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Thinclads' dual to be Saturday
KU trackmen, who have just completed a successful series of stops on the famed Midwest Relays circuit, will host Southern Illinois Saturday in the first and only home dual of the current season.
The two schools have met five times in past years with the Jayhawks holding a four to one edge. However, the Southern Illinois thinclads outdueled the Jayhawks last year, 86-55. It was KU's only defeat in the series, and its first loss to any school in dual or triangular competition in four years.
CO-CAPTAINS Dwight Peck and Gary Ard and senior mates Tom Yergovich, Mike Burdick, and Steve Silverberg will be making their final varsity appearance on the KU track Saturday.
Ben Olison, Jayhawk sprinter,
Franz picked as 4th choice by NBA team
Jayhawk basketball captain Ron Franz was drafted by a professional basketball team yesterday-for the second time.
Franz, who ranks among KU's top 20 scoreers of all-time, was plucked off by the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association in the fourth of 12 rounds.
HE HAD RECENTLY been chosen by Oakland of the new American Basketball Association, but Franz says he favors the established NBA.
"They (Detroit) are working through a friend who is a lawyer," Franz said, "and I expect to get final word from them in about a week."
Franz said he would like more than a one-year contract and that he plans to enter law school if pro ball doesn't work out. But prospects look moderately bright for the 6-7, 210-pound forward.
Franz would join a list of other Jayhawks who have been successful in pro ball; they include Wilt Chamberlain, Clyde Lovellette, Walter Wesley, Bill Bridges and Wayne Hightower.
"THEY WERE in last place last year," Franz pointed out, "and they're looking for new players. And of the three drafted ahead of me, one may also be drafted by Uncle Sam."
will be back in action this weekend. He missed the last day of the Kansas Relays and all of the Drake Relays due to the unexpected death of his father. Ollison is slated to run the 220 and 440 and also anchor the 440 and mile relay teams.
World record-holder Jim Ryun,
who sped to clockings of 3:59.1
and 3:55.6 in back-to-back mile
relay carries at Drake last week-
end, will double in the 880 and
mile against Southern Illinois.
RYUN, WHO HAULED the Jayhawks to a world record time of 9:33.8 in the distance medley relay at Drake, now has 17 sub-four-minute miles to his credit. He has run 10 open miles outdoors, three indoors, and four on relay carries.
Heading the Southern Illinois squad will be Olympian Oscar Moore, who captured the 5.000 meter-run at the Kansas Relays two weeks ago. Moore will be entered in the two-mile, where he will receive competition from Mike Hayes and Yergovich of KU.
The Salukis also boast one of the nation's top triple jumpers in John Vernon, who set a record for this meet last year when he leaped a distance of 51-1$^{34}$.
Other top runners for Southern Illinois are Ross MacKenzie, Al Ackman, Jeff Duxbury, Dave Chisholm, and Robin Coventry.
FOUR KU TRACKMEN will miss the meet due to injuries. Pole vaulter Bob Steinhoff is still out with an ailing arm, another vaulter, Drew Hamilton is suffering from mononucleosis, javelin thrower Steve Moon has an injured right elbow, and Steve Ashurst will miss action because of a muscle pull.
The meet will begin at 1:15 with the pole vault and long jump. The running events will get under way at 2 p.m.
2nd Templin Relays boast 69-yard dash
Every member of the KU track team has been declared ineligible for the Templin Relays. The Relays, in its second year, is open only to members of Templin Hall, excluding the trackmen. The Relays will be held in Memorial Stadium Sunday, May 7, starting the field events at 1:15 p.m.
The meet will include all events of an official track meet, except the javelin and shot put.
Daily Kansan Thursday, May 4, 1967
TEMPLIN WILL PROVIDE trophies for winners of every The Fred Krebbs Mile is named after one of Templin's more illustrious athletes.
A world record may be broken Sunday in the 69-yard dash, an event exclusive to the Templin Relays. Alan Russell, Templin representative, says that this mark of 8.2 should fall this weekend.
The meet is sponsored by 7th floor Templin. The meet director is Bill Hutchings, Willemette, ill., sophomore.
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