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Relays committee taking applications
Applications are now being accepted for the Kansas Relays Student Committee, the student group that helps organize and plan the Kansas Relays, Relays Manager Al Fereshetian announced this week.
Even though final selection won't be for several weeks, interested students may obtain and fill out committee applications in the Kansas Track office in Allen Field House.
Fereshetai said that the number of new members selected will likely be smaller this year in hopes that more new members will stay involved throughout the year.
"The goal is to go with a smaller group of new members and to not bring them in until after Thanksgiving. That way, we'll have a chance to show our team and hope that we will be able to keep their interest," Fereshetian said.
In addition to helping plan and stage the Relays, the committee also helps solicit sponsorships for event, to be held April 16-19,
For more information call 864-3486.
Holmes apologizes
EASTON, Pa. — Dithered heavyweight champion Larry Holmes, in despair after losing his crown to Michael Spinks last Saturday, apologized Monday for slurs he made toward the late heavyweight champion, Rocky Marciano.
"I tore down one of the greatest fighters of all time," Holmes said of a disparaging remark made after he lost the fight in Las Vegas. "I lost the fight and made a fool of myself. What can I say other than I try to make up for it."
Holmes, in a conversation with New York Daily News boxing writer Michael Katz, said he hoped the Marciano family would forgive him of his remark that "Rocky couldn't carry my jockstrap."
Injury detours catcher's plans
By Frank Hansel Of the Kansan sports staff
This was supposed to be Kelly Downs' year.
She had served as backup catcher for two years to Kim Cobb, and now she was supposed to get her opporter a pass catcher for catcher for the Kansas softball team
Her route to the catching job took a detour last spring because of a knee injury. Downs suffered strained ligaments in the second game of the regional tournament against Nebraska.
Downs, who also plays the outfield and infield, was injured while tagging a baserunner at second base.
"My knee just gave in," Downs said yesterday. "I don't think the runner ever hit me. I just twisted my knee the wrong way."
Head coach Bob Stanclift said Downs was the team's most experienced catcher and she would have been the starter barring the injury. Instead Downs finds herself slowly catching while Gail Luecke does the catch.
"We feel Kelly is our most experienced catcher in controlling a ballgame," Stancilt said. "Gail has done an excellent job for us, but Kelly is a little more experienced in handling our pitchers."
Luelde caught all six games in the Nebraska Tournament two weeks ago. Downs was only able to play a game, the third base, but she wasn't able to hit.
Downs, however, might do some catching today when Kansas plays Kansas State at 3 p.m. at the softball field behind Anzchutz Sports Pavilion. Stanciff she needed to get some game time in at catcher.
"Kelly can catch in an emergency situation," Stanciflask said. "But we want her to have a complete plan, should be back for the spring season."
"Kelly knows that if there's a chance of a collision and the run is not that important to get out of the way," Stanclift said. "She's been
real smart about making those judgments in practice."
Downs, who prefers catching, said it was nice to be able to play other positions while her knee healed completely, but that she was ready to fight for the catching job in the spring.
"I think the injury has made me realize that they're not going to hand me the job, but I'm going to have to work for it," Downs said.
Another player coming back from a knee injury and fighting for playing time is infielder Phillips. She missed most of last spring after her knee gave out while she was involved in a run down during the Sooner Invitational Tournament in Norman, Okla.
"At first they (doctors) told me I would be out just two weeks with a torn cartlidge," Phillips said. "But when I woke up from surgery they told me to forget about the season."
Phillips had cartlidge chips behind her knee cap that had to be removed to allow her knee to move correctly.
She sat out the rest of the season and skim-hitting performace late in the week.
"The trainers kept telling me every day there was no way I was going to play." Phillips said. "But I was determined and was determined to play some."
Phillips was unable to redshift because she had already played a year of basketball at Oklahoma Christian College. When she transferred to Kansas she had four years of athletic elegibility left but only four years to complete that elegibility.
