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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SPORTS
TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1940
SPORTSCOPE By Larry Winn
Well, the spring sports are finally in the grove at last. Track jumped the gun last Saturday and made its first appearance in the Texas Relays in Austin.
Inaccurate details by wire were responsible for the fact that the Kansan did not carry a story about the four-mile relay team placing second. It was all news to me when members of the team popped up on the Hill with their silver medals.
The team of Joe Ryan, Dick Edwards, Don Thompson, and Ray Harris should be given all due credit for their feat. Although the track was sloppy from a two-day rain, Ryan and Edwards both ran very well. Thompson then turned in a fast mile to give anchor man Ray Harris, a thirty-five yard margin over the field. Harris ran well until the last half of the fourth lap and then that bad ankle acted up again, but Ray half ran, limped, and hobbled into a second place.
J; R. Jones, Jayhawker broad-jumper leaped his way into a fourth place in that event. First reports had the Kansan leading the jump, but he fell by the way in the fourth and last trials, when three other jumpers bettered his mark.
BASEBALL gets under way this week with the Kansas batsmen meeting Rockhurst here Wednesday afternoon. Mike Getto will probably start "Knute" Kresie, a sphomore against the Hawk team from Kansas City. John Burge is another pitcher that might get the opening slab ticket.
Then again on Friday afternoon, the Kansans play host to the diamond team from Manhattan. By this time, Getto should fairly well know which boys are going to be in the K.U. starting lineup for the season.
TENNIS AND GOLF are the twins of the spring sports. Wherever the golf team goes, the tennis team is sure to follow, because the schedules of these two teams are exactly the same. Coaches Urhllaub and Shannon will go hand in hand to represent the University. The first match of the season is Wednesday afternoon when our teams play like teams from the Kansas City University.
Around the links we find Dean Ritchie as medalist for the 36-hole qualifying round played Friday and Saturday. Ritchie played for the Jayhawker team last year. Other golfers who looked pretty good considering the weather were Bill Gray, San Sifers, and Rod Wakeland. Wakeland represented Kansas a few times last year too.
On the court team under the instruction of Coach "Dutch" Urlaub, we have two returning lettermen in Howard Engleman and Kermit Franks. Both were strong players last year and should be twice as good this season with one year experience.
WEEPING DEPT. All followers of Kansas football should be weeping because K.U. has just lost one of the most promising centers it has ever seen on the gridiron. His name is Tommy Robertson, who hailed from Duncan, Oklahoma. He followed Vic Hurt up here from Tulsa, but somehow he could not manage to play football and keep his grades up too.
Four-Mile Team Inaccurate Wire Report Fails to Credit Kansans
Despite inaccurate details of the Thirteenth Annual Relays in Austin, Texas, by wire, Kansas fared much better than the results indicated, according to Coach Bill Hargiss.
The four-mile relay team, which was recorded as not placing, took second place in the long event. After Joe Ryan and Dick Edwards ran a fine mile, Don Thompson, who was running third, passed the baton to Ray Harris with a thirty-five yard lead over the field.
Harris held this lead until the last half of the fourth lap when his ankle gave way under the strain of such hard running. He hobbled the last fifty yards to the finish line, but was nosed out of the lead into second place.
J. R. Jones, who placed fourth in the broad jump Saturday, was leading the field of fast competition until the last round of jumping took place, when three men bettered his mark on their final attempts on the rain-soaked runway.
Bill Green, Glenn Foy, Bill Reed, and Kenny Hamilton, who made up the one-mile relay team won their heat from five other teams. The teams in the second heat ran to the tape in a huddle, and four of them bettered the time of the Kansas relay by only tenths of a second.
Bill Bevan found trouble in getting up into the air from the wet track. Rain poured onto the track until 10 o'clock Saturday morning, and as a result, the vaulters nearly lost their shoes as they sunk about two inches into the muck on their take-off. About the only pull they could get when leaving the ground was from the arms.
Coach Hargiss expressed the attitude of "being very well pleased with his team" and that they "did exceptionally well under the conditions they had to undergo."
A proposal to call off the meet until yesterday, because of the rain, was given due consideration, but was finally given up.
Women's Intramurals
By CECIL KING
Women's intramural organizations have been teamed and competition in spring sports will begin this week.
In the horseshoe pitching contest Kappa Alpha Theta will meet Alpha Delta Pi and Chi Omega will meet Kappa Kappa Gamma Thursday at 4:30. Sigma Kappa will compete with Gamma Phi Beta at 4:30 Friday.
Helsinki, Finland, April 9.—(UP)
Finnish newspapers published unconfirmed reports today that Norway regarded itself as at war with both Germany and Great Britain.
The first games in the baseball league were played this afternoon between Sigma Kappa and Alpha Chi Omega and Watkins hall and Alpha Omicron Pi. Kappa Alpha Theta will play Alpha Delta Pi, Kappa Kappa Gamma will play Chi Omega, and I.N.D. will play I.W.W. tomorrow at 4:30. At 4:30 Friday, miller hall vs. Corbin hall, T.N.T. vs. E.T.C., and Pi Beta Phi vs. Gamma Phi Beta.
BETWEEN TWO FIRES
Relays Records Compare Favorablu
A set of records that will compare favorably with those for any track meet in the country is the target track and field stars from all sections will shoot at in the eighteenth annual Kansas Relays here April 20.
Among the individual events there are such outstanding marks as 9.4 for the 100-yard dash 14.2 for the 120-yard high hurdles 25 feet 4 3-8 inches for the broad jump, 229 feet 2 1-4 inches in the javelin throw, and 14 feet 2 inches in the pole vault.
The records:
Special Events
100-yard dash-9.4, Leland, Texas Christian, 1930.
