Freshmen to take lead role in Kansas State track meet
By Ron Hanson
KU's Big Eight and NCAA Indoor Championship track team travels to Manhattan this week-end to participate in the last indoor meet of the season, the Kansas State Indoor Relays.
More than 30 universities and colleges will compete in this, the tenth annual meet at Kansas State's Ahearn Fieldhouse. All Big Eight schools will be represented at the meet.
JAYHAWK head coach, Bob Timmons, will enter 10 varsity and 17 freshman trackmen in the meet. He had originally scheduled to send 23 varsity men to the meet, but since team points will not be tabulated. Timmons decided to limit his squad somewhat.
Most notable among the Jayhawk track stars not competing in the Kansas State Indoor are
John Lawson, the Big Eight's two-mile champion, and Art Cortez an Gary Ard, who were 1-2 in the NCAA indoor broad jump. Lawson is recovering from a strained muscle condition in his legs and will remain home. According to Timmons, Lawson will be ready to compete in the next meet, the Texas Relays, April 2-3, the first meet of the outdoor season.
"WE ARE planning to run a partial varsity squad at Manhattan this weekend since there will be no team points tabulated and also because we plan to run a full field of 17 freshmen," said Timmons.
This will be the varsity's sixth indoor meet and the freshmen's second. So far neither team has lost in total team points, and the Jayhawks are the undisputed
champions of indoor track in the United States.
Of the 10 varsity trackmen going to Kansas State only Lowell Paul, Steve Ashurst, and Cary Barr participated in KU's winning NCAA indoor championship effort last weekend in Detroit.
MEMBERS of the team and their events are: Barr, shot put; Ashurst, 300-yard dash; Paul, distance medley and two-mile; Curt Grindal, mile and two-mile; Mike Hayes, mile; Gene McClaim, mile and two-mile; Gene McGaugh, shot put; Ken Reeder, 440-yard dash; Allen Russell, mile and two-mile; and Dick White, 440-yard dash.
Volleyball standings:
Intramural volleyball reached the halfway stage last night, but clear leaders have not emerged in most leagues.
Bob Lockwood, director of intramurals, said yesterday that although there are less teams than last year, the overall competition is as high.
There are teams competing in 15 divisions, and a total of 10 dropouts so far, three in the independent leagues and seven in the fraternity leagues.
INDEPENDENT A is the smallest division with only three teams. No leader has yet emerged. The Thunderballs, last year's Hill champions, and the Law team have a 1-0 record, while the Majors are winless, losing two and forfeiting one.
Independent B has four divisions. In Division one there are no unbeaten teams. Navy leads with a 2-1-0 record, followed by The Fort, IVCF and Joseph R. Pearson #1, each with a 1-1-0 record. Beta Tau trails at 1-2-1.
Red Dogs have streaked to the top in Division two, with a 4-0-0 record. They're followed by Alpha Chi Sigma at 2-1-0. Templin #1 and Navy #2 at 1-2-0, and McColum 9S at 0-3-0.
Division three has suffered all of the independent dropouts, Joseph R. Pearson, McCollum 9E and Caldonian, who were all standing at 0-2-2. Old Timers lead the remaining teams at 2-0-0, followed by the In Crowd at 1-1-0, and Templin #2 at 1-2-1.
Timmons said that in the freshman category, he believes the Jayhawks should do real well. However, Jim Ryun, KU's great fresher miler, will not run in that event as he will anchor the freshman's sprint medley team.
**DIVISION FOUR** has two unbeaten teams, Battenfeld at 2-0-0 and Jolliffe at 1-0-0. Then comes Grace Pearson, 1-1-1, Jolliffe #2, 0-1-0, and Stephenson, 0-1-1.
In the fraternity A league, division one has two unbeaten leaders in Delta Upsilon and Beta Theta Pi, both 3-0-0. After them come Sigma Phi Epsilon, 2-1-0, and Kappa SIGma. 0-3-1.
Fraternity A division two also has two unbeaten teams, Sigma Chi, 2-0-0, and Delta Tau Delta, 1-0-0. Phi Kappa Psi comes next at 1-1-0, and then Lambda Chia Alpha, 0-1-1, and Phi Delta Theta, 0-2-1.
Fraternity B has two divisions. Division one is led by Sigma Chi and Delta Chi, both 2-0-0, followed by Tau Kappa Epsilon #1, 2-1-0, Phi Kappa Psi, 2-1-1, Phi Kappa Theta, 1-2-0, Acacia, 0-2-0, and Lambda Chi Alpha, 0-3-1.
DIVISION TWO is yet another with two unbeaten teams, Beta Theta Pi, 2-0-0, and Phi Delta Theta, 3-0-0. They are followed by; Delta Tau Delta, 3-1-0, Sigma Phi Epsilon, 1-1-0, Triangle, 0-2-1, and Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 0-3-0.
Division one, Phi Kappa Theta,
2-1-0; Division two, Phi Gamma
Delta #2, 2-0-0; Division three,
Phi Delta Theta #1, 1-0-0; Division
four, Phi Delta Theta #2,
0-1-1; Division five, Delta Upsilon #1, 1-0-0; Division six, Delta Theta Pi #1, 1-0-0.
Fraternity C has six divisions. The division leaders are as follows:
Timmons said, "This is only the second indoor meet for the freshmen and we want to give as many boys as possible a chance to do what they can."
Other top KU freshmen competing in the meet include: Bob Steinhoff, pole vault; George Byers, hurdles, and Kenny Gaines, high jump. All three have excellent records in their respective events so far this season.
Three NCAA champions from other schools will be competing in the meet. Conrad Nightingale, Kansas State's indoor mile star, and Don Payne, the Wildcats' NCAA quartermile champion, are expected to compete on relay foursomes. Oklahoma State's national champion relay team will be trying to hold on to the traveling relay trophy which they won last year at this meet.
"We want to do well in this meet, of course," said Timmons, "but we're not putting any pressure on the beys. We're looking ahead to the outdoor season and this meet at Kansas State is kind of a transition for the team, an anti-climax after the Big Eight and NCAA indoor meets.
"We should have a good outdoor door team although I don't know if we can meet Oklahoma right now since they have men who scored almost all their points last year back this season. We have about half of ours," said Timmons.
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