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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1942
Bandy - legged Milo Farnet brought Kansas its only pointers at the Drake Relays Saturday with a second in the javelin. He threw the shaft 192 feet 4 inches. At the Kansas Relays he tossed the javelin 185 feet 7 inches for second honors. He was beaten both times by Travis Cook of West Texas State . . . Farnet's performances at these two track carnivals mark him as the top spear thrower in the Big Six. Barring unforeseen mishaps, he should bring back first for the Jayhawk thinclads in the javelin throw from the Big Six meet in Lincoln next month . . . Don Pollom, who intended to run the 440 yard low hurdles at Drake, didn't get to compete in that event. As it turned out, the race was invitational, and Roy Cochran, ex-Indiana runner now wearing the colors of the Great Lakes Naval Training school, covered the barriers in 52.2 to clip 4 seconds off the old world record.
No Double Header
Although Kansas and Missouri were rained off the baseball field yesterday, they will clash in only one game today before the Tigers leave for home. It seems there is a Big Six ruling which states two seven inning ball games will be played on Saturday only when the Friday contest is postponed . . . No mention is made concerning double headers during the week, but because the rule was made to prevent conference schools playing twin contests on Friday, which would call starting the game before classes were over, it seems apropos to apply it in this particular case . . .
What the officials overlooked was the fact the double header rule was made by standard time. Under war time, the games could be started as usual at 3:30, and it would still be light late enough to stage two frays.
Formula For Fame
Lawson Robertson, who with Kansas track mentor, "Bill" Hargiss, and other outstanding cinder path experts, believes the tire shortage will produce better track men (make 'em walk more), has his own idea of what a successful thinclad should look like . . . Robertson, Penn track coach who tutored the United States squad to victory in the 1936 Olympics at Berlin, contends that you must have a "dirty" face, in a sallow sense, to be a great athlete . . . "Whenever a boy with pink cheeks reports to me," Robertson once said, "I have misgivings as to his potential ability. I like youth with a face devoid of color, one that you might call sallow—I call it dirty. Look at Fred Wolcott, Gregg Rice, Glenn Cunningham, and all the other great runners. None of them has rosy cheeks."
Here's a case of close army-navy co-operation.
The military dep't. of the University of California is giving a course in International Morse Code which is so crowded with navy reservoirs that ROTC students can't enroll.
So many students wished to take the course, given without university credit, that a priority system had to be worked out.
Rockhurst Is Foe Of Jays Thursday
Kansas' baseball team, which squares off against Missouri on the local diamond today in the Jayhawks' Big Six opener, will play Rockhurst College here at 3:30 Thursday afternoon.
In what is heralded as a pitcher's duel, coach Forrest C. "Phog" Allen's nine, with veteran Carl Forrest "Knute" Kresie on the mound, tangles with last seasons Big Six champions, Missouri, for whom Bill "Bobo" Spencer will hurl.
Today's game is the third conference contest for Missouri. The Bengals have split a pair with Kansas State, winning a 1-0 decision and dropping one game 3-0. In nonconference competition, Kansas has lost two close decisions to a veteran Ft. Leavenworth crew 3-1 and 8-7. Outside the Big Six Missouri had dropped Washington of St. Louis 10-0 and Central College 6-0 while losing to Jefferson Barracks 8-6. John Golson, Blaine Carr. Earl Con-
John Golson, Carry, Carl Corman Against Missouri's green infield of klin and Chris Fehr, Kansas will throw an experienced air tight fielding quart of John Krum, Marshall Hulett, Del Green, and T.P. Hunter. Behind the plate—Missouri with Ken Quevreaux and Kansas with Warren Hodges—will be two of the top-notch catchers of the conference.
Both teams depend on veteran material for the outfield. Patrolling the outer limits for the Tigers will be Russell Hoffman, Herb Gregg, and Jim Dimitriades. Doing fly chasing chores for the Jayhawks are Dean Martin, Larry Johnston, and Bob Innis.
Army Recruits Below Standard Says DeGroot
BY JACK WERTS
"The young men that are coming into the army are way below standard physically," states Second Lieutenant E. B. DeGroot, Jr., former University instructor who now is director of physical training in the U. S. 4. Air Force, in a letter to Dr. F. C. Allen, director of physical education and recreation at the University.
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DeGroot came to the University in 1939 as an instructor in physical education. He is a graduate of Stanford University, where he was outstanding as a pole vaulter on the track team.
He asserts that the physiques, the vigor, and the general appearance of physical fitness of all German youths was amazing. He did not refer to the athletes, but to all the young men he saw throughout Germany, both in uniform and civilians.
DeGroot backs his statement with a comparison. In the letter he draws a comparison between the physical condition of our student pilots and that of German youth from observations he made in Germany in 1938.
"The contrast of the general run of our school youth with those of Germany is distressing, to say the least." DeGroot contends. To further prove his point the director's letter states that he has seen thousands of recruits in air force recruit camps during the last nine months, and the general physical condition, the muscular development and the performance ability of these American youths is nothing to be proud of.
Physical education classes cannot
rectify the physical defects revealed in the draft examinations, says another part of the letter, because 4 per cent of the disqualifications are defective teeth, eyes and ears.
"It may be within the province of instructional hygiene to initiate the correction and to follow-up on the correction of such defects," the letter continues, "but how many schools and how many physical educators conduct a really vital academic course in hygiene which produces tangible results?"
DeGroot emphasizes the fact that physical educators in our high schools, colleges and communities must do the job of developing and maintaining a strong and completely physically fit youth.
He contends that even if the time devoted to physical conditioning in the army were tripled it is not hard to realize that such an act would not be sufficient to develop the type of physical condition desired, if the individual has not had years of physical developmental background.
Types of activities that the army is particularly advocating for its flying officers are those which will develop and maintain general all-around endurance or fitness, which involves a great deal of running.
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