KFKU SPORTSCAST + April 6, 1944 SPRING SPORTS Spring football is on in full swing at the University of Kansas. Head Coach Henry Shenk, assisted by "lmer Schaake and Dean Nesmith, have listed thirty-five men who have iavenked out football suits for the spring work out. Of that number only six, - Dan Chase, center, Wayne Hird, center, Charles Keller, guard, Charles Moffett, half, Don Barrington, fullback, Don Faullmer, back, and Bill Chestnut, drop kicker - are lettermen. Junius Penny, 5ob Miller, LeRoy Robinson, and John Bergin are out for traoke Warren Riegle, only experienced end, is in a swimming class, and cannot participate due to this conflict. Other last year's squad men who are out are James Weatherby, back, Jim Shondell, tackle, Joe Ryan, guard, and Harold Hill, end. All of the other men on nev men, not one of whom has had any college experience, Most of the practice sessions are devoted to fundamentals, with scrimmage each Friday. In order to develop more enthusiastic tackling on the part of the Navy boys, Conall Heury Shenk has had likenesses of Hirohito and Hitler drawn on the two tackling dummies, It is astonishing how viciously those boys hit those dummies with the leering countenances now, Athletic Director Karl Klooz is working on a tenegame football schedule for next year. An announcement of the schedule should be made in a few days. | The outdoor track season is blossoming forth in promising fashion under the splendid coaching of Ray Kanehl. Kanehl graduated at Kansas in 1927, having won a gold track shoe on Coach Huff's Missouri Valley Championship team. He is now in our department of Physical ‘Education, SENOS Wetted ee ste i aa BeEe ans é i - t * i Sapa See Oe 10 ER) peer a i a ep ape to” RRR NT e2e ; having come to pe from Wichita Bast High School where he was chairman of the department. The damp and chilling weather has temporarily repressed the ardent enthusiasm of these hopeful Jayhawkers, but there are over fifty boys out striving for the honor of representing the University of Kansas this spring. The following boys from the recently completed indoor track season are reporting daily for workouts: Whitson Godfrey in the distance runs and the javelin throws Rolland Hamilton in the middle distance runs; Robert Lillibridge in the uiriate, hurdles and the jumping events; Harvey Morrow in the pole vaults; Dean Patterson in the hurdles; Jim Richey in the sprints; Leroy Robison in the shot put, discus and javelin throw, and the high jump; W4114em Schell in the middle distance and distance runs; Tom Scofie}d, last season's big Six outdoor champion high jumper, will also broad jump and run low hurdies; Frank Stannard, Big Six indoor high hurdles champion, will compete in the low hurdles, high jump and run in relays; William Stewart, middle distances; and John Sutton in the dashes, John Hawley, middle distance runner who competed in the indoor season has been unable to report because of a foot operation which will delay him for some time. The schedule for the outdoor season includes the University of Oklahoma at Norman, on April 16th; the Drake Relays, April 28 and 293 a triangular meet with Nebraska and Kansas State probably on May 5 or 6; Iowa State at Ames, May 133 the Big Six Outdoor Meet at Lincoln, Nebraska, May 20, and a meet to be scheduled later with Pittsburg State Teachers College, | Kensas experienced a very successful indoor track season under Kenehl's tutelage. Missouri was whipped at Columbia, 67 to 37, Kansas also emerged first place winner in a triangular indoor meet at Lincoln , s “eee ‘shes Saab aia aie Sg oa Re be bla ai : 5 iTS wt ik cael aay ica erie! dit Bias 2 OES aati eats are oat i zi i wiih esa cs Rs aaa ea oSe when the Jayhawkers amassed a total of 43 2/3 points, and Nebraska was second with 41} points, while Kansas State finished third with 15 points. The Big Six Indoor Meet at Kansas City's Municipal Auditorium found Towa. State winning first place with 38 points, Missouri second with 28 1/3, Kansas won third place with 27 1/3 points, Nebraska fourth with 22 1/3 points, while Oklahoma was fifth with 16 points. Kansas State failed to place or to score a pointe The outstanding place wimers in the Big Six Indoor Meet, so far as Kansas was concerned, found Frenk Stannard winning first in the high hurdles and third in low hurdles; Tom Scofield tide for first place in the high jump and placed third in the broad jump; Harvey Morrow tied for first in the pole vault; and Robert Lillibridge tied for first in the broad jump. Baseball will stage a comeeback after a cessation of a year for Kansas with the diamond sport. Im all probability, Acting Athletic Director Kerl Klooz will engage Jackson G, Austin as coach of the baseball team, Jack Austin is in our Physical Zducation department in charge of ASTP physical education. Jack graduated from Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia in 1930 with ea major in physical obesation and a minor in biolégical sciences, hen engaged for the ASTP work Jack was working — toward a Ph, D. degree at the University of Kansas. He coached and taught physical education six years before going into administrative worke Austin played quarterback for Coach Fran Welch, and also played baseball. The baseball schedule will of necessity be with service teams here in school and nearby camps and stations. Very few of the colleges are indulging in the national pastime. Gasoline restrictions and the inability of the baseball teams to drew on college diamonds will necessitate the scheduling of games with service teams, But the students who are in school SERRE RG 2 ARERR AN ROR IRENE Tie! SESE IRSA RD i EGS EN RC Rey ee eee eae ae