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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, April 18, 1968
Powell has grades is KU varsity golfer
By Pat Crawford Kansan Staff Reporter
Many students find it hard to maintain a good grade point average if they are involved in extracurricular activities or sports. KU golfer Kent Powell is an exception.
Powell, a Wichita senior majoring in business, has managed to maintain a 2.5 GPA besides being a member of the KU golf team.
Last semester was particularly kind to Powell—he made a 3.0. His worst semester, when he made a 2.2, was the first semester of his junior year when he wasn't playing golf on the team.
Powell, who has been playing golf since he was in sixth grade, has an average score of 76 for 18 holes of golf.
"In the spring, after I've been playing for awhile, my game usually improves two or three strokes," Powell said.
Because he works in the summer, Powell doesn't get a chance to play in tournaments, but he does manage to work in a few games to keep in shape. Powell said there aren't too many pro-am (professional-amateur) tourneys
around this area for golfers to play in.
The KU golf team is now in the middle of the conference season. Powell explained that in the Big Eight tourneys, a golfer plays only one man from the opposing team. Although they play in foursomes, the players are only competing against one other golfer.
In the Big Eight tournaments, it is possible for a golfer to accumulate three points for his team. A point is awarded to the low score in a twosome for the first nine holes, the second nine holes and for the total score for the 18 holes. After all scores have been turned in, the team with the most points wins the tournament.
"This year the KU team really has the best chance to do well since I've been here," Powell said.
Oklahoma State, whose coach is a former pro golfer, will un doubtedly win the championship, he said.
This weekend, the KU golf team is competing in the All-American Golf Classic in Houston. Some of the best college golf teams in the country have been invited to attend this tournament.
Two Cunninghams at KU
It is possible that Glenn Cunningham Jr., now a sophomore at KU and member of the track team, will get a shot at winning the event named for his father, the Glenn Cunningham Mile, in Saturday afternoon's session of the KU Relays.
The event will be run at the 1,500-meter Olympic distance this year as is customary in Olympic years.
five times in his years with the KU team and after. He won in 1932, 33, 34, 36 and 39.
Cunningham Sr. won the event
Cunningham Sr. held world records in the mile and 1,500 meters both indoors and outdoors in the 1303s. He was the last American before KU's middle distance ace Jim Ryun to hold the world record in the mile.
The father will be on hand to watch the son in this year's Relays.
sicians for people with high blood pressure and mild coronary heart diseases.
Dr. John Barton, physician for the athletic teams, said jogging would cause stress on the heart only if the heart were diseased.
"It's a very useful form of exercise," he said, "unless taken to unreasonable proportions. A person should start off in a gentle fashion and increase slowly."
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Digest. He was interested in losing weight and tried jogging out of curiosity. Now, four years later, he jogs for two miles every morning and gets back when the rest of his family is getting up.
"I walk fast and try to walk every place I go," Mrs. Knight said. "I run when I think no one is watching me. Since I've been doing this, my legs and thighs are as firm as the boys"
William J. Bowerman, University of Oregon track coach, and W. E. Harris, an Oregon heart specialist, jointly published a book entitled "Jogging—A Physical Fitness Program for All Ages" last year. Schedules are set up in the book to establish a "permanent habit of regular moderate exercise."
From a medical standpoint, jogging can result in a considerable increase in physical fitness. It has been recommended by phy-
Track men use jogging in their training routine. Jim Ryun, KU track star, said they use this slower, less intense running as a rest between faster running, while still keeping the muscles warm.
Ryun said they use it for warming down after running, too. Warmed up muscles have to gradually cool down, or they get too tight and will pull.
When he started out he wore blue jeans and a shirt. One morning a man driving by stopped to help him, thinking he was in trouble.
Another local business man, Jim Owens, got started jogging as a result of an article in Reader's
"When I told him I was just jogging for my health, he gave me a funny look and drove away." Owens said. "Now I wear a sweatshirt with a hood and nobody bothers me or gives me a second look."