THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE SEVEN
Karnes Builds Brilliant Record
By ART SCHAAF
Winner of 53 races out of 77 starts since enrolling at K.U. in the spring of 1947 is the record of Bob Karnes, Kansas' superb distance runner.
After racing through three cross-country campaigns, four indoor seasons, and three outdoor schedules, "Rapid Robert" has carried the Jayhawk colors around the cinders in approximately 100 races, including 20 relays.
The black-headed, 5 foot 11 inch, 145-pounder will begin his fourth and last season of collegiate outdoor competition at the Texas Relays Friday and Saturday where he will run the mile anchor leg on both the four-mile and distance-medley relay teams.
The popular track captain dates his interest in foot racing from the 1938 Osage county fair where he won the 25-yard dash as a bare-footed seventh grader. By the time he was a freshman at Overbrook High school he was running the carrier-mile.
During his junior and senior years in high school he developed into the best schoolboy miler in the state. In 1943, his senior year he shattered famed Glenn Cunningham's Kansas Relays high school mile record with a 4:29.9 performance. That record still stands as the best scholastic mile ever run at the relay carnival.
After 32 months spent in the navy during the war, Karnes enrolled at Emporia State, but he transferred to
K. U. after one semester to be able to take part in the year-around track program at the University.
His list of accomplishments while at K.U. is long. The Overbrook flyer has won 12 conference championships in mile and two-mile races, he holds five K.U. school records, and he is co-holder with Bill McGuire, of Missouri of the Big Seven indoor mile record of 4:17.2. In national competition he won the Junior A.A. U. 10.000 meters in 1948 and he placed second in the A.A.U. 1,500 meters last year with a time of 3:53.6—equivalent to a 4:11.6 mile.
Plans after graduation next spring, when the speedy Jayhawk gets his physical education degree, center on getting a coaching job preferably as a basketball and track coach. At the present time Karnes is living in Sunflower village with his wife Iola and $ ^{2} \frac{1}{2} $-year-old daughter Robin Lee.
5. 30. Kansas Track coach Bill Easton says of Karnes: "Under competitive fire he is superb. He never gives up. He is one of the greatest captains and leaders that I have ever coached."
The 1952 Olympics are not included in the plans of the Karnes family.
Women's Intramural Softball Program Is Ready To Begin Tuesday, April 4
Women's intramural softball games begin Tuesday, April 4. The schedule for the first week of play is prepared, but the division setup and complete schedule will not be available until early next week.
Games are to be played at 4 p.m. unless both teams prefer 5 p.m. In the latter case the women's intramural office should be notified of the change.
2 Delta Delta Delta vs. Alpha Omicron Pi
Tuesday, April 4:
3 Alpha Chi Omega vs. Chi Omega Wednesday. April 5:
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Diamond:
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1. P i Beta Phi vs. Jolliffe
1 Pi Beta Phi vs. Joffie
2 Kappa Alpha Theta vs. Alpha
3 Alpha Delta Pi vs. Kanza
Thursday. April 6;
Diamond:
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2 Delta Gamma vs. Miller
1 Sigma Kappa vs. Harmon Co
2 Delta Gamma vs. Miller
3 Javettes-I.S.A. vs. Locksley
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