Monday, May 4, 1964
University Daily Kansan
Page 7
Chambers Becomes A Threat In The Big Eight Triple Jump
KU's 6-4 hurdler, Bill Chambers,
is writing one of the oddest chapters
in Big Eight track. Rarely
working at one of the most complex
events on the card, the Triple
Jump, he already has risen to No.
6 on the all-time Big Eight list.
This came on a bound of 47-51<sup>4</sup> in last weekend's Drake Relays and a 46-10 Saturday against Southern Illinois. The field being what it was at Drake, this leap was good enough only for fifth. But it is notable that only two Kansans, Kent Floerle, the Big Eight's all-time king with a collegiate top of $50-10^{4}$ in 1958, and Blaine Hollinger (48-3) in '56, ever have spanned more ground.
NEBRASKA'S VICTOR Brooks moved up behind Floerke in this same meet on 49-21-2. Oklahoma's Erwin Cook stands at $49-1 \frac{1}{2}$ (1955); Leander Durley, Colorado, 47-10-9 (1963). Then comes Chambers, who, for the moment at least, has out-stripped veteran teammates Glen Martin and Bob Looney, who work overtime on the event.
Significantly, all other members of this clite list, save Durley, were,
or are, natural broad-jumpers. And Durley owns enough built-in spring to clear 6-10%4 in the high jump. Yet Chambers spends the bulk of his practice time on his primary event, the 120 highs.
HIS EFFORT at Drake marked the third consecutive outing in which he has extended his personal best. He was a surprise third in the Big Eight games at Manhattan last May at 45-10, helping Kansas wield a 15 point lick in this event which contributed heavily to its unscheduled snatch of the team championship. His next try didn't come until the Kansas Relays two weeks ago. He reached 46-6, even though failing to gain the final. He added almost a foot at Des Moines as Arizona's Gale Hopkins grazed the Intercollegiate record by $1\frac{1}{4}$ inches at 51-8.
"I didn't even practice before the Drake Relays." Chambers admits. "I didn't even have step marks. I just ran through once then started jumping. Last year I didn't jump until two weeks before the conference meet. Looney and Martin and
I were talking about where we could score points in the league meet. I figured the triple jump would be wide open and the high hurdles looked tough. So I went to work a little. I got over 40 feet against Southern Illinois and a little over 43 against Oklahoma. I found out it was a fun event. I don't feel the pressure like I do in the hurdles.
"I'm going to have to strat practicing more though. Unless I do I'll get to the point where I can't go any farther. Right now I'm not getting a very good jump because I have to take off with my left foot and my right foot is the strong one. I use it for the hop and step so this leaves the left as the takeoff leg for the jump. I've been getting only 15-16 feet. I should be up to 18-19. Now I'm trying to get more speed.
Chambers has improved in the highs too. A i:14.8 and i:14.9 clocker last year, he owns two i:14.5, a i:14.6 and a i:14.7 this spring. He reached the finals at Texas and Drake, although not placing in either. He was third in the Big Eight Indoor at 60 yards.
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