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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1940
The other day I wants to chew the rag with Bill Hargiss, but hates to hike clear down to the stadium when all of sudden I happens to think of this indoor track the guys have been telling me about ever since I took up residence at the foot of Mt. Oread.
Well, sir, right then and there I decides there's no better time than now to go down and see what kind of a layout Bill's got rigged up for his thinclads. I never took much stock in it anyway. Always fancied that the distance men had to run down to one end and touch a post and come back. Or at best run around a barrel.
So I put a sandwich in my pocket (just in case I gets hungry on the way) and wades down to the horse-shoe. It's nice and warm in the dressing room so I stands around in there for a while then asks, "Where's Bill?" One of the guys sittin' over in a corner takin' too much time laceing his spikes says, "He's under the stadium," and nods toward the door
I wants to ask him "Where do you think we are, in Fraser theater?" but decides against it and buttons up my collar and starts for the door.
Just as I sticks my noggin out Jack O'Hara whizzes by with a vaulting pole and I swears he's going to crack up with a girder when he takes off, but he misses one going up, sails over the bar at about 12 feet, and dodges another concrete rafter coming down.
Then I starts giving the place the once over and it ain't long 'til I finds I had been all wrong about the indoor track. They've got all those big doors insulated and boarded up to keep out the wind and a couple of gas furnaces hanging from the ceiling to take the chill out of the air.
Instead of having to run back and forth down a path, Bill's got a sweet looking 220-yard oval with banked turns at each end and it's plenty wide enough to run four or five abreast. And the ground's not hard like I had expected. There is sawdust all over the floor and it's just right to run on.
They've got the high jumping and broad jumping pits strategically arranged so you can run between posts and have plenty of space to leap.
So after I catches Bill and talks with him for awhile I leaves and decides that this layout is plenty o.k. and there's no reason why they can't hold a meet down there. But I also decides they won't have many spectators because there's only one seat in the house and that's a delapidated folding chair.
Bob Menze Iowa State. 4.75
Varsity vs. Frosh Friday
Sid Held Nebraska 73
Charity Game Billed to Aid Finnish Drive
The Jayhawker basketball team will meet the freshmen in an exhibition game at 7:30 Friday night in Hoch auditorium, it was announced at noon today by Dr. F. C. Allen.
Proceeds of the game will go to the Finnish Relief drive and the National Paralysis fund. Those attending the contest will be asked to contribute 10 cents or more for admission.
Doctor Allen said that the athletic department had been approached by both organizations asking for aid in their drives for donations, and it was decided to use this method to raise the money.
these six hoop-hitters are pacing their teams in the offensive department as the Big Six swings into the last half drive. McNatt of Oklahoma is leading the pack with a 11.7 average in six games, and Bob Allen of the Jayhawkers is runner-up with a 10.25 mark in four games.
This will be the second time this season the varsity and freshman basketball teams have played. On the eve of the Missouri football game last fall, the Jayhawkers trounced the yearlings, 44 to 22.
Jack Horacek, K-State. 6.2
Doctor Allen was glad to get to play the game as his team has not seen action since Jan. 23 when the Jayhawkers defeated Nebraska here, 40 to 24. The next regularly scheduled game is not until next Monday when Iowa State comes to town for its first game this year with Kansas.
'Flu' May Keep Mesch Out of Oklahoma Lineup
Norman, Okla. Feb. 7-Although Capt. Marvin Mesch will probably still be out of action because of influenza, the Oklahoma basketball team hopes for a hotter night at the hoop when it plays Nebraska here Friday evening than it enjoyed against the hard-guarding Kansas State Wildcats here last week-end.
Drake's Oklahomans have also done some atrocious free throw shooting in their last two games. Although they set a Big Six record by banging in ten out of ten for 1,000 percent against Iowa State here Jan. 20, they hit only 5 of 12 against Missouri at Columbia and 4 of 14 against Kansas State here last Friday.
The Sooners were frigid shot-makers against Kansas State, hitting only 25.4 percent of their field goals. Forward Jimmy McNatt, usually an accurate marksmans, was coldest of all, connecting on only five of 22 field goal attempts.
Jimmy McNatt, Okla.. 11.7
Standing out in the Tournament of Champions at Kansas City this week have been the fast stepping little fellows in the lighter weight classes. Particularly star-studded are the fields in the 112 and 118-pound class.
Golden Gloves Notes
Semi-finalists in the 112-pound class include "Bat" Cullison, a savage little fighter from Coffeyville; Steve Lipari, a stylist representing the Police Boys Club; Joey Lafferty of the Topeka team, and Denver Miller of Sedalia.
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Meanwhile the entire campus hopes the versatile Mesch recovers from his influenza and gets back into condition. The Sooners realize they will need all their men in shape if they turn back the revenge-bent Kansas and Missouri clubs down the home stretch.
Bob Allen, Kansas, 10.25
Third Place Jayhawkers 'Team to Beat'
Oklahoma and Missouri may be leading the Big Six, but as has been the case in basketball for as long as the oldest student can remember, Kansas is still "the team to beat."
The Jayhawks are riding along in third place and are still in the thick of the battle. The 46-26 trouncing Kansas handed Oklahoma earlier in the season gives Dr. F. C. Allen's team considerable confidence.
In 1922 Dr. Allen's Jayhawks tied Missouri for the conference championship. Since then Kansas has been the team to beat every year, save one. In 1929 the Mt. Oread quintet won only two Big Six games, but that is the only season in the last 18 that the cagers from Lawrence have not finished in the first division.
13 Titles in 18 Years
"Beat Kansas" has been the cry through those 18 years as the Jayhawks won or tied for 13 conference championships. The few years that the Allen-coached teams did not win the title, they were in the thick of the fight and had considerable to say about who did win
Last year, Kansas lost the conference crown to Missouri and Oklahoma, but it was not until the Jayhawks had played their last game of the season that they could be counted out of the race.
Since the Big Six conference was established in 1929, Kansas has won more basketball championships than all of the other schools in the league combined.
Ringleaders--
Blaine Currence, Mo., 6.2
With all hands safely through the semester exams, the Kansas Pony Express is hard at work preparing for the second half drive in the Big Six basketball race.
Although the Jayhawkers are in third place in the standings behind last year's co-champion Oklahoma and Missouri, they have lost no more games than the leaders. Kansas has played two less games than the defending champs.
The three leaders have taken turn about defeating each other, but no other team in the loop has been able to take their measure. Kansas beat Oklahoma in the season's opener. Then Missouri thumped the Jayhawkers. Later Oklahoma nosed out the Tigers.
The next game on the local slate will be Monday night when Coach Louis Menze brings his Iowa State Cyclones to town seeking their first conference win of the year. This is the only team in the Big Six that Kansas has not met so far.
Exams Easy For Cagers; I-State Next
Seven out of 11 in Big Six
Six times during the 11-year history of the Big Six Kansas has won the cage title and another time tied for it. The other five teams of the conference have four championships and a co-championship to show for the same period.
No other school has won the Big Six title outright more than once. Missouri and Oklahoma have made the best showing, each winning the basketball champion. ip course tying for it once.
Oklahoma won the title in 1929, Kansas' lone bad year, and the following season the Tigers nosed out the Jayhawks for the championship. Last year the Tigers and Sooners finished in a first place deadlock. In 1935 Iowa State won the title, and Nebraska tied with the Jayhawks for the 1937 championship.
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