Relays' records fall despite bad weather
By Ron Hanson
Despite a water-soaked track that was splendidly put back into shape and the ever-threatening possibility of rain, the 41st Kansas Relays ran to completion Saturday with some of the best performances ever.
In the university distance medley, the KU team of Curt Grindal, Steve Ashurst, Lowell Paul, and John Lawson ran the distance in 9:41.3, breaking Missouri's year old record by more than six seconds. Second place went to Kansas State with a time of 9:42.1.
The rain, which started Friday afternoon, caused Relays director and KU head track coach Bob Timmons to re-schedule some of the running events, moving them to Haskell Stadium. Although it did not rain Saturday, the Memorial Stadium track was thoroughly soaked from Friday's downpour, and it had to be rolled and raked.
THE GREATEST relay races of Saturday's finals were the university distance medley and the frosh-juco mile relay. Relays records were set in both of these events.
The Wildcat's Conrad Nightingale and KU's Lawson were running inches apart in the final leg of the race. However, the Jayhawk ace nudged Nightingale for the victory, running his mile more than a second slower than Nightingale. What helped tremendously in KU's victory was Paul's 2:56.6 clocking in the $ \frac{3}{4} $ -mile leg of the race.
THE FROSH-JUCO mile relay was another race in which Jayhawk Jim Ryun displayed his fantastic track ability. Ryun ran
the final 440 yards of the race in 47.0 to help give KU a victory and a new record.
The Jayhawk foursome of Ken Gaines, George Byers, Dick Bornkessel, and Ryun ran the mile relay in 3:15.5, breaking the old record by an even second which was set by Abilene Christian last year. Nebraska was second with a time of 3:15.7.
For his efforts in this race and in the Glenn Cunningham mile, Ryun was awarded the outstanding athlete honor for the Relays.
The Jayhawk's four-mile relay team also set a Relays record of 16:36.8 before the rain Friday afternoon. The team of Lawson, Paul, Allen Russell and Tom Yergovich broke the old record of 16:41.6 set by Missouri in 1964.
Also Friday, in the freshman-junior college 120 yard high hurdles final, Jayhawk frosh George Byers and Kenny Gaines finished 1-2 with Byers timed at 14.4 and Gaines 14.7.
In other Relays university finals Saturday, Al Rockwell of Brigham Young won the university 120-yard high hurdles in 14.2. Lynn Headley of Nebraska won the 100-yard dash with a time of 9.6. Rice University won the university division 440 yard relay with a clocking of 40.7; KU was fifth with 41.7.
The Oklahoma State two-mile relay team won that event this year as it did last, this time in 7:22.8. The Cowboys set the two-mile relay record last year of 7:21.2. The Oklahoma State team also won by Rice in a time of medley finals with a time of 3:20.1.
In the university 880 yard relay finals, Rice University won in 1.23.8. In this race KU came in
fifth, clocking 1:33.7 for the distance.
A NEW RECORD was established in the university and college 5000 meter run by Oscar Moore of Southern Illinois in Friday's finals. Moore eclipsed the old mark of 14:25.0 by running the 5,000 meters in 14:25. The previous record was held by Gneff Walker of Houston University when he ran in the 1964 Relays.
10 Daily Kansan Monday, April 25, 1966
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