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SPORTS
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 1940.
SPORTSCOPE By Larry Winn
Written Saturday Afternoon
Since I wrote this column before I left for the game in Kansas City, I cannot give you the inside on any of the events that happened in the big city. But the story will be covered in completeness by Jay Simon, and is on the front page of this issue (as if you could miss it).
Did any of you all happen to listen for fifteen minutes on WREN Friday night to hear the Louis-Paychek (prize fight)? Well, it was the poorest excuse for a fight that the Madison Square Garden has put on for quite a little while. And in return, the sponsors received the bronx cheer from the paying customers that are getting plenty tired of paying good money to see set-ups like Johnny Paychek, and Jack Roper fight the champion.
It is going to kill any interest the fans might have in the fight game, if the New York producers don't quit putting such poor excuses for fighters in the ring with the "Brown Bomber." It is getting so that a listener can hardly get to the radio in time to turn it on, before the fight is all over and the "champion" is on his way out of the auditorium. Not since the days of "Fainting Phil" Scott, has this corner heard such an example of poor fighting.
Getto Has Convictions Strengthened
The least they could do is put a good spring runner in the ring with Louis and give the fans a little entertainment for their money. Fight fans mean, and say "oh for some more fights like the Dempsey-Tunney scraps." People would rather pay 40 cents and go see a good comedy, than to see many more set-ups for the Detroit Negro.
On the diamond: Friday afternoon, Coach Mike Meke put his batsmen through their paces in a six inning practice game between the Whites and the Reds. The Whites nosed out the Reds, 6 to 5, but the Reds, declared that they would have won if they had played the other three innings. Warner Coffin made a good impression at the bat when he averaged 1000 per cent, knocking out three hits out of three times at bat. . . Not a bit bad for a six inning scrimmage game. . . Coach Getto is having a hard time finding the exact infield combination that will really click. . . Many good ball players are out for these positions, but so far they have not worked together the way they should. . . Maybe Getto is looking for a Priddy, Rizzuto, and Sturm combination like the Kansas City Blues had last year.
Down around the cinders: Coach Bill Hargiss is planning to make a better showing in the outdoor Big Six track meet than the Jayhawkers did in the indoor meet at Kansas City. . . When Ray "Churchie" Harris, Big Six two-mile champion gets his leg and foot into shape, we should garner five points in that event in the Big Six and all the dual meets. . . Hargiss is hoping that J. R. Jones can remedy his back ailment and get back into broadjumping form like he showed last year in practice. . . The loose-jointed Jones jumped around 24 feet in practice outdoors last year, but so far this year, he has yet to go over 23 feet.
Team Receives Pep Telegram, 10 Pounds Candy
When 1,084 loyal Jayhawkers sent a telegram of support to the K.U. quintet before the Oklahoma A. & M. game, they little suspected they were sending pep to the contenders for the national championship.
But that is what they did literally, as well as figuratively.
With part of the surplus funds collected in the nickel assessment on all signers of the A. & M. message another telegram and a big box of candy was sent to the team last night and delivered shortly before game time.
The telegram, read by Dr. Allen to the team shortly before they went on the court last night, follows:
"Tonight the eyes of the sports world will be focused on your efforts. Every loyal Kansan is confident that you will play your hearts out and that you will win. In our opinion you comprise the greatest basketball team in Kansas history. Win or lose, you have won for yourselves a place in the heart of every Jayhawk fan. Tonight we expect to see the sweltest bunch of young men in the country prove they are the sweltest basketball players in the country."
West Vs. East In Coach Debate
Kansas City, Mo., March 30.—(Special)After engaging Dr. F. C. Allen of Kansas in a bitter debate over the respective merits of basketball as played in the East and the West, Nat Holman of the City College of New York was elected president of the National Basketball Coaches Association here this afternoon.
The coaches voted to suggest to the national rules body, convening here tomorrow and Monday, that they adopt a standard ball of brown stitched leather $ 29\frac{1}{2} $ inches in circumference and carrying 13 pounds pressure.
Sam Barry, coach of Southern California, led the fight for the standardized ball, saying that he had encountered five different types this season.
Doctor Allen was elected vicechairman of the rules committee. Harold Browne of Nebraska is the new secretary-treasurer of the coaches organization. These were the only Big Six mentors to be elected to offices.
