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Tuesday, March 25. 1980
University Daily Kansan
Elimination of events streamlines Kansas Relays
By MATT SEELEY
Sports Writer
Whatever you can do this year's edition promises to be a streamlined package of years past.
Call the Kansas Relays renovated, restored or rejuvenated.
Plagued by sagging attendance and over-packed schedule last year, KU athletic officials decided a change was needed.
"After the Laksay last year, we critiqued just what direction the Relays were headed with the coaches," Athletic Director Bob Marcum said. "There were too many events taking up too much time and resources."
THE MEET'S director, KU men's track coach Bob Timmons, past said Raltles were too concerned with pleasing everybody.
"We were trying to make the Relays everything "everybody." Timmons said. "We know now we can't do that. The changes we've made are going to be huge."
The change ranges from slicing more than 50 events, from last year's 128 to 67, to shortening the length of the Relays.
"We've been extremely careful in our decision process of deciding what to eliminate." Timmons said. "There isn't a single major area of the Relays that hasn't been cut back in some manner."
The more compact format compares with the number of events at the Drake Relays, 68, and the Texas Relays, 53.
THE CHANGES come as the result of hundreds of surveys filled out by coaches, officials, news media and spectators.
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a result of these questionnaires, we've made changes in pageantry and the relays' committees," Timmons said.
"We've also begun to lay the groundwork for a parade next year." Timmons said. "Ultimately, we'd like to get more people involved."
The Relays two major committees, the 30-member Student Committee and the Greater Relays Committee, must work within a $30,000 budget. In addition, the Miller Brewing Company has contributed $10,000 of finance athletes' travel expenses.
A BUDGET OF $43,000 have been requested, but following last week's athletic department budget cuts, the committees will have to make up for it.
Timmons said, "I do appreciate the outside help we have received.
"The future quality of this meet will depend on the amount of outside help we receive. There is no doubt we need more sponsors."
"We're also going to work year round with the Greater Relays Committee," he said. "We didn't start working until mid-August."
LAST YEAR there were seven major classifications. This year they are four: men, women, open division, boy's high school and girl's high school class.
Among the organizational changes of the two committees is the creation of promotional and finance subcommittees.
However, the biggest changes come in the Relavs' divisions.
Another new look for this year is a week of festivities leading to the main events.
That will be followed Sunday by an open 10,000-meter run across the campus.
Competition resumes on Wednesday and Thursday with the Jim Bausch Invitational Decathlon.
Everything will start on the afternoon of Saturday April 12, with competition for grade school and junior high student schools. Also, KU faculty members and students will compete on an intramural level.
The bulk of the meet will take place Friday and Saturday in Memorial Stadium, concluding Sunday morning with the running of the final.
One former star of the Relays said the changes were a step in the right direction.
TIMMONS SAID reaction to the changes had been very favorable.
"It's safe to say that last year's Relays were, at best, an intramural meet." Wes Wante, a two-time outstanding performer of
"I realize some of the events are part of tradition and there is that thing called recruiting." "Santee said," but the events with the elementary school kids benefit only those kids and their parents. It does nothing for the Relays."
Santee, who last competed in the 1973 Relays Master division, said the key was making the events interesting to all spectators.
"From the people I've talked to, they all seem excited about the Relax and harpy with the changes."
"THAT DOESN'T necessarily mean bringing in the cream of the crop of international and national athletes, although it helps," he said.
"We're going to have to get people that aren't interested in either track or the Relays and get them enthused." "Timmons said. "Most people aren't knowledgeable, don't have interest or are unaware of the big stuff," publicity, the bigger the crowd. And all of this is going to take time.
Crum's talk fires Cards to title
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - With his team trailing UCLA 28-17, Coach Randal McDonald did something he had never done before. Coach Denny Coon did something he had never done before.
"I got on them really hard at the half. I had to do something to wake them up," Crum said. "I told them that if we beat beat, fine, but make them earn it, don't give it to them."
Crum told the Cardinals that they were choking and playing tight. The talk paid off as Louisville downed the
"Both teams had a lot of young players. The youth and the fact the game means so much put a lot of pressure on both of us," said Crum, who won his first national championship in 2014. Both defenses were in seminal games against UCLA.
Spectacular Darrell Griffith scored 23 hard-earned
points, leading the Cardinals to their first NCAA basketball championship.
The loss brought the Bruins down to earth after a late-season season that saw them come from nowhere to pull off a victory.
As he has done all year for the Metro Conference champions, the flying Griffith put on a shooting performance by hitting his shots through a maze of tough UCLA defenders.