Stanclift said Phillips was almost 100 percent healthy, and the side effect is she had lost a little of her range when playing the infield.
Phillips said that she expected to return to 100 percent after completing a weight training program this winter.
Stancill said, "Judith was a .290 hitter when she got hurt, so now we'll be stronger offensively because we have two good sticks back in the lineup."
Holloway back from injury
By a Kansan reporter
Wide receiver Johnny Holloway practiced yesterday in pads for the first time since he suffered a knee injury in the season opening game against Hawaii.
Head coach Mike Gotfried said Holloway had a good first day back, and he should be 100 percent healthy with his game Saturday in Tallahassee. Fla.
Defensive end David Smith, who is suffering from a pinched nerve in his neck, practiced yesterday, but did not take part in any contact. Gottfried said Smith's full return to
the lineup was still on a day-to-day basis
Free safety Wayne Ziegler, strong safety Marvin Mattox and wide receiver Skip Peete remain on the injured list and will not play against Florida State.
Gottfried also said walk-on quarterback Jeff Rank would probably make the traveling squad for the Florida State game because of his performance against Bethany College in Monday's junior varsity game. Rank led the Jayhawks to a 52-0 win.
Junior defensive end Robert Gofft has transferred to Auburn. Gottfried
said yesterday. Goff will have to sit out next season before he can play for the Tigers.
Tailback Lynn Williams and linebacker Dane Griffin, who received a court injunction allowing them to play with the team after being declared academically ineligible, practiced yesterday. Griffin suited up but worked out on his own.
Offensive guard Doug Certain, also involved in the court injunction, did not practice. Gottfried said he did not know why Certain was not at practice.
Alan Hagman/KANSAN
John Rose, redhirt freshman, practiced with the shotput yesterday after noon outside Memorial Stadium. Rose, along with other Kansas shooters, works out daily in preparation for the upcoming indoor track and field season.
Power put
Auburn tops poll again; OU second
The Associated Press
the remaining top 10 teams, in
order, are: Iowa, Florida State, Ohio
State, Southern Methodist, Oklah-
oma State, Penn State, Penn
State and Arkansas.
Auburn retained the top spot this week in the Associated Press Top 20 football poll, and Oklahoma remained at No. 2.
Kansas received more votes than Notre Dame, Texas Christian, South Carolina, North Carolina, Purdue, Boston College, Washington State, Mississippi State, and Miami of Florida.
Florida State moved to No. 4 from No. 6. Kansas will play the Seminoles on Saturday in Tallahassee. Fla.
Kansas was not among the 20 ranked teams, but the greyhawks won by a point.
Oklahoma State moved to No. 7 from No. 8, and Nebraska jumped to No. 10.
Kelly Downs practiced her catching skills yesterday afternoon at the softball field behind Anschutz Sports Pavilion. Downs probably would have been Kansas' starting catcher this fall, but a knee injury last spring may keep her from catching in games until next spring.
Coach unsure about Tigers
Bv Heather Fritz
By Heather Fritz Of the Kansan sports staff
The Kansas volleyball team will look for its first conference win of the season tonight when it meets Missouri at 7:30 in Columbia.
The Jayhawks have a record of 3-3, with one conference loss to defending Big Eight champion Nebraska. The team is moving into a tough week of matches. Tomorrow the team leaves Okole for Iowa. Tournament the team will then play two matches at home next week against Nebraska and St. Ambrose.
Head coach Frankle Albiz said she didn't know what to expect from the Tigers since they graduated much of their team last spring.
"I'm having trouble preparing for them so I'm feeling that we won't do well." Albitz said yesterday. "We'll just have to go down there and take our knocks.
"The girls have done real well except I'm a little concerned with practice. I really can't find the team attitude."
Players said that the difference between this year and last was like night and day.
"This year we're so much more ready to play." said Robyn George. "It has a lot to do with coach. I really don't know what it is about her, but she makes you feel like you can do it."
