Cop bowling, chess, billiards titles
Kansas entries impressive in ACUI meet
By JAY THOMAS
Kansan Sports Writer
With Pat Brune, Lance Williams, and Jim Brook leading the way, Kansas entries grabbed five 'firsts' and four 'seconds' in
the Region 11 ACUI recreation tournament championships at Kansas State this weekend.
Eighteen schools from four states competed in the recreation olympiad with awards presented to first-place winners
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By LUIS F. SANTOS Assistant Sports Editor
Five Big Eight soccer clubs met recently at Kansas State and organized a Big Eight soccer tournament to be played at K-State April 26-27. All eight schools will participate.
Now soccer fans in the Big Eight schools and their respective soccer clubs will have something to look forward to.
In the past the KU Soccer Club had no steady game schedule, but functioned more in a "let's practice and see who's available" basis. And when they played at home, behind Robinson Gymnasium, there were usually more players than spectators. Many players complained because of the "lack of recognition" in playing before a handful of people, especially after the hard practices.
Now the players will be able to prepare for scheduled games and play before bigger audiences.
The Big Eight soccer clubs hope to make the tournament an annual event, and to form a soccer championship playing home and away games starting next year.
Since the tournament will be played on an intramural level, faculty members, graduate and undergraduate students are eligible to play. But first they'll have to make the team.
Monev will be the soccer clubs' biggest obstacle.
Of the Big Eight clubs only KU's and K-State's receive any financial support from the university. And it's not too much. The other clubs operate on self-imposed fees and other methods of collection. Colorado's and Iowa State's soccer club representatives were unable to make the organizational meeting because of a lack of traveling funds.
KU's Soccer Club budget provides only for the uniforms, a few soccer balls, and transportation. A game at Nebraska is the farthest they've been able to schedule. All medical costs due to injuries are each player's responsibility.
Of the eight clubs only KU's and K-State's have permanent, official size fields. The others do with whatever field is available.
So far the Wildcat's club has the upper hand. They enjoy the largest budget, have the best field and attract the most fans. K-State was chosen as the officiell office for the Big Eight soccer league, and its soccer club president, Hank Ruter, as the league's president.
in bowling, billiards, chess, table tennis and bridge.
Forming the tournament was the best approach the soccer clubs could have taken toward generating interest and stabilizing soccer in the Big Eight schools. But it won't be an easy process. Soccer is not the hottest sport in the United States. It's not even warm—as the recent attempt to establish professional soccer proved.
On the other hand, it isn't a dull unexciting sport. There's a reason why soccer is the worlds most popular sport, why it's watched by more people than any other sport around the globe. And it's bound to arrive.
KU's men bowlers, deadlocked with Oklahoma State at the top of the Mid-States traveling league, finished right behind the Cowboys in the 18-school team event Friday, 2,884 to 2,746.
Kansas women placed fourth in 7-school team competition but nonetheless enjoyed some noteworthy individual triumphs.
Each school sent two doubles teams with the fifth members of each squad being matched with
Miss Brune's sparkling 614 series (197, 200, 217) outdistanced 33 other keylers to win the women's singles. With her 565 doubles and 472 team scores, she captured the all-events title as well with a women's high 183 average.
Miss Brune qualified for an all-expenses-paid trip to San Diego in April to vie for the Women's International Bowling Congress' college division championship.
Kansas gals rolled to 1-2-3 sweep of the 17-team doubles competition. Brenda Chancellor (509) coupled with Central Missouri State's Linda Fowler (523) to garner top honors.
As expected, Brook's hot cue proved too much for regional competition as the defending champion easily won the ACUI's three-rail billiard tournament. Last year's national runner-up, Brook will again advance to the national collegiate meet to be held this spring.
KU's Hamed Lias and Jay Ryan stormed into the finals of the table tennis doubles, undefeated in five matches, before bowing to a St. Louis University duo, 3-0, 3-1 in the best-of-five matches.
Kansas Union recreation director Warren Boozer was told by the chess tourney's director that teams have "almost given up trying for first—they know KU just about always locks that spot up."
The winners in each event, number of entries, and the KU finishers:
**Team** (18)—1 Oklahoma State, 2884;
2 Kansas, 2746; 3 Kansas State, 2698;
4 Missouri, 2691; 5 Central Missouri
State, 2658.
Singles (651)—1 Mile Ahrens, SW
Mo. State, 620; 11 Bill Bott, 569; 14
Zimmerman, 525; 25 Ron Mick,
538; 588, Simmerman, 524; 39 Dave
goodguttur, 113
Williams moved his way to first in the individual chess championships, and, along with fellow sohpomore Randy Mills, won the team event-making them the fourth Jayhawk pair in succession to bring back this title.
Bill Bott (646) and Ron Mick (566) combined to take second in the men's doubles, with Bott (518, 646, 569) nabbing fifth among 65 competitors in the all-events.
**Doubles** (331—1 John Miller (634) and Steve Hill (630); OSU, 1264; 2 Ron Miek (566) and Bill Bott (646), 1212; 10 Steve Zimmerman (579) and Joe Rovansen (524), 103; 31 Don Holman (472) K. Kuei Jerry Rovansen (437), SJL Uos, 909
their counterparts on other teams.
Singles (34) — 1 Pat Brune, KU, 614;
5 Kay Coder, 524; 6 Gloria Edwards,
515; 8 Judy Heal, 510; 29 Brenda
Chancellor, 409
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Team (13)—1 KU "A" (Lance Williams and Randy Mills): 2 Kansas State; 3 KU "B" (Robert Woronick and Daniel Mills): 4 Wichita State: 5 Michigan: 6 Michigan
Individual (26-1)—Lance Williams
Jones on ronnie:kick. 6 Randy
Mills: 8 Leroy Gilla.
Doubles (17)—1. Brenda Chancellor, 2. Samantha Gilligan, Mo. State (523), 1032; 2 Kay Coder (468) and Judy Heal (559), 1027; 3 John Hale (565) and Gloria Edwards (455), 1020
All-Events (65) - 1 Steve Hill, OSU.
All-Events (69) - 1 Steve Hill, OSU.
Wiltse, OSU; 1742; 1 Boll Billt, 1733; 7 Steve Zimmerman, 1688; 22 Ron Mick,
1690; 1691; 1692; 1693; 1694; 1695; 1696; 1697; 1698; 1699; 1700; 1701; 1702;
Goodpasture, 1584.
Team (7) — I Central M. State, 2381;
2 SW Mo. State, 2339; 3 Kansas State,
2328; 4 Kansas, 2300; 5 Wichita State,
2271.
All-Events (34)—1 Pat Brune, KU,
1651; 3 Judve Holm, 1520; 9 Gloria Edwards,
1467; 13 Brenda Chancellor,
1411; 18 Kay Coder, 1379.
1 Jim Brook, KU; 2 Nershl, Ottawa;
3 Ganza, Tarklo.
TABLE TENNIS
Singles—I Sandner, Central Mo.
Hamed Luis, Louis U. 8; tled)
Hamed Lius, KU
CHESS
Doubles, M. Der, and Arrovo, St Louis U; 2 Hamed Lias and Jay Ryan, Lois I.