TUESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1936.
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
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s'TRACK' IS
THE COMMAND.
Runners and
Spikes, and One
flirecting It All.
By Arnold Levin.
"Track!"
It's familiar, that stentorian
bellow from the hollowed depths
of Memorial stadium.
"Track!"
Everything la grey, with pale
yellow sued in spreading area
here and there from suspended
are lights. Under one of them,
tiling over a bend In the oval
track, a runner flashca by, pump
ing, driving, gasping.
"Track!"
Everyone hops off the runway.
aThc runner dashes under a light
on an upper curve, The coast
down the west straightway Is
cleared save for a few jogging
lads warming up for coming
trials.
The runner goes by again. He's
obviously working harder this
time. His stride is not nearly so
rythmic. His arms arc flailing
wildly. There's a sort of pained
expression on his laboring face.
The Tapel
Around the curve and halfway
up the next straight stretch is the
tape, held by two teammates. The
runner senses this. He's picking
Up. Second breath. Pump. Pump.
Pump. Pump. Drive. Drive. His
chest arches. Two halves of
string float outward and gently to
the turf. The runner slows,
breathing fast. He reaches for
sweat clothes, and jogs slowly to
jfie center of the arena.
"Nice time glance at a stop
watch but you could do better,
Run around and get cool. Then
report, back to me here."
"Okay, coach."
"Ed, start those fifty's. Jake,
you run the first and third heats.
Pank, warm up. Two turns around
and report to me. Goln' to have
you run a special 440 today."
Meet 'Em!
The "Ed" is Ed Weir, assistant
track coach. "Jake" is Harold
Jacobsen, Big Six sprint champ,
"Pank" is Lester Pankonln, fair
haired boy in the quarter mile,
Much ado again. Sprinters -ire
warming up. Weir herds them
together at the south end. load3
his starting pistol. Each man se
tecti his holes. Scrapes, digs, to
make them fit better. Peel off
weat clothes. Crouch.
"Bang!"
Weir calls them back with an
other shot Somebody jumped the
gun. They jog around a bit, over
coming the tenseness of the first
moment or tnc croucn.
They go back in their holes,
"Ready!" They He back,
"Set!" Each man humps till it
seems his initial charge will drive
him nose first into the dirt Watch
Jacobsen. He seems relaxed, at
"Ready" instead of "Set." But
watch him!
t They're Off.
"Bang!" There they go. Jake
picks up yards from the start. Ho
flashes over the GO yard mark in
an amazingly short time. Next
man comes in fully six yards be
hind. How that boy can go!
Doesn't seem to be much trouble
for Henry F. Schulte in the sprints
thns year.
The fifty yard finishers don
sweat clothes and head for the
center of the arena. There their
coach holds sway from atop his
pyramid lookout. He sits easily in
his swivel arm chair, surveying
all operations. He gives instruc
tions to the sprinters. Tells Jake
a few pointers. Turns attention to
Pank, the 440 man, and looks
around for someone to keep step
with him. Decides to let Pank
warm up a bit more.
"How's the conference look?
Well, we'll have some mighty fine
competition, but wc have as much
of a chance as any of them."
"How's the squad?"
"Nice lot of boys. Need some
roundine: out. but we'll tret to that
without much trouble. Lack a few
men here and there but we've got
a large squad out and can find
them."
Regular Practice.
"Practice regularly?"
"Well, a lot of the boys have
exams now and are cleaning up
work for the semester, so they
can t iret out every day."
'Going to practice during exam
week?"
"Yes, we plan to. Going to give
every man who finds time to come
out for a couple of days any train
ing we can before the season
opens."
Kansas Opens Season.
"First meet? Feb. 22, Kansas
here. That gives us a lot of time
to round out our squad into best
shape. Yes, they'll be tough, but
we'll be tougher.
