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University Daily Kansan
Friday, April 19, 1963
Small Texas School Sweeps '62 Relays
Representing a small Texas school, a coach and 11 men arrived on a Friday morning last year to compete in the Kansas Relays.
The same 11-man team and coach left Lawrence the next night to return to the small Texas school, but not until establishing two KU Relay records, and becoming the first team in Relays history to win six relay events and have one of their team members voted the meet's outstanding performer.
TEXAS SOUTHERN, the small Texas school, and its coach Stanley Wright also left Mt. Oread with a great deal of admiration from a crowd of 15,000 persons.
In all, eight KU Relays records were broken in the 37th annual Kansas Relays carnival.
Texas Southern competing in the college division started its record assault on Friday when Ray Sadler, Homer Jones, T. J. Bell and Major Adams finished the sprint medley in 3:19.8, two and eight-tenths seconds better than the previous record.
SOUTHERN'S other records came in the mile relay on Saturday, when
Mevlin Houston, Wesley Blackmoon, Saddler and Lester Milburn finished in 3:11, knocking six-tenths of a second off their own record set Friday in the preliminaries.
Southern's first place finish in the distance medley came with two and three-tenths seconds of the listed Relays record and their 400-yard relay effort was two-tenths of a second slower than the record.
Texas Southern's first in the half-mile relay was sixth-tenths of a second off the record and the two mile relay team finished 11 and one-tenths second off the Relays mark.
Southern's Saddler, who ran the first leg on the spring medley crew, anchored the two-mile victory and ran the third leg in the mile relay, was selected the meet's most outstanding performer by the sportswriters.
SADDLER had 10 1/11 votes and Pat Clohessy, Houston, who won the three-mile run and the Glenn Cunningham mile, was second with four votes.
KU's track team won one first at the meet. The Jayhawker four-mile
team of Mike Fulghum, Bill Thornton, Ted Reisinger and Bill Dotson set a new Relays record with a 16:53.1 time. Their effort was the fastest ever in the Big Eight and five-tenths of a second better than the collegiate record.
Bill Miller, of McMurray, set a new record in the broad jump with a 25-6 leap. The mark, according to the field judge, came when wind was below the maximum 4.5 miles per hour, even though winds between five and ten m.p.h. prevailed throughout the meet.
THE FAVORED JAYHAWKERS fell behind Missouri in the two-mile relay as the Tigers finished in 7:24.2, two-tenths of a second faster than KU and good enough for a new Relays record.
In that race KU's Kirk Hagan gained a first leg lead with a 1.53.2 half-mile compared to Jerry McFadden's 1:53.7. The Tigers' Gilperte outran Ted Reisinger 1:50.8 to 1:51.6 but Bill Thornton brought the Jayhawkers even with his 1:49.2 half mile compared to Bill Rawson's 1:49.5.
Missouri's anchor man Jim Baker,
finished with a 1:50.2 mile miler
KU's Bill Dotson ran a 1:55.3. Baker
crossed the line with a 15-ward lead
Fred Hansen of Rice set a new Relays record of $15 - 6\frac{1}{4}$ in the pole vault outperforming John Uelses and Henry Wadsworth, who tied at $15 - 1\frac{3}{4}$ in their exhibition.
WITH 5,000 FANS remaining,
Hansen cleared the bar on his third
ry. Hansen also tried unsuccessfully
for the collegiate record of 15-10%
and it was 6:18 p.m. before the 37th annual Relays was completed.
Phil Mulkey, competing unattached, successfully defended his decathlon titles and became the winningest athlete in Relays history. Mulkey now owes six first place finishes in the decathlon, placing him ahead of Glenn Cunningham, who owns five firsts in one event.
Mulkey piled up a total of 7,480 points to break his record of 7,268 set the year before.
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'Rocket' Heads Century Field
Omaha's Roger Sayers is one of the nation's better sprinters, maybe just a shade below the frontline greats who dominate the national scene.
He wins a lot, but he loses some because of the company he keeps. As a sophomore last year, he was defeated for the Kansas Relays title by a long-time antagonist, Nebraska's Ray Knaub. He beat Knaub the next week at Drake, but was third behind Florida A & M's world 100 co-record holder, and Nate Adams of Purdue.
