Hawks go to OSU
Timmons is troubled
By JERRY KLEIN
Cross-country Coach Bob Timmons is worrying more these days and enjoying it less.
Four members of his team are injured and will not compete when Kansas opens its season at the Oklahoma State Jamboree starting at 10:30 a.m. Saturday.
One of three returning lettermen, Allen Russell, who was hampered earlier with a knee injury, is now recovering from the flu. The Scottsbluff, Neb., junior ran a 4:04 mile last season and is expected to be ready for the Big Eight Meet in November.
IN ADDITION, Gene McClain, Salina junior and athlete considered by Timmons to be last season's third top runner, has been bothered by a painful foot. He will probably miss the entire season.
Not so seriously injured, though, are Mike Petterson, Wichita sophomore, and David Mansfield, Yuma, Ariz., junior. Both are suffering from knee injuries but are presently training lightly. Timmons hopes they will be ready to compete regularly in two weeks.
On the other hand, Timmons is enthusiastic about the rest of the team. Returning are two veterans, Tom Yergovich, captain, and Curtis Grindal.
YERGOVICH FINISHED sixth in the Big Eight Meet and 71st in the NCAA Championships. The two-year letterman's best performance came in last year's KU Invitational Meet here, when the Kansas City senior finished second.
Grindal, Carbondale, the III., junior, finished 106th in the NCAA meet and ran eighth in 32:45 at the Invitational.
The third returnee is Mike Hayes, Centralia junior, who ran unattached and finished 30th in the 1965 Kansas State Federation Meet. In the Invitational, he finished 13th in 33:25.
In last year's Jamboree, KU finished in a third-place tie with Oklahoma State with 68 points. Yergovich finished fourth in 20:04; Grindal 19th in 21:00 and Hayes 29th in 21:30.
Timmons is counting heavily on the sophomores. Of course, the leading candidate is Jim Ryun, world record holder for the mile and half-mile, and American record holder for the two mile.
Although the 19-year-old Ryun finished fourth in the National Federation Meet in 30:05, as a freshman, he is looking forward to his cross-country debut.
"That four mile race will give me a break from running on a flat track, just more variety." Ryun explained.
"IM HOPING TO do my best to help the team. If everyone performs well." Ryun said, "we'll have a good effort. It will be a
good chance to see what this team is like," he said, referring to his injured teammates.
With the cross-country season now under way, Ryun has changed from a speed to endurance training schedule. Instead of running hard and fast 110, 220 and 330-yard dashes at short intervals, the Wichita miler is running approximately 120 miles weekly, including three- and four-minute interval drills.
BESIDES RYUN, featured sophomores include Mike Kearns, Ray Poteet, and Larry Woelk.
Although Timmons will miss John Lawson, NCAA Cross-Country and National Federation champion, his team is working hard and has a fine attitude.
"We should bring forth a strong unit by late season," Timmons said.
KANSAN SPORTS
Dodgers defeat St. Louis; N.L. race closing quickly
ST. LOUIS—(UPI)—The Los Angeles Dodgers can clinch the National League pennant tonight because Sandy Koufax had his best curve ball of the season Thursday night and Walt Alston
had a pretty good one up his sleeve too.
The result was a 2-1 Los Angeles victory over the St. Louis Cardinals that boosted the Dodgers' lead over the idle Pittsburgh Pirates to two games.
Halfback David Morgan from Wauwatosa, Wis., is leading the nation in punting with a 45.9 average on seven kicks. In team punting, however, KU is second to Clemson with a 45.9 average, one-tenth of a point behind the leaders.
Two KU sophomore football players are among the nation's offensive leaders this week according to official statistics released by the National Collegiate Athletic Bureau.
Halfback Don Shanklin from Amarillo, Texas, ranks sixth in individual rushing having gained 238 yards in 33 attempts. The nation's leader has rushed for 350 yards.
MOREOVER, SHANKLIN is listed eighth in punt returns. Averaging 24.8 yards in four returns, the 5-9, 171-pound speedster has amassed 99 yards, including his longest against Arizona.
Based on two games, Kansas is thirteenth in total rushing offense. The Jayhawkers have gained 445 yards in 113 plays, a 222.5 per game average which includes three touchdowns.
Sophomores top U.S. grid marks
Defensively, KU has allowed 66 yards in 67 plays in total rushing defense for fifteenth place.
Yergovich mixes three jobs in one
Bu JOHN LAWSON
Most students find many unusual demands upon their time.
The vice-president of the senior class certainly does. A math and chemistry major trying to keep a B average does. So does the captain of KU's cross country team. Combine all three of these and you have Tom Yergovich, Kansas City senior, a very busy young man.
Yergovich is attending KU on an athletic scholarship and was the state champion in cross country while at Wyandotte High School in Kansas City. He spends about four hours a day training, which includes six miles each morning and around 15 every afternoon. That's about 120 miles per week!
Yergovich ran for office last spring in the student elections. Along with Harry Wiles, president, Gayle Kreutzer, secretary, and Bill Walters, treasurer, he was elected to serve the senior class of 1967. Yergovich was very pleased when he heard the results of the election returns last spring; he was in Lafayette, La., competing in a track meet and did not learn until the day after the final tabulations.
A MATH AND chemistry major, Yergovich has learned to make use of every spare minute throughout the day.
Studying, training, and attending meetings leaves little time for social activity. But, Tom said he manages a couple of hours on the weekend to spend "relaxing."
THE TRACK team travels about every other weekend in season to various places around the nation, and Yergovich occasionally misses Friday classes. However, he gets assignments in advance and takes his books along so he can keep up with his classmates. Along with his daily routine, Tom meets weekly with track coach Bob Timmons to discuss various aspects of the team's progress.
FIRST BUNT
NEW YORK — (UPI)— Dickey Pearce of the Brooklyn Atlantics is credited with laying down the first deliberate bunt during a game played in 1866.
"It's so easy to waste time throughout the day between classes and lunch time, but these are the extra minutes that make the difference with only three hours between dinner and bed," he says.
"A SHOT IN THE DARK" (Peter Sellers, Elke Sommers)
"SOME LIKE IT HOT" & "THE CHAPMAN REPORT"
He tries to get eight hours sleep each night because training each morning and evening is quite exhausting.
6 Daily Kansan Friday, September 30, 1966