The cage professors also voted to have the ball put in play from under the basket after free throws made on technical fouls.
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K.S.T.C. Group—
The Emporia musicians, who are lded by Orien Dailley, will present a program consisting of "Symphony No. 5 in E Minor" (Dvorsk), "Ballet from Cassanova" (Taylor), "Perpetual Motion", solo for violins, ("Bohm"), and "La Bamboula" (Col-
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Outfield Set But Infield Stumps Coach
Friday's practice game, in which the White's, captained by John Burge, defeated Eldreth Cadwalader's Reds by a score of 6 to 5, only strengthened Coach Mike Getto's convictions concerning the merits and weaknesses of his Jayhawk baseball team.
As he watched his men play through a game which was terminated by darkness at the end of the sixth inning, Coach Getto was fairly well pleased with the performance of his outfielders, but he tried several infield combinations without finding one which clicked to his entire satisfaction.
Two Jayhawk outfielders, Warner Coffin and Dean Martin, shone at the plate, Coffin bagging three hits in three times at bat, and Martin smashing out a home run.
Darrell Haynes, first base candidate, Miller Cameron, outfielder Getto his been trying at shortstop and third base, Bob Hunt, diminutive shortstop, and Larry Hensley, a member of last year's outfield, who is alternating at first base this spring, showed some promise of developing into a smoothly working infield before the season is far advanced.
John Burge started on the mound for the Reds and pitched three innings before giving way to Henry Horak, the southpaw outfielder who also pitches on occasion. Knute Kresie was the starting hurler for the Reds, and he was replaced by "Red" Dugan after a three inning turn.
Batting practice and infield plays will be emphasized during Monday's drill. Coach Getto also plans to spend considerable time on offensive maneuvers and the signal code which his players will use this year.
The Sooners defeated Baylor University three games in a row before dropping the fourth to the Bears Thursday afternoon when an error by Herb Scheffler, Oklahoma basketball star who plays first base, let the winning run across the plate. From Waco, the Sooners hopped to Austin where they were scheduled to meet the Texas University nine in a two-game series.
As the Jayhawks concluded their fourth week of practice, the Oklahoma Sooners, preseason favorites to win the baseball championship this spring got the jump on other Big Six teams by playing six games on a four-day road trip into Texas.
pianist, will play "Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in B flat Minor" (Tschiakowsky).
Professor Dalley, who until this year was the leader of the University of Wisconsin orchestra, has reeridge-Taylor). Vernon Sheffield, cently completed a course of study under the Finnish composer, Jean Sibelius.
The University orchestra will play its part of the exchange concert in Emporia on April 8.
High Schools to Meet Here in Track, April 19
The biggest high school sports event of the year, the thirty-sixth annual University of Kansas interscholastic track and field meet, will be held at Lawrence, April 19.
A record entry list of almost three thousand athletes from 182 high schools was established last year. The number of school competing was almost the same as the previous year, but larger teams were entered by many of the schools.
Most astonishing fact about the 1939 meet was the widespread scoring. One hundred and two of the teams entered broke into the scoring, something far exceeding any previous records.
Topeka, Class A winner the last two years, and Mount Hope, which won the Class B championship for the first time last year, will be the defending champions in their respective divisions.
Topeka's Trojans have assumed a dominant role in Kansas high school track and field under Coach Fred Powers. Despite heavy losses by graduation, Topeka will have another crack team this year.
However the Trojans will have to fight off a strong field of contenders. Wichita North, winner of the K.U. meet in 1933, 1935 and 1937, looks like it will be strong again this year.
Wichita East is another challenger to the Class A crown. East was nosed out by Topeka here last year, but then turned the tables on
the trojanes at the state meet later in the season. The return to scholastic purity of Hulse, a sprint star who was ineligible last year, will help Wichita East considerably.
Wyandotte high of Kansas City, Kan. and Hutchinson, who finished in a tie for third last spring, also figure to be in the running. Wyandotte should be strong in the middle distance runs and the 440 yard dash. Good half-milers and milers are two and three deep.
Mount Hope, last year's winner in Class B, appears likely to have a hard time repeating. Dick Givens, sprint star, accounted for almost
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QUANTRILL RIDES AGAIN
An historic scene following "the dark command" which precipitated a chain of events somewhat as follows: Quantrill's raid, "The Dark Command," and a world premiere in Lawrence, April 4.
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