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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1932
Kansas Horsehiders Face Wildcats in Conference Opener at Manhattan
BELL-owings by JIM BELL Kansas Sports Editor
On tap for Mid Western sports fans is what is undoubtedly the feature event of K.U.S. athletic season—the Kansas Relays. This year M.T. Oredre presents the seventeenth edition of the Relay, which will be held for nearly a quarter of a century has brought the greatest athletes in the United States to Lawrence.
There are other great relays carnivals in this country to be sure, but most of them lack the great tradition and background of the Kansas event. The Penn Relays, the Texas Relays and the Drake Relays are all well known in their respective sections of the country. The Kansas Relays is more than just a sectional event. Next week there will be athletes in Lawrence from California, Texas, Colorado, Minnesota, Michigan, Iowa and many other states across the nation.
The marks set at the Kansas Relays are good and compare favorably with those of other carnivals. Many of the great performances have been turned in by men running under the track, not recently and Blue—but not recently.
In the past few years, Kansas has been in what might be called a track slump. There has been glory on the Kansas cinderpaths, but of late track has slipped to almost a minor sport at Kansas.
That this slump has come is certainly not the fault of one man—Bill Hargiss, one of the greatest track coaches in the world. Year after year, Bill has taken poor material and by patient, skillful treatment has managed to save the great Kansas track tradition from degradation. No, it hasn't been Bill's fault. He has built the largest names in Kansas track history. Glenn Cunningham, Elwyn Dees, Paul Herrington, Charley Pits and many others learned their track from Bill.
In the past few years the great emphasis in Kansas athletics has been put on basketball and football. We are not trying to say that this is wrong. Kansas needs a winning team in football and basketball has always been a great tradition at K. What we mean to say is that an opponent, who is not tested, In all the hustle and bustle to build a good football team and maintain the great basketball tradition, we have forgotten track.
By Clavelle Holden, c'40
Once a year we remembered that track was a Kansas sport. That's when we went to the Kansas Relays. We get excited when one of the Kans performed well. The next day we forget that Kansas had a track team.
- Aggies Are Strong Behind the Pitching of Big Jim Brock; Heavy Hitting State Crew Is Led By 'Butch' Nieman Who Specializes in Circuit Clouts in the Pinches
Gwinn Henry will see to it that Kansas trainmen get a fair deal. Great Kansas high school athletes will not be stolen from under our very nesses. In a few years when the Jayhawker track team goes to a meet, it'll go on a train like the football and basketball teams, not cramped in a couple of automobiles. We serve notice to the track world to look out. Kansas is coming back!
Give Bill the material and he'll give Kansas a great team. No one realizes this better than Gwin Henry, the present Director of Athletics. He is a veteran coach coach himself. He knows Bill. In the past he appeared as BILL with Gwin Henry and Bill Hargiss with the helm, Kansas fans can look for a return of lost Kansas track prestige.
With the baseball question limited to an Algebraic similarity in that it contains only one X, the Jayhawkers open fire on the 1939 baseball crown tomorrow afternoon when they will attempt to clip the fangs off the Wildcats at Manhattan.
This year things look better. The Kansas track team is one of the best in the Big Six. Bill Hargas has better material this year than in the recent past. He's putting out a队 Joyhawker fans will be proud of
The X is the weather.
The K-Staters are sailing conference as a result of splitting home last week end. And the Sooners were supposed to be the "bullies" in the Big Six this season, which makes the Agencies good.
The K-Staters are sailing along in a tie for first place in the conference as a result of splitting a two game series with Oklahoma last week. And the ___
In the first game, which the Man-hattan team won, Jim Brock pitched so masterfully that some of the fans thought the Sooners were fanning at nothing in all. And as far as the Oklahomaans were concerned that is about all they could see of Brock' offerings.
But even a good pitcher can get in trouble if his teammates so choose. In the fifth innning one Oklahomawatt batted a ground ball down toward the third base that should have been duck soup, but by the time the K-Staters had quit muffling the ball the Sooners had scored. In the second innings they scored by Norman nine were gifts from the loose fielding State boys.
The dynamite of State's attack is loaded in the bat of husky "Butch" Nieman, sophomore outfielder. Nieman took an early lead in the individual circuit hitting race as a result of his four base clutch in the second game "Jap" Haskell, veteran Oklahoma basketball coach, believes Nieman to be one of the outstanding players in the Big Six.
