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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, April 3, 1968
Trackmen travel to Texas, Wichita
Kansas track forces will be deployed on two fronts this week-end as the Jayhawks head for the 41st annual Texas Relays at Austin and the 19th annual Wichita State Relays and District Federation Meet at Wichita.
The Texas carnival in which Kansas athletes have performed brilliantly for many years opens Thursday with a six-mile run, but the major activity is slated Friday night and Saturday afternoon.
The collegiate portion of Wichita's two-day meet will take place Saturday.
Kansas coach Bob Timmons will take a dozen or so varsity athletes to the Texas Relays and send about three dozen varsity and freshman competitors to Wichita.
The Jayhawks opened the outdoor season last weekend at Los Angeles with a 102-42 victory over UCLA, winning 13 of 17 events.
Kansas 440-yard relay team of George Byers, John Jackson, Julio Meade and Ben Olison broke the school record with a winning 40.5 and seven individuals came through with life-time bests.
Heading the list of those reaching career peaks was Doug Knop with personal bests in both the
shot put (55-1) and discus (161-
0).
Other Jayhawks with all-time bests were: Randy Julian, 47.3 in 440; Gene McClain, 1:52.5, and Roger Kathol, 1:52.6 in 880; Mattingly, 4:11.4, mile; Steve Holm, 200-6, javelin; Ken Gaines, 50-2, triple jump.
Kansas ace Jim Ryun missed the UCLA dual with a strained hamstring muscle in his left thigh and will remain on the sidelines again this week. The injury, which occurred March 26, is expected to keep the world mile record-holder out of competition for about three weeks.
Also shelved this week is 16-foot vaulter Bob Steinhoff, who sustained a leg cramp at Los Angeles while winning with a subpar 15-foot vault.
Timmons will enter relay teams in five events at Texas and send individual entries in seven other tests. Ben Olison is scheduled to anchor the 440, 880 and mile relay combinations and McClain will anchor the distance medley and four-mile units. McClain won the mile in the UCLA dual in 4:06 flat and came back to bag the half with his all-time best of 1:52.5.
Gaines, the versatile jumper who led the way at UCLA with
firsts in the triple jump and high jump and second place in the long jump, will compete at Wichita this week since the Shocker meet has a triple jump and the Texas Relays doesn't.
Following the Texas Relays the Kansas squad will continue on to Gainesville, Fla., to spend the spring vacation week and prepare for a dual with Florida April 13. Timmons said several varsity athletes who compete at Wichita will join the others at Florida.
TEXAS RELAYS ENTRIES
440 Relay—Ben Olson, Julio Meade and two of the following: John Jack- Whithey, Clarence Hayes and Jim Hatcher.
880  Relay—Ollison, Meade, Hatcher
Julian,
Jackson, Haynes and Whitley
Mile Relay-Julian, Hatcher, Meade and Olison.
Distance Medley (1.00) - Curt Grindel
(1.320) and Gene Clain (1.320)
(Gene Clain)
Four-Mile Relax-Jim Olson. Paul Mattingly, Kathol and McClain.
120-Yard High Hurdles—Byers, Adams and Dave Stevens (only two to
Mile Run—Olson, Mattingly.
Shot Put--Doug Knop.
Discus-Knop.
High Jump-Shelley.
High Jump-John Turek.
Long Jump-Whitley.
ENTRIES FOR WICHTIA MEET
*Mile Relay - Vince Frye, Charles Frederichs, Phil Young, Thorn Bigley (freshmen).
Banquet will honor basketball athletes
More than 200 persons are expected to attend the annual University of Kansas Basketball Banquet, 6:30 p.m. today, in the Kansas Union Big Eight Room.
Highlighting the evening will be the presentation of the Phog Allen Award to the varsity player voted most valuable for the season by team members.
KU's All-American JoJo White won the award last year. He will miss this year's banquet due to his participation in the Olympic trials in Albuquerque, N.M.
