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O'Brien, Nieder Duel To Highlight Relays
Parry O'Brien, the Air Force shotputter and Olympic gold medal winner, will engage in a duel with KU's Bill Nieder, silver medal winner at Melbourne, at the 2nd annual Kansas Relays here Saturday. The special exhibition match between the world's No. 1 and No. 2 shotputters was announced Sunday night by Martin Hanna, student co-chairman of the Relays.
Kansas State's junior, Gene O'Connor, will shoot at an unprecedented Relays hurdles double. O'Connor not only will defend his 400-meter intermediate barrier title, but hopes to add the 120 highs as well. No athlete in Relays history ever has wrought such a double since the metric event was added to the standard card in 1952. Fact is, no hurdler ever has scored in both flights here, so gruelling are the requirements.
Could Run Four Races These are wrapped up in morning preliminaries, which may involve two rounds in the highs and always one in the 400. The finals are 80
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minutes apart, a hopeful could run four races ... and is certain to run three... before he reaches the intermediate final at 2:50 p.m.
O'Connor raised several eyebrows last Saturday at the Texas Relays when he pushed Olympic Eddie Southern in a :14.1 flight of highs.
Fact is, he was so close to the Texas sophomore at the finish...he pulled up from five feet back to 18 inches over the last three hurdles...that he also was credited with :14.1.
440 foursome, which chased Abilene-Christian to a world record-equaling time of :40.2; won the highs and pulled UT to the shuttle hurdles crown by coming from three yards back in the cleanup carry.
Another hurdles doubler, will be Missouri's Charlie Batch. He never has won a league title, but he is capable of whipping O'Conner in the highs. Fact is, he finished ahead of him in the conference Indoor, which went to Nebraska's Keith Gardner. Batch ran seventh in the NCAA 400 field last year, laming a leg in the process.
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link-of a high hurdles Grand Slam and see duty with Longhorn 440, 880, and mile relay quartets as well. He is by-passing the intermediates, in which he broke the world record last June, at :49.7 in the final trials, but found it only good enough for second behind Glenn Davis' :49.5. The same pair ran 1-2 in the Olympic Games.
Southern Another Hopeful Almost as busy will be Southern, who will be shooting for the second
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Southern anchored Texas' record mile relay burst of 3:12.8 with 46.5 in his fifth event of the meet. Previously he had run No. 3 on the Steers' world-record shattering 880 team (1:22.7); filled the same spot on the
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