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University Daily Kansan
Monday, April 30, 1962
Bv Steve Clark
Dr. Forrest C. (Phor) Allen, former KU basketball coach, lashed a verbal attack at the tentatively approved proposal to remove the track from Memorial Stadium and drop it in a cow pasture by Allen Field House, in an article by Dick Wade in the Sunday Kansas City Star.
Allen prides himself in being known as the founder of the relays and one partially responsible for building it to the stature it is today.
HERE'S A FEW of the better statements by Dr. Allen.
"This whole idea, from start to finish, is so ridiculous its amusing, but when you realize it's made seriously, a tragedy takes place.
"They want to dig a cold, deep grave for the relays, and kick Bill Easton's teeth out in the process.
"YOU CAN BE sure of this, when they tear out the stadium track, the relays are as dead as the cadavers in the formaldehyde tanks in the medical department's dissecting room.
"The nation's track coaches will not be a party to anything second rate, and they will show their resentment with withdrawing from an event held by a school that sold track down the river."
DR. ALLEN, who is also a former KU director of athletics, said that the stadium footings and foundation were constructed with an eventual seating capacity for 52,000 in mind.
Allen's suggestion is to build up instead of down. His reasoning, "Now who in his right mind wants to watch a football game from ground level."
HIS SUMMARY: "Let's not sacrifice the KU Relays and a balanced athletic program for the whims of a few. And let's not kill the great tradition of KU track that has grown through the efforts of our Olympic athletes and fine coaches and blossomed under Coach Bill Easton."
This appears to be just a sign of what's to come concerning the stadium proposal. There are two sides to the situation which are liable to be forgotten amidst verbal blasts.
It appears to me that the committee is trying to get more seats for next fall's outstanding home game schedule. They are interested primarily in next fall. To build above will put the athletic department in debt, which they wish to avoid.
Still, what Dr. Allen says appears true. Track is dead once it leaves Memorial Stadium unless a permanent track stadium is constructed that will hold 10,000 with room for non-permanent structures to be placed.
There needs to be no squabble between football, a paying sport, and track, a sport with rich heritage and a winning tradition but which does not make money for the athletic department.
There can be peaceful co-existence.
Kansas Wins Two Titles At Drake Track Carnival
The Kansas Jayhawkers captured their fifth straight Drake Relays two-mile relay title Saturday on the final leg of the Midlands Grand Circuit.
A billed duel between the Jayhawkers and the Missouri Tigers, who defeated KU before the home crowd at the Kansas Relays, did not materialize as the Tigers dropped out in favor of the mile relay Saturday.
THE JAYHAWKERS had little trouble in the two mile relay winning by a 60-yard margin over Southern Methodist.
Kirk Hagan ran an opening 1:54.2 half-mile to give the Jayhawkers a comfortable 18-yard advantage. Ted Riesinger increased the lead to 20 yards on his leg with a 1:55.4 Bill Thornton erased any doubt that KU would win as he ran a 1:53.3 half-mile boosting the lead to 50 yards.
Bill Dotson anchored with a 1:52.1 half-mile as Kansas breezed to victory.
Missouri's relay victories in the sprint medley and the mile were its
first at Drake since 1943 when it won the shuttle hurdles.
MISSOURI DID not win as easily as Kansas. Bill Kemp of Baylor gave the Eears a 10-yard lead over the Tigers at the end of the first lap. MU's Bill Rawson chopped six yards off Baylor's lead with a .48 quarter. Greg Pelster gave anchorman Jim Baker a lead of inches on his quarter of 47.1.
Baylor's Roy Smalley kept pace with Baker during the first 220 and was outsprinted the last 220 as the Tigers won by six yards.
Pete Talbott, Barry Hanratty and Jack Stevens were the only KU individual place winners. Talbott steved the javelin $207-2\frac{1}{4}$ to finish third behind Rice's Ed Red who won with a 226-5 and U.C.L.A.'s C.K. Yang with a $208-10\%$.
JACK STEVENS, appearing to be almost fully recovered from his shoulder injury suffered at the Big Eight indoor meet, went 14-6%4 to finish in fifth place.
Rice's Fred Hansen won with a 15-3½ vault and completed a grand slam of the Texas-Kansas-Drake Relays.
A CROWD of 18,000 sat through chilly 50-degree weather as the athletes battled soapy track conditions
Texas Southern which won four college relay titles at Texas and swept all six titles at the Kansas Relays, fizzled out at Drake. Southern won the sprint medley relay in 3:21.2, but dropped the 440 and 880 relays to a hot-running Florida A & M crew.
