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up here to be a quarterback. They 'red shirted' me my first year and I knew I had no future in football so I decided I was going to go into track.
"In the eighth grade I was too slow to be a runner and I couldn't jump," he said, "so there was only one thing left for me to be and that was a weightman.
"When I first started out I threw the discus for an hour to an hour and a half each day and I finally got on to it." Knop said. "I have always been able to throw it since then, so I just stayed with it."
Wilhelm and Salb will be batting in a world class shotput field which includes world record holder Randy Matson, but Knop will be throwing the discus with more in mind than just winning. His fancee, Debbie Blattner, St. Louis sophomore, will be one of three Relay's queens and Knop thinks this might add a little pressure to his competition.
"I want to win this more than any other meet with the exception of the Nationals this year," Knop said, "because Debbie is the queen and I want to be up on the stage with her."
Knop wants to perform well and realizes that the competition will precede the wrist watch presentation.
"I will jog a little and stretch my muscles a little bit," he said.
"Before competition I will take one or two throws from the front without going through a full turn. Then I will throw one or two more and if my sail and form is not right, I will throw a few more.
"Iin competition," Knop said, "I will go for a mark on my first throw and on my next two throws I will bomb them out."
He said that his frame of mind in competition sometimes bothers people. He remains quiet.
"I do not care about anybody but myself and my distance," he explained, "and I do not talk to anybody and do not watch anybody else throw."
"Thirty minutes before competition," Salb said, "I will start fooling around with the shot and take a few throws to get my hands used to it. Once in awhile I will set it down to loosen up and may even jog a bit.
"Ten or 15 minutes before I start from the front, I will see how much snap I have," he said. "If it appears that I do not have very much snap I will push a little harder."
Salb said that if he did not have much snap in the release of the shotput it bothered him slightly psychologically and he would pressure himself more in an attempt to get some adrenalin flowing.
His preparation for Saturday's open shotput began three to four weeks ago. He said he thought that this would be one of his most difficult competitions.
"This is one meet in the whole year that I am really going to have to come through in," Salb said, "because I can not expect to beat Matson unless I am perfect."
He said that Matson would be tough to beat "because you can throw one 67-68 feet and he will
The smallest of the three KU weightmen is Wilhelm. He is 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 280 pounds. He will have three preliminary and three final tosses in the shotput and will need a "life time best to be in the competition."
come across the ring and throw one five or 10 inches further just because he is a great competitor."
"I will throw as far as I can," he said, "and concentrate on relaxing and exploding."
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A field of 17 runners, age 35 and over, have entered the Masters Mile to be run for the first time at the Kansas Relays. The race is scheduled at 2:20 p.m. Saturday just ahead of the famed Glenn Cunningham Mile.
Bob Timmons, relays director, said two awards will be made—one for the winner and one to the runner who comes closest to his predicted time.
Prominent among the entries is Jim Hershberger, Wichita oil man who donated $125,000 last summer for installation of KU's new Tartan track which will be used in competition for the first time this week.
Another former Kansas Relays winner in the field is Jan Howell, who led off Kansas' winning four-mile team in the 1956 carnival. Howell, who now lives at Georgetown, Colo., runs with the Denver Track Club.
Also in the field is Hal Higdon, long - time cross - country competitor with the Chicago Track Club and a free lance magazine writer. Last time he was in Lawrence was to write a magazine feature about Jim Ryun three years ago.
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