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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1944
From the Sidelines By Bob Bock. Kansan Sports Editor
Kansas should have more trouble in defeating the Olathe Clippers in their return game at Olathe Monday night than in whipping the Missouri Tigers in the Big Six opener at Columbia Saturday. Last Monday night Olathe trounced Rockhurst College, 59 to 27, the largest margin the latter has been defeated this season. However, the young Hawks were playing their first game without their star junior center, Tom Drainey, who has entered the Navy V-12 as a medical student at Creighton. Thus Rockhurst has an entire freshman starting lineup.
This was the sixth victory in seven starts for Olathe, who were also handicapped as their coach, Lt. Marty Peters, was confined to the Naval hospital. Last night the Clippers scored a 47 to 38 victory over the same Pittsburg Teacher aggregation the Jayhawks defeated here Monday night, 35 to 21. It looks like next Monday night's game should be a tosse-up, with Olathe having the advantage of playing on their home court.
However, Missouri is another matter and the Jayhawks are definitely a clear cut favorite. Although the Tigers are always tough on their own court, their exhibition against little Westminster College last night in which they barely eked out a 32 to 30 triumph, was hardly impressive. Kansas was badly off form in their game against Missouri at Kansas City last week which they won, 14 to 27. The Jayhawks are determined to start their Big Six campaign with a decisive win over the Tigers.
C. E. (K.C. Star) McBride states that you can hardly blame Ad Lewandowski, basketball coach at Nebraska, for looking longingly at the playing talent among the Army trainers at the University. Twenty-two players of basketball from 14 states, nine of the 22 with varsity experience.
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Louis Menze, former Central High (K.C.Mo.), is off on his 16th coaching season at Iowa State. Besides Price Brookfield, tall former West Texas State star, Menze's Cycloneoster also includes Ray and Roy Wehdhe and Gene Oulman, lettermen; Lyle Naylor of Drake; Bob Wade of Washington, St. Louis; and Lloyd Kester, forward, who was on ast year's frost team.
At Iowa State, George F. Veenker, head of the physical education department, has announced that compulsory physical education for men has been abolished there.
It will be replaced by a program under which all such training will be on a voluntary and competitive sports basis, Veenker said.
He added, "One handicap to our policy of carry-over habits in sports has been the antagonism of students to the 'required' element in physical education. We feel that we can on a voluntary basis accomplish at least as much, and probably more, than we have in the past on a required basis.
"In the future, rather than a 'big muscle' program, we want a program of enjoyable physical education and athletics with social values both while in college and after graduation."
The new program, which goes into effect tomorrow, will include bowling, basketball, boxing, calisthenics, handball, track, volley ball, and winter sports.
According to Jack Copeland of the Wichita Beacon:
Apparently Wichita basketball fans believe that Kansas University was in the wrong for cancelling the second game with
Hutchinson Naval. Several of the better informed customers took time out Sunday to let us have their views on the subject and at least 90 per cent of 'em were opposed to the Kansas move. Chief "beef" concerned the fact that Hutchinson Naval had fulfilled her obligation by playing at Lawrence and that it was only fair for Kansas to return the game at Hutchinson before the boys in the Navy.
Naturally, there are two sides to the argument. Kansas claims that the Hutchinson team was too rough for the collegians. Yet Hutchinson coach Lt. Bill Hennigh has told friends here that the rough stuff did not start until the Navy team had a 12-point edge. It is Hennigh's contention that Kansas was guilty of starting the rough stuff.
"It doesn't seem plausible that we would start getting rough when we had a big lead," Hennigh observed. "Kansas was trying to catch us and their play got out of line."
Lack of Snow Spoils Fun
Recently Hutchinson evened the score with the Norman NAS 45 to 37. Last week the Oklahoma Sooners defeated their cross town rivals by a similar margin so it appears that the Sooners and Hutchinson are much on a par.
Owing to lack of snow, skiing and ice skating classes at the University of Colorado may have to be postponed, the Silver and Gold announced.
Big Bodies Don't Mean Big Brains Alligators and crocodiles have the smallest brains in proportion to their size of any living creature.
VARSITY LAST TIME TONITE "SO THIS IS WASHINGTON" "SUBMARINE BASE"
THURSDAY—3 Days
AST Team Meets K-State AST's
1000 Thrills as the Trapped Tigers Turn on Their Tormentors FRANK BUCK In "TIGER FANGS"
2nd Hit
The University of Kansas ASTP basketball team will play the Kansas State ASTP quintet Saturday night in Hoch Auditorium in a basketball game starting at 7:30 o'clock.
