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Summer Session Kansan Friday, June 17, 1966
NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS
5 KU thinclads qualify
Five track and field athletes from KU have qualified for the NCAA Championships. Coach Bob Timmons will have Art Cortez, Gary Ard, Lowell Paul, Gary Schwartz and John Lawson entered in the meet at Bloomington, Ind., this weekend.
Cortez, Carthage, Mo., senior, will be returning to competition for the first time since the Big Eight Conference meet on May 13th. Listed for the long jump, Cortez has a season's high mark of 25'-1" at the Southwestern Louisiana Relays. An injured leg has hampered Cortez for the past four weeks but the Jayhawk performer believes he will be in top shape for the NCAA.
GARY ARD, Modesto, Calif., junior, will also be entered in the long jump event. Ard took third place at the NCAA indoor meet last January. His best mark during the present outdoor season was 25-1 1/4" at the Southwestern Relays.
Lowell Paul, Miltonvale senior,
ran third in the 880-yard at the
National Federation meet at Terre Haute, Ind., last week. Paul's time of 1:48.0 was his best effort of the season as he trailed Jim Ryun's pace and world's record 1:44.9 time.
New Orleans blackout for Sugar Bowl game
NEW ORLEANS—(UPI) The Sugar Bowl football classic will not be telecast live in the New Orleans area Jan. 2 because of declining attendance.
Sam Corenswet Jr. president of the sponsoring New Orleans Mid-Winter Sports Association, said Miami found it necessary to black out the Orange Bowl several years ago and the result has been capacity crowds.
Gary Schwartz, senior co-captain, Wessington Springs, S.D., is entered in the discus throw. His best mark of the season has been 179-10 at the Central Collegiate Conference Championships, South Bend, Ind., on June 4th.
John Lawson, senior co-captain from Kansas City, has qualified for both the three mile run and six mile run. John is the NCAA cross-country champion and Big Eight indoor mile and two mile title holder. Last year Lawson placed second to Doug Brown in
Wine drinking up
SAN FRANCISCO — (UPI) — Americans drank just under one gallon of wine per capita in 1965, according to the Wine Institute. The average was 379 gallons per person, compared with .970 in 1964.
the three mile run at the NCAA outdoor finals.
Shipments of all wines in the United States in 1965 were 189.782,624 gallons,a gain of 4,157,273 gallons over the 185,625,351 gallons reported for 1964.
Fund given Pharmacy
The Mead Johnson & Company has given KU $1,000 in support of undergraduate research by students in the School of Pharmacy. Dr. Harbans Lal, associate professor of pharmacy, will guide the work of the selected undergraduates.
Lawson won the three mile run at the National Federation meet with a time of 13:47.1. He placed second in the six mile run with a clocking of 29:04.8.
Track ace to KU
Track coach Bob Timmons has announced that Carl L. Nicholson, a graduate of Maize High School, has signed a national letter of intent to attend KU.
baseball and cross-country in high school.
Nicholson, 19 years old, 5-9, 140. won the 1966 Kansas Class B 880 yard run with a time of 1:54.8. He has also recorded a distance of 176 feet in the javelin event for one of the most unusual doubles in prep track. Nicholson also participated in football, basketball,
Nicholson took part in the state regional cross-country championships in 1962, 1963 and 1964. His best two mile cross-country time has been a 10:02 at the Kansas state championships in 1963.
A high ranking member of his graduating class, Nicholson plans to study electrical engineering at KU.
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