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University Daily Kansan Monday, Dec. 11, 1961
K-State Writer Cites Problem
(Editor's Note: The following article appeared in the Kansas State Collegian under the column heading "The Locker Room" and was written by Jay Crabb.)
I GUESS IT'S JUST ABOUT time to sit down and dig up a little bit of dirt.
We have a problem here at Kansas State—it's that cousin of ours down the creek—you know the one I'm talking about—the one whose mouth is always bigger than her stomach.
About ten years ago she decided she needed a fieldhouse. That was just about the time we were playing the first game in our new 12,500-seat arena. Uncle Phog went to a lot of work and sweat over this little tid-bit. He did a survey analyzing the population within 100 miles radiuses (or radii) of the University of Kansas and an unnamed "college at Manhattan."
THE "NEVER-STOP-THINKING" KU mentor then decided (based upon his extensive research) that, since there were more than 400,000 more people living in the KU area than in the "unnamed college" area, the Jayhawk arena should (of course) be much bigger. This sort of logic is what I mean by the "mouth."
Well, Uncle Phog got his big-big Birdhouse. Of course it's 17,000 seats have been filled only a couple of times—but that's okay—the building is impressive. This, kids, is the stomach.
THE PROBLEM THICKENS when we consider that this week both schools opened their cage seasons in their respective hutches. The AHABs opened against a nationally ranked drawing card with an impressive 4,000 supporters. The ACACs (All Cats Are Cats), on the other hand, opened against a nowhere ranked pud with 10,000 fans (we call them fans in Manhattan).
Problem: How to get some more badly-needed seats in Ahearn fieldhouse.
FEAR NOT, SPORTS FAN. Locker Room has a solution. For the next week and a half, every K-Stater will be issued what we will refer to as a "kit." This kit will include a length of rope and two roller skates. Then, on the weekend KU plays in the Bluebonnet Bowl, we'll all sneak down to Lawrence and ties the ropes onto Allen Fieldhouse. Then we'll take the roller skates and . . .
Ohio State, Cincinnati Top National Listings
United Press International
It looks like another all-Ohio battle between Ohio State and Cincinnati for the national championship even though the college basketball season is less than two weeks old.
Ohio State, currently ranked No.1, and Cincinnati, the runner-up, easily swept past their weekend opponents to demonstrate they pack as much power as last season when both reached into the NCAA final.
The Buckeyes, defending national champions but upset by Cincinnati for the NCAA title, made third-ranked Wake Forest their fourth victim of the young season, 84-62, Saturday while the Bearcats walloped Wisconsin, 86-67, for their third victory of the season and 25th in a row.
Except for Wake Forest, the rest of the nation's top 10 continued their winning ways during the weekend. Providence, tied for fourth in the national ranking with Kansas State, survived a shaky first half to defeat St. Francis (N, Y.), 75-51; Kansas State stopped Indiana, 88-78; seventh-ranked Purdue routed Detroit, 91-66; Arizona State, ninth-ranked with West Virginia, topped Oregon, 91-55, and West Virginia beat Furman, 96-79.
Sixth-ranked Duke and eighthranked Southern California won Friday with Duke downing Louisville and USC beating Kansas.
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep/ And yet a third of life is passed in sleep—Lord Byron
KU Swimming Team Does Well In Season Start
The Kansas swimming team opened its season this weekend in an AAU meet at Southern Illinois University with three individual winners and each of the eight Jayhawkers placing in the finals.
The individual winners for the Crimson and Blue were John Kemp, Eldon Ward and George Winter. Kemp churned to a new varsity record in the 100-yard butterfly in :55.8. Kemp had set the record last week with a :56.1 clocking in the KU pool.
THIS WAS THE FIRST intercollegiate competition for the Springfield, Ill., sophomore and he came from behind on the final lap to take the race.
Senior co-captain Ward, an All America last season, sprinted to a first in the 50-yard freestyle in :22.
Jayhawker Coach Jay Markley said this performance was exceptional since Ward, and the entire team, has done no sprint work in practice.
TO SHOW THE improvement of Ward, in the same meet last year he went :23.4. His seventh place time in the NCAA finals last March, the best he had ever done, was :22.6.
