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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY; MARCH 7, 1950
By Richard Dilsaver
Headline from a Western Kansas newspaper over a recent story relating the achievements of guess who:
Lovellette U.
Winning games
with the
Rah Rah For Dear
Old Almalleta
First of the All-Big Seven teams we've seen this season is that of the Daily Oklahoman, student paper at Sooner U. Here it is:
First team - Glasgow, Oklahoman,
and Hills, Colorado, guards; Lovellette, Kansas, center; Harman, Kansas State, and Whitehead, Nebraska, forwards. Second team — Merchant, Oklahoma, and Ferguson, Iowa State, guards; Brannum, Kansas State, center; Houchin, Kansas, and Stone, Kansas State, forwards.
Indoor track meet notes;
Chauncey Simpson, veteran Missouri coach, handled the P.A. mike, but he had trouble with various nomenclature. When he gave the crowd the Oklahoma-Nebraska basketball score, he mistakenly said: "Okahoma 64, Kansas 48." Clown Clyde Lovellette, watching the meet from the lower balcony, immediately leaped to his feet and yelled, "Oh, hell! I missed the game."
One meet official came over to congratulate Coach Bill Easton after the Jayhawkers had won the crown and said, "Well, Bill, what are you going to do when you get a fieldhouse to practice in." The enthusiastic Easton reply: "We'll murder them."
Oklahomaan Bill Carroll, who set a new record in the pole vault, likes plenty of room. He started his take-off sprint a full three steps off the runway ramp which sets about a foot above floor level.
Kansas hearts skipped a beat more than once during the meet, but it's a wonder Bill Easton's didn't stop when Pat Bowers stepped on the rail of the track during the 880-yard run and stumbled momentarily.
One item of information we've picked up since the meet was that teams are put in the three heats of the mile relay, last event on the program, according to their point totals up to that event. For instance, Kansas and Nebraska were leading the field when the relay came up, so they ran together in the final heat.
Coach Easton was especially proud of football star Forrest Griffith. Although he had practiced for only two weeks, Griffith was a sensation in the low hurdle prelims when he whipped Harold Carter of Missouri. Carter had the best time in the conference in pre-meet performances and was top choice to win.
Carter wasn't the only highly-rated performer to fall. Pole vaulter Leonard Kehl of Nebraska, dash-man Don Campbell of Colorado and miler Bill McGuire of Missouri were not only 1949 winners but also record holders. Each slipped to no better than fourth place in his respective event
High hurdler Bob Berkshire of Nebraska and broad jumper Merwin McConnell were also defending champs. Berkshire didn't even qualify in the preliminaries. McConnell fared slightly better, taking second place in the broad jump.
Another oddity was Coloradoan Merwin Hodel's equalling the 60-yard high hurdle record of 7.4 seconds in the high hurdles in the preliminaries, then failing to place in the event in the finals.
Successful in retaining their titles were half-miler Pat Bowers of K.U. and shot putter Rollin Prather of Kansas State. Bob Karnes of K.U was 1949 winner in the 2-mile run, but he passed up defense of the title in favor of running the mile and half-mile.
Prather won without competing in the Saturday night finals. Because of
Fencing Club Weekly Revives Ancient Sport
A reenactment of one of the oldest sports in the world takes place each Tuesday night in Robinson gymnasium.
The Fencing club at the University is only modified in one respect since the days of the "Three Musketeers." This difference now is that the members of the club do not try to kill each other.
Besides being an enjoyable recreation, says Gordon Jarchow, president of the club, fencing is an exacting art. "It takes a lifetime of practice to become a good fencer," he says.
None of the members of the club are of professional class; they are interested in fencing for the enjoyment which they get from it, Jarchow pointed out. "Most of them became interested in the club after being in a fencing class."
The two biggest assets any fencer can have are being quick and having lightning reflexes, according to Jarchow. While fencing is usually considered a man's sport, two women are in the club, and in a fencing class taught by Preston Hunter, College junior, women make up more than half the class.
Heavy canvas jackets and a heavy wire mask make it nearly impossible for anyone to get hurt, Jarchow explained. Also, the weepons are tipped with a small rubber ball. "About the only way anyone could get hurt," according to Jarchow, "would be for the blade of the foil to break."
