UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MARCH 26.1947
PAGE FIVE
Hand Springs, Chest Rolls, Dives Are All In The Life Of A Tumbler
Train your muscles to have good sense. That's tumbling.
Coordination of mind and body equals timing, the formula, and the result is good physical development for K.U.'s seven tumblers, according to Henry Shenk, associate professor of physical education.
Kineshetics is the key to the tumbler's coordination for the most part Agility and muscular tone of the entire body are important because flying through space is not easy in the $ \textcircled{*} $
many stunts of a tumbler.
Some men can acquire the agility for tumbling, others have some natural ability, yet in all cases the proper training plus hard work produces good results, Professor Shenk said.
"In November the men started working out on the mats. My idea was to get the tumbling started. The people seem to like it, and it is good physical development."
The tumbling team appeared at the half of the O.U.-K.U. game. Some of the stunts displayed were hand springs, neck springs, round offs, back flips, walk overs, cart wheels, and chest rolls. Variations of these stunts can be invented with each man's ability.
The team consists of:
Lloyd Hendrix, College senior, who started learning judo break falls in his senior year of high school. The O.U.-K.U. game was his first public appearance in tumbling acts.
Bill Jessup, business junior, was in the V-12 program at Denison university, at Granville, Ohio, in 1944 and became interested in mat work instead of routine calisthenics. He does a straight arm straight leg press which requires balancing with the wrists, and concentration on what the wrists do. He also does the invented bicycle stand which puts stress on the back muscles. It is a creative stunt, for he has not seen or read about any exactly the same. Virgil Cooper, College freshman, is good on any stunt that requires a limber back. His specialty is the two hand forward hand spring. The slow cartwheels, walk overs, and a series of one handed back hand springs by alternating hands are also effective. Professor Shenk added.
Bill Brimer, College freshman, specializes in diving over men in pyramid form and back flips. He also does front and back sommer-salts, back hand springs, and the full gainor.
Verne Collier, College sophomore specializes in low front dives and also performs hand springs.
robert Bell, College sophomore,
is called the bottom man. He supports
Jessup on his hands while
Jessup does a shoulder stand with
his legs spread and Brimer does a
summersalt between Jessup's legs.
He also does back flips, back rolls
into extension and parallel bar
bar stunts.
James Russell, engineering freshman, prefers the horizontal high bar work. He started bar work in high school at St. Louis.
English Instructor To Present Readings
A group of readings from Shakespeare will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Fraser hall by William B. Bracke, English instructor, as the next in the series, "Informal Readings of English Poetry."
The readings are:
The scene from King Lear where Lear denounces his two daughters, the abdication scene from King Richard II, the quarrel between Brutus and Cassius, from Julius Caesar, the climactic scene from Macbeth, two prologues from King Henry V.
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The 1947 Intramural All-Stars wili-tangle with an outstanding crew of K-Club cagers in the second game of a special double-header in Hoch auditorium tonight.
Coach Don Powell of the intramural team reported this morning that his charges looked better than he had hoped for in practice Tuesday night. He is working with a hand-picked squad of 12 men. They are:
Phiblid, Kappa Sigma; Gillin,
Beta Theta Pi: Thompson, Sigma
Alpha Epsilon; Briley, Frat Busters:
Short, Sigma Phi Epsilon; Dodson,
Delta Tau Delta; Gage, Sigma Alpha
Epsilon; Hargis, Phi Gamma Delta;
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Sigma Chi, MacFerran, Phil Gamma
Delta; and Wagstaff, Sigma Chi.
Charley Moffett, coach of the K-Club team, has a roster loaded with former varsity court performers. Latest addition to the squad was Donald Barrington, elongated point-maker of the 1943-44 season. Other squadmen are:
Homer Sherwood, "Sparky" MeSpadden, Bill Forssythe, Don Diehl Herb Heim, Max Kissell, Gordor Stucker, and Bob Fitzpatrick.
The first game of the night, between the Faculty Flashes and the K. U. varsity, will begin at 7:30.
Women's Tennis Tourney,
Softball To Start In April
The women's intramural tennis tournament will start April 8 and softball will get under way April 14. Miss Ruth Hoover, of the physical education department announced this morning.
Intramural managers may obtain entry blanks in the office. They must be returned before April 1, Miss Hoover said.
In 1943 there were 30,888.134 motor vehicles of all types in the United States.
Dr. Earl E. Lackey, associate professor at the University of Nebraska, will be visiting professor of geography at the University summer session, Chancellor Deane W. Malott announced Monday.
Nebraska Professor To Come In Summer
Dr. Lackey is co-author of a textbook published last year entitled "Regions and Nations of the World."
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