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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1943
As A Speaker, He's A Fine Halfback Watered Notes Ruined Evans
Bv MARY MORRILL
Ray Evans will never write another speech. Last November he worked for hours on an oratorical effort to be delivered before the student body of his old alma mater, Wyandotte high school in Kansas City, Kansas. He practiced behind barred doors and wrote a detailed outline in ink.
then came the great evening and tragedy. Just before his dinner program a girl beside him spilled her
Then came the great evenin part on the after dinner progra water. Ray's notes ran to the' point of illegibility. He took the soaked papers to the stage with him, but he could neither read them, nor remember what they said. It was his most embarrassing moment.
The next day Kansas City papers remarked about how the students had cheered wildly even though "as a speaker Evans proved to be a much better football player."
Administrative Work Interests
Twenty-year-old Ray has three brothers and two sisters. He is a business major and is interested in some sort of administrative work which involves handling men after graduation and the war. Although he would rather play football, basketball, or baseball than do anything else in the world, Ray has
never seriously considered coaching
he can never remember being more exuberant than he was last fall when the Phi Delt's were playing a championship baseball game against the Pfugerville Pflashes. In the 12th inning he lammed one out which ended the hotly contested battle. As he crossed home plate, he was so happy he turned a hand-spring.
RAY EVANS-GUARD
Mother Doesn't Watch
Mrs. Evans has never seen her son play either football or basketball. She doesn't want to, and Ray
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isn't encouraging her. Once back in Wyandotte Ray's older brother was injured on the football field. Mrs. Evans was at the game and before her son could be carried out she had sprinted down from the bleachers, across the field, and was holding his head in her lap on the 35-yard line.
Two honors have thrilled Ray more than any of the host of others he has received. The first was making the all-state football and basketball teams during his senior year in high school (not even being on the third All-American football team this season overshadows it). The second was being crowned Per King of the university at the Jay Janes' Vice Versa last fall. Ray still has the crown and the gallon of gasoline he was awarded for winning the latter honor hidden away in his closet.
Ray takes his training very seriously—in fact he hasn't broken it for 13 years when, at the tender age of seven while out with "the boys" on a picnic, he smoked his first and last cigarette. It made him deathly ill.
No Casanova
Until his senior year in high school Ray was a rabid woman hater. Then he broke his foot playing basketball and had time to throw away so his friends jeased him into
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Kansas State Takes 7 Losses In 7 Starts
Kansas State stretched its Big Six losing streak to seven losses in seven starts Wednesday night at Lincoln where the Nebraska Cornhuskers defeated the Wildcats 50-47 in an overtime basketball game. The game had gone into the overtime period with the score at 43-all.
Bob Heinzelman, Husker guard, was the game's leading scorer with 14 points.
Students Asks For Varsity Ball Team
Heading the list were some of last year's starters: Warren Hodges, Delmar Green, Pody Brumback, and others. Ray Evans has also signed. This is the first year that Evans has reported for varsity baseball. Last year as a sophomore he pitched the Phi Delt's to an intramural softball championship. Evans is one of the best baseball players Kansas City has ever turned out, according to many of the City's experts.
Varsity baseball may be played this spring if the number of students interested is any indication. At noon today 40 students had signed a petition asking the University to organize a baseball team.
If the University does decide to sponsor the team, Dr. F. C. "Phog" Allen will coach it. Bryce Kresie, kid-brother of Knute Kresie, last year's star pitcher, has added his name to the list. Some say that Bryce can show Knute some tricks with the horsehide.
In the only intramural basketball game played last night, Battenfeld hall defeated Theta Tau in a low scoring affair, 24 to 15. Sigma Phi Epsilon forfeited to Sigma Alpha Epsilon and the Beta Theta Pi B team won by a forfeit over John Moore co-op.
Sig Alphs, Betas Win By Forfeits
No games are scheduled for tonight, thus giving the teams an opportunity to practice for the playoffs, which will begin next week.
The respective champions of Divisions I and II will be determined in two games to be played Tuesday night immediately after the Nebraska-Kansas varsity game. Phi Delta Theta will tangle with Beta Theta Pi for the Division I championship, while at the same time Phi Kappa Psi and Phi Gamma Delta are playing for the top honors in Division II. These teams finished the regular schedule and were tied for the lead
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Shucks, it's happening everywhere. The Oklahoma Daily has a woman sports editor. But cast aside your fears, this is only a temporary arrangement.
Headline of the Week
"Kansas May Fall Before Iowa State . . . We Hope." Quoted from the Daily Nebraskan. Didn't they forget themselves for a minute? We still have Johnny Buescher.
Ray Evans is being threatened by Dean Nasmith, trainer, who insists that any player who made as many shots as Evans did at the Iowa State game and failed to hit the basket once should be thrown off the team.
Evan's Defense
"You're mistaken," answered Evans. "I shot three times and made four baskets."
Honor for Allen
Coach Allen was named last week by the Helm's Foundation as the nation's outstanding basketball coach. He manages to keep K. U. basketball in the limelight.
By the way, Phog Allen spoke to the Stillwater Quarterback club at noon on the day of the Oklahoma Aggies game, and in his own words, really gave them hell. He said, "Henry Iba is a man who keeps his word, but sometimes it is hard to get him to give his word." He also told them how disgusted everybody up here was after the Aggie game in January.
To continue with beefing about the Oklahoma Aggies, Allen claimed that the Aggies publicity man who, although he had been told otherwise, sent out in his press releases that Black would play, and upped the height of the Kansas players—now Schnellbacher has attained the stature of 6 feet 4.
My, Otto, How You've Grown!
Professional Jealousy
Again from the Daily Nebraskan comes the interesting paragraph, "Next time KU invades the coliseum, we suggest making a direct hose connection between the nearest faucet and Dr. Allen's mouth." The Daily Nebraskan assigned two sports staff members (so they say) to carefully count the pints of water consumed by Phog. The total was 22 pints, according to their count.
Kansas is still a dry state.
Draftees Down Vinland With Large Score
The Draftees defeated Vinland 60-28 in the Lawrence Community Basketball league game last night at the Community building. The Paper Mill team also downed the F.A. A. 29 to 17.
Tonight Haskell will play Navy at the Community building, and the
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