Peck boosts KU relays
He's one of those proverbial
unusual heroes.
Dwight Peck is one who doesn't get the headlines or win the national track titles. As a result, his name is rarely seen except for track meet summaries. And then it's usually buried in the last event, surrounded by parentheses.
But for the past two years, he's been Mr. Consistent for the KU track squad and this year served as co-captain.
DEPENDABLE as a relayman this spring and last. Peck has been directly responsible for the two world best relay times KU has chalked up.
Following the most recent record, a 9:33.8 distance medley mark at the Drake Relays last weekend, anchorman Jim Ryun credited Peck with giving the Hawks a chance at the record by bringing them from the middle of the pack to the front position during his 440 carry of 48.4.
It was his quickest lap of the year and one of seven in which he has dipped below 46.9, a darn fast time. And two of them came in other record-setting performances, both at the Texas Relays.
HE CLIPPED off a 46.5 during
the world record setting sprint medley performance of 3:15.2 at Texas, again bringing the Hawks from far back to the front spot before handing off to anchorman Ryun. The next day he sprinted 46.9 as KU set a school mile relay standard of 3.09.5.
"I get a lot of enjoyment running on relay teams." Peck said. "I've got a horrible start out of the blocks and relays give me a chance to make up for it."
Regardless of his start, Peck set the school quarter-mile standard of 47.2 against Southern Illinois last year and neared that mark with 47.3 against New Mexico earlier this year.
He has an excellent chance to better that time against SIU tomorrow.
FOLLOWING that dual, Peck will have only a handful of meets left while still a Jayhawk. The final one will be late in June, the NCAA championships. They will be in Provo, Utah.
"After that one, I plan to hang up my spikes for good," Peck predicts.
But as he returns to the east, and his home of New Jersey, to do graduate work in English-
philosophy major, his name will continue to live in the KU record book.
IN ADDITION to those outdoor standards already listed, Peck holds the indoor 600 best of 1:11.4 and contributed the third leg to KU's victorious mile relay four-some (3:16.8) at the 1967 Big Eight Indoor Championships, that set a school record.
That's not bad for a guy who came to KU because a good buddy of his, fellow quarter-miler Steve Ashurst, had been offered a scholarship.
Weekend sports
May 5 Baseball at Iowa State
Tennis triple dual at Iowa State, IU, KU, Okla. State
May 6 Baseball doubleheader at Iowa, State
The track meet with Southern Illinois University which was to be held here this weekend has been cancelled, Coach Bob Timmons announced today. It will not be re-scheduled.
—UDK Photo by Mike Okun
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Rick Liebman singles in Beta Tau's 7-4 victory over the Navy ROTC's team in intramural action yesterday. It was Navy's first loss. Rain suspended action today.
Iowa State leads Hawks in batting
The KU baseball team will travel to Ames, Iowa, to play a three-game series with the Iowa State Cyclones Friday and Saturday. The doubleheader is slated for Saturday and the single game is to be played Friday.
Statistically, Iowa State has KU beat in team hitting and fielding, but the Jayhawk pitching ranks third in the league compared to Iowa State's cellar spot.
THE CYCLONES as a team have been hitting .259 for 12 games. The Jayhawks rank 7th in the Big Eight compared with ISU's 3rd place. The Hawks are hitting .198 in 11 games.
Iowa State dropped one of a three-game series at Kansas State last week winning the other two.
In pitching, the Jayhawks are doing 3rd best in the Big Eight giving up 72 hits, only one less than league-leading Oklahoma State. Iowa State has given up 109 hits for an E.R.A. of 6.60 compared to KU's 3.02.
THE JAYHAWKS are ranked fifth in the Big Eight and Iowa State is ranked sixth. KU has a .455 average and the Cyclones are trying to improve their .333.
KU's Alan Stoike, second-base, is sixth in the conference batting race hitting. 360. Iowa State has three batters listed in the Big Eight's top 18 batters—Steve Gurlach, 350, Jerry Thalhamer, 348, and Mike Van Dine, 323.
KU has one other than Stoike listed in the ratings, Steve Walsh, thirdbaseman, hitting 320.
Roger Jackson, KU, is ranked third in pitching with an ERA of 1.21. Randy Stroup and Dick Slicker are other KU pitchers listed with ERA's of 2.11 and 2.94.
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Golf, tennis, baseball teams meet I-State this weekend
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Iowa will be bristling with Jaya hawks this weekend as the tennis, golf, and baseball teams travel to the Hawkeve state.
The KU racketmen will be in Des Moines today where they will compete in a triple dual with Oklahoma State and Iowa State.
Instead of settling the team title on the basis of two-days' play at the annual conference tennis meet on May 19-20, seven points toward that team championship are at stake in each league dual meet—one for each of the five singles matches and one for each of the two doubles challenges.
The Jayhawk golf team will be in Ames on Saturday for a dual match with the Cyclones of Iowa State. Scheduled to make the trip for KU are Bill Hess, Kansas City sophomore; Jack Cleveland, Topeka junior; Charles Peffer, Wichita sophomore; Bob Wells, Hutchinson junior; and Bill Southern, Elinwood senior.
WITH A FULL round-robin schedule created in the Big Eight for the first time this year, the points earned by each individual and doubles team will account for
70 per cent of the total possible team points which can be scored in the championship race.
The probable tennis line-up for KU today will be Bill Terry, Hutchinson junior; Jim Keller, Russell junior; Sid Kanter, Prairie Village sophomore; John Towner, Leawood sophomore; and Bill Debaun, Leawood sophomore.
THIS WILL BE THE last Big Eight match for the jawhawks before the conference champion-
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In baseball action, KU will meet Iowa State in Ames. The two teams will engage in a single game today with a doubleheader on tap for tomorrow.
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Daily Kansan Friday, May 5, 1967