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Thursday, October 28, 1976
University Daily Kansan
Sports Scene
Steve Schoenfeld
Sports Editor
Nonstop Gloria will likely keep turning in her grave
First you must find Gloria Graves.
you must clear Gloria Graves,
"Try to leave room in Alicen Field
House," I was told.
No Gloria.
"Try her little cubbyhole where she keeps the equipment."
"Try the track. Maybe she's running around getting in shape for football."
FINALLY, I TRACKED her down. She was sitting at a desk in the woman's athletic room. "And then she broke
Staff photo by GEORGE MILLENER Gloria Graves
whirlwind of energy has to wash the smelly volleyball uniforms, fold the field hockey skirts and ring out the towels the cross country team used as umbrellas.
Then she does her work on the track. Three 4095, two 2235, a couple sprints. Then she does some throwing. She must keep his pitching arm in shape for football. Finally, I gave him the ball and he played football player turned softball pitcher putted equipment manager must get tired.
"SURE, ALL THE time," she said. "But I have to keep on going."
But Gloria, couldn't you participate in only one activity?
"Not again," she said. "When I came here after going to John F. Kennedy College in Wahoo, Neb., for a year and a ball, I was 14, and then I went to Tampa. Im- 3d, 140, and then I was 185-190.
"I had previously had a desk job and I just sat around. I trained and Irained weight."
Graves went on a crush diet, but not one you can buy from Weight Watchers.
"TO GET DOWN where I was at a reasonable weight, it took six months," she said. "But it wasn't from a crash diet. It was from training."
Graves was training for softball. That was her sport. She was through with basketball—at least on the intercollegiate level.
"I gave up basketball because the seasons overlap and I'm on scholarship for softball."
Graves has been a highly successful pitcher for the KU softball team. In fact, last year she fired 21½ consecutive innings of no-hit ball. She also hurled several other home runs and hit two jaunkys to a 21-2 regular season record and a berth in the College World Series.
SHE HAS A wicked fastball. When she winds up and swirls the ball underhand, she KO's more batters than Betty Crocker. But she can attribute her success to her natching speed.
“At first a lot of people are afraid or overwhelmed with my speed,” she said, “but they get used to it. I have to use my change-up and curve or I'm not effective. The main thing is the ball moves. If the ball comes in straight with a lot of speed, people can hit it. If it's coming in fast, it's going to out go faster. The pitches have to move.”
GRAVES DECIDED she wanted to do more than just play softball, especially if she could find *w something that paid. She asked about the possibility of being the women's equipment manager, even though I knew it wouldn't be the most enjoyable job.
"Somebody's go to do it," she said. "I don't even think about all the dirt and grime I have to deal with. I don't even look at it that way.
"But there are bad days, especially when it’s really nice out. It’s really hard for me to wear a shirt."
Graves doesn't have any aspirations of being an equipment manager.
"IDON'T have any desire of spending my time in the equipment room," the senior from Topeka said. "I started it because of these reasons and that's still why I'm doing it."
She also unim planning to try out for one of her professional softball teams when she joined the team.
"I have to get through this year," she said, applying the cliche about taking it one day at a time. "I am glad it's become clear that I don't know whether I'd be interested."
If she ever gets the time, she's discovered that being equipment manager can ever better help.
It's easier to throw a whole bunch of wrenches than the softball," she said, "but I'd do it better. I'm not a good swimmer."
Motion—nonstop—sums up Glorie Graves.
Top gymnast quits team
The KU men's gymnastics team lost its No. 1 all-around man Tuesday when Les Kerr quit the team.
Kerr is a junior from Lawrence and ranks fourth on the all-time KU all-around chart.
Kerr said he quit because of a difference of philosophies between him and coach Bob Lockwood.
THAT PROTEST, Marcks said, is necessary before his office can check to see if a particular player is ineligible. There are too many teams and too many players to pay closer attention to who is or isn't eligible, Marcks said.
