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KU'S AND AMERICA'S BEST 60-YARD LOW HURDLER
Lee Adams contemplates and leans on the object of his track talents—the hurdle. He ran an all-time best of 6.6 in the 60 lows last Saturday night.
Hurdler takes afternoon off
By DON STEEFFENS UDK Asst. Sports Editor
Dave Stevens was sitting on the window sill and freshman Clarence Haynes was slouched on the bed, leafing through a magazine.
Conversation between the two KU trackmen had drifted from Saturday night's State Federation track meet to what to eat in place of Templin dorm-food Sunday night. But room 308's two permanent occupants were gone for the day.
"I wasn't celebrating or anything like that," explained Lee Adams. "We just decided to go into KC for the day."
So he took off with George Byers rather than sleeping the afternoon away. Adams, who rooms with soph Byers in 308, had stepped over the five barriers as he rushed to a 60-yard low hurdle all-time indoor best of 6.6 Saturday.
In addition to being buddies and roommates, the two provide each other with spirited competition in practice and meets.
"That just makes me want to go get it a little more, now," said Byers, who has a handful of 6.7's to his credit.
California junior college transfer Adams hadn't bettered 6.8 for the event this winter. In fact, he didn't "know what they (low hurdles) were about" before. He had run indoors only once and had always participated in the long California outdoor season.
The outdoor intermediate hurdle event, plus the high hurdles, had been his forte during two years at Bakersfield Juco.
"I tied for third in the nation last year," Adams explains, "as I had a 37.7 for the 330-yard intermediates."
That outstanding performance, plus Lee's high hurdle mark of 14.3, caught Track Coach Bob Timmons' eye while searching for a national-caliber athlete to add to the Jayhawk track squad.
"A KU graduate, and former quarter-miler, Bob Covey was Lee's coach in junior college, and he told us about him," Timmons relates.
"There were other schools after him but the main thing we told him about KU was an opportunity to run the low hurdles.
"As it turns out, that was a pretty exciting event for him," Timmons said.
And the race as a breathlessly exciting affair as Adams was Continued on page 9
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