Wednesday, April 4, 1979
University Daily Kansan
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Snow stymies sports Robinson still leaking
A spring rain that turned to snow forced the cancellation of at least three athletic activities yesterday on campus.
Kansas" double-header with Missouri Southern State College, scheduled for yesterday afternoon, was rescheduled Thursday, because of wet grounds.
The Jayhawks will play Baker University at 2:00 this afternoon at Quizlev Field.
Coach Floyd Temple said yesterday that he would give most of his pitching staff some time on the ground today, with the exception of Matt McConkey. Worley scheduled to pitch the first game of the double-header. Mike Watt, Clayton Williams and Kristen Wisslansen will throw in the second game.
KU opens its Big Eight conference season Saturday afternoon with a double-header against Colorado. Hawks will then travel Monday to Boulder, Colo. for a double-headed with
KU's football game with Central Missouri State University also was postponed yesterday. KU coach Bob Stanciflask said the game, one of only three scheduled home contests, may not be rescheduled.
The game would have been played at the Holcom Sports Complex.
The women's intramural basketball Hill Championship game was rained out last night.
"Right now we don't have a tentative date." "Stanciff said, 'The schedule is pretty full and so is ours, so we might never get to reschedule the game.'"
It was the second time this week the game, which was to be played in Robinson Gymnasium, had to be canceled because of a leaky roof that left all courts hurt until unplayable. The game was reckened for 3:30 p.m. tomorrow.
The men's intramural Hill Championship game is scheduled for 7 p.m. tonight, but it may be moved to Allen County basketball 'noble court' are still wet.
Facilities operations workers were using buckets to catch water that was drapping from the ceiling throughout the gymnasium. All four basketball courts, as a dance room and some other rooms were wet from the draining water.
Construction on the new addition to Robinson Gymnasium continued.
Bird swapped to Phillies, Rovals make squad limit
FORT MYERS, Fla. (UPI)—Irene Kansas City Royals reached the 25-player opening day limit yesterday when they traded relief pitcher Doug Bird to the team, allowing two players on disables lists and sent lists to Pitchchall to the team's Omaha farm club.
Bird, a 29-year-old righthander, was sent to Philadelphia in exchange for rookie shortstop Todd Cruz, 23, who will be assigned to the Royals Triple A club at Omaha
Bird posted a 3-1 record with 14 saves and a 1.65 ERA in the final two months of the 1977 season to finish the year with an 11-4 record, 14 saves and a 3.88 ERA.
But he slipped to 6-4 last year with only one save and a 5.29 ERA. His low point came in the pivotal third game of the American League playoffs when he gave up a two-run homer to Thurman Munson in the eighth inning that carried New York to a 6-5 win.
"I THINK HE lost confidence in himself
"i last year, his teammates lost confidence in
him and maybe I did," manager Whitey
That "it's not a good situation for anybody.
"He's got a good arm. There's no reason
why he shouldn't come back. Relievers have a history of being up and down. They have a good year, then a bad one and then bounce back."
Cruz hit .261 with 11 homers and 69 RBI for the Philips Triple A team in Oklahoma City last season. He had made the Philadelphia roster this spring but was scheduled to fill a reserve role behind All-Star shortstop Larry Bowa.
"All our reports say the guy should be playing in the major leagues now and would be if the Philies didn't have Bowa," Herzog said.
KANSAS CITY placed pitcher Marty Pattin on the 21-day dislabeled list because of an injured ankle. Utility infielder Jerry Terrell, who has been slow to recover from a broken ankle suffered last season, was placed on the 15-day dislabeled list.
The acquisition of Cruz cast some doubts on the future of regular shortstop Fred Patek, who has been suffering from shoulder and back injuries this spring. Herzog said, however, that the 34-year-old Patek would open the season at shortstop tomorrow night with U.L. Washington filling the reserve role.
Texas relay title elusive for men
The men's track team hopes its start on the Midwest relays circuit this weekend is better than in past years when KU competes at the Texas Relays.
Sports Writer
KANSAN Sports
Not since 1976 has KU captured a relay title on the Texas-Baasa-Drone circuit, and it never did.
But KU has a good chance this weekend to contend for relay crowns and qualifying marks for the NCAA Outdoor Championships at the 52nd annual Texas affair in Austin, according to head coach Bob Timmons.
"I think we'll be fired up. We haven't performed well on the circuit the last few years and I hope we can get off to a good start this year," he said.
"WE'RE OUT to get our individuals qualified and our relay teams. We were awfully close last week in the 400-meter relay, but we are still not qualified." "We're going to do anything good and run among the leaders, we'll qualify this week."
Already, Lester Mickens and Jeff Buckingham have qualified with solid performances in the 400-meter and pole vault last week at the Arkansas Relays.
KU, which has won 103陪葬 titles over the years in the Midwestern triptych crown of titans.
will field teams in four relay events—the
400, 800, 1000 and sprint medley.
In the 400-meter relay, Mickens will lead off and Anthony Coleman, Kennewell and David Blutcher will follow. Coleman, Newell, Blutcher and Billy Washington ran a 40.2 at Arkansas, just three-tenths of a second short of the NCAA record.
MICKENS, TIM JONES, Blutcher and Newell are scheduled for the 800, and Newell, Tommy McCall, Stan Whitaker and Mickens are on tap for the 1,600.
In the spring midley, Jones and Butcher will run the opening 200-meter legs. Whitaker will do the 400 and McCall will anchor with the last 800 meters.
