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Thursday, March 6. 1980
University Daily Kansan
Timmons hopes to end 10-year drought
By MATT SEELEY
Sports Writer
Bob Tommins is proud of KU's track program, traditionally one of the nation's most powerful. But two years ago, Tommens, KU men's coach for 15 years, prided hurt when the Jayhawks dropped to the NCAA Indoor Championship.
But last year, the Jayhawks moved up to a fourth-place tie. This year, the team has its best chance in a decade to bear the title of NCAA Champions.
The national champ will be crowned next week in Detroit. The Jayhawks have qualified in 11 events.
"I CAN'T REMEMBER when we've sent a greater number of athletes to the nationals." Timmons says. "We know of at least 10 players who have fully we can boost that to 12 this week."
This weekend, Fimmons will send 15 athletes, primarily freshmen, to the Kansas State Invitational in Manhattan. The plan is to qualify the distance medley relay team.
After that meet, all eyes will be set on nationalists. The 'Hawks last won the national in 1790, but that team had a different character.
Relay on the strength of shot putter Karl Rely,趴 down to the ground and relay them to the Jawkahws to be dispose of Villonava to gain the crown. This year, their hopes ride with the jumping and the passing.
ALREADY QUALIFIED for KU are high joel Jool light, triple jumper Sanya Owolabi, long jumpers Warren Wilhote and Bokhani, and pole vaulter Jeff Buckingham.
In the running events, the Jayhawks have some of the nation's fastest feet. All-
America and U.S. Olympic Trial qualifier
battled in the second round of
events: the 440-yard dash, the 600 and
as part of the mile relay team. Mike Ricks,
another spinner, has qualified in the 600.
The first time they faced each other.
"Of course it will be impossible to run Mickens and Ril in all three events, so some choices will have to be made there," Timmons said.
KU's other fleet feet belong to Deon Hogan and Stain Whitaker. Both were injured last week when KU won the Big Eight game, both will be able to compete at nationals.
"This team is definitely one of the best I've ever had," Timmons said.
THE FINAL KU enty, at least so far, is its two-mile relay team. But Tum Jansch, Leonard Marti Martin, Ray Marks and Rick Emsz have only run the event twice.
And Timmons has had some good ones. In 1966, 1969 and 1970, Timmons coached the Jayhawks to NCAA indoor titles. The 1970 squad shared the NCAA outdoor title.
Hogan has met the NCAA standards in the 440 and as part of the mile relay. Whitaker completes the mile relay.
"This year, we don't appear to be as diversified a threat as in the past. But I have noticed we've started to show some versatility."
"I'd have to say the other teams were a bit more versatile," Timmons said. "We had to rely on harders and strength events like the shot put and hammer throw."
the flexibility wasn't there last year. With athletes qualifying in only five events, the team wasted too much talent. But Buckingham, then a freshman, captured second in the pole vault. Mickens, then a junior, tied for third.
Jim Ryun regains amateur status
By MATT SEELEY
Jim Ryun has been born again.
Sports Writer
Only this time he doesn't know whether he wants a new life.
Ryun, the famous miler, recently had his amateur status returned by the Amateur Athletic Union. But unlike the other sports leagues that are on hold, Ryun has no plans to use his returned status.
"I've been reinstated as an amateur, but I wouldn't say I'm going to return to amateur running. Ryan said yesterday in a video that he'd "I'll go wherever the Lord wants me to go."
RYUN'S REBIRTH IS his second in less than a decade.
He has since been led by Jesus Christ.
Immediately after a disastrous finish in the 1972 Olympics, he was spiritually reborn.
He has been received by Jesus can be.
"I have accepted Jesus as my personal Savior," he said.
But the second time around, Ryun is not ready to be saved on his mind, so the groundbreaking race, something Ryun says is a legitimate and legal way to make a buck without induction.
IT IS A GOOD bet that unless amateur athletes clean up their acts, Ryun's amateur days are a thing of the past.
"The corruption that goes on has turned into a batilian situation," he said. "I don't want any part of that. Right now I'm running for the glory of God."
Ryun recalled an incident that occurred while he was working as a CBS correspondent for a race in Houston.
"There was a runner who ran well in Los Angeles," he said. "I overheard him tell the players in Houston that unless he got $500, he would not disappear, he got the money he became."
ALTHOUGH HE WANTS no part of the present amateur scene, Ryun is知ingly and willingly accepting money as a promoter of professional running...
"Basically, I'm competing in fun-runs and celebrity-type races for charities and like," he said.
The nation's premier milier in the mid-1960s, Ryun now runs the 10,000 meters. But these days, he finishes further back in the pack.
"One race this year in Charlotte, N.C., I finished 15th," he said. "I was really pleased with my time. And its all legal and honest."
RYUN'S CAREER has been like a roller coaster ride.
The prodigy of KU track coach Bob Timmons was at Wichita West High School. In high school, he became the first American prep to run the mile in less than a minute.
