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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1944
Jayhawks Gird For Denver Tilt Friday Night
Improving rapidly but with many more bridges to cross, Henry Shenk's Kansas Jayhawks journey to the mile-high city of Denver next Friday night to help the Denver Pioneers open their 1944 football season.
The Kansans will be out for revenge, for coach Clyde Hubbard's charges have bowled them over twice in the past two years, last fall by the humiliating score of 19-6. The Pioneers will be fielding one of their best teams in years, as indicated by an intrasquad workout held last Friday night.
A threat to a Kansas victory may come in the form of the passing of Ray Harkins, former Duquesne back now stationed at Lowry Field, Denver. On the receiving end probably will be Lerton Krushas, former West Michigan Stater also stationed at Lowry Field. Denver is heralded as the only college football team in the country to have army officers as part of their squad. A number of men, in addition to the two mentioned above, are working out with the team, enrolling in enough college courses to make them eligible. To Drill on Pass Defense
Kansas coach Henry Shenk will drill his boys this week on an improved pass defense. Jayhawk backs performed well against TCU last Saturday, but there is still room for improvement. Charlie Moffett, fleet K.U. half-back was a stand-out against the Horned Frogs and is certain to get the starting call next Friday if his
Charles Moffett elbow injured in the TCU game heals in time.
After facing TCU's famed inverted "T" for sixty minutes last Saturday the Crimson and Blue are almost certain to meet it right side up when they take the field against the Pioneers. Denver has always been interested in the "T", and with the powerful backfield they are capable of fielding this fall, coach Hubbard will undoubtedly find it to his advantage to continue along the same lines.
Practice Shows Good Results
In their fast intra-squad game last weekend, the Red squad, comprised mostly of veterans, most of whom will start against Kansas on Friday, ran their plays from such a formation with very good results as they took the measure of a more inexperienced White squad, 26-6. Although this will be the Pioneers' first game of the season, Shenk will know a little more about what to prepare for, as Ray Kanehl, K.U. track coach, scouted the workout at Denver on Friday night.
Wittig, Navy Pharmacist,
Changed to West Coast
G. W. Wittig, Chief Pharmacist Mate of the U.S. Naval Training School, will leave soon for the west coast, it was announced by Lt. T. R. O'Hara, executive officer.
Whittig came to his post here Dec. 20, 1943, serving as an assistant in the medical department. He is to be replaced by Pharmacist William D. Fernandez, U.S.N.
Geltch to Play at Maryville
Waldemar Geltch, head of the violin department, will give a recital at Missouri State Teachers College in Maryville, Mo., tomorrow. Miss Allie Merle Conger will accompany him at the piano.
Sportorials
By Earl Barney
The Detroit Tigers, looking more and more like a shoow-in for the American League 1944 pennant winner, move into Philadelphia today to open a three game series with the A's that may decide the 1944 race. The St. Louis Brownns remained one game behind the leaders as they rallied in the ninth to take a 3-2 decision over the Quaker City entry.
With the Yanks now $4 \frac{1}{2}$ games behind and only 8 left to play, the race has taken on the appearance of a two team show. The Tigers, however, are given a better than average chance to win, for they have only games left with the A's and the Senators, while the Brown must tangle with the Yanks and Bosox, currently holding down the third and fourth slots respectively.
Hal Newhouser's strong left arm accounted for his 27th league victory as he held the Boston Red Sox to nine scattered hits yesterday afternoon to win, 9-5. It will probably be Dizzy Trout's turn to pitch today, since the two Tiger aces are virtually the entire Detroit pitching staff.
this column still believes that the Browns deserve to win more than any other team, but events of the last few weeks point to an almost certain Tiger title.
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Anyway, here is the dope on the remaining games and current standings:
Take Your Pick!
Ray Evans Sparks SAF To Football Leadership
Games to Play: St. Louis—three with the Red Sox, four with the Yanks; New York—four with the White Sox and four with St. Louis; Detroit—three with the A's and four with the Senators.
One of the many reasons why the second air force football eleven has been swamping all opponents this fall (last week, 78-0) no doubt lies in the person of Ray Evans, former K.U. great now a lieutenant in the army air corps. Evans played two years of varsity football at the University of Kansas before entering the service, being named on the All-Big Six team his junior year.
