Stars Here for KU Relays
Section B
Friday, April 20, 1962
53th Year, No 122
University Daily Kansan
SPORTS
John Outland's Dream Results In KU Relays
Morely a "dream" some 40 years ago, the Kansas Relays has grown until today only the Drake and Texas Relays equal the annual University of Kansas outdoor track carnival.
Dr. John Outland, the "dreamer" and a former KU student, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania where he became an avid fan of the Penn Relays held annually at Pennsylvania before the 20s.
Bill Easton
The only track at KU in 1920 circled McCook Field, located north of the present Memorial Stadium, site of the 37th annual Kansas Relays.
Dr. Outland dreamed of a comparable carnival at KU and persuaded the then director of athletics, Dr. Foirstest C. (Phog) Allen, to allow his dream to come true.
Plans for a replacement for the inadequate McCook Field were underway in 1920 and Dr. Allen made sure the replacement, Memorial Stadium, had a track suitable for the staging of a gigantic track carnival.
Oklahoma won one of the most exciting sprint medley relay races in track history in the 1958 Kansas Relays. The three teams that finished behind the Sooners in that race all finished faster than the listed inter-collegiate record.
Only one Relays record fell in
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When finished in 1923, the Memorial Stadium track boasted one of the four longest straightaways in the country, exceeded only by Harvard. Yale, and Princeton.
Kansas dominated action in the inaugural of the Kansas Relays in 1933. Competing in a 20-school field, KU won the 440- and 880-relay events, placed second in the mile relay and nabbed third place in the two-mile relay. Participants in the first Relays represented schools from the Missouri Valley, Big 10, Southwest Conference and Dr. John Outland's University of Pennsylvania.
KU's 440 and Illinois' 880-relay crews set world records during the 1925 Relays. Knute Rockne, the famed Notre Dame football coach, officiated the third annual Relays which were insured for $5,000 from rain—no rain fell.
Six Relays records toppled in 1921 and KU's Jim Bausch equalled the American record in the decathlon. A 490-yard shuttle relay team from Kansas State shattered the world's best in that event in 1934.
Glenn Morris, of the Denver Athletic Club, established an American record in the decathlon before 10,000 spectators in 1935. Emporia State's distance medley relay foursome set a new world record at the same Relays.
A Texas quarter-mile relay team clipped the existing world mark in the 1954 Relays. Another Texas quarter bettered the world mark in the 440-yard relay in 1956 and set a record which was lowered by two-tenths of a second by still another Texas crew in the Relays the following year.
In 1948, 10,000 fans watched the establishment of world records in the shotput and 120-yard high hurdles.
A national collegiate mark posted in the 1515 Relies lasted only two hours. Nebraska's Don Cooper went 15-1/8 in the Relays pole vault event for a new collegiate record. Then, two hours later, Illinois' Don Laz leaped 15-1/3/4 in a triangular meet at Los Angeles after he learned of Cooper's record performance.
Coach Bill Easton Molds Champions
By Don Pierce
KU Sports Publicity Director
Few, if any, collegiate track coaches, have been more successful than Bill Easton, now in his 15th year at the helm of Kansas fortunes.
For one thing, Easton is only the second coach in history to fashion NCAA championship clubs in both cross-country and track and field. His 1953 squad, led by Wes Santee, captured the harrier title . . . he previously guided three Drake units to this flag . . . and his 1959 and 60 ensembles won the track and field crown. Bill's college coach, the late Billy Hayes at Indiana, is the only other tutor to put together this double.
FURTHERMORE, only two schools, USC (several times), and Illinois (1946 and 47) ever have put together two NCAA track and field titles consecutively.
No Big Eight team ever has risen so high for so long on the national scene. Nor has one dominated the conference so thoroughly. The Jayhawkers' triumph in the 1962 Big Eight Indoor championships gave them a streak of 11 in the last 13 years. They lost the Outdoor crown to Oklahoma last May in Boulder for the first time in 10 years. Easton's cross-country forces have won 14 crowns in 15 years, regaining the title from Oklahoma State last November, after the Cowpokes halted a 13-year reign in 1960.
