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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
APRIL 9,1946
By BILL SIMS
All-American Bob Kurland is slated to enter two events at the Penn Relays this spring. Kurland has said he will compete in the high jump and discus.
Bob Fenimore, Oklahoma Aggie gridiron star, also will enter, and will compete in the sprint events.
Kurland should be able to cop the high jump without much trouble. He could step higher than a lot of men could jump. If Fenimore evades opposing sprinters with the same skill he eluded enemy tacklers on the gridiron, he should be able to win first place in a walk.
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The turbulent Mexican baseball league is staying in the headlines with the traffic of American ball players across the border increasing daily.
Vernon Stephens lasted in the outlaw league three days before he decided to return to the St. Louis Browns. Stephens turned down an offer of $125,000 for five years after the president of the league had said he would place $50,000 of it in an American bank as a guarantee.
Stephens returned to the Browns, Catcher Mickey Owen of the Brooklyn Dodgers has said he might confer with his former club about going back to them. He added that he definitely wants to know more about why Stephens jumped the Mexican league. So the Dodgers may have Owen behind the plate this season after all.
Two Negro rookies have been assigned to the Brooklyn Dodgers' Nashau farm club by the parent club. Assignment of the Negroes to the Nashau club was in line with the Dodger policy of giving talented Negroes an opportunity to make good in organized baseball.
Two other Negroes, Jackie Robinson and John Wright, have signed contracts with the Dodgers' Montreal club in the International league.
It will be interesting to see if these players can make good in organized ball. There should be no reason they can't stick if they have the talent. There is no doubt that Satchel Paige could have been one of the greatest pitchers in the major leagues if he had been given the opportunity. Many baseball experts have called Paige the greatest pitcher of all time.
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Sidelights—The Oklahoma baseball team has won seven straight games and looks like the team to beat for the Big Six title. . . . Two "Jetties," Dick Cray and Dick Champ, are out for the varsity tennis team. . . . The Kansas Relays promises to offer some of the nation's top track and field stars at the April 20 carnival. . .
Wichita East, titan of the Kansas high school track world, will shoot its fourth consecutive championship in the interscholastic meet here April 19.
Jayhawkter pitching this year will be good with Tommy Saffell, Gene Hellman, Lucian Hammer and Bob Gilmore forming a respectable Big Four.
National Business Fraternity Elects Eight Students
Beta Gamma Sigma, national honorary business fraternity has elected the following School of Business students to membership:
Seniors: Mrs. Esther James Dudecon, Robert Frank Norris, Barbara Nell Sherrad, Edward R. Moses, Max Howard, and Mrs. Jean Hatch Shull.
Juniors: Betty Rose Soukup, W. Leonard W. Dietrich.
Capacity Crowd Hears Lutz
Norma Jean Lutz. Fine Arts senior, presented a senior recital to a capacity crowd last night in Frank Strong auditorium. Miss Lutz, a student of Miss Irene Peabody, was accompanied by Marjean Carr, Fine Arts junior.
Kansas Relays Famous 23 Years; They Began As Outland's Dream
On April 20, another colorful array of track and field stars will gather in Memorial stadium for the 21st annual Kansas Relays.
It will be almost 23 years to the day since another such star-studded field of athletes participated in the first running of the Kansas Relays. This now famous track and field event first took place on April 23, 1923.
And it all began as the dream of Dr. John H. Outland. Outland came to the University as a freshman in 1893, and he lettered in football as a fullback and tackle in his first year of varsity competition. He transferred to the University of Pennsylvania in 1895, and the Penn Relays was founded while he was a student there. It was then that Outland conceived his idea for such an event in the middle west.
Dr. Outland returned to the University in 1920, and approached Dr. F. C. "Phog" Allen with his idea. Allen was enthusiastic, and plans were formulated that spring for the beginning of the Kansas Relays. Allen made radio speeches, distributed stickers, and printed a 62-page program in order to promote interest.
Response to the initial Relays was better than had been expected. All of the Missouri Valley conference schools were present; the Big Ten was represented; several Southwestern conference schools sent entries; and a team from Pennsylvania came to the first performance.
The Kansas carnival rates high among the many famous outdoor relays such as the Penn, Texas, Drake, Colorado, and Illinois relays.
The Kansas squad, coached by Karl Schlademan, won both the 440- yard and the half-mile relays, and picaed high in the other four events
Since the first Relays in 1923, many records have been established and many trophies have been given away. Such outstanding track stars are Glenn Cunningham, Gene Venske, Charles Fenske, James Bansch, Ralph Metcalf, Glenn Morris, Fred Wolott, Elmer Hackney, and Campbell Kane have competed in this annual event.
This year's carnival promises to pick up where it left off when the event was interrupted by the war. Several famous stars already have entered, and many more are expected to send entries this week. The Kansas Relays will once again take its place among the topnotch track and field meets.