IN THE NCAA, he whipped another worthy, Villanova's Paul Drayton, but trailed Oregon's Harry Jerome and Villanova's Frank Budd, who share the .09.2 world mark with Hayes, plus San Jose State's Dennis Johnson. He was fifth in the 220 behind Jerome, Drayton, Adams and Texas Southern's Homer Jones.
In between Drake and the NCAA,
he upset Hayes for the NAIA century
crown as both were clocked in :99.5.
Jones was third. Sayers was third
behind Jones and Hayes in the 220.
The "Rocket" as he is affectionately called, earned spots on the U.S. team which met Russia and Poland in international duels, by edging Drayton for third in the NAAU 100 behind Hayes and Jerome. The latter being a Canadian could not qualify for a U.S. berth. Sayers edged Jones out of second behind Drayton to claim his 220 slot.
ALL THIS PROVES Sayers is a good one. But, in a good field, he may fall to third, fourth or fifth. He has run :09.4 a couple of times; :09.5 a couple of dozen. How does a guy, hanging on the fringe of near-greatness, fight the frustrating battle of trying to cross the threshold? What does a :09.4 spinner think when he must tackle the :09.2 and :09.3 sprinters.
"I've got a set routine I follow ahead of the race. I spend more time than most with calisthenics. Then I do some jogging. I'm always conscientious about warming up because I know what it feels like not to be able to run because of a muscle pull.
"I try not to think about the race," explains Sayers. "If I feel myself getting tense I just tell myself . . . You don't have anything to worry about. Just do your best.' I know who I'm running against. They can be beat the same as I can.
"AHEAD OF ALL" this I always check the track. I find out if it's soft or hard. Sometimes there are soft spots in certain lanes. For instance, if the front of my lane is soft I know I can't come out with a lot of power on my start.
"No, I don't mind watching my opponents run in the heats. I'm fascinated watching any good boy run whether it's the sprints or any distance. I just love running. When I'm not running I like to watch good boys perform."
Dissatisfied with his start last year, Sayers changed it radically during the indoor campaign. "I had trouble in the first 25-30 yards last year," he explains. "I was coming out fast enough, but I wasn't reaching maximum speed in the first quarter of the race. Last year I started with my feet only four inches apart. Now I've spread them 15 inches. Judging from the few indoor meets I've had, I think this change has helped."
IF YOU DIDN'T already know, Roger is the older brother of Kansas' all-Big Eight football halfback, Gale, not a bad track man himself. Roger is a better than ordinary halfback too, earning all-CIC varsity selection as a sophomore despite his 5-8, 155-pound physique.
"I never did beat him in a race," laughs Gale, a :06.2 sprinter in the indoor 30 yard dush.
Savers . . . . Roger, that is . . . could bring down Omaha's first Kansas Relays gold medal. However, he will have to beat two champions: Knaub, who edged him in the final five yards last year, and Baylor's Bill Kemp, who won the 1961 race.
The "Rocket" also will be anchoring 440 and 880 relay teams which figure to be much improved over last year's fourth-place finishers. Bruce Hunter, a capable No.3 man returns. The 1-2 spots will be filled by freshmen Terry Williams, who clocked 97.4 in the indoor 75, and Melvin Wade, both Omaha Central products.
Relays Referee Is No Stranger
Noah, in his 16th year at the Denton, Tex., school, has coached nine relay teams to first place in the KU Relays. The present distance medley record was set by an Eagle team in 1961, the first year North Texas State competed in the university division
Winton (Pop) Noah, track coach at North Texas State and referee of the 38th annual KU Relays, is no stranger to the Mt. Oread track carnival.
Noah was track coach for 20 years at Adamson High School in Dallas before returning to his alma mater in 1947. His high school teams won 11 district championships.
He was named to the Hall of Honor of the Texas High School Coaches' Association last summer.
As an undergraduate at North Texas, Noah lettered four times in track and three times in football. He was graduated in 1827.
North Texas placed fourth in the Missouri Valley Conference track meet last year. The Eagle freshman squad won the conference first-year championship.
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