For that reason, George said.
"It wasn't that last year we didn't
just have a chance to play, but
just did not have the right attitude."
Hitter Julie Ester said that this attitude had given the team the confidence to be able to compete with them they couldn't compete with before.
Albiz expects players to do well, and the players want to do well for her.
Kristi Conway said, "I think we're going to prove a lot of things to a lot of people. They don't look at us as a winning team."
As far as playing skills are concerned, Albitz said, she is pleased with the team's progress. The first day of practice when the team served she felt like she was at a summer camp, she said.
Royals lose, remain in second
United Press International
SEATTLE — Phil Bradley drove in four runs with a pair of homers last night, leading the Seattle Mariners to a 5-2 victory over the Kansas City Royals.
The victory was the Mariners' 10th straight over the Ravals.
The loss prevented Kansas City from taking over first place in the American League West. The California Angels, despite an 8-1 loss to Chicago, remained one-half game ahead of the Royals.
Bradley's second homer of the game, a line drive into left field, came with Spike Owen and Harold Reynolds aboard in the eighth inning. Bradley's homer his 23rd of the season made a winner of Mike Moore, 16-8.
Moore struck out seven and walked two in pitching his 12th complete game this season. Kansas City mark Starbegg亡落飞 to 13-6.
With the score tied 2-2, Owen walked with one out in the Seattle eighth. Pinch hitter Ken Phelps singled Owen to third, which was the
end for Gubicza, and Reynolds ran
for Phelps. Bradley then greeted
reliever Dan Quisenberry by belting
an 0-1 pitch over the left field wall.
Seattle had taken a 1-4 lead in the third. With one out, Dave Valle singled and scored on Owen's triple. But Kansas City scored two runs in the fourth, led by Leah Omar Moreno drilled a two-out, two-run single to center.
Bradley tied the score 2-2 in the sixth with a one-out solo homer.
With one out, Jorge Orta singled and raced to third.
Scandal claims TCU board member
United Press International
FORT WORTH, Texas — Dick Lowe, who already had admitted giving money to Texas Christian University football players, resigned from the school's board of trustees Monday, and in a letter to TCU's chancellor, said former coach F.A. Dry was aware of the payments.
"Don't ever think that if illegal recruiting is going on that the coaches don't know about it," Lowe said in the letter to TCU chancellor William Tucker. "They are right in their business. They ever believe that if a player is bought, he doesn't know exactly what he is doing."
Lowe's resignation and letter were the latest developments in a recruiting scandal which broke last Thursday when a TCU player told Horned Frogs coach Jim Wacker that he and five other players had been receiving money since coming to the school.
Wacker immediately dismissed the six players, including star running back Kenneth Davis.
Since then, a TCU financial backer in Amarillo, Texas, has accused Dry of attempting to initiate a slush fund with which to pay recruits. In addition, Wacker — hired after Dry was dismissed in 1982 — said he had been given a list of players receiving
illegal payments last November but insisted his informant had told him the payments had stopped
In his letter, Lowe said, "The alumni, including me, are a bunch of fools. They are trying to help their school. The coaches don't really appreciate it and the players use them, but the alumni are fools first and mainly because what they are doing is wrong, period."
National Collegiate Athletic Association investigators arrived in Fort Worth today to interview players and TCU officials about the payments.
Dry, now the offensive line coach at Baylor University, has denied any knowledge of a slush fund or any payments to recruits.
In his letter, however, Lowe implicated Dry. Lowe, a Fort Worth businessman, has been the chief financial backer of the TCU athletic program for years.
"I have participated in breaking NCAA rules," Lowe told the chancellor in the letter. "That was a stupid mistake born out of almost total frustration. I feel it is important for you to know what has happened. Not to know would be like putting your head in the sand."
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Lowe then told of a meeting involving Dry and "a couple of his assistants" in 1980 at which illegal recruiting was discussed.