PAGE FOUR UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17. 1950 By BOB NELSON We are pleased to see that someone has presented some interesting facts supporting Dr. F. C. Allen's comments concerning the cheerleading situation at the University in Thursday's Kansan in a letter to the editor. As we see it, it seems the letter pretty much "hit the nail right on Donald Giffin, chairman of the All Student Council traditions committee, recently stated that he believed Dr. Allen's comments were "another periodic blast for publicity purposes" when asked about Allen's charges against the cheerleaders. It looks to us like the traditions committee took the easy way out in their closed meeting with the cheerleaders held Tuesday. After the meeting, Giffin said, "The traditions committee of the A.S.C. met with the cheerleaders Tuesday afternoon and the cheerleaders were given a vote of confidence." Just what that means hasn't been made public yet. "Where were the Kansas cheerleaders and the planning of the traditions committee," Dr. Allen asked, "when they neglected to have any cheerleaders present at the Big Seven tournament in Kansas City? The Kansas Aggies had seven cheerleaders present for every game they played. Kansas had NONE." "Formerly when Kansas played in Kansas City, we had cheerleaders present and the Kansas City alumni were enthusiastic because it gave the alumni an opportunity to renew their college days by giving the famous 'Rock-Chalk-Jay-Hawk KU.' vell" Coach Allen said. "I think it is an outrage that any University having as fine an athletic program as the University of Kansas should require the cheerleaders to purchase their uniforms and pay their own expenses on trips. "With the income derived from the activity ticket book and the athletic association's gate receipts, it seems a reflection on some individual or organization for lack of foresight enough in not taking care of their expenses." Dr. A. Allen added when informed the cheerleaders often paid their own expenses when performing their duties. We'll agree with Dr. Allen's above statements. When the Kansas State cheerleaders outnumber K.U. seven ONE, then things are pretty bad. The Kansas State cheerleaders were well organized and soon had about everyone (including the so-called neutrals) except the K.U. students and alumni rooting for them. It was almost like being in Kansas State's "cracker-box" gym at Manhattan, the Aggie cheering was so loud. This was disheartening to K.U. fans who had no organized cheering at all. We think that the cheerleading program needs a thorough investigation. Maybe a solution would be to offer some sort of aid in the form of an athletic scholarship for the job the cheerleaders are required to perform. Certainly we can't see them paying their own expenses on trips and buying and cleaning their uniforms. Regardless, let's all get behind the cheerleaders and help them finish the 1949-50 cage season in glory with an undefeated home record. Let's beat Missouri tonight, and then take Colorado and Kansas State into camp in the other remaining home contests. YMCA Camps Need More Counselors Additional counselors in the West Central Area council of Y.M.C.A. are needed, announced M. David Biges, secretary of the Y.M.C.A. Counselors are needed for water front directing, archery, rifle shooting and crafts. Interested students should apply at the Y.M.C.A. office in the Union building or write directly to Walter Reusch, 1269 Topea avenue, Topea, in care of the west central area council. Bowers Seeks 14th Record In K.U.-O.U.Dual Meet Going after his fourteenth new record Saturday will be half-miler Pat Bowers when the Jayhawks invade Norman for an indoor dual with an Oklahoma squad which recently crowned three Michigan State Relays champions. Bowers, who won Big Seven 880 titles in both conference meets last year, already has broken marks in his only two outings this winter. He hung up a new Sugar bowl standard January 1 in New Orleans with a blazing 1 minute 53 seconds, the fastest 880 ever recorded in the south. He smashed his own figure of 1 minute, 57.8 seconds in a dual against Nebraska last Saturday with a 1 minute, 56.9 seconds effort as Kansas went down, d4 to 61 in Lincoln. Last year he wrote 12 new records into the books. His top efforts last year were 1 minute, 51.1 seconds for fourth in the N.C.A.A., 1 minute 52 seconds in winning the National Junior A. A.U. 800 meters, 1 minute, 56.5 seconds