He came to KU after Timmons became head coach and immediately became the talk of the nation. In 1967, his sophomore year he led the team's mile and 1,500-meters within a 16-day span.
FOUR YEARS LATER, in the 7,800-foot altitude of City City, Ryan, weakened by a pulled muscle, finished a distant second to Kip Keim of Kenya.
Ryun was a five-time NCAA champion and ran in three Olympics, but he never brought home a gold. In 1984 at the Tokyo Olympics he did not finish. He had a cold and did not earn a spot in the finals.
His last try in Olympic competition proved to be a dismal finish to a brilliant career. Rounding a curve in a preliminary race and then winning the final was tripped by Ghana runner Billy Forjunr
That was the end of Ryun's illustrious amateur days and the beginning of what was to be a drab professional career.
"I'm happy I did it and have no regrets about it," Ryun said of entering the professional track circuit.
THE SHORT-LIVED pro circuit was a legal alternative to the violations Ryun saw in amateur athletics.
"There is no way that taking money under the table could be justified by me," he said. "But there were others who were doing it openly.
"I saw pro trac to be great in the beginning. There was the framework of a viable product. I imagined in the end, that we weren't interested in long-range goals."
Ryun was hampered by a recurring achilles tendon injury and a back injury in 1975. It was that achilles tendon that broke Ryun.
"I PRAYED and prayed my prayers were answered," he said. "He told me that I had fought a good fight and had run a good race, but I was through now."
after reinjuring it in Salt Lake City in 1976, Ryun officially retired from running.
At that time, the rumor mill had Riyan accepting an assistant coaching position. He replied, "I don't know what he has in mind." And he had the victory and is leading my life."
Ryun's beliefs have not changed.
"There are very limited opportunities with coaching and I don't see myself in that kind of situation. We're alumni and administrators. You are a pawn of the feelings and emotions of people and families."
RYUAN IS EQUALLY outspoken on the course of the Olympic boccit movement.
"It's an ivory tower situation," he said. "It's a political issue and I don't see anything the matter with that. There is no separation of sports and politics."
"I'm definitely for the boycott. Sure, I feel saddened for the athlete, but isn't what were doing prolonging life instead of killing it."
"I know that what the Russians do is a political showcase. They will take all opportunity to further their views. This is a challenge for the U.S. to stand up to the communities."
Ryun's life has been engulfed by numbers since adolescence and even though the competitive career is over, numbers still are a big part of Ryun's life.
low of timings, Ryan concentrates on high ratings as a disc jockey and commentator for a Christian radio station in Santa Barbara.
BUT VERSATILITY IS the key to the title and Timmons knows it. He also is concerned with the opposition.
"Our main competition will come from UTEP, which is tremendously powerful, and Villanova," he said. "Those two schools have to rate as the rime favorites."
Timmons has been one of the more vocal opponents of the trend toward foreign athletes. He still refuses to recruit foreign talent.
a fifth-place finish in the 690, took second in the 600. He then anchored the mile relay team to second place.
Villanova won the championship last year by edging the KU mile relay team for the NCAA Championship. It was also to UTEP's and Villanova's success lies with a superb collection of foreign athletes who were part of the squad.
By PATTI ARNOLD
Snorts Writer
Softball team ready for long road trip
"I'ts tough on them," KU coach Bob Stanfield says. "But from that point, we have at least 20 games in. It will put us in good shape for playing the other teams."
A long road trip starts Sunday with the annual spring break swing to the Southwest
Come April Fool's Day, the KU softball team will open its home schedule. But before then, the Jayhawks will hit the road. One road trip starts Sandy with the
And The Jayhawks will need to be in good shape. Five of the top 10 finishers in last year's College World Series are on KU's (24) and Chicago, the year, the Jayhawks made ninth in the season.
Texas Woman's University, the defending national champion, sponsors a tournament March 28-29 KU will also face Texas A&M, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State, all ten teams.
The graduation of last year's first class of the University of California, Kelly Phipps was left KU short of infidelity. To tackle the trouble, Stancill has tried seven outfriends and a reserve catches at her home.
THE SEASON opens Sunday with a double-header against New Mexico in Albuquerque, then it on its to Los Cruces, where the game is played twice, two games both Monday and Tuesday against New Mexico State and then play in Santa Clara State Tournament Thursday through Sunday.
During the trip, Stallieu's team may be at a disadvantage because of the weather in Lake Geneva. The team will keep the Jayhawks practicing inside most of the winter. But the bit of outdoor action was limited on Saturday.
June Koleber will probably win the first base job after three years as starting centerfielder. Second-string catcher Karil WIllberg will backup Koleber.
SHORTSTOP IS the biggest question mark for Stanclift.
"We need someone to emerge from the spring trip and prove they can handle that position," he said.
However, the rest of the infield is set winters returning players. Jale Snodgrass, an Al-Biq Aziz last year and co-captain for the Mets against second base job and Jil Larson second base.
