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Mondav, April 22, 1974
University Daily Kansan
Kansas Relays Delivers Despite Rain, Wind
By MIKE FITZGERALD
Kansas Sports Writer
When it finally decided to rain on the Kansas Relays Saturday, it poured one-quarter inch of mud with mix and 30 m.p.h. winds on 6,500 fans. Most of the fans beaded for shelter and home. The few that stayed, however, saw some excellent track and field events which remained undamaged by the aloomy weather.
Phillip Ndoo (pronounced DOE) of Eastern New Mexico University and originally from Kenya received the Outstanding Athlete Award for his part in Eastern New Mexico's dominating presence in many track events. Ndoo won the open division three mile run in 13.87, won the six mile run Thursday and ran the
third leg of the two mile relay in which ENMU won in 7:41.1
Trom Tom Bolt and Mike Bolt of ENMU also played significant roles in the success of the team, Trom Mike, who are not brothers, can in the distance medley relay win. ENMU took first in the distance medley with a time of 10:00.8 and in the two mile relay with a
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time of 7:41. as well as four in the four mile relay, Mike Bott, a 24-year-old sophomore who last year won the Outstanding Athlete Award at the KU Relays, anchored all three events, Both Tom and Mike are from Kenya.
In Friday track events, Jan Howell of the Colorado Track Club easily defeated defending champion Larry Means of the USAF in the Master's Mile. Howell ran the track with 85.4 yards and 8.9. Means is the record holder for the in the KU Relaxs with a time of 4:25.8.
In the one mile run finals, Miek Durkin of the University of Illinois won the event with a time of 40.10. Durkin said, however, that he wasn't ready for the race.
ran the distance in 51.5 seconds to edge out Bruce Ginter of Colorado State for second
In the next event, Efren Gigson of Lamar University won the Cliff Cushman university 440-yard hurdles with a time of 51.2 seconds. George Haley of Lincoln Land
The biggest event Friday was the runners-up, the open division 100-yard dash. Ivory Carter was fourth in the club picked up his first KI relays victory in the event by running the distance in :93.3 seconds. Crockett has a previous tie for the most runs in Herb Washburn at :08.2 seconds in 1972.
Mark Lutz of KU placed second in the event by outrunning Don Quarry of Beverly Hills, Gene Pouncey of SMU, Clive Sands of State, and Dean Williams of Kansas State.
The KU Relays started at 7 a.m. Saturday for the runners of the 28-mile marathon. Starting on the stadium west track, the runners ran one lap, left the stadium, ran another lap, then completed the Lawrence. After reaching Vineland, the runners turned around and ran back. The winner of the grueling event was Terry Ziegler of the Tulsa Running Club. Ziegler came in second, followed by the second place finisher, Paul Hoffman of North Texas State, entered the stadium.
Not all of the events of the relays were in and around Memorial Stadium. The university division javelin throw took place on the fields behind Allen Field House where Bob Obe of Kansas State University threw the spear 237 feet to win the event.
well after Ziegler had finished, going the distance in 2:25.07
In another field event on Saturday, Marshall Smith of Colorado State broke his own KU Relays discus record of 189 feet last year, by throwing the discus 166 feet
The open pole vault started out at Memorial Stadium Saturday and was plagued by the heavy rain throughout. Vias Dins of the Beverly Hills Striders was the winner, clearing 17 feet 0. Terry Porter of the University of New Mexico had his first try and Jorinemørgen of the University of New Mexico came in third by clearing the 16 feet 6 mark on his third try.
The Carl V. Rice high jump started Saturday but was stopped because of the heavy rain. The officials tried to restart the event later in the afternoon, but the weather was too bad. South, Barry Saurer and Keith Guim had all qualified for the final by clearing 6 feet 8.
Larry Shipp of LSU won the university
vission 123rd-air high burdens in a relays
match with Florida State on Wednesday.
was not allowed because of extreme wind speed. The wind speed ruling disallows records set when the following wind is over 2 meters per hour or 4.473 miles per hour. Shipp, however, was pleased with his performance.
Greg Vandaveur of KU, last year's KU
tetleys champion and record holder at 135.
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One of the many bright spots for KU was the university long jump competition. Danny Seay's jump of 26 feet 9 won him the event. The jump broke the KU Relays record of 26 feet 21% but was not allowed because of wind speed.
In the university division of the 100-yard dash, it was the Pounce brothers of SMU
Gene Pounty crossed the finish line first at :92.2, brother Joe on his heels, also clocked at :92.2. This would have broken Mel Gray's :93.9 relays record but the record wasn't allowed because of the wind. In a new event for the KU Relays, KU's Mark Lutz won the open 220-yard dash with a time of 20.3 seconds, but again the wind was above the limit. Lutz was scheduled as the runner Don Quartier, formerly of the University of Southern California, Quarrie, however, was disqualified after a second false start.
