Big Eight Indoor
KU thinclads favored to retain team crown
By LUIS F. SANTOS Assistant Sports Editor
If past performances are accurate yardsticks, Kansas should have no trouble defending its championship at the 41st Big Eight Indoor track meet tomorrow and Saturday in Kansas City.
Ryun, the heralded KU Olympian with world records in the 880 and mile, has won those two events as well as the two-mile in his past appearances at the Auditorium. Ryun will compete in the mile and two-mile this year.
Bvers feat in '68
Many of the conference records will be in jeopardy when the league's schools converge again upon Municipal Auditorium. Preliminaries in the hurdles and short sprints will begin at 6:15 p.m., and only one event—the long jump—will be completed tomorrow night.
Finals in the 13 other events, along with five special high school events, will get underway at 6 p.m. Saturday.
Twenty-two Jayhawks will carry KU's bid for a fourth consecutive team crown, headed by twice defending champions Jim Ryun (mile) and George Byers (60 yard lows).
Byers blazed a world record time of :06.5 in the 60 lows last year, and the Kansas senior also shares the Big Eight indoor mark
for the 60 highs with his :07.2 clocking.
Other defending champions in the KU troupe are Stan Whitley, just four inches ahead of juco transfer Ron Jessie with a league and career best 24'41/2" long jump, and the mile relay squad. Jim Hatcher, Randy Julian, and Julio Meade were members of the '68 mile relay winners with freshman Bob Bornkessel now running the lead 440.
Further strengthening the KU squad are 11 newcomers, headed by the country's strongest shot putting corps. Karl Salb, already with a 65'5½" heave, and teammates Steve Wilhelm and Doug Knop should give the Jayhawks a 1-2-3 sweep.
Freshmen Doug Smith, Renn Elliot and Mike Solomon already own positions 1-3-4 in the two-mile run season's bests. Two others, Jim Neihouse and Thorn Bigley, top the league listings for the 1,000-yard run. Neihou has clocked 2:10.3 and Bigley shares with teammate Roger Kathol a second-best 2:10.4 time.
One of the most interesting individual duals will match Byers
with Oklahoma's Wayne Long in the high and low hurdles. Byers has a league best of :07.1 in the highs; both have churned :06.6 in the lows. Long remains the favorite in the 6-yard dash, his :06.0 tops among Big Eight competitors this season.
Though Ryun has run only one competitive mile, his 4:06.2 leads the pack. No times have been recorded for Ryun in the two-mile since a minor leg injury has forced him to withdraw from two races.
Those top performances give the Jayhawks Big Eight bests in 7 of 14 scheduled events.
Favorites in the other events include Oklahoma State's Larry Curts in the pole vault (16-6). K-State's Ray McGill in the high jump (6'10"），Colorado's Dan Peterson in the 880 (1:52.4)，and Oklahoma's Cline Johnson in the 600 (1:09.6).
Career bests have been set by 25 KU trackmen already this season.
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