fourth in the javelin.

May 5th will see Kansas entertaining Nebraska. Things leek bright
for a Kansas victorye On May 12th the team travels te Misseuri fer a meet.
The figers have a well-balanced and pewerful squad, which will be teugh fer
any teame The Big Six Conference meet will be held on May 19th at Nebraska,
as usual. The men are pointing fer a much better shewing than they made in

the indeor mecte

Fritz Knorr, the basketball coach at Kansas State, is inaugurating
spring basketball practice fer his Wildcats. During the war we have fere-
gone the idea ef having spring basketball practice because the boys are tied up
with se many details that we feel ne extra emphasis should be placed on bas-
ketball. We are carrying en until this fuss is ever, and then we will hit
them with a pewerful aggregation. The nucleus of our 1942 ever-victorious
team, if and when the beys return frem the service, will be a real threat to
any ef the teams in this sector, - we hepe.

We get many queries as te when Dean Nesmith will be backe I am reprint-
ing some of Dean's remarks regarding his stay in Italy. He may be addressed
in care ef the Special Service Section, APO 512, New York. Dean says: "The
ether day I had dinner with Chas. Black and then we went to a hospital to see
Bruce Voran. We really had a Jayhawker gab-fest. Bruce had a scrap with a
jeep and was bruised a bit, but he is getting aleng fine. Then I had dinner
with Dre He Penfield (Penny) Jonese He was very anxious to hear of Lawrence,
Kansase He is as pink-cheeked as evere I have been over most of eccupied
Italy and have visited many hespitals and have seen things that pictures nor
words could ever describe. My regards te Mrs. Hulteen and the gange Hew
about the Rebounds? As ever, Dean."

Yeu bet, Dean, immediately upon receipt ef your inquiry fer the Rebounds
we fired ene te youe And I want you to know that Dr. "Penny" Jones gets our
Rebounds regularly, or as regularly as we write them.

Bruce Voran, we are tickled to death that the jeep didn't gyp you any
worsee I still remember, brother, when Mr. Horacek ef Kansas Stee, fouled
you while you were in the act of shooting ina Kansas - Kansas Aggie game here
in Lawrence, just five seconds Before the final gun, with the scere tied. It
was the usual nerve-racker between the Kansas State boys that anually happened
here in hectic battle. And the jinx still holds, Bruce, - they haven't won
a@ game since, or even befere that shot. Geod luck, Major Voran. I commission
you a major for winnigg that ball game.

New, back te Dean Nesmith. Here is some additional information that ws
printed in the University Daily Kansan en April 10: "Fifty American soldiers
and efficers recently inaugurated classes ef the Mediterranean Theater's cen-
tral sports scheol in Reme. The school provides refresher courses in athletics
te Army personnel whe will serve as instructors and coaches in a post-war
sports program fer soldierse Classes are held in the gymnasium and athletic:
greunds ence used by Mussolini te train Fascist troops. ... . Bight civilian
athletic consultants, each an expert in his field, have been assigned by the
War Department te administer the ceaching pregram. The classes will be given
over a peried ef three months with a new cycle of students every 12 dayse At
The end ef each cycle the seldier-students will return te duty with their
outfits te begin an expansion ef the unit's athletic program. . « e"

Dean's eriginal hemecoming date was in April, but we learn new it will be
later. We called Dean's wife to confirm a rumor that he would be home June l,
and she has ne idea when he will be home. He is listed on the faculty of the
Kansas State High Scheel Ceaching Scheel, which school will have Henry Iba as

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