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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1942
FROM THE SIDELINES by Alan B. Houghton
Busiest man on Mt. Oread today is Bill Hargiss, Kansas track coach and manager of the twentieth Kansas Relays. A few of his duties are: getting and instructing officials for the interscholastic meet tomorrow and the collegiate events Saturday, having the University track put in condition, and lining up a Jayhawk track squad of his own . . . Bill looks for record performances in most of the events. While the field is smaller than last years, Hargiss believes the caliber of the contestants is better than any that has been assembled for the Relays for a number of years.
A powerful four mile relay that will be entered in the college class is that from Cornell College of Mt. Vernon, Iowa. The quartet is composed of Solmitz, Wilson, Orms, and Clutterham, and their coach is none other than the indomitable Glenn Cunningham who will be referee for the big track and field carnival Saturday . . . All four members of this crack relay team are sophomores and should break plenty of records in the next two years should the war allow them to run intact that long. Star of the Cornell squad is Dave Clutterham (whose name, coincidentally, rhymes with Cunningham's). He has been blazing new records up Iowa way all year in distances all the way from the mile to the cross-country run.
Returning to the Relays this year will be Indiana's high-geared middle-distance star, Campbell Kane. He is national intercollegiate half mile champion. Should Oklahoma's super-charged medley relay team hook up with Indiana in Saturday's races, the Sooner's Bill Lyda and Dick Smethers should give Kane and Paul Riley of the Hoosier crew a hot time right up to the finish.
On Colorado's track squad will be two men who blazed glory paths on high school cinder tracks throughout the state of Kansas. Verne Lockhard, Buff weight man, won the Kansas high school discus crown at the state meet at Emporia in 1938. Besides being a football and track star for Colorado, he also excels in a scholastic way . . . Lockhard's teammate is Dick Shakeshaft of Topeka. In the 1938 state track meet he took fourth in the low hurdles; his running partner, Don Pololl, carried off the high hurdles crown that day. This Saturday Shakeshaft for Colorado and Polloll for Kansas will probably be matching strides over the sticks in the preliminaries, at least.
Ralph Graham, former Kansas State football stalwart, who has resigned his position under "Bo" McMillin at Indiana to assume the athletic directorship of Wichita University, must not have very high regard for the athletic fortunes at the Kansas school . . . He believes that the athletic situation at Wichita U. is at low ebb, that it isn't unusual for fights to break out in the middle of a football game with the players, fans, and coaches entering into the fun with flats, bottles, or any other available weapons . . .
He says that Kansas is a red hot football state and the boys out this way hate to have a loser, Graham
Vault Mark May Fall Saturday
With the receipt of entrance blanks from Wisconsin University, University of Kansas relays officials are putting the final touches on plans for the Twentieth Annual Relays to be held in Memorial Stadium, and are now hoping for fair weather to assist some of the most spirited and classy competition in recent years.
Heading the Wisconsin delegation will be Bill Williams, ace pole vaulter, who with Harold Hunt of Nebraska, Jack DeField of Minnesota, not to mention Missouri's Billy Rothwell and Nebraska's Howard Debus, is expected to put on one of the finest vaulting shows ever seen in this section of the country.
Williams and Defield tied for the K. U. Relays championship last year at 13 feet on a blustery day so windy that it kept the great Earl Meadows, former world's record holder here for an exhibition of his speciality, to a vault of a little over 13 feet.
Both have been going consistently over 14 feet this year, as has Williams. Hunt won the Texas relays event with a leap of over 14 feet and DeField was second only to Cornelius Warmerdam in the Millrose games in New York, with a vault of 14 feet even.
Wisconsin's Bob Bierle, ace weight man, is expected to put on a stirring battle with Missouri's giant Elmer Aussieker, and Minnesota's Ray Milberg. All three heavens have been tossing the shot out around the 50 foot marker and with a fair day, of-
Another event which is being anticipated with a great deal of interest is the high jump, featuring Oklahoma A. & M.'s Don Boydston, winner of the event in 1940 at the Kansas games. He will be back this year to attempt to regain his garlands which were won with a leap of 6 feet 6 inches. Boydston has done 6 feet 8 inches this spring. Chief competition is expected to come from Milne of Michigan State. The Kansas relay's record is 6 feet 7-9-16 inches set by Gil Cruter, of Colorado, in 1338.
sees the remedy to abolish fisticuffs at the Wheatshocker stronghold in a winning football team. He has intimated that he already has some prospective players lined up; they will be able to take the field in their frost year at Wichita as there is no conference rule forbidding yearling from varsity competition there
One of the most interesting duels of the day is expected to be in the sprint medley between Oklahoma's fast stepping quartet, and Indiana's four man combination. The Hoosiers won the event last year and in accomplishing the feat set a new relay's mark of 3:25.2. Two of the members of last year's winning combination, Campbell Kane, national intercollegiate half mile king, and Paul Riley, are on the team this season.
ficials are looking for an approach to the record of Elmer Hackney who established the Kansas Relay's mark of 52 feet 1 1-2 inches in 1939.
Included in the university class are University of Arkansas, Iowa State, Oklahoma A. & M., Oklahoma University, Minnesota, Marquette, Michigan State, Missouri, North Texas State of Denton, Texas, Kansas State, Nebraska, Wichita, Illinois, Wisconsin, and the University of Kansas.
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College class entries include Fast Texas State Teacher of Commerce, Prairie View State College of Prairie View, Texas, Oklahoma Baptist, North Park College of Chicago, Nebraska State Teachers, Kansas State Teachers College of Pittsburg, Emporia State, Cornell College of Mt. Vernon, Iowa; Ottawa University, Washburn, and Mt. Valley. In the junior College class, entries have been received from Garden City, ElDorado, Ft. Scott, Coffeyville, and Iola.
Missing this year for the first time since the relays were established are Northwestern and Iowa, always strong contenders for both individual and team championships.
The Kansas City, Mo., high school relay has drawn entries from seven schools: East, Southwest, Northwest, Manual, Northeast, Paseo, and Central.
Among the individual performers who are expected to attract the attention of the spectators and visiting coaches are Grimes, Ashland speedster, who copped three firsts in the class B division of the Anthony relays, Fiendt, Wichita East weight specialist, Shimel, Hutchinson, last year's champion in the interscholastic carnival 440 yard dash, and Waldecker, Hutchinson sprinter, who placed in the 100 yard event in 1941. Grimes paced the class B field at Anthony for garlands in the 100, 220, and 440 yard dash events. He was outstanding at K.U. last year when he placed fourth in the class B century dash and copped the 440.
One of the most outstanding fields in the history of the Interscholastic track and field meet to be held in connection with the twentieth annual relays has been entered this year.
Among the class A entries, squads with the best chances of coping school honors, are likely to be Wichita East, winner of the annual invitational meet held last week at Anthony; Wichita North, runner up to their city rivals in the Anthony carnival; Wyandotte, city champion of Kansas City, Kansas; Topeka, and Hutchinson.
Other stars who will be in the spotlight among the interscholastic performers will include Ray Thompson Wichita North, whose specialty is the broad jump; Ed Williams, Iola, who is reported to be tossing the javelin around the 200 foot marker; Jack Meade, Abilene pole vaulter who placed high in the 1941 carnival; Bob
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Vandeventer, Topeka weight tosser; and Jack Grim, Wellington, who tossed the shot over 48 feet in the Anthony meet and has been doing around 50 all season.
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