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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS
MARCH 20,1946
SUN SPOTS
News of Sunflower Village
By GEORGE RIPPEY
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Looks as if the Sunflower KU. Dames are pitching right in and becoming one of the most active organizations connected with University students or families. Officers, elected last week, are: Mrs. Don Kane, president; Mrs. Ben Feigenbaum, secretary - treasurer; Mrs. Shirley Morantz, corresponding secretary; Mrs. George Rappy, program chairman; Mrs. Kitty Hagen, social chairman.
The word gets around fast. Here the Sunflower veterans Village isn't even two months old, and already the K.U. housing office is being flooded with requests for reservations for next fall. In just one day this week, they had 14 letters, from G.L's all over the country. For instance, one wrote from Chicago, "Please put me on the list early so that I can be sure of a home at Sunflower next fall, when I re-enroll in the K.U. medical school. There are four of us in my family." Federal housing authorities have indicated that they will be able to meet all ruch requests. Nobody around here will be lonely!
About 50 wives attended the organization's game night, last night in the clubroom. Tomorrow afternoon from 2 to 5 p.m., Mins Dorothy Sutton, K.U. psychology instructor, will speak on "Child Psychology." The next K.U. Dames meeting will be March 27.
With all the wedding bells which have been ringing lately and are in the offing for K.U. veterans, Sunflower next summer should be a honeymooners' paradise. And this is only March!
SPOTLIGHT on SPORTS By BILL SIMS
The Big ten conference reinstates its pre-war eligibility rules for all sports yesterday. However, a few modifications were made.
A waiver of the freshman rule through the first team of the 1946-47 school year was continued. This will permit freshmen who enroll next fall to participate in varsity sports. The conference officials also granted a fourth year of competition to anyone who competed as a freshman during the wartime emergency or any ex-serviceman who played a conference team during that time.
The conference officials said that the one-year transfer rule will be re-instated next fall for all except returning servicemen who will be eligible after one semester in residence.
This is an important move because many other conferences, including the Big Six, have said that they would wait until some other conferences re-instated their pre-war rules. There is little doubt now that all of the big conferences will return to the old rules in 1948, and many of them will re-instate the rules next fall.
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George Mikan, DePaul's 6-foot 9-inch All-American for the past three years, has signed a $60,000 contract to play professional basketball with the American Bears of Chicago.
Mikan said that he had signed at $12,000 a year for five years. He will participate in the professional championship tournament which starts Saturday.
This will cause much speculation as t whether professional basketball intends to go all out to get these giants like Mikan, Kurland, and Otten. It seems that the owners or sponsors of these teams intend to build up a gate attraction which will compete with other big time sports, but it is problematical just how popular professional basketball will be.
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Big league baseball teams are fast rounding into shape, and the managers are beginning to weed out players who will not stick in the majors this year. This season will produce two of the most interesting races in big league history.
Pi Phi, I.W.W., Chi O Win First Round Of Swimming Meet
Pi Beta Phi racked up 59 points to win the first round of the women's intramural swim meet last night in the Robinson gymnastium pool.
I. W.W. was second with 22 points, and Chi Omega placed third with 12 points. In the finishing order, the other teams were Alpha Chi Omega; 6; Alpha Omicron Pi, 4; Locksley, 3; and Alpha Delta Pi, 2.
Marjorie Dinsmore, I.W.W., was individual high scorer for the meet with 15 points. Imogen Billings, Pi Phi, was second with 13, and Barbara Varner and Mary Alice White, Pi Phi's, each made 9 points.
Winners in all the events were as follows:
Medley Relay—Pi Beta Phi; Chi Omega; Alpha Omicron Pi; Alpha Chi Omega.
Breast stroke for form—Dinsmore, I.W.W.; Varner, Pi Phi; Lippelman, Locksley; Ackerman, Alpha Chi.
Free style race (two lengths)— Conner, I.W.W.; Varner, Pi Phi; Priest, Pi Phi; Coolidge, Chi Omega
Diving—Keplinger, Pi Phi; White
Pi Phi; Nevin, Pi Phi; Curtis, Chi
Omega.
Back stroke race—Billings, Pi Phi;
McGeorge, Chi Omega; Longeneker,
Pi Phi; Coolidge, Chi Omega.
Side stroke race (two lengths)—Dinsmore, I.W.W.; M. Varner, Pi Phi; Nevin, Pi Phi; Billings, Pi Phi.
Crawl stroke for form—Walker;
Pi Phi; Ackerman, Alpha Chi
Omega; Chubb. Pi Phi. White. Pi Phi.
Breast stroke race — Dinsmore, I.W.W.; Nevin, Pi Phi; Anderson, Alpha Delta Pi; Lippelmann, Locksley.
Free style race (three lengths)—Billings, Pi Phi; White, Pi Phi; Connor, I.W.W.; B. Varner, Pi Phi;
The other intramural teams will compete Thursday night at 7:30, and the top four winners from each night will swim in the finals March 27.
SAE, Phi Psi, Beta Win in Volleyball
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Phi Kappa Psi, Beta Theta Pii, Tau Kappa Epsilon, Phi Gamma Delta, and Sigma Chi won the second round intramural volleyball games played in Robinson gym last night.
Intramural Softball Underway Soon
Games scheduled for Robinson gymnasium tonight include Phi Delta Theta vs. Phi Kappa Psi and Kappa Sigma vs. Phi Gamma Delta at 7 p.m.; Nu Sigma Nu vs. Delta Tau Delta and Pi Kappa Alpha vs. V-12 at 8 p.m.; Alpha Tau Omega vs. Beta Theta Pi and Sigma Nu vs. Sigma Chi at 9 p.m.
It is hard to tell how much results in the citrus league are indicative of the way teams will play in the regular season. Right now the New York Yankees are walloping every team in sight. But the St. Louis Cardinals who are supposed to be the top team in the National league are having trouble winning their share of the games.
Intramural softball will start in the next two or three weeks depending upon the weather and the completion of the present volleyball tournament, James Richey, student intramural manager, said today.
Pearl divers have been known to stay under water as long as six minutes without breathing. Their average endurance is 50 to 60 seconds.
Entries for the tournament must be in the office by March 27. Any independent group may enter by contacting the intramural office and filing a entry blank.
It is always interesting to watch the results of the grapefruit league to see which teams are going to be the powerhouses of the year. Then wait until the season starts to find out if the pre-season dope was right.
Tennis Candidates To Meet Thursday
Candidates for the K.U. tennis team will hold their first meeting at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in 203 Robinson gymnasium.
The team, being revived after a war lape, will play against Big Six schools and other Kansas opponents. New coach this year is Gordon A. Sabine, journalism instructor, and University of Wisconsin graduate. Sabine was Wisconsin net coach and played professionally before the war.
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