4.

array of last year's high school stars, should provide Kansas State with some
mucheneeded manpower,

"Whilo the picture mey chance alnost overnight, hingeing upon the progress of
the war, various decisions of the Navy, and the genoral manpower situation, K.U.
will have to battio hard to place in the upper bracket next fall, However, there
is a fighting spirit evident onong the players who participated in the Jayhawker's
victory over Missouri last foll which had not been evidont for several seasons
and which may carry tho young Jayhawkors to greater heights in 1944, It should be
an interesting season, and fans are assured of food football entertainment with
the results in the laps of the gods and tho hands of the l7-year-olds, the 4F's
and the Navy.” a

The Big Six Outdoor Track championship of the conference was won by Iowa State
College at Lincoln, Nebraska, on May 20. with 67 points. Kamsas showed surprising
strength in taking second place with 664 points. Kansas won seven first places,
and hac she possessed a larger squad, as cid Iovm Stato, undoubtedly Kansas ‘would
have been the winnor. Other Big Six schools placed in the following order: ©
Oklahona, 345 points; IMissouri, 32% points; Nobraska, 242: points; and Kansas State,
9 points.

Kansas has experienced a very successful indoor and outdoor track season under
the splendid tutelage of Ray Kanehi, Kanehl graduated from the University. of. ~.
Kansas in-1927, having won a gold track shoe on Coach Harry Huff's Missouri Valley
Championship track team. Coach Kanehl is in his first year at the University of
Kansas, having ccne to us from Wichita East Hich S8chool whore he was chairman of
tho Physical Education Department. Kenehl won five track championships while at
East. High. ee a :

The experience of track. coaches throughout the nation this season has been one
of changing personnel, Kansas has been no exceztion, Of 92 men who have report-
ed for track during the season, only 38 remained to 2inisi. “ho season. ‘, number
of those boys were Navy V-12 *roinees whe wore transferre: to other units.

Several civilian boys were called into service by Uncle San. Last year Henry
Shenk coached the Kansas track team to a third place in the Big Six. In looking
over the records it a»ypears that Kanehl has mde the best record of any track
coach at Kansas for the past sovon or eight years.

The athlotic directors have set the cate of August 12th for the Big Six °
basketball coaches to meet at the Continental Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri, to
discuss, a m if possible, draft a Big Six basketball schedule for next yoar.

The teams have heretoforo played a double round robin tournanent, but with trons=
portation. what it is, some adjustazent may be made in the schedule. Certainly .
Kansas will not play the creat number of games in basket>all that sho did last
year. Travol conditions were then severe, but they will te much worse this year.

Cormencenent exercises this year will be held on June 29. Dr. Chauncey S.
Boucher of the University of Nebraska will speak at the Commencement ceremony,
and Dr. Nelson P. Horn of Baker University will delivor the baccalaureate address
Sunday, afternoon, June 25. The June oxercises will be the third graduation
ceremony to be held at the University this year.

A carpaign has been launched by students and faculty of the Medical School
at Kansas City to build a Student Union. Your food friend and mine, Dr. Don
Carlos Peote, is serving as chairman of the Dr. C. B. Francisco Memorial Fund.