Veteran milers challenge time
World record-holder Jim Ryun will be out to defend his title Saturday as he heads a list of four accomplished milers in the Glenn Cunningham Invitational mile.
The headline event of the 42nd Annual Kansas Relays will feature two other sub-four-minute milers in addition to Ryun.
THE KU SOPHOMORE, who holds the world record of 3:51.3 for the mile run, is the defending champion and record-holder in the KU event at 3:55.8.
His major challenges are expected to come from Richard Romo (3:58.8), former University of Texas ace, and Ted Nelson (3:59.4), of the Los Angeles Striders track club.
Romo won the mile at the Texas Relays in 4:03.7, as Ryun did not compete in the mile.
Ryun has run only two competitive outdoor miles this year. His best time was a 4:05.1 at U.C.L.A. However, he has recorded times of 3:58.8 and 3:58.6 indoors in the Big Eight and NCAA meets this winter.
THE KU DISTANCE ACE will not be entered in any event preceding the mile on Saturday. This has been done so that he may concentrate solely on the mile.
Three other individual distance events will be included in the three-day Kansas Relays schedule.
In the 5,000-meters, Oscar Moore of Southern Illinois University is the defending champion and favorite for this year's race. Moore was clocked at 14:25.2 in posting the record for the event last spring.
John McDonnell of Southwestern Louisiana, Pat McMahon of Oklahoma Baptist, and Glenn Ogden of Missouri are expected to form Moore's chief competition.
THE 10,000-METER RUN will feature ex-KU distance star and NCAA cross-country champion John Lawson. Now running for the Long Beach 48ers, Lawson recorded the nation's fifth best time (29:50.8) at this distance last year.
McMahon, who represents Oklahoma Baptist, will be defending his title in the event. Chris McCubbins of Oklahoma State, Terry Harrison of Colorado State, and Moore of Southern Illinois will also be bidding for the 10,000-meter title.
Tennis team takes WSU
KU's tennis team pushed its season's record to five victories and three losses by posting a 6-1 win over Wichita State University here yesterday.
Only Wichita State's Diego Jaramillo's 6-1, 6-4, victory over KU's number one man, Bill Terry, kept the Jayhawks from sweeping the match.
In other competition Sid Kanter, KU, defeated Mike Wood, Wichita, 6-0, 6-3; Bill DeBaun, KU, downed Ned Stoll, Wichita, 6-2, 6-2; Jim Keller, KU, defeated John McClure, Wichita, 6-1, 6-1, and Jay Shramke, KU, shut out Larry Schoenfeld, Wichita, 6-0, 6-0.
In doubles action, KU's Terry and Kanter edged Wichita's Jaramillo and Stone, 6-4, 6-2; and the Hawk's two-some of Jack Kilroy-Keller defeated Wood-Schoenfeld of Wichita, 6-4, 6-1.
The Jayhawk's next competition will be in a double dual with Nebraska and Colorado on the KU courts April 21-22.
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In addition to the Glenn Cunningham Mile, Saturday's finals will also feature the 3.000-meter steeplechase. Hylke van der Wal of Hamilton, Ontario, will be shooting for his fourth consecutive title in the event. The Canadian ace, who holds the meet record at 8:56.3, won last year in 9:09.5.
McCUBBINS OF Oklahoma State ranked among the nation's 10 best in the steeplechase last season with a 9:00.2, and Bruce Mortenion (8:59.8) of Oregon placed third in the NCAA.
Other entrants who are expected to compete in the special steeplechase event are John Mason of Fort Hays State, Bob Camien of Emporia State, and Conrad Nightingale of Kansas State. However, Camien and Nightingale may scratch from the event in order to concentrate on relay competition.
KU Relays will be held, come rain or come shine
When KU track coach Bob Timmons looks up at the sky this weekend to check the weather for the KU Relays, he may get an eve full of water.
Gordon Brokaw, of the U.S. Weather Bureau, said the long-range forecast is for up to one inch of precipitation sometime between Friday and Monday.
When the subject of rain was brought up to Timmons he said,
Few admitted to Clutter set
GARDEN CITY, Kan.—(UPI)
Director Richard Brooks is filming the story of the murder of the Herbert Clutter family, but he won't let anyone see the script, not even author Truman Capote.
But under pressure he let newsmen and others see a dramatic reconstruction of Clutter and his son Kenyon, being led to the basement of their home to be murdered by two killers.
"We aren't even worrying about the weather. We're having a meet this weekend rain or shine, sleet or sun, typhoon or tornado—there is going to be a KU Relays."
This was a bit easier said than done last year, when a drenching rain drove Friday's events indoors in Allen Field House. The rain failed to stop until nearly daybreak on Saturday.
Another coach might have recommended a swimming meet, but Timmons led a crew of B & G groundsmen onto the watersoaked cinder track at 5 a.m. to restore it to normal for the afternoon finals.
"EVEN BY 9 A.M. most people doubted whether we would have a track meet that afternoon," he recalls.
But by 12:30 p.m. the Memorial Stadium oval had dried and was in good shape for the 41st annual event.
Throughout the week prior to the Relays last year the weather had fluctuated to a degree known only to Kansans. The mercury hit a record low of 24 degrees early Thursday and had reached a high of 83 the Sunday before.
Skies were overcast and drizzly on all but one day and shed over two inches of moisture on the area.
So far, weather preceding this year's meet has been ideal with temperatures hovering in the 60's.
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Daily Kansan Wednesday, April 19, 1967