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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MAY 21. 1947
PAGE FOUR
By BILL CONBOY
The United Press carried the story Tuesday of Mac Robinson, a high school football hero from Clarksville, Tenn., who was reported in serious condition from a nervous breakdown caused by the pressure tacies of college scouts who hounded him right and left."
Robinson was found wandering in a daze near the home of his sister after being missing for 16 hours. The 16-year old athlete was muttering over and over, "Please leave me alone. Please don't let anyone bother me."
He did not remember anything that happened during his disappearance. More than a thousand persons, as well as bloodhounds from the state prison at Nashville, had joined in the search.
Robinson's physician said that the boy regained consciousness after a trance of several hours but that he was still irrational. The doctor said, "The boy was worried to death about which school to go to. He was hounded by offers, right and left."
The breakdown apparently occurred after a ride to Nashville with Harvey Robinson, assistant boutique coach at the University of Tennessee of Topeka, who changed change the young star's mind about entering Vanderbilt university.
The United Press reported both Vanderbilt and Tennessee as claiming that young Robinson had signed grant-in-aid contracts which provide athletic scholarships of room and board and $10 a month for expenses.
We've always heard that athletic recruiting in the South is highly developed because the schools take their football victories as matters of life and death, but we thought it was the coaches who were most likely to suffer nervous breakdowns. If prospective players are being subjected to such mental strain as the above item indicates, perhaps it is time that the N.C.A.A. added a couple of good psychiatrists to its southern division.
Finals of the intramural softball playoffs are scheduled for today at 4:15 p. m. if the fields are dry enough. Sigma Phi Epsilon and Phi Delta Theta will oppose each other for the title.
The Sig Eps are the only undefeated team left in the softball play. They were all-victorious in their division and have beaten Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Delta Tau Delta thus far in the playoffs.
The Phi Delts have dropped only one game this year, an early season loss to the Delta whom they later defeated 16 to 1. Ray Evans, Phi Delt fireball pitcher, had not yet reported when the loss occured.
Bob McNieve, Sig Eg windmill hurler, does double duty for his team. He sizzled his fast one across the plate against the Delta while in the field by blinkingexe the performance by blasting out a game winning home run in the last half of the eighth inning in the same contest.
100 See Latin Program At Spanish Club Fiesta
Finals Cancel University Table Tennis Matches
The stage of Frank Strong auditorium presented a Latin-American motif Thursday night, as the Spanish club held its annual fiesta. About 100 persons applauded Spanish dances, Spanish poems, and a comedy skit. The program concluded with group singing of popular Spanish songs. Spanish instructors and students took part in the program.
Cancellation of the University division of the Lawrence city table tennis tournament was announced in April, bcity recreation superintendent.
"The telephone strike forced us to postpone play beyond a practical deadline for the tournament," said Mr. Heeb. "Too many students have reported that they lack time due to approaching finals."
Track Team To Defend Title At Big Six Meet In Lincoln
The University track team will leave for Lincoln tomorrow for the 19th annual running of the Big Six outdoor track and field meet. The Jayhawks are the defending champions, having brought Kansas its first conference track crown since 1934 last year.
Coach Ray Kanehl will have plenty of experienced help on hand this year, two of them defending champions from last year's meet. The returning champs will be John Jackson in the 440-yard dash and Tom Scofield in the high jump.
Black Fllighle
One Jayhawk defending champion will not compete in this year's meet although he is still in school. Charlie "the Hawk" Black took first in the shot put last year; but due to an N. C. A. A. ruling about his playing with the West All-Stars basketball team, he is ineligible to compete in Big Six athletics. He also tied for fourth in the pole vault.
Scofield set a new meet record last year with a leap of 6 feet $4\frac{1}{8}$ inches and placed second in the broad jump, but he took (first in both these events).
Jackson and Dick Shea were members of last year's victorious mile relay team and will probably make up half that foursome this year.
Moore vs Ginn
Hal Moore, Jayhawk mile master,
took second in his event last year,
finishing behind Bobby Ginn of
Nebraska. The same pair will be in
the playoffs this season and will
spot this year and should produce
one of the best races of the day.
Leroy Robison placed second in the shot put, and Karl Ebel took sixth. Both men will be back this year. Robison, Ebel and Bruce Henoch took second, third and fourth in the javelin. This event was won by Grote of Nebraska, whom they will face again. Robinson won the javelin event at the 1944 and 1945 meets.
Frank Stannard, ace hurdler, will be the leading Kansas contender in the barrier event. He won the 120-yard high hurdles and the 220- yard low hurdles in the 1944 meet. Last Year Was Close
Last year's meet was one of the closest in Big Six history. With only
Rifle Finals To Be Tonight
The championship team will receive a trophy and the individual high marksman will be presented an award. There are no points awarded in the intramural sweepstakes for rifle competition. The finals will be held in the Military Science building.
Delta Upsilon and Alpha Tau Omega will meet in the finals of the men's intramural riff championship tonight at 7. The A. T. O.'s received a semi-final byte for posting the highest qualifying score in the playoffs. The D. U. riffenemen to the D. U. super-nurally defended Tau Kappa Epsilon 770 to 775 in a semi-final contest Monday,
The lineup for the team is:
Armstrong, Hall,
Comstock, Weith, Coyle.
Alpha Tau Omega, Asher, Brown,
Palmer, Gordon, Stutz.
one event remaining, the crimson and blue led Nebraska by a score of 107 to 106. In that last event the mile relay team, anchored by Jackson, beat out the Nebraska team by inches to win the race and bring Kansas its fourth conference track crown.
The high points were due to a 10-8-6-4-2-1 scoring system adopted by officials and track coaches. The system gives points for six places, instead of the usual five, and is in accordance with the N. C. A. A. rules governing meets of this type.
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Baseball Results
THURSDAY
American League
Cleveland 4, New York 2
Boston 8, Detroit 3
St. Louis 11, Philadelphia 1
Chicago 7, Washington 4
National League
Pittsburgh 4, Boston 3 (ten in-
185 Chicago 3, Philadelphia (eleven inpwds).
New York 9, Cincinnati 1
American Association
Minneapolis 8, Kansas City 2
Minneapolis 10, Kansas City 11
Toledo 3, Louisville 2
Toledo 0, Louisville 8
Indianapolis 5, Columbus 2
American League W. L. Pct.
Detroit 17 10 .630
Boston 17 12 .576
Cleveland 13 10 .565
Chicago 16 14 .583
Philadelphia 13 15 .484
New York 12 14 .402
Washington 10 15 .400
St. Louis 10 18 .357
National League W. L. Pct.
New York 15 11 .577
Chicago 16 12 .571
Boston 16 13 .552
Pittsburgh 13 11 .542
Brooklyn 14 13 .519
Philadelphia 15 15 .500
Cincinnati 13 18 .419
St. Louis 9 18 .333
American Association W. L. Pct.
Kansas City 15 9 .625
Toledo 13 11 .541
Louisville 16 14 .533
St. Paul 15 16 .484
Columbus 13 14 .481
Indianapolis 13 15 .464
Minneapolis 13 16 .448
Waukee 10 15 .435
Seven Die In B-25_Crash
Rantoul, III.—(UF)—Army officers at Chanute field reported today that a B-25 plane crashed near here and that "everyone aboard" was killed. The army public information officer said he believed there were seven men aboard the bomber.
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2:30 p.m. Children's Music
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