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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY. MARCH 25,1941.
RED CROSS LIFE SAVING
EXPERT
WILLIAM T. RANEY William T. Raney, field representative of the American Red Cross, will conduct a life saving course here soon. All interested should attend the meeting at 7:30 tonight in Robinson gym.
NOTES ON the Missouri Valley A.A.U. indoor track meet at Kansas City last night: Ray Harris and Don Thompson, K Club distance men, made a remarkable showing in races against nationally advertised stars . . . Harris edged past Wisconsin's Walter Mehl in the final ten feet of the mile run to take second behind John Munski, while Thompson followed John Borican to the tape in the 1000-yard run.
BORICAN, world champion in the 600 and 1000-yard events, wore two complete warm-up costumes as he limbered up. . . The big grimming Negro shuffled in front of the judges' stand with six-inch steps, chatting with spectators before each race, but after the starters' gun sounded, he waited for nobody.
EARL MEADOWS, Dick Ganslen, and Kenneth Dills drew gasps of admiration from the crowd with their spectacular pole vaulting. . . The slender stars passed until the bar reached 13 feet while Bill Beven, John Michener, and Jim Cordell, K Club entries, held the spotlight. . . But at 13 feet 6 inches, only the champions remained and all three cleared 14 feet on their first attempts. . . After the meet, Meadows told a group of fans, "If you can get your mind over the bar, you'll make it."
BILL HARGISS, chairman of the Missouri Valley Indoor Games committee, had a busy evening directing the meet and keeping an eye on the K Club athletes. . . Ed Elbel was behind the p.a. system mike and James Report was assistant scorer. . . Gwinn Henry, Vic Hurt, Wayne Replogle, and Harry Lansing, the football coaches, got an eyeful of some husky Kansas City high school athletes.
FRED WOLCOTT was hampered by a leg injury and although he won the high hurdles, his time was slow. (continued to more five)
Harris, K-Clubbers Place in AAU Valley Meet
The K club, University athletes competing unattached, made a strong showing in the Missouri Valley A.A.U. indoor track meet held in the Kansas City Municipal auditorium last night in which national and world champions led an assault on meet records.
Leading the K Club entrants were Ray Harris and Don Thompson who scored upsets in the Invitational mile and 1000 yard open to place ahead of favored stars.
Harris renewed an old rivalry with John Munski, the former Missouri runner, but finished second to the M Club entrant, but nipped Walter Mehl, the former Wisconsin star, at the tape.
Borican Approaches Record
Thompson established himself as the local champ in the 1000 yard run by beating everybody but John Borican, the world's record holder.
In placing first in this race Borican scored his second victory of the evening. Previously he had won the 600 yard open in 1:12, approaching his record time of 1:10.2.
J. R. Jones, K Club broadjumper, clear 22 feet $3 \frac{1}{4}$ inches in the finals of that event last night, but two marks established in the preliminaries beat his best effort.
In the open mile relay, a K Club team composed of Don Pollom, Fred Eberhardt, Orlando Epp, and Ken Hamilton finished third to the M Club and Manhattan.
Two K Club Fourths
Other K Club entrants showed up well, but failed to place. Pollom finished fourth in the 60 yard low hurdles and the 2 mile relay quartet finished fourth in its event. Members of the team were Clarence Miller, Al Poznick, Dick Edwards, and Thompson.
Earl Meadows, pole vault world record holder indoors at 14 feet $7 \frac{1}{2}$ inches. Dick Ganslen, former national champion, and Ken Dills, former collegiate champ, all cleared 14 feet. At 14 feet 4 inches Dills dropped out. A new world's record of 14 feet $7 \frac{1}{2}$ inches was attempted by Meadows and Ganslen but both failed.
Begin Swimming Meet Today
Fifteen teams will compete in the preliminary events of the intramural swimming meet which begins at 4:30 today in Robinson gym. Finals will be held Thursday and next Tuesday.
Teams entered are Carruth hall,
Pi K.A., Sigma Phi Epsilon, Sigma Nu,
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Phi Delta
Theta, Kappa Sigma, Delta Chi, Tau
Kappa Epsilon, Phi Gamma Delta,
Delta Upsilon, Sigma Chi, Phi Psi,
Newman club, and Beta Theta $ \mathbf{P}_{\mathrm{i}} $
Kansas Relays Began As Outland's Dream
Thompson Shine
By ORLANDO EPP
Be sure to mark April 19 on your calendar.
For on that day the Kansas Relays, one of the most colorful track and field carnivals in the country, makes its nineteenth appearance in Memorial stadium. $ \textcircled{*} $
It was April 23, 1923, that a star-studded field first participated in the now famous track event. And it all began as the dream of Dr. John H. Outland. Outland, whose home is now in Kansas City, Mo., came to the University in 1893 as a freshman. In his first year of varsity football competition, he lettered as a fullback and a tackle.