ae ; who have an aptitude for baseball. will have an opportunity to play the game of their choice and at the agne time earn the right to try for a varsity letter. : Tennis will receive attention and should be one of the prominent spring sports, There are several tennis players who are students in the Navy Vel2 who have won national recognition, Professor Dick Howie, of tne School of Susiness, will coach the tennis racketeorse The Kansas Relays are out for the duration. But on April 22nd Kensas will stage her fortieth annual Kansas Interscholastic Meet on Memorial Stadium Field, Ray Kanehl, the varsity track coach, will be in ‘oharge of the hundreds of high school boys who will come in for this annual spring classic. On Mareh 17th several hundred ASTP boys were sent in oe active training. They left the University for southern camps. We had four men neselihane the ASTP physical education - Howard Porter, Elmer Schaake, Vernon Hayes and Jack Austin, This large reduction in the ASTP ranks will naturally cause a thinning out of our instructors, The deferments of Elmer Schaake end Vernon Hayes will be up May. first. Howard G. Porter, a University of liissouri graduate, who came to us last August from the Argentine High School of Kansas City, Kansas, has presented his resignation effective the 15th of April. Porter goes to the PlanevieweBeeolwood Schools, at the edge of Wichita, as a teacher of the teachers in physical education and recreation, Some would call it “supervisor”, but the superintendent doosn't like that word. This district is near the airport at Wichita, and has a population of 20,000 within a radius of one mile. It has the largest grade school in the United States, as well as large high school and junior high school, in the seteup, The Porters have been living at fipehigit ering Sahn: -apahlitbai: oe piss et } a 4 i 4 4 a 4 ~5= 2133 Vermont Street in their home whéch they purchased last sumer. ‘The housing conditions being what they are ih Lawrence have enabled the Porters to dispose of their home readily. The Jayhawk Club of Greater Kansas City is calling all K. U. folks to their big funfest and dinner, April 25, at the President Hotel. Charles B. Shaeffer, Kansas alumus and Regional Director of the War Produotion Board, as well as President of the Jayhawk Club, says: Come ye ~ one and all = husband, wife and family - to the big gathering of the tribe ~ on Tuesday evening, April 25, at the Hotel President roof ballroom e help us raise the ROOF. Chancellor Deane Malott and Mrs. Malott are the honored guests. K. U. professors and their wives will be there." _ Shaeffer says a regular caravan from the University will be on hand to renew old friendships. Those in charge of arrangements state that so far as possible the diners will be grouped with others of your decade at school - making it doubly easy to greet and visit with your former fellow students and friends. A good will hour will precede the dimer. From 6:15 to 7:15 you will be in a position to let your hair down and have a good time. At 7:15 the call for chow will be mide. While you wait you will have music. George “Dumpy" Bowles, the author of "I'm a JayeJaye Jayhawk", has arranged for an orchestra to soothe and inspire the dinner guests while they wait. For those who haven't forgotten, the dance floor is in readiness for you to recall the old days when you were in the University and you danced at Eoke's, the Fraternal Aid, the Country Club, or the Union Building. You may not have Swede Wileon's music, or Shanty Newhouse, or any of the early day orchestras, but "Dumpy" will have it arranged so that you will recall old times. The hotel has a limit of 300 persons and the first 300 reservations FE oe ag @ Se to come in will be the lucky ones. No special invitation is needed if you are a Kansas alwmus, a former pnitan’, or a friend of the University. Write to Charles B. Shaeffer, care of the War Production Board, 414 Interstate Building, Kansas City, Missouri, and enolose your check for $2.50 per person, including all taxes, and your tickets will be mailed right back. | Prexy Charles says that amount is not much in times like these. He admonishes with this sentence: Let's go for old K.U. Let's let the old K.U. spirit flow once more -- its en long time. You will be sorry if you miss this one. Let's go for old K.U. , ‘The football coaches will be present and there will be many an opportunity for the assembled miltitude to celebrate their great victory over the Missouri Tigers on Kansas Memorial Field last Thanksgiving day, in football. Kansas defeated the Tigers in football, in track, and two out of three games in basketball. Certainly wit} that athletic record and with good food and good music, the Jayhawk Club of Greater Kansas City should have a grand evming. _ Pe Ty Barmm and Henry Tha both had the right dea. lash procured an exceptional attraction and exhibited them to the public whieh "paid off" at the gate to view the oddity. ! Chatvman Jim St. Claiy of the Basketball Rules Committee, will see from his erow’s negt above the basket Saturday night at the Oklahoma - Oklahoma A. and Me game at Norman what we at Kansas have known for a loug time, ~ the folly of a ten foot basket easily within reach of a hyper seven footer! St. Clair talks of defensive trouble. He speaks of goal tending difficulties. The offensive threat is even more of e crisis. He should kmow thet Kurland now holds the high seoring record of all time of Gallagher Field House, the home of the A. and i. Cowboys. Raising the basket discriminates against no player but it does discourage ® super tall player from camming wrier a low goal because the poorest place to ghoot at a twelve foot basket 1s diveotly underneath the goal. The same reasoning applies to moving the goal posts tan yards back of the goal line in college football. 