when

In ail fairness to Elmer Schaake, a fine football and basketball coach,
it gould be said that he does not profess to be an expert in baseball. He
merely took this over as an accommodation to the athletic department because
of Jack Austin's iadene nas Kensas has not been hi gly successful in baseball

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cian been defeated by Iowa — Hering ton Army Air Bese at Lawrence , | and
Sedalia Army Air Base at see But the boys are getting a lot of fu out
of playing the game, and Schaake is doing a good job under the circumstances,

The athletic department is valiantly carrying on by using the Physical
hestion coaches. In this way both ends can be mot financially because there
4s no great expense involved, and yet the’ boys have the fun of playing.

So take out your notebooks, you baseball fans of Lawrence, and write down
the date of June 10 for the Oklahoma Sooners on the Kansas baseball field just
off of Mississippi Street. Baseball is a splendid game and we sucela do our

level best to keep all sports going even though the quality of play and the

expert coaching is not of pre-war days. Your speaker coachog) tho Kansas, varsity Gasshelt

for a couple of years, but due to sd duties was unable to handle ‘varsity
baseball this year. . ;
Mr. Klooz informs me thet the athletic directors at Lincoln, Nebraska,
set the date of August 12th for the Big Six basketball coaches to meet at the
Continental Hotel in Kansas City, ‘ioe to discuss and if possible draft |
a Big Six basketball schedule for next Yeare ‘The teams have heretofore played

a double round robin tournament, but with transportation what it is, some ad-

justment may be made in the schedule. Certainly Kansas will not play the great

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number of games in basketball they did last year. Travel conditions were then
‘severe, but they will be much worse this year. After D-Day the troop movements
and other necessary travel will come first, and personally I look to see a

great curtailment in civilian travel, Therefore, I think we should play only

a minimum nuyber of games ~ enough to keep the boys interested in their activity
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