Friday, May 9, 1941
DAILY NEBRASKAN
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High school track teams Califoria loctor
hold semi-final competition Ath,elics 110t
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Lincoln Journal.
Kd Mrir.
A double-barreled carnival of
track and field events will be the
gathering in the stadium Saturday
afternoon when Coach Ed Weir
presents his cornhusker cindermen
against Mis
souri in the
first home per
formance of the
outdoor season
at the same
time the finals
of the state
high school
track meet are
being- run off.
G r o undsmen
are working
hard to get the
track in top
shape f-r the
700 prep con
testants and
the dual with
the Bengals. Competition in the
high school meet begins Friday
afternoon, continues Saturday
morning and the final events are
interspersed with events in the
Husker's meet.
Worrying Weir, whose furrowed
brow has fretted several Nebraska
teams to Big Six team champion
ships, smiled a little this week as
four performers returned for com
petition. Added to the squad this
week are Harlan Culell, two miler;
Bill Cook, miler; Walter Nye.
vauiter; and John Thompson, jave
lin competitor.
These boys may be able to add
a few placing points in dual com
petition which would certainly be
welcomed by Weir. His squad can
cop plenty of firsts but lacks the
strength in depth.
Tiger want victory.
The Tigers would give their eye-
War-
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average arm chair traveler en
vious. ,
During the Spanish war. Lis
born, he said, served as a back
door to Spain for nazi technician:
joining the rebel forces, and, para
doxically, the city served as a
jumping off place for fleeing ref
ugees. Sight submarine.
Altho the vessel he was or.
sighted only one submarine while
in the Mediterranean, Ainsworth
said the captain gave orders that
no wireless signals which would
denote the ship's position were to
be sent while in the war zone.
This was precaution against the
vessels that were indiscriminately
attacking neutral and loyalist ship
ping. These attackers were re
ferred to as "pirates," tho It was
generally know that they were
nazi and fascist vessels.
Queried as to the po&siblity of
Gibraltar falling to the nazis. Ains
worth replied that he thought the
rock too well fortified to be
taken except by long seige. "Dur
ing the Spanish war," he said, "the
Germans established emplace
ments in Spanish Morocco nia
miles across the rtraits from Gib
"I thin tho, the British could
blow these bases out of existence,"
he continued. "Gibraltar is separ
ated from the Spanish mainland
by a narrow strip of water."
"The Germans, to move a land
force into Gibraltar, would have
to bridge this stretch. Altho there
Is a causeway connecting the rock
with the mainland, the British
would blow it up if an attack
seemed apparent."
The young traveler often won
ders about three young Cerman
seamen from the torpedo boat
Leopard he met at Cadiz. "They
seemed such clean-cut. likeable
fellows. I can't conceive them as
part of Hitler s war machine," ho
said.
"I noticed in my visits with
them how imbued they seamed
with the ideology of Hitlerism,"
Ainsworth continued. "If they are
representative of the average
young German, that nation lives
and breathes nazism. It's their re
ligion." Ainsworth has many stories of
activities of fascist and nazi troops
in the civil war. The black shirts,
he asserts, had experiences in
Spain that paralleled their recent
miserable showings in Africa
against the British.
Ainsworth'a opinion of the war
zone is that it was Hitler's prov
ing ground."
teeth to set down the scarlet and
cream before the prep performers
and will be giving all they have.
Weir warned that he would not
have Gene "Red" Littler attempt
to duplicate his feat of last week
at the Twin Cities where he took
three firsts, in the 100. 220 and
440 yard races. George Abel, foot
ball guard, will represent the
Cornhuskers in the century while
Red" travels the 220 and the
quarter-mile.
Ralph King, sophomore hurdler.
Is out to re-enact his victory of
last week over Bill Smutz in the
highs. According to Weir, King is
working out harder by himself,
without any pushing, than he ever
has before. King topped six feet
in the high jump practice this
week for the first time in outdoor
jumping this year.
Don Morris, who had his foot
cut at the beginning of the indoor
season, is just beginning to round
into shape and may surprise in the
broad jump. His distance at Min
nesota was 22 feet 5 inches.
Dale Garrels, two miler, will
have to start a senior CAA test
Saturday afternoon, leave to run
in the two mile and the relay and
return to finish his exam.
cause of athletic heart
... so proceed, crap-shooters
By George Abbott.
Best news of the week . . . for
era p-shooters, pool-room-hangers-on,
pogo-stick riders, mumbledy
peg experts, exponents of the ex
citing game of tiddly-winks,
flashes at hop-scotch and jacks,
those who enjoy the royal old
game of post-office, and players
of bridge, cribbage, hide-and-go-seek,
blind-man's-buff, and "but
ton, button, who's got the (but
ton I ?" . . . comes from Del Monte,
California.
This news, of interest to all per
sons engaging in such strenuous
sports as those mentioned above,
came in the form of a statement
by Dr. James T. Harkness, ath
letic physician of the University
of California.
Sports don't harm.
Said Dr. Harkness, "There is no
such thing as athletic heart." The
doctor added. "If hearts are dam
aged in athletic competition it is
because of some previous tiouble.
In 20 years of examining athletes
on the Berkeley campus, I have
never found a normal heart that
has been damaged by any sport."
The doctor then pointed out that
heart muscles may increase in size
as the result of athletic exertion.
but that it is just as natural as
the development of other muscles
thru exercise.
With that argument in mind, it
is safe to assume that all athletes
are relatively healthy, so relax,
you players of polo, golf, tennis,
squash, badminton, pool, hockey,
lacrosse, rugby, poker, foot, hand,
soft, kitten, basket, and volley
ball!
From the results of the football
game in the Rose Bowl last Janu
ary, California athletes aren't suf
fering from anything, doc.
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"No matter what happens," be
lieves Bob O. Ferguson, "the
United States must not go to war.
Convoys means another Lusitania
deal. And that means the people
will get all excited. When we get
excited nothing can keep us out of
complete war."
In effect Glen Krueger, fresh
man, contends that we are kidding
ourselves. He says: "We are not
neutral now. We might as well go
all the way and be sure that our
supplies reach England."
"Do everything now to keep
England alive" says Charles
White. "Someday we shall have
to fight Hitler so why wait until
we have no allies. Let's beat the
bully now before he gets too
strong."
Most outspoken person ques
tioned was a gentleman who pre
fers to have his name withheld.
Without hesitation he proclaimed:
"We ought to do more than con
voy. We ought to be over there
with our troops right now and get
in before it's too late."
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