McKay Visits Kansas Towns
Robert McKay, University Memorial association, visited alumni in Pittsburgh and Columbus today to plan campaigns for contributions to the drive and campanile project. Tomorrow he will visit in Labette and Independence; Fredonia and Howard, Thursday; Winfield and Wellington, Friday. Yesterday he was in Pleasanton and Fort Scott.
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She plans to do graduate work toward a master's degree in personnel administration next year.
W. A.A., intramurals, and personnel administration don't take all of her time, however. She is a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, has served on the AH-Student council, is a member of the Y.W.C.A. board, Pan-Hellenic council, Quack club, and was recently initiated into Mortar Board, honorary society for senior women.
Softball and volleyball rate highest with Marge, but her KU tennis record shows that she partici- pates in almost every intramural sport.
Marge wishes she had more time to wear long shirts and blue jeans and laments the fact that veterans don't like them. The one thing she really has a passion for, she says, is spaghetti and meat balls. The envy of all her spaghetti- loving friends for being an expert at twirling it around a fork. Marge has a dislike for people who cut the stuff up into small pieces.
Back From St. Louis
Miss Maude Ellsworth, instructor in the design department, recently returned from St. Louis, where she presided at an afternoon program of a midwestern art teacher's convention.
Drake Mile Star In Outdoor Debut Here
Young Bill Mack of Drake, the Midlands' new mile sensation, will make his outdoor debut at the twenty-first annual Kansas Relays here.April 20.
hertemphly enough, the 18-year old Bulldog freshman begins his collegiate outdoor career in the Glenn Cunnnhgam mile, feature event of the revived Javahawk games.
A standout on the first time he laced on a Drake track shoe last fall, Mack startled the track world March 28 running a 4:19.0 mile at the Chicago
The youthful Drake star finished fourth in that race, but his spectacular time drew Mack his first national attention. A teen-age freshman running a 4:19 mile on an 11-lap board track was something no one had anticipated.
Mack's running career started two years ago when he was a junior in high school at Argo, Ill. That season he was runnerup in the mile at the state high school meet. Last year he won the crown.
For many years track fans have been looking for another Cunningham. On his record to date Mack has all the marks of achieving that designation within the next couple of years.
The Drake yearling is bending all efforts toward making his outdoor unveiling a success. With the idea of becoming the first winner of the Cunningham mile here, Mack passed up the Texas Relays to stay in Des Moines and work on his running technique.
11 Former K.U. Students
Leave Manila For Discharges
Manila. Eleven former University students are now enroute to the States from the 5th replacement depot disposition center, south of Manila, to be discharged from the army. After their release from military service they intend to return to college.
These men, who were enrolled in 1943, are S/Sgt. William L. Jackson, Earlham, Iowa; Cpl. Stanley G. Earl, Lawrence; S/Sgt. Delbert R. Long, Coffeyville; Sgt. Thomas C. Chilvers, Pierce, Neb.; Sgt. Joseph O. Ward, Topeka; Frederick D. Cazin, Jr., Engwood, Colo.; Cpl. Richard Haskins, Sioux City, Iowa; Cpl. Phillip Hurd, Nickerson; Cpl. Carl E. von Waaden, Washington, Kan.; Pfc. William D. Swaim, North Platte, Neb.; and Pfc. Douglas C. Day, Pueblo, Colo.
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Three Professors Are At Atomic Conferences
Three University professors are attending the Conferences on Atomic Energy in Wichita, Newton and Chanute this week. They are H. B. Chubb, professor of political science, Leland Pritchard, professor of finance, and J. D. Stranathan, professor of physics. Chancellor Deane W Mallot attended a conference meeting yesterday at the Lassen hotel in Wichita.
K.U. Atomic Group To Attend Conference
The University's Atomic Age group will attend the atomic energy conference to be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Plymouth Congregational church, Mrs. Jean Gardiner, president, announced today.
Dr. Theodore Jorgenson, research physicist of Los Alamos, N.M., will speak. Films of the Los Alamos experiment and the bombing of Nagasaki will be shown.
Dr. David N. Hume and Dr. J. O. Maloney, University faculty members and former scientists on the Oakridge, Tenn., project, will participate in a discussion on the political implications of the atomic bomb.
The discussion will be open to student participation, Mrs. Gardiner said.
Game Wardens Add Rare Fish to Dyche Collection
Several fish have been added to the collection in Dyche museum through the courtesy of Fred Anderson and Olin Mickley, state game and fish wardens.
The spoonbill, fresh water fish found in large rivers and ox-bov lakes in the Mississippi range, was caught in Murray's lake, Miami county. This fish is rare in collections and is the first on record in Dyche museum, Claude Hibbard curator, said. Another specimen of this species was reported in 1910, but was not found.
A long nosed gar and a short nosed gar were also caught.
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