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Fress Report cidents which
punctuated the recent Big Six in«
door track and field championships
at:Kansas City pertained to the
coverage one of ws
the better,:
known press as-
sociations «(not
the Associated.
Press) gave the :
meet. ks
In the course
of the report
put on the wires’
—for general
consumption
throughout the ~
nation — the
grossly erroneous statement: was
made that Gene Littler, winner of~
the 60-yard and 440-yard dashes |
at Kansas City, was a “Nebraska
importation from’ California.”
The irrefutable facts concern-

ing the new sprint champ are

that he is strictly’ a. Nebraska °

product, hailing from Mitchell.

As a track team representative’

cf the Scottsbluff county town,

he win both the 100-and 220=

yard finals in the state high

school meet of three years ago

at the university stadium a

Lincoln.

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Destined To UNIVERSITY of
Shine In ’ Southern: Cali-

; fornia ‘recruiters
Husker Duds subsequently in-°
duced the ex-Mitchell youth to
head for the citrus sector and
Gene enrolled at Compton junior
college, a feeder school to U.S. C.

After a year:at Compton, the
Peep eed arrived, at the conclusion

hat he was “in- the wrong pew”
in the far west: So, of his own
free will and without advance in=
formation reaching the Nebraska’
U. athletic authorities, he came
back to the state where he could
feel at home and be content be
his conscience.

Let it be said in the youngster’s
Eshalf, he has an intense de~
termination to go places in the
cinder sport. As a result, he trains

. zealously, keeps early hours and
servipulously avoids every bad
habit. which might interfere with
his career in track. All the while,
Littler ‘has cultivated commend=
able habsts of stu ideniship, where~
fore one imay be certain that no
threat of scholastic delinquency
- : :

ill be hanging over his head,

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