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TOPS 2-DAYHAUL WITH3:04.7 MILE7-Foot High Jump Before 15,000By Maury White(Sunday Register Staff Writer)WIREPHOTO (AP)Milwaukee Who?employe Edward Tuchalski points to Milwaukee-Pittsburgh pairing on urn’s scoreboard, ready for Apr. 12 opener by Braves. But the sign ful thinking. The Braves now call Atlanta, Ga., home.DNLY PROBLEM IS PITCHING -enke, Carty Lift BravesAUSTIN, TEX.-Southern University was at it again here Saturday as athletes in the college class finished furnishing most of the headlines after two days of near-perfect weather in the Texas Relays.The windup pace was as torrid as on Friday, when one national collegiate and five meet marks were set. One of the new marks was rewritten and four others tumbledSouthern, winning four baton events in its class and setting records in five in the two-day meet, will need a truck to take its watches, clocks and trophies home to Baton Rouge, La.A vote was taken for the outstanding team in each division and even an Alabama office seeker couldn’t have failed to cast a ballot for the Negro school, headed by Olympian Theron Lewis (the outstanding individual).i The climax of two days of • heroics came in the mile relay when Southern ignored lack of competition and blazed four times around the track in 3 minutes 4.7 seconds to miss the world mark by two-tenths of a secor.d.ies]iter)4, FLA. Bragan Menke,;V4KEi about e prettywhy Bragan considered Iowan iMenke’s return vital. Sure, he’s a fine batter. But the Braves had hitting galore last season: third in averages, second in total bases, first in homers. And they didn’t suffer in the field with slick Woody Woodward filling in for Denny at short.“Ah, but it wasn’t our pitching that let us down in the stretch,” said Bragan.- “It was our hitting — and some fielding lapses.Menke in the Braves’ spring press book says he is “in super-star category; does it all — hit, run and throw.”Can Be Bestily ques-es new; ster will I f he has | irm that! Ml recar.rondered“With three weeks to go, we were only a game and a half out of first. And then almost our whole batting order went into a slump. Look it up and you’ll see what I mean.”(Look-up results: the Braves lost 15 of their last 24 games; in five they were shut out, in nine others they scored three runs or less — and won three of them.)Bragan finds no exaggeration there. “He can become the best all-around shortstop in the game,” said Bobby.Denny was well on his way in 1964 with a .283 average, 20 homers and 65 runs-batted-in. Progress ended when, last May 13, his knee smashed into the shinguard of Pittsburgh’s Jim Pagliaroni on a slide home.“I was in the hospital three weeks,” Menke recalls, “then I probably tried to play too soon. I got phlebitis and the knee hurt the rest of the season.60-Yard Margin“Menke and Carty can hit all kinds of pitching consistently,” said Bragan. “They could have picked up the club and carriedit out of the slump.”The sketch of the 25-year-old“I finally taped it up and tried to play. I was hitting pretty good, but not good enough to offset my fielding.One day against the Cubs, i Ernie Banks hit a routine grounder to my left. When IThe same four lads—Webster Johnson lt;:46.7), Anthony Gates (:46.4), Robert Johnson (:46) and Lewis (:45.6) hold a share of the world mark. Being this good while winning by 60 yards was the surprise.It’s early in the season, so these human hotrods should be something in another month if they revisit the Drake Relays, where they set three baton marks a year ago.Southern won the two-mile relay here in 7:27.1, paring 3Vi seconds off the old mark, and ran :39.9 in taking the 440 relay, re-breaking a mark it set in the preliminaries.BRAVES -Continued on Page Fourikes Shot LeadSome fine performances by others, including Texas Southern in the college division (it won the 880 after Southern set a record in the prelims), were overshadowed.Among the other feats noted by a crowd of 15,000, which wassun-baked in 80-degree weather,was a 7-foot high jump by defending champion John Hart-field of Texas Southern. He broke his meet mark of 6-10Vi.A Big Eight HighIstieealO. CAN-ciinched Hockey o's Bob-season ; Satur-tnadiansTHE LEADERSIR.H. Sikes ............... 68-49-68-205I Oouq Sanders ............... $5.70-71— 206Tom Wlskopf ............... 68-67-71—206.Howie Johnson .............. 67-71-66—206Dave Ragan ................ 69-68*70—207I Al Gelberqer ............... 66-70-73-209Julius Boros ............... 71-68-71-210Bob Goalbv ............ . 68-72-70-210‘Al Bessellnk .............. 74-67-69-210George Archer ............ 70-71-69—210Arnold Palmer ...... 71-71-68-210-Dave Mfirr ........... 74-60-68—210George Bayer ............. 71-70-70-211Tony Lima ................ 72-68-71 -211Bobby Nichols ... .•..... 68-74-69-211Lionel Hebert ........... 72-68-71 -211Bob Charles........ 73-73-66-212Ken SHU ........ 73 67 72-212Terry Dill .......... 70-68-74-212'Dudley Wysong . 74-69-69—212Peler Buffer ........ . 72-70-70—21?Miller Barber.......7I-73-6-212:! Terrv Wilcox........ 68*70-74-212Charles Sifford ....... 70-71*72-213Bert Yancey.......71-68-74-213Steve Reid ....... .. 68-69-76-213KrI Nagle......... 70-71-72-213SANDERS TIESFOR 2ND PLACEGREENSBORO, N. C. (AP) — R. 11. Sikes overshadowed the bigger names of golf SaturdayThere was a surprise here. Basketball player Jim Johnson of Oklahoma, supposedly his team’s No. 2 leaper, cleared 6-11 for the highest height ever recorded for a Big Eight athlete.Texas was named outstanding team in the university division and its Preston Davis the outstanding athlete. One of the reasons was the Longhorns’ two-mile relay victory in 7:27.2.h 14 hias he shot a three- under-par 68 for a one-stroke lead with a 205 tolal in t h e $100,000It was an upset, for threw-fourths of the Oklahoma State team that holds the world mark of 7:18.4 was shooting at its own record and finished second. Drake was sixth afterTEXAS-
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Sun, Apr 03, 1966
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