University Daily Kansan / Friday, April 22, 1988
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Mills talks shows film of life story
Bv Keith Stroker
Throughout the history of America, minorities have struggled to obtain equal rights. With the help from people like Billy Mills, former KU track star and a Sioux Indian, American Indians have a chance to obtain privileges in this country.
Kansan sportswriter
Mills, a 1964 gold medal winner for the United States Olympic team in the 10,000 meter run, was the only American to ever win that Olympic event, spoke to about 150 people from 20 countries last night. The movie "Running Brave," depicting the life of Mills, was shown prior to his speech.
Actor Robbie Benson portrayed Mills as he struggled as an Indian trying to make it in a white man's world. Mills was on the KU track team from 1958-61 and was played by the legendary Bill Easton.
While at Kansas, Mills was the 1960 Big Eight Conference Cross Country Champion and a member of the CAA Championship track teams.
"After I had won the gold medal, one had approached me to do a movie about my life," Mills said. "At my Indian reservation, my friends told me to do a giveaway to those people that had helped me to accomplish my goals. That giveaway became 'Running Brave.'"
The 1964 Olympic games were held in Tokyo and Mills was not picked to place in the top ten in the 10,000-meter race. The favorite was Ron Clarke of Australia, who Mills beat at the finish, after being pushed into the outer lane near the race's end by Clarke.
"Coming down the stretch in that race, I kept saying 'I won, I won, I won,' Mills said. "I visualized passing Clarke at the finish and it was one of the greatest nights ever had when I broke the tape."
Now Mills is in the insurance sales business in Sacramento, Calif. He also runs a program called Running Strong for the American Indian Youth, which raised $1.6 million last year. The majority of the money was donated to the Indian Society.
"We try to raise funds, project by project," Mills said. "At my reservation in Pine Ridge, we were able to fix 43 broken down water wells. My life is incredible, and I enjoy trying to give young Indian children a chance to make their dreams come true."
63rd Annual Kansas Relays Tomorrows schedule of events
Morning session
Time Track Events
7:00 a.m. 18th Annual Marathon
7:15 Town & Campus 10,000 Meter Road Race
8:00 Women's 10,000 Meter Run (Finals)
8:45 Girls' 2 Mile Relay (Finals)
8:58 Boys' 2 Mile Relay (Finals)
9:10 Women's 400 Meter Dash (Prelims)
9:30 Men's 400 Meter Dash (Prelims)
9:50 Women's 2 Mile Relay (Finals)
10:02 Men's 2 Mile Relay (Finals)
10:15 Men's 110 Meter Hurdles (Prelims)
10:31 Boys' 110 Meter Hurdles (Prelims)
10:43 Women's 100 Meter Hurdles (Prelims)
10:59 Girls' 100 Meter Hurdles (Prelims)
11:11 Women's 3000 Meter Run (Finals)
11:25 Women's 200 Meter Dash (Prelims)
11:41 Men's 200 Meter Dash (Prelims)
11:57 Lunch
Afternoon session
Time Field Events
1.00 p.m. Women's Javelin Throw (Prelims & Finals)
1.00 Women's Triple Jump (Prelims& Finals)
2.00 Men's Carl V. Rice High Jump (Finals)
2.00 Men's Invitational Pole Vault (Finals)
2.00 Women's Shot Put (Prelims & Finals)
3.00 Women's Javelin Throw (Prelims & Finals)
3.00 Women's Triple Jump (Prelims & Finals)
Afternoon Session
"The Seahawks know what Kelly wants." Bauer said by telephone
Time Track Events
1:10 p.m. Girls' 100 Meter Hurdles (Finals)
1:15 Women's 100 Meter Hurdles (Finals)
1:20 Boys' 110 Meter Hurdles (Finals)
