Gimps get going, win Big 8 track title
Bu DON STEFFENS
Assistant Sports Editor
NORMAN, Okla.-The Jayhawks survived hail and high water, and out field-evented everyone to rack up 112 points for KU's 13th Big Eight outdoor track and field championship in 16 years.
They topped defensive champion Nebraska (99) and favored Oklahoma (88). Of the total, KU's walking, wounded, field eventers registered 45 points.
In the process, they survived a drenching two-inch rain which fell all day Saturday, causing the postponement of all finals until Sunday.
THE DAY LAY-OFF apparently aided KU's successful quest for victory. It gave many injured Hawks an opportunity to lick their battle wounds.
"the gimps won it for us," track coach Bob McTiams said.
Such a case was KU's co-captain and defending champion in the long and triple jumps, Gary Ard. He entered the meet a bit wary of his heavily taped right ankle which he had sprained in a dual meet last Saturday.
"It bothered me a little in the triple jump prelims Friday." Ard said, "but the extra day gave me a chance to rest the foot."
The heavily wrapped ankle was in good enough condition to boost him to a personal and Big Eight best in the long jump of 26-0%.
FOLLOWING IN third was sophomore Ken Gaines from KU with a personal best of 24-61/4. He was a busy man, scurrying between three events while placing third in two on a semi-healed jump-off leg.
He added a 6-6 high jump to the long jump mark though he failed to tally in the triple jump.
However Ard was there, tapped up ankle and all, and he placed second to OU's record-setting Lee Calhoun (49-9% $ _{3} $ ) with a 48-11 leap.
Ard felt a flicker of pain on his last jump and said his ankle was swelling slightly while returning to Lawrence Sunday night. Gaines also indicated he noticed a slight tightness in his injured thigh.
"I COULD still feel the knot
Intramurals results
In intramural spring sports, three more hill championships have been established. Baseball play-offs for the hill championships in A and B league will start now that the individual league titles have been established.
Lie-weng-leng whipped the Future champs in the badminton race for the hill crown. The scoring was mostly one-sided: I. 15-9, 15-11; II. 15-3, 15-0.
TENNIS DIVISION II ended up a battle between two independents with the Wilbers dumping Ellsworth Hall 2-1 for the title. In handball action, the Spoilers defeated the Phi Delta Theta team 3-2 for the hill championship.
Fraternity B baseball saw the Sigma Chis down the Delta Tau Delta team 8-2 to win the B league. The Laws beat the Scrocs in Independent A league action 3-0. The game was a no-hitter. Beta Theta Pi beat the Alpha Kappa Lambdas 12-0, in Fraternity A league. In Independent B, the Newark Bears beat the Radiation Biophysics 6-2.
A HILL CHAMPIONSHIP will have the Betas vs. the Laws on field #1 at 4:30 this afternoon, in B league, Newark Bears will challenge Sigma Chi on field #3 at 4:30.
there today, but I still felt good." Gaines said.
His third place in the high jump was backed up by sophomore John Turck in fourth as both sailed easily over 6-6.
They had to battle slushy runway conditions due to the rain. And Turck had to run over board planks laid over a small lake on the infield as part of his approach. He also had a 20 mph wind to buck while running up to the bar from the left side. Gaines approached from the right side and wasn't greatly affected.
In still another jumping event, still another sophomore rallied with a senior for decisive points. In fact, the pole vault points actually put KU out of the Cornhuskers' reach.
VAULTER BOB Steinhoff scaled 15-8 for second place, clearing the height with inches to spare. And he had two narrow misses at 16-0.
"I was throwing my arms back too much," Steinhoff said, "which caused me to push my chest out."
As a result his chest brushed the bar off the standards on two vaults when he was clearly over the cross piece. He settled for a tie as the highest vaulter but had to accept second due to one more miss at the 15-8 than CU's winner Chuck Rogers registered.
Steinhoff's catapulating mate, senior Mike Burdick, also lost a couple of points due to missing at the 15-0 height before making it. He wound up tied for fourth.
