Thursday, April 18, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Gene McClain of Kansas and Jim Crawford of Harding College were added to the Glenn Cunningham 1,500-meter field Wednesday morning to provide four opponents for world record-holder Jim Ryan in Saturday's feature of the 43rd KU Relays.
McClain opened the outdoor season with a 4:06 mile in the Kansas-UCLA dual and Crawford ran third at the recent Texas Relays in 4:06.1.
McClain owns an all-time best mile of 4:05.8 and Crawford has run 4:04.2.
The 1,500-meter race is scheduled at 2:40 p.m. Saturday.
"If any of the other collegians who have run in the 4:06 to 4:07 range show up and want to get in the race, we wouldn't mind adding a couple more to the field," meet director Bob Timmons said.
In addition to McClain and Crawford, Ryun will face Cary Weisiger, former 1.500-meter American record-holder, and Tim Danielson, the second high school
boy to break four minutes in the mile.
Ryun set the world record for the 1,500 meters at 3:33.1 last July 9 in Los Angeles three weeks after lowering his own mile record to 3:51.1 at Bakersfield, Calif.
Danielson, now a sophomore at San Diego State after transferring from Brigham Young, has a best mile time of 3:59.4. Both Danielson and Weisiger run for the San Diego Track Club.
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Weisiger's former American record for the metric mile was 3:38.1, a figure that lasted for more than a year after he set it at the 1963 Compton Invitation. The 29-year-old San Diego banker, who formerly ran for Duke and the Marine Corps, owns a career low of 3:56.6 for the mile.
Ryun, making his outdoor debut after straining a hamstring muscle in his left thigh March 26, will be going after his sixth successive mile title at the Kansas Relays.
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5 champions return to KU to defend Relays titles
Five of last year's individual champions will attempt to defend their titles at the 43rd annual KU Relays today, Friday and Saturday.
Shooting for a third straight victory in the Glenn Cunningham Mile, to be run at 1,500 meters this year, will be world record-holder Jim Ryun. He has broken the meet mark two successive years with winning times of 3:55.8 and 3:54.7.
The 1,500-meter record at Kansas was set four years ago by ex-Nebraskan Ray Stevens at 3:46.9. The featured mile at the KU meet is run at the metric distance only in Olympic years.
Another record-holder who'll defend his title is Chris McCubbins, Oklahoma State graduate student who won the steeplechase a year ago in 8:46.6. Later
in the summer he cracked the intercollegiate mark with an 8:38.2 in winning at the Pan American Games.
Also bidding to repeat are Oklahoma long jumper Mike Gregory (25-1), Val Schierling of Emporia State in the intermediate hurdles (52.6) and Tom Holliday of Wichita State in the shot put $(57 - 1\frac{1}{2})$.
Two other 1967 champions will compete, but they'll be in open events since their collegiate eligibility is completed. They are Jim Hines of Texas Southern, who tied the meet record of 9.4 in the 100, and Kansas' Gary Ard, winner of the triple jump at 48-11/4. Hines will run in a special 100 meters against Nebraska's Charlie Greene and Ard will long jump against world record-holder Ralph Boston.
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