1% discourages too easy place kinking or drop kioking attempts, yet it allows the same opportamity for all field goal artists. If the proposed defensive goal tending sugcestion of St. Clair should become « rule it would necessitate two additional crows nestsattending referees to rule on deseending flights of the ball over the perpendicular cylinder of the basket, plus the two present referees that we now have, A aat-walk constructed from basket to basket above the players' heads would enable a single tightwire walking referee to observe both baskets in his elevated position. and sane of the present basketball rules members @ven talk of the expense of raising the basket two feet! | A ten foot basket enoourages the big tine sonshes to scour the country, searching for these altitudinous giants too tall to fight for Unole sem, yet not too tall to fight for four years for dear old alma manmy and Coach Go Get ‘im Quick and Tall. mies the Big Six Conference has had quite a bit of diffioulty in selecting their representative for the Hetioual collegiate Athletic Avsooiation play-off in Kunsee City Much 24 ond 25. As annomocd last wook, Town State by having the of their ster Naval trainees. Therefere they desired to close their season. Oklehome was placed in the same position, so it was nesessary for the tournament manager, eaves Peters, who is the Big Six Commissioner, to ask the Fifth District Selection Comaittee, comprising of Pr. i. H. Ming, chainman, of Kangs State College, G. %. MoBride, sports editor of the Kansas Clty star, George Bdvarda, basketball conch of tho University of Missouri, and a representative from the ‘Miscourl Valley Couferqme, to select a representative. The University of Missourl was asked because they had a ofvilien team. Assistant Dean Sen Shirley, who is faculty representative of Missouri, was out of tam and no decision could ve had. Seta The representatives asked the Big dix Seleetion Comulttes to ask Iowa State College to reconsider, which they did, so the lama State Cyclones will be the Pifth District representative. “onry Tba's Oklaham aggios, which would be tlw Missow'i Valley Couferawe representative, would have been the team to met in « play-off match with the Mig Six representative, but since most of the Missowl Valley teams had disbanded amd since Cklahom Aggies hal scoepted The Fifth Disterlot hes always heretofore had a play-off series betrom the Big Six wimer and the Missourl Valley wimer. Therefore, this year when Iowa State has been selected by the Big S4x as thelr representative they now becom the whieh is the Seventh, has no representative, so tho N.C.A.A. committee has asked the Unbrersity of Tom to represent the Rocky Mowrtain crea. Lilowise, the Pacific ; i A A allies ‘Pasifie Const a44 nob meet. Again, the N.Gsicd. committee selected Pepperdine College, a smll college that has heretofore been in the Intersellegiate Tournament in Kenens City which is mde up of emall colleges not observing the one year residence rule. So only Iowa State and \rimmas will be representatives from thelr districts. The other schools ~ the University of Iowa ani Pepperdine College - have been filled in to make s tournsemt possible. ‘the plan of the National Collegiate is to lave the four tems west of tho Mississippi River play off their tournament in Kansas City Naroh 24 and 26. ‘Then the wimer of the four wostem districts will moet the wimer of the four castern districts in Madison square Garden in New York. ‘Then there is an Invitation Tournsent in Madison Square Garden promoted by Ned Irish. Oklehom Aggies, Keutunky, Uteh, New York University, St. Jola‘'s of Brooklyn, « sone of the top teams of the somtry ~ have been invited to participate in the Divitetion Tournament. ‘This formerly was the Invitation Basketyall Writers Tounament. It is rather an independent affair, but 1iste the top teams in the country, The wismer of the Divitation Touraasent, wnich 48 played in Madisan Square Garden, will meet the wimer of the National Colk giate in New York City for the benefit of the Red Cross. Last year about 926,000 was turned over tw the Ned Cross from the Invitation Toumnment with Wyoming University, the wiser of the M.C.A.A. tommenatt, defeating st. John's of Brooklyn, the wimer of the Invitation tournament. The Aiffioult time thet Commtesioner Reaves Peters has in malcing up o mak skolotal quartet to fill plsces of the Pacific Coast and the Rocky Mountain conferences is justified if only for the benefit that the Red Cross derives from K.CoAisA. Organization, ax Ioan University belongs in the Fow'th district, the ao Be. Ohie State, the winner. Howrver, those games should afford a very interest ng tournament in Kansas City. The dates, again, are March 24 and 25, in Mmieipal Auditoriva. Double headers will be played cash night. The tickets om be procured by phoning or writing Clyde Baker, ‘aovieipal Auditorium, xensas City, Uiawouri. Another interesting feature of the play-off will be the possible meeting of Iowa State College and the University of Towa, two formidable opponents in the Jawkeye State. The drawings by Commissioner Peters will be anncweed in the very near future. Now, back to some nows about some of our alumi. Roland "Kickapoo" Logan, right guadd on the Kaneas football teams in 1927, 1923 and 1929, 4a now Lieut. Roland lagen, of the Hayy. The Kiekapeo was given Roland Logan on acoourt of the fact timt he camo from Kickapoo, Kausas, « small village near Leavewrorth. Logan was trainer for the Kensas varsity athletic