1:25 Men's 110 Meter Hurdles (Finals)
1:30 Men's Larry Winn 3000 Meter Steeplechase (Finals)
1:42 Girls' 100 Meter Dash (Finals)
1:46 Boys' 100 Meter Dash (Finals)
1:50 Women's 100 Meter Dash (Finals)
1:54 Men's 100 Meter Dash (Finals)
2:10 Women's Invitational 400 Meter Dash (Finals)
2:15 Men's Invitational 400 Meter Dash (Finals)
2:20 Women's 1500 Meter Run (Finals)
2:27 Men's Wes Santee 1500 Meter Run (Finals)
2:34 Girls' 440 Yard Relay (Finals)
2:39 Boys' 440 Yard Relay (Finals)
2:44 Women's 440 Yard Relay (Finals)
2:49 Men's Julius Marks 440 Yard Relay (Finals)
2:54 Women's Invitational 1500 Meter Run (Finals)
3:00 Men's Glenn Cunningham Invitational 1500 Meter Run (Finals)
3:06 Women's 400 Meter Dash (Finals)
3:11 Men's 400 Meter Dash (Finals)
3:16 Women's 800 Meter Run (Finals)
3:21 Men's 800 Meter Run (Finals)
3:26 Women's 500 Meter Run (Finals)
3:31 Men's Cliff Cushman 400 Meter Hurdles (Finals)
3:36 Women's 5000 Meter Run (Finals)
3:57 Women's 200 Meter Dash (Finals)
4:02 Men's 200 Meter Dash (Finals)
4:07 Men's 5000 Meter Run (Finals)
4:18 Men's Masters 800 Meter Run (Finals)
4:35 Girls' 1 Mile Relay (Finals)
4:41 Boys' 1 Mile Relay (Finals)
4:47 Women's 1 Mile Relay (Finals)
4:53 Men's Chuck Cramer 1 Mile Relay (Finals)
Source: Kansas Sports Information Department
Seattle set to trade Easley for Cardinals' holdout QB
The Associated Press
SEATTLE — Five-time Pro Bowl selection Kenny Easley reportedly is headed from the Seattle Seahawks to Phoenix for unsigned 1987 Cardinals' first-round draft choice Kelly Stoufer.
Easley, a strong safety who once was considered the heart of Seattle's defense, has been hampered by injuries the past three seasons and became unpopular with some Seahawks' fans after serving as the team's player representative during last season's players' strike.
"I think the Seahawks will sign Kelly," Frank Bauer of Sun West Sports and Associates of Stockton, Calif., which represents the former Colorado State quarterback, said Wednesday. Bauer said the Seahawks and Stouffer had not reached a contract agreement yet.
from his office. "I think they're going to give it to him."
Stouffre sounded buoyant Wednesday night as he boarded a flight to Seattle from the Rapid City, S.D. airport, home near his Rushville, Neb.居, home.
Seahawks president Mike McCormack announced Wednesday that Seattle had made a tentative trade with Phoenix for the 6-foot-3, 212-pound Stouffer, who sat out the 1987 NFL season in a contract dispute with Cardinals' owner William Bidwill.
"I couldn't have written a better ending to this story," he said. "The situation at Seattle is perfect for me. Just drop back and throw the ball."
The trade is contingent upon the Seahawks being able to sign Stouffer, McCormack said.
"I've already talked with the Seattle owner, and he knows what we're asking for. He said 'come on out.'"
"Kelly just didn't want to play for Phoenix," Bauer said.
Sports Briefs
The Jayhawks earlier had jumped out to a 7-1 lead. Catcher Troy Menter hit a three-run home run in the top of the fourth, his 11th of the year. Pete Simmerson added a steady home run, his fourth of the year.
The score was tied 7-2 with two out in the bottom of the ninth inning when Shocker pitcher runner Joe Wiley Thompson hit by Kansas pitcher Craig Stopel.
SHOCKS BEAT 'HAWKS: The Kansas baseball team lost last night to Wichita State 8-7 in Wichita.
Both Kansas and WSU used several pitchers during the game. The Shoocks ended with Jim Newlin in the win who received the victory and is now 3-0.
