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SPORTS
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1940.
Simonizing SportS By JAY SIMON
A few random shots from hither, thither, and yon batted out while nervously awaiting tonight's blue - ribbon cage classic between Missouri and Kansas:
The Jayhawker track squad isn't the only one having a run of bad luck . . . Oklahoma has two men down with the "fu", two laid up with pulled muscles, five more on the ineligibility borderline, and the coach flat on his back after an appendectomy five days ago . . . P. S.: Harold Keith, the Sooner publicity man and a former track star, is taking over the coaching duties for the time being . . . Gene Coleman, claimant of the Hill record for the six-lap potato race indoors, is among the recent track men to check out a suit from B Harriss . . . Harold Johnson, the long and lanky A. K. Psi hoopster, is still averaging 19.6 in the intramural scoring race.
A 17-game card has been lined up for the Missouri baseball team and includes games with St. Louis, Washington, and Rockhurst, besides Big Six opponents . . . The Galloping Dominoes go to Baldwin tomorrow night to play an exhibition game with the Baker frush as a curtain-raiser to the high school regional . . . Bob Menze of Iowa State, 5 feet 7 and 130 pounds, is the smallest man in the loop to play regularly this year . . . Herb Gregg, a Tiger sub, is almost as tiny. He's 5-8 and would have to have company to weight more than 145.
Orv Matthews, the Sooner speedster, is called "Dagwood," and before the season is over the boys around the Valley will probably agree that he is everbrit as fast as "Blondie's" spouse. . . Creighton, Kansas' opponent at Omaha, March 4, has won two out of five from the Jayhawkers since 1922. . . Indoor track meets toorrow night between K-State and Missouri at Columbia and Oklahoma and Nebraska at Lincoln will put the finishing touches on warm-ups before the Big Six indoor a week from tomorrow night at K.C.. Hobbs Adams, new grid maestro at K-State, will call off his men for spring drills March 11.
No. 7—FACulty members—
Four members of the University faculty will be included in a group of Lawrence masons who will go to Topeka Monday afternoon to confer a degree on C.E. Birch, former superintendent of the Lawrence public schools.
Dean R. A. Schwegler of the School of Education, Geo. O. Foster, registrar and professors W. L. Burdick and Carl A. Preyer with eight Lawrence masons will invest Birch with the degree of Knight Commander of the Court of Honor.
Last night I held a little hand,
So delicately, so sweet.
So daINTy and so sweet.
I thought my heart would surely break,
So wildly did it beat.
No other hand in all the world.
Can greater solace bring
Than that sweet hand I held last night—
Four aces and a king.
Four dies and a King:
—State College Leader.
Phi Gam's Win To Cinch Title; A.T.O. Nosed Out
15v Clint Kanaga, c'42
Phi Gamma Delta grabbed at least a share of the championship of Division I by a 47 to 23 victory over Sigma Phi Epsilon. Last night's win over the Sig Ep's gave the Phi Gam's a season record of nine triumphs against one defeat.
If the Phi Delt's defeat the Delta Chi's, the Phi Gam's will gain undisputed possession of the championship. Stars of the Phi Gam's win were Healy and McSpadden.
A two-handed overhead shot by Don Pierce in the closing seconds produced a thrilling 18 to 16 win for the Beta's over Alpha Tau Omega. The two teams matched shot for shot, being tied up at the half and at the end of the third quarter. Bill Arthur, A.T.O. guard, kept his team in the game with four goals from long range.
Paced by Maier, the Dominoes I trounced ISA-4 by the one-sided margin of 42 to 15. The Dominoses moved into the lead from the start and were never challenged. Maier talled 6 field goals.
Dominoes II downed the Ohio Ichabods, 28 to 13, with Tweed leading the attack with eight points. The box score:
PHI GAMS (47) FG FT PR
Healy, f 6 1 2
McSpadden, f 6 2 3
Long, c 1 1 1
Hambric, g 4 1 0
Morris, g 2 2 3
Hinshaw, g 1 0 0
Totals 20 7 11
SIG EPS (23) FG FT PF
Cooper, f 4 3 3
Savely, f 3 2 3
Chilson, c 0 2 2
Hines, g 1 0 0
Timonthy, g 0 0 1
Totals
DIVISION I
Player Team Average
Geiger, Beta 14.3
Hambric, Phi Gam 10.5
McSpadden, Phi Gam 9.5
Morris, Phi Gam 8.9
Healy, Phi Gam 8.9
DIVISION II
C. Gibbons, Hex. II 11.9
Westehouse, G. Ghosts 11.6
Doningo 11.0
Domingo, Hex. II 10.
McKale, Kappa Eta K. 8.9
Johnson, A. K. Psi 19.6
Bourne, Buccaneer 12.6
Bourne, A. K. Psi 15.3
Ulrich, Buccaneer 11.3
Vandeveer, Buccaneer 10.8
The Athletic board is meeting this afternoon to elect a baseball coach for this spring and decide on the varsity coaching staff for next year, according to Dr. W.W.Davis chairman of the board.
