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Tuesday, April 24, 1973
University Daily Kansan
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Kansas Photo by KATHY DOLAN
second place due to Schur's fewer misses. The Jayhaws' next appearance will be at the Drake Relays in Des Moines this weekend. KU track coach Bob Timmons promises some of the best performances of the season from his squad. After the Drake Relays the Jayhawks will begin preparing for the Big Eight Outdoor Championships and the NCAA Championships.
Randy Smith, University of Kansas high jumper, clears the 7-8% mark during the KU Relays hikes on Saturday. His jump matches a national record.
Timmons Work Continual
By EMERSON LYNN
Konson Sports Writer
Kansan Snorts Writer
He has already begun plans for the next Kansas Relays. And that is only the beginning. School is out in less than a month and he still has recruiting problems, the Big Eight Outdoor Championship, and the NCAA meet with which to contend.
For Coach Bob Timmons the end of the kettle relays brought a sense of luck and joy.
"It is an endless battle," Timmons said.
"It will be another two weeks before we
Coach Timmons
have completely finished taking care of the paper work for this year's relays.
"Not only do I have to coach, I've got to get the various committees to begin work on the next year's relays and continue our recruiting. We are a long way behind."
And although the end of school is a welcome time for students, it creates a challenge.
"We are hundreds of miles behind on our recruiting schedule," Timmons said. "And with the closing of school, it complicates the job." We have to work. And we don't have much time to work."
Timmons said that in these last cramped weeks, some of the most important work would be done for next year's track and the 49th Annual Kansas Relays.
But track it Timmons' primary focus, and meets such as the Kansas Rays highlight
One of the better meets for the Jayhawks is the Drake Relays, which will be Thursday at LSU. The team will host a preseason game.
"The Drake Relays is a very classy meet," Timmons said. "They have gigantic riders, and they are all the mators and the athletes. Everything is on a large scale. They will probably have more people competing in their relays than we had in ours, but you have to expect that."
The Drake Relays is the last of the midwest relay circuit and most of the teams that competed in the Texas and Kansas Relays will compete at Drake.
The Drake Rulers should provide some of the best performances yet—weather permitt
The Jayhawks have had several outstanding performances in the time relays and Timmons hopes they will do as well, if not better at Drake.
The KU 440- and 880-rady relay teams were very strong in both Texas and Kansas Relays and this will be their last chance to prove their quality in the relay circuit.
The field events for KU will also be strong with Sam Colson in the javelin, Terry Porter in the pole vault and Barry Schur and Randy Smith in the high jump.
NBA Begins Draft Today
Timmons said that he was not sure of the exact roster for the relays but he promised to give it up.
The draft was postponed twice while the league sorted out the confusing case of John Brisker, a former American Basketball Association player who jumped to the NBA—but not to the team which had drafted him back in 1969.
NEW YORK (AP)—The National Basketball Association finally is scheduled to conduct its annual college draft today. The team, which will be based in the Philadelphia 76ers will make a pick.
The ABA, which postponed its draft three
weeks has scheduled its draft for Wednesday.
The 76ers, with the first choice, need all
the help they need to win (might
wish in pnc basketball, 9-73).
Philadelphia says it plans to select muscular Jim Brewer of the University of Minnesota—if it makes a pick. The Sixers are hoping, though, that they will be able to deal away the No. 1 selection for a couple of proven players.
"We know that no one player in college ball is going to give us a turn-around situation," says feyers' General Manager of the UCLA's Bill Walton is not available.
"If we thought two players we could get in a trade could effectively give us the same outcome," he said.
Among the pro's reportedly being eyed by the 76ers are Bob Dandridge of Milwaukee and a trio of Chicago Bulls—center Clifford Brown, Bob Love and guard Norm Van Lier.
Even without "franchisemakers" like Walen, the overwhelming UCLA center has helped open a new chapter.
Brewer, a 6-foot-9 center, is light enough on his feet to be a fine pro forward. He averaged 13 points and 11 rebounds for Minnesota.
Ed Ratlef of Long Beach State, a 6-4 swinger in college, probably will be a guard in the pros. Has ability to score—he has played game with the 48ers—and inspire a team.
Ermie Digregorio of the Providence Friars, a 6-footer, could be the next Nate Archbail. He's a slick passer and shooter who has been the best guards in the country last season.
Sidelined Aaron Says Baseball Is His Life
CINNAMITA (AP)—Hank Aaron says it's pride, not pursuit of any records, that keeps him going, but he's tracing himself "for the saddest day of my life."
The 39-year-old Atlanta Braves' slugger, baseball's aging lion was sidelined Sunday with a back injury as he struggled with one of the worst starts of his career.
But he said he was "staying in baseball simply to do a job 1 belong-regardless of any
"Baseball is my life. I want to stay in it." And when I can't be told, I will be, I'll quit," he as the Braves fought to recover from a plumage injury. "I'm preparing for it. It's got to come."
"And when that day comes, it will be the saddest day of my life," said Aaron, who, in his 20th season, is closing on on Babe Ruth's all-time home run record.
He got his fourth homer of the season Friday, leaving him with only 6 to better score. He also hit a homer.
only one other hit in 38 at bats for a .122 average.
"No one is pitching me any different," he said. "Actually I'm hitting the ball well."
"I's it one of those things," said Aaron who has hit 24 or more homers for 18 consecutive years and has a 311 career batting average. "I'm not going to worry about it."
Aaron's next double will tie him with Carley Gehringer for seven on the all-time list.
"I'm not concerned with another man's record," he said. "I want to some day sit down and see that I as consistent as a Ty Cobb, Leo Girgis or Babe Ruth."
As for today's record prospects of other sluggers, Aaron said:
"Two to three years ago I would have told you Willie McCovey would be the greatest horse run hitter in the game. If he hadn't himself, he'd have topped all the records."
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Taylor was also noted for his defensive play—and that, he said, especially pleased him since his brother, Bruce, was named Defensive Player of the Year in the National Football League in 1970 as a defensive back with the San Francisco 49ers.
"Bruce and I are very close," said Brian. "When he won the honor it gave our whole family a wonderful feeling. My making it is like a dream. We had talked about the book in February. It's just a great thing for both of us. We've had to work hard for it."
NEW YORK (AP)—Brian Taylor, of the New York Nets, the sharp-shooting guard in the American Basketball League, has Sunday as the league's Rinker of the Year.
The 6-foot-3, 180-pound, who started the year on the bench but finished it as a starter, received 24 votes from sports officials. The 7-foot-5, 182-pound, who received 22.
George Gervin and Mike Barr of the Virginia Squires each received five votes, Jim Chones of the Nets got two and the Kentucky Colonels Claude Vriens received one.
Silas, 6-1, 185, from Stephen F. Austin,
ended up the season as the Chaps floor
general. In 78 games he averaged 13.7
points, hit 50.2 per cent of his two-point shots
from the field and connected on 83.3 per
cent of his free throws.
Taylor, who signed with the Nets after his junior year at Princeton, would up with a 15.3-point average for 63 games and led the team with his 52.7 per cent shooting from the field.
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