teans for a mmber of years. le then wont to George Washington University, Washington, D. C., as trainer, then to the Boston Rod Sox, and thon to the University of /ittwburgh. He finally wound up as trainer of all athletic teas at the United States Wilitary Academy, West Point, Now York. lle enlisted in the Navy over a year ago and is now at one of the advanee bases in the Pacific in charge of recreation. Pour months age he took Yordhan Rane before he agmaud the fleot recreation center in the Pacific. Growley is now in charge of Aduiral Halseyts staff as chief of all recrention in Lieut. Rolend Logan has umler his direst supervision forty acres of play hendbal2, horseshoes, softball, baduinton, volleybell and golf. Ye lus Just finished laying out ® nine-hold golf oowss. Logan states that he te short of golf equipment but they are hoping to get sume very soon. Quoting Logan, he gays, "We also have @ big stage where I warble and act as meter of corenonies wee in my spare moments. I also lave a large refresimett hall and « aice ice crean parlor. Five thouwsend non or therasbouts visit this large center every day. It is a terrific boost to their morale — fighting mm off the ship who ease hore and ploy, velox, eat tee cream aud rest up. Aduiral Winkts etated the place is worth five battleships. I a carrying on ani enjoying the work isasensely. It is seve days a week ami ag moh og 15 hows a day. The men come as early as 5:50 for a pre-breakZast work out, and oftm come back at night.” Congratulations to Rolend Logan and the fine work tat he is doing. He was always the life of any perty. (nm football trips as 4 player he abmys led the singing, andes trainer of the teams ho had the boys in high epirite as they gathered arowsl the pime at the hotel or therever thay might be. In my Jayhondc Rebounds Letter to cur service boys, as of February 16, we published a letter from Captain Fon Durand of the Marines, one of our old varsity basketball 20th when I landed in the assault wave against the Jeps at Taram. After having my landing craft shot out from wader me when 100 yards from the beach , I spent nearly two hours swimsing in the water before reaching shore. These Japs are worthy opponents and we Marines don't walerestimate then. 1 wis lucky to survive since about half of those in my oraft were killed and several others wounded. At present we are in a rest camp, so called, where we are again widertaking strenuous trainimg in preparation for the mext operation. We manage to work a couple of ond volleyball tou." : : This moming Coagh lienry Shenk received a letter from Captain Durand. This letter, dated March lst, states, "We are mow at a base camp training hard but also enjoying « lot of good sun and surf bathing. ‘The temperature ie mild enough ‘that we never wear shirts ani uso only ome or two blankets at night. We are Yar removed fron « tom and therefore removed from ell dissipation, so all of us are really getting in tip top shape. I weight 195 powids at present. CS aS Ree Gh at GNE ea. Reae IRSS Fia or gee SERN has SRS re ra Ler TY Ce eee PEE eS USS Ste Pete eo yee tere ee SSS RTE a Se gees ORE Boe TURIN ST RIES oe Me oes ta TUR OCC URES PL ST eae i “Then, consistent with his modesty, he atates, “Today T received a thrill when Admivel Hinkts presented me with a Silver Star Nedal for so-called gallant action. There were meny ethers of ow division receiving siniler awards ae ea result of our Terawe action. I¢ was a real twill to receive the amrd from one of the big boye. Najor Bi21 Jones, © former K.U. boy, aleo received the Silver Star Medal." BAL] Jones will be remembered as a Sig Alyh back in 1937, and Fen was @ Phi years or more oimoe I last saw you and iis. Shenk. Your boys will be grom, probably, when I seo you again at this vate. Give my regards to all of my friends on the Will. | oes How, in closing, woll do we rember General Douglas Wackrthur's words which . ove carved in stone sbove the gymasiom of the United States Militery Acndeuy at Nest Point; | : ‘ “Om the ficlds of friendly etrife ere som The seeds whieh, in other years on other fields Will bear tho fruits of victory.” RACE ES ‘THERE IS A CRISIS FACING OUR YOUTH There is a orisis facing our youth in Lawrence. The crisis is in our schools of Lawrence and in the State of Kansas. It would appear that we supporters of this platform, spokesmen for health and patent education and general education of our children, must become increasingly and persuasively vocal regarding the values that are so commonly neglected. Cities and towns that do not provide adequately deny these children great opportunities to which they are inherently entitled. Our teachers have been going to better jobs. Industries and teaching positions in public schools ia many of our finest teachers from Lawrencee We a in danger of losing many more of our very excellent teachers unless something is done definitely to mest a salary schedule to which they are entitled. | Citizens in classification clubs are urgéig the local school wine tn co before ths Utate Tex Commission and ask for permission to aioe he levy to such place as is necessary to provide needed funds. This can be done without legislative action. If the local board decided to add another mill dnd levy 15 mills instead of 14 which is now the limit, it would receive about $16,000 more money. This doubtless would be adequate for salary increases. Our Lawrence public can help by insisting that our teachers' salaries here in Lawrence be increasede ‘The Board of Education has the necessary power to solve the problem. If our Lawrence patrons will be audible in behalf of the iieins teachers, the Board doubtless will react