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SPORTS
JNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, MARCH 3, 1940.
Monday Night Contest With Creighton U. Next Test For Champion Jayhawk Cagers
Simonizing SportS BY JAY SIMON
Russell "Rub" Thomson, the dead-eye forward of the '28, '29, and '30 Jayhawker basketball teams, has the distinction of being the only Kansas cager since 1922 who has played three years on Mt. Oread without receiving a gold basketball, emblematic of the conference championship.
The next three seasons were lean ones for Kansas. In "Rub's" senior year Kansas had a chance to win the pennant by downing Missouri in the final game of the year, but the Bengals won, 30 to 23. Thomson was kept out of that game by an arm infector and was deprived of personally getting one last shot at a gold ball.
Thomson entered school in 1926 and played freshman basketball. He dropped out the next year and by so doing failed to earn his watch charm. The Jayhawkers won that year.
In 1922 the Jayhawkers tied M.U. for the old Missouri Valley league bunting and since then they have been out of the money only five times, three of them coming in a row when "Rub" was doing his stuff. The other years Kansas was nudged off the top rung were 1935 and 1939.
Dr. F. C. Allen said yesterday that he plans to suggest that the Athletic Board vote an honorary trophy to Thomson.
Bob Allen was picked by a Missouri coed for her all star glamour team for the Big Six . . . At Stillwater the scribes seemed to think Bruce Voran and Johnny Kline were the handsomest of the lot . . . . Burleigh Grimes, manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers just two years ago, has been signed to pilot the Trenton, Mo. Ban Johnson club this season. Boy, those Dodgers really do things to you. . . Note to sports writers: Mr Oread has seen too many athletic battles which were "the biggest thing since Quinnill's Raid." . . . Bob Ginn, freshman distance ace at Nebraska, wheeled the half mile in 1:59-6, the mile in 4:31.1, and the two mile in 10:01.2 in a mail order meet with Ohio State.
Kansas Leads After Victory Over Missouri
By Jay Simon, c'40
Assured of at least a tie for their twenty-first league basketball championship after the thrilling 42 to 40 victory over Missouri Friday night, the Jayhawkers hop from Douglas County, Kansas, to Douglas County, Nebraska for a nonconference engagement with Creighton tomorrow night in Omaha.
With scarcely time to catch their breath after the close call with the Bengals, Dr. F. C. Allen and his cagers continue their busy schedule which will have seen them play eight games in 25 days when the regular season closes next Friday night with the game at Norman, Okla. Due for Let-Down
The Kansans, tired and weary from the tough uphill grind they had to undergo to bring the Big Six title back to Mt. Oread, may be in for a big let-down against the Missouri Valley outfit tomorrow night.
In 11 days Kansas defeated Kansas State, Nebraska, and Iowa State on the road and the formerly league-leading Missouri Tigers at home. Needing them all to hand Doctor Allen his twenty-third championship in 30 years coaching, the Jayhawkers performed like the champions they are, reaching their peak in the home finale against the invading neighbors to the East.
Harp and Ebling Sparkle
Co-captains Dick Harp and Don Ebling, writing finis on three brilliant campaigns in Hoch auditorium, played the games of their young lives as they led their mates to victory. Ralph Miller and Howard Engleman outscored the captains with 10 points each, but it was the ball-dogging and tight guarding turned in by these stellar seniors that proved Kansas' margin of safety.
Besides their fancy floor games,
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(This is the fourth of a series of articles dealing with prospects in the various events at the Big Six indoor track meet to be held in Kansas City's Municipal auditorium Saturday night. Tomorrow: the shot put.)
Dick Schnacke, Cyclone high jumper, leaped 6 feet $5 \frac{1}{2}$ inches to win his event at the Kansas Relays. He was second to Bob Stoland of Kansas at the indoor meet last year and tied with Stoland for first at the outdoor meet.
Although Iowa State is not expected to be much of a threat in the Big Six indoor track meet in Municipal auditorium at Kansas City, March 9, Coach George Bretnall is figuring on five points in the high jump as a sure thing.
Iowa State High Jumper Should Win at K.C. Meet
The Box Score
Since Stoland is not eligible this year, Schnacke figures to have things his own way over a field of high jumpers which is not up to the usual Big Six standard.
KANSAS (42)
A Kansas Boy
g ft mft f tp
Miller, f ... 5 2 0 2 10
Engleman, f.. 4 2 1 10 10
Ebling, f ... 3 3 2 1 9
Allen, c ... 1 2 1 1 4
Sands, c ... 0 0 0 0 0
Harp, g ... 3 2 0 1 8
Voran, g ... 1 2 0 1 1
Kline, g ... 0 1 0 2 0
Totals ... 16 10 7 7 42
MISSOURI (40)
| | g | ft | mft | f | tp |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Cooper, f ... | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| Watson, f ... | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Harvey, f ... | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 8 |
| Gregg, f ... | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Currence, c ... | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Tison, c ... | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Lobsig, g ... | 6 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 12 |
Nash, g ... | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
Mills, g ... | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| — | — | — | — | — | — |
Totals 18 4 4 19 40
Score at half: Missouri 25, Kansas 24.
