THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1940.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE FIVE
Many Flying Foursomes To Run in Relays Races
Relay races, which comprise the major part of the program at the annual Anssas Relays, promise to be as thrilling and hard fought as ever, here Saturday.
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saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock, with the high, hurdle race.
Fourteen relay races, eight individual events, and the invitation mile run make up the twenty-three event program. Proceedings get under way Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock, with®
Oklahoma's sizzling sprint relay team which won the 440- and 880-yard relays here last year, is favored to repeat those victories Saturday. Back from last spring's flying foursome are George Koottel and Fred Coogan. Running with them are two sophomores who were a pair of the greatest runners in Oklahoma high school annals, Orville Mathews and Bill Lyda.
Mile Relax a Favorite
The mile relay, an institution at track meets, is a decided tossup. If any team has an edge, it probably is the University of Minnesota, winner of this event at the Chicago Relays.
The Gophers boast four crack quarter-milers in Geo. Franck, star halfback on the football team, Bill Garrity, George Irving, and Bob
Johnson. Johnson is a sophomore star, with a high school mark of 49.6.
Minnesota will have to be in top form to win, however. Oklahoma A. & M., winner of the event last year, will make a strong defense of its title and Iowa State is a speedy entrant from the Big Six. From the Southwest comes Texas, capable of turning in 3:19 for the event.
A. & M. Defends Title
In addition to defending its championship in the mile relay, Oklahoma A. & M., will attempt to win the two mile relay for the second consecutive year. Burrus, Efaw and Mildef give the Cowboys a good start on another crack team in this event.
John Munski, Missouri's mile ace, who has paced the Tigers to victory in the distance镁 relay the past two years, makes his final appearance here Saturday.
Missouri will be out to set a new
OKLAHOMA SPRINT RELAY TEAM
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The past two years, Hackney has won he shot put at the Relays. In the 938 events, he won with a toss of 50 feet, 2 3-4 inches and last year he set new Relays record of 52 feet, 1 1-2 inches. He is a senior.
GENE "RED" LITTLER, Nebraska—100-yard dash. Sprint relays. The classiest sophomore runner Nebraska has unveiled in years. The sensation of the Big Six indoor meet. Won the 60-yard and 440-dash dashes in that meet and anchored the mile replay. Was a Nebraska high school star, but enrolled at Compton, California, Junior College upon graduating. After a year there, Littler returned to Nebraska. National A.A.U. champion in the 200-meter run last summer.
MYRON PIKER, Northwestern—Yard dash. Big Ten Sprint champion. Has competed in three conference meets since he became eligible for varsity competition and has won every time. Won the 60-yard dash at the Big Ten indoor meets in 1939, 1940, winning in the fast time of 6.2 seconds on each occasion. At the Big Ten outdoor meet last spring, ticker won the 100-yard dash. He is third here last spring. He is a door.
VELLES HODGSON, Minnesota—broad Jump. The Gophers' strongest field event entrant. One of the prime favorites in the broad jump. Illinois Relays champion in this event. He leaped 23 feet, 10 inches that meet and he had a best mark of 24 feet, 3 inches last year.
Hargiss Enters 19 Jayhawkers In Kansas Meet
When Saturday, rolls today and to-morrow off the calendar, and brings the Kansas Relays to the Memorial stadium, Bill Hargiss' track squad, will have 19 men bidding for places in 11 events.
record in this event. It missed the record by less than two seconds and
The relay teams of 880-yards, two mile, and four-mile are very strong and will furnish all the competition any other team that is here will want.
should be able to make up more than that amount of time this year. Running with Munski will be Marshall Reeves, Wilbert Berg and Louie Knight.
The four mile relay likely will be a duel between Kansas and Oklahoma A. & M, as was the case at the Texas Relays.
J. R. Jones, a fourth-place man in the Texas relays will be on hand to make an attempt for the blue ribbon given to the broad-jump winner.
Coach Hargiss is well pleased with his entry set-up this year and is expecting his men to come through strongly, especially because they are performing in their home stadium.
120-yd. high hurdles—Glenn Foy.
100-yd. dash—Darrell Mathes, Ted Scott.
The probable entries are as follows:
880-yd. relay—Glenn Fey, Bill Greene, Darrell Mathes, Kenny Hamilton.
Two-mile relay—Joe Ryan, Dick Edwards, Don Thompson, G. B. Hatfield.
Four-mile relay-Joe Ryan, Dick Edwards, Don Thompson, G. B. Hatfield.
Sprint medley-Kenny Hamilton, Bill Greene, Darrell Mathes, Don Thompson.
One-mile relay-Bill Greene, Glenn Foy, Kenny Hamilton, Chris Eberhardt, Bill Reed.
Pole vault. Bill Bevan, Jack O'Hara. J. C. Cordell.
Broad jump—J. R. Jones.
Javelin—Alfred Arky, Carty
Dawes.
High jump—Jim Mott, G. P. Hunter.
1-Only probable that the spring medley will run.
JACK HUGHES, Texas—Discus Throw. Defending champion in the discus throw. Won here last year as a sophomore with a throw of 151 feet, 9 inches. Should be the biggest man in the Relays, as he weighs around 260 pounds. Made his best throw of the season last year at the Drake Relays,
2–Four men will run in the one-mile relay; which four is uncertain.
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Everyone has heard something about Mr. H. W. Hargiss, known to all as just "Bill," and about everybody knows that he is the track coach of Kansas University. Bill is one of those rare men who has the ability to give orders and make those taking them, like the idea. He's personality man No. 1 around K.U.
Back in 1905-07, he played football on the old McCook field which ran along the south end of the present stadium here at Lawrence. He says he used to play on that field when the ground was so hard the players' cleats wouldn't stick into the ground, and there was not a blade of grass growing on it. Players' elbows in those days were skinned and bruised from the beginning of fall practice and were kept that way until the spring practice was over. Broken bones were seldom heard of, however.
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and rubbed, and patted, and massaged. Why, we didn't know what a rub-downtable was. An old friend of mine, and coach, once said to me, concerning rub-downs, "The good boys don't need it and the poor ones aren't worth it." I think there is a good deal of truth in what he said.
Still, though, I think such a table has its value. A fella may get some injury and really need some first aid treatment, and here he has the best care offered."
"Often," he said, "an athlete gets the idea that one of his legs is a little bit longer or shorter than the other one and that he should go climb onto a dressing table to have it straightened out to do himself justice in his sport. Most of the time," Hargiss declares, "there is nothing wrong with him. There may be a little strain or irritation there in his legs or back, but probably all he needs is to get himself into good physical condition."
"There's no use wasting that extra 30 minutes lying around on the table when it could be put to good use out on the track or playing field."
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