Friday, April 17, 1964
University Daily Kansan
Page 5
Omaha's Williams Leads Sprint Classic
Terry Williams learned to run hard as a lad of 10, chasing down his more fortunate neighborhood friends who owned bicycles.
"I always did like to run even when I wasn't chasing bicycles," Williams continues. "Just challenges among the neighborhood gang at different distances. There's where I really started. I came out of all that thinking. I was pretty fast."
He was . . . and is. he beat Rocket Roger (a brother of Gale Sayers) in OU's opening indoor dual this winter against Doane College. This means he equalled the American record. Unofficially he had a tie for about a month before Florida A & M's Bob Hayes scorched that :05.9 in the National AAU.
WILLIAMS ALSO OWNS a 100 victory over Sayers, clipping him in a dual against Washburn last spring. During the season he clicked off two : 69.5 centuries and one straightaway 220 as low as 20.8.
Williams was third in the NAIA 100 last year, but was knocked out of the 220 even before it started by jumping twice in the final. He ran second to Sayers in the CIC Indoor 60 last month and won the 300 in :31.2 after setting a record of :30.0 in the prelims.
He is certain to be a contender here when 100-yard dash finalists go to the post in the 39th Kansas Relays. Sayers barely lost this crown to Purdue's Nate Adams last year, but is ineligible for a repeat try since he is running his fourth year for Coach Lloyd Cardwell.
As usual the traffic will be thick. Adams, third in the NCAA 100 and 220 last year, is expected to defend his title. The early checklist shows such other luminaries as Houston's Boyd Timmons, fourth here last year, and his new teammate, Mike Spratt, plus a Big Eight gang of Rick Beldner, Missouri's Indoor 60 champion; Anthony Watson, Oklahoma; Dale Alexander, Kansas State, and Bob Henson, KU.
YOU GET THE idea from Cardwell, a three-time conference hurdles champion for Nebraska in the
OSU-NUSpat Spikes Relay
There's a mile relay feud boiling in the Big Eight Conference that is certain to claim a spectacular share of the spotlight when Midwest and Southwest spiked-shoe aces faceoff in the KU and Drake Relays.
The principals are Oklahoma State and Nebraska, seldom rivals in any sport until the Cowpokes were welcomed into the old Big Seven in 1957
The flame was lit at the outset of the past indoor season when the Huskers nudged the Waddies in a dual at Lincoln on a new track record of 3:21.5. OS clocked 3:22.8.
THE RESULT PROMPTED Poke boss Ralph Higgins to remark, "They won't ever beat us again."
This was tall talk about an opponent that showed such powers as veteran Gil Gebo and new soph sensation Dave Crook in its lineup. But that didn't bother Hig. He'd spat major mouthfuls before and, more often than not, backed them up with high performance from his teams.
The Waddies won the rematch at the conference games in Kansas City, coming within six-tenths of the league record in 3:18.2, as Nebraska clocked 3:21.
But the Huskers stung the Pokes in the Chicago Daily News meet in 3:18.1 after State anchorman Ray Bothwell went down in a leg-tangling collision with Crock in the bell lap. OS was fourth in a four-team field on 3:23.0, good considering Bothwell lost contact with the field after his fall.
TWO NIGHTS LATER in the National Federation at Milwaukee, the Cowboys pulled even again by edging Nebraska four-tenths on a 3:18.0.
Higgins long has been known to board his runners for an all-out effort in the mile relay, the climax-event of any cinder carnival.
mid-thirties, that the 5-11, 170-pound Williams can be as good as Sayers.
"He's a stronger boy," Lloyd points out. "His times were consistently better than Roger's as a freshman. We've had to work a lot on his starts.
"He was coming up straight as
soon as he left the blocks. Then he had a habit of diving for the tape when he got within three or four yards of it instead of running through. When he did this he quit using his arms.
"You quit running when you quit using your arms.
tance. We've run him in a lot of 500's and 440's this year. Yes, with experience he might be as good as Roger."
"Actually, the 220 is his best dis-
Right now Cardie is desperately searching for two more passable sprinters to fill out what could be formidable 440 and 880 relay quartets.
Awaits Swimming Pool
Gymnasium To Go Up in Phases
By Susan Flood
KU will have a new gymnasium within a few years, but it may have to wait awhile for a swimming pool.
The one-million dollars allocated for the new gymnasium will include only what one-million dollars can include, Henry Shenk, chairman of the physical education department. said.
"WELL BUILD AS many facilities into phase one of the new building as we can, but no one can say whether a pool can be covered," Prof. Shenk said.
Plans for phase one include at least two separate gymnasiums with two basketball courts in each one, gymnastic rooms, men's and women's dressing rooms and office and classrooms.
Phase one will take up at least one of the intramural fields but space has been allotted east of the
parking lot to level and plant several more playing fields.
"We'll still be in fine shape as far as intramurals stand," Prof. Shenk said. "Robinson annexes back of Malott will stand for quite awhile."
WHEN MORE MONEY is available, the second phase of the gymnasium will provide further facilities. There is no deadline set for start or completion of either phase. More instructors will be hired as enrollment increases dictate the need, Prof. Shenk said.
Keith Lawton, vice chancellor for operations, said both the need for expanded gymnasium facilities and the need for the space Robinson now occupies necessitate the building of the new gymnasium, even though the phase plan is not the most desirable.
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