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Monday, April 21, 1975
University Dally Kansan
Few bright spots for KU in Relay wins
Rv ROR HANSON
Snorts Writer
Sumy, dry weather on the final day of the Kansas Relays was an unexpected plus. But also unexpected and not as pleasant were the runners up for the University of Kansas track team.
Only the KU mile relay and 440 yard relay
teams and high jumper Randy Smith came away with first place watches at the 50th annual track carnival in Memorial Stadium.
Missing from the winner's platform were Waddell Smith in the open 440 yard dash, the 800 yard relay team, Cliff Wiley in the
100 yard dash, and Danny Seay or Theo Hamilton in the long jump.
The KU women's team, competing in an expanded women's events schedule, were unable to come up with a single or first place tie. The team was a second place tie in the high jump.
The mile relay team of Nolan Cromwell,
Waddell Smith, Randy Benson and Eddie Lewis closed out the relay Saturday with a school-record breaking time of 3.077, an hour and 45.8 second leg quarter mile by Smith.
About an hour earlier, Smith had finished
a disappointing sixth in the open 440 yard
distance.
timed in 48.6, more than a second behind the winner.
With a bit of luck, the 440 relay team won that event earlier in the day in a time of 40.2. The team of Wiley, Lewis, Berson, and Larry Jackson were running a close second to the University of Texas throughout the race until the final 25 yards. Marvin Nash.
Mike Bolt, a Kenyan running for Eastern New Mexico University, gives a sigh of relief after anchoring his distance medley relay to victory in Saints's Rails.
Antelopes, not titles elude Kenyan runner
By STEVE BOYCE
Sport Writer
In Mike Bolt's homeland of Kenya, many people wouldn't consider him to be a fast runner. To test his speed, they ask him, "Can you outperform the turtle?" And he must right that he can.
But some men of his tribe in Kenya can catch antelope, Boit said in the Kansas Relays last weekend, and he admitted that he didn't know how they did it.
As all Kansas Relays fans know, Boit is so slush when it comes to running. In this year's Relays, he anchored his Eastern New Mexico University (ENMU) team to victories in the college spring medley and distance medley relays. He also holds NAIA records for both events (3:55.7). Two years ago at the Relays, he was selected the Most Valuable Performer.
At the Relays, Boit has chosen not to run in open events so he could help the team more by running in several relay events. Rick Wohlhuter, winner of the Glenn Cunningham mile, for one, is probably happy that Boit made this choice.
"the girls would run from me if they saw me coming in them," Bloa ltouts.
The people of Kenya think it odd for a man to run for no apparent reason, as Mike does when he trains. Also, Bolt said he doesn't know if the government wants people because people consider them obscene.
For Bolt, all life does not revolve around on an oval track or a cross country course. In fact, in Kenta he was once known as the first champion of his town. He be drank for 24 hours in contest to earn the title. And Kenyan beer, he said, is stronger than American beer.
Boit insisted that he usually doesn't drink very much and doesn't smoke. In Kenya, he said, his father didn't like for him to drink beer at all because if one drank before he was drinking, he would have were an alcoholic and wouldn't marry him. The girls, Boit said, rarely drink at all.
It is acceptable to drink milk mixed with
water. Milk is also good for you,
be both a nutrient and a producer of good
nutrients.
Last fall, Bolt led ENMU to its second straight NAIA cross country championship. Boit was the first runner to cover the five mile distance, breaking the tape 15 seconds his teammate, his teammate Philip Naimo, pronounced, his insists, as "door" without the r).
"Sometimes cross country can really be a lot of fun," Boi said. "You see, I can run a very fast first mile, maybe 4.15, and still go another 20 miles that they try to keep up with me, they get tired."
Another favorite cross country strategy for Bolt is to run very fast at the beginning of the race, then slow down as if becoming tired. When the other runners catch up with him, he puts on a burst of speed and leaves them far behind.
"That's very disappointing for them," he says.
