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SPORTS
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 1940
Todd Repeats In Decathlon
Todd
SPORTSCOPE By Larry Winn
By Bob Trump (Guest Conductor)
More than 12,000 Jayhawks—past, present, and future, supplemented by visiting dignitaries and out-of-state athletes, streamed into Memorial. Stadium yesterday for the eighteenth renewal of the Kansas Relays.
From the moment early yesterday morning when contestants in the opening heat of the 120-yard high hurdles began to warm up for the first event in a long day, until 6 o'clock that night when left-handed Bob Waldram's winning javelin throw was measured at 206 feet, 5 inches, the spectators watched the outstanding track and field stars of the Middlewest competing in one of the country's best known sporting events.
Nine o'clock witnessed the appearance of Relays committeeemen, field attendants, and members of the working press, most of whom had blossomed out overnight in their first sunburns of the season. While electricians wired the field and press box for communication with the outside world, the flags at the top of the stadium drooped lifelessly in the still air and the sound truck at the open end of the horse-shoe blared out an endless series of jazz numbers.
First minor casualty of the day was Ralph Tate, unattached decathlon competitor from Stillwater, Okla., who was dazed momentarily when his vaulting pole snapped as he was attempting to clear the bar at 11 feet, 2 inches. Tate fell on his face in the sand pit and lay there for a few moments. Then he shook his head, got up, borrowed a pole from someone else, and sailed over safely on his next attempt.
The broken pole jinx must have been catching, ofr Uyval Jones, Wayne University athlete, whose pole Tate had borrowed, landed in the middle of the crossbar and sheared it in two. A few minutes later when E. Lee Tood, winner of the decathlon, made a successful leap, his pole couldn't stand the altitude and splintered under his weight.
This, like all other Relays days, had its little tragedies. Bill Smutz of Nebraska and John White of Missouri were pressing Boyce Gatewood, Texas flash, for the lead in the finals of the 120-yard high hurdles when they caught their spikes in the same row of hurdles and crashed into the cinders. Both men lay motionless for a moment and then slowly picked each other up and limped off the track, probably cursing the vagaries of fate or the unfriendly gods who had wrecked in a second what it had taken hours of work and sweat to build up.
As the hands of the clock chased each other toward the 3 o'clock mark, the field was cleared of all attendants and competitors while Glenn Cunningham, Archie San Romani, and Blaine and Wayne Ride-
Uyval Jones, Wayne U., Takes Second Place
Men's Intramurals
Muddy fields, which hampered base-running and spilled ambitious fielders, caused several upsets in inter-fraternity softball games Thursday.
Scoring 7 runs in the seventh innning, Phi Psi downed Delta Ch 18 to 6. Ralph Miller and Doug Miller's battery, with John Krum's five hits, including a home run and two triples, cinched the game for the Phi Psi's.
Bill Hogben, with three hits and seven strike-outs to his credit, led the Beta's to an 11 to 3 victory over the Phi Delt's.
Don Cluster chalked up 10 strike-outs in Delta Tau Delta's defeat of the Kappa Sig's 20 to 1.
Pi Kappa Alpha defeated the Sigma Chi's 10 to 6. Most of the scoring came in the first inning, Pi K. A. counting seven runs, and Sigma Chi six. Grayum and Durt pitched for Pi K. A. Warley was on the mound for Sigma Chi.
Geologists Vs. Miners Today
This afternoon at 2 o'clock, the geologists and the miners will hold their annual baseball game. It will take place in South Park. This tilt will be the third annual game between the two divisions of the geology department.
The geologists have won the last two games, but the miners are supposed to have something up their sleeve this year.
out moved into the spotlight. Kansas fans who were hoping almost against hope that the most famous alumnus of their University might, in his farewell to the track, exhibit the form which won him the acclaim of two continents, were doomed to disappointment. The old master not only finished last, but the Kansas Relays record of 4 minutes and 12 seconds which he established in 1934 was shattered by yesterday's winner, Blaine Rideout.
Another well-known miler, John Munski, University of Missouri standout, failed to run true to form. Anchoring the Tiger team in the university distance medley relay, he was clocked unofficially for the mile in 4 minutes and 15 seconds. However, Munski wasn't pushed. Given a 100 yard lead, he loafed around the first lap, slowing momentarily to wave at spectators before settling down to the more serious business of bringing the baton home first.
Perhaps yesterday's performer with the brightest future was Don Boydston, slender Oklahoma A. and M. sophomore, who won the high jump from defending champion Dick Schnack of Iowa State with a leap of 6 feet. 6 inches. Boydston, who is sports editor of the Daily O'Collegian, Oklahoma A. and M. student newspaper, spent most of Friday in the press box and was back again Saturday afternoon, checking results and writing his story, 15 minutes after winning the high jump.
E. Lee Todd, defending champion in the decathlon, successfully defended his title here yesterday in the 10-event opposition. Todd, who was formerly a Nebraska school teacher, is now a graduate student of the University of Colorado.
Second to Todd was Uyval C. Jones, of Wayne University. The champion scored 6,730 points, by winning the 100-meter and 400-meter dashes, and the javelin. Last year, Todd scored only 6,557 points to win the long grind, which is divided into five events for a two-day period.
