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University Daily Kansan, April 22, 1983
Judges, timers take only memories from Relays work
By DAVID SWAFFORD
Staff Reporter
For the past 24 years, Fred Harris has traveled more than 900 miles from his home in Birmingham, Mich., to be a part of the Kansas Relays. And all that he takes home each year are memories.
During those 24 years, he has worked as a volunteer timer and finish-line judge for the Relays. He said he would continue to work as a finish-line judge
Harris said he traveled to Kansas each year because the Relays meet was of the biggest in the country — and because he loved it. But he is not the only judge who travels that far each year to volunteer his services.
WILLIAM DOUGLAS III earned a degree in civil engineering from the
University in the early 1970s. He has worked as a weights and measures official at the Relays with his father since 1970.
Douglas makes sure that each piece of equipment the athletes use conforms to official regulations. He said that sometimes the athletes got mad — but that things had to be done that way, especially if a record were set.
Douglas has traveled from Rawlins, Wye, the past few years to help with the Relays. He now works in Rawlins as a construction engineer.
Douglas comes to the RELays each year just for the fun of it, he said.
"THEIRS' ALWAYS a good time and a lot of good people at the Relays," he said. "People that might not see each other any more get together and get together at the Relays and have a good time. A lot of friends are made."
He attributed the success of the Relays to head men's track coach Bob Timmons.
"Without Timmie, I don't know what we'd do. He is certainly the main motivating factor behind the Relays."
Although Harris and Douglas travel far each year, one Kansas City, Mo., resident has been coming to the Relays for at least twice as long as the other. He is also as Douglas, Frank Guemple, 84, has come to the Relays for more than 50 years.
"The first time I ever went to the Relays was in 1922." Guemple said. "I learned about the Relays when I was at school, and I studied studying and studying under 'Doz' Allen.
'I MISSED COACHING at the Relays that year, but by the second year, I was coaching in Kingman and I brought five boys up to the Relays with me and they all placed.
"This year will be my 553 at the Relays. I've only missed three of them since they've been going on."
Guemple taught and coached for most of his career at Central High School in Kansas City, Mo. Through the 1960s he brought many athletes to the Relays.
After his retirement from teaching,
he continued to come to the Relays and
be a champion.
This year, the Relays committee will give Guillem a trophy in appreciation for the years he has helped with the Olympics, and will again serve as a finish-line judge.
According to Harris, "A lot of old foglies like myself are the finish-line judges. We've learned not to work ourselves to death by competing. We just sit back and watch everyone else do that."
HARRIS SAID that as a finish-line
judge, his main responsibility was to watch runners in the eight lanes and record their finish places and times.
"Three judges are assigned to each lane so that if there was ever a record-breaking time, the time could be confirmed by all three for the record books. They on each lane and the innermake it a lot less confusing, too," he said.
Harris, who grew up in Lawrence, has been familiar with the Relays for some time. He attended the University during the 1930s, lettered three times in football and earned other letters in basketball, baseball, and track.
He majored in Journalism and was the sports editor of the University Daily Kansan for one year.
"I was a jock," he said, and laughed. Harris said the Relays had changed since he first started working at them.
"The UNIVERSITIES that attended the Relays in earlier days paid their way without giving it a second thought," he said. "Today, many universities don't like paying their own way to the Relays. They want the University of Kansas to pay their way, which I think is just ridiculous."
Harris is "hanging it up" after this year's meet, but he said he enjoyed coming to the Relays just to watch the athletes.
"I guess you would call it a 'labor of love,'" Harris said of his long-time Relays affiliation.
He said the Relays meet was important because some of the athletes would go on to compete in the Olympics.
Brunch honors Relays alums
"I want to come to the Relays this one last time just to see who will be in the 1984 Olympics," he said.
By KRISTA GREEN Staff Reporter
Former KU athletes of all ages are returning from all over the country to attend the 1983 Kansas Relays.
An alumni brunch will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow at the Holiday Inn Holdmold, 200 W. Turnippe Access Road, to honor former Relays student committee members and athletes, said head track coach Bobby Tommings.
