Sports
University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, July 12, 1989
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Midday milers are mad dogs for a workout
Water consumption vital to staying safe on hot days
by Heather L. Anderson Kansan sportswriter
During office hours, they are mild mannered professors and students. But when the clock strikes noon, look at the classroom. They adapt the Mad Dags and Epiphany.
This group of runners, composed of faculty members and students, meets every weekday at Robinson Center to traverse the streets of Boston for physical fitness that not even sizing temperatures can restrain.
The group took the name Mad Dogs and Englishmen from a quote by English author Noel Coward who wrote about the Englishmen go out in the midday sun.
Mary Altenhofen, spokesman for education at Watkins Memorial Hospital who work and play in the sun are susceptible to heat related illnesses.
But there are ways to safeguard against the heat. she said.
The best thing to do is drink plenty of water. Altenhoff recommended drinking eight ounces of water every 20 minutes on a hot day, but not extremely cold water because it could shock the system.
Because alcohol and caffeine can actually increase the chance of dehydration. Altenhorn recommended away from liquids that contain them.
Sports drinks like Gatorade should be diluted to half strength with water so that the body can assimilate them without difficulty. Altenhofen said.
Salt replacement products should also be avoided, she said.
Another suggestion for beating the heat is using a sunscreen with a
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A person's body will expend about one gallon of water an hour to keep cool. You perspire a lot and you don't even realize it'
Mary Altenhofen
Mary Attenborn spokesman for health education at Watkins Memorial Health Center
Watkins Memorial Health Center
protection factor of at least 15 and wearing light-colored, dry clothing, Altenhohen said.
People who wear wet clothing to stay cool are fooling themselves because wet clothes inhibit the man's sweating mechanism, she said.
Having a tan does not mean that the body will stay cooler. A tanned person can still burn and a sunburn robs the body of extra fluid, she said.
Altenhofen said that wearing a hat or something else to cover the head helped keep the body temperature down.
"Always listen to your body and if you feel tired or hot, stop and drink some water," she said.
On a recent warm day when temperatures were in the mid-mos., Jim Orr, professor of physiology and cell biology and a member of the running group, prepared to start a four-mile lunch-time trek.
He said the heat did not bother MAD Dogs and Englishmen because they ran at a slower pace and run only short distances to compensate for the high temperatures that their bodies endure.
The group must endure the noon time heat because that is the only free time group members have to get together and run, Orr said.
KU baseball-team plays golf for cash
Kansan sportswriter
by Laura Graham Kansas sportswriter
OK, so maybe Bob Hope was not there.
And maybe the prizes for winning were not as substantial as those awarded in some tournaments. But it was a celebrity golf tournament all the same, and those who participated said they had a good time.
Several University of Kansas All-Americans and All- conference baseball players, as well as former Major League players and other friends, the Kansas Baseball Golf Classic on Monday at the Alvarmar Golf and Country Club.
Dave Bingham, KU baseball coach, said the purpose of the tournament was to develop interest in and develop players so that as to raise money for the baseball $^{11}$
"We probably broke even or made a few bucks," Bingham said.
He said the proceeds from the tournament would go into the Margin of Excellence for the baseball team,
which supplements its general operational fund.
About $2,000 was raised in the tournament, Bingham said yesterday. Some or all of that money will be used to pay for expenses.
Sixty-eight people participated in the tournament. With the exception of several special guests, each person paid an entry fee of $195.
The team of Flood Temple, Jerry Slaughter, Brad Smoot and Sen. Robert Talkington won the tournament. They finished 12 under par.
Temple, KU assistant athletic director and head of the team, said, "We were all really lucky."
"There were some really good scores," Bingham said.
Bingham said the teams, composed of four people each, played better than he had anticipated.
Temple said he had enjoyed seeing several people who had not been back to the University for a while.
"It was just a fun day for everyone involved," Bingham said.
Tom Michaud, Shawnee sophomore, left, spikes a volleyball against Chandler Morris, Liberal junior. They played yesterday afternoon
Spike!
Jackson stars in AL victory New place in batting order doesn't keep Bo from shining
The Associated Press
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Bo knows, and so the American League goes.
