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Wednesday, April 17, 1974
University Daily Kansan
Jumper Hopes to Gain Recognition
By MARK ZELIGMAN
Kaman Speria Writer
Danny Seay is wondering what he has to do to gain recognition. Judging from the amount he's received so far, you'd think his track performances haven't been enough.
Seay, University of Kansas junior long jumper, has jumped farther than any collegiate jumper in the country this year—28 feet 7 inches. He finished third in the NCAA Indoor Championships and second in the Big Eight Indoor Championships.
SEACY KNOWS that long jumpers aren't
the glamorizer boys of track and field.
They're the real athletes.
"It's discouraging for me to go to a meet and my name has my mispronounced about 12 different ways," Seys says, "I feel as if I were the team for the team to get a little nubility."
SEE) at least expects people to pronounce his name right.
Seay says the reason he came to KU was the track program's reputation and he felt it was a good fit.
One reason Seay has had trouble establishing a name for himself is that he hasn't concentrated on any particular event.
BESIDES LONG JUMPING, he has also high jumped and triple jumped. He finished
Kansas Relays Start Today with Decathlon
The deedaction's 100-meter run, the first event of the 49th edition of the Kansas Relays, was to begin at 9 a.m. today in Memorial Stadium.
Four other events also are scheduled for later, and the remaining five will be tomorrow.
Admission to the first two days of the relays is free.
Hann Cancock, last year's relays decathon champion, will return to defend his title. Hann Cancock, from Southern Illinois, set a record in the decathlon high jump at KU last year by clearing the seven-foot mark of 7,223. Hann Cancock's highest lifebest is 7,313.
Hancock, however, is ranked only seventh among all entrants in this year's decathlon. Jeff Bennett, former Olympian, has a career high point total of 8,121 to rank in the field. Bennett, now a member of the Eagle Track Club, also is a former relays
decathlon champion. He won in 1970 with record 7,704 points, a mark that still stands. He also won the world title.
Other top contenders in the decathlon promise to make this year's event one of the
Bruce Jenner, a decathlon champion at the relays in 1971, is ranked second in the world in triple jump.
Gary Hall, another member of the Eagle Track Club, won the relays decathlon championship in 1972. He is ranked fourth with a 7.560 point total.
Ranked third among entrants is Jan Johnson, a former pole wrestler at Kansas before transferring to Alabama. Johnson's best point total is 7.983.
Meet Director Bob Timmons said he was pleased with the decapitation field and said it was a positive step.
after the 100 meters scheduled at 9 a.m.
after you will be the long jump, put hatch,
pull rope and push it down.
fifth in the high jump in the Big Eight Indoor Championships last year.
Seay was the state long jump champion his senior year at Shawnee Mission North
High School but wasn't actively recruited for college.
Although he had poor indoor seasons his first two years at KU, Seay came back with strong outdoor seasons. He broke the KU freshman record for long jumping outdoors with a jump of 24-8%. As a sophomore he jumped more than 25 feet several times.
This year it looks as if Sea finally will put together good indoor and outdoor seasons.
"This year I've been really pleased," he says. "I've been over 25 feet every time with the exception of one or two meets. Then I've met nationalationals which I was really pleased with."
Seay says he isn't too surprised with his success this year.
"I KNEW I could do it," he says, "Track such a psychological thing. You have to tell him. If he doesn't understand."
"You set a barrier and you want to master that barrier before you go on to another one. I started out at KU thinking about 24 feet. I got it and then started with about 35 feet and then 26. This year if really started thinking about the 26-foot barrier."
Sealy doesn't have to think about 26 feet any longer. He cracked that barrier in the door, and I could barely breathe.
By doing so, Seay broke the previous KU record by more than a foot. But he won't go into the record books because of the wind factor. The wind was cloked at 18 m.p.h., much stronger than the allowable 4.74 m.p.h.
the ground during his jumps, which is detrimental to long jumpers. For that reason, however, he probably wasn't affected by the wind.
