KU weightmen grab wins
Records fall at action-filled Drake Relays
By DON BAKER
Kansan Sports Writer
Action in the 61st annual Drake Relays Friday and hot and furious as fans delighted in 78 degree temperatures at witnessing seven meet records fall and one tied in addition to seeing a world record being bettered.
But Friday's action was only anti-climatic as Saturday produced more meet records and
near unforgettable happenings in the university sprint medley relay.
The sprint medley began with Rice, Nebraska and Kansas State moving to the front as expected. However surprises soon followed beginning with a mental blunder by Kansas State's heralded Ken Swenson.
Weird happenings
Swenson, who runs the anchor half mile for K-State, was not ready for the handoff when quarter miler Dale Alexander finished his carry. Swenson, the premier anchor man on the relays circuit this season, was standing in the outside lane thinking to himself about only heaven knows what.
Swenson finally snapped from his spell but by the time Alexander got the baton in his teammate's hand, K-State was well out of the race. Swenson admiringly ran a fine 1:48.5 half including a staggering finish when he was completely spent, but the damage was done and the Wildcats finished fourth with Rice winning.
Before fans could realize why Swenson blundered the sprint medley experienced its second wierd happening when Nebraska, which finished second, protested the race.
A Rice team member ran alongside anchor man Steve Straub at the finish which is a violation of the rules. However, the judges decided to let the finish stand as
run, but awarded gold watches to Nebraska. This was done, judges explained, to erase any doubt as to whether the presence of the Rice runner had any effect on the final outcome.
Both teams were clocked at 3:19.3.
Another calamity occurred in the 480-yard shuttle hurdle relay where runners start when touched by their teammates. The race progressed as expected until judges ruled that all four teams violated the touch-off between the third and fourth runner. All were disqualified but since all teams were effected the same judges decided to let the race stand with Texas A&M the winner.
Knop impressive
The victory made the Aggies the big winner of the meet with three titles.
Of the seven meet marks bettered on Friday, the most impressive was in the discus where KU senior Doug Knop heavened the platter 203 feet and 10 inches, bettering the old mark by more than 12 feet. The throw was also the best ever recorded by any Big Eight perforner. The Jayhawks made a clean sweep in the event when Karl Salb fired a toss of 190-3 for second place.
KU also recorded a precedence for Big Eight teams when the Jayhawks ran the four-mile in 16:31.4. However, the effort could only gain the Jayhawks a third place finish behind Bowling Green and Western Michigan.
The Royals chased started Dave McNally in the first with run-scoring singles by Lou Piniella, E迪Kirkpatrick and Jerry Adair. Piniella knocked in another run in the second with a single, Kirkpatrick homered in the fifth and Kansas City's final tally came on a single by Pat Kelly in the seventh.
Pete Richert, the Orioles' sixth pitcher, saved the victory for Dick Hall, the victim of Oliver's homer. The victory moved the Orioles into first place in the American League East.
Orioles nip Kansas City
Salb highlighted Saturday's action for KU when he easily won the shot put with a heavie of 63-9¼. The Crossset, Ark. junior was disappointed with the throw despite winning. He later explained that it seemed that he does not throw the shot as well when he has previously thrown the discus
Brooks Robinson doubled home another pair in the fifth.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPI)—Don Buford's three-run homer down the right field line in the eighth inning carried Baltimore to a 10-9 victory over Kansas City Sunday, the 14th straight loss by the Royals to the Orioles.
The Orioles jumped off to a 5-0 lead in the first as Oliver's throwing error let in one run and set up a two-run double by Brooks Robinson and a two-run homer by Dave Johnson.
Jayhawk hammer throw specialist Bill Penny was forced to take an unaccustomed second place finish when he was beaten by De Autremont of Oregon State. Penney's throw of 191-1 was nearly 19 feet short of Autremont's 209-9.
The line drive off loser Al Fitz-
morris came after Clay Dalrymple
walked and pinch-hitter
Terry Crowley singled. It offset
Bob Oliver's three-run smash
that put the Royals ahead for the
first time in the sixth.
Timmons unhappy
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KU coach Bob Timmons expressed dissatisfaction with the total Jayhawk performance.
"I wasn't real pleased with the way we ran relays," Timmons said in a telephone conversation. "We drowned the baten in both
the sprint medley and the quarter mile relays," he said.
"We dropped the baton in both
Salb and Penney.
Timmons did express pleasure with the field events. He noted in particular Knop's record setting throw in the discs in addition to
Iowa where the Jayhawks win face Southern Illinois and Iowa State.
The following weekend, May 15-16, KU will host the Big Eight meet.
Timmons said this weekend is an "off" weekend in which the team will recuperate from injuries and prepare for next weekend's triangular meet in Ames,
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