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University Daily Kansan Friday, November 10.1961
Injuries, Grades Dim KU Swimming Hopes
THE BIG FOUR—Kansas swimming Coach Jay Markley and his top three swimmers, from left to right, Dick Reamon, Bill Murdock, and Eldon
"The survival of the fittest"
This old adage may seem trite, but it is how swimming coach Jay Markley describes his team at present.
The KU swimming team has lost eight members due to a wide variety of reasons and thus the squad has been depleted to the bare minimum of both talent and manpower.
COACH MARKLEY WOEFULLY EX- explained the situation concerning these lost swimmers saying, "We started out the year with the attitude we were the best team in the conference and that we were going to take the title. But, except for the first week, we have gone steadily downhill. Right now, we are as low as possible."
The first of the swimmers to drop was Karl Pfuetze, the number two breaststroker in the conference. He left because he received a research grant from the University in physiology—being a pre-medicine student, he took the grant and had to drop swimming.
One of the top Jayhawker swimmers of a year ago, Dick Reamon, had been suffering from chlorine poisoning and hadn't swum since August until coming out last week, only to be delayed by doctor's advice not to start because of a cold.
RICH MITTELSTADT HAS SPRAINED an ankle and won't be out for another month. Steve Sanneman received a brain concussion in an automobile accident and won't be back out for a week, two or three of the expected prospects have not come to practice at all, another pair have dropped for scholastic reasons—all examples of why Coach Markley is feeling glum about the chances of what could have been one of the outstanding teams in Kansas swimming history.
Another reason for the dejected look on Markley's face as he described the condition of his squad was that the team has not been responding to the practice program which is being used.
Markley, who is known to work his swimmers very hard in an effort to condition them for competition, has stepped up his program somewhat this fall.
MARKLEY SAYS SEVERAL OF THE SWIM- mers are having arm trouble because of the addition of wall pulleys in the pool which have been used for the first time.
"Everybody has got heavy arms and are really hurting," said Markley.
"An example of this is Eldon Ward (selected as an All America last season). Eldon started practice lifting 210 pounds of weights but is down to 172 pounds now."
Ward, pause during a practice as they prepare for their initial meet Dec. 8-9 at the Southern Illinois AAU.
AS A RESULT OF THE CONDITION OF THE team now, Markley has scheduled a slacking off period in an effort to bring his team to reasonable form before the initial meet—the Southern Illinois AAU Dec. 8-9.
A new innovation on the Kansas schedule this season will be an almost total absence of dual meets.
The lone dual is with defending league champion, Oklahoma, here Feb. 10.
"When you have to point for a meet every weekend, you lose two or three days of practice per week slacking off in preparation. We figure to get in considerably more practice having only seven competitive meets."
Markley added that his team is shooting only for the Big Eight meet in March.
Although the Jayhawker team prospects are not as good as were hoped, there are still three of the top swimmers in the area left for a nucleus.
WARD, REAMON, AND BILL MURDOCK all went to the NCAA finals last March. Although this three man representation did not score, the individual performances of each was notable.
Ward advanced his ninth place finish of the previous year to gain the seventh spot in the 50-yard freestyle. On the basis of the performance, Ward was named to the All America team.
Reamon, also a senior this season, set two new varsity records in the nationals.
HE PLACED TWELFTH IN THE 200-YARD butterfly and, in the 100-yard butterfly, he copped sixteenth in the nation.
Murdock, a junior, placed twelfth in the 200-yard breaststroke. His time was two-tenths of a second off his own varsity record.
In the Big Eight meet last March, Kansas placed third behind Oklahoma and Iowa State, only three points behind the latter.
Ward finished first in the 50-yard freestyle, second in the 200-yard butterfly and third in the 220-yard freestyle.
Ward and Murdock also participated in the 100-yard freestyle and breaststroke respectively but did not place among the leaders in the nation.
REAMON BETTERED THREE VARSITY records as he took second place in the 220-yard individual medley, the 100-yard butterfly and 200-yard butterfly.
Murdock also coped a pair of seconds and set a conference mark.
In the preliminaries of the 200-yard breaststroke he broke the league mark but the time was bettered in the finals as he finished second.
Can't Con U.S.
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The Internal Revenue Service has rejected 38 applications for tax refunds on the ground that the applicants were in an unlikely position to earn any income. The applicants: 38 convicts.
Vacation Pay
NEW YORK — (UPI) — If you think you spent a lot of money on your vacation this year you won't feel so bad when you learn that General Electric Co. shelled out $70 million in vacation pay for its quarter million employees in 1961.
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POVERTY CAN BE FUN
It is no disgrace to be poor. It is an error, but it is no disgrace.
So if your purse is empty, do not skulk and brood and hide your head in shame. Stand tall. Admit your poverty. Admit it freely and frankly and all kinds of good things will happen to you. Take, for instance, the case of Blossom Sigafoos.
Blossom, an impecunious freshman at an Eastern girls' college, was smart as a whip and round as a dumpling, and scarcely a day went by when she didn't get invited to a party weekend at one of the nearby men's schools. But Blossom never accepted. She did not have the rail fare; she did not have the clothes. Weekend after weekend, while her classmates went frolicking, Blossom sat alone, saved from utter despair only by her pack of Marlboros, for even an exchequer as slim as Blossom can afford the joys of Marlboro—joys far beyond their paltry price: rich, mellow tobacco, lovingly cured and carefully packed, and an exclusive selectate filter. Croesus himself could not buy a better cigarette!
However, Marlboro's most passionate admirers—among whose number I am paid to count myself—would not claim that Marlboro can entirely replace love and romance, and Blossom grew steadily moroser.
"Accept these Gifts from tom."
Then one day came a phone call from an intelligent sophomore named Tom O'Shanter at a nearby men's college, "Blossom," said Tom, "I want you to come down next week for the barley festival, and I won't take no for an answer."
"No," said Blossom.
"Foolish girl," said Tom gently. "I know why you refuse me. It is because you are poor, isn't it?"
"Yes." said Blossom.
"I will send you a railroad ticket," said Tom. "Also a hardboiled egg in case you get hungry on the train."
"But I have nothing to wear." said Blossom.
Tom replied. "I will send you one suit of cashmere, two gowns of lace, three slacks of velvet, four shoes of calf, five socks of nylon, and a partridge in a pear tree."
"That is most kind," said Blossom, "but I fear I cannot dance and enjoy myself while back home my poor lame brother Tiny Tim lies abed."
Send him to Mayo Brothers and put him on my tab, said Tom.
"You are terribly decent," said Blossom, "but I cannot come to your party because all the other girls at the party will be from rich, distinguished families, and my father is but a humble woodcutter."
"Send him to Mavo Brothers and put it on my tab." said Tr
"I will buy him Yosemite." said Tom.
"You have a great heart," said Blossom. "Hold the phone while I ask our wise and kindly old Dean of Women whether it is proper for me to accept all these gifts."
She went forthwith and asked the Dean of Women, and the Dean of Women haird her wise and kindly old hand on Blossom's cheek and said, "Child, let not false pride rob you of happiness. Accept these gifts from Tom."
"Oh, bless you, Wise and Kindly," breathed Blossom, dropping grateful tears into the Dean's reticule. "I must run and tell Tom."
"Yes, run, child," said the Dean, a smile wrinkling her wise and kindly old eyes. "And ask him has he got an older brother."
© 1931 Max Shulman
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