MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27. 1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS
PAGE FIVE
By BOB LEONARD
The big question at the University of Oklahoma is if Lindell Pearson, hard-charging half back, will play the Sooners next season.
Pearson, only two years out of Capitol Hill High school, Oklahoma City, got his wires crossed in 1947 when he enrolled at the University of Arkansas. After three weeks of playing with the Porker 'B' team, he changed his mind and signed up with the Sooners.
Coach Bud Wilkinson disclosed that the eligibility of Pearson has never been protested by any school. Oklahoma itself opened the consideration of his case when it submitted the routine consideration of transfer cases at the Big Seven conference meeting in December, 1949.
The Big Seven's decision then that Pearson was ineligible on the basis of a technical consideration of the record, was the only decision the conference could have made under the circumstances. Oklahoma could not at that time offer what it considered the extenuating circumstances that could result in Pearson's being declared eligible for his third and senior season at Oklahoma in 1950.
During his short tenure at Arkansas, Pearson played three games with the Arkansas freshman team upon which Varsity 'B' team players were also allowed to compete. This was in accordance with a Southwest conference rule that permitted three full Varsity years in addition to the year with the 'B' team.
However, Big Seven rules count 'B' team competition equal to Varsity competition basing the rule upon the supposition that an athlete isn't eligible for 'B' competition until after he has completed his freshman season. Pearson was automatically ineligible by Big Seven rules as soon as the Sooners submitted his case to the conference.
Coach Wilkinson said that the evidence would be offered when Pearson's case, and the circumstances which in Oklahoma's opinion entitle him to his senior year of competition, is presented for the first time to Big Seven conference faculty representatives in Kansas City, Mo., March 3 and 4.
Jessie Prisock, high-scoring Emporia High school center, attended the K.U.-Colorado game Feb. 25. Prisock, highly sought after by many Kansas coaches, remarked that he was "pretty sure" he would enter K.U. next fall. His opinion of Lovellet-terrific.
Summary Of Big Seven Basketball Results
Last Week's Results Conference Games
Nebraska 55, Missouri 48
Iowa State 60, Oklahoma 76
COLORADO 60, KANSAS 76
Nebraska 56, Iowa State 54 (Over time)
Oklahoma
Oklahoma 45, Missouri 40 (Overtime)
Non-conference Games
KANSAS 67. DRAKE 50.
KANSAS 67, DRAKE 50
This Week's Schedule
Conference Games
college at Kansas State
Frl. March 3—KANAS at IOWA
STATE
Missouri at Kansas State
Sat. March 4 - Oklahoma at Nebraska
Missouri at Kansas State
Non-conference Games
Wed., March 1—Oklahoma A. and
M. at Oklahoma
Life Is Just A Loss—
One Thing After Another
Scottsbluff, Neb.—(U.P.)—One woman probably won't have the nerve to call a cop for a long time.
She walked into the police station and reported her automobile was missing.
Ten minutes later, she was back the car, she explained, was safe and sound. She had just forgotten where she had parked it.
"I won't forget again," she laughed.
Then she walked out, and left a big package on the counter.
US Will Soon Know How Much Land It Has
Washington—(U.P.)—The government is using cameras and microfilm to reduce its land records and find out just how much land it owns, and where.
Bureau of land management officials say Uncle Sam may discover he owns a lot more, or less, land than he thought.
For the first time the government is going over its land transaction records. Microfilm records of every land transaction the government been involved in since before George Washington was president.
The United States has been in the business of selling and giving away land since 1788, when it turned over to one John Martin lot 20, township 7, range 4-north Ohio river survey. The lot is near the present community of Hammondville, Ohio.
Since then the government has given away, sold or leased some 1,500,000,000 acres of land. The land came to the government through wars, purchase, or just plain annexation.
The records of all those land transactions are kept in books. They cover $2\frac{1}{2}$ miles of shelves in the interior department building.
The records are not in good shape. Some of the deeds, or land patents, are missing apart; the paper has deteriorated and lost that, that the records aren't in order.
William C. Holland of the bureau of land management is starting to microfilm all the documents. Eventually he hopes to make a complete inventory of government lands, But, he says, "our first job is to get the records on film so that we can work with them."
He figures the job may take some time and probably, $75,000.