favorably. Last night the Board of Directors of the Lawrence Rotary Club went on record with a strong endorsement favoring an increase for the teachers. Today at noon the Lawrence Kiwanis Club acted in a similar mamer. Our teachers have no organization like the unions have to express themselves, and it is only Ze through the appreciative patrons of the schools that Lawrence seninen may speak up in their behalf. Lawrence is proud of her aint system and of course the _ teachers are responsible for the high sieutine that Lawrence enjoys. The matter of general education is but one phase of the crisis. The physical fitness of our youth a been plaguing the country in a most embarrassing situation. Out of Washing ton yesterday came the following statement: Runes The office of education today announced three regional institutes on physical fitness among students, in addition to a three-day institute which started yesterday at the University oP suk in Austin, One of the three will be at the Jayhawk Hotel, Topeka, Kan., March 7, 8, 9; local chairman, Strong Hinman, | assistant superintendent of schools, Topeka. The institutes are a part of a war- time drive for physical fitness of students in schools and colleges, which started in November, 1942, because ssloctive service figures showed a high percentage of rejections among registrants 18 and 19 years old. The campaign is sponsored by the office of education with the cooperation of the army, navy and federal security agency, committee on physical fitness. Alb those groups are represented on the faculties of the institutes in addition to local physical fitness leaders. Unquotee } Certainly our university, college and public school administrators will have to assume some responsibility for their short-sightedness in not enforcing a more efficient physical fitness program during the pre-war days. Many educators held to the belief that physical conditioning should be optional. This : is a great mistake. A thoroughbred horse or a thoroughbred dog is exercised daily because the owner considers him a valuable animal. Seven-eighths of the returned circulation of the blood to the heart is through muscular exercise. Certainly ~ growing youth should be exposed to a scientific and sane physical fitness programe ode Before the war the hospital at the University here examined the students for defects. If they were found to have no organic or systemic diseases it was optional with then whether they shonia tale tigated conditioning. The very people who needed it most -- because they wore not in fine physical condition -- generally took an academic subject rather than to enroll in physical conditioning. The University catalog stated that it wes necessary to have 124 ne for evaduntion, 4 hours of which might be physical exercise. One hour credit per semester was given for physical conditioning. The boy who was not aggressive © or highly skilled in some game ina shrunk away from swimming and physical . exercise. Meany of them did not want to change their icin during the day and the general soecalled discomfort of exercise and shower batis to ‘nm was odious. They followed the philosophy and reactions of President Robert M. Hutchings of the University of Chicago who said, “When I feel the urge to exercise I just go end lie down and soon the urge passes away.“ This attitude and the attitude of college administrators who permitted such a progrem definitely contributed to Wie unfit condition of our younger men for military service. When the war came on these same administrators who were lethargic about installing the program weirs very enthusiastic nant getting ell young men in vigorous and rigorous physical conditioning programs. But the effort wes too late to save many of the young ae who could have been saved by a sane and comprehensive physical building program. | Bacon said: Quote: If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labor for a thing that will be useless in our hands. He that sinks his vessel by overloading it though it be with gold and silver and precious stones, will give its owner but an ill account of his voyage. Unquote. Someone else has said, quote, Health is an asset that outweighs all others. Health is a gift from nature, and one must obey her laws if he is to retain possession of his chiefemt asset in life's struggle. Unquote ote | Maude haves, the great English woman sociologist, said, wate: You cannot break Nature's laws, but you can hreak yourself against Nature's laws. Unquote. : You may lost money, friends, power, sree tien and even reputation, but if you have health and courage you can regain lost treasures, climb the heights again and look the sun in the face, But when health is gone, money, power, prestige and friends cannot save you. Nature has decredd that man must work in order to be health, and work must be such as to provide plenty of mental and physical exercise properly proportioned, or the individual mst arrange his living outside of working hours to get the needed mental and physical activities in weber %o avoid a loss in health and happiness. A man who does not work at all soon finds himself slipping on life's highway. Any faculty which is not used , ‘tends to deteriorate. But the man who works too hard is undermining his health and wrecking his life. Safety lies in pursuing the middle course of work and play happily sctaaatl ama Measure and proportion. The man who does not obtain both mental and physical exercise in his daily work and refuses to obtain it in . some form of recreation has no one to blame but himself if the bloom of health. : fades from his euch. The human system cannot stand a steady diet of hard work and no