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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1940.
Nebraska Here Tomorrow
Golf, Tennis Scheduled With Kansas
By Orlando Epp, c'42
In their first Big Six meet of the 1940 season, the Jayhawk golf and tennis teams meet the University of Nebraska here tomorrow morning. The meet scheduled for last Wednesday with Washburn will probably be played sometime during the week of May 6-11, tennis coach "Dutch" Uhrlaub said this morning.
Dean Ritchie, varsity captain, Roderick Wakeland, who was low medalist in the University of Kansas City match, and Bill McElhenny, will lead the Kansas linken against the Huskers tomorrow. The other member of Coach Shannon's squad will be decided by qualifying rounds this afternoon.
The matches at the Lawrence Country Club course tomorrow, will be the second of the year for the golfers. The Big Six defending champions swamped Kansas City University, 17 to 1, in the first match April 10.
Howard Engleman will again play in the number one position for the varsity netmen. Kermit Franks and Jack Floyd are scheduled for the next two places, with the fourth man either Conrad Voelker or Charles Snyder. Engleman-Floyd and Shupe-Minor will wield racquets for Kansas in the doubles.
The tennis team lost a close 3-2 decision to the Kansas City netmen in their open meeting. All matches will be played on the courts southwest of the stadium.
Board to Select Letter Winners
Meeting for the fifth time this year, the Kansas Athletic board will pass on basketball and swimming letters, and numerals for freshman football men, at 11 o'clock Saturday morning in the Memorial Union building.
There is a possibility that the board will meet once more at the end of the school year to decide on baseball and track letters. This can be done only when the two seasons are finished.
Fencers to Meet Friends University
The University fencing teams will play two scheduled matches this weekend. The women's team will meet with the W.Y.C.A. fencers, Kansas City, Mo., at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow, and the men will be pitted against Friend's University, Wichita, at 7:30 Saturday night, both matches to be played in Robinson gymnasium.
Relays Referee---
JIM KELLY
Champions Must Hustle To Defend Relays Crowns
Stiff competition in all of the eight individual events is in prospect at the eighteenth annual Kansas Relays here tomorrow.
In six of the eight events, defending champions will head the fields, but none of them can expect an easy victory. One of last year's champions, Dick Schnacke of Iowa State, is a decided underdog in his events, the high $ ^{*} $
Heavy favorite in the high jump is Don Boydston of Oklahoma A. and M., who has leaped 6 feet 8 1-4 inches. Other standouts in this event include Jim Smith of Northwestern and Arrington of Michigan State.
Co-Favorites in 100 Yard Dash
In the 100 yard dash, co-favorites have been established. Expected to fight it out right down to the tape are the Big Ten champion, Myron Piker of Northwestern, and the Big
Sports Parade
By Henry McLemore
New York, April 19—(UP)—Brooklyn today was a mecca for connoisseurs of baseball openings.
Just as art lovers make pilgrimages to the Uffizi galleries and music lovers travel to the Metropolitan opera, those who appreciate the very best in opening games make it a point to be in Brooklyn when the Dodgers first play host to the New York Giants.
The game itself is incidental, serving only as an excuse for some 35,000 people to release their grip on reason, shed their
The game itself is incidental, some 35,000 people to release the sanity, and enjoy two or three hours of good, wholesome giddiness.
Six champion, "Red" Littler of Nebraska. Koettel and Mathews of Oklahoma are other speedsters.
There isn't any way to adequately describe the Brooklyn greeting to the opposing team on opening day. Perhaps the best way to convey a picture of what happens is to say that it offers a complete preview of 1940 models in firecrackers, cowbells, sirens, kazoos, razzberries, insults, groans, growls and general disorder. Even the rudest Hatfield or McCoy would consider it an impolite greeting.
Others Not in Brooklyn's Class
Cincinnati, Detroit, Boston, Cleveland and other of the major league cities stage substantial and stylish baseball openings, but they aren't in a class with Brooklyn. The good burgers of that borough put on a show that, in many ways, won't be matched until we see what the first minutes marking the end of the world are like. And even then some of Brooklyn's stuff probably will have been borrowed. Some of the sound effects, most likely.
It should reach a peak today, for more reasons than one. In the first place the Giants are the opposing team and nothing so incites a Brooklyn citizen like the sight of a New York Giant. Wild Indians could troop across Brooklyn bridge, or even Martians armed with zapzap guns, without creating the stir that the invasion of men wearing gray flannel suits with New York stitched on their chests does. Familiarity Breeds Contempt
One might think that having seen these same Giants year after year the Brooklynns would take them in stride. But such is not the case. Familiarity has really bred contempt and hate in this case, and the first Giant who shows his noggin in Ebbets field will get the same greeting, only more so, that John McGraw and his boys did years ago.