"Hey, Cosgrove, hold that pole
tighter to your shoulder when you
go over. Hug it Gives you lev
erage and power. Pank, let's see
yu do a quarter now. Ed, start
tills boy out Jake, you warmed
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up enough? Start another"
The pistol bangs again. From
the center of the arena comes that
stentorian "Track." Everyone
hops off the runway. Under an
arc light a runner flashes. He's
going faster than that other man,
he's running only a 440.
"Track!"
Everything Is grey from the re
flection of the walls. Save where,
tho lights shed glows of yellow.
Pank is picking up speed, whirling
around tho final curve. Some
body's standing on the runway.
"Track!" It's a command. The
"somebody hops down.
K-STATETfflflETE
Prospects for Championship
Outfit Are Improved Over
Those Last Year.
MANHATTAN. Kas.. Jan. 20, -
Tryouts for the Kansas State col
lege boxing team will bo completed
next week, accordlnir to Conch
B. R. Patterson. Prospects are for 1
a much improved team over that '
which tied with Missouri for the
unofficial championship of the Big
bix last year. Although confer
ence officials awarded no cham
pionship, on tho basis of matches
won and lost, the Wildcats were
tied with tho Tigers for the title.
Returning lcttermen and several
outstanding sophomores give in
dication that practically all
weights will be ably taken care
of this year.
The lettermen returninjr are
Ray Pyles, 118 pounds; Pete Sher
ar, (eligible second semester),
126 pounds; Capt. Russell Madi
son, 145 pounds; Bill Hemphill,
105 pounds, and John Crawley, 175
pounds.
1936 CYCLONE CAGE
MEN VERSATILE IN
ALL-AROUND SPORTS
AMES, Iowa. 11 one word were
used to describe the 1936 Iowa
State college basketball squad, this
word might well be "versatile."
Eight members of the Cyclone 13
man squad arc letter or numeral
winners in at least one other sport.
Also, there are no less than three
"captains" on the regular first
string squad. Four of the cage
men have won previous honors on
the gridiron, while two more were
first-string men on last year's co
championship baseball team and a
third will assume the title "cap
tain" on the Cyclone golf team
this spring.
Capt. Torvald Holmes of Gilbert,
all-Big Six guard, will also retain
his title of "captain" during the
baseball season next spring.
Holmes, one of the conference's
leading pitchers, was elected last
spring to lead the Cyclones in de
fense of their Big Six diamond
title.
Fred Poole of Ames, center on
the Cyclone quintet, boasts the
most varied athletic interests.
Pool has just finished his second
year on the Cyclone football team
for which he did the punting and
alternated between end and hair
back. With the end of the basket
ball season, Fred will turn his in
terests to track where last year
he was state champion in the 120
yard hich hurdle.
Harlan Anderson, uannon ans,
Minn., forward, is the other "cap
tain" on the Cyclone basketball
roster. Anderson will lead the Iowa
State golfers this season.
Elwm Snell, Mason City reserve
sophomore guard, won his letter as
a quarterback on the football team
this fall, and in addition won a
nren numeral in oaseoau last
snrinjr.
Maurice Jonnson, reserve guaru
from LcGrand, will take over his
position of regular third-baseman
on the Cyclone nine wnen me Das
kctball season is nnisnea.
Two sophomore substitute
guards, William Partridge pf Har
mon, N. D., and Kenneth Vitman
of Ames were football numeral
winners in their freshman year
and are prospective members of
the 1936 Cyclone eleven.
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FROSH BASKET TEAM
Coaches to Choose Ten of
Squad for Receiving
1936 Numerals.
MANHATTAN, Kas., Jan. 20.
Eighteen men have been chosen
to make up the freshman basket
ball squad at Kansas State col
lege here the remainder of the
season. It is customary to award
not more than ten freshmen nu
merals at the end of the season.
This year the ten men will be
chosen from these eighteen, Coach
Frank Root has announced!