Hargiss and Kansas Track Greats Leave For Fredonia Meet
Coach "BILL" Hargiss, Jim Bausch,
Paul Masoner, and Don Bird will leave this evening for Fredonia where Hargissa will act as referee at a high school invitation track meet to be held tomorrow.
Dr. Glenn Cunningham will be the main drawing card of the meet. The famous Kansas Miler will run in a special invitation mile race.
Bird, Masoner, and "Jarring Jim" will give exhibitions of some of the different track events in which they excin.
Crack Distance Man
Glenn Hopes to Avenge Record in Kansas Relays
Ralph Halla of Yankton College, one of the many crack middle distance runners competing in the sevententh annual Kansas Rehals. Halla gave Blaine Rideout of North Texas a double. He also anchored the anchor leg of the college distance medley last year.
Jim Bell, sports editor of the Daily Kansasan, will interview Dr. Forrest C. "Phog" Allen, head basketball coach tonight at 6 o'clock over KFKU on the subject of the new convex backboards and chain netting recently suggested for adoption by collegiate basketball circles.
Allen To Be Interviewed On New Basketball Changes
Glenn Cunningham, the world's great militer, will run before the home folks once again, when he commends the team's success at the Kansas Relays, April 22.
Now is his eighth year as a national champion, Glenn has run in all parts of the United States, in most of the countries in Europe and in Japan. The Kansas Relays, however, is usually the only meet in which he competes, complete that his Kansas followers have a chance to watch him run.
Glenn is Kansas' most famous athlete and has spread the name of the state and University to many distant points. The Relays annually attracts tennis fans with an opportunity to do home runs in this great competitor and sportspersons.
Fenske was national collegiate mile champion in 1937 and lost by only a narrow margin to Cunningham, National A.A.U. meet last summer.
Cunningham will be 30 years old August 4, which makes it the more amazing that he still rules the American milers with as firm a grip as ever. Glenn's reign as king of the milers began when he was 22 years old and he has maintained his place, rebuffing all challenges.
Gleem's strongest rival of the moment, "Chuck" Fenkue, will provide his main opposition in the mile run at the Kansas Relays. Fenkue, who graduated from the University of Wisconsin last spring after a brilliant college career, is America's number two milier at present.
Indoors this winter Fenske defeated Cunningham in the last two major races of the indoor season, the Columbian mile in New York City and the Banker's mile in Chicago. Glenn will be out to avenge
these two setbacks when he meet. Fenske at Lawrence.
Glemm, who received his Ph.D. degree from New York University a year ago, is now employed by the firm. He also serves as the staff of the extension division.
The traveling which his job makes necessary and the irregular hours make it difficult for Glenn to get in much training, but he hopes to be in fine shape for the mile run at the Relays.
Relays Entries Are Pouring In
Entries were pouring in throughout the day and this list is expected to grow considerably before the deadline at midnight tonight.
At noon today 207 schools, colleges and Universities had field entry blanks for competition in the seventh annual Kansas Relays. Of this number 18 were universities, 21 were in the college class, 10 were junior colleges and 158 were high schools.
At noon, there were 12 men entered in the decadron. E. Lee Todd of Imperial, Neb, last year's third player was among the first few players to attend. He is one of the favorites this year. He competes unattached.
The problem of dating will be discussed at the freshman commission of the W.Y.C.W. a today at 4:30 at Henley house. Betty Barner, e38 at the personal relations commission, will have charge of the discussion.
Y.W.C.A. Freshmen Discuss Dates
Three Linemen In New Positions
- Turner and Finney Are Switched to End; Cierny Now a Tackle
Two centers and a guard found themselves working out at new positions last night as spring football practice swung into its sixth week. The Jayhawk coaching staff switched Gidge Clierny and Jack Turner, outstanding center candidates, to tuckle and end respectively and Larry Finney, big freshman guard, to an end.
Gwinn Henry said that all three men would continue to work some at their old positions and the changes were made to allow them to see more service next year by knowing two positions.
The moving of Finney to end leaves only two freshman guards, Jay Kern and Rex Shaw, still in the picture.
The changing of Gierney and Turner leaves the pivot job mainly up to John Naramore, lettered junior, and Don Pierce, a sophomore.
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Stalin's Hand in Spain
The Author W.G. KRIVITSKY
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