas Relays ... its the
humorous letter from O-Stater Jim Metcalf explaining that
you got him mixed up with Tom Von Ruden in a picture
il's the tap on the shoulder from sophomore Steve
Halliburton from Missouri telling you he could have run
better. Track is the quiet gratitude of Jim Miller ac
knowledging your condolences . . . it's the unassuming
manner of Robin Lingle saying thank you . . . it's the un
bounded joy of Oklahoma's Don Ellis plaving second in
the broad jump after being figured no higher than sixth
at the very best . . .
Track is the triumph of people over tremendous odds
. . . Husker Fred Wilke winning the 60-yard highs two
years ago to set a championship pace ... the whole Ne
braska team pulling together for a surprise second place
finisji at last year's outdoor ... and Javhawker John
Lawson s stirring three mile win just last Saturday.
Track is the "personalities" . . . like Charlie Green
who drinks Cokes before he runs and wears sunglasses
while he runs . . . like O-State's Mickey Miller who de
cided what were those girls handing out medals for if
not to be kissed? .. . like Iowa State's Steve Carson a
quartermiler who couldn't leave the pole vault alone and
ended up injuring himself just before Big Eight.
Track is also the people who don't compete . the
old groundskeeper at the University of New Mexico 'who
wishes each competitor good luck personally before each
S Y the uman sitting in the adjoining booth at Big
Eight Indoor who remembered seeing Roland Locke
Missouri coach Tom Bott's wife who somehow found four"
NU coeds charming if somewhat wacky.
Track is thrills, fun, disappointment, triumph and
sometimes fame ... but track is mostly people.
Daily Nebraskan
SPOUTS
IM, Varsity Standouts
To Be Given Recognition
BOB SAMUELSON-Sports Editor
CBS
ball
By James Pearse
Bo Belinsky, Henry Aaron.
Willie Mays, Willie Horton,
the Chicago White Sox and
Bill Veeck caused Major
League opponents and mana
gers trouble over the past
week.
Monday night Belinsky
made a late night pay off on
the mound as he hung on to
pick up his first win as a
National Leaguer and a Phil
adelphia Phillie.
"You have to be lucky af.
ter the seventh inning to win,"
Belinsky said after just es
caping an eighth inning Car
dinal uprising for a 2-1 vic
tory.
Arron, who got a late start
because of an operation, has
come on strong in the last
two weeks for the Milwaukee
Braves.
He has hit safely in his last
fourteen games and now
stands among te leaders with
a .346 average. Arron's home
run production and RBI total
should shortly catch up with
these now leading the league.
Willie Mays
there's more!
But wait,
The Giant out of San Fran
cisco has flown off to his reg
ular great season start. Mays
has hit .667 in his last seven
(16 for 24) games. That
brings his average up to .408
after 31 games. He also has
13 home runs and 26 RBI's.
As impressive as these sta
tistics are you have to won
der just what he would be do
ing if he did not have to play
half his games in cold, wind
torn Candlestick Park.
Yankees, who, if the two ma
jor leagues were combined,
would be only one-half game
in front of their cross-t own
mates, the Mets.
Getting back to Chicago, on
Monday night they won their
eighth straight and showed
no signs of slowing in a 13-2
drubbing of Charlie O's A's.
Meanwhile the Yanks were
doing little about closing the
game Sox bulge over them as
they dropped a 9-2 decision
to Baltimore. Whitey Ford
started for the balky Bronx
bombers, but was lifted in the
fourth inning and suffered his
fourth defeat.
Baseball's venerable scribe,
Bill Veeck, has written a new
book about baseball in order
that the fans in America
won't be lured into accepting
the false faces of major league
management.
This latest missionary ef
fort is not helping the Yan
kee's cause, as their new man
ager, Johnny Keane, was
forced to take time out from
his new duties on Monday to
comment on Veeck's state
ment concerning discord in
the Cardinal infield during
last season's pennant race.
i would rather not com
ment on most of Veeck's opin
ions and assertions. Bill Veeck
and I have never met and
many of the charges he makes
I would rather not dignify by
commenting. on them.
"However, on one subject
I think I must answer.
The Daily Nebraskan will
award its annual Outstanding
Varsity Athlete and Outstand
ing Intramural Athlete awards
later this week.
The sports desk will accept
letters nominating an out
standing intramural athlete
for the remainder of the week,
the deadline being 3:00 p.m.
Thursday afternoon. The re
cipients will be announced in
Friday's paper.
Bill Zuspan submitted a
letter nominating Bob Witte
of Sigma Nu fraternity for
.outstanding intramural ath
lete. Zuspan writes, "Bob is an
outstanding intramural ath
lete. He has won the All Uni
versity Free Throw Champi
onship for two consecutive
years, hitting on 96 of 100
attempts. He was a member
of the All-University Intra
mural Basketball team, and
had a 31-point average in
competition. He is a pitcher
in soi'tball, recently pitching
a two hitter against Sigma
Alpha Epsilon, and has par
ticipated in volleyball, deck
tennis and horseshoes as well.
"Bob is an Omaha Benson
Graduate, a junior majoring
in industrial arts, and a mem
ber of Phi Epsilon Kappa,
physical education honorary.
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Charlie Greene . . . Sprint trophy is almost bigger than
he is. Greene could be the second Husker to win this
trophy three years running. The famous Roland Locke
was the first.
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Then Keane went on to dis
cuss the situation involving
Dick Groat versus the rest of
the Cardinal players near
Fair pitching, defense, and! mid-season last year. Appar
Willie Horton are keeping the,ently Groat was becoming
Phi Ps's, Goot-Offs
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The flag football scores:
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Detroit Tigers in the middle
of the American league race.
Horton smacked 18 hits in
his last 30 times at the plate
last week to lift his average
from .289 to .403. One-third
of his hits were four-baggers.
Another man on the Tiger
squad, who is receiving little
publicity, but is doing his job
in the professional way he and
few others in organized ball
possess, Al Kaline, is in the
top hitter's circle also with
a mark of .308.
At this point in the season
cniiaiike in his mannerisms
and speech about the team.
Groat finally realized h i s
problem and took it to gen
eral manager Big Devine who
advised him to see Keane.
Keane told him to work out
the problem with himself and
then say somethng to t h e
team as whole at one of the
clubhouse meetings. This
Groat did and the air was
cleared.
The Yankee problem is evi
dent. Beyond the fact that
many key players are injured,
their manager is running two
clubs in two different sea-
I last year the Chicago White ' sons at the same time and
Sox occupied the same num
ber one slot they have played
cui reeling euuunaj curninems
in current literature. It takes
their way into this spring. J a great man to do all those
However, last season their
lead was a mere ten percen
tage points over the Yankees.
This year they are two and
a half games on top of the
second place Minnesota Twins
and 10 games ahead of the I ifications.
things at one time and sur
vive.
Tomorrow this slot will be
filled with facts on the torrid
Big Eight baseball race and
how Nebraska fits into the
basic picture and all its ram-
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