University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, April 21, 1987
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Sports Briefs
Award to be given at KC triathlon in memory of KU student athlete
During the 1987 Baptist Medical Center Triathlon, a special award will be given in honor of former KU student Paul Childs, who was fatally injured during the 1966 triathlon.
This years' race, sponsored by the Triathlon Federation/USA, will be Sunday, August 30, at Raintree Lake in Lee's Summit, Mo.
Childs, a Fairway senior majoring in pre-medicine at the time of the accident, died Sept. 10 of severe spinal injuries sustained during the bike portion of the race.
Lee's Summit police reported that Childs was racing toward the finish line of the bike portion of the race with his head down when he slammed into a truck that had moved into the intersection of Wade Road and Missouri Highway 150.
In remembrance of Childs, the Paul Childs Memorial will be given each year at the triathlon in recognition of outstanding and personal abilities.
An advisory committee will choose the race participant who best displays an outstanding attitude, courage, enthusiasm and faith. The recipient also must have made significant contributions to community athletic events.
To be considered for the award, a participant must have a written recommendation submitted by a Baptist Medical Center triathlete, a race director or the advisory committee.
The winner will receive a plaque, and a permanent plaque will be hung in the foyer of the building. An invitation from at the Bantist Medical Center.
Other changes in this year's race will include the marking of intersections on the bike course and the use of handgrip tances because of Childs accident.
The intersections of the bike course will have highly visible metallic tape, more volunteers, police officers and ham radio operators at intersections to warn them that they are approaching the intersections.
The overall course will be shortened from 8 miles to 6 miles in the swim portion, 6.2 miles to five miles in the run and 19.5 to 17.5 in the bike portion of the race.
Women's golf team finishes 7th at tourney
The Kansas women's golf team finished seventh in a 14-team field Saturday and Sunday at the Lady Buckeye Invitational in Columbus, Ohio.
Duncan Okla., freshman, finished with a 239.
The Jayhawks finished with a 951 one-round total behind ninth-ranked Indiana, who won the tournament with a score of 86. Indiana's Michelle Redman was the individual leader with a 216 total.
Tina Gnewch, Green Bay, Wis. junior, paced the Jayhawks with a thre-round total of 226. Donna Jo Lowen, Hays freshman, followed with 239, and Sherri Atichon,
Susan Pekar, Wausau, Wis,
junior, who won individual honors
April 11-12 at the University of
Missouri Invitational, managed
only a 244 this weekend. Marielle
Scheid, Lawrence senior, rounded
out the field for Kansas with a 248
total.
The next stop for the Jayhawks, who spent yesterday at a golf fund raiser in Wichita, will be at the Big Eight Conference Championships April 27-28 in Oklahoma City.
Chiefs and Cardinals will play in Memphis
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Memphis will be the host for a National Football League exhibition game in September, leaders of an effort to win an NFL franchise announced yesterday.
Fred Smith, founder and chief executive officer of Federal Express Corp., said the game was not a serious business with various NFL owners.
Sept. 6 at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium between the Kansas City Chiefs and the St. Louis Cardinals, said Rudi Schiffer, a spokesman for Mid-America Football.
The exhibition game is set for
"I think Memphis has a three out of four chance that we'll get an NFL expansion franchise. I think we have an excellent chance." Smith said at a breakfast gathering hosted by Mid-America Football Inc., a company he formed last year.
The city-owned stadium is being enlarged from just over 50,000 seats to 65,000 seats.
Schifer said profits from the game will go to the Memphis Mile Of Dimes, but the participating teams will draw a percentage of the gate receipts.
Pepper Rodgers, president of Mid-America Football and former KU football coach, said NFL owners may be forming an expansion committee in October and he hopes for a good turnout for the Memphis game.
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Jackson, Ueberroth meet and discuss minority hiring
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Rev. Jesse Jackson met with Baseball Commissioner Peter Uberroth yesterday, then called on the sport's owners to do away with minority hiring policies that they know "are immoral and unjust."
He said he would meet again with Ueberroth and hoped to meet commissioners David Stern of the NBA and Pete Rozelle of the NFL to form an affirmative action committee that would "include all levels of leadership" in sports as well as the community.