Timmons is concentrating on the shorter relays, a strategy he plans for the entire relay network.
"That's our strength and it has been for the last couple of years," he said. "For whatever reason -missed handouts or injuries -we haven't done well on the circuit, but some of the same people who haven't performed well early in the season have come back for us and done well at nationals."
"I just hope that our performance last
moons we’re going to hit a strike little
early," he said.
Besides the relay entries, KU athletes wint
compete in 12 individual events. The closest
to qualifying for the NCAA Outdoor in this
group are Newell, two-tenths of a second off
foot, and four-thirds of a second foot,
one-half inch short in the triple jump, and
Mike Stankle, nine feet shy in the javelin.
Injuries send track team to Nebraska meet
Sports Writer
Instead of the Texas sun, the women's track team will compete in the Nebraska wind Saturday at the Nebraska Invitational in Lincoln, Neb.
The track team was originally scheduled to compete in the Texas Relays this weekend but because of injuries it was not able that it would instead compete in Lincoln.
KU women's track coach Teri Anderson
kul that after injuries to sprinters Sheila
Amy Miles, Amy Miles and distance runner Jo McMil-
lain. He will be in the team's best interest to go to Texas.
"We wouldn't have sent a complete team to Texas." Anderson said. "By going to Lincoln there are more events to compete in and we'll have an opportunity to experience our first Big Eight competition of the season."
KANSAS, NEBRASKA, Missouri, and Kearney State are expected to battle for the team title. Nebraska's strength is in the middle distance events and the high jump, but Kansas is in long distance events and sprints. Kearney State is strongest in the field events.
weekend in Memphis," Anderson said. "I want a balanced team performance and I want to continue to improve on our times. We want to set a pattern that will continue for the rest of the season."
"I want to continue what we started last
KU's only healthy spinner is Lori Green. Green is entered in the 100- and 200-meter runs. Lior Lowry and Gwen Poss will compete in the 100-meter hurdles and Lowrey, Poss and Claire Overstake in the 400-meter hurdles.
LOWREY WILL Join Green, Poss and Overstake on the Jayhawks' 440-relay team. She is filling in for the injured Calmese.
Vicki Simpson, Denise Homa and Marianne
McCowen will connect in the 4th@runder.rum.
The only Kansas winner in last weekend's meet was Maureen Finholm in the 3,000. She'll be trying to repeat the victory along with other KU entrants Karen Fitz and Louise Murphy. Fitz also will compete in the 5,000.
Four Jayhawks -Michelle Brew, Deb Hertzog, Wendy Warner and Finholm—will run in the 1,500. In the 10,000, Jane Brock and Tasha Zoller are entered.
Tammi Rose and Debby Douglass will be double duty for KU in both the shot and the javelin events. Shawn Corwin will compete in the high jump.
Fairbanks' CU deal draws governor's blast
DENVER (UIP) - The University of Colorado yesterday announced details of a $100,000 agreement that will bring Chuck McNamara and his coaching job with the New England Patriots.
A CU spokesman said the school would pay the Patrons $200,000—in two equal installments due April 25 and June 15—and the University will pay $165,000 in compensation from New England.
The disclosure apparently was in response to a heated demand by Colorado Gov. Richard D. Lamm, issued earlier in the day, that CU dispel the secrecy negotiations involving Fairbanks and complained that CU and the Patriots had treated the public "like mushrooms—kept in the and a bunch of manure spread on us.
"THIS IS public business," Larm said.
"It should be conducted in the sunlight."
CU President Ireland Rautenfurt said paid payments to the Patriots would be made by the U.S. Military, not by CU.
gift money restricted for athletic department purposes. No tax dollars would be
"These funds are not funds available for any other use within the university," he
Rautenstraut said the settlement, ending four months of legal bickering and recrimination, also stipulated that the Patriots consent to the dissolution of an injunction preventing CU from attempting to hire Banks.
Fairbanks will receive a $4,800 salary at Colorado plus extras which will boost his job in a company.
THERE HAD BEEN reports that CU would pay the Patrons 200,000 to obtain Fairbanks' release. But CU Athletic Director Eddie Crowder, a former CU football coach, termed that figure "ridiculous."
"There was some compensation and an exchange of considerations. The final details are a kind of legal matter. The bits I said I'm not free at this point to reveal."
Sources had said part or all of the money might come from Denver oilman Jack Vickers, former owner of the Colorado Oilfield. The Vickers are president of the Flatirons Club.
"That statement out of Boston that $100,000 is involved is highly inaccurate.
By the Associated Press
Even with snow, baseball begins
Hoping to duplicate last year's success story when a record of more than 40 million fans jammed ball parks in the United States, the Miami Heat league baseball opens its 1979 season today.
There is one game scheduled in each of the two lengues. More than 52,000 fans are expected at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati to watch the Reds face the San Francisco Giants. The openers and 35,000 are expected in Seattle's Kingdom for the Mariners' American
League opener against the California Angels.
Tom Seaver will open for the Reds against the Giants' Vida Blue in a duel of two of the NL's top pitchers. Seaver posted a 16-14 record with a 2.87 earned run average for the Reds last season white Blue was 18-10 for the Giants with a 2.97 ERA in 1978.
FOR THE REDS, it will be the start of a new era as John McNamara replaces popular Sparky Anderson as manager of the team and Pete Rose, a Cincinnati star for 16 seasons, moves on to Philadelphia via the free-agent route.
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