By JACK LINDBERG
The old expression "Die for dear old Rutgers," the code the college athletics used to live by, seems to have disappeared, just like the nickel beer and five-cent cigar.
Many athletes today participate in collegiate sports primarily for what they can get out of it, not for the spirit of play, sportsmanship, team work, and the benefits the school receives.
A high school athlete with any merit at all, receives offers from schools all over the state and region. These offers can range from scholarships, to room and board, actual financial payments. In turn, the athlete gives two or three hours of his time each day during the practice season, and probably a little more during the playing season. Is he working for himself, or is he working for his school?
Recently we have had a couple of cases where the athlete was working for himself. At Rio Grande, the now famous little college in Ohio, Clarence "Bevo" Francis, got everything from the school that he could, and then for reasons not known to most of us, he says financial, the school says scholastic, dropped out to split $30,000 a year with his promoter, Coach Newt Oliver.
And then we have a case a little closer to home. Harold Patterson, an excellent athlete in all sports, stayed in school as long as the University could do something for him, and then he dropped out. Clyde Lovellette, an all-American basketball player at the University, used his three years of collegiate eligibility and moved on. He didn't want to finish his scholastic requirements of graduate. Why did he spend four years here if he didn't want a degree?
The University spends more time and money on sports than all the athletes put together, and then they show their appreciation by dropping out. The sports program at this and other schools seems to be working in the wrong direction in these instances.
Some sort of house cleaning needs to be made. The University of Chicago dropped out of collegiate sports, but that is not the solutoin, far from it. If the University did not make some sort of financial arrangement with the players, this school would not be able to compete with the other conference schools.
There must be some place to draw the line, and it sure would be a feather in someone's cap, if he could figure out just where to draw it.
A "frow" was a tool used by early American settlers to split or rive the boards.
With Wes Sanee's attempt to break the American and world record in the half-mile as the feature attraction, the Kansas track team will compete with Kansas State in a dual meet at Manhattan tomorrow.
Santee to Shoot For 880 Record In K-State Dual
The world half-mile record is 1:48.6 held by Mal Whitfield, and the American record is 1:49.8 held by Ed Burrowes of Princeton. Santee has been under Burrowes time four times in relay carries and once in an open half. He also went three-tenths of a second under Whitfield's mark with a 1:48.3 carry in the sprint medley relay at the Texas Relays.
Even without five men who were suspended from the team indefinitely, the Thursday night before the Drake Relays, the Jayhawkers figure to take the meet easily.
If Santee can break this mark tomorrow, he will try to break the two mile record of 8:58.3 in a dual meet with Drake here next week. The record in the two mile was set by Don Lash in 1936.
Since Santee will be attempting to set a new 880 record he won't run the mile tomorrow. This will mean that the remaining distance power will have to be divided between the mile and two mile. Art Dalzell, Dick Wilson, Lloyd Kbby, Tom Rupp, and Al Frame will run these races with at least one, probably Dalzell, being called on to double in the 880.
This will be, if Kansas wins, the 45th consecutive victory over conference rivals in a string that includes duals, triangulars, and conference meets in cross country, indoor, and outdoor track. It also will be the eighth straight victory over Kansas State.
One of the best races of the day should be the 100-yard dash where Dick Blair will be running against Jerry Mershon of Kansas State. Blair ran a :09.6 time in the preliminaries in the Kansas Relays and has been consistently under :10. Mershon has run the distance in :09.8, and has broken at least two of Thane Baker's records in the 100 and 220.
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Kermit Hollingsworth figures to score in the high jump, probably with a first place, and Frank Cindrich in the 440. Another sure winner for Kansas should be Bill Biberstein in the hurdles.
Members of Iran's numerous physical fitness clubs exercise four hours a day, six days a week while a drummer beats time and recites poetry. The tradition of these clubs, called "Houses of Strength," goes back some seven centuries.
Dogs and turkeys were the only domesticated animals in North America at the time Columbus discovered the New World.
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Fossils Creak, Groan But Top AFROTC, 4-3
Kansan Sports Writer
University Daily Ransan
By JIM CAMERON
The Faculty Fossils creaked and groaned for seven innings to win a narrow decision over the AFROTC team 4-3. John Reardon was the big gun for the winners with a home run that provided the winning margin and a double. Bill Conboy pitched a two-hitter and walked only two as he took the win. Dave Stein gave up eight hits and four walks as he took the loss.