Missouri's Don Smith broke the Drake Relays shot put record and became the only Big Eight performer to sweep the Texas-Kansas-Drake Relays. Smith's put of 57-11 bettered OU Mike Lindsay's record of 57-714 set in 1959.
THE JAYHAWKERS' Friday win in the four-mile relay was ridiculously easy. Mike Fulghum led off with a 4:15.4 mile to give Kansas a 15-yard lead. Bill Thornton widened the gap to 50 yards with a 4:13.9 effort.
Ted Riesinger ran a 4:17.5 mile and anchorman Bill Dotson ran a 4:11.1 as the Jayhawkers won by over 100 yards.
Hanratty captured a third place in the discus with a heave of 154- $ 8 1 \frac {1}{2}. $
KU Retains Share of League Lead Bv Winning 2, Dropping 1 to I-State
The Kansas Jayhawker baseball team dropped one of its three game series with Iowa State but remained in a tie for first place with the Missouri Tigers.
The Jayhawkers' league mark now stands 9-3 going into their final road trip of the season to Colorado Friday and Saturday. Missouri swept a three game set with Nebraska and moved into the first place tie with the Jayhawkers' Saturday loss.
OKLAHOMA STATE is in close contention with a 5-2 record, their series with Kansas State being rained out. The Cowpokes meet Nebraska this weekend, a team which has dropped three game sets to both first place teams.
Colorado is in fifth place in the Big Eight with a 5-6 conference record and stand 8-8 for the year. The Buffaloes dropped two out of three to
Oklahoma the past weekend as the Sooners moved into fourth place.
Tennis Team Wins Again
Friday's double win had put the Hawks in undisputed possession of homa State as the two sophomore first place after being tied with Okla-southpaws, Roger Brock and Monte Stewart beat the Cyclones 5-4 and 4-0.
KU's tennis team boosted its season's mark to 9-2 over the weekend, blanking Nebraska, 7-0, and downing Iowa State, 5-2.
Pete Woodward lost in singles play and the Ken Peterson-Breon Mitchell doubles team was defeated, accounting for the lone KU defeats during the two road duals.
MEL KARRLE, KU's number one singles player, beat his Nebraska opponent, 6-4, 6-4 and won 6-3, 6-2 at Iowa State. Woodward triumphed 6-4, 6-4 at Lincoln before the Cyclone's Tom Line handed the Jayhawker number two player a 6-0, 6-1 setback.
The Karrle-Woodward doubles team won, 4-6, 6-0, 6-3 over the Cornhuskers Friday and downed I-State, 7-5, 6-3 Saturday.
STEWART WENT the distance in throwing his 4-0 shutout in the second game, but Brock needed ninth inning relief help from Waldsmidt to save the first. Waldsmidt needed only one pitch to make Iowa State pinch hitter Bob Goldsmith ground out and preserve the win for Brook
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In Saturday afternoon's single game loss, Iowa State moved off to a quick five-run lead off KU starter Jerry Waldschmidt before adding another four tallies off reliever Steve Lunsford. The Hawks battled back, but their ninth inning rally fell one run short of catching the Cyclones. The Jayhawks scored three times in a big third inning, and single runs in the fourth, fifth, seventh, and ninth.
Del Campbell won at both meets by scores of 6-4, 6-4 and 3-7, 5-1.
Mitchell won 6-0, 6-1 and 6-2, 6-2 and Peterson won 6-2, 6-2 at Nebraska and 7-5, 6-3 at Iowa State. The Peterson-Mitchell duo won 6-3, 6-3 against I-State before losing to the Cornhuskers.
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Coach Jay Markley's KU golf team ran into stiff competition over the weekend as the Jawhayks dropped a 13$^{1}$ to 11$^{2}$ match to Oklahoma State Friday and then lost to the University of Oklahoma 10 to 5 Saturday.
OSU, Big Eight defending champs, showed that they are strong favorites again this year to capture the title. Highest score among the five OSU players was a 75, carded by two players.
Medalist for Saturday's meet was OU's Bob Ryan with a one under par, 71, Reid Holbrook led the KU team with a 74.
KU also showed strength with five players all shooting 80 or below. John Hanna and Paul Carlson led the Hawks, each shooting a 75 on the par 72 course.
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