playe Abolish play and you would destroy happiness, outlaw laughter and you transform life into a gloomy funeral march from the cradle to the grave. We need teachers in our publie schools who have vision, energy, personality and vibrant health. In my opinion, teachers should be examined for clivetenl detiete wel petised fron those teaching until they regain their physical fitness. We have too many teachers in our schools and sitleces who have embalming fluid in their veins instead of Blood. It is altogether desirable to have in oS our public schools elciniee who will take ‘the entire.class out over the week-end into the country aud toach them as only efficient headmasters can ~ camping, hiking and nature study. The Boy Scouts pchihantéen is doing a wonderful job, but less than five per cent of our boys are touched by this programe | I had a very interesting experience with my son, Bob. A few years ago we were playing golf at the laereien Country Club. The wind was pretty — strong acovss the course and before the shot was made Bob said, as he picked up some grass and tossed it into the air, “From which direction is the wind?” Naturally ‘the grass blew in the direction that gave him the information he desired for the drive. Before he tossed the grass into the air, I said, “From the southeast." And he said, "Which is southeast?” Suatkine, I would say, to think that a boy who could earn a Phi Beta Kappa key was never taught in the public school the four points of the compass. Then I tried it on two of my other children who were graduates of the University and fmd that they did not know directions. So ghoghed was I at the lack of wlomeritad knowledge that I thought I would try it on my basketball team. I said to a group before scrimmage, "fake the east goal." And several of the varsity basketball players looked at me and said, "Which is the east goal?" Certainly our schools have failed to teach some of the most vital and elemental things that our youth should possess. A very excellent illustration of the need for physical aa tanen is exemplified by the officers of our Ue. S. Naval Unit here on Mount Oread, “The entire staff of our naval officer personnel exercises every morning here in Robinson Gynmasium at 11 otclook. It is not optional with them, tet is required by the government. Our government recognizes the emphatic need of these officers to retain their physical vigor and alertness and these orders are enforced to the letter. If we had the same requirement for our teachers that Uncle Sam has for his fighting men, we would have buoyant, personable, healthy and aggressive teachers in our public schools. Crime and truancy would be reduced because these oo Gm leaders would be leaders both in and out of the classroom. During my years ere at the University I have had many faculty members who are parents come to me and sax, "I want you to teach my Johny, or Bill, to box. He doesn't mow how to take care of himself, and the neighborhood children are punishing him unduly." These children generally cane from homes where the father did not take an active part in building the morale and physical stature of his son. The great Greek, Laodamas, son of Alcinous, said to Odysseus: Quote Come, do thou too, father and stranger, try thy skill in the sports, if haply thou art practiced in any; end thou art like to have Imowledge of games, for there is te creuher glory for a man while yet he lives, than that which he achieves by hand or foot. Unquote. No greater joy can a father have than to indulge in sports and gemes with his son. But conitactiy a busy father will do what most fathers do =- leave it to the schools to provide games and sports for his sone All sociologists and psychologists agree that where play on recreation are afforded youth, .~ Juvenile delinquency decreases markedly. Lawrence has a fine school system with ; elenentary schools in which are excelient sient However, there is no physical education program for the youth on Saturdays aud holiday periods. Cordley School has a fine gymasium, but the basketball goals have bee removed and an auditorium has been made out of the gymmasium. -The youngsters from Cerdley attack Robinson | Gymnasium in force on week days, Saturdays and Sundays with their basketballs. Certainly this is not as it should be. The Senet beasties Association and the patrons of the school should see that these youngsters have a place to play under proper supervision. In all first class Y.M.C.A.'s and school organizations the intermediate youngsters are separated from the high school youngsters, and the high school vous from the adults. Therefore, the intermediate youngsters s o7e should not be storming Robinson Gymmasium and waiting around where men dress and exercise. It gives them the wrong perspective. There is hardly an afternoon or evening that a large group of juveniles do not invade the gymmasium. Por What? For a chance to play basketball, It has even been imown that they break into the gymmasium to play. When the attendants and janitors run the small boye from one floor ‘they go to the next. When they are run off the other one they move out but they are found in another. part of the building. No one desires to be unfriendly or out of sympathy with these little fellows, They are not pexmitted in the Community Building where basketball g0als are installed. They want a place to play. if the school buildings were opened the gymmasium in that enkoat building would be their “home room", so to speak. It would be more than that. It would be their rendevouz. Instend of thinking of the drudgery of study, they would think of the joy of play and naturally grades would come up because they