TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1940

 

 

 

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By Bill Koester
Today marks the formal beginning

‘of the Summer’ Session recreation

program, with a meeting for softball
players scheduled for this afternoon
in Robinson gymnasium, the begin-
ning of games, concerts, and other
forms of diversion taking place to-
night. Dr. F. C. Allen, director of
the program which is greatly en-
larged over last year’s, expects
greater crowds of both participants
and spectators to join in beating off
the monotony of classes and the
summer heat.

The Big Six National League, a
softball circuit for Summer Session
athletes, will get under way after
this afternoon’s meeting. Six teams,
as many as were formed last year,
will make up the league. The team
winning the championship will
probably play an all-star aggrega-
tion at the season’s end. Last year
the winning Wildcat team defeated
the all-stars 9-8 in a fast, exciting
game. :

Chuck Taylor’s failure to pick a

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single Jayhawker on his “All-Amer-
ica” basketball teams was indeed an
oversight which has soured many
Mid-Westerners on Mr. Taylor. It
is excusable only because we realize
that Mr. Taylor isn’t the authority
that the press associations are. Self-
endorsing sporting v-setaonishrdlu
endorsed sporting equipment and
“Black Magic” basketball methods
made to order for the natural-born
flash of an athlete are his claims to
fame. He picked only one of Indi-
ana’s national champion Hoosiers on
his team, which further indicates
that he apparently gets his informa-
tion from Life and other picture-
publicity magazines. Of Mr. Tay-
lor’s selections, Dr. F. C. “Phog”
Allen—who doesn’t buy the former’s
sporting goods—says, “With about
18,000,000 persons playing basketball
in the world it must be difficult for
Chuck to pick an all-America and
still find time to sell his sports
equipment.” But the inside story be-
hind Mr. Taylor’s omission of Kan-
sas men on his teams is so good it’s
tragic that it can’t be printed at this
time—because it makes Mr. Taylor
look so very, very small.

Milton Kelley, head trainer at the

 

University of Texas, and former
Jayhawker assistant, dropped in re- |
cently for a_ short. visit.. Which
brings to mind that the University is.

getting a reputation for turning out
excellent trainers. Roland Logan, of
Army; Jimmy Cox, Harvard ace;
Elwyn Dees, now at Nebraska; and

Dean Nesmith, the Jayhawkers’
muscle doctor, are all products of
this university, and all are big-time
trainers.