Thursday, April 29.1976
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Cromwell pointing for Olympics
By GARY VICE
Staff Photo by JAY KOELZER
Cromwell's 49.74 leads the world
Nolan Croman-will's name is often associated with lists of Heisman Trophy candidates, but now the multilateralized athlete ranks among the elite group of athletes given a chance at making the United States Olympic team.
The football and track star has taken aim for the 1976 Summer Olympic Games in Montreal by posting the world's two fastest clockings this year in the 400-meter intermediate hurdles.
When asked how he rated his chances of making the Olympic team, Cromwell replied, "Well, right now my chances are very good. There are a lot of other good hardriders around the country. Ralph Mann (1972 Olympic) has told me to make the team you'd probably have to run 48.4 at malls. I'm going to start working pretty hard to make it.
HIS TIMES of 49.74 at the Texas Relays and 49.8 at the Kansas Relays easily qualify the junior from Ransom for the Olympic trials in Engegue, Ore., June 19-27. The team's total time is 50.64 for electric timing and 50.5 for hand timing.
"I've been really pleased with the intermediaries are coming around. Ive had two times under the 50, and I just
UNTIL NOW, THE All-American quarterback said, spring football practices have been conflicted with his training, as have the poor weather conditions. Also, he hasn't been able to work out this week because he's had the flu, which has plagued him since competing in the cold and rainy Drake Relays last weekend.
At that meet, Cronwell passed up his chance to record a Midwest relay circuit sweep in the collegiate division by oping to challenge the field in the open division. In the open race he faced Ralph Mann of the Beverly Hills Striders, another runner who will be battling for a berth on the U.S. Olympic team.
Mann, the American record holder with a 48.51 clocking set at the 1972 Olympics, edged Cromwell by two seconds.
Cromwell said the race against Mann, who is four-ranked worldwide in the event, tauched him something.
"IT SHOWED ME THAT I have a lot of work to do with my form," he said. "You see, I was in lane three and he was in four, and as I drove over the hurdles I could see him. He had better cover the overhills. I still have an
unorthodox style. If I could ever get the form I need, I could get my time down considerably."
Cromwell, who was named the Kansas Relys' most outstanding performer this year, said he hoped to improve his hurdling form by working with assistant coach Stan Narewski, the Jayhawk's sprint and hurdles coach
"Hopefully, I'll get some time and some good weather so I can get with Stan," he said. "He's a good hurdle coach. I've been real impressed with him. He knows how to set up a good weekly workout."
*TG GOING TO START working pretty hard on altering my lead leg over the hurdles, and I plan to practice on them.*
Cromwell has been leading with his left leg over the hardens and has used a three-point football stance instead
Narewski said he didn't know of many world-class hurdlers who alternated lead legs, but he said most of them were taller than the 6-2 Cromwell and had less trouble stepping over the barriers.
"NOLAN IS A HARD WORK." Narewsi said. "He's not learnable because he really wants to make it the best he can."
"I think he feels like his arm action has him a little bit off balance when he comes over the hurdles, but it's no serious problem. Because he's so strong, it shouldn't keep him from running a good time."
"YEAH, USTFF AND NC'S should help me a lot," 15 in Lincoln, Neb.
Cromwell, who as a freshman in the KU decathlon record in his only collegiate attempt, clocked a胜于 50.6 last year in the 440-yard intermediate hurdles. When converted to meters, his time is 50.38 and would have been the same place on the world list last year. His best this season of 47.4 would have placed him 11th in last year's final rankings.
With understandable eagerness, Narski said, "If there are any alumni out there who know five or six like him just have them call collect. We'd be glad to talk to them."
Blood and guts of hockey called a legal criminality
By STEVE KLEIN Akron Beacon Journal For The Associated Press
AKRON, Ohio—If you or I deliberately injured another person, we would be liable to criminal prosecution and the possibility of up to 15 years in jail.
In hockey, it is commonly accepted that a player may deliberately injure an opponent. RULE 864 IN both the National Hockey League and the NHL Hockey Association rule books read the same:
"A match penalty shall be imposed on a player who deliberately injures an opponent."
As in the real world, some incarceration is involved; the guilty player is suspended for the remainder of the game, his team is penalized 10 minutes (the penalty is served by a teammate), and the league collects $25,000 to cover it, paid by the player rather than his team.
No hockey player has yet been convicted and jailed for assault and battery, but the cases have proliferated since 1970, when Wayne Maki was charged in Ottawa, Ontario with clubbing Ted Green on the head with his hockey stick.
CONSIDERING THE relative severity of the penalties, the hockey world would appear to be a sanctuary for muggers and other antisocial types intent on assault and battery. That may be true, but as hockey stars are less fortunate than civilians, crime doesn't, pay—not even on ice.
The charges were eventually dropped, but last summer Boston's Dave Forbes was tried in Hennepin County in Minnesota for allegedly butt-ending Minnesota's Henry Boucha in the face with a stick. The case resulted in a hung jury and was drowned.
The problem, obviously, is much larger than just a hockey one. Eventually, some prosecutor will bring charges against a baseball pitcher for throwing a beanball.
ASSAULT, IN COMMON law, is simply the intention to do harm. Battery is simply
any unlawful beating inflicted on another human being without his consent—even the slightest touching of another person or his hand in a rude, insolent or angry manner.
"One day they're going to wake up and find a dead hockey player at center ice," he said. "The other is a of 1974 commission that investigated violence in hockey. It is McMurtry's brother, Roy, the Roy of Philadelphia attorney general, who was charged with Dan Maloney and three Philadelphia Flyers."
CLARENCE CAMPBELL, NHL commissioner since 1946, a Rhodes Scholar and the Canadian prosecuting attorney at the court of appeal. He has closhed his eyes to the violence in the game.
"I know there are many students of human behavior who disagree with me," Campbell admits, "but I feel that the safest and most satisfactory reaction to being fouled is by retaliating with a punch in the nose."
If Campbell's nonchalance is extreme, even for hockey people, most agree with Philadelphia Coach Fred Shernack that the team should not bound bounds. Every sport must police itself."
ATTY. GEN. MCMURTRY says "the NHL could do away with unnecessary violence by enforcing stronger rules." If that isn't the answer, then perhaps hockey players will be subject to disciplinary action by local governments, much as boxing is run by state commissions in this country.
Unfortunately, the game has already affirmed. The Flyers rather than the Mets have lost a lot of games in team style, leaving hockey with two options: Legislate the violence out of the game
No one is going to remove bodily contact hockey without changing the nature of the game.
That's how the civilized world works, and
it's time hockey caught up with civilization.
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