would associate the building with a place t6 play as well as a place to work. And play ana work, neasurably proportioned, is the prescription for you and for me « for your child and my child. : - Thank you. DOUBLE TROUBLE FOR INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS The pseudo-patriotism of some of our so-called big time coaches in both basketball and football is astounding. These coaches are thaveling over the country signing up all the likely 4F boys with athletic potentialities, They also are scouting for all 17 year old high school graduates who have one year of athletic competition before registering for selective service. The method employed by these proselyting coaches is to appear at alumni gatherings and quarterback clubs, as well as business executive meetings. They ae their veals of football or basketball games and enlist certain men of the community, whether alwmi of the college oP big shot business executives who grab an opportunity to get m™ the reflected limelight of publicity. These high powered young business executives have the name and record, as well as the financial standing of the young athlete's family. They know just how much — family will need to help this young ee school athlete obtain a college degree. This personality-plus business executive has already talked to the dad or mother of the young athlete and assured them that ae tix the boy up with Coach So-and-So of Siwash fame. When this coach comes to town he is entertained by this business executive or executives of this hot down=town quarterback club, and the boys are brought in and introduced to Coach So-end=so. Now, that is just one angle. It is soaatela that the alumi of several colleges reside in the same i aes and each one of the alumi of certain se or the followers of the various colleges will make D xeaaely with their own particular favorite skates In this way it is Gate jase . the boy to talk to and even be propositioned by five or six of these itinerant. } athletic tramp coaches who are out to buy the boys on the hoof through the so-called respectable status of the coach being interested in the welfare of a the boy. As a matter of fact, tnisleoach ig only interested in his own coaching ze a + ola peng boy record, sAaariinede he would be on his own college campus — same as @2 other faculty members, aensuppesse=se—ds. At the same time, these coaches in making after-dinner speeches, are indulging in frantic flag waving while posing as developers of young men, aiding the war effort through physical conditioning programs of athletic games. Please do not misunderstand me. All of the college coaches in America are not doing this thing, but the so-called big time coaches are and they are aided and abetted by the college which they represent because the athletic ecveretas body of that institution eS oot the expenses of the coach in his jaeuaias over the country, State boundaries have no restraint for him. Any likely athlete anywhere in the United States is fair game for his project . toward more efficient athletic material in winning his gamese There is more respect for rules a for conduct in our professional sport of organized baseball than that which obtains in our college athletic competition ; : : ; : of today. The reason is very obvious. Judge, hemei-eS enforces the professional -s code to the letter and spirit, while the college authorities -temporize and are E now permitting the devil to take the hindermost. | Take the college athletic situation of today. The president is always the acting head or ex officio head of the athletic committee. He or the school faculty appoint a faculty representative who is responsible for the so-called ideals and laws of the conference under which the school operates. These faculty representatives satearleyant as td legislative, executive and the judicial bodies of the conference of which the school is a member. An athletic board is formed by the college, in which are student representatives - always in the uinori ty because the conference rules state that only institutions having fuoulty waitnet of athletics shall - members of the association, And further, the faculty representatives shall be persons of professional rank who do not receive pay primarily for services rendered ‘in connection with athletics -3— or physical education. Herein lies one of the chief weaknesses of the break down in amateur enforcement because by such a method these faculty representatives generally are deans or atnicistrckers of an important division in the university and primarily interested “ heir werk and are not paid specifically for doing a job in which no compensation accrues. No wonder illegal practices creep in when these law enforcement faculty ees toss do not know the inside of the game as practiced by wily paces end administrators. Nor do they particularly care beyond the ange of casual decency. But in professional baseball Judge Landis is paid an annual salary of $75,000 to keep baseball free which is from the taint of the cancer/eating up the amateur collegiate athletic competitive body. Also on this college athletic board there sre pancrelis double the alumni members that there are student members, but certainly the board is faculty controlled. And that is as it should be. But by the school taking the . responsibility of having a faculty controlled athletic board, the real responsive isis rests upon the faculty members of Se ace ass that control the athletic board. The athletic board hires a director or a manager, and if the school is large enough, hires a head coach for each of the ma jor sports. The athletic director is nothing more than a business manager and a personnel director. The coaches are responsible to the athletic director - the athletic director responsible to the athletic board - and the athletic board responsible to the president. So, after all, the responsibility ror the policy of the institution definitely rests with the athletic board and the president. From time immemorial we have had proselyting of our strong young se for combat and for athletic ésntestal babi spoke of it in Biblical times when he referred to the Olympic games, But our present proselyters of 4F material are playing for huge financial stakes. Bowl games and tournament money are the lure in assembling these illegitimate teams. Professional baseball's chief wha 4 wn jrhe signing of all 4F's and older men too old for the draft. This obtains also for professional football.