Sports
University Daily Kansan / Friday, April 19, 1991
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Students compete in Relays despite weather
Philip Meiring/KANSAN
Denise Brungardt (center) of WSU wins the 800-meter run
Socks provide better traction in discus throw
By Rick C. Honish Kansan sportswriter
A different technique was used in your discussion disc throw in your tqaRaq system.
But Nebraska's Mike Bailey found a way to at least lift the adversity in
A light rain fell most of the afternoon, and the discus as well as the thrower.
"I put my socks on over my shoes to get better traction." Bailey said. "I had my best throw of the day like that."
Today's Events
Bailey said he told Steve Fritz about his little secret, and Fritz, an unattached athlete, went on to have his best throw.
"The next time we turned around, just about everybody had socks on like that," he said.
Fritz finished in first place in the event, with a throw of 138 feet, 4 inches.
Fritz ended up winning the death-
tion with a point total of 7,860. Right
behind him in second place was
Bailey at 7,181.
For KU, Chris Walters placed fifth and Sean Jacobson placed 11th
Fritz was not affected by the weather, either. His first throw sailed 205 feet. It was good enough for first place in the event, and Fritz stood for the stadium confident that his throw, a personal best, would stand.
The pole vault portion of the decathlon was moved indoors, as well as the women's heptathlon long jump.
Bailey finished in 10th place, with a throw of 106-2.
He said the cold weather slowed many of the times in other decathlon events and may have caused some cramping.
"I think some of the guys had trouble with their elbows in the javelins. Bailey said." They were sure they on them like they were pretty sure."
David Kaiser, Kansas Relays manager, said the decision to move those events to the Anschutz Sports Pavilion "is one of the best." "The runway for the long jump was
The weather didn't hamper Bailey, though, who had his personal best in the javelin with a throw of 160-2.
"The runway for the long jump was really wet and slick. Kaiser said."
"And the lightning and wind made us put the vault inside.
Morning Session
Time Events
8.27 Men's Billy Mills 10,000 Meter Run
12.15 Women's Sprint Medley Relay
12.20 Men's Sprint Medley Relay
Afternoon Session
Time Events
1.00 Men's Pole Vault/Men's Bill Nieder Shot Put
Men's Bill Easton 4 Mile Relay
Women's Long Jump
1.20 Women's 880 Yard Relay
1.26 Men's 880 Yard Relay
1.47 Men's Wes Santee 1,500 Meter Run
3.08 Women's 800 Meter Run
3.23 Men's 800 Meter Run
"We didn't want to risk the athletes with injury in those conditions."
The top three finishers in the heptathlon were Daphne Saunders of Barton County Community College.
Businard Rogers of Pittsburgh State
Pete Peterson of Barton County, Connec-
tion
No Kansas athletes competed in the heptathlon.
Her highest-scoring event was the long jump, in which she jumped 20 feet. 3 inches and earned 902 points
Her closest competition in the long jump was Pritchett, with a jumf of 14.5.
Eric Wilcox practices for the hammer throw at Memorial Stadium
Saunders finished with a point total of 5.019, 17 points ahead of Rogers.
- High school events start at 8:00 a.m. and run throughout the day.
Hammer flies for Illinois State
Kansan staff report
The men's Bill Penny hammer throw and the inversion hammer throw were the only events at yesterdays' Big Ten basketball game than the heptathlon and the decathlon.
The Bill Penny hammer throw was named this year for the 1971 Kansas All-American and member of the 1970 indoor and outdoor national championship teams. The event is open only to collegiate-level athletes.
The invitational hammer throw is open to top collegians as well as university athletes.
Chad Canadae of Illinois State won the event with a throw of 178 feet, 2 inches.
The winner of the invitational was John Billinsley of the Stars and Strips club. He had a throw of 207,6 only 5 inches farther than the second place finisher John O'Connor of the American Big Guys club.
Fit will fight fat in battle of ages
The Associated Press
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — The moment is at hand for George Forceman to make boxing history or be exposed as a old fatighter.
The land of 02 for the 42-year-old, 257-pound wizard of self promotion will be the Convention Center.
