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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1948
By BOB DELLINGER Daily Kansan Sports Editor
When the Star Spangled Banner was played before the basketball game Monday, one flag shared the spotlight with the Stars and Stripes. Was it a Kansas pennant, or even a pennant of some conference school? No. It was marked Notre Dame.
During the football season, pannants of conference members and of other opponents fly at every game. Out in the open, it is not easy to see how tattered and worn these flags are, but when they are brought inside they show the wear.
At every basketball game, Hoch auditorium is decorated with some of these pennants. Not all the conference schools are represented; some of the pennants are of opponents whom we meet only once or twice in a decade. And all of them are so disreputable in appearance that should—and probably do—shame those who are responsible for them.
We recommend one of these steps:
1. Remove all the pennants completely. They fail to add to the attractiveness of the building.
2. Replace those of teams we will not meet again with those of conference members.
3. Buy some new ones if they just have to be put up there.
4. Or if nothing else, drape them in such a way that a Kansas pennant is the one in the spotlight when the national anthem is played.
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Kansas will take the road against Iowa State tonight, and will travel with the encouraging prospect that visiting teams have won an unprecedented percentage of conference games this year.
Home teams, usually invulnerable in Big Seven conference play, have won only 11 of 20 games this year. Oklahoma, now in a third-place tie with Kansas, is the only team in the conference which has not won a road game. The Sooners hope to shed this distinction Saturday or Monday when they meet the Kansas State Wildcats and the Colorado Buffs at their respective lairs.
Another Saturday game takes the sixth-place Nebraska Cornhuskers to Columbia. A Tiger victory coupled with a Kansas State loss would send Missouri to undisputed possession of first place, a position which they were favored to take at the start of the season.
Four Teams Win In Women's IM
Ricker hall, Kappa Alpha Thets,
I. W. W., and Harmon co-op were
victorious in women's basketball
games played Wednesday. Watkins
hall won from Jolliffe hall by for-
feit.
Ricker's 17 to 16 defeat over Campus house was the closest game. Amick of Ricker was bigh for her team with eight points. Vera Hodges, guard, displayed brilliant defensive play for the winners. Connor and Marshall of Campus house each contributed eight points for the losers.
Led by Smith with 17 points, the Theta's defeated Sigma Kappa 36 to 13. Doane and McCune were outstanding in guard positions for Theta. Burnham, Sigma Kappa forward, made seven points.
Loveless, Hoffman, and McGee sparked I. W. W. who defeated Sleepy Hollow 32 to 13. Loveless scored 18 points. Fox and Kaff displayed solid guarding. High scorer for Sleepy Hollow was Shinn with six points.
Harmon co-op, led by Stoll, who scored 11 points, and backed by Ratlzaff, guard, cutplayed Monchonsia hall 20 to 13. Schmalzird scored high for Monchonsia with five points.
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KU Indoor Track Squad To Meet OU Sooners
Jayhawker trackmen will travel Saturday to Norman, Oklahoma, for their second indoor dual meet of the season.
Still smarting from a sound defeat at the hands of the Missouri Tigers, defending conference champions, the Kansas team has high hopes of outpointing the Sooners of Oklahoma.
Commenting that he considered the Missouri track team one of the best in the nation, Coach Bill Easton said his men should run the weaker Sooners a very close race.
The outcome of the meet will probably depend on the winners of the field events. K. U., with Bob Karnes and Hal Moore, is expected to dominate the longer distance races, while Oklahoma appears stronger in the dashes.
Both teams have been handicapped by cold weather which has prevented practice. The O. U. indoor track has been dubbed "Pneumonia Downs" by Harold Keith, Sooner sports publicist, and weather conditions now may make Saturday's event unpleasant for the tracksters.
Kansas will go to the post without the services of Herman Wilson, best Jayhawker pole vaulter, who hurt an ankle at Missouri last weekend. Hal Hinchee, distance man, is also on the injured list.
Kansas entries;
60-yard dash—Danneberg, Stites and Binter.
440-yard run—Stites, Binter and Wagstaff.
Mile run—Karnes and Moore.
Two-mile run — Karnes and Moore.
880-yard run—Shea, Winton and Studt.
High jump -Delvin Norris, Zimmer and Scofield.
Pole vault—Darrell Norris.
Broad jump—Crowley, Bunten and Nearing.
High hurdles—Stannard
Low hurdles-Stannard and Follansbee
Shot put-Lee.
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Robinson Will Sign Today
New York, Feb. 12 - (UP) -Jackie Robinson, who played with distinction as the first Negro in organized baseball, was expected today to sign with the Brooklyn Dodgers for 1948 on the birthday of Abraham Lincoln, the Great Emancipator.
Robinson, the rookie of the year last season, was expected to be paid around $15,000 for 1948 which is nearly three times as much as he earned from the club in straight salary last year. Rickey, who made it possible for Robinson to break down the very real barriers existing against Negroes in organized baseball, said he would hold a press conference at which it was a foregone conclusion he would announce the signing of Jackie.
The Dodgers also were having holdout troubles. Eddie Stanky revealed from Mobile, Ala., that he wanted upwards of $12,000 whereas he reportedly was offered $9,000. He joined Pete Reiser, Bruce Edwards, and Hugh Casey as bonafide holdouts.
Meanwhile, the Dodgers signed Gene Hermanski, who is expected to take over Dixie Walker's right field post. He capitulated for about $7,500 not much more than one-third what Walker got. Hermanski hit .279 in 79 games but was a powerful factor in the late season, batting .357 in September.
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