UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, March 6, 1968
Trackmen to USTFF
Six runners, high jumper John Turck and pole vaulter Bob Steinhoff will represent Kansas at the United States Track and Field Federation indoor championship meet at Milwaukee Saturday night, coach Bob Timmons said Tuesday.
Gene McClain, surprise winner in the 1,000-yard run and third in the mile at last weekend's Big Eight Indoor Championships at Kansas City, will run the mile only at Milwaukee. The Salina senior has an indoor best of 4:09.6. He ran a 4:05.8 mile outdoors his freshman year, but injuries plagued him and he has not run that fast since. McClain's third place time in the Big Eight was 4:10.8.
Sophomore Roger Kathol, who finished second to McClain in a very close finish of the Big Eight 1,000, will run that distance Saturday. Kathol's time at Kansas City was 2:10.6, a personal alltime best.
The Jayhawks will run the mile relay at Milwaukee with Julio Meade, Mark Ferrell, Randy Julian and Ben Olison. Ferrell replaces Jim Hatcher in the lineup that won the Big Eight Indoor title in 3:17.3.
Meade is also entered in the 660 and Ferrell in the 880, but Timmons said he may withdraw them from those events to allow the mile relay team to run fresh.
Turck and Steinhoff each finished second in last week's Big Eight with marks near their all-time bests. Turck had a 6-8 high jump at Kansas City, just three-quarters of an inch under his peak. Steinhoff, whose life-time best is 16-14, hit 16 feet.
Timmons tried to get Big Eight
Kent looks for KU swimming victory
By Robert Burdick Kansan Staff Reporter
KU swimmer Jim Kent, Wichita junior, will be a big factor in the Jayhawks attempt to win the Conference Championships at Robinson Gymnasium, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Kent swims the 200-yard butterfly and the 1000-yard and 500-yard freestyles. He currently holds the conference record for the 1000 with a time of 10:30.50, clocked earlier this year at Southern Methodist University. He also has the KU varsity record for the 200-yard butterfly, 1:58.9.
In the championships Kent feels the KU team will perform much better than they did Feb. 10 against Iowa State, current Big Eight champion. KU lost that dual meet 70-43.
"We were very tired when we met Iowa State. We had just finished a road trip through the southwest where we swam five meets in five days," he said.
Kent thinks the team has had plenty of time since this meet to "get up" for the conference championships. More emphasis is placed on this meet than in dual meets because dual meets do not count toward the championship, he said.
"We've been getting ready for this one for three weeks and should be stronger and faster than ever," he said. "When we met Iowa State earlier they were up. This time we'll be up and I think we might surprise a lot of people," Kent added.
Kent is especially looking forward to meeting Iowa State ace Jim Cotsworth in the 200-yard butterfly. He lost to Cotsworth in the dual meet but thinks his time will be much faster at the conference meet.
"It has to be him and me head on. Last time he was up but now my hair will be very short which will cut a lot of resistance. I feel I'm really going to be ready," Kent said.
Kent may swim in the 1650-yard freestyle Saturday but the decision hasn't been made by KU swim Coach Dick Reamon. The 1650 replaces the 1000-yard freestyle in the conference championships and gives the swimmers added incentive because of the longer distance, Kent said.
Although KU swimmers have been averaging 5000 yards a night in practice all season, they have
cut back to 3000 yards a night for the three weeks prior to the championships.
"When you swim longer distances you build up strength. By cutting down on distance you pick up speed because you don't tire yourself so much every night.
Kent swam at Wichita Southeast High School and came to KU because he felt he would be happiest around many of his friends. Reamon also influenced Kent in his choice of KU.
"Coach Reamon came around quite a bit and I was really impressed because he was so enthusiastic. He's a real fine coach. He knows how to make you hit your peak before a meet," he said.
Kent hasn't considered going to the Olympics but has another year of competition left and still might have a chance.
"I couldn't really tell until after the NCAA meet at Dartmouth later this month," he said.
double hurdles winner George Byers into the meet, but the field was filled and limited to only six so that no preliminaries would be necessary.
"Last year I really enjoyed it (the NCAA), but the competition is extremely rough," he added.
This will be the last indoor competition before the NCAA championships the following weekend in Detroit.
EMPORIA — (UPI) — Washburn College knocked defending champion St. Benedict's out of the NAIA basketball playoffs Tuesday night in a hard-fought 55-51 battle.
Washburn defeats St. Benedict's
The Ichabods will represent the Kansas District 10 at the national tournament March 11-16 in Kansas City.
The win gave the undefeated CIC champions an 18-7 record for the season and marked the second time this season the Ichabods had beaten the Ravens.
Ron Berkholtz topped Washburn scorers with 17 points while Vince Degreef of St. Benedict's topped all scorers with 22.
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