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Friday, April 10, 1942 DAILY NEBRASKAN 7j ! 13 SpoJdA. WhhLl 1 1 J u By Bob mier 5 Q WILLIAM Kovanda, 23, died Wednesday in a Denver hospital . . . "Willie" as he was known in athletic circles was regarded highly by everyone with whom he came in in contact ... He was a standout on the Husker basketball court playing his last year in 1939 ... He was president of his senior class that year also . . . Kovanda was in the air corps at the time he became ill with a brain affliction . . . His mark in the world will be hard to erase. Q OMAHA't Aktarben Knights have accomplished what the ex perts of the middle we t knew they couldn't . . . After coming out in the number three spot of four teams in the northern division of the American hockey association, the Knights led by Phil Bescler warmed to their playoff task and in five straight games they set down the top two teams In their division to be eligible for the final playoffs against Kansas City, the winners In the southern division . . . The first was 5-3 In their favor, the second was 6-5 in an over time and the last one, played on Wednesday evening, was 3-2 in the two overtimes . . . They really played a superior brand of hockey throughout to best the effort of three teams all of whom had a better wins and losses record than the Knights. . . The playoffs were probably the last for the duration. Q BABE "the Bambino" Ruth is critically ill in a Hollywood hospital at this time . . . Babe was playing his role in the picture, depicting the life of Lou Gehrig, late New York Yankee first baseman . . . At 48, Ruth seemed to have plenty of energy but the process of taking off 30 pounds of avordupois plus the maddening whirl of movie life seemed to be too much for him . . . The last report stated that he was progressing as well as can be expected. Q GLENN Presnell, Husker ruler of the football gridiron, plans to concentrate on the work of his boys completely Saturday afternoon ... His charges are slated to meet in a regulation battle in he sta dium proper ... To make sure that he doesn't miss anything he is going to perch high In one side of the stadium and watch the move ments from that vantage point ... It may be a strain but Press is going to withstand it to get th objective view of things . . . Lew Lewandowski will Instruct one of the squads whilt Elmer Holm will be in charge of the other. Q SO far this spring the Army squad has held the upper hand in the scrimmage proceedings . . . One of the main thing? that is giving them their superiority is in experience . . . The Navy has a lot of good material but lacks the necessary polish ... In the b&ckfield for the former three of the four have had all the experience they can get . . . Fred Metheny, Marv Athey and Dale Bradley form the trio . . . Add frosh Wally Hopp to complete the foursome . . . For the Blues, Bobby Cooper, Roy Long and Allen Zikmund have the exper ience and Ki Eisenhart, another first year man, has the bulk . . . The Army line seems stronger with Herb vonGoetz, Bob Deviney, Vic Schleich and Marv Thompson to form the bulwark. Q THERE is a mighty good possibility that the baseball team will meet the Fort Riley diamond contingent next week in the opener instead of Minnesota as originally scheduled ... At present the baseballers seem to be an unknown quantity ... But it won't be long till the truth is known. Grid Squads Slated to Mix On Saturday Regulation Game on Tap As Spring Football Drills End; Public May Watch Some fifty Husker grid aspir ants will call it quits for the spring Saturday afternoon following a regulation game scrimmage be tween the two squads Army and Navy. Anyone may watch. The contest US (Continued From Page 1.) day bow". Captain Jack Ellis, tackle on the Nebraska football team from 1935 to 1937, also con fidently wrote at the same time that "everybody is expecting our first team from the U. S. any day now, and we expect to be in Ma nila very soon thereafter." Letters full of hope in ultimate victory were likewise received from Captain Robert Carnahan, who was commissioned at the uni versity and went to the Phillipincs with the Slet infantry, and from Lieutenant Robert Fleetwood, graduate of 1940 who is serving in the Islands tn the 57th Infan try division. Last year graduate f the Pharmacy college, Lieutenant Wal lace Churchill, was taken off the Philippines after being injured Dec. 9. He was a pilot of a dive bom er. In his last letter Churchill said that "it won't be long before we are home". Relatives cling to the hope that they saw a news shot of him on a hospital boat, and are convinced that he left the islands. According to a Johns Hopkins university survey, persons bom in the spring are taller and heavier than those who make the summer, fall or winter trip with the stork. An information center to which students and citizens may turn for information about the war has been established on the campus of the University of Kentucky. Book Worms, Scholars, Student? and whor hove you . , . Voluminous Reference Book Sale Starts rJonday 100,000 Reference Books Any Cook in Our Basement . or only 4!j2)c each 5 for 22 10 " 4 Toxt Books Student Supplies 1 :X5. '1 will begin at two o'clock or shortly there after and will probably run a little over the ordinary game time so that Coach Glen Presnell can make use of all his brood. There will be officials and everything to add to the setting. . ; From all in- j dications it CtmHnj JovmI. should be quite a battle. At the first of the spring session. Pres nell split the footballers into the Army and Navy units. From that time on the rivalry has been in creasing and Saturday will decide which of the two is superior. Ask any Blue squadman his opinion on the matter, following a practice session and regardless of the fact that perhaps his team has been beaten, he will always answer, "Oh, the Blues are tops by all means." Reds Say the Same. The statement is made by the Reds everytime they are asked too. That's the way things stand. During the scrimmages that have gone before, the Army squad held the upper hand but by just a Betas Lead over Fijis In Race for I-M Trophy By Gene Sherman. Heading into the home stretch of the current intramural season, we find the Betas leading in the race for the Jack Best trophy with a total of 580 points. Just one more than the second place Phi Gams. The Betas gained the leading position by virture ot being awarded the track meet when the ATC-8 were disqualified be cause they used Dick Petring, who was declared ineligible due to past experience in college competition. The points in the bowling tour ney have not been compiled yet, so a change in the standings is shave. The Blues on one occasion caught their opponents behind their own goal line, scored a safety and won by the two point margin. Mathias Volz, Bill Bockes and Max Roper have agreed to operate from behind the whistles to give the game a bigger drawing card. Presnell and his aides will not be standing behind the teams tell ing them what to do but rather will be sitting on the sidelines, letting the players run the whole show. Remember the game starts at two Saturday and anyone can watch. The tilt will be played on the regular field and grandstand seats will be available. possible Friday when the Beta and Phi Gam keglers meet the ZBTs and Delts in the finals. The Farm House is just three points ahead of the ATOs in the fight for the third place position. Intramural Standings. 1. Beta Theta Pi.. 580 2. Phi Gamma Delta 57 3. Farm House 522 . Alpha Tau Omega 519 5. Delta Upailon 515 6. Sigma Alpha Epcilon.... 459 7. Kappa Sigma 439 8. Phi Delta Theta 414 9. Sigma Nu 404 10. Zeta Beta Tau 398 11. Sigma Phi Epsilon 388 12. Phi Kappa Psi 384 13. Alpha Gamma Rho 341 14. Alpha Sigma Phi 318 15. Delta Tau Delta 315 16. Delta Sigma Pi 314 18. Sigma Alpha Mu 249 19. Sigma Chi 223 20. Theta Xi 198 21. XI Psi Phi 85 22. Acacia 0 Orfield Writes Article On US Supreme Court Prof. Lester B. Orfield of the College of Law is the author of "A Resume of Decisions of the U. S. Supreme Cout on Federal Criminal Procedure" in the Febru ary issue of the Rocky Mountain Law Review. ROTHLEY SHIRTS A clastic style needled in the custom manner No tailoring finesse or meticulous custom detail has been over looked in these shirts. 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