UDK-FIRST WITH CAMPUS NEWS
Injuries slow title hope
Co-captain Ard returns to defend his year-old long and triple jump crowns, that is if he can get off his crutches in time. His status is still up in the air (no pun intended).
Perhaps the most important man on KU's excursion to Norman for the Big Eight track championships this weekend will be the team medic.
The Hawks claim injuries to seven key field event performers, enough to possibly foil KU's bid for its 13th team title in 16 years.
"They (field event men) could score as many as 60 to 70 points for us," track coach Bob Timmons said. That's a decisive margin for a squad that will be fighting for its life in other events.
"We won't know how Gary will be able to do until he warms up and tries the foot," assistant coach John Mitchell said.
THE CRIPPLE LIST ranges from Gary Ard, double winner in last year's title meet, to Bob Steinhoff and Ken Gaines, a couple of the nation's top freshman leapers last year.
Ard injured his right arch on
his final triple jump trial in last weekend's dual with OU. His 50-41½ hop-step-jump leads the conference and his 24-11½ long jump is tied for third.
THE JAYHAWK senior will be joined in both horizontal jumps by soph Ken Gaines. He ranks among top Big Eight triple jumpers and had leaped 24-5 and G-10 indoors before having a muscle in his left thigh tighten while jumping. It has limited his outdoor competition, and he stayed home last weekend to keep the leg healthy for the championships.
The other sophomore jumper is Bob Steinhoff who has cleared the 16-foot barrier five times. He suffered a strained tricep early in the indoor season and the only vaults he has made since then have earned him second in the Big Fight indoor.
He is another big question-mark as a healthy "Steiny" would be a contender for the title which now appears to be a dual between Chuck Rogers and OSU's indoor champ Larry Curts, both from non-title-chasing schools.
Backing up for the Hawks will
be a healthy Mike Burdick who has consistently cleared 15-0 this year in addition to racking up several dual meet victories.
BUT THE MEDICARE list continues to grow though the possibility of involved Jayhawks to compete is better.
Weightman Gary Tucker will have his index finger taped to his sprained middle finger for protection as he enters as KU's lone competitor in the shot put and discus throw. He is expected to be in the thick of both battles—if the finger is well.
Another contender for first place honors is javelineer Steve Moon who leads the Big Eight with a toss of 220-1. Ironically that throw inflamed his right elbow causing him to be a possible non-combatant at Norman.
Daily Kansan Friday, May 19, 1967
just out "Sounds Like"
by
Herb Alpert
&
The Tijuana Brass
(Casino Royale)
Charles Peffer has the team's best round this spring with a 73.
KU entrants making the trip to Norman are: Bill Hess, Kansas City sophomore; Bob Wells, Hutchinson junior; Clevenger, Topeka junior; Southern, Ellinwood senior; and Peffer, Wichita sophomore.
On Mono & Stereo Records
Four schools loom as possible favorites this weekend in the Big Eight Conference golf championships at Norman, Okla.
THE 54-HOLE TOURNAMENT will be held on the University Golf Course, a 6.675-yard, par 72 layout. Thirty-six holes will be played on Friday and the remaining 18 holes on Saturday.
Scoring will be based on both individual and team results. The low individual score for the 54 holes will decide the individual championship, and the low medal score for a four-man team will decide the team title.
The Cewboys of Oklahoma State captured last year's link title with a four-man score of 854. Colorado was second with an 864, and Oklahoma third at 876.
Defending champion Oklahoma State will receive stiff challenges from inta-state rival Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Colorado. Oklahoma State has held the conference championship for nine consecutive years.
OKLAHOMA STATE will enter the tournament with its most inexperienced varsity since joining the Big Eight Conference in 1958. However, the Cowboys have not lost a conference golf tournament.
Only Roger Brown, who finished in a tie for fourth with a 215, returns from last year's championship team. The "Pokes" have compiled a 4-2 record in conference action this spring.
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THE JAYHAWK SQUAD posted a 5-11-1 dual record this season, finished fourth in the Oklahoma Intercollegiate golf tournament, and 14th in the Pikes Peak Invitational last weekend.
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Big 8 golf crown toss-up at OU
Only Jack Clevenger and Bill Southern competed in last year's Big Eight tournament at Columbia. Clevenger shot a 79-75-77=231 and Southern 81-83-73=237.
KU will be out to improve a sixth place finish in the conference championships last year.
Brown, who has averaged 72 strokes a match this season, and Grier Jones of Wichita, averaging 73 strokes a contest, head this year's Cowboy squad.
Last year's conference medalist was Colorado's Hale Irwin. The Buffalo golf ace shot a 208 last spring to edge out Jim Hardy of Oklahoma State by three strokes. Oklahoma State has had the Big Eight medalist seven of the last nine years.
THE SOONERS OF OKLAHOMA will come into the tourney with a 21-4 overall record and a 6-2 Big Eight mark. Led by Skip Graham, Mark Hopsen, and Steve Johnson, OU downed Oklahoma State two out of three times this year.
Oklahoma was the last team other than Oklahoma State to win the conference title. They did it in 1957.
R. B. Lau owns the team's best single round this spring with a 71, just three strokes back of Ron Schmedemann of Kansas State, who has carded a pair of 68's this season.
NEBRASKA, 20-2 on the season and 12-1 in conference action, enters the two-day golf session with its best team in history. In addition, the Cornhuskers carded victories over Oklahoma and Oklahoma State for the first time ever in one season.
The Buffalo's own a 15-2 overall mark, but have not met any Big Eight teams prior to the championships.
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