KU's varsity, coached by Ted Owens, ended the season with a 22-8 record, while finishing second in the Big Eight Conference race and going to the finals of the National Invitation Tournament, losing there to Davton University.
The Jayhawk freshman squad compiled a perfect 8-0 record during the past season, under the coaching of Gale Catlett.
The basketball banquet is sponsored by the KU Athletic department, the sports committee of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce
and the Lawrence Roundball Club.
KU's varsity will lose to graduation a valuable senior, 6-6 Rodger Bohnensiell of Collinsville, Ill. Returning will be veterans 6-10 Dave Nash, 6-5 Bruce Sloan, 6-8 Vernon Vanoy, 6-7 Howard Arndt, 6-4 Phil Harmon, 6-3 Rich Bradshaw, 6-8 Greg Douglas, 6-4 Chester Lawrence and 6-2 Rich Thomas and Jim Hoffmann, who was redshirted during the past season.
Two-Mile Relay — Allen Russell,
Nicholson, Nicholson, Mike
Sheahon (varstv),
Mike Sheahon (varstv),
Distance Medley — Nicholson, Clarence Haynes, Rangel, Russell (varsity); Jim Neilhouse, Young, Bigley, Mike Solomon, (freshmen).
Four-Mile Relay — Doug Rowe, Rowe, Wiles, Halp Stephwart (freshmen).
120-Yard High Hurdles — Ron Jessie (Jayhawk Track Club).
440-Yard Intermediate Hurdles ... Sheahon, Mike Geiger. ...
100 - Haynes, Andy Wald.
HAYES, Jerry
Mile Run - Dennis Peterson, Russell
Two-Mile Run — D. Petterson, Russell, Mike Petterson, Jay Mason.
ver, Drew Hamilton, M. Geiger.
Jump — John Wilson, Ken Gaines
Pole Vault — Rob Taylor, John Oliver, Drew Hamilton, M. Geizer.
3. 000-Meter Steeplechase — Geoff Cahoon, Stewart.
Discus—Salb, Wilhelm, Penney.
Jauvelin — Jim Pankratz, Jave Ed
Long Jump--Wilson, Jessie, Gaines,
Bill, Steve. Salb, Siev. Wilhelm,
Bill Penny.
Unseld, Chaney, Halimon go in 'secret' NBA draft
McKinney's Cotton Pickers provided the music for KU's Senior Cakewalk in 1931. The Cakewalk was an annual dance until 1940.
Javelin — Jim Pankratz, Jaye Edgerton, John Stone Moon. Tennis Tournament. Temple University.
PHILADELPHIA—(UPI)—The not so secret National Basketball Association college player draft sprang a leak Tuesday when a Philadelphia radio announcer revealed three first round selections.
According to Andy Musser of station WCAU, the Baltimore Bullets chose All-America Wesley Unseld of Louisville on the first round while the Boston Celtics selected Don Chaney of Houston and the Philadelphia 76ers picked Shaler Halimon of Utah State.
When informed of Musser's story, the 76ers quickly denied they had chosen Halimon, a 6-foot-6 guard who averaged 27 points a game for the Aggies last season. However, a Utah State spokesman said the 76ers contacted the Logan, Utah, school Tuesday and asked for a picture of Halimon and his biography.
Musser's "revelations" were expected to stand up today when the NBA reportedly will reveal all of the first round selections made by its member teams via telephone hookup the past two days.
The NBA originally scheduled its college player draft for May 8, but Commissioner J. Walter Kennedy announced Monday the league planned to hold the first round early this week in order to offset the challenge posed by the American Basketball Association.
The San Diego Rockets, which had first choice in the draft, signed Elvin Hayes of Houston last week for a reported $440,000 over a four-year period. Hayes, college basketball's player-of-the-year, decided to go with the Rockets instead of the Houston Maversicks of the ABA, who offered him a $750,000 pact.
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