The 120 ward high hurdles will bring together such crack timber toppers as Boyce Gatewood of Texas, Paul Cope of Colorado, Joe Finch of Northwestern, John White of Missouri and Dinsmore of Tarkio. Gatewood and Cope are given a slight edge over the others.
As I said, the opening this year should be the best of a long line of good ones. Not only will the Giants be there, but the Brooklyns will be doubly excited because, after many years, they have a right to feel that their team has a chance to win the National League pennant.
Women's Intramurals
By CECIL KING
Pairings in the women's intramural golf tournament were posted today in Robinson gymnasium by Miss Ruth Hoover, assistant professor of physical education.
Even Beetus Bryan of Texas, twice a winner and twice a record breaker at the Relays, will face stiff opposition. The colorful Trees pole vaulter will be up against a rising young star, Harold Hunt of Nebraska, and a fine Big Ten vaulter, Ed Thistlethwaite of Northwestern.
In the championship flight McIntyre, Kappa; Rader, I.W.W.; Nelson, Theta; Waring, Kappa; Wyatt, Kappa; and Lewis, Pi Phi drew byes for the first rounds. Clawson, A.D. Pi; will meet Magill, Kappa; and Brock, Theta; will play Hoffman, Pi Phi.
In the first flight Randall, Chi Omega; Barber, Pi Phi; Grizzell, Corbin; Goodjohn, Alpha Chi; Barclay, Pi Phi; and McHenry, Chi Omega drew byes.
First round matches include: Hays, Chi Omega, vs. Lacey, Alpha Chi, and Armacost, Chi Omega, vs. Brower, Alpha Chi.
DON'T FORGET THE RELAYS!
Five Standouts in Broad Jump
Elmer Hackney of Kansas State is the defending champion with the easiest assignment tomorrow. Hackney is getting back into his old form, following a wrist injury and should be invincible in the shot put.
The broad jump field includes such stars as Sol Schumitzky of Missouri, Walter Arrington of Michigan State, Welles Hodgson of Minnesota, Nelson Puett of Texas, and J. R. Jones of Kansas. Schumitzky won last year, but Hodgson is favored this time.
The discus throw is rated as a complete tossup, with five men in the field, any one of whom might win. They are Ed Wibbels of Nebraska, Jack Hughes of Texas, John Shirk of Oklahoma, Ray Prochaska of Nebraska, and Ray Jenkins of Colorado.
Best of the javelin throwers are three Big Six men, Bob Waldram of Missouri, and Herb Grote, and Bus Knight of Nebraska.
In Relays Tomorrow
SOL SCHUMITZKY, Missouri broad jump. Defending champion in this event. Schumitzky was one of two sophomores who won here last year. Surpassed all his previous effort leaping 24 feet, 4 3-4 inches to win. Big Six indoor broad jump champion in 1939. Hails from St. Louis, where he attended University City high school. Was state high school champion.
SPORTSCOPE
By Larry Winn
(Written from Memorial Stadium) High school athletes from the four corners of the state converged on Memorial Stadium today as the first day of the eighteenth annual Kansas Relays began under sunny skies and on a fast track.
AROUND THE CINDERS. . First accident in the Kansas Relays for years happened here this afternoon. Ed Haley, Topeka mile runner, was hit in the right leg by a flying javelin. Haley took only one step and then he dropped to the ground, unconscious. . . Accidents like this are few and far between, considering the many boys that are participating in track meets the country over. . . Pruitt, of Independence is one of the outstanding stars of the meet so far, qualifying in the 100-yard dash, 120-yard high hurdles, and the 220-yard low hurdles. He is state champion in both the high and lows. .
BACK TO DEFEND his title again is E. Lee Todd, now studying at Colorado University. Todd nosed out Odell, of Oklahoma A. and M. by five points last year in the decathlon. . . Todd is out on the field now, practicing for his 10 events schedule this afternoon and tomorrow morning. . . Walking around fully dressed is Glenn Cunningham, who will run in the special mile tomorrow against the Rideout twins and Archie San Romani. . . Just a sideglance at Bch Davenport of Pepperdine College, in Los Angeles, and one sees a pretty slick looking decathlon man... You might keep your eyes on him anyway.
THE FIRST NEW RECORD OF THE DAY was set by Fielder, of Enterprise, in the Class B discus throw, when he tossed the platter 141 feet 734 inches. . Be sure to buy a program and catch the full-page picture of the Kansas Relays beauty queen, Helen Johnson. . You might cut it out if you wish. Helen was missing today, but she will be here tomorrow in full beauty. . . I'll bet that Ed Elbel has answered over a thousand questions today. . Ed is the general manager of the Kansas Relays and most of the credit for this successful event should be given to Ed and his Relays Committee.
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