University Daily Kansan, June 27, 1984
CAMPUS AND AREA
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Kaw River raft racers differ over sobriety of competition
By PAUL FAZIO Staff Reporter
Farmers and joggers weren't the only people on at 7:30 a.m. Saturday.
Participants in last weekend's Sixth Annual Great Kaw River Raft Race were up bright and early guzzling beer and getting psyched for the 36-mile race that would take them from Eudora to Edwardsville
Attitudes varied on how important winning the race was to the company.
"With a pig's head on the front bow?" said Bob Applequist of Prairie Village. "No, we're here to have fun."
A TOTAL of 95 rafts took part in the race, which was co-sponsored by the Edwardville Jaycees and KCFX-FM radio, and 170 rafts, the highest number since 1979, paid to participate in the race.
Proceeds for the event will go to the building of a multi-purpose recreational center in Edwardsville.
Jay Hall, Overland Park, described his modern-day craft.
"Our original design was canary yellow with a green carpet, but we haven't put the carpet on yet. It will look ugly in the rugage, but I'm sure it will be a success."
However, other racers were very serious about the race.
"We start training in January. We lift weights, we don't even eat," said Keith Mitchell, a mechanic for an Overland Park service station. "If we were going to be rained out, we were going to run anyway."
RAFTS CAME IN various shapes and forms. While pleasure racers cruised down the river using inert tubes or styrofoam with sheets of cardboard, more serious racers used wood paneling with Fiberglas covers.
The previous week's heavy rains, which had swollen the river, posed no problems for the racers, said Gene Grisham, president of the Edwardsville Jaycees.
"As a matter of fact, it made it fast." Grisham said.
Since the water level was higher, the current was faster than normal, leading to faster finishing times, he said.
Grisham attributed this year's heavy turnout to the radio station reaching many different people from all parts of the Kansas City area.
"We're getting people from Nevada (Mo), Clinton and Harrisonville, places where we've never had people before," said Grisham.
Although, officially, it was a raft race, a Lawrence resident and his partner posted the fastest time of the day in their two-man canoe.
ORLN WAGNER, 1012 Main St., and David Alderson, Mission, maneuvered their two-man canoe down the river in two hours, 57 minutes and 20 seconds.
"I would have felt better if the people from Nebraska carved." Wag
in the first raft at 3 hours, 36 minutes and 6 seconds.
Although the raft race was the main event, many other activities were presented.
Wagner was referring to the father-son canoe team of Calvin and George Hassel, whom Wagner co-coached. He said the best canoeists in the Midwest.
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Two different bands, "Bon Ton" and "Strikers," played in the afternoon and evening. Comedians and jugglers performed, and a magician also was on hand to amuse the crowd of about 7,000.
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