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Serving KU For 77 of its 101 Years
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77th Year, No.119
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Friday, April 21, 1967
Pat Timmons jogs too
Uses self-inflicted fitness program
By DON STEFFENS
Activity halted and heads turned after several of KU's home indoor track meets this winter. Eyes would behold, often in unbelief, the lithe figure of Pat Timmons jogging around the track.
Members of the Jayhawk track team would cheer her on and she would smile back her acknowledgement.
Mrs. Bob Timmons was conducting her self- inflicted physical fitness program. It started about a year ago when she decided that a short run every day would help her figure.
"ACTUALLY, I GOT pushed into it by the gals I play bridge with," Mrs. Timmons explains. "When Timmie found out, he was in favor of it.
When Timmy found out, "That sort of gave me an inspiration to keep going with it.
"We started running last spring when it was still cold outside," she said, "and there were about 10 of us running then."
The group stuck together for several months during the spring season. But the hot, dusty, Kansas summer weather took its toll.
"THIS WINTER THERE were still two of us running," Mrs. Timmons said, "but I had to stop temporarily a couple of months ago when I got into some poison ivy."
It was just a temporary lay-off as she got back into the groove the last week of March. She jogged around the hill their house sets atop a couple times, "probably about a quarter mile," but enough to cause soreness in her legs.
"I was running about three miles a day when I quit," she explains, "and I really knew what it
meant to be sore. You know all they say about the pain barrier..."
APPARENTLY NO ONE had told track secretaries Shirley Patti and Noreen Nieder about the pain and conditioning that goes hand-in-hand with running.
During one of Mrs. Timmons' post-meet jaunts around the Allen Field House track, the Patti-Nieder duo tried to keep up with the wellconditioned Pat.
After a couple laps Miss Nieder staggered from the track gasping for breath. Mrs. Patti limped around the office for several days nursing a strained muscle in her left leg.
BUT THE HEAD KU track coach's wife continued her workout undaunted. And occasionally, she says, a couple of her four children accompany her during her runs.
In fact, all four of them—Tammie, Beckie, Perkie and Dan—are accustomed to physical fitness since their younger days when their dad coached in Wichita.
He organized and headed the Wichita Swim and Track clubs and Pat had the honor of transporting the kids to practices and meets. Though Dan was too young at the time, the three girls swam competitively.
swim competitively AGAIN, THIS WAS following in mother's footsteps.
"I swam competitively in the Quack Club when I was here (KU)," she said. "My best stroke was the back stroke, but diving was my best event.
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Skydivers enter collegiate meet
Dropping something on a sixinch bull's-eye from a height of over 3,000 feet is like finding a haystack-enshrined needle.
This is the challenge facing three members of KU's parachute Club as they compete in the National Collegiate Parachuting Championships tomorrow and Sunday at Tahlequah, Okla.
And it's infinitely more exciting if that something is YOURSELF!
They will jump both individually and together as a team for points to determine the national team champion.
KU'S ENTRIES among those of at least 30 other colleges and universities from throughout the nation are Tom Hewitt, Topkina senior; Roger McDaneld, Osborne junior; and Tom Koenig, Rochester, N.Y., sophomore.
"The individual jumps from 3.-200 feet with a one-to-five-second delay before opening his parachute." Hewitt said. "He lands in a pit filled with 'pea gravel' which softens his landing and makes marking it easier."
Score is kept by totaling the distance from his point of landing to the six-inch disc in the center of the pit on each of three jumps, Hewitt said.
IN THE TEAM JUMP, three
men jump at one-second intervals from 7,200 feet and the sum of their "error" is their score.
"There's an added trick in the team jump, though." McDanele said. "They pass a baton while in free fall."
A successful exchange between the three jumpers in their 30-second free fall gives the team extra points, he said, but failure is not cause for disqualification.
Though three of KU's entries are experienced jumpers, the National Collegiate Championships is their first competition. They will meet such seasoned teams as Texas A&M, West Point, and the Air Force Academy, but are entered mainly for experience.
NO THIRILL matches that of skdiving, Hewitt said.
"I took it up because I felt I was just sitting around and vegetating in college," he said, "and it sure got hold of me."
McDaneld was lured into the sport by friends who "made it sound like it was really kicks."
Their enthusiasm interested Capt. William Silvey, assistant professor of military science and glub adviser.
club adviser
The sport requires no special skills or personality traits, McDanell said.
Tracksters question pink sweatsuits
By DON WALKER
The next craze in feminine fashion could be the pink sweatsuit.