WSU came back in the sixth with a two-run home run. In the bottom of the eighth, Shocker shortstop Mike Perez scored on the second of the year, tying the game at seven.
The Jayhawks used six pitchers, ending with Stoppel in the eighth. Stoppel was given the loss, and he is now 1-3.
Kansas is 17-24 for the season and will begin a four-game series tonight against Oklahoma State.
Men's basketball recruiting: still looking but not signing
By Mike Considine
Special to the Kansan
Kansas men's basketball recruiting is apparently in a holding pattern. The Jayhawks seem to be in good position on several prospects, but none appears ready to make his college choice.
Two St. Louis (Mo) Vasonh High School players are strongly considering Kansas, their coach said yesterday.
Vashon coach Floyd Irons said both guard Sean Tunstall and forward Malcolm Nash had one more school to visit before reaching a decision. Both players visited Kansas last weekend.
"They're both leaning very heavily toward Kansas." Irons said. "They really enjoyed their visits. They've known something about Kansas for
visited Iowa State but has canceled scheduled visits to Kansas State and Oklahoma State.
Tunstall will visit Illinois next weekend. The 6-foot-3 guard has
When asked if Tunstall was stu, considering Iowa State, Irons said, "I think the fact he's visiting Illini next week tells you something."
Van Coleman, publisher of the National Recruiter's Cage Letter, has said Tunstall will decide between Illinois and Kansas.
Nash has visited Memphis State and visited Indiana State next weekend.
Nash and Tunstall aren't expected to announce their choices until the first week of May.
Irons said 6-7 Vashon forward Corey Warner was no longer interested in Kansas.
Maurice Brittain, a 6-9 power forward from Hutchinson Community College, has narrowed his list of schools to Kentucky, Georgia Tech
and Kansas. Brittain is scheduled to visit Kentucky this weekend. The Atlanta native visited Kansas last weekend.
Hutchinson coach Dave Farrar said Brittain probably wouldn't make his choice until next week or the following week.
A player Kansas recruited earlier this season, Darrick Martin of Long Beach (Calif.) St. Anthony High School, could be available again. Martin, ranked the 13th best player nationally by Bock Gibbons of All-Star Sports Publications, wants to be released from the national letter-of-intent he signed with UCLA in November.
O's lose 15th straight
The Associated Press supplied some information for this story.
The Associated Press
MILWAUKEE — Baltimore continued to struggle on baseball's skid row yesterday. The Milwauree Brewers scored six runs in the third inning and送 the Orioles to a major-league record 15th straight season-opening loss with a 7-1 victory.
Bill Schroeder's two-run home run off Baltimore loser Scott McGregor capped the just 2% milwaukee third. McGregor lasted just 1/2" innings, as the Orioles' added another loss to their improbable beginning.
The Orioles broke the major-league record with their 14th consecutive loss Wednesday night and continued the streak as their starting pitching failed once again. The previous mark of 13 losses to start a season was set by the 1904 Washington Senators and the 1909 Detroit Tigers.
Baltimore starters Mark Thurmond, Mike Boddicker and McGregor lasted a combined nine innings in
the three games and gave up 18 hits
and 18 runs to the Brewers, who have
won five straight after ending a
seven-game losing streak.
Milwaukee right-hander Chris Bosio, 3-1, stopped the Orioles on eight hits in his third complete game, and the Brewers defeated the Orioles for the fifth time this season. The Brewers beat the eighth, when with, one out, Terry Gorser doubled and scored one out on 3 single by Rene Gonzalez.
Baltimore, which entered the game with a 201 team batting average, scored 11 runs in the first two games of the series but now has only 29 in its top five. Baltimore held to one run five times and shut out three times during the streak.
