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Referees named
Karnes, Wright, Cox to officiate at 1967 Kansas Relays
By CHIP ROUSE
Three referees have been named by Bob Timmons, director of the Kansas Relays, to preside over the 42nd annual KU track classic.
In the past, there has been only one referee for the meet.
THE THREE REFEREES are: Bob Karnes, who will be in charge of the university division; Stanley V. Wright, who will handle the college division, and Orlis Cox, who will head the high school section.
Karnes, who has been head track coach at Drake University for the past 12 years, was one of the great distance runners in KU track history from 1947 through 1950. He also serves as director of the Drake Relays, which is traditionally staged the week following the Kansas games.
THE KU ALUMNUS IS THE SECOND KU track man to return to his alma mater as a referee of the Jayhawk track carnival. Glenn Cunningham, world-record KU miler, refereed the 1942 relays.
Only Cunningham has won more individual running titles than Karnes in Big Eight Conference history.
Karnes was conference cross-country champion from 1947 to 1949, he captured both the indoor and outdoor two-mile crowns three years in a row, won the indoor mile in 1950, and the outdoor mile from 1948 through 1950.
WRIGHT HAS SERVED as head track mentor at Texas Southern University for 16 years. During that time, the Houston school has won nine league championships, and has never finished lower than second in the Southwest Athletic Conference.
Last summer, Wright was appointed head coach of the U.S. national track team that was to compete against Russia and Poland in California. However, both meets were cancelled by the withdrawal of Russia and Poland in protest to the war in Vietnam.
EARLIER THIS YEAR, WRIGHT was named to the U.S. coaching staff for the Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Canada. He is president of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, and a member of the Olympic Track and Field Committee.
Cox was head track coach at Ottawa High School for 40 years before retiring last spring.
UNDER THE DIRECTION OF COX, Ottawa's half-mile relay team captured the national schoolboy title in 1933, by beating East Tech, a team from Cleveland, Ohio, that was anchored by sprinter Jesse Owens.
Pat Timmons-
"The Quack Club was a big deal. I won the first Quack Award given at KU in seven years. Most of the girls were primarily swimmers and the dives gave them trouble," she said.
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The Quack Award is given to girls who are proficient in all strokes and diving.
"YES, MY ILLUSTRIOUS wife is a master quack," coach Timmons laughs.
But had it not been for Pat's athletic talents, coach Timmons probably would not have met her.
"Timmie saw me fencing one day and asked one of my sorority sisters to get him a blind date with me," the Olathe native explains.
At that time she was majoring in interior decorating and he was in physical education. But he persuaded her to take some education course as he explained they might be beneficial to her future.
AND THEY DID help. She married Timmons following his graduation in 1950 and he accepted a coaching job at Caldwell High School. She was the lone member of the women's PE department at Caldwell.
The move kept Mrs. Timmons from graduating from KU but she had lived an active life while at KU.
"I was an Alpha Chi Omega here and was a cheerleader from 1948-50," she recalls.
She was head cheerleader in 1950.
SHE ADMITS THE cheerleaders did more cheering then and a little less fancy footwork. And she still puts her cheering abilities to work at all of KU's meets.
She calls it "hooting" and any of the spectators sitting near her claim it's excellent for clearing congested sinuses.
It's a high-pitched hoot, clearly audible throughout the stands, even at a meet as big as the KU Relays in Memorial Stadium.
If during the Relays you hear an Owl-like holler don't be alarmed. It will be Pat Timmons cheering on another Jayhawk victory.
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