Those chosen on the freshman
squad include: Woodrow Ains
worth, Garden City; Clarence
Dreier, Kansas City, Kas.; Max
Foote, Ottawa; Robert Hawley,
Manhattan; Jim Hickert Bird
City; Calvin Jenkinc, Manhattan;
Robert Kellogg, Wichita; Paul
Lloyd, Valley Center; Donald Me
randa, Uniontown, Pa.; Donald
Mignot Manhattan; Robert Mc
Clure, Chicago, 111.; Harry Pat
ton, Anthony; Carroll Preusch,
Healy; Charles Shatell, Spivey;
Robert Swartz, Everest; Homer
Wesche, Manhattan; Fred Smith,
Highland, and Byron Kennedy,
Esbon.
Lincoln, Nebr.
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Judith Anderson, left, nnd Helen Menken will star In "The Old Maid," Pulitzer prize play of 1935,
when it comes to the Liberty theater for a matinee and night performance Monday, Jan. 27. The play
was written by Zoe Akins and based upon Edith Wharton's novel.
Panhellenic Gets
Over 500 Entries
In Essay Contest
A total of 526 students in col
leges and universities throughout
the country are entered to date in
the second annual Panhellenic es
say contest, Mrs. A. Barton Hep
burn, president of the Panhellenic
House association in New York
City, announces.
Entrants are registered from
141 different colleges and univer
sities located in every section of
the United States, including such
institutions as: Stanford univer
sity on the west coast, Rollins col
lege in Florida, Southern Metho
dist university in the southwest
Notre Dame in the middle west
and Wellesley in the 'New Eng
land states. The essay contest, ac
cording to Mrs. Hepburn, was an
nounced the first week in No
vember and this total of 526 en
trants has been enrolled since that
time.
Indicative of the widespread in
terest is the fact that twenty stu
dents from North Park Junior
college, Chicago, Illinois, alone,
are enrolled in the contest, and
twelve students from MacMurray
college, Jacksonville, Illinois;
seven students from New Mexico
Normal university, Las Vegas,
New Mexico, and seven students
from the University of Missouri,
Columbia, Missouri.
Judges Announced.
Completion of the committee of
distinguished literary notables
who will judge the entries, also
is announced by Mrs. Hepburn at
this time. Authors and journalists
serving on the committee for the
second annual contest, inciuae
Fannie Hurst and Alice Duer Mil
ler, two of America's leading
women novelists; Helen Wordcn,
nationally syndicated columnist
nnd author of "The Real New
York" and "Around Manhattan's
Rim;" Hans V. Kaltenborn, radio
columnist and commentator; Mary
Colum, an associate editor of
"Forum" and noted critic, wno is
a member of the 1936 Pulitzer
drama award committee; Thomas
Wolfe, author of "Look Home
ward Antrel." "Of Time and the
River" and "From Death to Morn
ing;" Kenyon Nicholson, promi
nent playwright, author of the
Broadway successes "The Barker"
and "Sailor Beware;" Lyman
Beecher Stowe, of the famous
Beecher and Stowe families, who
is a noted lecturer and author of
many books, including "Saints,
Sinners and Beechers."
Much Interest.
As a result of the Interest
aroused by the first annual essay
contest, sponsored by the Pan
hellenic House association, in
which the 20 national women's
fraternities are represented on the
board of directors, the second com
petition on the general subject
"Why I Should See New York," is
open to all undergraduates in the
colleges and universities or tne
country. Professors of the Eng
lish, history, commerce and edu
cation departments of these col
leges and universities have re
ceived personal Information about
the contest. Entry blanks are
available at offices of college pub
lications, at local fraternity chap
ter houses and at offices of the
English, history and other depart
ments of each college or univer
sity.
According to Mrs. Hepnurn,
who. with her late husband, A,
Barton Hepburn, has been a bene
factor of many colleges In this
country, the essay contest was
originated by the Panhellenic
House association, among frater
nity women, to ascertain the gen
eral viewpoint among college
women on New York City. The
Panhellenic House association is
the sponsor of the New York
headquarters of the national
women's fraternities and the New
York City Panhellenic club, at the
Beekman Tower hotel In New
York City, which was built by the
fraternity women of America as
a general center for fraternity ac
tivity. Made Grants.
