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TUESDAY, APRIL 2.1940.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Two Kansans On N.C.A.A. All-American Team
Marvin Huffman
Above are the five players who were chosen as the N.C.A.A.'s all-American basketball team at the close of the Kansas - Indiana
Bob Allen
game in Kansas City Saturday night.
Howard Engleman, junior Jayhawker forward, was named captain of the team. Pairing with
Bill Menke
Jay McCreary
him at the other forward is Jay McCreary, scintillating Hoosier who caused the K.U. boys no end of trouble.
Bill Menke, efficient Indiana
pivotman, was named center, and the guards are Bob Allen and Marvin Huffman, the Hoosier hotshot who was named the most valuable player in the game.
Howard Engleman
The second team was Armstrong, Indiana, and Ebling, Kansas, forwards; Zimmer, Indiana center: Harp and Voran, Kansas, guards.
Sports Parade
By Henry McLemore
New York, April 1.—(UP)—Six new world records were established in Madison Square Garden last night, five of them in track and field events and one in warmth of applause for a champion whose spikes have been rusty these many years.
Let others tell you of Greg Rice's smashing 13:52.3 in the three mile run; Al Bloziz' monstrous heaves of the eight and twelve pound shots; and Allan Tolmich's scissoring time in the 50 and 70 yard hurles. I would like to recapture that moment for you when Paavo Nurmi, the onetime phantom Finn, was softly introduced over the loudspeaker and came striding from the darkness of a ramp into the glare of the big arena.
He came in with the same long, full and easy lope of the Nurmi of near two decades ago, and wearing a faded blue running suit. For a second or two there wasn't a sound, save that of his spikes biting into the pine boards of the track. And for a second or two you could have sworn you were watching the same Nurmi who ran to 12 world records, and who was the mightiest running man of all time.
Then the needles of a dozen spotlights illuminated him and he became Paavo Nurmi, 42, a champion of the past, making what might well be his last run, and in many ways, his greatest run. Almost bald, his face lined by time, and lacking the depth of chest and steel of thigh and calf of the young stars who lined the track to watch him run, Paavo worked five laps, just one lap short of half a mile.
After the second or two of silence, when he finally settled into his full stride, the crowd of 14,000 who had come to contribute its bit to the Finnish relief fund, cheered his every step as if it were a step that was carrying him through the tape for a new world's mark. At the finish of his run there wasn't a spectator who wasn't standing, to better yell, whistle and clap his appreciation and admiration for the Olympic champion of 1824.
Olympic champion It was an unprecedented demonstration for track and field, a sport
in which stirring man-to-man competition provides the thrill. Nurmi was alone, and did not even have the clock for a competitor. He was running for no medal, no laurel wreath. But none of the young champions, when they broke records later on in the evening drew the cheers that Nurmi did.
When he turned his final lap Nurmi did not wait to take a bow. Shy, quiet and modest as he was when he dominated the tracks of the world, he jogged down a ramp and out of sight. He didn't appear again until just before the start of the feature three mile race between his countryman, Taisto Maki, and Rice. Wearing a dark blue, double-breasted suit, he took up a position near the turn into the backstretch and, with his old stopwatch in his hands, clocked and advised Maki.
Each time Maki whirled by Paavo leaned out and told him his time and directed a quickening or slowing of the pace. Before the race Paavo said that Maki was in much better shape than in earlier races, that his muscles had forgotten the rigors of war in the Mannerheim line, and that he would run a 13:54 three mile against the Notre Dame boy with the beer barrel chest.
Maki did just about that, too, but it wasn't good enough. Turning the final two laps at 440 speed, Rice ran away from the handsome Finn.
The season starts Thursday, April 4, and there is speculation as to whether the champion Sigma Phi Epsilon team will be able to repeat this year against such strong teams as Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Beta Theta Pi, Delta Upsilon and the Galloping Dominoes.
Men's Intramurals
Friday afternoon saw the advent of softball practice for several baseball teams. The play was generally ragged but this is expected at this point in the season.
John Hocevar, the Delta Upsilon star, is the pre-season candidate for the honors of "strike out king."
Upside-Down Man Will Appear In Universal Short
Frank Annebsorg, gr K.U.'s upside down man made his initial appearance on movie f!m this week when Universal Pictures Corporation filmed a story sequence of his hand-stand shaving ect.
The film will be included on a technicolor short, "Stranger Than Fiction," reelized by Universal once a month. It is expected that it will
appear at one of the local theaters soon.
Zimmerman will cover the Kansas Relays for Universal Newsreel, and stated his intention of filming Anneberg while roller-skating on his hands atop the press box, at that time.
Cameraman J. C. Zimmerman shot 500 feet of film of the upside down man as he performed on the steps east of Corbin hall. The newsreel camera recorded Anneberg walking up and down the steps on his hands, shaving while resting on his forearms.
Notice
A 36-hole qualifying round in golf will be played his week-end. 18 holes at 2:30 Friday afternoon, and 18 holes at 8:30 Saturday morning. All golfers must get in touch with Wm. H. Shannon, golf coach before playing.
Galloping Dominoes—
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heat: Wilson, Delta Upsilon; fourth
heat: Jones, Galloping Dominoes,
fifth heat; Banta, Delta Tau Delta,
Sixth Heat; Mackey, Galloping Dominoes, seventh heat; Dunn, Beta.
Best time: 1:18.5—Mackey, Galloping Dominoes.
50 yard free style (winner of ecke heat to semi-finals); First heat; Jones Phi Psi, second heat; Stone, Sigma Nu, third heat; Eberhart, Beta, fourth heat; Ainsworth, Phi Psi, fifth heat, Dalton, Galloping Dominoes, sixth heat; Musser, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, seventh heat; Wilson, Sigma Chi, Eighth heat; Maier, Galloping Dominoes. Best time: 27.8—Muser, Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Maier, Galloping Dominoes.
200 yard relay (two from each heat to semi-finals). First heat; Phi Deltas and Sigma Nu, second heat; Galloping Dominoes and Beta Theta Pi, third heat; Sigma Chi and Delta Upsilon. Best time: 1:57.4 Galloping Dominoes.
Condensed Official Statement
The Lawrence National Bank LAWRENCE, KANSAS At the close of business. March 26, 1940
RESOURCES
Cash and due from Banks ... $1,458,154.19
United States Bonds ... 366,270.34
Municipal and Other Bonds ... 349,856.25
RESOURCES
Banking House 20,000.00
Furniture, Fixtures and Vaults 1,000.00
Other Real Estate 6.00
2,174,280.78
21,006.00
Loans 539,175.24
TOTAL $2,734,462.02
LIABILITIES
Capital ... $ 100,000.00
Surplus ... 100,000.00
Undivided Profits ... 106,222.51
Deposits ... 2,428,239.51
TOTAL ... $2,734,462.02
Above statement is correct.
GEO. W. KUHNE, Cashier
Deposits insured under provisions of the Federal Banking Act of 1935.