University Daily Kansan / Monday, April 25, 1988
13
Alan Lehman/Special to the KANSAN
Kansas sophomore Vince Labosky throws the javelin for his second attempt. Labosky took second to former KU athlete Ron Bahm with a throw of 228 feet, 11 inches.
Launched
Hollis Conway, from Southwest Louisiana State, takes his final jump in the Carl Rice High Jump competition.
Strong wind and injuries hurt jumpers
By Elaine Sung
Kansan sportswriter
What some had hoped would be record-breaking days for the men's jump events at the Kansas Relays turned out to be uneventful with one top performer absent and another who struggled the whole day.
Kansas State's Kenny Harrison, the favorite in the men's triple and long jumps, did not show up at the Relays because of a pulled ham-
Harrison had set Relays records in both events last year, with 26-8½ jump in the long jump, and 57-2¼ in the triple jump.
the best Kansas jumping into the event was Ricky Mays, Mays, however, did not qualify for the finals, falling short on all three jumps. Kansas jumped instead with 24-5, his best jump in the preliminaries.
Then in the finals, Rich fouled on two attempts and fell short on the third James Browne of Abilene Christian won the event with a jump of 25-43. Rich ended up seven with the mark of 24-5 from the preliminaries.
"Since I'm a senior, I wanted to put everything into it." Rich said. "I'm not disappointed, but I'm not happy,
either.
Strong, cold north winds dominated the Relays on Saturday, making high jumper Hollis Conway's weekend less than he had hoped. The freshman from southwestern Louisiana has never lost an indoor tennis match and was looking to break at least the Relays and collegiate records.
Conway was a redshirt last year and competed in the Raleys unaffiliated, setting a record with a jump of 7-7, just $1/2$ of an inch short of the national record. Conway played in 1865. The American record, set by Jim Howard also in 1865, is $7-8/2$.
But Conway is in danger of losing his first meet after missing his first two attempts with the bar set at just 7-1/2". Finally, with the pressure on, he cleared the bar with room to spare on the third try. He knelt on the landing pad in gratitude and cleared 7-3/4 on his first attempt.
That was as far as he got. Both he and Illinois State's Tom Smith got on 7-51/2, but Conway took first in the playoffs, the earlier height in fewer attempts.
"The wind for a minute was in your face, then in your back," Conway said. "You didn't if it would make you faster or slow you down."
Huffman
Continued from p. 1
tional pole vault records
At last year's reals, he set the American record with a vault of 19 feet, $4\frac{3}{4}$ inches. He later raised to 19 feet, $6\frac{1}{2}$ inches.
Lytle, whose career best of 18 feet, 10 inches was set at the relays, arrived late for the competition and competed with no warmup. Consequently, the former Kansas State star no-height at 17 feet, $ \frac{5} {2} $ inches;
"The whole story is that I woke up and it was cold and dingy, so I decided I wouldn't jump," said Lyle, who lives in Kansas City. "Then the sun broke, so I decided to come.
"The truth is, I'm not jumping great right now. I'm trying to time my training (for the trials). I wanted to see where I was at. The
result doesn't look positive, but it was positive for me. It's just a matter of time before I'm jumping good again."
Manson injured his groin muscle in Friday's competition but decided to compete on Saturday. On his first attempt of the aftermath, he broke his collar. Colo, so旁更 strained his groin again and had to drop out.
Manson finished second to Huffman in Friday's pole vault after
deciding not to try his final attempt at 18 feet, $ \frac{1}{2} $ inch. Both vaulted 17 feet, $ \frac{5}{4} $ inches, but Huffman won on fewer misses.
"It's a big home meet and it would have been fun to jump in, but 20-20 hindsight says I should have stayed out," said Manson, whose personal best of 18 feet, $62 inches equals Huffman's.
"Friday's final attempt) would have been close, but we got the one-two, so I didn't want to risk
pulling my groin. Then, I come out today and hurt it. But, if I sat out every time something was sore, I'd never jump "
Chris Bohanan, another Kansas All-American pole vaulter, also had to sit out of the relays because of a pulled hamstring muscle.
Attig said both Huffman and Manson jumped unbelievably in Friday's poor weather conditions during the collegiate competition. High winds, overcast skies and low
temperatures made it difficult to vault.
"I was so proud of Scott and Pat," Attig said. "They just got in there and competed. A lot of times, vaulters want ideal conditions and they get so depressed that they forget that they're there to compete.
"They are both ready to blow some great jumps. I feel both of them are ready to jump 19 feet."