in setting a new league Indoor 880 mark, 1 minute 52.5 seconds in establishing a new low for the Big Seven-South dual. Trying for the record Saturday looks like one of Bowers' easier tasks. The meet mark is 2 minutes, 3 seconds which Oklahoma's Ken Biggins set two years ago. Even though he'll be running on the unbanked curves of the Sooners' north base track, Bowers should have little trouble eclipsing this time. Very likely, he'll be obliged to run under this figure to beat the competition. Stablemate Bob Karnes, who also ran under the old half-mile record at Lincoln, and Sooner Bill Jacobs figure to make it a three-man race. The latter, who set a new Michigan State 1000 yard mark, 2 minutes, 2.2 seconds, in winning the half last Saturday as O.U. swamped North Texas State. Stout competition will endanger records all along the line as the two teams figure to stage one of the tightest duals of the conference season. Karnes and Cliff Abel will battle Jacobs in the mile where the K.U. captain's 4 minute, 28.5 second record probably will fall. The two-mile run between Abel, R.B. Hemper and Oklahoma R.C. Slocum also should erase Karnes' mark of 9 minutes. 57.5 seconds in that event A four-way tussle among Oklahomaans Jerry Meader and Charles Coleman, and Kansans Emil Schutzel, a surprise winner against Nebraska, and Red Dinsmore, will imperil the 52.5 second record in the quarter mile. Coleman won the 600 at East Lansing with a record 1 minute, 31 second time. Jack Greenwood and Bob DeVinney, KU's talented hurdlers, will press Jimmy Smith, the Redshirts' versatile sophomore, in the hurdle events which will be run over the 50 yard distance instead of the usual 60. Smith scored 18 points when O.U. whaled Oklahoma Baptist, 98 to 6, in its opening dual. A pair of injured Sooners, Bill Carroll, two-time Michigan State pole vault champ, and Merwin McConnell, defending conference indoor king in the broad jump, could decide the meet. If both are able to perform near par, O.U. will bag first in those two events. McConnell has been bothered by a bip injury; Carroll, who soared 13 feet, $10\frac{1}{2}$ inches at the Spartan Games, has a sprained ankle. Kansas' 22-man squad will fly round-trip to the meet, departing from Topeka at 9:30 a.m. Saturday. Wolf Shot In Virginia, The First In 14 Years Staunton, Va.—(U.P.)—The first wolf killed in Virginia in 14 years was shot by C. M. Eddy on his farm after the 30-pound gray-tan male had killed 11 sheep. Houston Todd, game warden, identified the animal as a wolf but said wolves were believed extinct in Virginia since the last one was killed in 1935. Week-End Schedule For IM Basketball 4:30 Phi Delta vs. Nubbins Saturday, Feb. 18 Robinson Annex Indendent "B" Friday, Feb. 17 Robinson Annex Fraternity "A" 1 Feather Merchants vs. Jim Beam Fastenstuy "A" 2 Deltas vs. Sig Eps 3 Betas vs. Phi Gams 4 A.T.O. vs. Phi Psi Independent “A” 5 Alpha Chi Sigma vs. Alpha Kappa Psi 6 Oread vs. Fat Men. Sunday, Feb. 19 Robinson Annex Independent “A” 2 Y.M.C.A. vs. Winners of Oread 3 Battenfeld vs. El Dorado 3 Baltimore 4 Atlanta 5 Winner of A. K. Sigma- sas. A.K. Fsi 5 Last Chance vs. Dark Horses Thursday's IM Basketball Results Phi Gam 24, Beta 22 Phi Delts 25, Kappa Sig 12 Spartans 18, Quindribbles 16 Spooner-Thayer 33, A.S.C.E. 23 Feather Merchants 29, Gamma Delt 23 Jim Beam 33, Y.M.C.A. 24 Battenfeld 33, Newman 14 Last Chance 29; Don Henry 28 University Daily Kansan Mall subscription: $3 a semester, $4.50 year, (in Lawrence add $1 a semester postage). Published in Lawrence, Kans., every afternoon during the University year except Saturdays and Sundays, Unknown. Entered as second class matter Sept. 17, 1910, at the Post Office at Lawrence, Kans., under act of March 3, 1879. Women To Attend Baker Sports Day The University of Kansas will send 13 women to Baker university, Saturday, Feb. 18, to participate in the third annual Volleyball Sports day, announced Miss Ruth Hoover, associate professor of physical education. Members of the team will be Betty van der Smissen, graduate; Peggy Baker, senior; Nancee Bell, Arlene Hill, Nancy Moore, Betty Ozenberger, Frances Pence, and Betty Thomas, juniors; Joyce Herschell, Janet Maloney, Shirley Michelson, and Suzanne Neff, sophomores; and Jerre Mueller, freshman. VARSITY Phone 132 for Sho Time TODAY-SATURDAY Rex, The Wild Horse "STORMY" —and— HAL ROACH'S "GAIETY" SUN - MON - TUES 2 Jungle Thrillers JON HALL "ZAMBA" —and— "Black Shadows"