PAGE FOUR UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1940 Jayhawkers Drop Missouri 55-37; Pete Gets 20 Points Columbia, Mo., Feb. 16—(U.R.)—Unpredictable Kansas, lagging along in sixth place in the Big Seven, dropped Missouri a notch in conference standings here Tuesday night with a 55 to 37 victory over the Tigers. Missouri (3-3) was dropped into a two-way tie for third place with Kansas State (4-4). Missouri had the number three slot all to itself, with a 600 percentage in loop competition, until big Gene Peterson wrapped up 20 points here to pace the visiting Jayhawks as they won with a furious second half scoring spree after leading 27 to 19 at the half. There was no record comment from Missouri Coach Sparky Stalcup who last night refused to "count us out" of the race for the conference cage title. That one lf Kansas (3-5) only a baby-step behind fifth running Colorado (3-4) in the standings. Tuesday night's outcome apparently left Oklahoma and Nebraska clearly in command of the Big Seven picture. The two quintets are running first and second, respectively. The box score: Missouri: fg ft McMillen, f 0 2 Heinman, f 3 1 Sallee, f 0 0 Stroot, c 3 0 Smith, g 2 1 Pierpoint, g 3 0 Haynes, g 4 3 Totals 15 7 Kansas: Mabry, f 6 1 Waugh, c 2 0 Martin, f 0 2 Petersen, f 8 4 Sapp, g 1 1 Houchin, g 5 3 Totals 22 11 Totals Track Gate Starts Row New York, Feb. 16—(U.R.)-Progress came to track and field today and found a very cool welcome. The National A.A.U. announced that the starting gate devised by Temple's Ben Ogden would be used in its annual indoor championships at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night and immediately there was a storm of protest. The A.A.U. track and field committee approved use of the gate, for sprints and hurdles, by a slim 26 to 18 margin. Two coaches on the committee, Ohio State's Larry Snider and Pitt's Harold Olson, were also among those who voted in favor of the gadget designed to eliminate false starts and recalls. He also insisted that such champions as Harrison Dillard, Ed Conwell, Tom Carey and Homer Gillis had complained about using the gate. "It is unfair to use it in the nationals," contended Joe Yancey, coach of the Pioneer Track and Field club. "Even horses are schooled before they are run out of a starting gate." But opponents pointed out immediately that Snider and Olson did not have sprinters in the nationals. They also charged that it was unfair to use the gate, with which many sprinters are unfamiliar; that some who had used it claimed it bruised their shoulders; that the gate did not function perfectly in the Philadelphia Inquirer meet, and there was a question whether world records made with its use would be recognized. There even was talk that the sprinters and hurdlers should "organize" and withdraw from the nationals, thus overshadowing one of the season's most important meets in which three foreign runners are expected to waltz off with titles and a team will be selected for a trip abroad. Eight of the outstanding Americans will receive bids, off their performances in the nationals, to compete this summer in England, Scotland and Ireland. The virtually conceded foreign victors are France's Marcel Hansenne in the 1,000-yard run; Holland's slim Willy Sylkhuh in the mile, and Belgium's Gaston Reiff in the three mile run. Hansene's chief competition was expected to come from Tom Dickey 0 1 0 4 3 3 11 Swimming Meet Will Be Saturday Kansas' swimming meet with Colorado scheduled for Friday has been changed to 2 p.m. Saturday. The meet will be held in Robinson gymnasium. A meet with Kansas State that had been scheduled for Saturday was cancelled when K-State disbanded their swimming team. Table Tennis Tournament Paddles will be swinging wildly in the recreation room of the Union tomorrow, but they'll be used by men students fighting it out for the championship in the annual table tennis tournament. The winners of the matches will represent the city of Lawrence and the university at Topeka on Saturday and Sunday in the Kansas finals. Balls and paddles will be furnished by the Union but a charge of 25 cents will be charged for the use of the equipment. The money will be used to pay the entrance fees of the four winners who will represent the University at the closed tournament in Topeka. Ed Seutter, business senior, is in charge of the matches, which will be held at 7 p.m., tomorrow. Seutter said that any men students who have not signed up for entrance should do so at the hostess desk in the Union lounge by 5 p.m. today. Only single matches will be played and three players and one alternate will be selected at the tournament for the trip to Topeka. of L.S.U., Bob Mealey of Cornell and Tarver Wisconsin of the Illinois A. C. With Wisconsin's Don Gehrmann unavailable, Slykhuis ruled head and shoulders over a mile field which included Sweden's Ingvar Bengtsson, and defending champion Tommy Quinn of the New York A. C. In the three mile, Reiff will have to conquer Sweden's Erik Ahlden and defending champion Curt Stone. Missouri is rich in agriculture, with corn as its chief crop. Minerals, especially lead and zinc, are large and valuable. The live stock and packing institutions of Kansas City and St. Louis are of importance to the nation. Big7 Records Are In Danger Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 16—(U.P.) —Two spinters who have turned in: 06.2 in the 60-yard sprint, a tenth of a second under the Big Seven indoor mark, will pace a great field of competitors into the conference's 21st annual indoor championships Friday and Saturday Feb. 25 and 26. Don Campbell, the Colorado flash, and Don Hutton of Nebraska have been clocked at that fast clip this year in dual competition. Campbell pulled a leg muscle last year in a preliminary heat and was out of action. Missouri will bring another great squad to the meet in an effort to capture its third straight indoor crown but all other schools in the conference have more good material than a tany time since the war interrupted activities. The 206.3 mark has been on the books since the meet was transferred to the Municipal auditorium boards eight years ago. It has been equalled by four Missourians in the years since then. The 440 and 880 marks, .49.3 and 1.56.5, set by Bill Lyda of Oklahoma in 1942, and the two-mile mark of 9.32.2 set by Smithers of Oklahoma the same year, may be endangered by this year's fine field. Among the quartermilers who can come close to the mark are Missouri's Bob Schuster, Dick Klein, Dick Ault and Gil Phillips, Nebraska's Loyal Hurlburt and Don Vollstenen, and Colorado's Campbell. In the two-mile there are Bob Karnes of Kansas, Bill McGuire of Missouri, Gene Shaver of Iowa State and George Fitzmorris of Colorado to shove each other near Smither's mark. There are high flyers in the pole vault competition. Warren Bateman of Colorado tied for top honors last year in the N.C.A. meet at 14 feet. Clair Gregg of Colorado, Bill Carroll of Oklahoma, Leonard Kehl of Nebraska and Clifford Van Dyne of Missouri have all been topping 13 feet 4 inches indoors this season. So it goes through the entire program, with Missouri the team to beat and Nebraska the strongest contender, with the best Husker squad in years. The broad jump finals and preliminaries in hurdles, dash, the 440 and 880 will be held Friday night with the finals in all other events on Saturday night, Feb. 26. In previous meets, preliminaries in all events were held Saturday morning, with the finals Saturday night. Last year Missouri's Millad Gartiser ran the 60-yard distance nine times in the one day, tied the sprint mark and set new records in the high and low hurdles. The state of Nebraska was the first state in the U.S. to celebrate Arbor day, where observance began in 1872. CLEARANCE- Entire Stock of TUXEDOS $42^{50} NOW ONLY Entire stock of all wool midnite blue Tuxedos. Grosgrain lapels in the popular "low-roll" model. You'll be comfortable in these just as casual as your daytime clothes. Originally priced at $55. 905 MASS ST. 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