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University Daily Kansan
Friday, April 16, 1965
Distance Races Are Specialty Of KU Runners
Jayhawk runners seem to be specialists in distance relays if one casually looks over the Big Eight Relay Honor Roll. In the listings that included the best ten times recorded by Big Eight squads, Kansas places up to six times in the listing of every relay from the mile up.
A Kansas relay team including two of the great sprinters of the Kansas Relays, Charlie Tidwell and Cliff Cushman, holds the lowest time recorded in the mile relay. The team finished the event with 3:09.7 showing on the clock.
The two-mile relay is really the event for the Jayhawks. KU relay teams hold nine of the thirteen positions indicated on the honor roll. The other four slots are controlled by the Missouri Tigers.
KU holds the lead position in this listing also with a time of 7:22.5. Missouri takes the second slot but the Jayhawks are in command of the next three.
In the four-mile relay, Jayhawks are responsible for three of the top four times listed in the honor roll. A KU team of Mike Fulghum, Bill Thornton, Ted Riesinger, and Bill Dotson hold the second and third spots with times of 16:53.1 and 16:57.0 but relinquished their championship last year when the mark was lowered to 16:41.6 by an MU team.
The Jayhawks still hold the top three spots in the Distance medley. Their best time, established at the Texas Relays in 1962 was 9:46.4.
HE'S OVER—Tyce Smith, KU high jumping ace, rolls over the bar easily. Smith, winner of the high jump event in last year's
Relays, will be returning to the meet this weekend to defend his title. He cleared 6'4" to win the contest last year.
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