ANOTHER INJURED man from KU was javelineer Steve Moon who had the conference's best toss of 220-1 entering the meet. But he injured the elbow of his throwing arm a month ago.
"If he can get just one good throw off, he should win it." KU field event coach John Mitchell said last week.
Though he didn't get that one "good throw," Moon still tossed the spear far enough to add a vital six points to KU's aggregate by placing third.
Though KU's field men accumulated 45 points, the one area the Jayhawks lacked strength was in the middle distances, usually KU's forte.
World record holder Jim Ryun stayed away from early pace-setting chores in both the mile and half-mile but blasted open
both races with his devastating final kick.
OSU'S JIM METCALF pushed the 880 pace and hung on doggedly until the final curve when Ryun sprinted past for good and won going away in 1:49.1 to Metcalf's 1:42.3.
It was almost the same act in the mile, with the same leading man but different characters. A pack of five or six milers challenged as MU's Bill Wells set the pace for most of three laps with Ryun on the leader's heels.
As they entered the back-stretch, Ryun lengthened his stride and increased his RPMs as he coasted to a 4:08.5 victory. Following closely were K-State's Conrad Nightingale and Wes Dutton and in fourth was KU's Tom Yergovich at 4:10.5.
Kansas was able to tally a less-
Split moves KU into 7th
Paced by the five-hit pitching of Roger Jackson and a four run third inning, the KU Jayhawks won the first game of Friday's doubleheader to gain a split with the Kansas State Wildcats.
Jackson went the route in picking up his third victory of the campaign against three losses. He struck out two and walked four in pitching the seven-inning gem.
Randy Cordill, Jayhawk third basemen, was two for three with three runs batted in to lead the KU attack.
Also coming through with a two for three performance and one run batted in was Cole Stimson. KU's catcher.
K-State bounced back in the second game to bomb KU's Randy Stroup for five hits and seven unearned runs in three and two-thirds innings to win the game 7-5.
The split pushed the Hawks into seventh place above Iowa State which dropped a 2-0 game to champion Oklahoma State.
than-expected 24 points in the middle distances while OU was shut out and NU scored only one point.
4 Daily Kansan Monday, May 22, 1967
AGAIN, THE POINTS were a necessity since OU and NU were powerful and dominant in the sprints, though the short races turned out to be Oklahoma's downfall in the team race.
NU's lightning-fast Charlie Greene claimed his third-straight 100-220 double, though OU's George Aldredge thought he was ready to steal Greene's 220 title.
"A champion comes to win, not to lose." Greene proclaimed.
Greene, decorated with his usual "shades" despite a dark and overcast afternoon, said he had read all the newspaper reports saying that Aldredge thought he could whip him.
As they strode to the start of the furlong, which was run around one curve, Greene casually told the Sooner he would whip him by the time they reached the start of the turn.
AND HE MADE his prediction true, blasing from the blocks and visibly on the road to victory after 40 yards. He sprinted into the tape with a 20.7 meet record.
Aldredge trailed by 0.8 seconds
with KU's Ben Olison fourth at 21.7. Olison duplicated that fourth place in the 100 behind champ Greene's 9.7.
Olison carried KU's dash hopes and OU's chances diminished when the leading Sooner sprinter, Glen Long, had to scratch due to a recurrence of a thigh injury.
Without Long, OU settled for second in the 440 relay behind a "super-satellite" geared, Charlie Greene-anchored Nebraska quartet.
Long's absence in the sprints plus defending champ Bill Calhoun's poor showing in the quarter practically eliminated OU from making a run at the title.
The thinly built Calhoun showed the effects of the fast pace and 20 mph headwind in the stretch of the 440 as he faded tirelessly, allowing Iowa State's Steve Carson to post an easy victory in a fast 46.2.
KU's Dwight Peck nearly caught Calhoun for second at the finish line but suffered a leg cramp just before he hit the tape.
Peck appeared to be blown back by the wind as he stopped dead in his tracks and fell back-wards, spread-eagled on the red cinders.
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