Hawks go after all-sports crown as favored tracksters host meet
Hopeful of wrapping up a second straight Big Eight all-sports crown on its own premises, Kansas hosts the rest of the conference this weekend in the 63rd annual spring sports carnival that determines championships in track, golf and tennis.
In addition to those three events, Kansas' baseball team, still owning a mathematical shot at the title, welcomes league-leading Iowa State to Quigley Field for an important three-game series Friday and Saturday.
The Jayhawks go into the big weekend with a 2½ point lead
over Kansas State in the allsports derby. Nebraska, Missouri, Oklahoma and Iowa State
are within striking distance of the two leaders.
With Kansas' surprising baseball club almost assured of a first division finish and the track
squad a solid favorite to wrap up a fourth straight outdoor championship, the Jayhawks will be anxiously awaiting developments on the golf course and tennis courts in their quest for the all-sports flag.
The stage is set and the participants are ready to perform in the 63rd annual Big Eight Track and Field Championships at Lawrence. Head track coach Bob Timmons is displaying optimism about his team and the scheduling of the meet on Friday and Saturday.
Any concern that Timmons might have had about the campus strike and its effect on the status of student officials was quieted Tuesday when he attended his track and field class.
"Most of them will be there," he said. "I do not think we will have any problems at all."
"We have real good depth and quality in the weight events," he said. "We can score in the pole vault and long jump, but will have to hustle to score in the high jump."
"It is hard to tell what will happen in the middle distances," Timmons said. "They (KU runners) have been running relays all year and you can't count on a relay split. We have a chance to do well with Brian McElroy, Jim Neihouse, Doug Smith and Mike Solomon."
But what of KU's chances to win the team title?
"If we get great efforts on the track, comparable to the field events, then we will have a terrific conference meet," Timmons said.
KU hosts Big 8 golf tourney; Pokes should defend crown
Kansas hosts the annual Big Eight Golf Championships Friday and Saturday at the Lawrence Country Club in a 54-hole tourney played over the par 72, 6,500-yard course.
Each of the Big Eight schools will enter five men. Team scoring will be based on the four low individual scores from each team. The low individual score is medalist.
Oklahoma State, the defending champion, will again be the favorite. The Cowboys have four players back from last year's team, including Mike Holder, their no. 1 man, and Mark Hayes, who tied for third in the medalist rankings last year with a 216.
KU, playing on its home course, hopes to improve on its seventh place standing of last year. The Jayhawks have been paced by Jim Dennerline, Paola freshman averaging just under 76 strokes, with a low of 68 at Missouri. A pair of veterans, Jack Rogers, Keokuk, Ia., senior, with a 78 average, and Roger Wells, Denver sophomore, averaging 77, give KU needed experience. Other Jayhawk average scores are Craig Delongy, Derby sophomore, 77.5, and Warren Wood, Independence senior, 78.5.
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The golfers will play 36 holes on Friday and 18 on Saturday. Members of the top two teams along with the top three individuals not on these two teams will qualify for the NCAA championships in June at Columbus, Ohio.
Oklahoma State has won all but one of the Big Eight golf championships since 1958 and has four members of last year's championship unit back this year. KU freshman sensation Dennerline thinks they will be hard to beat: "I think our best chance is for second behind Oklahoma State. It would be awfully hard to beat them."
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