PAGE FOUR SPORTS UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 18, 1940. Bill Hargiss Still In There Pitchin' By Jay Simon (Kansan Sports Editor) Bill Hargiss is a pretty fair sized man. He stands about 6 feet 4 inches tall and probably weighs 225 pounds. However, the Jayhawker track coach's displacement doesn't give you an accurate picture of how big he is. Hargiss probably qualifies for the title "most unlucky man in America" after all that has happede to his cinder team, yet he continues to go after all that has happened to his face and says, "We'll have a track team, anyway, before the season is over." The thing that makes Bill big can't be measured with scales and tape. Mt. Oread has never given track a lot of house. It warts up to the Relays, and there have been a few individual stars come along, notably Jim Bausch and Glenn Cunningham, but in the main Kansas track has been kicked around like a cross-eyed step child. In the face of this Hargiss went to work to build up the sport and last year would have won the Big Six outdoor meet, if it hadn't been for injuries to several of his key men. The plague began in the summer when Dick Overfield decided to pull stakes and enroll at Compton Junior College, a farm school for Southern California. Overfield was nearing world record time in the sprints and would have mopped up on everything in the loop. It looked like Bill might have got all the jinxes worked out of his system and be ready to go to town this year, but last spring's crop multiplied instead of dying out. The next blow fell at the end of the fall semester when 22 men on whom Bill was counting were declared ineligible. Bill Hargiss All the high jumper and shot putters were chopped down when the academic axe fell. Imagine having six boys in school who can average 6 feet 2 inches in the high jump and not a one of them eligible. With his first four weight men out of competition, Bill hasn't got a shot putter who can even come close to the 40 foot mark. Even this might not have been so bad, had not Bob Stoland, the team's co-captain and scoring star been barred. Stoland was the Big Six champion in both the high jump and broadjump last year and a fine student besides, but he enrolled in one hour too few the two semesters preceding competition and there will be no track for Bob this year. At Lincoln Ray Harris, fine distance runner and other co-captain, stepped on the track curbing and injured his ankle. He won't regain his usual form for another week or two. Coming back from the meet with the Huskers, one of the cars turned over on the icy pavement and five of the athletes were scratched and shaken up. All this might have caused an ordinary man to throw up his hands and quit, but not Bill Hargiss. He's scouring the Hill for more talent and working all the harder. "I believe there are plenty of good athletes in these houses that could make points for us, if they would just come out," the track mentor said yesterday. He went on to say that he will be more than glad to give any man a suit who comes down to the stadium and asks for it. "We have plenty of them," he said, "just waiting for runners, and jumpers, and throwers, to come and get in them." Later on Bill plans to have a meet between his regular team, and the rest of the men in school who are not elligible. In this class will be freshmen and upper classmen who have failed to make their grades. SIMONIZING. SPORTS By JAY SIMON What this country needs is more good, clean forms of athletics such as swimming meets. Yesterday afternoon's tank dual with the Aggies brought lots of thrills to the small crowd that packed the margin of the 50 foot pool. Dr. F. C. Allen suggests that they reduce the size of the ball rather than to increase the size of the baskets . . . The cage professor points out that basketballs wear out and it would be much easier to replace them than to install an entire new set of baskets . . "When R. F.C.A.L.L. M, you get so your clothes don't fit, you reduce rather than buy a new suit, don't you?" Allen asks. They say Johnny Kline played a whale of a ball game against Oklahoma A. and M. ... Hope he can turn in another bruising rebound game over at Manhattan Tuesday night... Ralph Miller was hotter than a swing drummer beating time on a depot stove during yesterday afternoon's basketball practice . . . Kansas State took track and swimming meets from the Jayhawkers within a three-day span, but if "Phog" and the boys can turn the tables Tuesday night, this corner will call it square . . . And I'm not trying to slight the tankers or runners. JOHN KLINE Correction dept.: In this corner's last stint, Lyle Foy and Chris (Continued on page five) Tough Card For Cagers Four Games On the Road; Ags Tuesday If Kansas Wins the Big Six basketball crown this year, they are certainly entitled to it. From here on out they have a tough row to hoe. They are even with the league-leading Missouri Tigers in the loss column and can go ahead and cop the bunting outright by winning the rest of their games. All five of the teams in the conference have yet to be played, and all (Continued on page five) Scoring Leaders in Non-League Games
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The material was green when Gardner started working with the Aside from the fact that Kansas State-K.U. games are noted for being hotly contested because of the intense rivalry, the K-State outlook is gloomy. The Wildcats have been fighting a plague of injuries all season and three regulars probably will be on the sidelines even for the last game on the schedule. Wildcats Want Revenge Manhattan, Feb. 17.-Rapid-fire action between two rivals of long standing is promised here Tuesday night when Kansas State's basketers set out to close their 1939-40 season by marring the Big Six conference title dreams of K.U.'s Jayhawks and reap revenge for that 34 to 33 defeat suffered at Lawrence earlier in the season. The Mt. Oread quintet has but one conference defeat against four victories and is planning a final spurt which will not another championship. But the Jayhawks may find stiff opposition at Manhattan in Coach Jack Gardner's strategy and a hustling, enthusiastic K-State gang which would rather beat K.U. than any team on its schedule. basketball candidates last fall, but they showed surprising strength in holding K.U. to a one-point victory and defeating Nebraska and Iowa State at Manhattan. But then the injuries hit and the lineup had to be patched with men who had seer K-State Won't Allow Jayhawker Rooters Manhattan, Feb. 17. — Kansas University students today were warned not to come to Manhattan in hopes of seeing the Kansas State-K.U. basketball game here Tuesday night. "Absolutely no tickets will be sold for the game," said Frank L. Myers, assistant to the director of athletics. Only Kansas State students with activity books will be admitted to the gymnasium. The 30-year-old Nichols gymnasium will hold only 2,800 persons and the student body numbers approximately 4,000. Approximately 400 persons were turned away at the Missouri-Kansas State game here Feb. 5. but little competition. Ernie Miller, senior guard and balance wheel of the attack, was deprived of competing in a single Big Six game because of a fractured jaw suffered early in January against Kentucky. First semester finals took Dan Howe, forward and center, and injuries have kept Ervin Reid, senior center, and Joe Robertson, lanky senior forward, out since Feb. 2. None of these players is expected to see action Tuesday. Gardner will be counting on the guarding ability of Melvin Seelye and Norris Holstrom to hold down such high Jayhawk scorers as Bob Allen, center, and Ralph Miller and Don Ebling, forwards. The K-State point making responsibility will fall largely on Chris Langvardt, a scrapy forward who has made rapid strides in the court game, and Jack Horacek, a sophomore whose eye has placed him among the leading scorers in the conference. The Wildcats also will be watching Bruce Veran, K.U. guard who dropped in the free throw that spelled defeat for Kansas State in the game at Lawrence. State Tankers Down Kansas; 6 New Marks By Charles Skidmore, c'41 With all the fury of their seagoing cousin, the submarine, the Kansas State swimming team descended upon the Jayhawker in Robinson indoor pool here yesterday afternoon. When the waves had settled six new meet records had been established and the Aggies had won 52 to 32. (Continued on page five) AND WE ARE READY WITH -- -- Varsity Town Suits Varsity Town Sport Coats Varsity Town Slacks Arrow Shirts Arrow Neckties Botany Wool Neckties Stetson Hats Society Club Hats Interwoven Socks ALL NEW 1940 STYLED 'We're proud to show you'