17, 1941.
women give the
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
NUMBER 127.
38TH YEAR.
LAWRENCE KANSAS FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1941.
Relays Tomorrow
500 Students Come To Hill For Big Day
Those high school students you saw wandering over the campus today are not here for a music or debate contest. They are here for fun.
The first annual Interscholastic Guest day today brought more than 500 boys and girls from 22 towns to take in the relays, a play, a concert, a dance, and coke joints according to the dictates of their consciences.
Tonight they will feast on barbecued beef in Robinson gymnasium at 6 o'clock.
From 7:30 to 9 they will swing out in Memorial Union ballroom to the music of Clayton Harbur. A crew of University students will be on hand to keep up the cutting.
On your way to your 8:30 class, you probably saw the visitors starting on planned tours, each group piloted by Hill students acting as guides.
The most popular expedition included Dyche museum, Snow hall exhibits, Haworth hall exhibits, Engineering building and laboratories, the department of design, and Spooner-Thayer museum.
Besides the relays, activities open to the guests this afternoon included a play in Fraser theater at 2:30, a concert in Hoch auditorium at 4:30, and an opportunity to see the
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Track Stars Here For Annual Meet
BY GABE PARKS
Kansan Sports Editor
A sizeable portion of the nation's ranking track and field stars will be on hand tomorrow afternoon when the nineteenth annual Kansas Relays gets under way at 2 o'clock in Memorial Stadium.
Heading the cast of celebrities will be Earle Meadows, former Southern California pole vaulter, who will give a vaulting exhibition and try for a
University students will be admitted to the Kansas Relays tomorrow upon presentation of their activity books. The south half of the west side of the Stadium will be open to students. There will be no reserved seats.
new worlds' records. Meadows holds the national intecollegiate record at 14 feet 11 inches while Cornelius Wamerdam claims the world title at 15 feet 2-5-8 inches.
Even with Glenn Cunningham absent for the first time in 10 years, the special mile run will command a lot of interest. Four stellar milers who have completed their collegiate competition are slated to run in this event. Ray Harris, lanky Jayhawk runner, will be making his bid for a place among America's top-flight milers in this race. John Munski of Missouri, Mel Trutt of Indiana, and Ralph Schwartzkopf of Michigan complete the featured ensemble.
The decathlon, long a favorite event of fans, will be held this afternoon and tomorrow morning with Clarence Odell, unattached from Hobart, Oklahoma, favored to spread-eagle the field.
Preliminaries in the 120-yard high hurdles and the 100-yard dash will be run off tomorrow morning to thin the entries for the finals tomorrow afternoon.
Twenty-three events are booked for the afternoon. No. 1 will be the high hurdles with Pete Owens of Howard Payne a cinch to lower Fred Wolcott's Relays mark of 14.2 seconds. Myron Piker of Northwestern, and Fred Ramsdell and Carlton Terry of Texas are the class of sprinters who will run the century dash.
Almost every conceivable type of relays event is listed on the program including the half mile college relay, half mile university relay, two mile college relay, two mile university relay, university sprint medley relay, Kansas City, Mo., high school relay, university four mile relay, quarter mile university relay, college distance medley relay, university distance medley relay, invitation college sprint medley relay, junior college sprint
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Competition Runs High Patent Applied For?
The first thing to meet the eyes of visitors to the Marvin hall section of the Engineering Exposition is a student waker-upper invented by the men of Theta Tau, engineering fraternity.
This woodpile Frankenstein is quite similar to something you have never seen before. Everything from mousetraps to a baseball is used in the monster. The operators invite people from the "audience" to sit
in the chair, but as they are always refused, the boys have to demonstrate it on themselves. The student sits in a chair, ties a rope around his forehead, and nods. When he does so, the rope releases a baseball from a can. The ball rolls down a trough, knocks over a set of doors, and rolls down another chute. The weight of the ball pulls the chute
The electrical laboratory in back of Marvin hall is a vast array of motors and gadgets. One of the attractions is a man-power machine. Visitors are invited to crank a generator, to test their strength on the machine which registers from Sweet Pea to Superman.
Inside Marvin, the show becomes a little more sane. The civil engineers have most of the space on the basement and first floor. They have on exhibit the latest in sanitation devices. The civils also have an exhibit on the second floor of model bridges, and a model railway in operation with trucks no more than an inch apart.
display room, and are exhibiting student work in sculpturing, rendering, and model making.
The whole second floor is devoted to aviation, including a model of the Kansas City airport, working parts of planes, and small wind tunnels for making tests.
down which starts an alarm clock ringing. While the alarm rings, a string tightens, causing a doll to drop through a trap door, starting another ball rolling. This ball again shifts the weight of a board causing a board with a huge tack to come up through a hole in the chair.
Show Becomes Saner
The department of architecture students have transformed the senior drafting room into a modernistic
Most of the early visitors were high school students here for the Interscholastic Guest day. They all seemed to enjoy the show, but some of them had a "what-the-hell" look on their faces when they walked away from the Theta Tau show.
KANSAS RELAYS
JOHN MUNSKI - MISSOURI
JACK DEFIELD-MINNESOTA
High School Relays Results
Class B 120-Yard High Hurdles
Won by Ives, Kiowa; second,
Tursman, Moran; third, Hobson,
Baldwin; fourth, Ridgway, Baldwin;
fifth, Parsley, Leon. Time—15.6.
Class A 120-Yard High Hurdles
Won by Kolbohn, Wichita East; second, Grubb, Anthony; third, Franklin, Independence; fourth, Thornton, Winfield, fifth, Windler, Paola. Time -15.5.
Class B 100-Yard Dash
Won by Randall, Ashland; second. McRae, Blue Rapids; third, Guttridge, Cullison; fourth, Jones, Mt. Hope, fifth, Grimes, Ashland Time—10.4.
Class A 100-Yard Dash
Won by Love, Hutchinson; second,
Barkside, Summer; third, Wal-
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Special Kansan On Sale At Stadium Tomorrow
A special edition of the Kansas will be on sale at the Memorial stadium tomorrow at 1 p.m. It will contain the entire relays program, including the results of the high school relays today. Price will be 5 cents.
decker, Hutchinson; fourth, Shannon, Wyandotte; fifth, Johnson, Lawrence. Time: 10.2.
Class B Mile Run
Won by Laing, Burton; second,
R. Morstorf, Emmett; third, Show-
walter, Linwood; fourth, Stecker,
Baldwin; fifth, Kanaga, Derby. Time
—4:47.1.
Class A Mile Run
Won by Leasure, Wichita East; second, Thompson, Wyandotte; third, Bailey, Arkansas City; fourth, Lew- (continued to page five)