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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, May 15, 1968
Junior trains for Olympics
Peggy Grinvalsky is hoping in October she'll be in Mexico City running the 440 or the 880 at the Olympics instead of being at KU.
Miss Grinvalsky, a Jamaica, N.Y., junior, is determined to have a spot on the 1968 U.S. Olympic team, so she's been running in meets, and working out each day for at least two and one-half hours at the stadium track after KU's trackmen leave.
She also runs cross country daily from 7 to 8 a.m.
"I've never really worked hard at something until now, just to see how far I could go with it," she said.
But Miss Grinvalsky keeps running because she knows she has a good chance of making it to the Olympics, she said.
Even the residents at McColum Hall where she lives are asking her "dumb questions," like, "Are you still running to lose weight?"
"When I'm running," she said, "people are always asking me, 'Are you chasing after Jim Ryun?' or 'Tryin' to give Ryun some competition?"
She said questions like those really "bug" her, because she runs in competition with women not men.
But, at 98 pounds the 54" brunette never needed to "lose any weight."
Miss Grinvalsky first started running early last May as part of a girl's running club, composed of about 20 girls, who jogged together a few hours a day.
"I just joined as a joke because I'd never really done any running before," she said. "But I liked the idea and decided to take it more seriously."
She entered her first meet at the Missouri Valley Regionals at the end of May last year and placed first in the 880 with a time of 2:32, and came in second in the 440 with a time of 61.7.
Last summer she ran cross country at an Indian burial ground dig near Mobridge, S.D., where she ran between eight and 15 miles daily.
After she came back to school this fall she ran four cross country meets between September and November—taking three first and one second.
She won the Midwestern Women's Cross Country Championships, sponsored by the AAU in November—running two miles in 12 minutes.
During the latter part of November she broke her foot at the AAU Women's National Cross Country and didn't compete again until December when she went to New York to run the 880 in an Indoor Meet in which she came in second with a time of 2:21.7. This time qualified her to compete in the Milrose Games held at Madison Square Garden late last January.
However, she had a re-injury of her foot and landed in the hos-
pitital the week of the Madison Square Garden meet.
After being on crutches for six weeks, she started working out in March doing mostly cross country running. She ran three miles daily and worked up to 10-15 miles a day.
At the end of March, Miss Grin-
valsky ran at an invitational meet
at McPherson College. She won
the 880 with a time of 2:20.2,
and the next weekend placed first in
the 440 at the Wichita State Rela-
vls.
During the weekend of May 3-5 at the Quantico RELAWS held at Quantico, Va., where she said she faced the "best competition in the country," she came in fifth in the 880 with a time of 2:16.2.
In the Southwestern Relays at Winfield April 26, she placed first in the 440 in 59.5—breaking a new meet record.
"That was four seconds faster
than I'd run before and only 2 second over the qualifying time for the National Women's Outdoor Track meet held in Denver in July." Miss Grinvalsky said.
She said she really felt like running after that meet.
Last weekend she placed first in the 880 at an AAU sponsored Associated Women's Meet.
"My next big meet will be in Dayton, Ohio, June 8, at the Eastern Pre-Olympic Trials where I'll be competing against anyone thinking about entering the Olympic Trials," she said.
Miss Grinvalsky will have to run a 2:10 in the 880 to qualify for the Olympics. To date, her best time in the 880 is 2:16.2, but she said she could do it.
Fifteen meets this summer will take her to ten states, including Colorado, Maryland, California, Indiana, Ohio and New York.
With all the Bobs and Bills a 'Catfish' sounds alright
By Steve Snider UPI Sports Writer
NEW YORK — Jim "Catfish"
Hunter came along just in time
for his perfect game for the Oak-
land Athletics.
The baseball world, bounded on all sides by high walls of cold statistics, had just about despaired of reviving the ancient art of colorful nicknames—let alone having a kid called "Catfish" become king for a day.
The new breed of players and writers shies away from this sort of thing.
We have Bubba, Gigi, Tito, Chico, Mickey, Boog and Kitty that have stuck with certain players since childhood but mostly there are Jacks, Bobs, Bills and Joes working in the big leagues today.
There are a few notable exceptions, headed by the "Catfish" who became the ninth pitcher in history to work a perfect game when he retired 27 Minnesota Twins in a row on the night of May 8.
Hunter's nickname may be slightly tainted since he acquired it in his childhood and not as a ball player but you can't deny it's a beaut. According to legend, he once ran away from home and
returned with two catfish. His parents gave him the nickname.
It may be sheer coincidence but A's owner Charlie Finley, who rarely overlooks a bet, is in good shape if perfect game lightning strikes Oakland again.
Also on his pitching staff are John "Blue Moon" Odom, Jumbo Jim Nash, Fast Eddie Sprague, Jack "Chief" Aker and Paul "Bug" Lindblad, which is quite an assortment for this day and age.
Among the better monickers in the majors are Harmon "Killer" Killebrew of the Twins, Jim "Mudcat" Grant and Don "Airedale" Drysdale of Los Angeles, Lee "The Stinger" Stange of Boston, Walter "No Neck" Williams of the Chicago White Sox.
Mickey Mantle once was known as the "Commerce Comet" after his home town in Oklahoma but that, like "Say, Hey" for Willie Mays of San Francisco more or less has been abandoned.
There are certain nicknames that remain unprintable and some that last only a few days or weeks.
Prince Charles cooks
But there's nothing like what prevailed in the old days when Casey Stengel was known as "Dutch" and "the Georgia Peach" meant Tyrus Raymond Cobb.
LONDON — (UPI) - Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, will make some nice girl a good husband.
As if being heir to the monarchy and to a vast fortune weren't sufficient qualifications, consider that Charles, the 19-year-old son of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip knows as much about cooking as he does about such royal subjects as constitutional law.
He can make jam, bake cakes
and biscuits and has been at home on the (kitchen) range since he was 10 years old. This talent comes in handy at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he whips up a few tidbits for his chums.
At Cambridge he is getting numerous invitations to private parties but almost all are politely reaccompanied by his equerry, fused. When he does go out he is accompanied by his equerry, Squadron Leader John Checkettts, who acts as secretary-companion.
- Reg. U.S. Pat. Off. Am. D.Q. Corp.
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