Friday, March 15, 1968
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Relays draw top names
Three of the big names in track, Ralph Boston, Randy Matson and Billy Mills, will compete in the 43rd annual Kansas Relays next month, meet director Bob Timmons announced Thursday.
"All three have promised they'll be here and we are quite pleased about it," bubbled the Jayhawk coach.
The three-day carnival, with its high school, freshman-junior college, collegiate and open divisions, is scheduled April 18, 19 and 20.
Boston and Matson are world record-holders in the long jump and shot put and Mills owns American records for the six-mile and 10,000-meter runs.
Mills and Boston both have won Olympic gold medals and Matson is a solid bet to win one at the Mexico City Games next fall.
Timmons said Mills will run the 5.000 meters at the Kansas Relays. This race of approximately three miles is being shifted to the open division this year after being run as a collegiate event in the past.
The former Haskell and Kansas distance ace became a national hero in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics with his exciting upset victory in the 10,000 meters in the record time of 28 minutes. 24.4 seconds.
Breaking into an all-out sprint from the last turn to the tape, Mills charged past a mass of lapped runners and finally the two leaders, world record-holder Ron Clarke of Australia and little
Mohamed Gamoudi of Tunisia.
With a wide grin, seen by television viewers around the world as well as the huge crowd at Olympic Stadium, the 155-pound Marine officer hit the tape with arms upraised in a leap of sheer joy.
Now in the insurance business in San Diego, Mills is back in training and in hopes of making a return to the Olympics.
Mills set the American record for the six miles at 27:11.6 at the National AAU in San Diego in 1965 and for the 10,000 meters at 28:17.6 in Augsburg, West Germany, two months later.
Boston and Matson, in addition to holding world records, were the first athletes to scale two of track's more recent magic barriers—the 27-foot long jump and the 70-foot shot put.
Matson, a year out of college competition but still at Texas A&M finishing work on his degree, has a world best of 71-51½ in the shot, 2½ feet farther than anyone else ever threw.
A college freshman just coming into his own as a world class weight thrower when he made the 1964 Olympic team, Matson pegged 66-3/4 (nearly a foot beyond his previous best) at Tokyo to finish second to Dallas Long.
After Tokyo Matson moved quickly to the top to become the premier weight thrower of all time.
In addition to his world record
shot put. Matson has a pending American record in the discus at 213-9, only $2\frac{1}{2}$ inches shy of Ludvik Danek's world standard.
Timmons said Matson would compete only in the shot put at the Kansas Relays.
Boston won the long jump gold medal at Rome in 1960 with an Olympic record of $ 2 6 - 7 3 \frac {4} {4} $ . The following year he became the first man to jump 27 feet. He had to settle for second at Tokyo when Lynn Davies of Great Britain beat him by $ 1 \frac {1}{2} $ inches with a leap of $ 2 6 - 5 3 \frac {4} {4} $ into a slight wind.
In 1965 Boston lengthened his world record to $27-4 \frac{3}{4}$ at the California Relays in Modesto.
The two-time Olympian is presently studying for a doctor's degree at Tennessee State in Nashville where he competed as an undergraduate.
Wilt best player
NEW YORK — (UPI) — High scoring Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia 76ers and rookie Earl Monroe of the Baltimore Bullets are this year's standout players in the National Basketball Association, according to the Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association.
The New York writers picked Chamberlain as their player of the year and selected Monroe for rookie of the year honors.
DOG SALE
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Sale Starts at 8:00 a.m. Saturday
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KU baseball season begins in California
A light-hitting, pitching-rich Kansas baseball team, including seven starters from last season, opens the 1968 campaign Monday at the Riverside (Calif.) National Collegiate Baseball Tournament.
Coach Floyd Temple will take an 18-man squad to California for the six-day, round-robin event. The Jayhawks open Monday with a doubleheader against Pittsburgh and tournament host Riverside.
After a day off, Kansas meets Mississippi State, Oregon, UCLA, Brigham Young and Tennessee in that order in the scheduled 28-game classic which attracted more than 14.000 spectators last season
Temple said hard-throwing Bill Maddux (2-4, ERA. 3.46) and sinkerball - artist Randy Stroup (3-3, ERA. 1.71) will hurl Kansas' opening twinbill. Although cold weather forced the Jayhawks inside for almost two-thirds of preseason workouts, Temple is hoping each pitcher can throw nine innings in the tournament which requires pitching strength and team durability.
Holdover hurlers Roger Jackson (3-1), Richard Slicker (2-1)
and Tom Bishard (1-2) plus newcomer Gary Dickerson round out the mound corps which appears in top-notch condition.
Temple admits that Kansas, along with Oregon and Pittsburgh, might be at a disadvantage because the other tournament teams will have played several times before this meet.
"No team should sweep all eight games. The strongest over all pitching staff is going to win games," Temple predicts.
"If Kansas pitchers do a good job, we might have more success than hoped for."
Temple listed the following batting order to start the tournament: Gary Ascanio, right field; Tom Shawver, centerfield; Junior Riggins, left field; Randy Cordill, first base; Cole Stimson, catcher; Alan Stoike, third base; Lynn Snelgrove, shortstop, and Bob Evllizer, second base.
Others making up the traveling squad are Bill Fox, catcher; Steve Gibbs, outfield; Russell Meier, outfield, and John Nelson, outfield.
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