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SPORTS
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1940.
SPORTSCOPE
By Larry Winn
The time is really getting near for the big Relays. Yes sir, ONLY THREE MORE DAYS UNTIL THE KANSAS RELAYS. Just think, celebrities, splendid athletes, world record holders, the Governor, and last, but certainly not least, the Queen of the 1940 Kansas Relays, Kappa's Helen Johnson.
Boy, I really get worked up every time I think of the excitement that will be prevalent that day. Saturday is the day, but if you want to see a bit extra for your money, drop down, on Friday, and get an eyeful of the high school meet.
It looks as if the special mile is really going to be a race, with such participants as Glenn Cunningham, Archie San Romani, and those popular Rideout twins. After Cunningham's 4:15 mile last Sunday afternoon, it looks like Glenn is finally going to put on a show for K.U. fans. Hargiss predicts a 4:10 mile for his protege, but having a memory of his past performances here, with a faster field, I'll not lay a bet on the Hargiss prediction.
Only 3 More Days 'Til Kansas Relays
Featuring two javelin throwers with records of better than 210 feet.
UP IN THE AIR about pole vaulting is Cony Warmerdam, who is now representing the San Francisco Athletic Club. Warmerdam, a former Fresno State star, took his vaulting pole in hand and sailed to a new world's record in that event by going 15 feet even. The former record was held jointly by Sefton and Meadows, of Southern California, of 14 feet 11 inches.
A CHARACTER ON THE DIAMOND is none other than the K.U football tackle, Monte Merkel. The heavy tackle plays catcher for Getto's batsmen and up till this time blonde monte is leading the Kansas batting averages.
DON'T FORGET——to get your activity books turned in to the athletic office in exchange for tickets to the Kansas Relays . . . Activity books alone will admit you to the high school meet Friday, but you must have exchanged tickets for the big meet Saturday . . . DON'T FORGET . . .
Someone around here, in a stew about the Relays, suggested that we change the 100-yard dash to the 100-yard free style because of the weather.
IN A CRACK-UP was LeRoy Vieth, an A.T.O. intramural baseball player, who suffered a broken leg in an opening tilt with the Phi Psi diamond team. Vieth was on his way to second base, when he collided with Don Powell, Psi short-stop . . . Result of the smash-up, a broken leg.
Weather May Halt Tiger Game Today Horack Is Kansas Pitcher If Battle Isn't Called Hargiss Predicts Fast Mile For Cunningham
Columbia, Mo., April 17—(Special) Still hoping to gain a split in the two-day series with Missouri and get back over the .500 mark in the Big Six standings, Coach Mike Getto this afternoon sent southpaw Henry Horak to the firing line and charged him with the job of silencing the Tiger bats, which yesterday pounded out a 9 to 6 victory over the Jayhawks.
Knute Kresie's mates gave him a two-run lead in the first inning but the Kansas hurler couldn't hold it. After going hitless in the first inning the Tigers nicked him for one run in the second and another in the third when Paul Christman, Missouri first baseman, stole home. Missouri picked up one more run in the fourth and bagged a cluster of four in the fifth.
BULLETIN
Reports received from Columbia at 10 o'clock this morning indicated that the weather was cloudy, but it was not raining.
At 2:30 this afternoon, the Kansan had not been notified if the game had been postponed.
Blast Miles Out
Trailing by a score of 7 to 2 in the seventh, the Jayhawks rallied for two runs, and although they weren't able to pull abreast of the Tigers, they enjoyed the satisfaction of blasting Carl Miles, Missouri captain, from the mound. Miles was replaced by Frank Graham, who gave up two more runs in the eighth.
Eldreth Cadwalader provided one of the bright rays which shone through the Kansas defeat as he snapped out of a batting slump, which had held him in its grasp so far this season, and drove across half of his team's runs.
Noel Hair, converted pitcher who now plays right field, and Bill Crane, Tiger second baseman, led the assault on Kresie. Hair drove in three runs, while Crane clicked off an equal number of hits.
A.T.O. Breaks Leg In Softball Game
LeRoy Vieth, b'41, fractured both bones in his lower left leg yesterday afternoon in an intramural softball game.
Vieth broke his leg when he slid into second base. The game was between his fraternity, Alpha Tau Omega, and Phi Kappa Psi.
The accident occurred about 5 p.m. Vieth was taken immediately to Watkins Memorial hospital in the A.T. O. station wagon. Hospital attendants reported today that Vieth's condition was good and that he was fairly comfortable.
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Don Boydston To Jump for World Record
A new world record in the high jump is the goal at which Don Boydston, sensational Oklahoma A. & M. sophomore, will shoot at in the Eighteenth Annual Kansas Relays here Saturday.
That was almost a month ago and with considerable work under his belt since then, the A. & M. jumper should be in even better form. The world record which he will shoot at is the 6 feet 9-3-4 inches mark set by Cornelius Johnson and David Albritton in 1936.
The lanky Cowboy star made the second best leap ever made by a white man outdoors when he leaped 6 feet 8 1-4 inches early this season. Boydston then tried for a world record, with the bar at 6 feet 10 inches, and almost made it on two of his three tries.