The first brunch was held last year, Timmons said. This year, all those who participated in the RELAYs in years ending with 3 will be honored.
"WE'RE TRYING TO keep track of our folks," Timmons said. "We want to make sure we don't lose them at graduation. They're very important."
Both Timmons and Bill Easton, Jayhawks track coach from 1948 to 1965, will speak at the brunch.
"I think it's a great idea," Eason said. "Any time you can get the alumni back, you're two bits ahead. We don't want to lose contact."
Timmons said the Relays weekend was a logical time to have a homecoming for track and field athletes, and that he hoped to see the brunch become a popular annual event.
ATHLETES ARE traveling from all over the country to see the Relays. Farmers, KU football, and track
Former KU football and track
'We're trying to keep track of our folks. They're very important to us.'
-Coach Bob Timmons
standout Nolan Cromwell is driving back to Kansas from California to watch the Relays, Timmons said. Cromwell, who graduated in 1977, is driving with another KU alum, Leroy Irvin. Both play professional football for the Los Angeles Rams.
when the first Relays were held. He now lives in Topeka, although he won't be able to attend the brunch, Reggie which the Relays, as he embarks every year.
Eighty-two-year-old Carey Rogers was the track team's captain in 1923.
"I wouldn't miss it for anything," Rogers said. "I like to watch the spirts best."
ROGERS SAID HE competed in the pole vault in 1923 and broke both the KU and conference record with a turn of 12.8%.
"I know that doesn't sound like much now, but back then the world record was only 13.5," Rogers said.
He said he doubted that other teammates would make it back this
year.
"Those old coots are spread out all over the country," he said.
BETH LLEWELY, WHO ran in the 1976 Relays, is coming from Springfield. Ill. for the meet. She competed in the 100-meter hurdles for
"I'm from Lawrence, so I was raised on the RELays," she said. "My dad, Lou Llewellyn, has been active in the running of the RELays for years."
Relays women's events have come a long way since beginning in '63
By KRISTA GREEN Staff Reporter
The Kansas Relays has two anni-
versaries this year.
Not only is 1983 the 60th year since the start of the Relays, but it also is the 20th year that women have participated in the meet.
The first Relays were held in 1923, but the first events for women were not added until 1963. Since then, the Relays have grown to one of the most important women's meets in the nation, according to women's track coach Carla Coffey and men's coach Bob Timmons.
"TT HAS ALL THE women's events, and it is going to be a very outstanding, exciting competition," Coffey said. Last year, the junior college and small college men's divisions were taken off the agenda to make room for more women's events. Timmons said.
program," Timmons said. "This year we have two extra relays, the sprint medley relay and the two-mile relay, which by the NCAA in the women's division."
MOST OF THE increase in the offerings for women has come in the form of new training programs.
In 1963, only two events, the 100-yard dash and the 440 relay, were offered for women, and only about 15 women participated in the Relays.
The first women in the Relays did not receive much publicity. Their participation was only mentioned in the meet's schedule, and there was no news coverage or mention in the advertisements for that year's Relays.
"We tried to expand it to a full-blown
"It was not a big deal, as I remembered," said longtime track trainer Dean Nesmith.
"THE GIRL'S TRACK teams in the state were starting to get a lot better, so we included a few events," said Bill Easton, who was the Jayhawk's head track coach then.
But even without a lot of publicity, the number of women who competed in the Relays grew steadily. In 1970, more than 50 women ran in the Relays, even though until 1973 there were still only two events for women runners.
The number of events began to grow after 1974, when KU started a separate women's track team with its own coach.
BY 1979, 25 EVENTS were offered for women, and by last year, the NCAA women's events were included in the Relays. Two hundred and sixty-four women, from 19 colleges and universities, competed in the meet.
"We were probably ahead of everyone one else advocating putting women in." Timmons said. "We put them in because we are interested in trying to balance things out between the men's and women's sides, not because of pressure from women."
This year, there are 13 running events and five field events scheduled for women athletes.
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