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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, March 1, 1968
Steinhoff should win
By Jerry Bean Kansan Staff Reporter
Bob Steinhoff, KU pole vaulter, expects to win his event at the Big Eight indoor track and field meet Friday and Saturday in Kansas City.
He has a good chance. He recently won at the Colorado, Oklahoma State and KU triangular and also picked up first place at the Michigan State Relays.
Steinhoff is not sure of the height of the raises, "but it will probably take 16 feet, six inches to win," he said.
Steinhoff's best vault this year is 16-1/4.
The three vaulters he must beat are Chuck Rogers of Colorado, Larry Curtis of Oklahoma State and Larry Smith of Oklahoma. "All of them can go 16 feet," Steinhoff said.
He beat Rogers and Curtis in the triangular two weeks ago.
Asked about training for the meet, the lanky trackster said, "I am a little superstitious. I always do the same things before each meet.
"I never get a haircut before a meet because I've always done bad, when I did." Steinhoff said as he fidgeted with a paperclip.
He always studies the day or the meet. Also, he tries not to sleep too much before meets.
Prior competition may be one of the secrets of Steinhoff's success. In the triangular and last week's Kansas Federation meet, Steinhoff long jumped before vaulting.
"I always vault better after competition, so I will go out and warm up this weekend as if I would compete early," Steinhoff said, still twirling and bending the paperclip.
"Food is important before jumping. We usually get a special meal in Templin before a home meet," he said.
"We get roast beef sandwiches or something better than the
garbage they usually feed us," Steinhoff said.
His workouts before the meet this week included vaulting, sprinting, loosening-up and watching movies of his past meets.
By improving his vaulting form, Steinhoff expects to attain a goal of 17 feet for the year by refining his form.
He hopes to gain six inches in vaulting height by making his elbow serve as a lever to give him "more pop-off from the fiberglass pole."
The fiberglass pole used by Steinhoff is 16 feet long, and "bends more" than the steel pole he used when he started vaulting as a ninth grader.
BOB STEINHOFF
This Sunday Begins a Five-Sunday Series: "IMAGES OF HOPE"
Rev. Ronald L. Sundbye preaching
Christian hope is not recommended "in the manner of all those grinning evangelists from the sciences, churches, Madison Avenue, Tin Pan Alley, and television—who preach optimism and happy endings as the only alternative to our pervasive pessimism. It is 'the very heart and center of a human being.'"
— Leslie H. Farber
We invite you to join with us in probing the depths of that hope which is the core of our existence.
First Methodist Church 10th and Vermont
Services at : 9:30
11:00
I am waiting for the Second Coming and I am waiting for a religious revival to sweep through the state of Arizona and I am waiting for the Grapes of Wrath to be stored and I am waiting for them to prove that God is really American and I am waiting to see God on television piped into church altars if only they can find the right channel to tune in on and I am waiting for the Last Supper to be served again with a strange new appetizer and I am perpetually awaiting a rebirth of wonder.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Jayhawks take vanishing Big 8 title hopes to OSU
Reeling from two straight losses and holding on to slim hope in their bid for a third straight Big Eight basketball title, the Jayhawks begin their annual swing through the red clay country when they take on Oklahoma State in Stillwater Saturday night.
Kansas' losses have dropped them to a third place tie with Iowa State at 7-4. If the Jayhawks are to continue their championship reign, they must win their remaining three games and receive help from one of league-leading Kansas State's (8-3) last three opponents.
KU has faced the Cowboys twice previously this season. Kansas went into the Big Eight tournament in Kansas City a heavy favorite and it was Oklahoma State who stopped the Jayhawks in the opening round, 67-79. A month later KU slipped by the Cowboys in Lawrence, 52-50.
This is the 69th meeting between the two teams. KU has triumphed 38 times and OSU 30. O-State has not beaten Kansas in Gallagher Hall at Stillwater since 1965 when they won a four overtime marathon. 68-64.
The Jayhawks with Vernon Vanoy reinstalled will probably go with their big lineup, Vanoy, Rodger Bohnensiehl and Dave Nash in the front line and Jo Jo White and Bruce Sloan at the guards.
Nash was playing some of his best basketball of the season Tuesday night at Nebraska when he got into foul trouble midway in the first half and had to spend much of the game on the bench.
O-State will probably go with the same lineup they have used all year. They have Joe Smith, 6-5, and Bill Christopher, 6-7, both juniors at the forward spots, Charlie Savell, 6-10 junior, at the post and, at the guards, Jack Heron, 6-4 junior, and Gene Hawk, 5-10 junior.
Fellowship elects first officers
The newly formed KU chapter of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes met for election of officers Wednesday evening, in the Joseph R. Pearson Hall living room.
The 25 members present elected Craig Martindale, Bartlesville,
Okla, freshman, president; Larry Graham, Winter Garden, Fla., freshman, vice president; Larry Vanek, Atchison junior, secretary-treasurer; and Jerry Jasinski, Chicago, Ill., freshman, bulletin board and program chairman.
Sunday 10th March
Jean-Luc Godard
Will Be at The University of Kansas
Presenting
Midwest Premiere of 'La Chinoise'
7:00 p.m. Followed by Lecture/Discussion 8:30 p.m.
Hoch Auditorium - Admission Free