Manhattan, Kan., March 2—Hobbs Adams, a former grid captain and one of the greatest ends ever to play for the University of Southern California, will assume his new duties as head football coach at Kansas State college as spring practice gets under way March 11.
Officials: Parke Carroll, (Kansas City) and Moe Pressly (Omaha).
Hobbs Adams Continues Dynasty Of Jones Trained' Men at K-State
The genial 37-year-old Californian made a big hit with Manhattanites during his brief stay here recently. Twice All-Conference
for the Trojans three years and was all-for-the conference end in 1924 and 1925. He played in 1923 and 1924 under Coach Elmer Henderson and in 1925 was captain of the team during Howard Jones' first season as head football coach at that school. Adams also captained the U.S.C. baseball team his senior year.
After an outstanding scholastic and athletic record at San Diego, Calif. High School, Adams enrolled at U.S. C. in 1922. He played regular end
Adams made remarkable coaching records at Monrovia and San Diego high schools before joining the U.S. C. coaching staff in February, 1935. He was head freshman coach in 1935 and 1936. Starting with the 1937 season he has been end coach, assisted
with coaching the backs, and did much of the scouting. Although a specialist with the varsity, Adams has worked a great deal with all linesmen because of his knowledge of all types of blocking and line finesse. Trojan play picked up considerably when his ideas of smashing game were taken up.
Well Liked At Troy
One of the best liked members of the Southern California coaching staff, Adams has a keen sense of humor along with his conscientious attention to duty. Because of his pop-
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Schnacke hails from Topeka, Kan., and jumped for Bretnall when the latter was track coach at Baker University. Bretnall went to Iowa State and Schnacke followed his coach there. Inasmuch as he competed a year at Baker, this is Schnacke's final season of competition.
If Schnacke should have a bad night at the conference meet and not be up to his usual form, he might be upset by a new jumper for Coach Ward Haylett of Kansas State. He is Gene Solt, who transferred to Kansas State after a year of competition at Westminster College.
Solt a Threat
Solt leaped 6 feet 2 inches while passing his year of residence as a member of the freshman team. He has not attained that height as yet this winter, but may at the indoor meet.
Missouri has three candidates for points in the high jump, Hilton, Miller, and Meyers. Hilton was fourth in this event at the indoor meet last year and should do as well or better this time. The three Tigers tied for first in the Kansas-Missouri dual meet.
Kansas State has a second jumper who may pick up some points in Art Day, a junior. Day tied for first with Soil in the Kansas State-Nebraska dual meet.
Getto Calls Out Baseball Men
A call for all baseball candidates to report at 3 o'clock Monday afternoon at the west dressing rooms of Memorial Stadium was issued last night by Mike Getto, newly appointed Kansas baseball coach.
Getto said he hoped to start practice sessions soon. He played baseball in the Pittsburgh, Pa., industrial league while a student at Pitt. His work with the diamond team will force him to miss spring football practice for the first time since his appointment to the Jayhawker staff in 1929.
BEAT OKLAHOMA !!
The Minnesota Daily is published as a tabliod style similar to the Kansan.
Bucs Upset A.K. Psi Five; Ghosts Lose
By Clint Kanaga, c'42
Humiliating a fine Alpha Kappa Psi team, the Buccaneers swept aside their biggest obstacle to the championship of Division III by the surprising score of 29 to 11.
With Pojenzy leading the way, Pi Kappa Alpha finished the season downing Sigma Nu, 26 to 16, for their sixth win in ten starts. Dunakin Club triumphed over the Jayhawk Co-op, 30 to 18. Delta Tau Delta won by the forfeit route from the Triangles.
Biggest reason for the splendid game the Buccaneers turned in, was Hubert Ulrich. Ulrich held "Lamp-lighter" Johnson, intramural high score, to one goal in the first half, and tallied 11 poirfs in the last half after Johnson had left the game with an injury. Vandaveer's long shots and Bourne's rebound work for the Buccaneers were other outstanding features of the contest.
In Division IV Sig Ep "B" won from Delta Tau Delta "B" 22 to 18, Sigma Chi "B" was victorious over Acacia "B" 33 to 25, and Phi Gam "B" defeated the A.T.O. "B" 39 to 13. The box score:
A fighting Comet team, which was never headed, produced the most unexpected victory of the year, handing the Galloping Ghosts a 32 to 30 defeat, their first for the season and their second in three years.
Totals ... 13 3 11
A. K. Psi (11) g ft f
Johnson, f ... 1 0 0
Leiseck, f ... 0 0 0
Thompson, f ... 0 0 4
Funk, c ... 1 3 1
Huddleston, g ... 2 0 0
Cadwalader, g ... 0 0 2
Hendricks, g ... 0 0 0
Totals ... 13 3 11
Buccaneers (29) g ft f f
Vandaveer, f 4 0 2
Ulrich, f 6 1 1
Dalrymple, c 0 1 1
Bourne, g 1 1 4
Lindquist, g 1 0 2
Jacks, g 1 0 1
Totals ...4 3
CONGRATULATIONS Doc Allen & Co. "She was a fine win and we believe you have plenty of Oomph to trim Oklahoma."