RIDAY, JULY 23, 1943
SUMMER SESSION KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE THREE
sport Chatter
By Bob Bock
University men will be glad to ar that the swimming pool in Robyn. Gymnasium will be open from 5:00 to 4:30 on Saturday afternoons, ad from 2:30 to 6:00 on Sunday afternoons. All swimmers are requested to bring their own towels. Job Harrison will be on duty as life hard. It might be well to explain at the water will be kept low for the next two or three weeks because beginning instruction classes are beg given.
If you have been complaining about the heat, just think how you could like it in a heavy, hot football uniform, puffing up and down the field, with the glaring July sun burning down upon you. Then you might top your complaining, for that is just what over 50 Jayhawker football candidates have been doing three times a week. Except that they are not only just puffing up and down the field, but are also doing a lot of contact work, blocking and kicking, and when these practice sessions are over you certainly see a group of dripping, weary gridders as Coach Shenk is really "putting them through the mill."
A large enthusiastic group was present at Dr. Forrest C. Allen'sasketball meeting last Tuesdayat which he showed some movies onsketball fundamentals as demonstrated by the all-victoriousus 1936yhawkers. The first practice session was called for Tuesday afternoon, July 27, at 4:30. A good-sized head is expected out, for basketall enthusiasm here is always great! it is never hard to find boyso want to play—rain or shine,inter or summer. Everyone interested is urged to come out Tuesdayeven complete equipment will be checked out by Dean Nesmith,and immer basketball will really get easier way.
Or. Allen's name again appeared the sport headlines when Hugh lerton, Jr., commented in his arms Roundup that a Spanish rectional leader, who had written to Cox, Colorado U. cage coach De Phog's former students, for formation about his favorite game, ketball, had only to listen when wind was right, and he'd likely
hear some doughboys in Sicily arguing about basketball . . . "Or Phog Allen sounding off on the same subject from Kansas."
Dr. Allen was a good friend of Louis Lower, the Kansas City Municipal Auditorium manager who was slain by a self-appointed traffic director who regrets that he happened to kill "a big shot." Phog had been closely associated with Lower in the direction of the N.C.A.A. sectional and national basketball championships held in the Auditorium.
Recently, Esquire conducted a poll as to "the six greatest sporting events of the twentieth century," and the official summary of the replies affords a grand opportunity for controversy, if you feel so inclined. But maybe you'd better see—if you haven't already—the official chart:
1. The Jack Dempsey-Gene Tunney ("long count") fight in Chicago, September 22, 1927.
2. Bobby Jones's grand slam of the four major golf titles in 1930.
3. Jesse Owens' three firsts in the 1936 Olympic games.
4. Deciding game of the 1926 world series, in New York, when Grover Alexander struck out Tony Lazzeri with the bases full, as the Cardinals won the championship.
5. Babe Ruth's "called" homer against the Clubs in the 1932 world series in Chicago.
6. Red Grange's five long runs for touchdowns for Illinois against Michigan at Urbana, Ill., October 18, 1924.
Lt. Charles E. Fairman, who played a guard position on the Kansas State football teams in '38, '39, and '40, was killed in a plane crash last week near the Sedalia, Mo., airport. Wilmeth Sidat-Singh, former University of Syracuse football star, and Nile Kinnick, Iowa University's All-American, also have met their deaths in plane crashes. The University of Iowa "T" club has started a memorial scholarship fund in honor of Kinnick.
Chauncey Simpson who has moved up to replace Don Faurot as the University of Missouri football coach has outlined a summer practice schedule of three workouts a week, starting in August, to guard the Tigers Big Six championship. Missouri has early season games with Minnesota and Ohio State. Whether Simpson will have all—or no—experienced players depends on the navy.
M.M.'s Are Ahead In Softball
A softball game between a team of machinists mates and a picked all-star team from members of seven other aggregations will be played in South park tomorrow night. Such a game is to be a feature of the softball league play which is under the sponsorship of Chief Starkey of the naval training station.
Six of the nine teams in the league are made up of men from the Hill. Games are played each Tuesday and Wednesday nights, with round-robin play scheduled to be completed early in September. The machinists mates team, which is leading the league, consists entirely of enlisted men from the K.U. ship, the Navy (Ship's Company) team has both officers and enlisted men in its personnel, and the aviation cadets are just what
If naval aviation cadets reservists now in school are called to active duty, only green 4-F men and boys under 18 will remain.
the name implies. The "K.U. Boys" are mainly University students, with other men on the playing list. The roster of the Irish Rascals is made up of Lawrence men, the SOW team consists of men who work at the ordnance plant, and the Haskell team comes from Haskell Indian Institute.
Two teams of V-12 men are entered in the league, titled the Atlantic and Pacific fleets corresponding to the geographical location of the units from which the men come. The Atlantic team comes from men living in the Beta house, Templin hall, Phi Gam, or Phi Delt houses, and the Pacific team from men in the Phi Psi, Kappa Sig, D.U., and Sigma Nu houses.
Standings as of today:
W. L. Pct.
Machinists Mates ... 2 0 1.000
Irish Rascals ... 2 0 1.000
K.U. Boys ... 1 1 .500
Haskell ... 1 1 .500
V-12 Pacific ... 1 1 .500
S.O.W. ... 1 1 .500
V-12 Atlantic ... 1 1 .500
Aviation Cadets ... 0 2 .000
Ship's Co. ... 0 2 .000
A square foot of tempered glass can withstand a pressure of sixty pounds to a square inch.
First Cage Practice On Next Tuesday
Basketball practice will start Tuesday, July 27, at 4:30 p.m., according to Dr. F. C. Allen, basketball coach. All civilian and V-12 students who are interested are to come out then, he added.
Dr. Allen said yesterday that a game with the Great Lakes team to be played Feb. 5 in the Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City is the only one scheduled as yet. The rest of the games will be decided on in September. The Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association, commonly known as the Big Six, will be functioning this year.
For the information of V-12 men, the teams making up the Big Six are Iowa State, Nebraska U., Missouri U., Oklahoma U., Kansas State, and K.U. Besides the five Big Six games that will be played here the schedule will include games with nearby colleges.
A film, "Basketball Fundamentals" was shown Tuesday night to the civilian students interested in basketball.
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