Mrs. Hepburn and her late hus
band have made generous grants
to Middlebury. St Lawrence, Wel
lesley and Williams colleges, made
possible the Dean-Eaton hall at
St Lawrence, the school of com
rrce and Maison Francala at
Columbia, and provided a profes
sorship at the University of To
kio. Mr. Hepburn established a
$250,000 foundation in conjunction
with the chamber of commerce in
New York City, which holds an
annual essay contest among the
students of the metropolis, the
first of which was "Why Are We
Being Educated?"
The first prize winner in the
first annual Panhellenic competi
tion, was a student of Wayne uni
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versity, Detroit, Michigan, who
visited New York this pnst sum
mer. Her professor had given the
essay material as a class assign
ment, and her essay was printed
in several metropolitan dallies,
following the competition.
Winner Entertained.
Included in her entertainment
were visits to the plant of a great
metropolitan newspaper, where
she saw the paper "put to bed;"
to a national broadcasting station,
where she spoke over the air;
tours of New York City and a
visit to Jones Beach, the famous
New York state recreational
project; a trip down the harbor on
a tug to escort the new French
liner "Normandie" into her dock;
visits to New York's great thea
ters, Opera House and skyscrap
ers; and a visit to the court of
one of New York City's women
magistrates.
The prizes of the second annual
Panhellenic essay contest are as
follows: First prize, one hundred
dollars in cash, plus a week's stay
and entertainment provided by the
Panhellenic House association at
the Beekman Tower hotel its
headquarters; or transportation to
and from New York, plus a week's
stay and entertainment; second
prize, $25, plus a week end stay;
and third prize, $15, plus a week
end stay.
To give recognition to the col
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lege students submitting the
many fine essays which do not
win the first, second or third
prize, it is planned to announce an
honorable mention award to not
less than 15 students.
E
Cagesters Snatch Two Wins
Before Road Trip
This Week.
Carried along on a t' jame
winning streak following a four
game losing spree, Coach Wilbur
Knight's Nebraska B basketmon
gers will endeavor to raise their
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Details will be
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Watch for this important Notice
The
Daily Nebraskan
victory percentage to a 50-50 basis
this week when they set off on a
two-gamo road trip. The Journey
will find the Huskers tackling
Wayne Tuesday and Peru the fol
lowing evening.
Coach Knight will take ten ath
letes on the trip:
Forwards: Merrill Morris, Vin
cent Jacobsen, Cliff Scott, Bob Os
borne. Centers: Merle Gotfredson,
Chuck Hulac.
Guards: Lloyd Wampler, Clare
Wolf, Arnold Reld, Howard Peter
son, Tho Huskers lost four straight
games to Luther, Doane, Kearney,
and Hebron before disgracing Ne
braska Central 56-7 and tromping
Dana, 36-27.
The Carnegie Tartar has re
cently conducted a survey to de
termine the effects of listening to
a radio on the students ability to
study. They discovered that those
who admitted their preference for
a radio during work made higher
grades than those who demanded
complete silence.
Yale and Harvard still keep up
their playful rivalry.- A. canary
bird, Yale Dally News mascot, was
kidnaped by three Harvard men
not long ngo.
E
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Phi
Psi's, Delta Gamma's
Popularity Contest
At Stuart.
First honors in the popularity
contest staged by the Stuart
ton
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theater among Greek societies in
conjunction with the showing of
the plcturo "Colleglutc" were di
vided between
Phi Kappa Psi
and Delta
G a ni m a. The
winning frater
nal groups will
bo rewurded by
a theater party
at tho Stuart
Thursday eve
ning for the
opening of
"The Bride
Comes Home,"
the gay roman
tic mix-up star
ring, Ciaudctte
Colbert, Fred
MacMurray and Robert Young.
Members of both organizations
will be Issued tickets for them
selves and a friend. It has not yet
been decided whether the organ
izations will go in a body or as in
dividual groups.
Have you heard of the young
girl in u Latin class who trans
lated the story of Achilles Into
English? Concerning that famous
episode in the life of the great
warrior, her translation said:
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