Houston's Pat Clohessy Faces Triple Duty in Kansas Relays
No athlete in the 37th Kansas Relays this week will run more steps than a reformed tennis player from Australia, Pat Clohessy.
The 27-year-old from Tamworth, New South Wales, now a member of Johnny Morris' famed distance crew at Houston, is down for triple duty in the four-mile relay and open three mile in today's opening session; the distance medley relay tomorrow.
This adds to five miles of footracing under severe competition. Ordinary runners would be panting over the mere thought of such a marathon. But, for Clohessy, it may be a relief from his regular practice grind. This includes pre-breakfast canter at 7 a.m., then the usual afternoon drill with the squad. His weekly running log adds to 50 miles.
**AS A JUNIOR** last year Clohesy won the NCAA three-mile. Last autumn he was third in NCAA cross-country over four miles. As a sophomore, he finished 11th in the latter race to help the Cougars win the intercollegiate title, then ran second to teammate Al Lawrence in the NCAA 5000 meters.
In the shorter hauls his career bests are 1:55.0 for the 880; 4:04.8 in the mile, and 8:47.8 over two miles. He won the latter at Drake last year in 8:58.0.
This is fine distance running for anybody. For a lad who didn't begin competitive racing until age 19, it is something more. As a high schooler in Tamworth, he was a prep tennis champion, captain of the cricket team and a member of the football club.
ON THE ADVICE of a friend with track background, Cliff Johnson, Clohessy shucked all these to become a runner. He began as a sprinter, cutting the 100 in :10.3. He couldn't break five minutes in the mile. A year later he was down to 4:18.9.
"I follow no strict diet nor special diet." Clohessy admits, "I train hard on the track. I like the emphasis on relay running here in the U.S., but I still prefer to run the individual events. There's more competitiveness.
"Now that I've been around the world (he toured Europe with countrymen Peter Snell and Murray Halberg last summer) I think the U.S. certainly has the highest standard of living and the most friendly people. The only thing I don't care for is the fast pace of living.
"I THINK U.S. basketball is a great spectator sport. It is a tremendously interesting game, my favorite among American sports."
Clohessy came to Houston with Al Lawrence, two-time NCAA cross-country champion who is missing the outdoor season because of a pulled Achilles tendon which has hampered him for a year.
"I had been corresponding with Fred Wilt in connection with his book, 'How They Train.'" explains Clohesy. "I told him I would like to come to the U.S. to study and asked him about the chances of getting a scholarship. He suggested that I write Coach Morris. The Houston climate also seemed ideal."
HE PROBABLY could have secured a scholastic scholarship somewhere too. He'll graduate in June with a B.A. in history, a Phi Beta Kappa key and something close to an A average. He logged a 3.5 classroom mean (4.0 is straight-A) last semester and is carrying a 3.4 overall.
Clohesy and Houston will have scores to settle here with two Big Eight teams plus Southern Illinois. Touching off even with Nebraska's Mike Fleming in the anchor carry of the four-mile at Texas last Saturday, he lost a seven-yard verdict even though he clocked 4:06.8. Fleming ran 4:05.5, as NU added insult to injury by lifting the Cougars meet record with 17:01.8, second-best time in history by a Big Eight combine.
After three carries, Houston was 33 vards out of first against Kansas and SI in the distance medley, so Clobessy trotted a 4:22.9 to hold third as Bill Dotson fired the Jay-hawkers home with a new record of 9:46.4 on a 4:03.9 cleanup mile.
Clohessy anchored Houston close to the Kansas Relays record in the former race last year in 17:02.3. The return battle with Nebraska is certain to threaten the 16:57.8 standard set by the host Jay-hawkers in 1957.
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est four-mile of the young season, 17:02.3.
And North Texas State blazed a record 9:49.3, fastest time of the year to date, to win the University Distance Medley. Dick Menchac swept the Eagles from fourth place into a 12-year lead with a 2:59.9 three-quarters carry and John Cooper wired-in a 4:07.1 cleanup mile to whip Missouri, Kansas and Houston.
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Hadley, Martin Score KU Firsts
Herald Hatley, Shallow Water distance hand, and Glen Martin, Orlando, Fla., broadjumper, brought Kansas Freshman track forces three individual championships as the Jayhawkers finished second in the annual Eig Eight Indoor postal.
Hadley set a new league record of 9:17.8 in the two-mile, and annexed the 1000 in 2:16.7. Martin, a transfer from Coffeyville Junior college, sailed $2-7_{12}$ to win his speciality.
The Jayhawkers scored 45-13/21 points to trail Colorado's 63-29/42. Missouri was third at 32-1/3; Oklahoma, fourth on 28-3/7, to complete the first division. Behind this foursome were Oklahoma State, 20-1/2; Kansas State 10; Iowa State, 7, and Nebraska 2-3/7.
watched Drake win its first baton title since 1947, sweeping from far back to edge Kansas in the twomile by three yards on 7:30.0, equalling the nation's best mark to this date.
Emporia State fled to a new College Mile record of 3:12.2. Howard Payne bagged its sixth successive College two-mile championship on a record 7:32.0.
John Kelly, ex-Stanford, pushed the Hop-Step-Jump record out to 50-3 as ex-Kansas ack Kent Floerke fouled a 50-9 on his final leap. Phil Mulkey won its fifth Decathlon crown on a record 7268. Jim Grelle, former Oregon great, whipped Ernie Cunliffe, ex-Stanford, 20 yards to win the Glenn Cunningham Mile in 4:07.4.
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Kansas State's Rex Stucker successfully defended his 120-yard high Hurdles title at :14.2 with a last-ditch lunge over Texas' Ray Cunningham. The heralded Pole Vault dual between Oklahoma's J. D. Martin, and Oklahoma State's sophomore sensation, George Davies, failed to reach the predicted 15-0, as they split the blue ribbon at 14-10.
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Hayward Is Second On Indoor 2-Mile List
Charles Hayward's 9:05 flight to win the Kansas State Invitational two-mile last month brought the Lenexa junior a new Kansas varsity Indoor record. This had been held at 9:61.1 since 1957 by Jerry McNeal, in winning a dual against Michigan State at East Lansing.
Only swifter Indoor clockings in league history belong to Oklahoma State's Miles Eiseman, who skated 9:03.1 (the current Big Eight record), and 9:04.8 in 1959.
Phil Mulkey May Be Winningest Athlete
By successfully defending his Kansas Relays Decathlon championship here this weekend in the 37th Mt. Oread Olympics, Phil Mulkey can become the most prolific gold-medalist in meet history.
The former Wyoming athlete now shares that distinction with former Kansas Mile great Glenn Cunningham at five crowns apiece. Mulkey set a Relays record of 7238 points last year and a world record of 8709 later in the season.
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