Jayhawks capture fifth straight indoor crown
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Another winning effort
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPI) — Shot putter Karl Salb's record heave of 65 feet, $8\frac{3}{4}$ inches literally shot KU into command of the 42nd annual Big Eight Indoor Track Championships Saturday night as the Jayhawks swept to their 16th consecutive title and their 16th in the last 21 years.
KU was in fifth place after four events when Salb, Steve Wilhelm and Doug Knop gave the Jayhawks a 1-2-3 sweep in the shot put and a lead that they never relinquished.
Four meet records fell and two others were equalled before a near sellout crowd of 8,750 watched as the Hawks easily outdistanced runner-up K-State, 67-37.
Missouri finished third with 35 points, followed in order by Nebraska, 29; Oklahoma State, 20; Oklahoma, 18; Iowa State, 10; and Colorado, 8.
Salb's throw bettered his own meet mark of 64-11½ set a year ago and KU Jan Johnson, who edged Colorado's Mike Wedman in the pole vault, set a second meet record with a leap of 16 feet, $6\frac{1}{2}$ inches. Wedman vaulted 16-0.
K-State's Ken Swenson was the meet's only double winner, taking the mile in 4:09.3 and the 880-yard run in a record 1:51.9 clocking.
Swenson edged KU's Doug Smith by one-tenth of a second and Missouri's Mike Kelly by a half a second in the mile and overcame a 20-yard deficit to nip KU's Jim Neilhouse at the wire in the half mile. Neilhouse was also clocked in 1:51.9.
The previous meet record in the 880-yard run was set by Jim Ryun of KU, who was clocked in 1:52 in 1967.
K-State's Ray McGill set the fourth and final meet record by defending his title in the high jump with a leap of 7-1. It bettered by one inch the old mark set in 1967 by Missouri's Steve Herdon.
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K-State's Luci Williams won the high hurdles in a recordtying time of 7.1 and Missouri's Mel Gray equaled the meet mark of 6 seconds flat in winning the 60-yard dash event.
Other outstanding performances for KU included Jay Mason's 9:02.2 clocking in winning the two-mile run, Doug Smith's second place time of 4:09.4 in the mile, and a one-two finish in the 1.000-yard run with Brian McElroy turning in a winning 2:10.6 to edge out teammate Roger Kathol.
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