Flashina the winner's smile...
Larbi Oukada, Fort Hays State distance ace, is all smiles as he is presented with a Relays watch. He shattered the six-mile record by more than a minute with a 28:45.4 clocking.
By CHARLIE SMITH UPI Sports Writer
Carlos, Matson bolster KU Relays' prestige
A meager relay field will be bolstered by world-class performers John Carlos and Randy Matson this weekend as the 45th annual Kansas Relays gets under way.
Carlos, C—holder of the world record of 9.1 in the 100-yard dash, will run in Saturday's open 100. Matson, only man ever to surpass 70 feet with the 16-pound shot, will compete in an invitational event also Saturday.
Best of the bunch is Kansas State, which swept the two-mile and sprint medley at the recent Texas Relays. Host Kansas, however, should push the Wildcats in the two-mile. The Jayhawks bypassed that event at Texas due to illness to one of its half-milers.
The relays, usually the highlight of the meet, have dwindled to an essentially Big Eight Conference field. With no Southwest Conference teams participating, because of a league rule requiring five home meets with other league members, the university relays have drawn only five schools outside the Big Eight.
If Kansas can stay close through the first three legs, the Jayhawks' Brian McElroy and Kansas State's Ken Swenson could wage a great finish.
Kansas State swept the two-mile relay on the Texas-Kansas-Drake Relays circuit last year.
Carlos may face a stiff challenge in the 100 from Missouri's Mel Gray. The Tiger ace will run in the university 100, however, and whether he chooses to come back against Carlos in the open event is debatable.
Gray ran a wind-aided 9.3 in the prelims at Texas and came back to win the finals in 9.4 against the wind. Others to run against Carlos, the Olympian and ex-San Jose State star, include Earl Harris of Oklahoma State, Ivory Crockett of Southern Illinois and Andrew Hopkins of S.F. Austin, Tex.
Matson also will face stiff opposition, mainly from Kansas. The University of Kansas will send its fine duo of Karl Salb, the resigning NCAA champion, and Steve Wilham against the former Texas A&M hefty. Emporia State's Al Feuerbach, the NAIA champ, also is in the event.
KU hosts shootout
The KU rifle team hosts the 12th annual Big Eight Gallery Smallbore Rifle Tournament today through Sunday at the rifle range in the basement of the Military Science Building.
Five-man teams from the conference schools will fire a full international course consisting of four targets each of proine, kneeling and standing with a time limit of 200 minutes and 1,200 points possible.
Oklahoma State University was the 1969 winner with a score of 5,375 points out of 6,000. The top two shooters last year were Don Pate of OSU and Chris Stark of KU with scores of 1,107.
Today Kansas State will fire
two teams at 2 p.m. and KU and another K-State team will fire at 5:30 p.m.
Saturday's lineup includes the Missouri and Colorado firing at 7 a.m., ISU and MU shooting at 11:30 a.m., Oklahoma and Nebraska firing at 3 p.m., and Nebraska's second team firing at 6:30 p.m.
Oklahoma State will close out the shooting by firing at 10:30 a.m. on Sunday.
Firing for Kansas will be Mike Jenkins, Salina sophomore, Mary Arnold, Holton junior, Carol Waltz, Orange, Tex., junior, Linn Covey, Ft. Leavenworth freshman, and Mark Bernstein, Overland Park senior.
Golfers to Nebraska, Iowa
The KU golf team will be busy Friday and Saturday as it plays tournaments in Lincoln, Neb,
and Ames. Ia. Two Big Eight teams, Nebraska and Iowa State will host the round-robin play.
Coach Wilbur Norton expects his Jayhawks to show continued improvement in this weekend's action. Last week KU finished third in a five-team round-robin at Columbia, Mo., nine strokes
behind Missouri. The five Jayhawk golfers took 600 strokes to complete the 36 holes.
Leading the way at Missouri was Paola freshman Jim Dennerline. He was meet medalist with a 143, including a four-under-par 68. Teammate Craig Delongy, Derby sophomore, finished with 147.
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In addition to KU, Nebraska and Iowa State, other teams playing this weekend will be Missouri and Kansas State.
Five shatter six-mile
The 45th edition of the Kansas Relays got off with a bang Thursday afternoon as records were set in the only two open events of the day.
Five men in the 6-mile run bettered the Relays record with Larbi Oukada of Fort Hays State taking the first position. Oukada raced home 28:45.4 after the starting gun sounded. His time bettered the previous record, set by Craig Runyan of Colorado in 1969, by nearly a minute.
Runyan, competing for the Colorado track club, took third although he improved on his last year's time of 29:44.3 by 39 seconds.
Three other runners bettered the previous record. Oscar Moore of the Southern Illinois track club, took second with a time of 28:52.6 Dennis McQuire of Iowa State grabbed the fourth spot with a 29:12.2 clocking. Alvin Penka of Fort Hays was fifth with a 29:21.0.
Oukada said after the race that he could possibly have done better but he wanted to save himself for the steeplechase.
The other event the women's
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Barbara Lawson, running for the Colorado Pacers, broke the 2:20.7 mark she set last year with a 2:12.1 clocking. She was followed home by her teammate Donna TenEyck who was also under the previous record with a 2:17.7.
The Glenn Cunningham mile run, an invitational event, also has lured a fine field. Heading the cast will be three Pacific Coast Club members, Tom Von Ruden, John Lawson and John Mason.
Ten of last year's individual champions will return to defend their titles, including Jim Crawford in the Cunningham mile.
For the first time, the meet will be run on a synthetic track. The old track, plagued in recent years by wet weather, has been replaced by a Tartan surface and expanded from six to eight lanes.
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