Friday, Feb. 27, 1959 University Daily Kanson
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Big Eight Indoor Meet Opens Today
Coach Bill Easton said that his team was only in fair shape for the Big Eight indoor track championship which begins tonight at 7:30 in Kansas City at the Municipal Auditorium.
Easton said: "The boys are naturally anxious to defend their championship from last year, but they are not in top condition."
The veteran track coach said his team would have to make up for this loss by scoring well in the dashes and the broad jump.
Easton predicted a close contest for the team championship. He said the Jayhawkers' chief competition would come from Colorado and Oklahoma.
Ernie Shelby, who was almost a certain first place winner in the broad jump, definitely will miss the meet, Easton said.
The other teams will offer stiff individual competition but each appears to lack the depth of the KU
Devine Given New Contract
COLUMBIA, Mo. — (UPI) — Young Dan Devine, whose razzled-dazzle multiple offense brought new enthusiasm to these conservative Ozark foothills, today signed a new eight-year contract as head football coach of the University of Missouri.
Thus the 34-year-old Devine so endeared himself to Missourians in only one year here that he has become one of the most protected college football coaches in the country.
President Elmer Ellis revealed today that he had torn up Devine's one-year-old three-year contract with two-year renewal option.
squad. The Jayhawkers have not been challenged seriously in a meet thus far this year.
The new eight-year pact extends to Feb. 28, 1967. Ellis emphasized that the new contract was binding on both sides. It specifies that Devine agrees to stay at Missouri for the contract period without seeking employment elsewhere.
In their last meet before the conference finals, the Jayhawkers easily downed Missouri, 77-42. at Columbia
The only individual winners last week against Kansas were Joe Webb in the pole vault and Dan LaRose in the shot put.
Oklahoma's Mike Lindsay easily outdistanced KU's shot putters when the two teams opened their indoor seasons here Feb. 3. OU's other outstanding performers are Gale Hodgson and Dec Givens. Hodgson captured a win in the mile when KU downed the Sooners and Givens won both the 60-yard dash and the low hurdles.
Missouri's returning indoor tiltlists, Jim Kilgore and Jim Green, are both high jumpers and have already been beaten by KU's Bob Cannon.
Oklahoma Strong
O-State Better
The Cowboys should put in strong bids for firsts in the pole vault, high jump and mile relay.
This weekend will mark the second Big Eight appearance for Oklahoma State's Cowboys. OSU finished last in the meet in 1958 but hopes to make a first-division finish this year.
Kansas' ace : printer, Charlie Tidwell, was making up an incomplete course at the time.
K-State Favored in Relay
Kansas State's strong points are in the 600-yard run, shot put and mile relay. The Wildcats came out third in a triangular meet here with KU and OSU which the Jayhawkers won by a large margin.
Delosx Dodds is K-State's biggest scoring threat as he runs in the 600-yard run and runs the last leg of the Wildcats' mile relay team. Other members of this favored team are Larry French, Charles Burgat and Jim Vader.
Nebraska, usually a contender for the title, has been hurt by the graduation of such men as Keith Gardner. Keith Young and Bill Hawkins, all standouts in last year's indoor meet. One of this year's tall performers has been Ken Pollard who has consistently bettered 14 feet in the
the only high hurdler on the team.
Joe American Horse, a sophomore,
has turned in several good times in
the mile.
pole vault. Pollard doubles in the hurdles.
Bob Knaub and Tom Hodson join Pollard in the lows, but Pollard is
POVERTY CAN BE FUN
14 is no disgrace to be poor. It is an error, but it is no disgrace.
So if your purse is empty, do not skulk and brood and tute your head in shame. Stand tall. Admit your poverty. Admit it freely and frankly and all kinds of good things will happen to you. Take, for instance, the case of Blossom Sigafoos.
Blossom, an impeccable freshman at an Eastern girls' college, was smart as a whip and round as a dumpling, and scarcely a day went by when she didn't get invited to a party weekend at one of the nearby men's schools. But Blossom never accepted. She did not have the rail fare; she did not have the clothes. Weekend after weekend, while her classmates went frolicking. Blossom sat alone, saved from utter despair only by her pack of Marlboros, for even an exchequer as slim as Blossom's can afford the joys of Marlboro—joys far beyond their paltry price: rich, mellow tobacco, lovingly cured and carefully packed; a new improved filter that works like a charm. Croesus himself could not buy a better cigarette!
However, Mariborso's most passionate admirers—among whose number I am paid to count myself—would not claim that Mariborso can entirely replace love and romance, and Blossom grew steadily moroser.
Then one day came a phone call from an intelligent sophomore named Tom O'Shanter at a nearby men's college. "Blossom," said Tom, "I want you to come down next week for the barley festival, and I won't take no for an answer."
"No," said Blossom.
"Foolish girl," said Tom gentil, "I know why you refuse me. It is because you are poor, 'n not it?"
"Yes," said Blossom.
"I will send you a railroad ticket," said Tom. "Also a small salami in case you get hungry on the train."
"But I have nothing to wear," said Blossom.
Tom replied, "I will send you one suit of cashmore, two gowns of lace, three shacks of velvet, four shoes of calf, five socks of nylon, and a partridge in a peer tree."
"That is most kind," said Blossom, "but I fear I cannot dance and enjoy myself while back home my poor lame brother 'my Tim lies abed.'"
"Send him to Mayo Brothers and put it on my tab," said Tom.
"You are terribly decent," said Blossom, "but I cannot come to your party because all the other girls at the party will be from rich, distinguished families, and my father is but a humble woodenutter."
"I will buy him Yosemite," said Tom.
"You have a great heart," said Blossom. "Hold the phone while I ask our wise and kindly old Dean of Women whether it is proper for me to accept all those gifts."
She went forthwith and asked the Dean of Women, and the Dean of Women laid her wise and kindly old hand on Blossom's cheek and said, "Child, let not pride rob you of happiness. Accept these gifts from Tom."
"Lord love you, Wise and Kindly," breathed Blossom, dropping grateful tears into the Dean's reticule. "I must run and tell Tom."
“Yes, run, child,” said the陈 A smile wrinkling her wise and kindly old eyes. “Ard ask him has he got an older brother.”
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