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NATIONAL CHAMPION—Pat Lane, Kansas City freshman, won the national AAU women's junior three-meter diving championship as a 16-year-old. She is a KU student planning to major in political science.
Heavy Weekend For KU Athletes
Although KU students will be heading home this weekend for their spring semester break, KU varsity athletes will be engaging a heavy weekend of athletic competition.
The KU swimming team, coached by Jay Markley travels to Columbus. Ohio, for the NCAA finals to be held tomorrow, Friday and Saturday.
THE JAYHAWKERS fielded their strongest team in years and almost knocked off defending champion Oklahoma, but finished second in the Big Eight conference meet.
Kansas moves to Houston on April 2 and 3, and then to Lincoln, Neb., to meet the Cornhuskers on the 6th and 7th.
Coach Floyd Temple's baseball team starts a six game road trip. The Jayhawks open against Texas Lutheran at Seguin, Texas, on Friday and Saturday.
THE VARSITY tennis team meets Kansas State and Southwestern this weekend. Coach Denzel Gibbs' crew won their season opener against Washburn Saturday.
Golf opens an 11-match schedule on April 6 and 7. Coach Markley's squad takes on the Wichita Wheatshockers at Wichita.
10,000-Meter Race Named for Jeweler
The 10,000-meter run, inaugurated last year as the opening event of the Kansas Relays on Thursday afternoon, has been named the "Marks 10,000" in honor of Julius Marks, retired Lawrence jeweler.
"Julius is donating a trophy for this event and has long been a benefactor of the Kansas Relays," meet director Bill Easton said. "We added this event to our program last year because it is an Olympic event and we hope it will stimulate long distance runners and give them an opportunity to compete."
This event, like the decathlon, hop-step-jump, 400-meter hurdles, 3000-meter steeplechase, and Glenn Cunningham mile, is open to any amateur. The inaugural was won by Kansas junior Bob Lindrud in 34:43.1.
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Temple Asks Frosh Players To Report
Head baseball coach Floyd Temple asks all freshman boys interested in baseball to report to the K Room of Allen Field House at 4 p.m. Tuesday, April 10.
No equipment will be required as the meeting will be organizational.
Boxers Rebut Brown's Criticism
SAN FRANCISCO—(UPI)—California boxing figures rallied to the defense of their sport today after Gov. Edmond G. (Pat) Brown termed the fight game "dirty, rotten and brutalizing."
Brown told reporters that he expected action to outlaw pro boxing in California would be introduced in the 1963 legislature. But later he said he had "no plans at this time" to ask for abolition of the sport.
The governor made his first statement in San Francisco, where he talked to reporters at San Francisco State College. The second came from his office in Sacramento
"A boxer who is properly conditioned and knows how to defend himself is in a lot less danger of getting hurt than persons in many other sports," said Archie Moore, one of boxing's all-time greats.
Meanwhile, fight men rallied to defend their sport.
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An attractive blonde approaches the end of the diving board. She springs off the end of the board and soars gracefully through the air. Her entry into the water below is almost unnoticed as only a few ripples mar the smooth surface of the water.
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TODAY as a KU student, she looks to a major in political science, and someday working for an embassy or diplomatic service in Washington, D.C.
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She is Pat Lane, Kansas City freshman, who as a 16-year-old won the national AAU junior women's three-meter diving championship.
As a diver, Miss Lane is temporarily retired. She comes out of her retirement in June. The KU coed will start diving again, practicing for the national senior women's competition.
Miss Lane did not learn how to swim until she was 12 years old.
"THERE WAS no place nearby where I could swim," she said. "When my parents joined the Homestead Country Club, a swimming pool became available."
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She seemed to be naturally attracted to a diving board. One day after making several dives the pool manager asked her if she would like to be in a water show. She replied yes.
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The manager coached her and at the end of the summer she entered the Kansas state meet at Coffeyville. She had little trouble in walking away with first place.
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Bad luck started befalling her. At the age of 14 she had bronchial pneumonia and at the age of 15 while practicing before a meet she burst an eardrum.
MISS LANE explains that she did not really become interested in diving until she was 15. She entered local meets before that, but no big meets.
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Her victory in the national meet was called an "upset." The pre-meet favorites were Dee Gee Reynolds and Kathy Igoe of Phoenix, Ariz. The girls started in the morning and finished in the evening. There were 11 dives and on her last dive. Miss Lane executed a near perfect, difficult forward and one-half somersault to win her national title.
ALSO THAT summer she won the one-meter and three-meter Missouri Valley Association diving titles and the AAU Junior Olympic title. She placed 14th at the national senior meet and 17th at the Olympic try-outs.
Last summer she did not compete because she worked as a secretary to help finance her college education. This summer she plans on returning to competitive diving and will start training for the national senior women's meet the first of June.
Miss Lane combines seriousness and fun in diving. While she works hard at improving herself, she is also having a good time.
HER TRAINING schedule entails getting up at the break of dawn. She is usually at the pool by 7 a.m. She dives for several hours before taking a break and working out with the swimmers. In the afternoon she practices some more before calling it a day.
Miss Lane is not all work and no fun. She is popular among her classmates and has her share of dates. While at Shawnee Mission East High School she was a cheerleader and reigned as homecoming queen.
Miss Lane has one handicap as a diver. She is nearsighted. "When I start to dive, I cannot see the end of the board," she said. Innumerable times she has run to the end of the board, dived high into the air and landed right where she started, on the end of the board.
"MY MOTHER won't watch me dive," Miss Lane said. "She is scared I will hurt myself by landing on the board."
Opponents are often amazed by the closeness in which Miss Lane comes to the end of the board on her way down into the water. "Many times they will tell me that I came awful close to hitting the board. I just reply 'Oh.'"
Miss Lane said psychology is important in competitive diving. She said she always practiced her best dive before the meet in hopes of frightening her opponents.
TO DEVELOP more spring on the board, she practices, on a diving board in her back yard extender over a sand pit. The board has a minimum of spring to it, and by
practicing on it, she can get more spring during a meet.
Miss Lane would like another chance at making the Olympic team. She will be 20 when the next tryouts are held (1964).
She will not be handicapped as she was in 1960. She will be older, stronger and more experienced.
Martin Enters Decathlon
Oklahoma's J. D. Martin, one of the Big Eight's all-time pole-vaulting greats, will expand his talents into the decathlon in the 37th Kansas Relays here April 20-21.
Although he's tackled the 10-part event only once, Martin owns an auspicious record. He placed third in the national AAU last July with 7005 points, a total good enough to win seven of nine Relays crowns since the IAAF scoring system was invoked.
Among those he beat at Albuquerque, N.M., was Phil Mulkey, who has won the last four decathlon titles here and owns a pending world record of 8709 points. The former Wyoming athlete, now competing out of Memphis, was a heavy favorite at Albuquerque, but pulled a muscle in the 100 and limped home fourth on 6807.
High point of Martin's effort in this meet was a $15-11\frac{1}{2}$ hoist in the pole vault, highest ever posted in decathlon competition.
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