Boydston's rise to the top in collegiate track circles has been sensational. As a high school boy, his best jump was 6 feet 1 inch. Last year, as a freshman at A. & M. the tall boy began to get going.
He jumped 6 feet 4 3-4 inches, far higher than expected. This spring he started the season with a bang by leaping 6 feet 7 inches in the Cowboy interclass meet.
Boydston can expect plenty of competition here, at least until he gets up into the stratosphere, as three other crack high jumpers also will be in the field. They are Dick Schnacke of Iowa State, Jim Smith of Northwestern, and Walter Arrington of Michigan State.
Snackne is the defending champion, having won last year with a leap of 6 feet 51-2 inches. The former Topeka high school star also is the Big Six champion in the high jump.
Smith tied for first at the Big Ten indoor meet this winter with a jump of 6 feet 4 inches. Arrington made a similar leap to share the championship in the high jump at the I.C.-4A meet last year.
Snackne's jump of 6 feet 5 1-2 inches last spring carried on something which is getting to be a tradition at the Kansas Relays. He was the sixth straight winner here who leaped 6 feet 5 inches or higher in taking the event.
His predecessors were Gill Cruter, Colorado, 1938 and 1936; Vickery, Texas, and Stevens, KSTC, Pittsburg, 1937; Philson, Drake, 1935, and Stambach, KCTS Pittsburgh, 1934.
DON'T FORGET THE RELAYS!
The fastest mile Glenn Cunningham has ever run in the middlewest is predicted for him Saturday by his coach, "Bill" Hargiss.
Glenn is in his finest shape of the season for the invitation mile run at the Kansas Relays, which brings together Cunningham, Blaine Rideout, Wayne Rideout and Archie San Romani.
Taking advantage of the perfect track weather which prevailed Sunday afternoon, Glenn ran a full mile against the best Jayhawk varsity distance runners.
Running well within himself and taking it easy on the last two laps, Cunningham breezed home in 4:14.7 seconds. He was not pushed in 4:14.7 finishing half a lap ahead of Dick Edwards, rangy Kansas sophomore who was second. Don Thompson, another sophomore, was third .
That Glenn is in the finest shape he has enjoyed for some time, was
Batting Averages
The following batting averages of the University of Kansas players do not include yesterday's game with Missouri.
| | g ab | r | h | pct. |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Merkel, c | 3 11 | 3 | 6 | .545 |
| Kresie, p, 1b | 2 4 | 1 2 | 1 | .500 |
| Cameron, 3b | 3 13 | 4 6 | 4 | .461 |
| Horak, rf, p | 2 8 | 2 3 | 3 | .375 |
| Burge, p | 1 3 | 0 1 | 1 | .333 |
| Sands, 1b | 3 15 | 4 4 | 4 | .266 |
| Napier, ss | 3 9 | 4 2 | 2 | .222 |
| Kraemer, 2b | 3 5 | 5 1 | 1 | .200 |
| Chilson, 2b | 1 0 | 0 0 | 0 | .000 |
| Munsinger, 3b | 1 0 | 0 0 | 0 | .000 |
| Hensley, cf | 3 13 | 3 0 | 0 | .000 |
| Reece, cf | 1 0 | 0 0 | 0 | .000 |
| Cadwalader,rf | 3 10 | 4 0 | 0 | .000 |
| Thompson, 1b | 1 0 | 0 0 | 0 | .000 |
| Biems, lf | 2 5 | 0 0 | 0 | .000 |
| White,lf | 1 0 | 0 0 | 0 | .000 |
| Hunt, ss | 2 1 | 1 0 | 0 | .000 |
| Martin,rf | 2 3 | 1 0 | 0 | .000 |
| Dugan,p | 1 3 | 0 0 | 0 | .000 |
To Mental Hygiene Meet
Dr. Bert A. Nash, professor of education, will attend the convention of the State Mental Hygiene society to be held in Parsons Friday and Saturday.
evinced by his time for the first two laps. He blazed the first quarter in 58 seconds and sailed past the half-mile mark in 2:03. A second half-mile like the first would have given him a 4:06 mile, but Glenn took it easy on the last two laps, not extending himself at all.
Glenn Really Training
The former University ace has been training hard for the race, as it will be the last time he will run at the Kansas Relays. Two workouts a day have been his schedule since he started training for the meet.
Cunningham, who relies on Hargiss for advice and instruction as much now as he did when he was in school, has pleased his coach very much with the form he has shown in training.
Expect 4:10 Mile
"Glenn should run that mile in 4:10 or faster Saturday", says Hargiss. The time of the race will depend partly on how fast a pace is set.
If Blaine Rideout runs the same type of race Saturday that he ran in winning the National A.A.U. championship last summer, the time should be very fast. In that race Blaine poured on a terrific pace and held a lead of almost 30 yards at the start of the last lap. The blistering pace took its toll on Rideout in the last lap, but he had just enough left to cross the finish line the winner by a yard.
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