In five years the microfilming will
begin. The first film, "Bellamy",
and time saved, Mr. Holland Osborne
During the 162 years that the records have been accumulating nothing has been done to keep them in real order. They're scattered through thousands of volumes, helter-skelter.
A farm belonging to a Mr. Jones in the Willamette valley of Oregon may be listed in one volume and the land belonging to his neighbor in the same valley may be listed 3,000 volumes later.
"After we get through with the microfilming," Holland said, "we can start inventory of the land the government owns. We can figure it out by checking on how much land the government has given away or sold, and then comparing the total with the amount of land the government originally bought or annexed."
James F. Homer, chief of the land patent section, said the job may take a long time.
For example, he said, George Washington and every other president until Andrew Jackson used to sign personally for land patents. Thousands of dollars worth of good Washington autographs are in Ho-
Tigers Score Win Over KU Thinclads
University of Kansas trackmen were long on individual brilliance but short on team strength Feb. 24 as they lost a $63\frac{1}{2}$ to $40\%$ track meet to the Missouri Tigers, at Columbia.
The Missourians are pre-meet favorites in the coming Big Seven interstate championships in Kansas City friday and Saturday, March 3 and 4.
Kansas' lone record-breaking effort was a 1 minute 55.2 second half-mile by rapid-starting Pat Bowers, who set his fifteenth new record since donning Kansas colors a year ago.
Kansas Relays high hurdle champion, Jack Greenwood, won his specialty in 7.8 seconds, and Herb Semper won the 2-mile in a fast 9 minutes, 38.3 seconds, to account for Kansas wins.
won Karnes, Jayhawker captain,
bob the mile run in 4 minutes 21.9
seconds, and then came back to take
place in the 880 behind Bowers.
mer's files.
Drops In After 50 Years
In 1833 Congress decided that was too much work for the president, so the lawmakers gave him a secretary to sign the patents with the president's name. They paid her $1,500 a year.
Richmond, N. H. — (U.P.)—Annie, Bessie, and Estella Boutiller were surprised when their brother Charles dropped in for a visit. They hadn't seen Charles, a resident of Dawson, Alaska, for 50 years.
The last time a secretary signed
the president's name to a land patent was on June 16, 1948, when Mrs. Ruth Talley put the finishing flourish to Harry S. Truman's name.
Now Mr. Homer signs the land patents, and they're just as legal as if Mr. Truman himself had signed them.
Although, Mr. Holland sighed, it's a complicated business.
"But," he added, "we're trying to straighten it out, and eventually we will be able to do so with our microfilming methods."
Driver Receives Expensive Lecture
Montgomery, Ala. — (U.P.) — Ewell Matthews was sitting in his parked automobile when a woman driver crashed into him.
Before he could say a word, the woman lectured him on careful driving, then drove away before police arrived.
Surveying the damage, Matthews noticed that a phonograph record inside the car had been broken. On one side was,"Behind the Eight Ball." and the other, "Never Trust a Woman."
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Dept. of Men's Intramural Athletics Robinson Gymnasium University of Kansas
1949-50
Dear Fellow Jayhawker:
This is the second in a series of informative letters to the faculty and the student body of the University of Kansas. We are making available this information because we feel that we have pertinent facts that should be of interest to you.
Did you know that the men's Intramural athletic department has scheduled and played, in the last two months, a total of 550 basketball games on the limited space of two basketball courts?
Did you know that a university's varsity basketball team playing 25 games a season would take 22 years to play 550 games?
Do you know that 112 teams and over 1000 men participated in the Intramural volleyball program last year?
Did you know that this represents one of the larger student basketball programs in the United States?
Do you know that entry blanks are now available in room 107 Robinson Gymnasium? Entries must be submitted with fees. Deadline for entries, 4:00 p.m. Friday, March 3.
Do you know that Wednesday, March 1, at 4:15 p.m. in room 202 Robinson Gymnasium an informative meeting will be held for all team managers and other students interested in participating in the sport of volleyball?
Do you know tournament play will begin on March 6? Follow the University Daily Kansan and the Intramural bulletin boards in Robinson Gymnasium.
Do you know that a special division is being set up for the faculty. If there are any "oldies" who feel that spark of youth remaining, we invite them.
To the men who have participated in the basketball portion of K.U. Intramurals, we can sincerely say that we were happy to have you, as an individual, and your team as a unit, in this student program.
Sincerely,
Student Intramural Managers and Staff