Ryun's record victim of feud
Kansas track coach Bob Timmons is "seriously disturbed" at the rejection of Jim Ryun's outdoor half-mile time of 1:44.9 as an official world record.
Timmons said the record time is a victim of the jurisdictional war in track and field between the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) and the NCAA-sponsored United States Track and Field Federation (USTFF).
THE AAU is blackbulling Ryun's mark. Timmons said, because it was made in the USTFF championships which did not have an AAU sanction.
Timmons said his "suspicions of this were confirmed" last weekend in New York at the Sullivan Award dinner at which Ryun received the AAU's highest honor.
Following the dinner, Timmons said. AAU President David A. Natlin spoke to him privately and made the point that before the mark would ever become a listed world record, the meet in which it was made would have to be recognized by the AAU.
THE USTFF meet can receive AAU approval only if the federation first applies to the AAU for a retroactive sanction.
The federation has given no indication it will do this.
Timmons said Matlin urged him to influence the federation to apply for the retroactive sanction.
"HE IMPLIED that the responsibility for Ryun's record rests with me and not the AAU." Timmons said. "He told me that it was my responsibility to see the federation and get them to apply for a sanction of the USTFF meet."
Timmons said he refused.
"My feeling is that Jim's record was set under legal conditions," he said, "and that politics has nothing to do with an honest achievement.
"I feel very strongly about this, and if an achievement can't be taken on its own merit, we don't want credit for it.
"It puts Jim in a bad position," he said, "but I don't think he should have to beg for something that's rightfully his."
The national federation championships took place during a federally-enforced moratorium period between the AAU and the NCAA-USTFF coalition. Under the moratorium, which is still in effect, neither organization can penalize an athlete who competes in a meet sanctioned by the other.
But the AAU is temporarily getting around the moratorium and punishing the federation, Timmons said, by seeing that Ryun's 1:44.9 does not become a world record.
WHETHER the AAU's action is a violation of the moratorium will be decided when the U.S. Senate committee investigating the feud meets in May.
Of it all, Jim Ryun only says, "I am very disappointed. I don't want to say anymore. I don't want to get caught up in this."
The campus will either be wild or gloomy Saturday afternoon after KU and Nebraska University teams battle at Lincoln for first place in the Big Eight Conference.
It's do or die for Hawks at NU
Jayhawk Coach Ted Owens predicts the campus will be wild.
"Everyone on the team knows what they are going up there for." Owens said. "And everyone is excited at the prospect."
The game will be televised live from Lincoln, starting at 1:15 p.m. on WIBW and KCMO. But the Hawks don't seem to be camera-shy for they have won both televised games—Kansas State and Missouri—played this season.
Coach Owens appraised the team's chances in this way:
"Playing at Nebraska is always difficult, first, because Nebraska is a good team. And second, because of the enclosed atmosphere of the Lincoln court."
Owens said close seating at the Nebraska fieldhouse puts "the spectator's feet on the court."
"But if you're going to be champions, you have to win under any conditions, and the Jayhawks are champions," Owens said.
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