Following Todd and Jones, was Walter Arrington, Michigan State Negro, who placed third in the decathlon. Arrington then proceeded to go out and enter the broad jump in the open class. After all he had done in the decathlon, Arrington won himself a fourth place in the broad jump event.
Todd has been keeping in condition in hopes that the Olympic will still be held. Although he improved on his last years' total points, he is still almost 1000 points short of the record established by Glenn Morris in 1936.
E. Lee Todd, unattached,
..Boulder, Colo...675
Boulder, Colo. 6135
Uyval C. Jones, Wayne U. 6229
Walter Arrington, Michigan
State 6225
Ted Billings, Colorado College 6124
Ralph Tate, unattached.
Stillwater 0038
Bob Davenport, Pepperdine
Los Angeles 355
Charles Linson, Culver-
Stockton 5785
Stockton ... 5783
W. L. Clapham, unattached,
Los Angeles ... 5743
Woodrow Hutchinson, New
Mexico Normal ... 5723
Donald Menning, Central
College, Iowa ... 5508
Louis Chisholm, Oklahoma
Baptist ... 5372
Orville Bonham, unattached,
Harper, Kans ... 4938
Third - Timer-d. I Oklah legiate win attemp inch I
Elmer Hackney, Kansas State's "one man gang," who yesterday won the shot put at the Kansas Relays for the third time.
IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE!!
K.U. Golf Team Whips Nebraska On Links Here
The Jayhawkger golf team showed power yesterday in defeating Big Six opponent Nebraska, 16 to 2, in a dual meet at the Lawrence Country Club course. Nebraska failed to win a single match.
Conrad Voelker was the only winner in the tennis meet with a strong Nebraska team yesterday morning. Kansas lost all the remaining matches and came out on the short end of a 5 to 1 score.
A one over par 73 by Dean Ritchie, was good enough for medalist honors, in the Big Six defending champion's smashing victory over the Huskers. Roderick Wakeland followed with a 78, Bill Gray shot an 82, and Bill McElhenny an 83.
The next matches for the golf and tennis teams will be next Wednesday when the University of Wichita plays here.
The golf summaries:
Twosomes—Ritchie, K.U., defeated Mowbry, N.U., 3-0; Wakeland, K.U., defeated Spomer, N.U., 3-0; McElhenny, K.U., tied Million, N.U., $1\frac{1}{2}$ to $1\frac{1}{2}$; Gray, K.U., defeated Wiedman, N.U., $2\frac{1}{2}-\frac{1}{2}$.
Foursomes — Ritchie - Wakeland, K.U., defeated Mowbry - Spomer, N.U., 3-0; McElheny-Gray, K.U., defeated Million-Wiedman, N.U., 3-0.
Fencers Defeat Y.W.C.A.
Team by 5 to 4 Score
The University women's fencing team won over the W.W.C.A. fencers of Kansas City, Mo., by a score of 5 to 4 Friday night in Robinson gymnastium.
The Kansas City fencers have been coached by Mary Ann Hemmie, "Y" instructor, since September. Results of the matches played are:
M. A. Hemmie (YW) 5, Kalbleisch (KU) 3.
Blake (KU) 5, L. Staatz (YW) 1.
Polson (KU) 5, E. Egy (YW) 4.
I. Morast (YW) 5, Boyle (KU) 0.
L. Staaz (YW) 5, Current (KU)
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Polson (KU) 5, M. A. Hemmie (YW) 3.
Kalbfleisch (KU) 5, E. Egy (YW)
3.
Blake (KU) 5,1. I Morast (YW) 2
L Staatz (YW) 5, Current (YW) 0
YES, IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE
Four Records---d. I Oklah legiate win attemp inch I
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win the event in 7:48.4 seconds,
shattering the old mark of 7:50.5
seconds, formerly held by Kansas
State Teachers College at Emporia,
set in 1933.
The University of Oklahoma smashed the third Relays record in the University sprint medley relay, When Lya, Mathews, Koettel, and Gahan ran the event in 3:25.3 to break the old record of 3:27 set by Rice Institute in 1938.
In the invitation college sprint medley relay, Baker broke their own record of last year of 3:39.2 seconds, by running the sprints in 3:36.7 seconds to nose out Missouri Valley.
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Coalition Party Caucus Tonight
The Coalition party of the School of Business will meet at 10:30 tonight at the A.K Psi house to select its slate of candidates for the Business election Wednesday, according to announcement made by LeRoy Vieth, b'40, president of the party. In addition to the election candidates, party officers for next year will be elected.
String Quartet Gets Approval
The scheduled program of the Pro Arte String Quartet from Brussels, Belgium, is finding approval from local musical circles, Dean D. M. Swarthout said today.
Dean Swarthout, manager of the University Concert Course, indicated that a large turn-out will be necessary to pay the cost of the group. Half the expenses will be underwritten by Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge of Cambridge, Mass. She has stated that a large audience this time will be encouragement enough for her to underwrite more famed artists to appear here in the future.
Tickets for the three programs to be held in Fraser hall are one dollar each or $1.50 for a season ticket.
Speech Arts Dinner Postponed
The annual Speech Arts dinner, originally scheduled for tomorrow, night, has been postponed indefinitely, Allen Crafton, professor of speech and dramatic arts announced today.
What they say: "Life is harsh and politics is dirty and commerce is sordid, so it would often be unfair to judge a man by his public life." (Lin Yutang).
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