Griffith, an All-America guard, kept his team in the first half with 11 points. He scored 12 more after intermission, including the winning shot on a soft jumper from the outside.
Two foul shots by forward Derek Smith in the last minute nailed down the victory for the Cardinals and capped a frantic defensive struggle during which there were four ties in the second half.
That field goal gave the nation's second-ranked team a 56-14 lead with 2:17 remaining, and the Bruins then threw the game away when James Wilkes tossed an inbounds pass downcourt over the head of a teammate.
Griffith, who said he was dedicating the tournament to a friend stricken with cancer, was lifted up by a crowd of Louisville supporters and carried around the court on their shoulders. He again signaled that the Cardinals were No. 1 in the country.
The loss was the first for UCLA in the NCAA's final game, and Louisville's points total was the lowest scored by a tourney champion since North Carolina had 54 in a triple-overtime victory over Kansas in 1957.
In the all Big Ten consolation game played at the
All-Star Game, the Cincinnati Wildcats scored 35 points to lead Cardinals to a 7-48 triumph over low-key New York Giants.
Baltimore's home run power defeats Royals
MIAMI(AP)—Lee May hit a three-run homer and Rick Dempsey is a solo bastion, both in the second inning, to lead the Baltimore Orioles to a 63 victory over the Kansas City Rovals in a baseball exhibition game yesterday.
The homer by May, after singles by Gary Roenicke and Dou DeCreees, was his first extra base hit and brought his first runs batted in of spring training, May, the Orioles' 76th birthday on Sunday, came into the game batting. 192
Dempsey also hit a boner off iser Craig Chamberlain and doubled to launch a two-run innings off the Kansas City starter in the fourth. The runs were scored on a sacrifice fly by Eddie Murray and an infield hit by Roenicke.
KANAS CITY scored two runs in the eight off eim Stoddard on a double by Willie Akenes and added another run in the ninth on a double by Arnos Otis, following a walk and a single by U.L. Washington.
Washington had five hits for the Royals, who are now 11-4, and Dave Chalk had three. The Orioles, 74, had four hits.
Baltimore starter Mike Flanagan pitched one only inning and then left after being notified that his wife was undergoing emergency surgery in a Miami hospital. The Baltimore Kerrigan, who allowed five hits during a four-inning tintin.
This year's Hill Championships in basketball were split between the Greek and the Independent leagues Friday night.
In the men's division, the Delta Upsion Scrappers deflected the Top Dog 50-47. The women's title was won by the Evergreens, their team, who wipped the Alpha Phi 26-18.
Hill basketball champs decided
Ravens nip soccer team
The Scrapers used the inside work of Arnie Baum and the outside shooting of Steve Smith to beat the Top Dogs. With the score tied at 47 with 40 seconds left in the game, the Scrapers switched from a 2-1-2 defense to a 3-0-2 defense and they stole the ball and drew a coul. A three-point play followed and the Scrapers captured the men's trophy.
The KU Soccer Club lost in its first match of the season Sunday, falling to Benedictine 21 in Memorial Stadium.
The women's game was a sesame篮 throughout, with neither team holding more than a six-point advantage. The winning basket for the Evergreenades was scored with a 21-6 lead over the Grizzlies. The Alps tried to tie the score, but a bat made as the buzzer sounded was short.
Benedictine scored the goal of the first half on a deflected shot off KU kogue Bill Evans. At the start of the second half, the Ravens scored again, this time on a backstop.
The Jayhaws scored their only goal on Pete Nelson's penalty kick which sailed into the upper right corner of the goal.
The remainder of the game was a defensive battle. According to Evans, team spokesman, the club has played better.
“This was not our finest showing, but Benedictine is a good team,” he said. “There are several aspects of our game that need to be improved.”
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KU's pitching is showing improvement also. Temple will go with Randy McIntosh and Mitch Lubin on the mound against Washburn. McIntosh, a left-hander, has three victories and two saves in five appearances this season. His ERA is 4.09.
Today will be the first starting call for Lahin this season. He's pitched 5½ innings and given no one hit and no runs.
Baseball double-header threatened by weather
KU's baseball team will put its seven-game win streak on the line this afternoon in a 1:30 double-header against Washburn—if the weather cooperates.
"I never like to call a ball game off until the last possible minute," KU coach Floyd Temple said yesterday. "If the sun is shining, I should call the field will be in pretty good shape."
Quigley Field may not be in the best condition, but everything else has been in pretty good shape for Temple. His team, which has lost 40 percent since its trip to Texas during spring break.
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