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Tuesday, April 16, 1996
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
1996 KU Graduates STAY TRUE TO THE CRIMSON AND BLUE
Wherever you go after that memorable walk down the Hill, KU will be with you. Your KU Alumni Association includes more than 45,000 members, grads like you who carry the KU banner worldwide.
These special benefits are Yours!
- Free six-month Alumni Association
- membership for all 1996 graduates. Your benefits begin automatically April 1 and last through Sept.30. You'll receive three issues of Kansas Alumni magazine featuring news from the Hill and Class Notes on the activities of your fellow alumni.Let us know your new address so we can keep your benefits coming.
- Free six-month Learned Club membership from April 1 - Sept. 30. Sign up at the Alumni Center.
- Put a 'Hawk in your pocket.
Apply for the hawk.
Apply for the Jayhawk
bank card,
1-800-222-7458.
BONUS! Sign up
for a bank card at
the Graduate
Cookout April 24 and receive a FREE Jayhawk license plate frame.
Plus fun and free events!
• Meet alumni staff on Wescoe Beach April 15 and 16.
- Enjoy free burgers and 50c draws (with I.D.) at the Class of '96 Graduate Cookout sponsored by the Student Alumni Association April 24. (RSVP form in Commencement packet).
- Tour the Alumni Association May 9 and 10.Call 864-4760.
- Get psyched for the Hill hike at tl
for the Hill hike at the Commencement Breakfast May 19. (RSVP form in Commencement packet).
Watch for your 1996 New Alumni Handbook coming soon to your mailbox!
KANSAS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Adams Alumni Center, 1266 Oread Avenue, Lawrence, Kansas 60044-3169
Friends face off in St. Louis
Jim Leyland and Tony La Russia are still good friends despite their team's rivalry
PITTSBURGH—Their phone calls were frequent, late at night and often came after a particularly difficult loss. The two callers were from dissimilar backgrounds and worked at opposite ends of the country, yet shared a common philosophy and a deep friendship.
The Associated Press
Tony La Russa spoke of Jim Leyland: "Sometimes we'd start talking at midnight and not stop until 4 o'clock. I've never learned as much from any man as I have from Jim."
Jim Leyland spoke of Tony La Russa: "I've said all along that he didn't make me a manager, but he made me a major league manager. He gave me the break and the exposure I needed. He's had a major impact on my life."
Both Leyland and La Russa have received the honor of being named Manager of the Year. Both managed championship teams. But it has been 17 years since Leyland and La Russa sat in opposite dugouts, each trying to win the same baseball game.
Baseball brought them together in 1982, when La Russa managed the White Sox and Leyland was his third base coach. Now it separates them, as Leyland managed the Pittsburgh Pirates against La Russa's Cardinals in St. Louis last night.
"When the game starts, it's just like any other game," said Leyland, who last opposed La Russa in the American Association in 1979. "We'll talk and have a few laughs before the game, but it will be different."
It has to be different. When La Russa managed in the American League, he and Leyland could freely swap ideas, suggestions and thoughts. Now, they manage not only in the same league, but in the same division. One
can't even get into the postseason without possibly ruining the other's season.
"Tony made a good point — one of us is going to be upset no matter what happens," Leyland said Sunday. "We talked over the winter, and we went out to dinner this spring and had a great time, but we can't talk about the same things anymore. We talk mostly about our families."
It was much different in 1982, when La Russa hired a career minor league manager to be one of his key coaches. It was a risky move — Leyland had no major league experience — but it brought together two of baseball's brightest minds and innovators.
"We'd talk baseball for hours," Leyland said. "We'd talk about everything, but mostly we'd talk baseball."
Still, there are major differences in the two. La Russia has a law degree and evokes a more corporate, big-city image. Leyland, who grew up in a small Ohio town and manages in the smallest city in the majors, never advanced beyond high school.
As Leyland once said, "He passed the bar, and there was a time I never passed a bar."
But the two quickly realized they had striking similarities. Each prepared methodically before a game. Losing was something they both hated with a passion. Each believed strongly in loyalty; Leyland once tore off his shirt to go after Jimmy Piersall, then a broadcaster, for speaking despairingly of La Russa. And Leyland spurned inquiries from richer, more successful teams to re-sign with Pittsburgh last year.
Neither Leyland nor la Russa manages strictly by the book, and they aren't likely to change now. But Leyland doesn't expect a succession of mind games in which the two managers constantly try to outwit each other.
"He's got his team and I've got mine and whoever plays the best will win," Leyland said. "People think one of us is going to pull some kind of deal that's going to make a difference, and I doubt that very much. All I know is one of us is going to be unhappy every night, and I don't like that."
Boston Marathon sets records
Kenyan man comes out on top in largest ever field of runners during 100th staging of contest
The Associated Press
BOSTON — Kenyan Moses Tanui won the 100th Boston Marathon, finishing in 2:09:16 yesterday to upset countryman and three-time defending champion Cosmas Ndeti.
Nedi led much of the race but fell behind at the 21-mile mark, just as the racers came out of the Newton climb known as Heartbreak Hill. Of the six Kenyans breaking away, led by 1995 runner-up Tanui, Nedi was sixth.
At 24 miles, Nedti had dropped 90 yards behind Tamui and Sammy Bitok, who was running his first marathon. It was the sixth consecutive victory for Kenya, which uses the event for its Olympic trials.
Uta Pippig of Germany won an unprecedented third Boston Marathon women's title in a row with a time of 2:27:12.
American Jean Driscoll won an unprecedented seventh consecutive women's wheelchair race yesterday. Driscoll, of Champaign, Ill., finished well ahead of her closest pursuer with a time of 1:52:54. Only Clarence DeMar, who won seven non-consecutive races, has won as many Boston titles.
Heinz Frei of Switzerland took the men's wheelchair division, leading a record field across the finish
line. Frei, who won the 1994 race in record time, finished in 1:30:11 and was the first to be crowned with the laurel wreath at the 100th staging of the longestrunning long run in the world.
After snow last week and rain over the weekend, the skies cleared and the temperatures warmed to the 50s for race day. Only a slight head wind was expected to slow the runners in their 26.2-mile commute of cuts, callouses and cramps.
The forecast was good news for race officials concerned that warm weather could lead to unparalleled problems in the massive field. Just in case, there were 2,500 medics, 190 massage therapists, 160 podiatrists and rows of cots and wheelchairs waiting in Copley Square.
"If everybody does the job they're delegated to do, this will go off like clockwork," race announcer Harold Rathburn said.
As the leaders crossed the five-mile mark, some of the runners at the back of the pack hadn't started yet. For those near the back of the pack, it took 28 minutes to reach the starting line — well ahead of schedule.
An official total of 38,706 runners — four times the previous record — left Hopkinton at noon and headed for the Back Bay finish line, where race officials prepared for an unprecedented influx of fatigued feet.
As they waited, race patriarch Johnny Kelley — a two-time winner, seven-time runner-up and 58-time finisher — serenaded them with "Young at Heart" and "God Bless America."
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