120-yard high hurdles—14.2,
Wolcott, Rice, 1938.
One-mile run--4:12.7, Cunningham, Kansas, 1934.
High jump= 6 feet 7 9-16 inches,
Cruter, Colorado, 1938.
Broad jump=25 feet 4 3-8 inches Gordon, Iowa, 1931.
Pole vault—14 feet 2 inches,
Bryan, Texas, 1938.
Shot put—52 feet 1 1-2 inches,
Hackney, Kansas State, 1939.
Discus throw - 154 feet, Petty,
Rice, 1935.
Javelin throw—229 feet 21-4 inches, Terry, Hardin-Simmons, 1937.
University Class Relays Quarter-mile relays-40.5, Iowa, 1935.
Half-mile relay—1:25.2, Iowa,
1935.
One-mile relay—3:16.1, Texas,
1935.
Two-mile relay 7:45.7, Kansas State, 1935.
Distance medley relay-10:12,7,
K.S.T.C., Emporia, 1936.
Four-mile relay—17:37.8, Illinois, 1931.
Sprint medley relay—3:27, Rice,
1938 and 1939.
Two-mile relay—7:50.5, K.S.T.C.
Emporia, 1933.
Half-mile relay—1,267. River-
side, Calif., Junior College, 1988.
One-mile relay—3:17.3, K.S.T.C.
Pittsburgh, 1933.
College Class Relays
Distance medley relay—10:06.9,
North Texas State, 1939.
Invitation spirt medley relay—3:39.2, Baker, 1939.
Here for Relays—
Glenn Cunningham
John Munski
"Beefus" Bryan
Gene Littler
Ray Harris
Jack Hughes
C. of C. Basketball Banquet Tonight
Dr. F. C. Allen and 20 members of the varsity basketball squad will be guests of the city of Lawrence tonight at the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce's annual basketball banquet.
Reservation for 155 Lawrence businessmen in addition to the University squad have been made for the dinner which will be held at the Lawrence Country Club at 6 p.m. After the dinner, moving pictures of the national tournament games in Kansas City last month will be shown the group.
Paul Endicott, present president of the K.U. alumni association, who was captain of Doctor Allen's all-victorious team of 1923, will speak to the group following the dinner. Mr. Endicott is now assistant to the president of the Phillips Petroleum company in Bartlesville, Okla.
Other speakers at the dinner will be Gwinn Henry, director of athletics at the University, and W. W. Davis, chairman of the University athletic board.
the dinner, sponsored by the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, is held each year in appreciation of Doctor Allen and his basketball teams.
Minnesota Man Honors Speaker
Guy Stanton Ford, president of the University of Minnesota, will speak to students on "Scholarship in the United States During the Past 75 Years" at the eighteenth annual all-University Honors convocation, April 18, Raymond Nichols, executive secretary to the Chancellor, said today.
The "Honor Man of 1933" will be announced at the convocation. The name of the honor man, selected from the graduating class of last year, will be kept secret until the time of the convocation. Last year for the first time in the history of the award, two men were named as the "Honor Men of 1938." They were Dean Moorhead and Don Voorhees.
In addition to the Honors convoitation two other all-University convocations remain on the spring semester schedule. George S. Counts, professor of education at Teachers college, Columbia University will address students on "Can Intellectual Freedom be Preserved in America?" April 22. "Art and the Public" will be the subject of a talk by Charles F. Kelley, assistant director of the Chicago Art Institute, April 30.
Relays Entries Coming In Fast
Entries for the Kansas Relays are really beginning to pour into the athletic office. The entries were held up because of the no Sunday mail delivery, but 36 more high schools entered this morning.
A post card reminder was sent out to each of the high school coaches, last Saturday morning by the Kansas Relays Committee. This reminder is probably one reason for the flood of entries in the high school division.
In Class A, 17 more high schools sent in their entries this morning, and in Class B, 10 schools entered. The entries which came in this morning included Oklahoma A. and M. in the university class, College of Emporia, and Sterling College in the college class, and Parsons Junior College, and Trenton, Mo., Junior College.
Class A schools entering were Olathe, Pittsburg, Fort Scott, Giraard, Leavenworth, Seaman High of Topeka, Junction City, Manhattan, Hiawatha, Wellington, Eureka, Yates Center, Wichita East, Atchison County Community, Marion, Parsons.
The Class B entries were Oskaloosa, Turon, Florence, Norwich, Assaria, Burlingame, Pomona, Elmdale, Valley Falls, Matfield Green, Colony, Maize, LeRoy, Troy, Williamsburg, Milton, Mound Valley, Olivet, and Kincaid.
The University table tennis team took the tournament with the University of Kansas City, Sunday with six straight matches. In the singles Petterson defeated Fowlkes, Black took Raines, Ham won over Bose, and Martin defeated Bruner.
The results of the doubles were: Shupp-Petterson defeating Fowkles-Raines and Black-Keyser taking Bosse-Bruner.
Table Tennis Team Beats K.C.U.
The team will go to Topeka Friday, to play the Topeka Table Tennis association and Sunday they will go to Kansas City to play again.
The Co-led cue tournament, sponsored by the Women's Intramural association, will begin next Monday in the women's recreational room of the Memorial Union building, it was announced today.
Co-Ed Cue Meet
Winner of the tourney will be awarded a trophy by Charles Peterson, world's champion trick shot. Mr.Peterson wants to create an interest in pool among college co-eds.
Entries for the contest may be turned in at the recreation room or to the hostess' desk.
Two Pockets Saddle Stitched
ARRIVED THIS MORNING---- And They're "Honeys"
New Jersey Sleeveless Slipovers-
Special Price
Blue - Green - Camel