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SPORTS
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1940
Diamond Team To Meet High Ranking Sooners In Two-Game Series
Women's Intramurals
By CECIL KING
Big gun in the Sooner attack recently has been Herb Scheffler, tall basketball player, who doubles as a first baseman. Scheffler had a big day against Iowa State last week, driving in five runs. He collected three for five that day, two doubles and a home run.
Practice teachers of the physica education department visited Wyandotte High School, Kansas City, Kan., Westport Junior High School, Central Senior High School, and (Continued on page five)
Two recitals will be heard over K FKU beginning at 9:45 this evening. The first is a violin recital presented by Waldemar Geltch, professor of violin. Helen Mae Peters, ed'41, contralto, is second on the program.
Any question as to the caliber of the Sooner team was settled yesterday when the O.U. nine completed a sweep of its two-game series with Texas' brilliant team by downing the Longhorn's 7-6. The previous day Oklahoma had won 6-5.
Two Recitals on KFKU Tonight
One of the three or four best college baseball teams in the country, the Oklahoma Sooners, tangles with the Jayhawk nine here Friday and Saturday.
Kansas To Play League Leaders Here This Week
Scheffler Is Big Gun
The scheduled Kansas - Rockhurst baseball game at Kansas City this afternoon, was postponed because of rain, Coach Mike Getto announced this morning.
BULLETIN
In the first game with Texas, Scheffler drove in a brace of runs, with two hits in four trips to the place, a triple and a single. Scheffler has played considerable semi-pro ball.
Another basketball player, Ralph Bollinger, also has been powdering the ball. Bollinger covers a lot of ground in center field. 'Popeye' May Be Back
"Popeye" Lasater, crack little second baseman of the Sooners, missed the first game of the Texas series due to a bruised hip, but may be able to play here. Ed Riley filled in for Lasater in that game and got two hits in four trips.
The Sooners are undefeated in conference play and look like a sure in for the Big Six title. The O. U. speedsters are strong in every department and run the bases like wildmen.
The Sooners did not play in Lawrence last year, but were in action here in 1938. Oklahoma won a pair of games from the Jayhawks then, and are favored to turn the trick again Friday and Saturday.
Pope Has Slow Ball
Ace of the Oklahoma mound staff is Jimmy Pope, veteran hurler, who slow-balled Texas to death in the game Monday. Best of the Sooner's sophomore pitchers is John Heath. Last year's O. U. pitching star, R. B. Deal, turned pro this spring.
SPORTSCOPE
By Larry Winn
Here we are back in the grove again with this weather that makes sports coaches and participants pull their hair.
Yesterday, the K.U. golf team eked out a 10/2 to 7/3 victory over the Washburn Ichabons on the Lawrence Country Club course, but the tennis match between the two schools was washed out. The Washburn netmen have yet to be defeated, so judge for yourself which team would have won the net matches.
FROM THE WEST COAST comes the news that a University of California freshman named Grover Klemmer, is burning up the western cinder tracks in the middle-distance runs. . . He has been clocked by his coach, Brutus Hamilton, in 47 flat for the quarter-mile, 1.53.5, for the half-mile, and 21.3 for the 220-yard dash. . . This is plenty fast in anybody's record books.
Meanwhile, from down in the "deep south" come more outstanding performances by freshmen tracksters. Mac Umstadt, of the University of Texas, has been running the half-mile around 1.537 with little competition. Umstadt is originally from Detroit, but his father is a professor at Texas, and so Clyde Littlefield is thanking someone for having one certain prof. at the state U... Also from the same state, but from arch-rivals, comes the information that Texas A. and M. has a yearling high jumper who is leaping 6 feet 6 inches with little trouble. His name is Rice, from Texas A. and M. (get it?)
Wouldn't Coach Bill Hargiss love to have some cinderman like coach Dean Cromwell has at Southern California. .
