Thursday, April 29,1965 University Daily Kansan
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K-State Rowers Plan Kaw Exhibit
By Ernie Ballweg
KU's rowing enthusiasts will be treated to a rare event at 4:30 p.m. Saturday on the Kaw River near Lawrence, when two rowing crews from Kansas State University put on an exhibition.
THE ROWING SQUADS, Rose said, have seven oarsmen and a coxswain who directs the action. The teams have been practicing on Tuttle Creek Reservoir near Manhattan. Rose added that the Wildcats will supply their own rowing shells, one of which is new this year.
Rose said that the K-State rowing team, the only one in the Big Eight, has an interesting history. He added that the team, while only in its second year of existence, had made great progress. This year's squad has a total of $2\frac{1}{2}$ teams or 20 men, while last year's team had only 12.
Don Rose, coach of the Wildcat rowing team, said that the race would begin near the turnpike and the two teams would race toward town, ending above the Lawrence dam.
Rose said the two squads would consist of eight men each. The K-State varsity will be competing against their junior varsity team.
"When we first started our rowing club at K-State," Rose said, "we wrote various colleges that had rowing teams for any used equipment which they could give us. We finally obtained an old decrepit shell from Purdue, so we decided to drive there and bring it back," he continued.
The drive to Purdue, which is in Lafayette, Ind., was no easy matter, said Rose. He and John Winthrock, a member of last year's rowing team, chipped in enough money to buy an
old school bus to drive to Lafayette so they could bring the boat back to Kansas.
ROSE SAID THE BUS broke down in Independence, Mo., which halted the trip for nearly a month while a rebuilt motor was put in the school bus.
After getting the boat to Manhattan, Rose said, it took the entire rowing crew nearly two months work putting it in ship-shape condition. It was finally launched for the first time in February of last year.
"The new boat is relatively flat bottomed and it takes wind and waves much better than our other two shells," he said.
Rose said that the K-State rowing team has since acquired two more racing shells. One of these is a 1932 model boat which was bought from a Winnipeg, Canada, rowing club. The team members each put in $10 to buy the boat, he said. He added that this boat was also brought to Kansas via the school bus with much less difficulty.
K-STATE'S NEW SHELL, "The 150," was purchased this year. Rose said that the boat, which cost about $3,000 in full, was paid for with donations from alumni.
Most collegiate racing is done at distances of either one mile or 2,000 meters. Rose said. He added, however, that he did not know just how far the two crews would be rowing in the Lawrence exhibition.
Besides the Lawrence exhibition, K-State will compete in four regularly scheduled matches this year. They are scheduled to compete against the University of Minnesota on May 8 at Tuttle Creek.
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KU Faces Southern Illinois Track Squad
The KU track team will hold their only home dual meet of the season Saturday afternoon in Memorial Stadium. They will compete against Southern Illinois University. The field events will begin at 1:30 and the running events will start at 2.
A special feature of the meet will be the running of a freshman four-mile relay with the teams from KU and Southern Illinois. KU coach Bill Easton pointed out that the Jayhawk team will be trying for a national record. This event will begin at 1:15.
Easton predicted that one of the best races of the afternoon will be the opening mile. Both of the schools are strong in the long- and middle-distance races.
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