841 Mass.
In an abbreviated game, Physics won over KHK 30-5. The game lasted only two and one-half innings as the winners scored 22 runs in the second inning and eight in the third. Dan Ling got credit for the win and Carl Cole was the loser.
The Faculty Fossils, Physics, and Army won games in Independent "A" league last night. Fraternity and Independent second round play ends this evening.
The other game had Army winning over Mox 4-3 in nine innings, two over the regulation. Jim Powell, the winning pitcher, gave up eight hits and one walk while his team mates were collecting fifteen hits off losing pitcher John Gernon. Powell also got a home run in the fifth inning to provide his own margin of victory.
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4.00 Field 1 SAE-Theta Chi
4.00 Field Independent "A"
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2.00 Field 2 Phi Psi-DU
2.00 Field 3 Sig-PK Tau
2.00 Field G1 Sigma Chi-Sigma Nu
2.00 Field G1 ATO-Delts
2.00 Field G2 TKE-Phi Kappa
2.30 Field 3 Delta Chi-Beta
2.30 Field G2 AFROTC "A"-69ers
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2.00 Field G2 Theta Chi-A. Phi Alpha
2.00 Field 1 Triangle-Phi Gam
Induktion "A"
2.00 Field 1 Pearson-Don Henry
2.00 Field 2 Battenfield-Army
Plans for Saturday's play day were completed at the Women's Athletic association meeting yesterday in Robinson. The annual sports event is expected to draw 120 girls from surrounding high schools.
Plans Completed For WAA Event
Registration will begin at 9 a.m.
After a group mixer, each team
will play a game of volleyball,
basketball, and softball. Awards
for the highest scores of the day
will be presented in the afternoon.
Lunch will be served in Robinson gymnasium. Tau Sigma, modern dance fraternity, and Quack club will each present an act.
High schools which will be represented are Wyndotte, Rosedale, Lawrence, Haskell, Paola, Topeka, Leavenworth, and Atchison.
Plucky Pal Dies in Race
San Mateo, Calif. —(U.P.)—Plucky Pal, a three-year-old son of Black Badge, collapsed in the stretch at Bay Meadows yesterday and died during the running of the first race. The horse apparently suffered a hemorrhage of the lungs and died almost instantly. While running second, he crashed into the fence and then topped over the rail. Jockey Merlin, Wolzke escaped serious injury although he was shaken up.
2:00 Field 3 Nine Old Men-Mox
2:30 Field G2 AFROTC "B"-Stephenson Fraternity "B"
3:30 Field 2 ATO-DU
3:30 Field 3 Phi D.T.-Kappa Sig
3:30 Field G1 Delts-Sigma Chi
92 professional golfers will tee-off this afternoon in the $10,000 San Francisco open.
Tennis Team TopsCyclones For 8th Win
The KU tennis team defeated a visiting Iowa State state yesterday 6-1 to give Kansas its fifth straight victory.
The Jayhawker tennis squad now has a 4-1 record against conference teams, and a season record of eight wins and one loss. Only one match in yesterday's tennis stretched into three sets.
The results:
Al Hedstrom, K, defeated Paul
Moltown 1,6-2 6-1
Roger Youmans K, defeated Lowell Burford, I, 6-8, 1-6, 1-1.
Dick Hadley, K, defeated Tom Earl. I, 6-2, 6-2.
Roger Yountain well Burford, I, 6-8, 6-1, 6-1.
Merl Sellers, K, defeated Ted Hampe, I, 6-2, 9-7.
Ron Sley, K, defeated Don Franklin, I, 6-2, 6-4.
Hedstrom and Hadley, K, defeated Earl and Burford, I, 6-2, 6-4. Sellers and Youmans, K, defeated Mattson and Hampe, I, 9-7, 6-4.
Rosi Favored in Bout
New York —(U.P.)— The odds-makers defy the ratings-makingtons tonight when hard-slugging Paolo Rosi of Italy steps into the ring an 8-5 favorite to beat Orlando Zulueta of Cuba in a nationally-televised 10-round lightweight scrap.
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