27, 1941
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1941.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Ted Owen Responsible For New Sore Throat Cure
He Didn't Know It, But---
Norman, Okla., Feb. 27—In the winter of 1937, Ted Owen, veteran trainer of Universit yof Oklahoma sports teams, threw his head back, opened his mouth wide and looking in a mirror, daringly swabbed his own sore throat with nitrophen, an antiseptic he had always daubed on cuts and abrasions.
Owen's had been a particularly troublesome sore throat. None of the ordinary curatives had helped it, and at the time he tried his desperation measure of nitrophen, he didn't realize he was to give a nationally-prominent chemical company an idea for a new medicine that is now healing sore throats of thousands of high school and intercollegiate athletes all over the nation.
Experiments On Sooners
But when he awoke next morning with the soreness in throat entirely gone, Owen decided he had something. Frank Cramer, one of the brothers who operates the Cramer Chemical plant at Gardner, Kan. thought so too when the Sooner trainer later told him about it, and today gives Owen credit for the idea.
Before he told Cramer about it. Owen first experimented with his new discovery on Soone rathletes. But all Sooner sore throats looked alike to nitrophen. Two days treatment were usually enough to kill even the most aggravating cases.
However Owen encountered two serious drawbacks. It was hard to reach all the infected spots in the throat with a swab. Also, nitrophen was so bitter it always gagged the patient. Even a 220-pound tackle wasn't always man enough to hold still and say "Ah!" while Owen lathered his tonsils with the bitter antiseptic.
"You had to dope 'em quick before they could get away from you,' Owen laughs today.
Two Gallons At O.U.
So one day the trainer filled a nose spray with the preparation and began to spray the recalcitrant Sooner throats. This was a definite improvement over the swabbing but still didn't eliminate the gallish taste. Nitrophen simply hadn't been designed for the palate.
Next time Owen saw the Cramers, he told them about his discovery and suggested they flavor the antiseptic to kill its bitterness, and market it as a throat spray or gargle.
They did and two months ago pleasant-tasting nitroton began appearing in training rooms all over the country, curing sore throats in California, Georgia, Wisconsin and New York as well as in Oklahoma.
Sprinters Are Plentiful
Although it can't be purchased at drug stores since it is marketed only through sporting goods houses, Owen hopes his friends with swollen gullets won't pester him for borrowed dosages of the new product.
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souri, who should give him the most trouble, has only recently recovered from the measles and will not be up to par.
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"Our stock at Oklahoma totals just two gallons," he explains, "and it's got to last a year."
Co-captain Darrel Mathes will have plenty of competition in the 60-yard dash with every school in the conference except Iowa State boasting a top-notch sprinter. Don Pollom and Ted Scott are the other Jay-hawk dash entries.
Although they probably can not stay even with Harold Hunt of Nebraska in the pole vault, Bill Beven and Johnny Mitchener, the Jayhawk's vaulting twins, will have plenty to say about who comes in second.
Dick Edwards and Don Thompson
will be two tough men to beat in the mile run and one of them could conceivably win the race. Edwards will also run the two mile and Thompson is slated for the two and half mile runs.
Smutz Is Hurdle Favorite
If Pollom has a good day with the hurdles, he might pick up some points in both the high and low events, but Bill Smutz of Nebraska will likely hit the tape first.
Kansas entries in the meet as announced by Hargiss are:
Mile run—Edwards and Thompson. 60-yard dash—Mathes, Scott, and Pollom.
440-yard dash—Ken Hamilton and Orlando Epp.
2 mile run—Edwards, Thompson and Clarence Miller.
High hurdles—Pollom and Stoland.
880-yard run—Fred Eberhardt,
Al Poznik, and Thompson.
Low Hurdles—Pollom and Sto兰.
Pole vault—Beven, Mitchener, and Jim Cordell.
High jump-Stoland and Sanneman.
Shotput—Ralph Schaake, Larry Finney, and W. F. Jack.
Broadjump—Stoland and Jones.
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(continued from page tour) on the trail of new conference scoring record, will open at his usual slot at forward, with John Kline and Marvin Sollenberger at the sentinels.
Allen withheld most of his regulars from practice sessions yesterday and said that they would continue to see no action until game time Saturday night. Comparatively light workouts are in store for the remaining squadmen.
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AVOID pocketbook penalties--and John Ziegelmeyer, gathering 17 and 13 points respectively Sheridan's scoring spree gave him the point-making leadership of Division I with an average of 10.8 for nine games.
Alph's Climb---and John Ziegelmeyer, gathering 17 and 13 points respectively Sheridan's scoring spree gave him the point-making leadership of Division I with an average of 10.8 for nine games.
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The Alphs won with apparent ease, leading at the half 13 to 3, and then piling up points on a scoring burst of nearly 30 points in the final half. Aubyn, Carruth center, was the standout for the losers with his rebounding and scoring.
Ep's Give Trouble
bringing up last place. Missouri has no swimming team.
Trailing 10 to 9 at the end of the first half, the Pi K.A. five, Bill Atwell sparking the attack, gathered five goals in the final half to defeat an underrated opponent by the small margin of three points. Savely and Kresic starred for the Sig Eps in defeat.
SWIMMERS---
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meet, with Nebraska in third place,
Oklahoma in fourth, and Kansas
Every conference record was broken in the 60-foot pool at Ames last year.
Kansas State scored an upset earlier this season by eking out a win over Iowa State, but Nebraska showed championship calibre by defeating both the Wildcats and Cyclones in duels. This should put Nebraska as new title holder, a fight for second between Iowa State and Kansas State, Oklahoma in fourth place, and Kansas again holding down the rear position.
No K.U. Duel Wins
Kansas failed to register a win in conference competition, dropping two duels to Oklahoma, two to K-State, and one each to Iowa State and Nebraska.
The men who, with coach James Raport, will leave for Lincoln tomorrow are:
220-yard free style: Bill Mackie, Earl Musser.
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