Plug for the "K" Club production. It is going to be a prize to see Bill Beven in the leading feminine role of the latest "K" Club production, "Murder in the Old Red Barn." With a year's experience in the chorus, is Monte Merkel, 230 pound tackle, who will pair up with 150-pound Chester Gibbens. John "Eyes" Narramore will make another attempt to "steal the show" like he did in last year's success.
Eddie Brietz tells us in his column, that Dr. Eddie Anderson, Iowa football mentor, has three boys to fill the left-half-back position, left vacant this year by Nile Kinnick. If he has three men as good as Kinnick, he will have a hard team to stop.
OUTSTANDING young hurler of the season is Hal Newhauser, 18-year old left-hander for the Detroit Tigers, who has won two games for the automobile city team. . . Not bad for a boy who has never graduated from high school. . . He put the New York Yankees down in defeat yesterday by a score of 4 to 2.
Basketball Committee Approves New Backboard
A modified backboard has been approved by the National Basketball Rules Committee, after extensive study over a period of years, according to word received by Dr. F. C. Allen from H. V. Porter, secretary of the committee.
Correspondence since the national meeting indicates that many of these modified backboards will be erected for use this next season, Porter said. Use of these backboards is optional.
The new style backboard corners are rounded off and considerable waste space at the upper corners of the backboard has been eliminated.
The new style backboard has no sharp corners. All four ___ off and $ ^{ \textcircled{2}} $
Such a board contains all the space which is needed for banking purposes. The elimination of all sharp corners and edges will prevent injury to the ball and the elimination of unnecessary surface space appears to have the following advantages:
Five Advantages
1. A more free use of the four-foot end space permits offensive play
A few men like Bob Péoles, who throws the javelin over 200 feet, Johnny Wilson who high jumps above 6 feet 6 inches consistently, Kenny Dill, who pole vaults over 14 feet, LeRoy Weed. who runs the mile around 4:12, and Howard Upton who runs the quarter-mile in 47.5., would certainly strengthen a track team a little. from nearly all directions, and th
trom nearly all directions, and thus
relieves congestion in the lane.
2. Increased visibility of the basket from the corners and ends of the gymnasium.
3. Increased space under the basket from which a goal may be made and chance for a rebounder to escape from congested area.
4. Less complicated bridgework for hanging the backboard since the weight is reduced by nearly one-half, and the span is not so great as to cause warping or twisting.
5. More pleasing streamlined appearance and a better target.
Boards Are Legal
Such boards with a plane surface are legal and may be installed without fear of protest. However, no one is forced to discard the traditional backboard.
Cut Bottom of Board
One of the main differences to be found in this "streamlined" backboard is the fact that, six inches have been taken off the bottom of the board. This gives players, standing
Country's Best Golfers To Play In Goodall Meet
Five of the country's leading professional golfers will compete in the Goodall Golf tournament at the Meadow Brook Country Club, in Flushing, New York, May 16-19.
Jimmy Demaret, Ben Hogan, Byron Nelson, Lloyd Mangrum, and Ralph Guldahl, along with 10 other pros, will attempt to take a large share of the $5,000 purse. The journey is an invitation affair and will bring together some of the best professional golfers in the country
In the Goodall Palm Beach Co tourney, which is considered one of the most difficult golf tests, the 15 pros will be divided into five threesomes, with each performer competing directly against every other entrant in an 18-hole match. First prize goes to the man who highest net total of holes won. Sam Snead won at Cincinnati in 1938, and Harry Cooper last year at Fresh Meadow. With this method of scoring, a pro, by a hot round, can take up a lot of slack, particularly if the other two players in his threesome for that round, are a bit off.
Instrumental in the development of the new style backboard, was the research committee of the national organization. Dr. Allen was chairman of this committee this past year.
a little behind the backboard, an opportunity to complete tip-in shots and eliminates the danger of taller players hitting the bottom of the board while in action.
Other members of the research committee were: John Bunn, Stanford; H. V. Porter of Chicago; C. Parker, Centenary College; E. J. Hickox, Springfield College; and Floyd F. Rowe, of Cleveland.
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