That is, if the trend is set by a fashion board of the seven coeds who comprise KU's women's track team.
seven coeds who complete They haven't taken that step to maintain their identity, but it could come to that.
"PEOPLE LOOK TWICE, Judy Clary, Kansas City junior and avid distance runner, said. "They want to know if it's a boy or a girl in that sweatsuit."
want to know if it's a boy or a girl. "When they find out, you sure get the whistles and honks."
The jibes are all in fun, though, Miss Clary said. She even receives encouragement from her fellow Hashingerites.
"LOTS OF GIRLS show an interest in what we're doing although they'd never join us," she said. "Some think it's really neat when you leave the dorm in warmups to run."
Miss Clary and most of her teammates have only a short distance to run from Daisy Hill to get to the NCAA cross country course west of Iowa Street, which is the site of their workouts.
"Facilities are a big problem," Carolyn Weinhold, physical education instructor and team advisor, said. "We will not be able to practice on a regular track until after the Kansas Relays. Right now we're using the cross country course and the playing field east of New Robinson."
There the women cover between one and four miles every afternoon from Monday to Thursday.
IT'S A GOOD PLACE TO RUN, the girls feel, but far from perfect.
Equipment and coaching are also hard to come by Mrs. Weinhold said. The coeds do not have uniforms and must buy their own workout and competition shoes.
"THE ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT has donated a few worn sets of starting blocks," she said, "but otherwise we must get everything for ourselves, including transportation to meets."
Mrs. Weinhold laments she has so little time to devote to the team and she says she is not experienced in coaching track.
"I am more or less the organizer but not coach," she said. "The girls came to me since I teach a track and field activity class."
Some coaching is done by Dave Kamtar, San Mateo, Calif., senior and Jayhawk distance runner, she said, but the job is too big for one person.
BESIDES THEIR PART-TIME instruction, the women are on their own in workouts. The team is notable for its absence of protocol—there are no club officers—but daily workouts continue.
"Despite the conditions," Mrs. Weinhold said, "the girls are enthusiastic. They feel they're pioneers."
girls are enthusiastic. They "Enthusiasm is necessary to continue the grueling workouts." Lynn Trombold, Wichita senior and mildly active" distance runner, said.
mildly active distance runner A TYPICAL AFTERNOON for a distance runner like Judy Clary goes something like this: a jogging warmup from the dorm to the far end of the cross country course, four to six 150-yard sprints, two 400- or 600-yard fast runs, and three miles at a steady pace.
Workouts consumed so much time for one girl that she began splitting them,runing one-half before her morning classes and the rest in the afternoon with the team.
The women hope the hard work will show up in their two scheduled competitions this spring. Allwomen's invitations will be held at Onaga, and Wahoo, Neb., early in May.
"Individual girls will also run 'unattached'—not affiliated with the team—in summer meets," Mrs. Weinhold said. "The girls in the Kansas City area have been invited to train with the Kansas City Jets track club."
KU'S TRACK BELLES will not be in the women's events of the Kansas Relays, Mrs. Weihold said, since they are not ready for that level of competition.
"The only way any of us could enter is to show sudden promise," she said, "but I don't think that will happen."
"We think we might be ready for next year's Relays though," Miss Clary said, "since none of the serious team members are seniors. We hope another year will make us good enough.
The women have not yet been able to determine if they do show promise since they have no stopwatches.
EVEN WITHOUT CLOCKINGS, they agree that Jan Pappas, Prairie Village freshman, has outstanding talent and could be a fine half-miler.
"She runs beautifully," Miss Clary said. "Like a machine."
"A lot like Jim Ryun!" Lynn Trombold laughed.
The team has sprinters as well as distance runners. One is Ramona Miller, Froid, Mont., junior, who came to KU to compete in athletics.
"One of the reasons I came to Kansas was what I believed to be the opportunity to compete in athletics," she said. "I was disappointed until this came along. I had a pretty good time for 50 yards in high school so I decided to become a sprinter."
HIGH SCHOOL SUCCESS often encourages a girl to give track a try in college, Miss Clary said.
"Lawrence High School is a good example," she said. "It has a very good girls' athletic program, and several Lawrence girls are running with or have shown interest in the team."
For Miss Clary a "friend's" achievements inspired her to take up the sport.
"IT WASN'T HARD," she said. "I've always enjoyed sports and I soon learned to love running."
The team has not made any effort to recruit members, Mrs. Weinhold said, but any coed interested in participating can attend the team meeting at 4:15 p.m. April 11 in 123 New Robinson.
In the meantime she might look for a pair of pink track shoes.