Relays dedicated to Hershberger
Jim Hershberger, Wichita oilman, sportsman and philanthropist, will be honored at the 45th Kansas Relays next month, meet director Bob Timmons announced Wednesday.
The three-day track carnival April 16-18 will be dedicated to the former Jayhawk spinner, who last summer donated $125,-000 for the installation of an allweather track in Memorial Stadium.
The Kansas Relays will be the first competition staged on the new "Jim Hershberger Track," which was expanded to eight lanes when the synthetic surface was installed.
Hershberger won a Kansas Relays watch in 1951 when he led off the Jayhawks' winning distance medley combine. Earlier that year he anchored KU's championship mile relay team at the Big Eight Indoor.
After graduation from KU in 1952 Hershberger joined the Air Force and competed with the Forbes Air Base track squad. In a 1954 meet at Colorado Springs he ran the 220 in 20.9, the second fastest clocking in the world that year.
Hershberger maintains a keen interest in KU athletics and contributes three annual scholarships to the Jayhawks. He also retains
a zealous interest in physical fitness and engages in sports to a far greater extent than generally expected of a man whose collegiate career ended 18 years ago.
In addition to golf, tennis, swimming and water skiing, normal sports for a businessman his age, Hershberger still plays basketball in a Wichita city league, runs with the Wichita Track Club and is nationally ranked in paddleball.
In 1958 Hershberger played 180 holes of golf in 12 hours and 5 minutes, averaging 87 strokes for each of the 18-hole rounds. He had made a small wager he could negotiate the 10 rounds in 15 hours and shoot 95 or better per round.
While Hershberger's personal bet was quite modest, he estimates that $50,000 changed hands among the 6,000 persons who followed the zany exhibition at Wichita Country Club.
In addition to having the 1970 Kansas Relays dedicated to him, Hershberger is also planning to enter the meet. He is currently training for the masters mile, a new event this year for runners 35 and older.
It would be quite a feat to win Kansas Relays watches 19 years apart.
Football owners discuss 1970 Super Bowl bids
HONOLULU (UPI) - The 26 pro football clubs, in their first joint meeting since the merger of the AFL and the NFL, gathered today to listen to bids for the 1971 Super Bowl.
The members of the merged National Football League established some playing procedures Monday for this fall's regular season schedule.
The battle for the Super Bowl was expected to be between New
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Orleans and Miami. Houston has pulled out and Southern California is considered by television interests to be a poor choice.
New Orleans, with Tulane Stadium's near 83,000 seats and a net income of more than $4 million for pro football from the 1970 championship game, was considered the favorite.
Miami, host of two Super Bowl contests, was expected to make strong offers to land the title game for the third time. But it was the general feeing that if Miami's 70,000-seat Orange Bowl is selected, cries would rise over the Super Bowl being "locked in" at one city.
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