SPORTS UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, January 27, 1995
3B
Track teams will race for mug
'Hawks try to retain three-team trophy
By Robert Moczydlowsky
Kansan sportswriter
Track and field generally is not considered a team sport. The multitude of specialized events occur simultaneously, blurring the action into battles between individuals and clocks.
But not this weekend. Tomorrow, athletes on the Kansas track team will put their individual goals aside to work towards a common goal: beating Missouri and Kansas State.
"This meet is us against them," Kansas track coach Gary Schwartz said. "Anytime you're competing against someone in black and gold or purple and white, you want to win at any cost. The format of this meet offers intense team competition."
Tomorrow's meet will use a triangular, team-scored format that combines the men's and women's competitions. Points are awarded based on order of finish, and each university will post a single team score compiled from the results of every event.
"Times really aren't that important." Kansas junior Kristi Kloster said. "Of course everybody wants to run a fast time, but you run faster because you want to win and keep the trophy. It's just an ugly little jug, but you don't want to lose it to K-State or Mizzou."
Retaining control over the meet's traveling trophy, awarded annually to the winner of the three-team rivalry, is a major goal for the Jayhawks.
Kansas senior spinner Natasha Shafer agreed with Kloster on the trophy's importance.
"We want to beat both those teams really bad," she said. "Personally, I had a bad start in the 200 last weekend and lost to a girl from K-State. I can't wait for this weekend, when we go again. I'll beat her this time."
Tomorrow's meet, held in Columbia, Mo., will be the first indoor meet of the season to feature the Jayhawks at full strength. Key additions
to the Kansas lineup include Kloster, who missed last weekend's meet for training purposes, and senior pole vaulters John Bazzoni and Nick Johannsen. Bazzoni and Johannsen were in Reno, Nev., last week for the National Pole Vault Summit.
Kansas junior Erin Howerton said that having the entire indoor team ready to compete would be a big boost for Kansas.
"We have some injuries to get over right now," she said. "Having everybody there will really help that. The rivalry between the teams helps a lot, too."
Aside from the excitement of team competition, tomorrow's meet gives the Jayhawks a chance to scout their competition in the Big Eight Conference.
"This meet is an indicator of the intensity and atmosphere of the Big Eight meet," Schwartz said. "We'll use it to gauge where we stand as team in the conference. But our No. 1 goal is to win and keep that trophy.
President says it's time to play ball
Clinton imposes deadline of Feb.6 for settlement
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Clinton yesterday gave baseball owners and players until Feb. 6 to show progress in their stalled strike talks or a federal mediator will make his own settlement proposal.
"America has been living without baseball for far too long." Clinton said in a statement issued by the White House.
The president ordered mediator W.J. Usery to call the parties back to the bargaining table and report back to him Feb. 6. In an interview with NBC, Clinton said he also had told the mediator that if he couldn't get them to agree, he should actually make a proposal and tell them what he thinks they should do based on having heard all sides.
"Now, as the strike drags on, it
threatens the start of the 1995 season." Clinton said in the statement. "It could well damage the economies of the spring-training states. It is impressing the livelihoods of tens of thousands of workers whose jobs depend on baseball.
"And it is trying the patience and depressing the spirits of millions of baseball fans—including me. It is time for this strike to end."
Spring training is scheduled to begin Feb. 16.
Owners broke off negotiations Dec. 22 and implemented their salary cap proposal the following day. Acting commissioner Bud Selig says he wants talks to resume, and union head Donald Fehr says his side will be there whenever owners are ready to talk. But no talks are scheduled.
"Prior to the president's announcement today, the clubs had assured Mr. Usery that we were willing to negotiate whenever he scheduled a meeting," Selig said. "Further, we indicated that we were prepared to make a new and different proposal with the hope of reaching a fair and speedy resolution to this dispute if the players' union would simply assure us that it was prepared to negotiate with us over costs."
Clinton said he wanted the sides to reach a deal on their own. Usery, a former Labor Secretary, doesn't have the power to impose a settlement, but the administration may try to use its leverage to back the mediator's recommendations. The president left the impression that may happen.
"I hope it does not come to that," Clinton said. "I urge the owners and the players to give their full support to this mediation effort and to settle this unfortunate dispute themselves. It is time to put behind us the rancor and cynicism that are shadowing the American ideal of baseball. It is time to let all the excitement that the 1995 season can offer sweep away that tarnished image. It's time to play ball."
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