FRIDAY, NOV. 18, 1949
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE TWENTY-THREE
Five Dual Meets For Swim Team
Five conference dual meets have been scheduled for the Varsity swimming team in its third year of postwar competition. Walter Mikols, swimming coach, said today.
The team has won three of ten dual meets since Varsity swimming was resumed in 1948 after an eight year layoff. The squad has been working out for three weeks, getting in condition for the opening meet which will be in January.
The Varsity squad will be composed of men from the past year's team including three lettermen and sophomore swimmers up from the freshman squad. The returning lettermen are Ernie Crates and Dick O'Neil, divers; and Bob Edman, spinner.
Crates won first place in the diving event against Oklahoma and Colorado, and third place against Iowa State and Nebraska in 1949 dual meets. In the conference meet last spring, the two letter winner captured third place in one-meter diving and fourth in three-meter diving.
O'Neill, another two letter winner, is the hard luck man of the squad. He missed the conference showdown in 1949 because of a leg injury. O'Neill is now hospitalized with appendicitis and will not be able to get back on the diving board until after the Christmas vacation. He will probably miss the first few meets of the season.
Bob Edman turned in double victories in the last two dual meets of 1949. He captured both the 50-yard and the 100-yard free style events against Oklahoma and Colorado. Greatness continued under fourth in the preliminaries of the 100-yard free style at the conference meet.
Other men expected to bolster the squad are Don Ashlock, Phil Hawkins, Dick Hunter, and Bill Thompson, sprinters; George Denny and Dave Lockhart, distance men; Harry Newby and Pete Purdy, backstrokers; and Walter Forster and Tom Pavine, breastrokers.
The graduation losses from the 1949 squad are backstroker Don Medearis, and distance man Robert Wallingford. Sophomores are expected to fill their positions.
Walter Mikols is beginning his third year at the University as Varsity swimming coach. Assuming his position in the fall of 1947, he came from the University of Indiana where he was a swimming instructor.
Meets on the 1950 Kansas schedule are with Iowa State, Oklahoma Colorado, and two with Nebraska Three contests with non-conference foes are tentatively scheduled. The complete schedule with date and location has not been released yet. Kansas State and Missouri do not have Varsity swimming teams.
The conference meet will be held in Norman, Okla., on Friday, March 10, and Saturday, March 11. Kansas will be trying to better its fifth place finish of 1949, and it will join with other members of the conference in trying to break Iowa State's stranglehold on the swimming championship. Iowa State will go into the 18th annual conference meet shooting for its ninth straight championship. The Cyclones are unbeaten in conference competition since 1941.
GroundWaterAids Kansas Counties
The Arkansas and Pawnee valleys and the sand dune areas of Pawnee and Edwards counties are sources of large supplies of ground water for irrigation and industrial uses, a report recently released by the state geological survey reveals.
geological resources. Ground water, a principal natural resource of Kansas, is especially important in Pawnee and Edwards counties which obtain most of their water supply from wells.
The survey report is based upon an investigation made to determine the quantity, quality, movement, availability of ground water and the possibilities for further development of irrigation from wells in this two-county area.
He's The Man Who Puts Kansas Players On The Athletic All-American Map
What is the best method, in addition to superlative play, for making an all-conference or all-America selection in college athletics?
Players, coaches, and writers in this area will tell you the best way to play the game. Pierce "41, sports publicity director at the university the past four years.
A winning team is of course the best way and often the only way to draw national and sectional attention from other fans and writers, but the colorful, informative releases and brochures written by the K.U. tub-thumper deserve some of the credit. Pierce is in charge of the press box and his improved setup there combined with his releases have definitely helped K.U. public relations.
Pierce himself is no stranger to all-star teams. Although playing with a losing team in 1940, his spirted, battling play and team leadership earned him first team all Big-Six honors at center on 16 selections, selection lists the list of players selected by the All-America board. Pierce was also at center in 1939 and was captain of the Jayhawks in 1940.
The former Jayhawker pivotman played against many of football's greatest players in his college and pro career. He was with the professional Brooklyn Dodgers in 1942 and was traded to the Chicago Cardiac Center where he has chosen an all-opponent team for each year he played. Pictures of these players are hanging in his office in Robinson gymnasium.
"I liked Oklahoma in 1939 as the best team in the conference," he said, "although they lost the title by losing to Missouri 7 to 6." He picked four members of that bruising O.U. club on his '39 all-opponent team, and only one, all-America Paul Christman, from Missouri.
He chose Nebraska's Rose Bowl team of 1940 as the best team he faced during his college playing days, and named five members of great team, which when KU. 33 to 2, on his all-team of that year.
Pierce's all-pro opponent teams read like a football who's who of recent years. Some of the greatest players of all time are listed—names like Sammy Baugh of the Washington Redskins, Sid Luckman of the Chicago Bear, John Hickey of the Boston Packers, all three great passers; Don Hudson, also of Green Bay, recognized as the top end in pro history; center Alex Wojciechowsz of the Detroit Lions and many others.
Chuck Cherundolo of the Pittsburgh Steelers gets the nod from the K.U. publicity man as the best center he has ever played against. He calls the Chicago Bears the best team he faced in 1942 and 1943.
"The Bears of 1942, with men like 'Bulldog' Turner, Danny Fortman, Ray 'Scooter' McLean, and Sid Luckman, to mention a few, were still in their prime". Force recalls. The team has won five and these men plus some more, are regarded by many experts as the best football team ever assembled.
A graduate of Topeka high school, he majored in journalism at K.U. and received his A.B. degree in 1941. After his graduation he worked for the Topeka State University Kansas City Star and Kansas City Star, before going into pro ball.
In December, 1943, Pierce retired from pro football and took the sports editor's post at the Topeka Daily Capital. In February, 1945, he moved to the sports staff of the Oklahoma City Oklahoma and took the job of sports publicity director here at the University the following October.
The investigation was begun in 1944 by the state and federal geological surveys in co-operation with the divisions of sanitation and water resources of the state boards of health and agriculture.
Field data upon which the report is based include records of 360 wells, chemical analyses of water from 71 and logs of 144 wells and test holes.
Also included are diagrammatic cross sections of the water-bearing formations and maps showing locations of the wells and the shape and slope of the water table. The water table is the upper surface of the main body of ground water.
Call K.U. 251 With Your News
Don Pierce, University sports publicity director, is the man who keeps K.U. athletics before the public, Pierce, '41, was a star center on the Jayhawker gridiron while in school here. Friendly Don makes many friends for the University.
Bachelor Is Willing
Minneapolis, Minn.—(U.P.)—James B. Freemond applied for a license to marry a woman who never heard of him.
He got the license, because the state law says only one person need to apply.
Mrs. El Veina Munig, a widow with two children, read of the application in the newspapers and had no doubt that she was the woman named as a prospective bride.
So she called up the bachelor and told him she had no plans to marry any one .Mr. Freemond canceled the license.
The license cost him $3.25, which he didn't get back after all his trouble.
There are 826,000 acres of land under irrigation in Nebraska.
Man Has No Worries Now
Marion, Ohio—(U,P)—A man who slipped into the county fair 10 or 12 years ago finally has paid his way, at four times the original cost.
Walter Guthrie, county clerk,
received a letter with $2 enclosed.
The letter said:
"I walked into the fair without paying. It has been on my mind ever since."
Mr. Guthrie said the man slightly overpaid, since fair tickets 10 years ago cost only 50 cents.
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