Finals to be televised
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A 34-station television network over eight states will carry the finals of the 63rd annual Big Eight Conference outdoor track and field championships (Saturday, May 16) from the University of Kansas, Mary L. Wodlinger, president of Intermedia, Inc., and Wayne Duke, Big Eight commissioner, announced today.
Air time for the live, color telecast will be 1:00 p.m., with all the final events scheduled for Saturday to be covered during the two-hour presentation. The announcing team for the meet will include Max Falkenstien,
sports director of WIBW-TV in Topeka, Kansas, and Bruce Rice, sports director of KCMO-TV in Kansas City, Missouri.
"We are quite pleased to present this year's championships, which will feature nine runners who have been involved in the setting of four world records, and have this additional opportunity to acquaint sports fans with the Big Eight's overall program," said Duke.
"Traditionally, the Big Eight has been extremely strong nationally in track and field. Certainly, this year is no exception, as evidenced by Kansas' NCAA indoor team title and excellent
performances by other Conference individuals and teams at the United States Track and Field Federation meets and on the Midlands relays circuit," he said.
Included in the field will be Kansas State's Ken Swenson, who holds the fastest indoor 880 double in history and is the Big Eight's reigning indoor 880 and mile champion. Last Friday, he anchored the Cat two-mile relay team to a new American record, with a sparkling 1:46.7 880 baton carry.
KU women's tennis squad to compete in Atchison
The University of Kansas Women's intercollegiate tennis team will resume competition Saturday in Atchison. It will be the first meet since last weekend's second place finish in a Wichita quadangular meet. The weekend invitational meet at Mount St. Scholastica will host a large number of small colleges.
Suzie Cammon, the women's tennis coach, said the meet will be of "marathon" length because
Ruggers enter meet
The KU rugby club plays tomorrow and Sunday in its roughest test of the year—the annual tournament in Chicago sanctioned by the United States Rugby Union.
The KU ruggers, who placed third in the 1968 USRU tourney in Chicago, carry an undefeated record north. They have not lost in eight games.
Other teams entered in the tournament are defending champion, the St. Louis Falcons, Notre Dame, Chicago Lions, Indiana, Illinois and others.
The leading scorers for the KU ruggers are Kim Ewonus, Wichita junior, Jim Thurman, Overland Park junior, and Mark Mullins, Overland Park sophomore. The captain of the club is Shorty Lawrence, Scott City junior, and the co-captains are Bob Marquis, Kansas City, Mo. sophomore and Phil Conner, Detroit, Mich. senior.
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they invited everyone they could think of.
"I was pleased considering they competed against girls who have already had a meet and considering that was the first meet for us," she said.
Miss Cammon said she was happy with last weekend's second place finish behind Southwest Missouri State.
Miss Cammon said that the team realized that they had some work to do.
KU's representatives to the Atchison meet will all be new players. Sandy Stanek and Margaret McBride will play in singles competition and Joannie Lundstrom and Brenda Grimes will compete together in doubles matches.
"I want to see these kids in competition so that when I pick a team for the Missouri Valley Invitational," Miss Cammon said, "I can fairly evaluate their skill."
KU golf team in Plains meet
ACADEMY AWARD
The KU golf team will tee off today in Wichita in the Great Plains Intercollegiate Championship Tournament. Golfers from several schools will play 36-holes today and conclude the tourney with 18-holes tomorrow.
Members of the KU team accompanying Jayhawk coach Wilbur Norton to Wichita are Jim Dennerline, Paola freshman; David Ross, Arkansas City senior; Jack Rogers, Keokuk, Ia. senior; Warren Wood, Independence senior; and Craig DeLangy, Derby sophomore.
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