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SPORTS
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1940
Simonizing SportS BY JAY SIMON
Schiller Shore, unclassified, is hard at work perfecting a new device which he claims will increase the speed of dash men at track meets. The mad genius' newest contribution to the technological world will be called the "antagonizer" and will be put on the market shortly before the Kansas relays.
Shore became concerned over the fact that the world's record in the 100-yard dash has stood at 9.4 seconds so long and that track authorities have made statements saying they thought man has reached his physical limit in running the century.
"I decided," he explained, "that what these runners need to better the record is more power from within. The tracks, their shoes, and their running for mhane been improved, but the athletes still have the same physical equipment. Therefore, I am working on a device that will cause more adrenalin to flow in the blood stream, and give the runners increased energy."
The device consists of a row of mechanical turtles in front of the squatting sprinters that will alternately thumb their noses and vibrate their tongues in a vertical plane. By the time the athletes have been confronting with these tantalizing terrapins for a couple of minutes before the race, their glands will have secreted so much energy-producing adrenalin that nothing can stop them from world records.
He plans to have the row of turtles synchronized with the timer's gun and when it is fired the device will automatically raise six feet above the track and out of the way of the thundering dashers.
This should be second only to the two-legged machine they used to call Jesse Owens when it comes to producing new records.
Pi Phi Cagers Defeat Kappa's
Pi Beta Phi defeated Kappa Kappa Gamma 31 to 19 last night in one of the best played Women's intramural basketball games of the season. Pi Phi's Virginia Anderson and Dennie Lemoine excelled in passing and shooting. Elizabeth Barclay played a good defensive game. Anderson was high scorer with 14 points.
On the Kappa squad, Jane Irwin's guarding, helped to hold down the Pi Phi score. Shirley Irwin and Bernice Jenkins were outstanding as forwards.
Pi Phi will meet Corbin hall Tuesday, March 5 to battle for basketball supremacy of the organized houses.
Women Swimmers to Compete
Entrants of the Women's Intramural swimming teams will contest in the final meet tonight at 7:30 p.m. Theta, Pi Phi, Kappa, Chi Omega, Alpha Chi, Gamma Phi, I.W.W., and T.N.T. will be represented in the meet.
Loop Tankers Meet Saturday In Ames Pool
Ames, Iowa, Feb. 28—Five of the schools of the Big Six Conference have signified that they will enter teams in the Big Six meet at the varsity pool, Iowa State College Friday and Saturday.
This year's meet will have one of the fastest fields in its 12-year history. To date all but one record has been bettered in dual competition. Only the 200-yard breast stroke mark, held by George Haldeman of Iowa State, has not been bettered.
Iowa State is the defending champion. having won the meet for the past two years. All told the Cyclones have won the crown undisputedly six times and tied with Nebraska twice in the 11 previous meets.
Returning champions are Ralph Worden, Nebraska, diving; Eugene Armstrong, Iowa State, 150-yard back stroke; Roger Adams, Iowa State 50 and 100-yard free styles.
Already Adams has bettered the present conference marks in both 100 and 60-yard free styles. Against Texas A. & M. he swam the 60 in 29.5 and the 100 in 54.1, which bettered the present Big Six record by a tenth of a second.
The Iowa State relay teams have bettered the marks in both the 300-yard medley and the 400-yard free style. However, the Cyclones will have to swim at their best to beat the Kansas State 400-yard relay team. The Wildcats have an all-pohomore team that has bettered the present mark in almost every meet this year.
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One of Kansas' Arch-Rivals Friday--make a comeback after an absence of five or six years in this sport. Sooner fans are anxiously waiting to see if Matthews still has the speed that kept him out in front in high school.
This rugged, 6 foot 1 boy has been one of George Edwards' chief trouble shooters this season. Watson is the No. 1 sub for forwards Bill Harvey and Clay Cooper, and early in the season took a turn at the pivot while football was still occupying the time of Blaine Currence.
Tickets Nearly Gone
All the unreserved and standing room tickets for the Missouri-Kansas basketball game here Friday night will probably be sold by tonight, Earl Falkenstein, financial secretary of intercollegiate athletics, announced early this afternoon.
He said the sales have been very brisk since the Jayhawkers defeated Iowa State Monday night to add the final championship touches on the battle.
The Jayhawkers took things rather easy last night before plunging into the task of preparing for the league leading Tigers. When the two teams met at Columbia early in the season, Missouri won, 42 to 31, to give the Kansans their only conference defeat this year.
Olga Eitner, violinist and instructor in the School of Fine Arts, will be featured in a musicale from station KFKU tonight at 6 o'clock. The entire program will be selections by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Violinist on KFKU Tonight
Son for Sullivant
"Pat"
A potential captain of the University football team arrived yesterday.
A seven-pound son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Milton Sullivant yesterday morning at their home in Eudora. Sullivant, I42, was honorary captain of the 1939 Jay-hawkers football team.
Seven Speed Merchants Ready for Indoor Meet
(This is the first of a series of articles dealing with the prospects in the various events at the Big Six indoor track meet in Kansas City's Municipal auditorium. Saturday night, March 9. Tomorrow: the 440-yard dash.)
The possibility of six runners all breasting the tape at the same time in the 60-yard dash, is the nightmare accounting for sleepless nights for judges of the Big Six indoor track meet to be held in the Municipal auditorium at Kansas City, March 9.
Five of the six conference schools will have sprinters in the 60-yard dash capable of winning the event. Oklahoma can enter three crack dash men, Orville Matthews, George Koettel, and Fred Coogan.
A sentimental favorite in the short dash will be the Sooner football player, Matthews. A track sensation in high school, Orville is trying to
"Red" Littler, Nebraska sophomore sensation, will carry his team's hopes in the 60. Stars from the other schools are Darrell Mathes of Kansas, Louis Akers of Kansas State, and Sol Schumitzky of Missouri.
A Sentimental Favorite
Littler, however, will enter the race as the favorite, if there will be such a thing. National Junior A.A.U. 200-meter champion and runnerup in the 100-meters, the red headed Nebraska sophomore appears to have a great future ahead of him.
Mathes Has a Chance
Mathes, the Kansas speedster, Akers of Kansas State, and Littler have turned in the fastest times for the 60 this winter, each running the distance in 6.3 seconds.
Mathes and Akers ran this time in the Kansas-Kansas State dual meet with the Kansas sprinter only inches ahead of his opponent. Mathes ran the 100-yard dash in 9.8 seconds as a high school sprinter.
Coogan and Koettel were members of Oklahoma's formidable sprint relay teams last spring. Coogan placed in the 60 at the indoor meet and Koettel accounted for points in the outdoor 100-yard dash. Both are crack sprinters.
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