Drake marks still safe as rains slow relays
When the rains poured from the Iowa skies Saturday onto the spectators, the track, and the contestants at the Drake Relays they washed away nearly all hopes for broken records, triple crown winners, and the expected climatic finish in the sprint medley showdown between KU and K-State.
Just as gloomy as the water logged list of results was the race that the crowd had come to see.
The sprint medley—the big one-featuring Jim Ryun of KU battling the Wildcat's Ken Swenson in the anchor leg. The rivalry, which had been building at the Texas Relays, the Kansas event, and now at Drake fizzled in the last 440 yards when Ryun dropped out. Swenson, who the day before had anchored his team to victory in the two-mile relay, fell back and finished behind Notre Dame and Rice.
Photo by Ron Bishop
The splash down — where the inches count
KU long jumper Stan Whitley wins another first as he tops the Drake field with a leap of 26'4½". Whitley was hard-pressed by teammate Ron Jessie who missed beating the Jayhawk ace by $ \frac{1}{4} $ inch.
Notre Dame was clocked in the record time of 3:16.0, but Rice was declared the winner at 3:18 when officials ruled that Bill Hurd, first Irish runner, ran out of his lane on the opening 220.
Another judging decision, this time involving the Jayhawks, occurred in the shuttle hurdle relay. Ron Jessie ran a 13.9 anchor leg and pulled Kansas up to a close second with a 58.2 clocking behind Ohio State's 58 seconds. Then judges disqualified the Buckeyes and gave the win to KU only to reverse their decision a few hours later declaring Ohio State the winners.
Sweep in shot
KU's massive crew of weightmen swept a 1-2-3 finish in the shot-par for the
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course—with Karl Salb's 62'1½" heave leading teammates Steve Wilhelm at 59'5" and Doug Knop at 57'2".
Kansas also came home first in the 440-yard relay event with the team of George Byers, Mickey Mathews, Stan Whitley, and Julio Meade breaking the tape at .40.6 ahead of a Rice squad that ran a .41.3.
Ron Jessie, who dazzled the crowd with a 13.9 in the hurdles was turned away from a relays watch for the third straight time. Although with his jump of $26^{\prime}4\frac{1}{2}^{\prime}$ he ranks as the fourth man in Big Eight competition to go 26 feet, he was defeated by teammate Stan Whitley and his leap of $26^{\prime}4\frac{1}{2}^{\prime}$.
Injury in steeplechase
Julio Meade finishes the final leg for the Jayhawks winning team in the 440-yard relay. The KU squad broke the tape ahead of Rice with a :40.6 clocking.
KU suffered the loss of their top contestant in the 3,000-meter steeplechase when Paul Mattingly slipped coming out of the water jump and
crashed to the ground. Mattingly who had to be helped from the track, is believed to have wrenched his left knee.
Rain or no rain Olympian Charlie Greene, the former sprinting star from Nebraska, was himself as he racked off 100 yards in 9.4 seconds to set one of the two Drake records that were broken. Jack Bacheler rewrote the other mark turning in a 27:29.2 time in the six-mile run for the Florida Track Club bettering Van Nelson's mark.
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Gymkhana suffers in heavy rain
The annual Spring Fling Gymkhana got under way noon Saturday after heavy rains forced a postponement from its original 9:00 a.m. starting time.
The gymkhana, sponsored by the Association of University Residence Halls ran over a course in the Lewis Hall parking lot on Daisy Hill.
Larry Goodman, Lenexa freshman and chairman of the event said there were 44 drivers entered in eight classes, A through H.
When the event started at noon, the sky was overcast and light rain nad started to fall. By the time 10th driver entered the course, the chalk markings were washed away and a heavy rain was falling. The rain continued until the last car completed the course at 7:00 p.m.
Trophies were awarded for top times in each class and overall fastest times for the course.
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