Kansas football adherents well remember the day Evans completed 18 out of 21 passes as his team lost to Nebraska, and the time he had 18 compitions out of 25 pitches as the Kansans yielded to old Mizzou. His record of 101 completions lead the country's collegians, as did his 60 minute performance in every game. He has another year of competition left at Kansas and hopes to return when peace comes.
His baseball play in the Kansas outfield caught the eye of the New York Yankees, while his basketball prowess won him a position on the all Big Six five as well as a place on the Helm Foundation All American cage outfit.
When Evans broke his left leg while playing football for Wyandotte high school several years ago, his grid careers, everyone agreed, was finished. They were sure of it
The 21-year-old Kansas lad, who was commissioned in June with the last CCS class to graduate at Miami Beach, Fla., says he is "tickled to death to play football for the second air force."
Wallace Kunkel, a former student at the University, has accepted a position with McCann-Erickson Advertising agency, New York, according to a letter received by Prof. Elmer Beth of the department of journalism.
The standings (first three teams):
The standings (first three teams)
Team W. L. Pct. Beh. Play
Detroit 84 63 .571 — 7
St. Louis 83 64 .565 1 7
New York 79 64 .541 $4\frac{1}{2}$ 8
"Tickled to Play" for SAF
Kunkel Takes New Position
He Leads Collegians
two years later when he fractured the same limb on the basketball court. But Evans made them all stare by continuing in his three favorite sports, football basketball and baseball, and becoming out.
RAY EVANS
three. In 1942 he went on record as the outstanding forward passer in the country.
Kunkel was formerly employed by Batten, Barton, Durstine, and Osborne Advertising Agency, in New York.
Medic Softball Title Goes to Phi Betes, 7-6
A seventh inning rally gave the Phi Betas a 7-6 victory over the Phi Chis in the final playoff game last night to decide the School of Medicine's softball championship. The Phi Betas had previously beaten the Nu Sig's in the first round 17-13, the Phi Chi's drawing a bye.
The play-off was the result of a three way tie which had existed among the three teams at the end of their regular season, each house having won two games and lost one. By agreement, the two losing teams will furnish refreshments for the tired players and fraternity brothers.
Servicemen's Letters Indicate Return to KU
If the many letters to Harry O'Kane, student employment counselor, (from men in service) are any indication, 90 per cent of the students will be back to complete their education.
Many of the students are hoping for an early ending of the war so that they can take up their studies before they forget much of that they already have learned. Many are anxious to finish their training quickly so that they can enter business or a profession at the earliest possible moment.
O'Kane receives more than 30 and some times as high as 40 letters a week from former University enrollees who still consider him their counselor.
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AMERICAN HEROES BY LEFF
Cornhusks Provide For New Industry
With every superior officer on the cruiser San Francisco either killed or wounded during the battle of Savo Island, Comdr. Herbert E. Schonland, who was stationed below as damage control officer, sent word to the officer on the bridge to take charge, ending tersely, "I'm too damned busy down here fighting fire and water."
In the September issue of the "Kansas Farmer", an article, "Pottery, Mats, Jewelry and Hats from Kansas Products", was published by Mr. K. W. Davidson, formerly of the department of journalism. In this article Mr. Davidson explained the many unseen possibilities of waste products of agriculture being made into objects of beauty.
One example, was that of corn husks, which can be woven into baskets, floor mats, and many other useful household pieces. Clay was another example, with pottery and costume jewelry as a result of a bit of refinement and manual skill.
"The new industry that is looming on the horizon of the plain states is becoming comparable to the cottage industries in the New England states and in the mountain regions of Kentucky and Tennessee," wrote Mr. Davidson. He also said, "Only the sky and the imagination of the artist constitute any limits in this field."
Dr. Treece to APHA Meeting
We fight beside our Navy heroes if we keep busy buying War Bonds.
Dr. E. L. Treece, associate professor of bacteriology, will leave Thursday to attend the national meeting of the American Public Health Association in New York. The meeting will last three days.
Dr. Cora M. Downs, who is now doing government work in Washington, D.C., also plans to attend the meeting.
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