At the end of the yellow brick road paved by hand-picked opponents stands Evander Hollyfield, the heavyweight champion of the world.
The 28-year-old, 208-pound Hollyfield toiled for several years as a champion in the boxing wasteland and the crusierweight division.
2 When he relinquished the cruiser-
weight title and became a heavy-
weight Hollyfield was ridiculed as
a champion. In winter, too small to
become a champion.
So he simply became champion by knocking out James "Buster" Douglas in the third round Oct. 25, although most of the attention was focused on Douglas' flabby 246-pound body and his shameful effort.
For Hollyfield to keep the most lucrative title in sports, he must beat a man who has made himself the king for the middle-aged appadised set.
"What kind of credibility will I beating George Foreman?" Holy
Holyfield will have a dandy credit rating, though.
"People write, 'You got to win George, you must do it,' said Formalin, a 3-1 underdog in his bid to win the championship in any weight class.
bought, bought,
He is assured of earning at least $20
million. Foreman is guaranteed $12.5
million.
The victory would come 16 years, five months and 20 days after he lost the title to Muhammad All on an overhead knockout in Kinshaa, Zaire.
He had won the title by stopping Joe Frazier in the second round in 1974 in Kingston, Jamaica. Watching on closed-circuit television in Atlanta
was 10-year-old Evander Holyfield
After losing to Jimmy Young in 1977, Foreman retired and became an evangelist. He began his come-back in 1987.
He weighed 367 pounds for his first fight, a fourth-round knockout of Steve Zouski his weight of 257 pounds. He was the highest of the four highest for a championship bout.
Primo Carrera weighed 260½ pounds when he won the title from Jack Sharkey in 1933 and weighed 259½ and 259½ for three defenses.
After he was knocked out by Forman in the fourth round in 1990, Mike Jameson said, "I can take a punch. I can take a punch harder than anyone, like Mike Tyson."
Whatever the quality of his 24 comeback opponents, there is no question Foreman can punch hard. He knocked out or stopped 23 opponents to boost his career record to 69-2, with 65 knockouts.
Foreman has convinced more than a few boxing people that he can win.
Others see him as a snake oil salesman, who, while making jokes about eating cheeseburgers, fattened his record on hamburger opposition.
George Benton, the former middleweight contender who trains Hollyfield said that age didn't affect punching strength.
Despite Foreman's weight, trainer
Archie Moore, the 77-year-old former
light heavyweight champion who
believes Foreman is in top condition.
"He hits you with those hands, it's like a wrecking ball coming at you."
Foreman, of course, wants to win early. He doesn't want to have to haul his bulk over 12 rounds against a superbly conditioned opponent.
Tennis teams to meet final title obstacles
He believes Foreman is better now than he was in the 1970s.
"You don't lose your power," Benton said.
"He's more sage," Moore said; "He's more subtle, more devastating, more confident."
By Mark Spencer
Kansan sportswriter
The men, 4-0 in the Eight, and the women, 5-0 in the conference, will play host to Oklahoma State tomorrow and Oklahoma on Sunday.
Success in this weekend's duals can go a long way toward sealing a Big Eight Conference title for the men's and women's tennis teams.
The women play at 9 a.m. and the men at 2 p.m. both days at the Allen Field House tennis courts.
Because of highly competitive matches in recent years, the Cowboys and the Sooners are two teams that the Kansas players respect.
Okahla State and Oklahoma are the last two teams that could put a speedbump in the Jayhawks'
smooth trek into the conference tour nament.
"This is going to be a weekend where the dominant teams, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Kansas, are fighting for the championship," Kansas men's tennis coach Scott Perelman said. "We're looking forward to playing these two teams, especially at home."
The men's team might be playing with a shuffled lineup
Yesterday morning, Perelman said that Buth's status was uncertain for the weekend matches pending the outcome of a bone scan.
Kansas freshman Rhain Buth injured his left leg in Tuesday's 9-0 victory against Missouri.
The Jayhawks moved junior Patrici
RanH to No. 5 singles and subsi-
tuted junior Paul Garvin in Han's 6 tuted against the Tigers. They likely will do it again if Buth is unable to play.
