PAGE FOUR
SPORTS
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN; LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY...MARCH-6...1940
Simonizing SportS By JAY SIMON
The two oldest records for the Big Six indoor meet are in the longest and shortest races . . . The two-mile mark of 9:37.6 was set 15 years ago by Balzer of Kansas State and Meier of Iowa State set the record for the 60-yard dash at 6.1 seconds in 1930 . . . Of the 12 standards on the books, the two-mile looks to be the most likely to go as Missouri's John Munski consistently beats this time . . . And more sure to stand is the record in the 60, which also ties the world's record indoors.
The defending champion Missouri team has three individuals who will be trying to preserve laurels won last year at the Big Six carnival . . . Munski captured the mile last year, Marshall Reeves won the 880, and Sol Schumitsky took the broad jump . . . Other blue ribbon winners back for another shot at honors are: Jack Morris, Oklahoma hurdler, and Elmer Hackney, K-State shot putter.
"Frosty" Cox and his Colorado cagers, winners of the Rocky Mountain conference, will go back to Gotham for a shot at the big tourney there next week then return to Kansas City to vie with the three other western representatives in the semi-finals of the N.C.A.A. playoffs . . . Rice Institute, of the Southwest conference, will do likewise . . . The other two teams to compete in Kansas City have yet to be named . . . One will be from the coast and the other from the Missouri Valley Sector . . . Sports writers Bus Ham of the Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoma and Jack Copeland of the Wichita Beacon are looking after the details and making contacts to get some of the Valley playoff games in their parishes.
Corbin Defeats Pi Phi's, 35-20; Play T.N.T. Next
A steady-playing Corbin hall basketball squad overpowered Pi Beta Phi, 35 to 20, last night to win the title of champion of the organized houses in the women's intramural basketball tournament.
Due to the sharp shooting of Lenore Grizzell, Mildred Wells, and Vergie Ray, Corbin took an 11-point lead at the end of the first half and held it throughout the remainder of the game. Vergie Ray scored highest with 15 points. Lilly Schmidt, Alta Bingham, and Marjorie Henry played an outstanding guarding game.
Pi Phi exhibited good teamwork and accurate passing ability. Virginia Anderson, Dennie Lemoine, Sue Haskins, and Jean Hinshaw starring.
Corbin hall will play the champion of the independent teams, T. N.T., Thursday for the basketball supremacy of the women's intramural teams.
Memorial Union Will Sponsor Ping Pong Team
A four-man table tennis, sponsored by the Memorial Union Activities board, has been organized to represent the Union building. Three of the members are the winners of last fall's tournament. A fourth man was added by Winford Ferry, e'40, chairman of the intramural commission. This group will play teams from surrounding cities and schools this spring.
Warren Shupe, b'40, Perry Peterson, c'42, Malcolm Black, l'42, and Don Estes, c'41, have been named as the starting combination for the first matches, which will be played in Topeka this weekend against an independent organization there. Bill Martin, c'43, will serve as alternate man.
The Topeka team will be the toughest opponents of the entire season. Two of the members are rated first and second in the state. They will be thrown against Shupe and Peterson, who finished first and second in the tourney here last fall.
At the present time Ferry is dickering for matches with Kansas State, Missouri and either an independent team in Kansas City, or the college
Jayhawker Athletes Use Miles of Tape In Year
By Larry Winn, c'40
Although the University of Kansas does not use as many athletic supplies as the other Big Six schools, still our athletes are "on the mend." From Earl Falkenstein, financial secretary of intercollegiate athletics, and Dean Nesmith, head trainer, we find the following facts.
In one school year Kansas uses 250 yards of 12 inch wide tape. If this amount was left in the foot wide roll, it would go 2 1-2 lengths of the football field. But if it were cut into 1 inch strips and placed end to end, it would go around the outdoor track almost seven times.
Every year, K.U. athletes use about 600,3 inch gauze bandages and about
of the city of Kansas City. Return engagements will also be sought for contests with these squads, to be played in the Kansas room of the local Union building.
Officials plan to keep the team on a competitive basis. Once a week the alternate player may challenge the fourth ranking team member to a match, and in the event that he wins, he will move up to a berth on the first string. Approximately 10 men will be named a little later, who will be given an opportunity of challenging the alternate man each week.
500, 1 inch by 1 inch bandages. If these little bandages were placed together in quilt fashion, they would more than cover the outdoor polevauting pit. If all of 72, 1 yard by 2 1-4 inch wide ankle wraps were placed end to end, they would go the length of the University swimming pool almost four times.
Over 14 gallons of athletic limiment are used by trainer Nesmith each year. This means that if the "starting five" members of the basketball team were not in training, each member could have a bottle of Coca Cola every day for 58 days. The athletes use 8 gallons of gargle a year. This is enough to furnish Dr. Allen with 3 quarts of water a game, for 16 games. The feet of our men should be well bathed in the 9 gallons of Tuf-Skin used each season to make the player's feet tougher.
For Ralph Miller's injured knee alone, the University bought a whole sheepskin. There are many other smaller supplies. One item listed is 4 cans of aspirin tablets, which would probably last the average family of four people about 6 years.
Other materials like antiseptic powder, analgesic balm, tape remover, smelling salts, and healing ointments play an important part in the training supplies.
Intramural Card Closes Tonight; Playoffs Ahead
A determined Dominoe II team maintained a one-point lead for the last minute of a hard-fought ball game and nosed out the Hexagons I, 26 to 25. Corkill and Packard paced the Dominoes to victory. This contest was the only intramural game played last night.
Tonight's play will conclude the regular season and determine the teams who will perform in the play-offs. At 9 p.m, the Comets will meet the Hellhounds while the Buccaneers tangle with ISA-4. At 10 p.m. Delta Chi opposes a tough Delta Tau Delta five. The standings:
won lost
Division I won lost
Phi Gamma Delta 9 1
Phi Delta Theta 8
Sigma Alpha E. 8 2
Delta Chi 7 2
Beta Theta Pi 7 3
Pi Kappa Alpha 6 4
Kappa Sigma 5 4
Sigma Chi 5 4
Phi Kappa Psi 5 5
Alpha Tau Omega 5 5
Delta Tau Delta 4 5
Sigma Nu 4 6
Sigma Phi Epsilon 3 7
(Continued on page five)