Yet, Bet's attitude toward running cross country seems to be less relaxed than that of his older brother, the Relays this year because of an injured knee, he is remembered by fans as the short Kenyan with the green stocking cap that he's valuable Performer of last year's Relals.
According to Bolt, Ndeo was running a long distance race when his stocking cap was blown off. No depoo stopped, ran back down the lane, and was bumped on in the race and, as leeward it has won.
Also, many of the trophies, electric clocks, wrist watches and Kansas Relays Champion T-shirts won by Bot never home with him. Last year, he gave a Kansas Shoes to the KU students who did shoes to the KU students in whose room he slept during the week of the Relays.
When some idolizing little kids watched his shoes and warm-ups for him while he ran. Bott gave each of them a Kansas hat, talked to them about himself and track.
Boit said he wasn't ruling out a career with the professional track circuit, but would probably return to Kenya as a teacher after college. He has majored in physical education and hopes to student teach next fall.
Charlton Ehkulesen, a Nigerian representing the University of Illinois, sails his way to a Relays long jump record of 27-4.
"You know, I've run a 9.010 this year and Track and Field Newisa still ranked me in the world," he said. "The fastest 100 ever and 6.0. Isn't track and field a bitch?
"But really, I love track. There's nothing else like it."
But after the 100 yard dash on Friday, Cookett expressed mixed emotions about its performance.
Crockett, who works for Anheuser-Busch, Inc., in St. Louis, said the Kansas and Drake Relays (to be next week) were on his home ground.
Randy Benson of K.U. after getting the baton from Waddell Smith, looks ahead on the third leg of the KU mile relay team.
Ivory meets victory, defeat
By MIKE FITZGERALD
"Mark Lutz of the Pacific Coast Track Club, who placed fourth in the vent) was really running at the start. I was worried about him. I've beaten him before in races, but I was thinking during the race, 'it's never been this close.'"
To Ivory Crockett, world record holder in the 100 yard dash and this year's Kansas Relays champion in that event, last month presented one contradiction after another.
Sports Editor
First, Crockett, running for the Chicago Track Club, won Friday's open division 100 yard dash, going the distance in 9.4 against both stiff competition and adverse weather
Crockett didn't have to worry about Saturday's open 228 being healed; he finished the game with a win.
"Besides the fact that the 220 isn't exactly in the kind of event, I just was never in the race."
"I're really satisfied with the time," she said after the race, coming into this car. "I think it's good for a kid."
Crockett also introduced a new starting technique in his 100 yard dash. The whole idea of the new start became the number of motions—getting out of the starting blocks from three to two. It may not sound like a good idea, but the 100 is measured in thousands of seconds.
"I want to run against Steve Williams (another top world-class spinner) here at the relays," Crockett said. "He should have come here. I've never run against him on my home ground; I've always had to run against him out west."
"The new start is all right," Crockett said. "All I do, is instead of bending my knee coming out of the blocks, it straightened it right away and reduce the number of moves."
"I was really scared to use it, and I support it better at it as I become more confident."
Crockett, whose goal is to someday run an 8.910,000, hasn't been trained in recent weeks, and the Relays marked the first competition he's seen in 10 weeks.
"My wife had a little baby girl several weeks ago, and I've been bins in other ways, so I haven’t run for a while," Crockett said. "And it gets you off, too. I feel sluggish."
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"I really should have quit track after running my 9.0 in Knoxville, Teenn." Crockett said. "I really hurts the runner that holds the world record. People get up for me and I can't get as excited about running against them."
Don Pierce
and then you wonder where you are in the race because you've lost the feel for runners.
But Brockett said he still had a future in college, and he said he could still work for Anheuser-Busch.
"Yeah, I could run against the Clivedens, except they are too slow."
Texas' anchor man, was a stride ahead of Jackson when he pulled a leg muscle and virtually hopped to the finish line. KU took the race with Oklahoma finishing second. Nash hopped his way to a third place finish for Texas.
Swinn won the high jump with a leap of 7- 0, not feeling comfortable in the air.
"The wind was a problem," he said. "I kept changing from a tail wind to a head wind, back and forth all day. I didn't do that, but no one did well today, either."