Easton's Kansas squads also show NCAA finishes of third, second, fourth and second, ahead of their two title years, before dropping to 13th last June.
HERE IS THE log on further
Easton accomplishments:
1. None of his Indoor or Outdoor brigades ever has finished lower than fourth in conference competition, dipping to that station only once.
2. Easton - coached performers
    have broken, two world records
2. Easton - coached performers have broken two world records . . . both by Bill Nieder in the Shot Put . . . 14 American records and tied three; 14 Intercollegiate records; seven NCAA meet records and tied one; three Olympic records . . . two by Discus thrower Al Oerter and one by Nieder . . . and two national freshman marks.
3. His Kansas clubs have harvested 69 baton championships and 61 individual crowns on the Midlands Grand Circuit of Texas, Kansas and Drake Relays, while breaking 14 (and tying one), 11 and 11 records at those respective meets.
4. HIS 1957 Four-Mile Relay team was the first collegiate unit to break 17.00 with a 16.57.8 center at the Kansas Games. Nieder was the first collegian to crack 60-feet with the Shot in 1956.
5. He has developed 29 All Americans and six Olympians, two of which, Oerter and Nieder, were two-time selections, the former a double champion, the latter 1960 king.
On the Inside—
6. His cross-country teams finished the 1961 season with a streak of 38 consecutive dual wins over conference opposition and a 15-year dual record of 59-3
THE FORMER Hoosier quarter-miler began his winning ways at Hammond, Ind. high school before moving up to Drake, where he served an eight-year stint. He served a four-year term as secretary-treasurer of the National Track Coaches association and is past president of the CCC and NCAA cross-country associations.
He is married to the former Adamarie Scharbach of Hammond They have a son, Dick, 22, a March graduate from the University of Kansas medical school and a daughter, Lindsey, 18, a junior in music education at Kansas.
Hayward Overcomes Early Discouragements p. 5
Newcomer Adds to Record-Breaking Unit p.11
Riesinger Breaks the Mind Barrier p. 13
Southern Heads College Division
By Roy Miller
A small Texas school has switched the center of attention in the Kansas Relays from the university division action to the usually unfeatured college division.
The 37th annual Kansas Relays opened today in Memorial Stadium and will continue through tomorrow afternoon.
THE FEATURE in the college class and the expected highlight of the carnival is Texas Southern, an all-Negro school of 3,435 students, boasting only a 14-year existence. Relays from Emporia State and Texas Southern outfit.
Texas Southern captured all five college division relay titles—setting new meet records in each instance—in this year's Texas Relays.
Based on Southern's record-breaking performances at the Texas meet, present Relays' records in the same baton events, the quarter-mile, half-mile, mile, two-mile and sprint medley, may be shattered.
ALL FIVE clockings posted by the Southern quartet are below the listed KU Relays college division bests.
In the quarter-mile event, Southern established a 40.5 clocking in the Texas Relays. In last year's Relays here, a Texas Southern relay team set the existing record of 41.0.
Another KU Relays Southern-owned record, 1:24.2 in the 880, was topped in the Texas competition by five-tenths of a second.
TEXAS SOUTHERN chalked up a 3:09 time in the Texas mile baton event. The present KU Relays best, set last year by Emporia State, is 3:12.2.
Southern finished the two-mile event in the Texas Relays in 4:30.6, bettering the existing KU Relays record of 4:32.0 set last year by Howard Payne College.
Southern's sweep at the Texas Relays was completed with a 3:21.5 effort, topping the Emporia State record of 1957 of 3:22.6, in the sprint medley.
AN EXPECTED BATTLE for the Relays decathlon crown between Phil Mulkey and J. D. Martin highlights special event action.
Mulkey, unattached and formerly of Wyoming, won the event last year and set the Relays decathlon record of 7,238 points.