Paul Molitor singled to right at the start of the third inning, moved to second when Robin Yount reached on third. The fourth Braggs 'broken-bat single to center'
Cards get a victory
The Associated Press
PITTSBURGH — Tony Pena, a former Pirate, hit his first two home runs of the season, scored three runs and went three for four as the St. Louis Cardinals ended a five-game loss streaking by cooling off Pittsburgh 9-3 last night.
The Cardinals, who had scored seven runs in their last five games, won for the first time in eight road games this season. The winless Baltimore Orioles are the only team in the majors without a road victory.
The loss was the second for the National League East-leading Pirates in 10 games and their first in six home games. They had won their last nine in a row at Three Rivers Stadium dating back to last season.
Team comes first for Hibbard
By Tom Stinson
Kansan sportswriter
That is why this weekend's meets are so special to the Overland Park native. They will be her last home meets with the team.
Tennis, considered an individual sport by most, is all team-oriented for Kansas senior Marie Hibbard.
The Kansas women, 18-5 and 2-
in the Big Eight, play Iowa State at
2 p.m. tomorrow and Nebraska at
2 p.m. Sunday at Robinson Center.
The Kansas men, 14-7 and 40 in the Big Eight, play the Cyclones at 10 a.m. tomorrow and Nebraska at 10 a.m. Sunday.
"All the goals that I set are team goals," Hibbard said. "I really wanted to add a lot to the team in winning a trophy and a positive attitude.
"I'd rather see the team make a big jump forward than just me. If we won the Big Eight as a team and I lost, then that would mean more to me than me winning and us losing as a team."
The Jayhawk women can stay in contention for a conference title with two victories this weekend. They trail Oklahoma State and Oklahoma in the point standings. The Big Eight Championships are April 28-29 in Lake of the Ozarks, Mo.
Kansas' highest finish in Hibbard's three previous conference tournaments was second in both freshman and sophomore year.
Hibbard, who plays No.3 singles and No.1 doubles with junior
Last season, the Jayhawks placed a disappointing fourth.
Jeanette Jonsson this year, placed third in both the No. 5 singles and the No. 2 doubles last spring.
Her highest Big Eight finish has been second on three occasions. She has never finished below third in the conference.
"Of course, I'd like to be a big Eight Champion," said Hilbard, who has a 93-46 career singles player. "That's what everybody wants to be."
"Luck of the draw will be a big factor. I've seen the competition, and I can play with everyone in the tournament. But it will be tough."
However, the psychology major's life does not center on tennis. She was named KU's outstanding woman student-athlete in 1888 and 1897, and she has a 3.9 cumulative grade point average.
"That meant a great deal to me," Hibbard said. "I think athletes do themselves a disservice, maybe not on purpose. You spend so much time with your sport that your school really starts sliding. I did that, but I knew that when you got out of high school would be the school and not the tennis to get me through the rest of my life."
Hibbard plans on attending Arizona State for graduate work in social psychology next year. She will change in lifestyle would do her good.
"It will make it easier with tennis ending to go someplace completely different and do something completely different," she said.
Change has been common during Hibbard's four years, especially this season.
She was a walk on the first semester of her freshman year, but she earned an 85 percent scholarship during her second semester and a full scholarship in her sophomore year.
Hibbard spent most of her first year playing in the No. 6 singles position, competing in team challenge matches weekly to hold that spot.
The pressure of the matches and the feeling of being expendable in the lineup was difficult for Hibbard, but it created a mutual respect for her teammates that has has. She also loves to compete.
"Marie's the best," said men's tennis coach Scott Perreman, who also coached the women's team through last season. "I enjoyed working with her as much as I did with any student-athlete. She gets the most out of her ability as mentally possible."
This season, Kansas hired Eric Hayes to coach the women's team. The team also was made up of three players from men, which added to the change.
“This year has been a transitional year.” Hibbard said. “It seems only natural that the new will be not having tennis anymore.
"I will definitely miss the team. The amount of time we spend together makes us our own social network." Leaving the sport is leaving the bond of friendship we have on the team."