Richard Marcs, intramural director at the University of Kansas, said yesterday that he wants to stop ineligible players from participating. The only way that the department is made aware of an eligible player, said, is when another team files a protest.
"We would have to require that people bring their ID's to all the games," Marcxs said. "Then we would have to have a picture and name check before each game. We believe that would take about a half-hour for each game.
The main reason that the intramural department doesn't check out the team members more thoroughly, he said, is an economic one.
WE ESSIMILLY don't have the money
WE SIMPLY should help the kid of
money
Marcks said that to carry out a photo-credit, he would have to cost his department about $4,500 a year.
"I can't see it right now as a proper expenditure of our money," he said.
"They" are the people in the intramural department. "It" is the people who are playing intramural sports when they are negligible or otherwise illegal participants.
"I have goals that I don't feel I can accomplish here," Kerr said. "I feel that I not getting what I need out of this program to become the kind of gymnast that I want to be."
They know it's going on. They know it's probably湿滑顽硬. Yet they do little to worry.
KANSA CITY (AP)—Even without Nolan Cromwell, Kansas's winkle offense still leads the Big Eight Conference in team rush statistics.
He also said he would look for another school that could provide what he wants in gymnastics and academics.
KU leading in rushing
Running Scott McMichael and Mark Lissak in place of the injured Cromwell, the Jayhawks saw their average a game下 five yards last week, but their average of 315.7 is still better than runnerup Oklahoma's 267.9.
The most common form of ineligibility,
Iowa state leads in total offense, with a game average of 448.6 yards, trailed by Missouri with 413.9. By a slim margin, the Cyclones are top in scoring offense, with 33.6 points a game, six-tenths of a point better than Nebraska.
Iowa State, despite losing last week to Colorado, still leads the league in the three other offensive categories. In team passing the Cyclones raised their average from 178.8 yards to 185.6, with Nebraska second with 179.0.
But the Cornhuskers are still the dominant defensive team, holding the lead in rushing, total and scoring defense. Nebraska has been giving up an average of 95.3 yards on the ground while runnerup Oklahoma has yielded 150 a contest.
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Marcks said, occurs when a player is playing for more than one team.
When a protest is filed, the intramural department checks the rosters of the teams involved and the scorecards for the games in question to see if a player did participate illegally. The offending team is then required to forfeit the game in which the
One infraction involved a fraternity that had two teams playing in the "B" league. One team made the play-offs, the other didn't. The team that made the play-offs added someone to their squad who had played for the other team during the regular season. Another team recognized the player, they protested the game and won the decision.
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ineligible player was used, but there is usually no disdain secondary action taken against them.
If the rosters and score cards are in order, however, phone calls are made to the team managers involved. That usually is as far as need to go to clear up the situation, he said.
two protesters have been filed during the current football season and both have been upheld.
FOOTBALL ISN'T the only intramural sport in which questions of eligibility come up, Marcks said. He added that the question was far more relevant than the other sports in football than in the other sports.
Last spring, he said, a softball team was forced to foresee a play-off game because it had two members on its squad who had two players for another team during the regular season.
Hen Jendel, Olathe senior and a member of that team, said that he thought the use of ineligible players was widespread because the department had trying to enforce its rules.
Marcks said some of his concerns about eligibility would be included in recommendations he was making to the Recreation Advisory Board.
"TM ASKING them to come up with a
manual for a standard eligibility policy that
provides the information needed."
The last manual at KU that he was aware of, be said, was published in 1982, be said.
suf, he said, was published in 1882, he said. Another question that Marcks hopes the board will consider at its next meeting, scheduled for Nov. 11, is whether former KU athletes should be allowed to participate in intramurals.
There currently is no rule that prohibits them from playing, Marcks said, although there used to be a rule that excluded varsity letter winners in a particular sport from participating in that sport in the intramural program. That rule was abandoned, he said, because it was too hard to enforce and too impractical.
"If David Jaynes or Bobby Doughlas come to back from school it might be a different case."
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