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University Daily Kansan, April 22, 1981
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Cleveland downs Royals, 4-1
By JIM SMALL Sports Writer
KANSAS CITY, Mo—For Jim Frey and the Kansas City Royals, the same old story is getting a little old.
Slow Brows bats continued to negate strong Royals pitching last night as the Cleveland Indians scored one run in the eight and three runs in the ninth to a 4-1 victory over the Royals before 19.16 fans.
The loss chopped the Royals record to 2-6, while Cleveland upped its mark to 5-3.
"It's tough when you have to tell the same story every night." Frey said. "But that's the way it is right now. You got an excellent-pitched game out of Gura (Royals starter Larry) again tonight."
Gaucired pitches 7 % 1/8mins of six-hit, one-run baseball but, as has been the case with the Royals throughout the season, the team did not supply the needed scoring punch.
The Royals had a chance to grab an early lead off winning pitcher Rick Waits in the first inning when U.L. Washington and George Brett hit back
But Willie Alkens grounded a two-out pitch to second baseman Alan Bannister to end the inning.
to-back singles and Amos Otis walked to load the bases.
Kansas City managed to score first, however, when Washington doubled home Frank White, who had singled in the fifth innning. The run was the first earned run off the Cleveland pitching staff in its last 30 innings.
Gura stymped Cleveland batters until the eighth when Tom Verny singled to move Jerry Dybzinski, who came in to run for Verny, to second. After a Jorge Orte bunt advanced the runners to first and third, Mike Hargrove filed into deep center to score Dybzinski.
The Indians tagged losing pitcher Juan Benguer, who replaced Gura in the eighth, with three more runs in the ninth.
Doubles by Bannister, Orta and Diaz gave the Indians their fifth victory in their last seven Kansas City appearances.
Waits scattered seven hits in winning his second start of the season.
"Tonight was just a good game," said
Watts, a six-year major league veteran. "Gura pitched well, and I threw well. We just pulled it out."
Cleveland manager Dave Garcia was impressed with both pitchers' efforts.
“Waits was outstanding,” he said.
“他 certainly pitched me a fine ballgame right from the very start. They both did.”
"I feel pretty good at the plate right now," Washington said. "I'll just try to stay hot and see if the rest of the team gets hot."
Washington remained the lone bright spot in the Royals batting order, which is hitting a meager .249, as he went 21 and raised his batting average to .370.
Frey said it would only be a matter of time before the Royals got hot.
"I told them (the players) that we are the American League champions and everyone knows that." Frey said, "We club and our club and our club and an excellent offensive club."
The Royals will close out their home stand tonight against the Indians in a 7:30 game. Kansas City then travels to Milwaukee. Cleveland and Texas before returning May 4 for a three-game series against the Boston Red Sox.
'Hawks to face Ichabods
The KU baseball team looks to revive its alling hitting today when it hosts Washburn in a 1 p.m. non-conference double-header at Quiziev Field.
The Jayhawks, last in the Big Eight in hitting, continued to struggle last week as they were shut out twice in three games by Missouri.
"It looks like we don't have quite the hitting team this year that we thought we would." KU Coach Flory Temple said. "But good pitching has a way of neutralizing good hitting, so you've got to adjust it to the people who we've beaten us."
"We've got good kids and they know what's ahead of them. Some of them have been struggling, but they're not up going there trying to make out."
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Dishman, a 6-foot-6, 215-pound forward, averaged 16 points and 9 rebounds a game for the Blue Dragons last season.
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Temple said that the Jayhawks would use the Washburn games as a steppingstone for their four-game series against Iowa State this weekend.
Dishman and Ewing join prep Tad Boyle and juco guard Jackie Fluery as Owens' signees so far this season.
"Washburn is comparable to Benedictine and Missouri Western," he said. "We should be able to best them. 'We way we have been hitting, I don't know.'
"The important thing for this ball club is to get ready for Saturday. Our backs are against the wall and the only people who can help us are ourselves."
Two juco players sign with Hawks
The two losses at Missouri dropped KU's record in the Big Eight to 6-9,1/4 games behind fourth-place Oklahoma State. The Jayhawks need to finish in the top four to qualify for the post-season regional tournament.
Temple said that he did not know who would start against Washburn, but that he planned to use several pitchers.
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Past Kansas track stars (from left) Glenn Cunningham, Wes Santee, and Jim Ryun lead the parade during opening ceremony on Saturday afternoon. The three also ran a lap on the track later in the afternoon, but not before a thunderstorm interrupted the parade.
Ryun again attracts Relays attention
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BY PAUL D. BOWKER
Sports Writer
He was one of those athletes everyone could identify with.
It didn't matter where you lived, what you believed or in if you even like sports at all. Everyone knew him and believed in him.
Jim Ryun fits into the same category as Mickey Manue, Bruce Jensen and Bob Cousy . . . the All-American athlete, the All-American person.
As a distance runner in high school and college, Ryun captured the country's attention. When Ryun was a milier at KU, almost 30,000 people came to the Kansas Relays to see him run. It was worth the effort.
Ryun, who attended high school at Wichita East and was coached by Bob Timmons (now KU track coach), became the first prep runner to break the four-minute barrier, a time unheard by milers of previous generations.
Ryun, who followed Timmons to KU,
did more of the same with the
same team. They made a record
records in the out mile run, he
markes in the half-mile, 1500 and indoor
mile. He won five NCAA titles and swept the mile and half-mile at the Big Eight championships three successive years. The list goes on.
Ryn, who captured a silver medal in the 1,500-meter run at the 1969 Olympic Games, was back at the Relais y La Fête since 1972, when he last competed.
Former KU milers Glenn Cunningham and Wes Santee also were there, but as Ryn stood beside the two at different times during the weekend, he was the only one who looked like him to challenge the four-minute mark again.
During the entire four days of the Kansas Relays, Ryan flashed his All-American smile, even when it rained the final afternoon.
"It's always been, the Kansas Relays," Ryan said, "an event I looked forward to very much. Even after I graduated and competed as a post-graduate, I tried to map the Kansas Relays into my schedule."
Besides the presence of Ryun, Santee
Osterer was there, and the only one of
Osterer was there.
the four to compete, Oerter, a four-time gold medal winner in the Olympics, won the Al Oerter discus throw with a toss of 204-9.
"I can't express what a tremendous thrill it is to have these individuals returning to the Karsas Relays," she added. "A big part in the history of the Relays."
Ryun did not compete in the Relays, but jogged a quarter-mile with Cunningham and Santee Saturday during a special ceremony.
Although the ceremonial jog was nothing more than that for Cunningham and Santee, running is still a large part of Rvun's life.
Ryun, who was inducted into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame last year, is now running longer races and has entered several road races.
"I'm into a bit of road racing now," said Ryun, who also runs running camps for youngsters and has worked as a sports commentator for the Columbia Broadcasting System. "I've run 10,000 meters and the other week in Chicago I ran one that was 5,000 meters."
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Although Ryun said he was not ready for the Boston Marathon yet, he hinted he might run in the New York City Marathon next September.
"The New York Marathon," he wondered aloud. "There's a chance for that. It's a lot flatter course. There's a lot of enthusiasm. It isn't as traditional as Boston, but there's still a lot of prestige there.
we really been pleased about what I've been doing. Two or three years ago, I just sat down and asked the Lord what I should be doing. I started praying and the Lord has more than answered my prayer."
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