Kevin Gauth of KU finished fourth in the event with a 6-10 lump.
Smith, who also won the high jump at the Texas Relays, will try for the RELays triple crown of Texas-Kansas-Drake wins this week at the Drake Relays.
Probably the most disappointing finish for KU came in the 880 yard relay Friday. Figuring to battle Texas Christian University in the finals, the Jayhawks managed the battebout with Wiley and Lewis manhandled the battebout first hand-off. Then they found out that they disqualified for stepping out of their lane when they fumbled the baton.
Danny Seay set a new relays record in the long jump, Saturday, even though he beined third. Charlton Ehrinzel of the University of Illinois soared 27-4 to take first and Jayhawk Theo Hamilton placed second with a 26-10 jump.
Wiley, who had been suffering from an asthma attack last week, failed to qualify in the university division 100 yard dash earlier in the day when he ran a slow 10.4. But Jackson did qualify and went on to finish in the final third with a 9.8 clocking.
By Seay's jump of 26-7 went on the record books because the first two jumps were wind-aided, meaning they were over the habitable wind speed of 4.473 miles per hour.
Nolan Cromwell could have used some of that wind Friday to better his finish in the finals. He was among the fastest time in the preliminaries Cromwell finished third in the finals behind Mel Powers of the University of New York at Stony Brook and Kelmehter of Kansas State University.
"I just didn't have the strength I usually had from wellsed said Friday. "I just couldn't."
The world record holders at the relays had their problems too. Pole vaulter Dave Roberts and spinner Iervire Crockett didn't win, but they won the title and Vic Dias set a relay's record at 17-63.
In other events, Kent McDonald placed second in the 3,000 meter open steepeach; Rex Hammond and Mark Kostek finished two-three in the university field; and another team was needed to qualify for the university pole vault after missing the opening height of 15-6.
Crockett finished last in the open 220 yard after winning the open 100 yard dash on Paula.
The man who apparently wasn't affected by wind, Saturday, was Ed Preston of Arkansas and the university 100 yard dash, then came back in an hour later to set a relay record in Iowa.
KU track Bob Timmons was satisfied
with the loss, but the laybacks could do.
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Preston won the 220 in 20.8 seconds. He didn't even know he was going to run the race until 15 minutes before it began, he said.
Rick Wohlhuter, world record holder in the half mile and the 1,000 meter run, won the open mile in 4:05.6. He said the wind was a definite factor in the miler's slow times.
"I in meet this size, with the pressure we
had, you have guys that do well and others
who don't t," Timmons said. "Overall, I was
able to give them the performance, but
I feel we can do better."
Timmons said he owed a lot of thanks to the people involved with the mechanics of the dam.
"I want to thank the student groups and the people from the community for all their help," he said. "We couldn't have a meet without them."
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Four mile relay - M(McDonald, Lundberg, Kopper,
Cliff CJHauff 40 yard interdural Hurdles - 3)
Carl V IEE High Jump 1 - Smith, 7.6; 4. Gulion, 6.0;
Carl V LEE High Jump 1 - Relay, 1.9 (Lewis, Lewson,
Jackson), 4.0
Javeln-2, Hammond, 204:9, Kotek, 233:1.
Bentley, J., Bemmett, W. Smith,
Bentley, L. 3:07.7.
Long jump - 2. Hamilton - 10:3. Seey - 26:7. New relay
placements were places disabled because they were wisted垫.
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Larry Winn 3,000 meter steplacechase-2. McDonalds
8:47.
440 yard dash -3., Beason, 47.8; W. Smith, 48.6.
240 yard dash -6., Lewits, 21.4.
over hurdles - 3. Llewelyn, 16:4, 5. Lane, 17.7
860 medley relay - 4. Kameh, 1:56. 5.
High Jump-2 (de) Foley, McPherson and Lane,
Kaplan, 840.
Ivory Crockett, world record holder in the 100 yard dash, looks to the judges to see whether he won the Friday's open 100.