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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, April 4, 1968
Weisiger joins Relays field for Glenn Cunningham mile
Cary Weisiger, one-time American record-holder in the 1,500 meters, Wednesday accepted an invitation to compete in the Glenn Cunningham metric mile at the 43rd KU Relays April 20.
The 29-year-old San Diego banker, who now runs with the San Diego Track Club, set the American 1,500 mark at 3:39.3 at the 1963 Compton Invitational. The record lasted for more than a year before Tom O'Hara gunned it down with a 3:38.1 in the 1964 National AAU championships.
Bob Timmons, KU track coach and meet director, said Weisiger is the third entry for the headline KU Relays race that Jim Ryun has won the past two years at the mile distance. It has been customary in Olympic years to run the Cunningham Mile at 1,500 meters.
Others already in the field are Ryun, presently sidelined with a strained hamstring muscle, and Tim Danielson, a sophomore at San Diego State. Ryun ran the fastest 1,500 in history with a 3:33.1 at Los Angeles last sum-
KU baseball team opens Big 8 season
KU's baseball team opens the conference season Friday against intrastate rival Kansas State on Quigley Field south of Allen Field House. The three-game series includes a doubleheader on Friday and a single game Saturday.
The Big Eight season runs through the next seven weekends. Similar three-game series will be played with each conference school.
This is Jayhawk coach Floyd Temple's 15th year as head man. Last year his team finished seventh in the Big Eight with a 7-12 record. Kansas now stands 2-7 going into the league opener.
KU's Big Eight schedule:
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April 12-13 Nebraska at Lincoln
April 19-29 Colorado at Boulder
April 26-27 Iowa State here
May 3-4 Oklahoma State at Still-
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After semi-retirement as a runner last summer, Weisiger decided to return to competition this year and make his third bid for an Olympic team berth. He was fifth in the 1960 Olympic trials for the 1,500 meters and was seventh in the final U.S. troutouts in 1964.
A loan officer for the U.S. National Bank of San Diego, Weisgeran ran in five meets during the recent indoor campaign and showed he's well along the comeback trail with a 4:05.2 fourth place clocking at the San Diego Invitation.
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"I'm looking forward to the Kansas meet and the opportunity to run with Jim (Ryun) again," Weisger said after accepting the invitation.
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Weisiger lives only a couple of blocks from Billy Mills, the former Haskell and Kansas distance ace who also will be competing in the three-day KU Relays that begin April 18. Mills will run in the 5.000.
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Weisiger has run "perhaps a half dozen times" against Ryun. Their last meeting was at Berkeley in 1966 when Weisiger finished second as Ryun broke the world record with his 3:51.3.
Both members of the San Diego Track Club, Weisiger and Mills work their training around business schedules.
"I've been able to average about two hours of training a day," Weisiger said. "I get up and run some before breakfast and then we work out again in the evening."
Tennis team heads south
The KU tennis team will spend spring break playing matches throughout Texas and Oklahoma. The five-man team will play in five dual meets and a quadrangular.
KU will stop off for a meet with Wichita State University Saturday on the way to Texas. In Texas
the team will meet North Texas State at Denton, TCU at Fort Worth and East Texas State at Commerce on consecutive days. The team will then go to Oklahoma City University and on to Tulsa for a two-day quadrangular with Arkansas, Tulsa and Oral Roberts.
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Tull dismissed from OU track team
NORMAN, Okla.—(UPI)—Ron Tull, the first Sooner high jumper to hit 7 feet, has been dismissed from the University of Oklahoma track team for "disciplinary reasons," coach J. D. Martin announced Wednesday.
Tull, a senior, is from the Hickman Mills area of Kansas City, Mo.
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