The women's team also could be a player short if senior Stacy Stotts is unable to recover from a bad back caused her out of the Missouri match.
However, No. 1 singles player junior Eveline Hamers appears to have recovered from a knee injury, and the Jayhawks as a team have dominated their first five conference duals.
After the Kansas women's 9-0 victory on Tuesday, women's tennis coach Michael Center said he liked Hawks' haunts' the rest of the season.
"I told the players we had positioned ourselves well in the conference after five matches," he said. "We have the top two returning teams from last year coming here. I think we'll get a great crowd and be ready to take them on head-to-head."
Currently the women have 38 points, and the men have 31. A big lead heading into the conference tournament can make the difference between a championship and second place, Perelman said.
Every match will be particularly important to the Jayhaws this weekend as each victory counts as a point toward the Big Eight title.
"Anything beyond five points is a significant lead in my mind," he said. "Three to four points is good. Three less than three is too close."
Red Sox's Clemens beats Royals in 1-0 shutout
The Associated Press
BOSTON — A pair of two-time American League Cy Young Award winners hooked up yesterday, and an injured run was the only difference.
Roger Clemens increased his shut- out streak to 23 innings as the Boston Red Sox beat the Kansas City Royals and Bret Saberhagen 1.50
Clemens (3-0), who shut out Cleveland in his last start, allowed three hits in eight innings. He walked one and struck out 10, reaching double figures for his second straight game and the 43rd time in his career.
"It was the type of game where you hope for a break, and we got it." Clemens said after improving his lifetime record against Kansas City to 11-2. "They hit some balls hard, but our guys came up with them. I helped them win some, doing different things, and it was hard to keep it in the strike zone."
Clemens, pitching while his five-game suspension is being appealed, was scheduled for a hearing before commissioner Fay Vincent in New York to give him given the penalty for his conduct in Game Four of last year's AL playoffs.
Sabhagen (1-2) gave up four hits, struck out five and walked one in seven innings, but he was the victim of an error by leftfielder Jim Eisenerth. He also completed a three-game sweep, their first against Kansas City since 1988.
"he pitched just as well, but didn't have any luck." Clemens said.
You go in against Clemens and you expect to have a great ballgame, and that's exactly what happened." Saberhagen said. You can't make mistakes in a ballpark like this with that kind of lineau."
Wade Boggs singled with two outs
Jack Clark singled as he led off the fourth. Two outs later he advanced to third on two wild pitches by Sabahera and Quintana lined out to end the iming.
in the third for the game's first hit.
Jody Reed then broke an 0-14-7 slump by poking a 3-2 pitch into shallow left and Boggs scored all the way from first as the ball skipped past Eisenreich for an error.
Tom Brunansky双胞胎 in the seventh and took third on Quintana's and Pena then lined out, and Saberhagen too. Tim Neahring for the third time.
Sports briefs
Kansas softball awaits weekend full of games
The Kansas softball team will be at home for two full days of games this weekend.
The Jayhawks, 27-10, will play Oklahoma City for a doubleheader starting at 1 p.m. tomorrow at Jayhawk Field.
Kansas then will face Friends in two games beginning at 1 p.m. Sun-
Monday night TV spots
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Yesterday's game against Wichita State was cancelled because of the weather.
No decision has been made about whether the game will be rescheduled.
Chiefs slated for three Monday night TV spot
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The Kansas City Chiefs, who appeared once last
The team said yesterday that two of the Monday night games would be at Arrowhead Stadium — against the AFC champion Buffalo Bills on Oct. 7 and against AFC West Division rival Los Angeles Raiders on Oct. 28.
season on ABC's Night Monday Football after a seven-year hiatus, will have no less than three games in the Monday spotlight this season.
"One of our goals has been to
The other Monday game sends the Chiefs to Houston on Sept. 16.
create greater national exposure for the Chiefs, and, with three games on Monday Night Football in 1991, we believe we do that," said Chiefs President and General Manager Carl Peterson.
The Chiefs played their second game of the 1990 season in Denver on a Monday night. Before that, they won against the popular time slot since Sep. 12, 1983.
From staff and wire reports