Preston Hunter says that most of the fencing in movies is close-in fencing. This is called "corps a corps", and is to be avoided. "It's only for the movies," he said. Also, Hunter pointed out that the red heart on the chest in some fencing pictures is "strictly for the camera." It has no real use except for show purposes.
Hunter explained that all fencing in a contest takes place on a strip approximately 40 feet long and six feet wide. A person moving out of this strip is penalized.
Five "touches" from the shoulders to the hips consists of a match in team competition. Four judges—two from each team—decide when a "touch" has been made. In case of disagreement, the director of the match decides, "the director's word is law and is accepted as such," Hunter explained.
In individual competition a "round-robin" method is used. "In this competition, each person fences with every other contestant, and the winner is the one who wins the most matches." Hunter said.
The club will go to Kansas State college about the last of March to engage in a foil team competition. Five men will make up the foil team, and both of the women in the club will fence with women on the Kansas State college team.
the death of his father Friday night,
Prather went home Saturday and his preliminary mark was good enough to win.
Salt Lake City, Utah—(U.P.)-A roving camera that takes pictures through steel plates four inches thick "almost as easily as a studio photographer pictures a baby" is the pride of a big Utah industrial fabricating works.
When big John Lang, an immigrant, started his own metal shop in a made-over barn 30 years ago, he had only the simplest of hand tools and a forge for welding.
Camera Photographs Flaws Through Thick Steel Plates
Since then, the Lang Company, which John Lang still heads, has expanded until its products are in use all over the world. It has grown particularly fast during the last five years, since the government built a mammoth steel works, now a private operation, at Geneva, only a few miles south of Salt Lake City, to meet the west's mounting demand for steel.
Two years ago. Lang felt a need for a device that could test efficiently the welds of the machinery and vessels he was fabricating in his sprawling shops and yards.
"Up until then," explained G. W. Dansie, general superintendent of Lang's fabricating division, "we had to cut plugs through the welds, just like plugging a watermelon, when we wanted to see if the work was satisfactory.
"Then a patch was made over the plug hole. There was no guarantee that this repair itself would not be damaged, but another flaw an inch away."
To the rescue came the X-ray division of the Westinghouse Electric Corp. with a mobile, 250,000-volt industrial X-ray machine, the largest portable device of its nature built.
With proper setting, the rays from the machine can penetrate $4\frac{1}{4}$ inches of cold rolled steel, three inches glass, and 15 inches of aluminum.
Photographs made by the powerful device clearly illustrate all types of steel the steel and the connecting welds—air bubbles, slag, and carbonockets.
If these flaws were left in place, some of the material, such as vessels operating under 3,000 pounds pressure per square inch, might
3 Midwest Stars OnUP All-America
New York, March 7 (U.P.)—Three Midwest stars, Dick Schnittker of Ohio State Paul Unruh of Bradley and Kevin O'Shea of Notre Dame, and two from the East, Bob Cousy of Holy Cross and Paul Arizin of Villanova, were named today to the 1950 United Press All-America basketball team.
Cousy was the outstanding choice on the team, receiving first place votes in 67.3 per cent of the ballots cast; Snittiker was next with 50.6 per cent, followed by Arizin with 40.7 per cent, and Unruh and O'Shea with 33.3 per cent each.
Schnittker and Unruh were placed at forwards, Arizin at center, and Cousy and O'Shea at guards after a nationwide poll of sports writers, radio broadcasters, and other leading basketball authorities. All five players are seniors.
The five players, averaging nearly 6-feet 3-inches in height, are a coach's dream team. Together they averaged 18.8 points in a total of 17 games to date.
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burst in use, with disastrous results.
Sighted by the X-ray detector the flaws are taken out quickly and cleanly. In a 100-foot "bubble tower" for a new Utah petroleum refinery, particularly exhaustive tests were made. Only one flaw was found in the tower. But it was in such a position that if an 18-inch correction had not been made, the costly piece of machinery might have failed in operation.
Dansie said the X-ray equipment serves the company "as a club to keep our workmen's output up to quality—they never know when we're going to make a check on them."
"But it's for their own advantage," he added, and "none of our 50 to 60 welders complains."
Operators of the device work behind a heavy lead shield to prevent them from being harmed by wandering and highly dangerous X-rays. Similar lead shields are placed around the spot being pictured to concentrate the rays emitted by an 18-inch long tube in the form of a pencil-size beam."
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