Ali is ready for ring return
From the Kansan's wire service
From the Kansan's wire services CHICAGO—Muhammad Ali will fight again.
Ali's representatives and Top Rank, Ali's agreement yesterday for a fight between Ali, three-time world heavyweight Tate, Tate, the World Boxing Association champions.
Arum and Jabir Muhammad, Ali's manager, said the pact was signed last night in Muhammad's downtown offices. He said a formal contract would be signed later.
Bob Arum, president of Top Rank, said that the purse would be a record sum and that the bout would probably be held in late June. All has not fought since September 1979 when he outpointed Leen Spinks to be crowned for a record-setting third time.
Muthamad's attorney, Charles Lomax,
who was contacted before the signing, said
the $14 million figure was "approximately
correct."
He also said he had spoken by telephone with Ali, who approved the action.
Neither Arum nor Muhammad would confirm reports that the fighters would split $14 million.
Muhammad said possible sites were Taiwan, New Orleans and Houston.
Muhammad would only say, "I did it again."
By then, Timmons will know whether KU will pocket national title No. 5.
"All I will say is that the compensation to both fighters is a world record for any boxing match in history." Arum said.
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"VILLANOVA HAS usually carried foreign athletes, so their distance runners are nothing new to us."
TRAILRIDGE
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But the rest of the UTEP and Villanova's squads are new. Timmons said he had not checked to see what events their athletes had qualified for.
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"We aren't sure where the other schools stand," he said. "We usually don't know ahead of time and as of now, we haven't had a chance to check them. We'll know next week."
"Back in the late 60s, there weren't a lot of teams with a lot of foreign leaders leading them," he said. "Today, it is a different way," he continued. "You can't get a shot in their own meet. It’s a shame."
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sua films
Special Presentation
HOMEBODY
A new short film directed by KU alumnus Steve Johnson and starring KU alumni Roger Nolan and Duane Ladage. Original music by Mark Hart, former pianist for Justice. "Homebody" was the only student film from USC to be accepted for showing at FILMEX, a prestigious film festival held annually in Los Angeles. We will show "Homebody" before the following regularly scheduled SUA Films:
Friday, March 7—14th INTERNATIONAL TOURNEE OF ANIMATION
Monday, March 17—NOTORIOUS
Wednesday, March 26—Emst Lubitsch Double Feature
The catching duties will be Gay Bonang's, who had a 988 fielding average, allowed no passed balls, had 143 putouts and 102 turnovers. She committed only two errors in 41 games.
Laim Sanmint, the other co-captain,
heads the pitching corps this year. Stanwyn
Shelley Sanmint, who graduated. Shelley
Sanmint, also pitch this year, will freshen Darla
for the 2016 season.
"OUR PITCHING is young and inex perienced, but talented," Stancliff said. "We need Lakam to stabilize things while we learn to defend ourselves beneath them and gain strength and confidence."
The starting outfield depends on who is assigned to first and short.
"I'm getting a look at two outfielders at first and short," he said. "Those two could be starting in the outfield."
Those two are Koleher and freshman Pam Cox, who has been working at short. That would leave Rose Rader as the only returning outfielder. Christy Posey, a transfer from Wichita State, is a centennial but is recovering from back problems.
"SHE'S JUST get back to where the doctor has given her the okay to go all out." Stancliff said. "In the last two weeks, she has shown tremendous progress. She's a close friend and competitor. She's close to being ready to play and should be able to help us."
(1956)
Thursday, March 6
A HOUSE OF GEISHA
Mikio Makiure, with itszu Yamada,
Hideko Takamine, Kiyanoko Tanaka.
Aya Koda's original story of girla
seeking a place to live in East
East Asian Studies, Japan/ublittles.
(1980)
Friday, March 7
THE 14TH INTERNATIONAL TOUREE OF ANIMATION
Our annual showing of the Touraine is one of 18 animated films which reflect techniques and artistry in animation from around the world by Film Foundation.
Plus: "Homebody," a short film by KU
alumnus Steve Johnson
"NO SATURDAY SHOW
Monday, March 17 NOTORIOUS
(1946)
Dir. Alterl Hitchcock, with Cary Whitman and Diane Keaton, One of Hitchcock's most romantic notoriouis has a US agent forcing a woman to apy to on a German spy. (Lily Franklin)
Tuesday, March 18 JOHNNY GUITAR
(1954)
Dir. Nicholas Roach, with Sterling Hayden, Joan Crawford, Mercedes McCambridge. One of the most successful wanderers, singer-songwriter meets his former lover in an isolated saloon.
**Museum Room**
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Unless otherwise noted; all films will be shown at Wooldruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union; M-R I films are $1.00 and $1.50; A-M films are $1.50 and $1.50 start at 3:30, 7:00, 8:00 and midnight on Fri. & Sat., and at 2:00 on Sunday. Tickets available at the UOA Office, Union 5th Level. Smoking is allowed, smoking or refreshments allowed.