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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, APRIL 5, 1945
Two Newcomers Join Oklahoma Cinder Squad
Norman, Okla. April 5—Two Sooner Pinocchios who never or jumped competitively before this season are members of the 16-man University of Oklahoma track squad that left here Friday for the Texas Relays Saturday at Austin, Texas.
They are Homer Sparkman of Anadarko, Okla., blocking back the last two years on Oklahoma's Big Six conference championship football, and Carlos Mcullough of Fayette. Mo., an intramural swimmer-boxer who played last fall on Oklahoma's all-victorious junior varsity football team. Both are navy ROTC students here and if you'd told them six months ago that they'd be on the Oklahoma track team, they'd probably laughed in your face.
Like Geppetto, the wood-carver who fashioned a puppet that became a real flesh and blood character in the story Walt Disney made famous a while back, John Jacobs, veteran Sooner track coach, has made formidable wartime track men out of Sparkman and McCullough, neither of whom ever wore a track suit until this year.
Although most football players wouldn't even run a half a mile, Sparkman was clocked in 2:00.5 while losing the 880 by a step to Bob Umstadt, Texas's Southwest conference champion, in the Southwest exhibition meet three weeks ago at Forth Worth, Texas.
McCullough broad-jumped 23 feet in last week's Skyjacket Invitation meet here, getting off one leap of 23 feet 6 inches that was foul by only the length of one steel spike.
Both were in school here last winter and spring but did not come out for track. Sparkman was out for spring football. McCullough, who played basketball, softball at Fayette, Mo. high school, didn't know he had any track talent until Clarence Vicklund, Sooner distance runner, talked him into coming out. McCullough broad-jumped 18 feet his first week and then Jacobs began to work with him. Both graduate with navy commissions in June. At Austin, Sparkman will anchor the Oklahoma two-mile relay team and also will run in one other relay. McCullough will broad jump.
Neither lad is a world-beater by any means, but when measured against the fact both were totally inexperienced before the 1943 season began, their marks are good and reflect a world of credit on them and also upon the Sooner coach.
Listen to--and Keenan WYNN • Marilyn MAXWELL
ALM KRUGER • MARIE BLANK • EYE LUKE
KFKU
Friday April 6—
3:30 p.m. K. U. Vespers, Speaker, E. Rushall Carter, Director of Religious Activities, Haskell Institute, Lawrence.
9:30 p.m. Symphonic Favorites.
Rachmaninov's Second Symphony,
Joint College-High School Paper
The school paper published at Independence, Kan., now serves the junior college there as well as the junior and senior high schools.
VARSITY
FRIDAY - SATURDAY
Gene Autry in
Heart of Rio Grande
2nd Hit
"Kid Sister"
Ames, Iowa, April 5—Coach Chick Sutherland's Cyclone baseball squad split on Saturday for an inter-squard game preceding the opening date with Simpson next Friday and Saturday. The "A" team walked away with a 3 to 0 decision in 6 innings.
Iowa State Baseball Squad Warms Up For Friday Opener
All of the scores came in the fifth enning when hits by Beckerle, Chu-damelok and Fink drove in Scott, Voelkers, and Beckerle. The luckless "B" squad went scoreless in the short run game.
The practice session failed to disclose any definite first string nine for the coming 2-game affair with the Indians. It may be that Sutherland will not name a starting team until the day of the Friday appearance.
Performing on the winning team were Scott, Fink, and Voelker in the left, center and right field spots. Beckerle was at third, Jackson at short, Heidel at second, and Jensen at first. Theobold and Chudamelko pitched with Phelps behind the plate.
Avery, Pfium, and Jones played the outfield for the "B" squad, with Myers, Ongero, Shock, and Block in the infield. Halverson and Bescanon were on the mound with Ron Johnson catching.
Kappa, Chi O Win Deck Tennis Games
Kappa Kappa Gamma and Chi Omega were winners of their divisions in deck tennis games played last night.
Kappa defeated Gamma Phi 21-12,
Chi Omgea won over A. O. Pi 45-14,
Watkins beat Tiperyar 29-27,
I.W.W. defeated Alpha Chi 36-
32.
The winners of the last two divisions will be decided in games to be played tonight. The teams to play are A.D. Pi-Harmon; E.T.C.-I.N.D.; Pi Phi-Corbin, and Delta Gamma-Campus.
Semi-finals will be played 8:30 Monday.
The Progressives, one of the main campus political parties at Minnesota university, is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.
Sportorials
A sensation of the annual meeting of the National Basketball Coaches' association in New York last week was a fatigue report prepared by Dr. H. C. Carlson of Pittsburgh University and George Edwards, coach at Missouri U. who together examined 20,000 basketball players ranging in age from adolescence to 60 years.
— ENDS TONIGHT —
Coaches Sweat Blodo
After a game, the heart rates of players return to normal far more quickly than that of coaches who spend the time "sweating blood" on the bench.
