TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1940
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Sports Parade
By Henry McLemore
New York, May 21—(UP)—Charles S. Howard has at last learned that no man can keep on throwing sevens forever. Into every life some snake eyes and box cars must fall.
This time a year ago Howard was Midas in a tweed suit. Everything he touched around a race track brought him gold. Old line stables had been trying for years to win such races as the Santa Anita handicap, the Brooklyn, the Suburban, the Pimlico Special and other classic stakes. They couldn't believe that any one man—without so much as even a breeding farm of his own—could come up with three such
come come up with three such horses as Seabiscuit, Kayak II and Sorteado.
Then, three months ago, when he added Mioland to his string for a paltry $15,000 and won $10,000 of this sum back the first time he sent the Oregon-bred to the post, he appeared to have both the three-year-old and handicap champions under his control.
nings Happen Fast
But things happen fast in racing and now Howard, who must have wondered why these things hadn't happened before, can realize the feeling of Alfred Vanderbilt when Adventurer was killed in a fall; how William Ziegler, Jr., was affected when El Chico stumbled and had to be destroyed; how J. H. Louchheim grieved when Pompoon died suddenly of a rare intestinal ailment, and how J. A. Manfuso suffered when his Aneroid was burned to death in a fire in Kentucky a month ago.
Howard first felt the bad fortunes of racing luck when his Argentine amber, Sorteado, broke a suspensory ligament in New York just a week after he had run to a new American record for a mile and a half. This handicap champion of South America was just beginning to show signs of becoming the handicap champion of North America when a hole in a track cut him down and forced his destruction.
Seabiscuit Into Retirement
But when Seabiscuit was sent into retirement after winning the last Santa Anita, Howard still had a double-barreled threat in Kayak II and Mioland. The former, four-year-old champion of 1939, had been entered for almost every outstanding stake in the East and the West this season, and despite his defeat by Challened last November, it looked like a good bid for the title of "horse of the year."
Today Kayak is sick and ailing in a barn at Pimlico and he won't run for at least two more months, if then. He developed a sudden cough and fever, and Howard was forced to declare him from such races as the Brooklyn and Suburban handicaps. Kayak II will be lucky now if he is ready even for the $50,000 Hollywood Gold Cup which he won so easily a year ago.
Stable Cut to One Horse
With Kayak's sickness the once invincible stable was cut to a single horse—Mioland, who had won the San Juan Capistrano, run fourth in the Kentucky Derby and second in the Preakness before ever reaching his top form. Today he is gone, too, at least until 1941.
Howard sadly announced that yesterday. He said the stretchrunning son of an imported German sire had bolted while working at Pimlico, thrown his exercise boy and then stumbled on the concrete walk. Howard did not detail the colt's injuries, but he did say that
"he was badly hurt and cannot be sent to the post again this season."
sick to the post, again this season.
Now the San Francisco hasn't a single top flight horse in a year when any good thoroughbred could make a lot of money and a lasting reputation. Bimelech has been beaten twice—both times by horses not rated the equal of Mioland. Challedon won't be back to the races in the handicap division until late summer at least and Kayak's only opposition there would be Eight Thirty.
So, the man who walks up to a mutual window isn't the only gambler in racing, after all.
Women's Intramurals----
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the freshmen
On the junior team Virginia Bell, catcher, scored the only home run. Wanda Horosko was pitcher for that team.
79 Men Chosen To Counsel 1940-41 Frosh
Seventy-nine men students at the University, all of them upper classmen, have been named as freshman counselors for 1940-41, according to Henry Werner, adviser of men.
The counselors will meet with freshman men students in September during registration and enrollment to offer advice and assistance, according to a system of guidance which University officials have worked out, and which has proved successful in past years.
The counselors are as follows:
The counselors are as follows:
Robert Allen, c'41, James Arnold,
b'41, John Beamer, c'41, Elden Beebe, c'42, James Bernard, c'41, Gordon Brigham, c'40, Jim Brown,
e'42, Ward Eugene Benkelman, c'41, Hugh Bruner, b'41, James Burdge, c'41, Carter Butler, c'41, Bob Brooks, c'40, Brent Campbell, c'41, Charles Case, c'41, Bob Collett, c'42, Bill Collins, c'42, Jack Dunagin, c'42,Collinson, c'42, DeVon Carlson, e'41, Bruce Crabtree, c'41, Howard Engleman, b'41, Fred Eberhardt, c'42
Oliver Edwards, c'41, Lloyd Estes, c'42, James Fleming, c'41, William Francisco, c'41, Bob Fluker, c'42, Richard Harp, c'40, Robert Haynes, e'41, Harry Hill, c'40, Paul H. Heinz, c'41, Bob Hamilton, b'41, Max Howard, c'42, Clint Kanaga, c'42, George Kettner, c'42, Henry Holtzclaw, c'42, Lee Huddleston, b'41, Sam Iwig, c'41, Maurice B. Jackson, c'41, Leland Robert Johnson, e'41, Ernest Klema, c'41, Wilbur Leonard, l'42, George Lupfer, e'41, Keith Martin, c'42, Ben Mattassarin, c'42, Bob McElfresh, c'42, James Meredith, c'41, Donn Mosser, c'42, C. H. Mullen, l'42, Donaldson Morton, b'41, Walter Needels, c'41,
Kansas Grads Train In These Planes
Everyone agrees that there are some things in life worth dying for. But the right of way is not one of them. A man who wins an argument over a right of way and loses his life in doing it is dealing his family a tragic blow that could easily have been prevented.
The members will also make plans for the annual K-Club picnic. A final check on the proceeds of the play will be made during a brief session. All members are requested to attend.
The K-Club will hold its semi-annual election tonight to fill club officers for the first semester of next year. The new men will replace Bill Arnold, c'40, Ralph Dugan, ed'd1, and Ray Harris, ed'd1.
Roger Montgomery, b'41, John Laidig, e'41, Eugene Ninginer, fa'42, William Murfin, c'42, Edwin Price, c'42, Rowland Raup, c'41, Earl Remy, b'41, Fred Robertson, c'42, Budd Russell, c'41, Daniel S. LaShelle, c'41, Presson Shane, e'41, Jim Surface, c'42, Keith Spalding, c'42, Robert Sullivan, l'42.
K-Club Meets To Elect New Officers Tonight
Charles Walker, e'42, Art Wahl,
e'42, Richard Howard Westfall, e'41,
Harry Wiles, l'41, David Whitney,
c'42, Paul Wise, c'42, Charles Wright,
fa'42, Paul C. Yankey, b'41, Bill
Gray, b'41, Richard Lee, e'42, Harry
Melvin White, c'41, Bob McKay, b'40,
Clyde E. Woodman, Jr., e'41, Fred
Stubeck, c'42.
Union Committees To Meet Thursday
The Union operating committee and the sub committees of the Student Activities board will meet in a joint session Thursday at 4:30 in the Pine room.
The main purpose of the meeting will be to discuss plans for next year's operation of the Union building and to prepare a tentative outline of arrangements. The meeting will also give the new members of the committee an opportunity to find out how the groups work.
Carter Butler, c'41, president of the Student Activities board, will be in charge.
Tschaikowski Takes Spotlight in Music Appreciation Hour
A music appreciation hour, centerering around Tschaikowsky, will be instituted at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Music room of the Memorial Union building.
Horace Edmonds, fa'41, will lead an informal discussion on the life of the composer and its bearing on his music. The explanation will be arranged in such a way that it will bear light on three works of Tschaiwoksky which will be played, "Fourth Symphony," "Romeo and Juliet Overture," and "1812 Overture."
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