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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, April 17, 1968
White heads for Olympics
The University of Kansas' smooth pantherish playmakerguard, Jo Jo White captured a spot of the 1968 U.S. Olympic basketball team, April 7.
White, back at KU after a lay-out for the Olympic Trials in Albuequerque, N.M., is now attempting to catch-up on studies.
"It was pretty nice down in Albuquerque." White said. "I'm really proud to be on the Olympic team."
Lacking the traditional big men, the 12-man team chosen by the
White was one of more than 80 players evaluated by the committee after 12 games played in the University of New Mexico's 15,-000-seat arena.
U. S. Olympic Basketball Committee speeds feature and finesse.
The Olympic squad will assemble again in Alamosa, Colo., in early September for four weeks of training.
JO JO WHITE
White, voted most valuable player by his Kansas teammates, and the rest of the Olympic team will perform against professional teams in exhibition games in late September and early October in New York City's Madison Square Garden, in Cincinnati and possibly in Albuquerque, said Hank Iba of Oklahoma State, coach of the Olympic squad. The exhibition games will be played to season the Olympians and to raise money to help pay U.S. expenses in the Games.
The Kansas star and his Olympic teammates will leave the U.S. after the high-altitude training and the exhibition games for 7,500-foot Mexico City about Oct. 6.
White and KU are waiting for a decision by the Big Eight Conference as to whether White will be allowed to lay-out of college play next fall for the Olympics and resume play with the Jaya-hawks during the spring semester. He has one semester of eligibility remaining.
Selections for the Olympic team are:
National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) - Glynn Saulters, Northeast Louisiana; Don Dee, St. Mary of the Plains, Kansas.
Jayhawks, KSU rematch in Relays' 440-yard race
Indy race list swells
One of the most furious 440-yard baton races in Kansas Reelies history is shaping up for the Mount Oread carnival this week and two of the principal contenders are the Kaw River rivals, Kansas and Kansas State.
The K-State and KU speed troupes sailed to the twine one-two in the 440 number at this year's Texas Relays, forcing favored Rice and defending champion Oklahoma to settle for third and fourth spots.
This speed rivalry between the Kansas schools also will flare in the 880 relay which the Jayhawks captured at Texas with a school
Only Big Eight teams ever to run faster were Oklahoma State in 1958 with a 40.1 and Nebraska in 1965 with a 40.2.
Almost as much of a surprise as the high finish of the Sunflower state sizzlers was Kansas State's time of 40.3 which sheared almost a full second off the former school record of 41.2 set two years ago.
record 1:24.1. K-State didn't get to challenge KU at Austin because of a muffed baton pass in the preliminaries which cost the Cats a berth in the finals.
Kansas' time of 40.5 matched its school record which had been hung up only a week before in the dual with UCLA.
The three-day Kansas Relays, featuring world record-holders Jim Ryun, Ralph Boston and Randy Matson, begins Thursday and continues Friday and Saturday.
Kansas State's time of 40.3, exceeded by only two Big Eight teams in history, was two-tenths under the Kansas Relays record and came within a tenth of a second of the 11-year-old Texas Relays mark set by an Abilene Christian unit anchored by Olympic hero Bobby Morrow.
Amateur Athletic Union (AAU)-Calvin Fowler, Akron, Ohio, Goodyear and a graduate of St. Francis; James King, Goodyear and graduate of Oklahoma State.
Kansas State, with future football hopefuls Mack Herron and Charlie Collins running the first and last legs, edged Kansas by two yards at Austin, but Jayhawk anchorman Ben Olison warned, "Things are going to be different the next time."
Running with gridders Herron and Collins for the Wildcats were Larry Weldon and Terry Holbrook. The Kansas team also included a pair of football players in Olison and John Jackson. Their running mates were George Byers, who holds the world record for the 60-yard low hurdles, and Julio Meade.
Junior College All-Stars—
Spencer Haywood, Trinidad,
Colo., Junior College.
Armed Forces All-Stars--Mike Barret, U.S. Navy; John R. Clawson, U.S. Army; Mike Silliman, U.S. Army.
Oklahoma; Rick Mount, Purdue; Joe Hamilton, Southwest Christian Junior College, Tex.
NCAA—Ken Spain, Houston; White; Bill Hoskett, Ohio State; Charles Scott, North Carolina.
Alternates are Dan Issel, Kentucky; Tom Black, Goodyear; George Carter, U.S. Army; Charles Paulk, Northeastern
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -(UPI)
—The field for the 1968 Indianapolis 500-mile race swelled to 66 Tuesday with the arrival of additional entries postmarked before the deadline of midnight Monday.
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