"Emotional trauma is more severe upon the health of coaches than exhausting play is upon the bodies of the competitors," the report states. Esquire Poll on Pennant Chances
Down the line in the American league, the poll places the 1944 pennant-winning St. Louis Browns third, and Cleveland fourth, followed by Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Washington. The Pittsburgh
The Carlson-Edwards study revealed that basketball is not harmful to the health of the players. Cagers of all ages recover so fast that after only a two-minute rest they again 90 per cent efficiency. There is far more recovery in the first two minutes than in the next ten.
The Cardinals and the Yankees will play the World Series this year according to a sports poll in the April Esquire. New York and St. Louis are put at the top of the American and National leagues by the Esquire voters who rate Cincinnati and Detroit the runners-up.
By LOREN KING
Harold F. Brown,'34 Promoted to Captain
Van Johnson
gets a $100,000
kiss! And you'll
get a million
dollars worth of
love, laughs and
thrills!
PEGGY RYAN
Marathon O'Driscoll Donald Cook
Lon Chaney Jr. Vincent Ruco
Chandler Douglas Rhone Lance
PHIL SPAITLAND and the
HOUR OF CHARM
ALL GIRL ORCH.
Mediterranean Air Transport Service in Italy-Harold F. Brown, '34, Syracuse, Kan., has been promoted to the rank of captain. Captain Brown entered the army air forces in February 1941, and received his pilot training at Santa Anna, California, Thunderbird Field, Arizona and Minter Field, California. He landed in Scotland, July, 1943, and subsequently served in Africa and Sicily. He is currently serving in the capacity of engineering officer with a transport squadron of the Mediterranean air transport service in Italy.
SUNDAY
LIONEL BARRYMORE
GLORIA DE HAVEN
FRIDAY - SATURDAY
Pirates are placed next to the Reds in the National circuit, and in turn come Chicago. New York, Brooklyn, Boston, and Philadelphia. Softball to Start April 23
The Intramural softball tourney should show more strength this year because several of the men from last year's varsity baseball squad may be available. The date for the softball entries has been set at April 23rd. On that date all entry blanks should be turned in to the intramural desk.
Correction
The statement on yesterday's sports page that the Kansas-Missouri game on the 1945 football schedule may be moved from Kansas City to Columbia was in error. Today we are informed that if the game is transferred, it will be played i nLawrence.
Freezing Temperature Injures Fruit Trees; Late Plants Unhurt
The peaches, plums and apricots have been damaged by the low drop in temperature Deal Six, Douglas county farm agent said this morning. The mercury dropped to a low of 26 in some parts of Lawrence last night and C. J. Posey, Co-operative weather observer, reported his lowest temperature reading at a scant 29.
The freeze did not injure the apple or pear orchards. The pears were not in full bloom and a check of some of the local apple orchards seemed to indicate that the trees had not been damaged. "We hope that our apple trees stood the freeze in good shape," Mrs. W. E. Koehring commented, "however, we won't be able to know definitely about our crop for 10 or 12 days."
BUY U.S. WAR BONDS
JAYHAWKER
Shows: 2:30-7-9:15
NOW — Ends Saturday
Feature: 2:50-7:05-9:35
DOROTHY McGUIRE • JAMES DUNN
JOAN BLONDELL • PEG@Y ANN GARNER
TED DONALDSON • LLOYD NOLAN
SUNDAY — One Week
Alumni-Varsity Game Winds Up Practice
The annual spring alumni-varsity football contest will be held Friday, April 13, at Haskell stadium, var-u sity coach Henry Shenk announced this morning. The game will start at 8 p.m.
George Dick will be in charge of the alumni squad, which will consist for the most part of players who are still on the campus and are ineligible for varsity football.
Nelson Heads D.U. Officers
Bentley Nelson, freshman in the School of Medicine, was elected president and Willard Reeder, sophomore in the School of Engineering and Architecture, was elected secretary-treasurer of Delta Upsilon last night.
The University of Illinois has asked for priorities to equip the University airport with a new lighting system.
Coach Shenk has not determined who will start for the varsity five, although he has promised to give the alumni a real battle. The Jayhawks will wind up spring practice with the game, which will serve to show Coach Shenk who the most promising candidates are.
COMING
Music Week Festival
University Concert Course Extra Attraction
Composer of
THE STUDENT PRINCE • THE
NEW MOON • MAYTIME • THE
DESERT SONG • BLOSSOM TIME
and the new Broadway smash
hit "up IN CENTRAL PARK"
60 ARTISTS 60 including a CONCERT ORCHESTRA
featuring
Lorna Bryon
Ann Andre
Victoria Schools
Hoch Auditorium Wednesday Evening April 11 8:20 o'clock
Seats now selling at
$3.00, $2.50, $2.00, $1.50, $1.00
Tax included
at
Round Corner Drug Company K.U. School of Fine Arts Bell Music Company