The traditionally important event
Saturday afternoon was the Glenm Cunningham Mile. Rich Wohlmuther of the Chicago Track Club won the rain-drench mile with a time of 4:08.1. Brain Dyce of the KU Track Club was second at 4:10.4, and KU graduate Lovell Paul was third at 4:10.4.
Kansas also won the 440-yard relay event. The team of Tom Scavone, Eddie Lewis, Lutz and Ernest Edwards turned in a time of 40 seconds to top a field which had been narrowed to four finishers. The Southwest hound marshal had slipped after the third baconaton kick before he had dropped their baton but LSU as disqualified because of a time violation.
In the 440-yard drill, Larry Jones of Northeast Missouri State set a KU Relays record of 46.1 seconds. Jones had held the previous record of 46.4, and the week before he recorded the same record of 45.2 for the 440. Curtis Mills, formerly of Texas A & M, was second at 46.9.
After three unsuccessful starts because of a slippery track, Kansas State University two mite rallies in 733.8. The Kansas State also won also event in the Kansas Relays.
In the last event of the day, Texas won the Chuck Crane One-Mile Red in 31:41, 1:41, and 2:09.
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--four mile relay. Also, Ndoo captured firsts in the six mile run and the three mile run and might have finished higher than seventh in the 3,000 meter steeplechase if he hadn't sprained an ankle during the second run. He was likely to leg on the winning two mile relay team.
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KU's Dave Anderson Follows the Eventual Winner of the Three Mile Run, Phillip Ndoo
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Kenyan Runners Dominate Relays
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Among the Eastern New Mexico University track team there is an Olympic performer, a sports writer, the 1973 and 1974 World Championships winner, the Kansas Belaya and a former KU champion.
The former KU alumnus is Eastern New Mexico's coach, Bill Silverberg, but all of the other credentials belong to two Kenyan runners. Phillip Nido and Mike Boan.
Eastern New Mexico, located in Portosal,
a small college of 3,600, but former KU
tract performer Silverberg has established
that is rapidly gaining national recruitment.
This past weekend in the 49th KU Relays Eastern New Mexico won the distance medley relay the sprint medley relay, the two mile relay and finished fourth in the
Ndoo's dominance in the distance races which included a record breaking time in the six mile run earned him the 1974 Outstanding Performer Award at this year's relays. Last year the same award was won by his teammate, Boat.
Even though Bolt didn't repeat as the outstanding athlete, his performances in this year's Relays gained him additional recognition.
Bott anchored each of Eastern New Mexico's relay teams. In the distance, players are seen watching the game.
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"I pulled a hainstring at Texas and I still felt the strain today," Boit said Saturday. "I like to run the 800 meters better than the mile because I feel I have more stamina in the 800. If my muscles are in shape and I have someone in front me I think I can break the world record in the 800. (Huck) It is about the only one who can run with me."
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Eastern New Mexico behind by 120 yards, but be made up the distance by running a dash of distance.
Boit's first race since the injury was the sprint middel relay Friday. He anchored the winning sprint middel team with a time of 1:47.8 in the 880.
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Ndoo, the defending champion in the KU Relays 3.00 meter steeplechase, said he preferred to run only in the steeplechase Saturday afternoon instead of both the steeplechase and the two-mile relay. The team came first so he ran in both events.
"I didn't think he'd do that well."
Stirberg said, "he is a person who just does things."
"During the third lap of the steeplechase I knew I didn't have the strength in my legs to take off."
were just a little tired, but otherwise I was alright."
Nido considers the KU Relays good training especially for national meets such as the NAIA championships that he will be competing at in June.
"It was slippery here at all today," Ndoa said. "At home (Kenya) we'd have to call off a meet because the track would be all muddy after a rain like this."
Nino cut 20 seconds off the Ribals relay in the six mile run Thursday. He said he put on a long jump.
"I consider myself a six-miler," he said.
"I know the team comes before anything, but after that the six mile is my individual run. I don't run the marathon in the 1976 Olympics."
Even though Ndoo is only classified as a sophomore, he plans to finish his education after next year and return to Kenya where he has a job as a sports writer waiting for him with the leading English daily newspaper in East Africa.
"I presently write for the late edition in Portales," Nido said. "I usually call in the results of the track meets when I'm on the formation month I file a report for the season paper."
Ndoo and Bolt each have been running for 10 years. Ndoo said track in Kenya well with track in the United States.
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