Jackson, who is now considering whether to run for president as he did in 1984, threw his Chicago-based OperationPPUSH into the controversy over minority hiring in baseball earlier this month. The action was triggered by the racial remarks of Los Angeles Dodgers vice president Al Campani, who later was forced to resign.
Jackson characterized his session with Ueberroth, which lasted for nearly two hours, as a "planning meeting and not a confrontation."
"We have to work out a plan for change, and that change should begin this year," the civil rights leader said. "We need to set goals and a timetable for affirmative action . . . There are people out there who are qualified for jobs who have never been considered."
Ueberroth, who called on owners in December to hire more minorities, said in a brief statement: "I'm glad he took the time to meet with me. He had some excellent ideas and suggestions, and we will continue to be in touch as baseball develops an action plan."
Campanis said on a national television news program that blacks may lack some of the "necessities" for jobs such as manager and general manager. Campanis had been invited on the show to discuss the significance of Jackie Robinson breaking baseball's color barrier in 1947.
While an estimated 25 percent of all baseball players are black or Hispanic, there are no black managers, general managers or owners.
"Baseball's owners must recognize that Al Campanis was an embarrassment to them all." Jackson said.
Jackson said any coalition for affirmative action should include other civil rights leaders, sports executives, minority athletes and other minorities involved in professional sports.
He said future meetings would determine goals.
"The courts have indicated that such goals should be established according to the Constitution," Jackson said, "and said goals could be "monitored as jobs opened up."
"We know there is attrition and that jobs will be available." Jackson said in a sidewalk news conference in front of the Park Avenue building that serves as baseball's headquarters.
While not ruling out a minority boycott of baseball as a tool in the battle to open doors, he said it was not a "matter of discussion at this point."
"Owners must see the morality and cost effectiveness of affirmative action."
He said that Hispanics and women, is well as blacks, must be included in affirmative action programs.
"So much of the psychology of our nation is caught up in athletics," Jackson said, noting the uplifting effect on the country of such athletic accomplishments as Joe Louis' boxing victory over Max Schmeling in 1938, Jesse Owens' triumphant performances at the 1936 Berlin Olympics and Robinson's entry into the major leagues in 1947.
"Owners must know their present policies are immoral and unjust and that the broad base of American people will not accept them," Jackson said. "But we need not operate on the basis of threats."
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shots, powering the New York Yankees 8-2 over the Detroit Tigers.
American
Twins 13. Mariners 5
MINNEAPOLIS — Gary Gaetti and Roy Smallley capped a six-run first inning with consecutive home runs last night, powering the Minnesota Twins to an 13-5 rout of the Seattle Mariners.
Blue Javs 8. Indians 7
CLEVELAND — Kelly Gruber scored one of five Toronto runs in the ninth inning and then drove in the game-winner with a single to center in the 10th last night as the Blue Jays rallied to defeat the Cleveland Indians 8-7.
Toronto scored five times in the top of the ninth on only one hit to take a 7-6 lead. But Cory Snyder lined a one-out home run, his fourth of the season, off Jeff Musselman, 1-0, in the bottom of the inning to send the game into extra innings.
A's 10. Angels 5
The Athletics had taken a 6-5 lead in the eighth on Reggie Jackson's infield roller, which scored Mike Davis from third base to snap a 5-5 tie.
National
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Tony Phillips hit a bases-loaded home run in the top of the ninth inning to power the Oakland Athletics to a 10-5 victory over the California Angels last night.
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Phillies 4, Expos 3
MONTREAL — Lance Parrish hit a three-run homer, and Glenn Wilson followed with a solo shot as Philadelphia rallied for four runs with two out in the ninth, beating Montreal 4-3 in the Expos' home opener yesterday.
Montreal right-hander Jay Tibbs, 1-2, was working on a 2-0 shutout when Von Hayes was safe on a one-out throwing error by first baseman Andres Galarraga in the ninth. Mike Schmidt walked, and Mike Easler struck out before Parrish and Wilson
Giants 4. Dodgers 3
followed with their consecutive homers.
Davis, 2-0, gave way to Scott Garrett after walking Steve Sax to start the eighth inning. Davis was primarily out for two starts over two seasons, making only three starts.
SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Davis held Los Angeles to four hits in seven innings and Chris Speier homered as the San Francisco Giants beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 4-3 last night for their ninth victory without a loss in one-run games.
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