UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE SIX
TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1948
Track Takes Spotlight As Olympic Games Near
It is not often that track can step into the limelight of sports as a major attraction such as baseball or football. But for many recent weeks track has been in the newspaper headlines and be subject of tall tales.
The cause for track's sudden splurge of notoriety is, of course, the 1940 Olympics, which will be held in London this summer. Not since 1936 when the last Olympic games were held in Berlin, have athletes from countries throughout the world gathered to test their track and field skills.
Inch and Dillard ran the high hurdles in 13.6, both world's records. Dillard, Lloyd La Bohm, Patton, Charlie Bakers
This year's Olympic games promises to be a real contest for a number of reasons. First, we have had a good long time to prepare for them. Men who served in the war had time to return to their prewar form. Also, the 1936 Olympics was held in air of tenseness because of the war that followed over Berlin. This year the Olympics should be a good place for international feelings to blow off a little steam.
Every time they run the Olympic games, just about every track and field record in the book gets a shaking up. Of the 19 events on schedule for the games in London this summer, there were set in the 1936 games at Berlin. The other records were set at Los Angeles in the 1932 games.
With all those records being shattered in the two previous Olympics, it seems reasonable that at least half of the existing marks will take a tumble in London. The performances of Harrison Dillard and Charlie Fonville in the Kansas Relays bear this out.
Fonville tossed the shot 58 feet 1/4
13 To Visit Missions
Thirteen persons connected with the University will participate in a student tour of the Southwest to visit the national missionary centers of the Presbyterian church.
They will leave Lawrence June 5 and return June 17. The tour is being sponsored by the Presbyterian Westminster foundation.
Members of the tour are Marian Osmond, College junior; Elizabeth Stephenson, College freshman; William Richmond, business junior; Luther Hall, graduate student; Jarnel Belt, college senior; Robert Boeckle, College sophomore; Mrs. R. L. Williams, and son, Theodore; and the Rev, and Mrs. John H. Fatten, sponsors of Westminster foundation.
They will visit missionary centers in Liberal, Toos, Chimayo, Trucha Embudo, Santa Fe, and Albuquerque, New Mexico, Ganado, Ariz. Mesa Verde National park, Dulango, and Colorado Springs, Cols.
University High Has Banquet, Prom
The University High school's junior-senior banquet and prom was held May 21 in the Kansas room of the Union. The theme was a "spring garden."
Karl D. Edwards, principal of the University High school, spoke at a short program during the banquet on "Advice from the Old Gardner." He likened the garden to the Uni- dern high school and the students to the plants who were now mature and ready to be transplanted.
Carl Sneegas, president of the junior class, was toastmaster at the banquet. Patricia Daniel, presented the junior class toast. Charles Murphy, president of the senior class, presented the senior response, "Moonlight and Roses," was sung by a vocal trio, Margaret Latimer, and Carol and Nadine Blackwood, accompanied by Miss Daniel.
Lee Barlow was the master of ceremonies at the prom. Roger Beth's band, of the Liberty Memorial High school, provided dance music.
Ought To Name It Podunk
Holland, Mich.—(UP)—Postmaster Harry Kramer is getting more than his share of mail. Many letters and packages addressed to the old country come regularly into the Holland post office here.
inch and Dillard ran the high hurdles in 13.6, both unofficial world's records. Dillard, Lloyd La Beach, Mel Patton, and Charlie Parker will all be around to shoot for a new 100-yard dash record. Only the past Saturday, Patton breezed to a new unofficial mark of 9.3 in the century.
All in all it looks like the record books will get a thorough dusting off and maybe some very rough handling before this year's crop of Olympians hang up their spikes.
Just for your own future reference you might clip these Olympic records, because you'll probably be making a lot about them in a month or so.
100-meter, 10.3--Eddie Tolan, U.S.—1932. 200-meter, 20.7--Jessie Owen,
U.S.—1936. 400-meter, 46.2--William
Carr, U.S.—1932. 800-meter, 1:49.8-
Tom Hampson, Great Britain—
1932. 1,500 - meter, 3:47.8 -- Jack
Lovelock, New Zealand—1936. 5,000-
meter, 14:22.2 -- Gunner Lockert,
Finland—1936.
10,000-meter, 30:11.4—Janusz Kuszocsiński, Poland—1932. Marathon, 2 hours 29:19.2—Kitelei Son, Japan—1936. 100-meter hurdles, 141—Forrest Towns, U.S.—1936. 400-meter hurdles, S2.—Glen Hardin, U.S.—1936 High jump, 6 feet 7 5-16 inches—Cornelius Johnson, U.S.—1936 Broad jump, 26 feet, 5 5-16 inches—Owen, 1936.
Hop-step-jump, 52 feet $ 5 \frac{1}{2} $ inches
—Notta Taima, Japan —1363. Pole vault, 14 feet $ 3 / 4 $ inches —Earl Meadows, U.S. —1336. Discus, 165 feet $ 7 \frac{1}{4} $ inches —Ken Carpenter, U.S. —1336.
Javelin, 238 feet 7 inches—Matti Järvinen. Finland—1622. Shot put, 34 feet 1¼ inches—Hank Woellke, Germany—1936.
Hammer throw, 185 feet 4 3-16 in-
ches—Karl Hein, Germany—1936
Decathlon, Glenn Morris, U.S.—1936
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Women Graduates To Live In Ricker
Ricker hall will house graduate women students next fall, Miss Margaret Habein, dean of women, announced today,
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Dean Gilley Is Elected To Head Men's Glee Club
Dean Gilley, College sophomore, was elected president of the men's glee club at a dinner-business meeting Monday.
Other officers elected were: Charles Roth, engineering sophomore, vice-president; Clarence Hooper, education junior, secretary-treasurer; Donald Finley, engineering junior, and Samuel Peacock, College sophomore, librarians; and Duncan Roger Butts, fine arts freshman, accompanist.
Stop in on these warm days for a cool fountain drink.
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Chancellor Deane W. Malott contributed the information for an article on Western Civilization in the May issue of Higher Education, a magazine published by the United States Office of Education.
The article, written by Dr. William Sanders of the office of education explains the method of study, the objectives, and the types of material used in the course.
Cambridge, Mass.—(UP) -George and Daisy, two Irish setters didn't want to be given away, traveled 65 miles from their new home at Derry, N. H., and were reunited with their old master, John S. R. James of Cambridge.
Were Their Dogs Tired
A sensitive device that can detect a thickness variation of .000005 of an inch—a newspaper page is 720 times thicker—has been developed by Westinghouse.
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