Kemp also made the finals in the 200-yard butterfly, placing third in 1:27.7 and Ward battled Ray Padovan of SIU, who established an American record here last season, in the 100-yard freestyle to finish second in :52.0. Padovan had a :49.6 clocking.
WINTER MOVED to his best time in the 200-yard backstroke to take that event. The Park Ridge, Ill., sophomore had a time of 2:12.4.
Winter also took a second in the 200-yard individual medley, leading teammate L. P. Jeter to the finish in 2:19.0. Jeter, Wichita sophomore, took fifth place in 2:28.7.
Jeter also placed third in the 440-yard freestyle. He finished one second behind Topeka sophomore Bill Mills who had a 5:05.
Mills also posted his best individual time as he copped second in the 220-yard freestyle with a 2:15.5 time.
THE OTHER KU BACKSTROKER, Ludy Harmon took a third in the 200-yard race in 2:18.1 and fourth over the 100-yard distance in 1:04.4.
The two Kansas divers, Steve Sanneman and Ron Marsh, finished third and fifth place respectively.
There was no team title presented but Coach Markley said KU probably would have finished second beaten host school which had 18 finalists.
"We wanted to see what each individual could do this early in the season," said Markley. "I was real pleased with everybody's performance; it was great for this early in the season."
KU's next scheduled competition comes Jan. 5 with Colorado and Utah State at Boulder.
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America is a great country. America's cities are full of houses, America's forests are full of trees. America's rivers are full of water. But it is not houses and trees and water that make America great; it is curiosity—the constant quest to find answers—the endless, restless "Why?" "Why?" "Why?".
Therefore, when I was told that Marlboro was a top seller at colleges from USC to Yale, I was not content merely to accept this gratifying fact, I had to find out why.
I hied myself to campuses in every sector of this mighty land. First, I went to the Ivy League—dressed, of course, in an appropriate costume; a skull-and-bones in one hand, a triangle in the other, a mask-and-wig on my head, a hasty pudding in my chops. "Sir," I cried, seizing an Ivy Leaguer by the lapels, which is no mean task considering the narrowness of Ivy League lapels, but, I fortunately, happen to have little tiny hands; in fact, I spent the last war working in a small arms plant where, I am proud to say, I was awarded a Navy "E" for excellence and won many friends—"Sir," I cried, seizing an Ivy Leaguer by the lapels, "how come Marlboro is your favorite filter cigarette?"
How come Marlboro is your favorite filter cigarette?
"I'm glad you asked that question, Shorty," he replied. "Marlboro is my favorite filter cigarette because it is the filter cigarette with the unfiltered taste."
"Oh, thank you, sir!" I cried and ran posthaste to several campuses in the Big Ten, wearing, of course, the appropriate costume: a plaid Mackinaw, birling boots, a Kodiak bear and frost-bitten ears.
Spying an apple-cheeked young coed, I tugged my forelock and said, "Exeuse me, miss, but how come Mariboro is your favorite filter cigarette?"
"I'm glad you asked that question, Shorty," she replied. "Marlboro is my favorite filter cigarette because the flavor is flavorful, the flip-top box flips and the soft-pack is soft."
"Oh, thank you, apple-cheeked young cood," I cried and bobbed a curtsey and sped as fast as my little fat legs would carry me to several campuses in the Southwest, wearing, of course, the appropriate costume: chaps, canteen, and several oil leases. Spying a group of undergraduates singing "Strawberry Roan," I removed my hat and said, "Excuse me, friends, but why is Marlboro your favorite filter cigarette?"
"We are glad you asked that question, Shorty," they replied. "Marlboro is our favorite filter cigarette because we, native sons and daughters of the wide open spaces, want a cigarette that is frank and forthright and honest. We want, in short, Marlboro."
"Oh, thank you, all," I cried and, donning a muu muu, I set sail for Hawaii, because in Hawaii, as in every state where Old Glory flies, Marlboro is the leading seller in flip-top box. On campus, off campus, in all fifty states, wherever people smoke for pleasure in this great land of ours, you will find Marlboro.
© 1961 Max Shulman
And you will also find another winner from the makers of Marlboro—the king-size, unfiltered Philip Morris Commander, made by a new process to bring you new mildness. Have a Commander. Welcome aboard.