Slapping Leather! Slingin' Lead! As They Make the Law Russell Hayden, Fuzzy Knight "Frontier Law"
Both fives have defeated their respective "college brothers" as the Kansas Jayhawks were defeated by the soldiers, 38 to 23, in a pre-season game as part of Homecoming festivities. Another game between the two teams will be played soon, but the date has not been set. The Lindley Hall boys are led by Ted Bean, who scored 22 points against the varsity. Bean starred for Valparaiso University last year and received honorable mention for his outstanding play in the national intercollegiate basketball tournament at Kansas City. Tracy Stephenson, Champaign, Ill., sparkplugs the K.U. army five, playing the quarterback position. John Collins, former all-state high school star at Elden, Mo., is another big gun in the K.U. ASTP attack.
The Kansas State ASTP boys hold a victory over the youthful Kansas State Wildcats, 42 to 30. Their team boasts several members of the last year Aggie squad.
The admission price is 25 cents to all.
Dr. Allen Sworn In On Service Board
Dr. F. C. Allen became a member of the Douglas county selective service board yesterday, replacing the Rev. Alfred J. Beil, who resigned Dec. 5. Dr. Allen was sworn in by Bruce Cameron, chairman of the board, following the receipt of his appointment by President Roosevelt.
Immediately after Dr. Allen tool his place as a member in an officia meeting, he was elected secretary an office formerly held by the Rev Dr. Beil. The board must reorganize when a new member is appointed, according to law.
Naval Training Team Bows to Ft. Riley
Suffering from lack of height and experience, the Naval Training school bowed before the Fort Riley Centaurs, 52-29 last night. This is the third defeat to be handed to the Navy team by the Centaurs this season.
Although the Navy men were topped by about four inches per man, they played a much better game than was played against the Olathe Air Base, Chief Yeomar Starkey commented.
The ranks of the Navy team were bolstered by two V-12's, Lyon Williams and Bob Miller. Chief Starkey explained that in future games against outside service teams both Machinists Mates and V-12's would be used, making truly a Naval Training School team.
Workshop Discusses Plans for New Play
Work will begin the first of next week on Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," the Dramatic Workshop decided yesterday at a meeting of its members at 4:30 p.m. in the Little Theater in Green hall. Prof. Allen Cratton of the speech department spoke to the group about the play, which will be the next production of the Workshop.
Burnette Repbogle, College freshman, gave a talk on the art of make-up and demonstrated several of her points.
The group defied to have a party at 7 o'clock next Tuesday night in the Little Theater. Entertainment and refreshments will be served the members. Alice McDonnell is president of the Workshop.
Have to Watch Their Steps
Students who walk on the grass of Bascom hill at the University of Wisconsin will be fined by the student court, according to the Daily Cardinal at the University of Wisconsin.
Congress Paid for Fireworks Congress appropriated money for fireworks to make rain 51 years ago.
NOW—Ends Saturday
Texas Women's College on Air
Texas Women's College on Air (ACP)—WCST, Texas State College for Women's first private broadcasting station, is on the air from 5 to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday. The station is operated by the Radio Work Shop players, technical radio class, and the radio production class.
Americans Eat Soybean Products It was estimated that 75,000,000 Americans ate some foods containing soybean products last year. Such products were included in breads, soup powders, marecarii, breakfast foods, pancakes and similar mixes, and in home cooking.
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(continued from page one) were in progress, Allied bomb craft, operating from Italy, smashed the Sofia-Salonika railway yards and an important bridge 50 miles from the Bulgarian capital.
Continued advances were reported for Allied troops operating on New Britain and New Guinea in the southwest Pacific following repulsion of a savage Japanese counter-attack in the Cape Gloucester area which cost the enemy 200 men.
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haps the worst off. The army inducted them, stuck them in barracks at Rosedale, and promptly forgot all about it. Freezing in their summer mufti in November and without pay for three months, the outraged medics at last demanded some sort of recompensation from Uncle Sam, through the University.
Military Units Demobilized
At 4 a.m. on November 11, 1918, word of the armistice was received, and "military order" was for the moment forgotten. A gradual shortening of rules and regulations became evident, and nearly a month later all military units on the Hill were demobilized, after a rather brief existence.
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NOW ENDS THURSDAY THE Musical WONDER SHOW OF THE YEAR!