But in 1895 he transferred to the University of Pennsylvania and during his student days there, the Penn Relays were founded. It was then that Outland conceived his idea for such an event in the middle west.
In 1920, Doctor Outland returned to the University, and approached Dr. Forrest C. Allen with his idea. Allen was enthusiastic. In the spring of that year, plans were formulated for the beginning of the Kansas Rea-ays and made effective April 23 1923.
Response to the first relays was gratifying. The entire membership of the Missouri Valley conference was present; the Big Ten was represented; several teams from the Southwestern conference sent entries; and a team from Pennsylvania came to the initial performance.
The Kansas squad, coached by Karl Schlademan, won both the 440 yard relay and the half mile relay, also placing high in the other four relay events.
Henry Outlines 1941 Football Prospects
In starting the Kansas Relays, Allen made radio speeches, distributed stickers, and printed a 62-page program in order to promote interest.
Today the Kansas Relays ranks among such famous outdoor track meets as the Penn, Texas, Drake, Colorado, and Illinois Relays.
Better and more deceptive.
That's how Gwinn Henry describes next year's Jayhawker eleven.
If Ralph Miller is available, Kansas will have six capable passers. Holdovers are Marvin Vandaveer and Irven Hayden with Freshmen Ray Evans, Ed Vandaveer, "Tex" Niblo, and Don Ettinger coming up.
Only one regular end, Hub Ulrich, is returning to catch passes. Other wingmen are Ralph Schaake, Bob O'Neil, Paul Turner, Bob Hagen, Dick Wilson, and Herb Curran. The backfield also has a fine crew of pass receivers in Denzil Gibbens, Don Pollom, Greg Studer, Harlan Altman, and Ed Linquist. Fullback will be taken care of by Ralph Childs, Etinger, and Linquist.
Veteran tackles will be W. F, Jack,
Jim Holloway, and Ross Relph with
Grant Hunter, Jim Zimmerman, Bill
Kern, Warren Hodges, and Frank
Baker in reserve.
Gap in Line
Fromising freshman guards are Gene Long, Joe Crawford, Harold Van Slyck, and John Brownell. Center candidates are Walt Sheridan, Dale Lowery, and Bob Githens.
Henry has a big hole to fill in the center of the line with Don Pierce Quido Massare, Jay Kern, and Herb Hartman missing. Returning varsity men at guard are Bob Fluker, Don Hill, and Monte Merkel, who has been shifted from tackle.
Short on Reserves
As in seasons past, Henry's greatest worry will be his shortage of reserve material in spite of an excellent crop of freshmen.
Last Thursday, the squad held its first hard scrimmage. No injuries have cropped up yet and Henry plans to put the team through another stiff scrimmage Thursday or Friday.
Phi Gams Trim Sig Alphs
The Phi Gamma Delta volleyball team, following in the footsteps of their basketball playing brothers, advanced to the quarter-final round of the intramural volleyball play-offs last night, with a 2-1 victory over Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
The next oponent of the Phi Gam's will be the Phi Psi team. The winner of this match will play the Delta Chi's in the semi-finals. The Faculty team has already advanced to the finals.
'Phog' Calls For Hitters
"I want hitters!"
That, in a nutshell, expresses the needs of Dr. F. C. Allen, head baseball coach, concerning his team.
Kansas opens its baseball season against Kansas State in a two game series, April 7 and 8, on the home field.
"I know that there are men in the University who are eligible and who are good hitters," Allen said. "But for some reason they have not reported for practice."
The Big-Six schedule:
April 7-8, Kansas State at Lawrence
April 17-18, Oklahoma at Norman.
April 25-26, Iowa State at Ames.
May 5-6, Missouri at Lawrence.
May 9-10, Missouri at Columbia.
May 12-13, Nebraska at Lincoln.
May 23-24, Kansas State at Manhattan.
May 26-27, Iowa State at Lawrence.
Allen has named the following players as a tentative first team:
Al Wabaunsee, Bob Allen, Knute Kresie, Allen Nipper, Ed Hall, Ramie Beims, John Burge, Steve Meade, John Krum, Bob Homer, Elmo Maiden, Kenneth Dunn, Red Thompson, Dick Pierce, Dean Martin, Milo Munsinger, Bill Atwell, Jerald Boynton, Virgil Wise, Eugene Alford, Larry Smith, and T. P. Hunter.
Table Tennis
★★★
Kansas Is Fifth
The University table tennis team placed fifth in 25 teams at the National Intercollegiate Table Tennis tournament held in Canton, Mn. on Friday and Saturday. Culver-Stockton won the tourney.
Kansas entered two teams with Perry Petterson and Joe Davison the "A" team and Bud Heiberg and David Holmes, the "B" duo. The high spot of the tournament, as far as Kansas was concerned, was the battle Petterson and Davison put up against Illinois before dropping a 2-3 decision.