Bo Jackson, the brightest of baseball's new breed, made winners of the AL and believers of everybody else last night. He did it all and when he was done, the American League had won 5-3 and had consecutive All-Star game victories for the first time since 1958.
It was Bo's show.
He led off with a monstrous home run. He stole a base and took two others. He drove in two runs, scored twice, saved two more with a running catch and was named the game's most valuable player.
He dominated a game that was supposed to be ruled by the pitchers at twilight. Instead, in the twilight zone, Jackson joined Willie Mays as the only players to homer and steal in the same All-Star Game.
he is a sinkerball pitcher. And I think he be a left-swing out over the plate a little bit, and I was able to golf and get a piece of it, "Jackson said."
Jackson, who has never led off for Kansas City, made Manager Tony LaRussa's gamble pay off. He and Wade Boggs hit consecutive home runs in the bottom of the first inning off Rick Reuschel.
A nice piece, too. Jackson's homer traveled an estimated 448 feet, one of the longest ever hit to dead center field at Anahi Stadium.
- Bo Jackson
He's (NL pitcher Rick Reuschela) a sinkerball pitcher. And I think he left a sinker out over the plate a little bit, and I was able to golf swing and get a piece of it.'
Jackson drove in the tie-breaking run in the second, singled in the fourth and left after the sixth. By then, Nolan Ryan was on the way to being the winning pitcher and the AL narrowed its All-Star gap to 37-22.1.
Ryan, at 42 the second-oldest pitcher in All-Star history and the oldest to win a game, pitched two scoreless innings in relief of starter Dew Stewart, who gave up two runs in the first. Ryan allowed one hit and, even without his best fastball, struck out three.
Atlanta's John Smoltz, the youngest pitcher in the game, was the loser.
The AL led 5-2 after three innings. The NL tried to rally in the eighth when Von Hayes hit an RBI single, but Doug Jones retired Tim Wallach on a fly ball with two runners on base to end the innning.
Jones earned the save when he finished the game on a double play he started.
The victory was the third in four All-Star games for the American League after losing 20 of 21. It was the first time Tommy Lassord in four appearances.
The NL, not to tradition, came out running. Ozzie Smith led off with a single and was caught stealing, and Tony Gwynn walked. Gwynn was on the move as Will Clark grounded out, but major league BRI leader Kevin Mitchell and Howard Johnson hit RBI singles.
Jackson rushed to the rescue, gliding over from left field to catch Pedro Guerrero's hard liner with runners of second and third to end the nining.
Then it was Jackson's turn. He took the first pitch for a ball and sent the next one to a tarpaulin way beyond the center-field fence. Boggs, just 2-1 in five games, All-Star games, homered on a 3-2 pitched center - he went just 388 feet.
Stewart, who pitched eight innings for Oakland on Saturday and was La Russa's choice over fan favorite Rvan. left after one inning.
Ruben Sierra, one of 11 first-time All-Stars from the AL, opened the second with a single off Smoltz, one of eight first-time stars from the NL. Sierra moved to third on Terry Steinbaugh's single and scored when Jackson grounded into a forceout as he beat the double-play relay.
Jackson, the AL's leading vote-getter in fan balloting, promptly stole second and continued to third on catcher Benito Santiago's throwing error, but was stranded when Boggs had a rare pop-up.
Kirby Puckett put the AL third with a single and advanced on Rick Sutcliffe's wild pitch. Harold Baines delivered RBI singles and it was 5-2.
Jackson singled in the fourth against Tim Burke, was running on a groundout and took three to a flyball. Jackson missed, time, again leaving Jackson on base.
By then, though, the AL had
mough runs and pitchers Mark
Tabuzu. Mike Moore, Greg Swindell
and Jeff Pleasac and Plesac and
jones it made up.
In the eighth, Russell retired the first two batters before Glenn Davis walked and Mitchell singled. Hayes was the final to hit. Jones and Jones relieved to get Wallach.
Bobby Bonilla opened the ninth with a single that hit first base umpire Bong Engel, but Willie Randolph ground out and Tony Pena bounced back to Jones, who started the game-ending double play.
The home runs by Jackson and Boggs the fourth consecutive homers in All-Star play, the first ever Garvey and Jimmy Wynn in 1973.