DIVISION III
Athletic Board Elects Baseball Coach Today
The 14 members of the board met in the Pine room in the Memorial Union building at 3 o'clock this afternoon. They will dine at 6 o'clock then go to the Kansas-Missouri basketball game.
BEAT MISSOURI!!
BEAT MISSOURI!!!
Two Former Champions Will Vie for 880 Crown
Two former champions, one the 1938 Big Six champion, and the other the 1939 conference titleholder, will battle it out in the 880 yard run at the Big Six indoor track meet in the Municipal Auditorium at Kansas City. March 9.
Ray Gahan, lanky Oklahoma runner, was the winner of the half-mile at the conference meet in 1938. Last year however, he ran both the 440 and the 880 and the result was he lost his half-mile crown to a crack runner from Missouri, Marshall Reeves.
All of which makes the race loom as a thriller. Reeves broke a bone in his ankle and was unable to run outdoors last spring, but now is running as well as ever. His best time this season is the 1:59.1 he ran in the dual meet with Iowa State.
Gahan finished fourth in that 880 after having run third in the 440 earlier the same evening. This year the Sooner star probably will confine his efforts to one race and that will be the half-mile.
Reeves Under Two Minutes
Possibility of two other middle distance stars competing in the 880, also adds interest to the race. John Munski of Missouri, the conference mile champion, won the half-mile also at the Big Six outdoor meet and did it in top flight time.
Munski May Run Half
The past two years Munski has run the two-mile rather than the half-mile as his second event at the indoor meets. If he chooses to enter the 880 this year, the Tiger captain will rank as the favorite.
Oklahoma has another possible entry besides Gahan in this event in Bill Lyda, their sophomore ace. Lyda, a sensation in high school, ran the half-mile in very fast time outdoors last spring. However, he also is an exceptional quarter-miler and probably will run that race if he competes in only one event.
Nebraska, likewise, has a sophomore who may finish well up in the race. He is Harold Brooks, who has run the mile in 4:22 and who raced the half mile in 1.591.
Trials Next Thursday For Local Billiard Team
Local billiard players are warming up daily in the recreation room of the Memorial Union building, getting ready for the National Inter-Collegiate billiard tournament, which will be held Monday, March 11.
The national contest, under the supervision of the National Association of Collegiate Unions, is a telegraphic affair. Every university in the country, which has a union building, picks a team of five and
this team shoots for a high score on the local tables. The scores are sent to the headquarters at the University of Florida and the winning team is determined.
Elimination Matches Thursday
The elimination matches will be conducted in the basement pool room in the Union building next Thursday night. From these aspirants will come the five to represent the school in the nation-wide con-
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Title to Be-
defense Missouri has yielded an average of 30 points a contest, while the Javahawk opponents have hit a 32 point clip.
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Doctor Allen will lead off with three seniors who will be showing their last time before Mt. Oread fans and his scoring aces, Miller and Bob Allen, juniors. The seniors are Dick Harp and Don Ebling, elected co-captains for the year just yesterday, and Bruce Voran, hustling utility man who will play opposite Harp.
This quintet will face a formidable Missouri array, including four seniors playing their last regular game of college basketball. Leading the team will be Capt. John Lobsiger, the smooth-functioning sentinel who held Miller to four points in the melee at Columbia.
Nash the Only Junior
The other three seniors are Bill Harvey and Clay Cooper, a duo of scampering forwards, and lofty Blaine Currence, 6 foot 5 inch pivot. The junior of the bunch is Martin Nash, hard working running mate of Lob-siger. These five have been getting the opening nod in nearly all the Missouri games this season.
The only loop contest the Bengals have dropped this year was of the one-point variety when an Oklahoma substitute slipped the leather through the meshes with only seconds to go when the two met on the M.U. court.
Besides fighting desperately for Doctor Allen as he tries to annex his twenty-third conference championship in 30 years, the Jayhawkers will strive to protect their home winning streak which has now reached 19 games.
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Swimming Team Leaves for Ames And Loop Meet
An 11 man Jayhawker swimming team and Coach Jim Raport left at 8 o'clock this morning for Ames, Iowa, where they will compete in the Big Six tank meet tonight and tomorrow night. Every school in the league except Missouri, will be represented.
Following are the Kansas entries:
The Kansas team, without a victory this season, will be the underdog in the races. The best Jayhawker bet will be Frank Wilson in the 50-yard dash and Lloyd Koelling in the diving. Iowa State, the defending champion, Kansas State and Nebraska have strong teams.
300-yard medley relay — Marion Cooper, Gene Nelson, and either Joe Morton or Kenneth Rosehush.
50-yard dash-Frank Wilson, Art Robinson, and Rosebush.
Dives—Lloyd Koelling and Harry Han.
100-yard dash—Morton, Robinson,
and Wilson.
150-yard backstroke—Cooper and Rosebush.
200-yard breast stroke—Nelson.
440-yard swim—LaShelle and Walton.
400-yard relay — Morton, Wilson,
Robinson, and Rosebush.
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