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SPORTS
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1940.
They'll Be On Firing Line, and Sideline, for Oklahoma University
Kansas Track Hopes Low
Missouri Doped To Repeat 1939 Indoor Victory
They say there's a limit to everything, but that was before the day of Bill Hargiss and his 1940 track team. Scuttled by injuries and ineligibility, the Jayhawker cinder squad goes into the Big Six indoor meet tomorrow night with fifth place as a possibility and sixth place as a probability.
The conference will be baptizing Kansas City's Municipal auditorium as the midwest's premier track and field palestra and Kansas will participate in the ceremonies only by virtue of their entries in each event.
Missouri Has Edge
Missouri's well-balanced team, with certain point-winners in almost every event, is favored to capture its second straight indoor championship in a close battle with Nebraska. Paced by two former high school sensations—Bill Lyda and Orv Matthews, the Oklahoma Sooners are picked for third place and Kansas State should be a poor fourth.
It will be little more than just a trip to Kansas City for the Jayhawks, and perhaps not even that for Coach Hargiss. In early-season reckonings, Kansas presented a noteworthy first place threat and appeared to have cinched at least third spot. But the scholastic purge and repeated raids by the medical corps reduced the Jayhawk strength to a sub-Polish stiff upper lip.
Even Coach a Victim
Most recent victims were Ray Harris, conference outdoor champion at two miles, and Hargiss. Harris was counted on for two second places at the minimum—a second to Missouri's John Munski in the mile and in the two mile. Coach Hargiss, fighting off a ripping offensive of influenza, may not be able to attend the meet.
Among countless other trackmen who fell before the jinx was Bob Stoland, defending titleholder in the
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Swimming Meet With K-State Off
Coach Jim Raport said today that the scheduled swimming meet with K-State at Manhattan tomorrow had been canceled indefinitely. Raport said postponement was requested by the Wildcat officials because of the conflict of the Big Six track meet at Kansas City, Mo.
The Tiger's "Lonesome John" will be attempting to set up new records in both the mile and two-mile runs at the Big Six meet.
Corbin Routs T.N.T. Sextet To Cop Title
By Cecil King, c'41
By Cecil King, c'41 Corbin blew up the intramural title hopes of T.N.T. last night by exploding offensive dynamite to sweep to a 37 to 19 victory in the championship game of the women's basketball tournament.
Leading the challengers for the crown is Bill Smutz, Nebraska's sensational sophomore hurdler. After opening the season with a :07.7 flight of hurdles against Kansas, the Huskers' crack sophomore bore down in the dual meet with Kansas State. He raced over the barriers that night in the sizzling time of :07.5, a tenth of a second faster than the Big Six record.
Led by Lenora Grizzell and Mildred Wells, sharpshooting forwards who made 13 and 19 points respectively, Corbin went into an early lead and never was seriously threatened.
Although Marjorie Henry and Alta Bingham, Corbin guards, were outstanding performers, Dorothy Smith hit the basket consistently for T.N.T., amassing 15 of her team's 19 points. She was the lone scorer for T.N.T. during the first half.
White, Smutz,and Morris Favored in High Hurdles
Even if Smith had received offensive support from her teammates, Corbin would not have been hard-pressed.
(This is the last of a series of articles dealing with prospects in the various events at the Big Six indoor track meet tomorrow night in Kansas City's Municipal auditorium.)
A photo-finish in the 60 yard high hurdles at the Big Six indoor track meet in Kansas City tomorrow night will be no surprise in view of the form the timber-toppers have been displaying this winter.
Jack Morris of Oklahoma, defending champion in the high barriers, equalled the conference record of 07.6 at the indoor meet last winter. This year he has looked even better, but he will have to outdo himself to retain his title.
A Nebrsakan Favored
Already this winter White has marked up a time of 07.6 in the high hurdles and there is little doubt that the Tiger senior's final indoor campaign will be his best one.
Joint favorite with Morris and Smutz is John White of Missouri, a veteran timber-topper. White ran third in the highs at the indoor meet last winter and then moved up to second spot in his event at the Big Six outdoor meet.
Two Tiger Threats
In addition to White, Missouri has another hope in the hurdles in sophomore Jimmy Johnson. In winning the highs in the Tiger varsity-freshman meet earlier this season, Johnson was clocked in a good time of .07.7.
Battling for points in the hurdles for Kansas State will be Darold Dodge, red headed Wildcat junior. Dodge made his best showing this winter against Kansas, winning the highs in .07.8.
The outcome of the high hurdles will have a direct bearing on the result of the meet, as the three favorites in this race represent the three schools expected to fight it out for the championship.
Simonizing SportS
By JAY SIMON
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Kansas City's Municipal Auditorium, scene of the Big Six indoor track meet tomorrow night, is going to be a busy place the next week or so.
After tomorrow's six ply powwow, they'll just have time to rake the pits and sweep the splinters off the track for Monday night's Missouri Valley A.A.U. invitational affair in which Glenn Cunningham will race Finland's newest contribution to the mathathon world, Taisto Maki, in the two mile.
Also getting underway in the "garden" Monday will be the National Intercollegiate basketball tournament which lasts until Saturday night. This affair is not to be confused with the N.C. A.A. meet which comes to K.C. later in the month. The intercollegiate is for the smaller colleges which do not observe the freshman rule.
When the full bracket is drawn up 32 teams from all over the United States will be battling for the crown won last year by Lloyd Tucker and his Southwestern College mates. Kansas teams in the running this year will be Southwestern again and Pittsburg Teachers, two of the trichampions of the Central conference, and Ottawa U. of the Kansas conference.
March 21 and 22 the four western semi-finalists in the N.C.A.A. will compete in the auditorium to see which one represents this side of "old muddy" when the East meets the West in the same arena, March 30 for the national crown.
Not in the sports palestra, but in one of the city's hotels at the same time will be the three-day basketball rules meeting in which the leading coaches of the nation cuss and discuss the present laws of the game.
Dr. F. C. Allen is chairman of the research committee on rules changes and it looks as if he will
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Big Six All-Stars To Appear Sunday
Big Six conference basketball all- stars, as named by Jay Simon, the Kansan's sports editor, will be announced Sunday. The post-season honors will be awarded on the basis of opinions from conference coaches and observers and from Simon's observations at nine Big Six games this season.
Drawings Made For Intramural Cage Playoffs
By Clint Kanaga, c'42
By Chii Ranga, c42 Six of the ten teams in the men's intramural basketball tournament sailed right into the second round by drawing byes at the meeting of team managers yesterday afternoon.
In the lower bracket the Phi Delta's and the A.K. Psi's are matched in second round and the Comets will take on the winner of the Dominoe-Delta Chi battle.
In the upper bracket the Phi Gam's and the Sig Alph's will meet in the quarter-finals and in the other game the undefeated Buccaneer team will meet the winner of the Ghost-Beta scrap.
Two games Monday night will pit Dominoes I against the Delta Chi's and Galloping Ghosts and the Beta's and reduce the field to eight to open serious play in the second round.
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