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Friday, Anril 18. 1980
University Daily Kansan
Relays...
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mittee co-chairman, said. "This year, each of the 73 events has a sponsor, which makes this the first year all events have been sponsored."
EACH SPONSORSHIP sold for $100 and co-sponsors were available for $50.
"We have a solid base to turn the Relays and bring them in," he said. "We're the reputation we win." Winkenstein said. "We've put all of work into it and I think it will pay off. We've used new ideas and design that worked."
Timmons, 15-year KU head coach and meet director, said the Relays were a joint effort.
"The Kansas Relays are not just a product of the Kansas track program," he said. "It is something that the KU Athletic Department has been involved with, and the city of Lawrence are all involved with."
"There is a great love for the Kansas bears in Lawrence. That has become a volunteer's volunteered their time to make this year's Riley better. I couldn't be happy with the熊."
BECAUSE THE competition is on the upwing, officials say the Relays will have more pageantry.
A reception is planned for tonight in Watkins Community Museum, 1047 Massachusetts, from 5:30 to 7:30 for the media, the BGJ Newsroom and the Every team in the Big Eight conference, except Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa State, will be here for the Relians. U.S. Olympic of
Tonight, all-wearheart heium balloons will be strung around the stadium and then be illuminated. Tomorrow, a parade, gun fire or a band will highlight the opening ceremonies.
"In the parade will be officials, important people involved in the Relays and the relay race. The crowd is being flaeted to be ting at the south end of the stadium," Winkleman said. "There will also be some sort of recognition when records are made, like a release some ballons and a train."
"But the athletes still need fans to cheer them on."
IF THE FANS come, the Relays will recover. The fans were there when the event began in 1923.
Forest C. "Phoo" Allen, then KU athletic director and head basketball coach, made sure that newly built Memorial Stadium had
a suitable track for staging a large outdoor extravaganza.
When that same track was finished in 1923, the school boasted one of the four longest straightways in the country, exerted by those at Harvard, Yale and Princeton.
There were no many outdoor relays then. In fact, there were only three: the Penn Games, the Drake Relays and the relays of Washington University on the Pacific coast.
John Outland, a Kansas City doctor and one-time KU student, saw the Penn Games while playing football, he was an All-American, at the University of Pennsylvania. After college, Outland returned to Kansas City, and decided KU needed a similar meet.
"HE BEGAT TO INSIST that Kansas should have games similar to the Pennsylvanian camarad, but a lack of facilities carried him," the first Relays' program said.
But Memorial Stadium solved that problem. The annual spring meet has been run in the stadium for the past 57 years with four exceptions. No relays were held in the war years of 1943, 44, and 45. In 1978 a $1.8 million stadium renovation project scaled back from its original size.
After a year's leave of absence in 1978, the Relaxes returned to the stadium last year.
Throughout its history, the biggest enemy of the Kansas Relays has been unnaturally the rain. For the Relays, the weather forecast for the Relays has often been too predictable—train.
The inaugural Relays was run almost
twice, with the first downs in 1928,
32',48',51',59',65',70',74 and 77. Last
day, also stuck the Relays in 1929,
32',48',51',59',65',70',74 and 77.
The final day, but on Friday it was cold.
**IN HIS TIME, Alien tried to foll the weather by taking out insurance on the plane. He paid $5,000. One of them purchased 1 one of each rain fall between 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. on the Saturday of the Relays, Kansas would be compensated. The other would take Alien's offer. It was too rainy.**
The weather is still a dark cloud that hangs over the Relays because spacious Memorial Stadium gives spectators the room they need to buy tickets. If it'sraining, many stay away.
"The ideal climatic conditions prevailing in Kansas in late April had favored the weather and while it is impossible to guarantee the weather there is every chance that midspring will be in full swing by April 23", 1982 memorable booklet for the athletes
Of course, it rained that year.
"OUR EXPECTATIONS are at the mercy of the weather. Richard Zahn is the promotion committee, said. "But we do anticipate an excellent outcome." The mail offer, presented as a toll of the Mailer offer.
"The Relays will definitely resume their spot as a top track event, and we are well on our way to establishing that this year."
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For sprinter, Relays arrive here too soon
By TOM GRESS Sports Writer
If the Kansas Relays were run a month later, it would suit Lori Green Jones just fine.
Jones is a spinner for KU's women's track team and is capable of being one of the best sprinters in the country. She suffered last December is making it tough for her to find the form that made her a state champion sprinter at Topeka West and will be the last year's AIAW National Championships.
But with the Relays here, she wants to "get in shape really quick."
The infection put jones in the hospital for a week during Christmas. Because she was recovering from surgery, February, she missed the indoor track season. And that has hurt her outdoor career.
"INDOOR SEASON prepares you for the outdoors," she said. "I'm way, way behind."
In the team's first outdoor meets, the Memphis State Invitational March 29 and the Texas Relays two weeks ago, Jones ran well enough to qualify for the AIAW International Championship as a member of the 400-meter men's race. But her performances also scared her.
"In Memphis, I ran against some hard competition and felt strains in my legs and sides," she said. "I've never felt that kind of pain in a race."
The pain in those races was like the pain she felt when the kidney infection first aneered.
"When it started, I got pain in my side and I began to run a fever," she said. "I went to the women's athletic trainer and told her I had pain." She said she thought I had a kidney infection.
After seeing the trainer, she went to Watkins Memorial Hospital where doctors
thought Jones, who had been married two months earlier. was neenant.
"I TOLD THEM then, that couldn't be it",
Jones said. "但 they ran tests, out that wasn't it, then ran more tests and decided it was a kidney infection."
"I was pretty sick. I had blood poisoning and gastritis, and ran a fever of 106 for three days."
"It was tough watching the indoor meets here and knowing I could win those races." Jones said. "I 'd go to the meetings and watch, but it was really hard."
Jones spent two days at Wakkins and was then transferred to the University of Kansas where she worked as a nurse. She ran more tests and gave her a spinal tap to see whether the high fever had caused damage to her spine. After a week in bed at the Med Center, Jones became well enough alone.
The illness gave Jones a break from track, but not the type of break she wanted.
Missing the indoor season and the winter workouts are now causing Jones problems. When she first started working out, all she worked was running. Now she is getting back to full workouts.
"MY LEGS got fatigued really easily now," she said. "I'm doing extra workouts on my own at home on weights. I'm going to have to do a lot of training quickly."
Jones said, however, that it could be next year before she's back into top shape.
Jones said she would have to work hard because the heart of the Kansas schedule is coming up. After the Kansas Relays, Drake would be one of the national championships take place.
"I want to get back into shape and be ready, but it's tough after that layoff," she said.
"The KU Relays are very important," Jones said. "I want to do well so I've got to start working hard."
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