Mulkey now holds five consecutive Relays titles in the event and is tied with Glenn Cunningham for the most titles won by an individual in the Relays history.
MULKEY SET a world record in the decathlon with 8,700 points.
Martin, formerly Oklahoma's ace pole valuter, enters KU Relays decathlon action for the first time. Martin, in previous competition, has compiled a 7,005-point total and may have a chance to dethrone Mulkey.
A seven-foot high jumper will be vying for the Relays crown and record in that event.
COLIN RIDGWAY, from Lamar Tech, reached the 7-0 level in the Border Olympics in his first outdoor test this spring.
Baylor's Eddie Curtis and Oklahoma's Mark Brady are also prime high jump contenders. Both Curtis and Brady have leaped 6-8 this season.
The existing Relays record in the event is 6-8 3/16, set by Robert Walters from Texas in 1949.
TOM OTHARA, a 5-10, 130-pounder from Chicago Loyola, may head the Glenn Cunningham mile entrants. He finished in 4:01.6 in the Chicago Daily News Relays and posted a 4:02.9 clocking at the New York Athletic Club meet in indoor action this year.
O'Hara is also a member of Loyola's defending champion sprint medley relay team in the college division. O'Hara anchored the quartet's winning effort, five-tenths of a second off the listed record, last year.
O'Hara and the remaining members of the sprint medley crew will battle stiff competition at this year's
TRIPLE-THREAT Jerry Dyes, a sophomore from Abilene Christian, may become the first weight-jump combination blue ribbon winner in the Relays history.
Relays from Emporia State and Texas Southern entries.
Dyes hurled the javelin 241-4 $ _{1/2} $
this season, the longest heave to date.
Dyes has a chance at first places in the hop-step, javelin and broad jump events, and also competes in the shot put.
OKLAHOMA STATE is aiming at Texas' 1958 mile relay record of 3:09.1. Even though Colorado and Abilene Christian poses as threats, Cowpoke Coach Ralph Higgins says, "I still think we can run 3:08."
KU's record-breaking indoor two-mile baton crew is the top contender in the university division event, despite a recent Missouri outdoor showing.
The Jayhawker crew of Kirk Hagan, Tonnie Coane, Bill Thornton, and Bill Dotson established an American record of 7:30.8 in the Chicago Daily News Relays and bettered this effort a week later at the Kansas State Invitational with a 7:29.2 effort.
Another record assault in the college division is expected in the distance medley relay.
MISSOURI. WINNING the two-mile event at the Arkansas Relays, knocked 35 seconds off the previous Tiger best and may challenge the Jayhawkers.
KEARNEY'S EFFORT in the Arkansas carnival is seven-tenths of a second below the current Relays best, the oldest baton record listed in either the college or university division.
The Kearney (Neb.) State crew, led by Socrates Bagiackus and Hylke Van der Wal, former East Texas State performers, finished ahead of Oklahoma, Wichita, Missouri and Air Force in the Arkansas Relays.
One of the most active individuals during the KU Relays will be Houston's Pat Clohessy. Clohessy will compete in the four-mile relay, open three-mile run and the distance medley relay for a total of five miles.
Baylor Paced 1961 Relays
Baylor's Southwest conference champions unwind their greatest onslaught in Kansas Relays history last year, capturing six clear-cut championships and tying for a seventh to dominate the 36th Mt. Oread Games.
John Fry opened this assault Friday by bagging the Bear's first individual title in meet annals with a 170- $ \frac{1}{2} $ discus cast. He dethroned Oklahoma's Mike Lindsay in the shot at 57-3 Saturday to become the meet's only double winner.
Bill Kemp and Bob Mellgren added wins in the 100 and Steepe-chase while Eddie Curtis was sharing the high jump crown. Kemp also anchored winning Bear combines in the 440 and 880 relays.
Lone Star state teams dominated elsewhere too. Texas Southern flashed to record bursts of :41.0 and 1:24.2 in the College 440 and 880 rails. Houston spun the nation's fast-
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