Familiar sight on KU cinder
For the first time in seven years Jim Ryum, world-record holder in the mile, 1,500 meters and half-mile, will not perform in the KU Relays.
Marathon to test runners stamina
A field of 32 hardy souls have entered the first Kansas Relays marathon to be run Saturday morning over country roads southwest of Lawrence.
The marathon course measures 26 miles and 385 yards and is laid out in the general area of Lone Star Lake. The finish line
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will be in front of Wakarusa School which is about seven miles south and west of the Lawrence Holiday Inn.
Bob Timmons, Kansas track coach and director of the relays, said the entire course is over asphalt road and every intersection is marked with an arrow to keep the runners headed in the right direction.
be on hand at each three-mile interval to call out "split" times.
Each mile will be marked with a large number and timers will
Timmons said that aid stations will be set up at the nine-mile mark and every three miles thereafter with cool water and sugared tea available.
The winner will be awarded a Kansas Relays watch and the next four finishers receive silver medals. Bronze medals will go to those placing from sixth through 10th, and all other finishers get gold shoes with a "K."
Talented field ready for mile
A 12-man field, including four sub-4-minute milers and three others who have dipped under 4:02, is set for the Glenn Cunningham Mile, one of Saturday's spotlighted races at the 45th Kansas Relays.
Heading the field for the Cunningham Mile are three members of the Pacific Coast Club—Tom Von Ruden (3:56.9), former Oklahoma State standout; John Mason (3:39.4 for 1,500 meters), ex-Fort Hays State ace, and John Lawson (3:59.3), one-time Kansas NCAA cross-country king.
Rounding out the 12-man lineup are: Lowell Paul (4:03.4), former Kansas star now running with the Chicago' Track Club; Dave Wottle (4:06.5), Bowling Green, fourth in the 1970 NCAA Indoor; Bill Blowett (4:07.2)
Returning to defend his title is Jim Crawford, who finished collegiate competition at Harding College of Arkansas last season.
formerly of Oklahoma, and fifth in the Astrodome championships last winter; Ken Swenson (4:09.3), Kansas State's Big Eight Indoor mile king, and Dickie Morgan, McNeese (La.) State, who ran a 4:04 relay leg at the recent Texas Relays.
The Cunningham Mile, named in honor of Kansas' mile record-holder of the 1930's, goes to the post at 2:30 p.m. Saturday.
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