Softball team sweeps doubleheader from Nebraska-Omaha
Bv Elaine Sung
The Kansas softball team showed some new confidence yesterday in its doubleheader sweep against the University of Nebraska-Omaha at Jayhawk Field.
Kansan sportswriter
With power hitting from catcher Tammy Cook, two-hit performances from pitchers Roanna Brazier and Reenie Powell, and outstanding fielding from Gayle Luecke, the Jayhawks took the first game 3-1 and shut out UNO 4-0 in the second game. Kansas raised its record to 26-22.
Kansas also stole 11 bases in the two games and committed five errors in the first game and none in the second.
"That's what's been holding us back in the past," Cook said. "It was just that people weren't concentrating. Before, when we made an error, a whole bunch of them would follow. Now, we can still come back and not make five more after that first one."
Third baseman Luedek said,
"From the time he came in, he said
we'd be a running team, and we're
hitting better now."
But the Jayhawks came back in their half of the inning. Left fielder Jessica Hennig doubled, then reached third on a sacrifice fly by quarterback Marchant. Cook but is double, and Hennig came in for the first Kansas run.
UNO led only once the entire day,
when it scored its only run in the first
inning after a Kansas error.
I messed up before when I'd made an error and let a run score," Cook said. "I knew I had to get it back for the team. I concentrated, knowing I
had to get a hit.
"We're starting to come together. We're getting up for games now. It shows in the way we've been playing."
The Jayhawks held on the rest of the game, sealing the victory in the fifth inning. Marchant led off for Kansas with a bunt and made it to first after UNO pitcher Beth Wedge hesitated with the ball.
Kansas shortstop Cherie Wickham was next with a sacrifice, sending Marchant to second base. Cook walked up to the plate, and while he passed through, he scored. Marchant stole third. Wedge took Cook, who then stole second base.
With only one out, second baseman Reenie Noble hit a line drive between second and third, sending Marchant home and Cook went to third.
Luetke flied out for Kansas' second out, but not before Cook came home for the Jayhawks' final run.
"There has been a real change in attitude," Luedek said. "We're playing with more confidence."
In the third inning, with Noble on first, Cook came through with a hit to deep left, sending Noble home for a 2-0 score.
Kansas dominated the second game. The Jayhawks scored their first run in the first innning. Hennig, who drew a walk, stole second, and came home after Noble hit a line drive down the left side.
Led by designated player Janelle Gaeddert, the Jayhawks scored two runs in the sixth inning. With two outs and Luedek on third base, Gaeddert was hit by the pitch and went to first. Shelly Burk bunteed, and Gaeddert
"We're just trying to move aggressively," Haack said. "We're getting more confident, and we're pulling together."
was caught between first and second base. The second baseman threatened but never tried to tag Gledeard at she edge safely to safety.
Yesterday's victory was an encouraging lead-in to this weekend's matchups against two Big Eight teams in Columbia, Mo.
The ball was then back with UNO pitcher Debbie Crouse. Gaeddert came flying from first base and stole second. Crouse overthrew second and both Luekde and Gaeddert came home for a final 4-0 score.
The Jayhawks will first play Okla-
om, which is 0-4 on an last place in
the NBA.
play Big Eight leader Oklahoma State, which is 4-0 in the conference and has shut out eight consecutive opponents.
"Oklahoma State is probably the team to beat for the title this year," Luecki said. "We'll have to great games against both teams."
KANSAS 3, NEBRASKA-OMAHA 1
**NANASA 3, NEBRAJA**
Nebraska-Ormaha 100 000 0 1-2 1
Nebraska-Omaha 100 000 0 1-2 1
UNC. Weligge and Hughes, Bk. Jauzier and Cook, 285-Coach, Hennig.
KANSAS 4, NEBRASKA-MAOAH 1
Nebraska-Omaha    000 000 -0 0 -2
Kansas        101 000 -1
Cook, Brush and Hughes and Fowler and Cook, 28B-UNO, KNU, KJU, Luetke.