| he big time college coaches are Professional/football teams did it last summer restricted to the 5 a MeN» hope this year is D ; and fall wit gueceas, Professional baseball and professional football are businesses calculated to make money and to entertain their patrons for the price of admission. “The business of the college is to educate the youngster, not to prostitute him professionally, College athletics are steel to be a sport and not a professional business. The old college ideal of former days is gone. One football coach of our section said only the other day, hie ea: had it won a couple ef more games, would have gotten a Bowl, bid that would have paid us & =o Se fe sort — handeomeipcC Eaok at the example of Siwash (real name not used). Siwash was nearly all a 4F outfit. They accepted a Bowl bid and got the money. “we are on the lookout »zeefor thee 4P boys for next year, and also the 17 year old boys who have one year of competition before being called for the draft." somgnrele, The coach quoted was under the impression that he was speaking te one of his workers, but he got his geography mixed. He was speaking to a Kansas Mane Certainly I want it weaeretose that I am strongly in favor of 4F boys being permitted to participate in athletics, But when they are made the medium of an all-out effort to go professionally big time, then there should be pause for sober reflection. So be prepared for more flag waving, more high sounding patriotic phrases emulating top physical conditioning of our athletic teams for the coming year by these same pseudo-developers of physical conditioning. Our number one business in America at the present time is to win the war with everything we have got in the shortest pos sth time, Back the attack by _ an all-out effort on the home front. The 4F athlete in war time should not be glorified nor should he be villified athletically. And if something is not done ain soon for post war athletic rules - to rigidly enforce decadent and dead regulations in our college conferences after the war - then the college presidents had better tie their hats on because the gale brewing will | develop a holocaust excelling anything yet seen. But the Saka that suffer most are the ones which obserrs the conference rules. These big time teams have discarded all of the traditional collegiate restrictions, There is no one at present in the collegiate set up to enforce the old rules. Maybe they are outmoded. The big timers are ignoring these rules the same as Hitler ignored the Versailles treaty and invaded the Ruhr. No nation acted. And no school or pernans — the big in teams and the big time coaches at present. @ The surest way to kill intercollegiate athletics for the future is to continue in the deptorable mnner that they are now being conducted. All other phases of educational and business sieoidines are definitely planning @ post-war program. Certainly the old form of hiving @ conference commissioner who pinches off the fuse before the flame gets to che powder keg will not be the answer. There will be such an upsurge of athletics by the tee posueiie from the world's war fronts to college halls that athletic contagion will | spread like a prairie fire. Attendances will leap to a new high, and unless new rules are made and enforced -- rules that have teeth in them to keep these -proselytors in bounds as Judge Landis has kept ihe Laasball Pevelettvante in bounds == then we are in for double, double trouble. Judge Landis ousted William D, Sox; the president of the Philadelphia National League club. aoe was banished from po Wenebail for betting on games, It will take a se cbdtuni anise for college athletics with as much fearlessness in dealing with college coaches and administrators as is now possessed by Judge Landis in handling professional baseball. : Only college conferences subscribing to such a plan would schedule games with colleges that adhere to this plan, The cost. of this large salary for administration would be divided equally among the conferences subscribing. The gate receipts, stimulated under a fair“htorced plan for all, would double and treble because each school then would feel that they would have a fair oppor- tunity of developing their school's ta leh. And they would not be forced to compete against itinerants as they now are. The money expended for a commissioner would be much less then the subsidized scoters awks contributions that are now given by business men and alumi enthusiasts that go into the channels of athletic promotion wnethically and unaccounted forse The ohly safe way to insure intercollegiate athletics for the future on a safe and high plane, bringing back the fine educational phases of years gone by, is by the installation of a high commissioner or czar. A sterling character the like of Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Lendis would do the trick.