"If I had gotten up in the air a couple more," feet say, "Seas says, 'the wind might have played a big factor as far as sailing is concerned. But the only thing it could have helped me with was my speed down the runway--giving me a little extra push. I've thought it over a lot and I don't think it helped me more than five or six inches."
"I wasn't prepared for 28-7. Now I'm thinking about being consistently over 28 feet this year. Twenty-seven is in the scope but it's in the background."
SEAY USUALLY doesn't get very far off
CONFIDENCE has been the key for Seay this year. He knows he's good enough to win it.
One jumper who has consistently defeated Seay is the University of Colorado's Kingsley Adams, the NCAA and Big Eight indoor champ.
"I haven't lost to many people this year," he says. "The only people that have beat me are you."
"I've met him eight times and I'm 6-4 against him," Seay says. "But I think I'll get him this year. It's a really important goal."
Soy will get a chance to beat Adams this weekend at the Kansas Relays.
"MAYBE I CAN START a streak on him," Seay says. "I think I can beat him outdoors because my speed is better. He's not that fast on the runway, but he's got the spring. He does what I don't do—he gets up in the air."
Now that he's jumping with the top
people, Sealy realizes that he must continue
to make his case.
"There's always somebody who can run faster or jump higher," he says. "You have to keep at 100 per cent all the time. That's probably why track is such an exciting sport and yet disappointing, too. You have to keep down on you, saying, 'Why don't you jump 36 feet every week?' I guess sports are that way everywhere."
KU Beats Emporia State 6-5,3-2 in Doubleheader
Mike DePlae broke up a double play at second base in the eighth, allowing Jerry Shapiro to score the winning run and giving the University of Kansas a 6-5 victory and a sweep of yesterday's doubleheader with Emorria State.
In the first game Rob Strand and Roger Single combine to pitch a one-hitter, but
The two wins raised the Jayhawks' record to 11-15. Emporia State's eight-game winning streak snapped, and its record dropped to 19-13.
Sirand pitched four hitts innings and surrendered one unearned run before Slagle took over in the fifth innning. Slagle gave up the Hornets' only hit of the game, a two-out single in the seventh innning, while picking up his fourth win against three losses.
Strand earned a berth as one of KU's three starting pitchers in this weekend's opener, and their performances were to be the determining factors in choosing a third starting pitcher to team with Slagle and Kurt Knoff for the three-game series at Boulder, according to Strand.
Pitching, good for KU and bad for Emporia State, was also the deciding factor in the game.
"In the first game we had good pitching and they were a little charitable." Temple is
The Hornets' charity came in the seventh inning when the 'Hawks scored the winning run in a 10-9 victory.
of Roger Stone after Stone gave up a double to John Turner.
Gaeide walked three consecutive batters to force Turner in with the deciding run. In the second game KU used three pythagorean triangles to hit on take of a 6-extra-inning victory.
"We wanted to give everybody a little work," Temple said. "We got pretty good pitching out of Thurhinohr and managed to beat a pretty good ball club."
Thruhoffer held the Hornets scoreleave during the last three innings of the game to win, but the Nets did not.
KU pounded 12 bits scoring single runs in the second, fourth and fifth innings and two runs in the sixth. The six-inning rally sent the game into extra innings.
The *Hawks* loaded the bases in the eighth inning on a double by Knoff and two walks. Shapiro scored the winning run when the Hawks got into the field. Heinrich's ground ball into a double play.
| | First Game |
| :--- | :--- |
| EMPOWER STATE | 010 000 1.14.1 |
| EMPOWER STATE | 001 001 1.51.4 |
| Stage (4,3). L (Slate) 3 | |
| Stage (4,3). L (Slate) 2 | Second Game |
| EMPOWER STATE | 013 110 005 8.9 |
| EMPOWER STATE | 013 110 0.14 1.2 |
| W. thunbrouhler (4,1). L. Spencer | |
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