Tuesday. March 30 1943
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Not that it's any knockwurst on rye out of our lunch lox.
but our pal, Maey Broide, sports editor of the Indiana Daily
Student, has on his staff three or four writers who may revolu
tionize sports scribbling. . i
Minnesota's daily tabloid has also found the shortage of
sport scribes acute enough to recruit co-ed talent. Betty Lou
Vrooman is such a case.
"She's a nice looking chick, knows how to write, and one
of these days may be sports editor," writes the Daily sports
editor. "Betty started to write sports on a dare when one of
her journalism classmates egged her into trying it. Now she's
working her way up the hard way, and has come as far as
eovering varsity sports."
"Her first trip into Cook Hall, home of men's athletics,
turned out OK. She ran into a fellow with shorts on nd started
to hide her face and walk by, when who should it turn out to
be but her cousin!"
Those intimate dressing room touch, so dear to the sports
enthusiast, will no longer grace future stories. Women may
- be clever in getting in the last word, but no one can slam
a door as effectively as a man. And we're all for slamming
the door on these women sports writers.
Cornhusker hopes in the approaching Texas Relay invita
tional are twofold: 1. Vic Schleich. 2. Howard Debus.
Schleich, Debus and Coach Ed Weir will depart Friday
morning for the Lone Star carnival. Master Schleich un
doubtedly will exclusively apply his talents to the shot ring.
Weir hasn't yet decided where to use the versatile Debus. Big
"Howie" can heave the shot 48 feet, toss the javelin over 200,
vault 13 feet, and approach 160 feet with the discus.
Fact that Debus can travel the sprints in respestable time
bints that Nebraska has a future decathlon champ on he as
sembly line.
Nothing except smoke remains from the bonfire we built
under the Nebraska athletic board for the Missouri-Nebraska
spring grid battle.
Glen Presnell needed until April 17 to ready his charges
for battle Don Faurot, due to ten outdoor track prospects on
' his squad wanted to play April 10. Agreement couldn't reached
so consequently the game is off. That ends the story of a month
long campaign for the game.
Orchids are herewith tossed to Walt Dobbins of the Jour
nal, Ed Menninger of the Missouri Student and "Cy" Sherman
of the Star who so diligently "plugged" our campaign. A
bundle of onions goes to the World Herald "campus strangers"
genuine wet blanket weilders.
Creighton Coaches Stay
Despite Athletic Lull
OMAHA, Neb., March 29. The
Creighton Bluejay basketball quin
tet was the last Jay team of any
kind to wear the royal blue and
white for a good many months,
Sooner Runner
Goes Too Far
Norman, Okla., March 25.
Oklahoma's rookie track team was
laughingly telling the story here
Tuesday of how Dan Painter, two
miler, collapsed after a dual meet
at Denton, Tex., Monday when
officials informed him, after the
race, that they hud let him run an
extra lap by mistake.
The North Texas Teachers won
the meet, defeating Oklahoma,
72-69.
After first winning the mile,
Painter, Tulsa sophomore, also
won the elongated 2 U -mile race
by a step in 12:09 after a duel
over the last lap with Don Camp
bell, North Texas.
The plucky little Sooner finished
the race in fairly good shape, his
teammates reported, but when told
by officials he had galloped an
Fifteen Iowa athletes who left
to enter the armed services have
been given membership in the
alumni "I" club . . . Kenny Walk
er,: now a lieutenant (J.g.) in the
navy, recently reported for active
duty at the Iowa Pre-Flight
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. . Wait For Duration
maybe years to come, for there
will be no more inter-collegiate
athletic competition of any kind
for the duration.
"Intercollegiate football and
basketball competition are ended
definitely at Creighton for the du
ration, as we indicated months ago
they would be. THIS DOES NOT
MEAN THAT WE ARE WITH
DRAWING FROM MEMBER
SHIP IN THE MISSOURI VAL
LEY CONFERENCE. As a mat
ter of fact, I plan to meet with
the faculty representatives of oth
er Missouri Valley schools in St.
Louis on April 10, at which time
the conference universities will
probably frame a course of future
action.
How many of the Valley schools
will drop achletics entirely I do
not know, but I expect a majority
of them to follow our example be
cause of the many obvious diffi
culties on every campus," said the
Rev. David Shyne, S. J., athletic
director.
The coaching staff, however,
will remain for both head football
coach "Skip" Palrang and basket
ball coach Eddie Hickey are busy
with the physical training pro
gram, both for the regular Creigh
ton students and the army, air
corps men. Palrang will also teach
Spanish.
The only business left for the
athletic department is that of
making arrangements for a ban
quet honoring the 1942-43 basket
ball team, undisputed Missouri
Valley conference champions. The
dinner is expected to be open to
the public if it is possible under
the new rationing rules.
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Courtesy Lincoln Journal
Seven months ago Glen Presnell 's Cornhusker grid squad looked ahead to the autumn
campaign, the last probably for the duration. A proposed spring game with Missouri fell
through last week, so the remainder of spring training will be strictly a conditioning session.
Linemen left to right here are Jack Hazen, end; Joe Byler, tackle; Vic Schleich, tackle;
Charles Duda, guard; Forrie Bachman, center; Herb von Getz, guard; Marvin Thompson,
end. Backfield includes Al Zikmund, half back ; Freddy Metheny, quarter; Ki Eisenhart, full
back, and Dale Bradley, halfback. Only Schleich, Thompson, Zikmund and Bradley of this
group are seniors.
Former Stars
Direct loiva
Flight Teams
IOWA CITY, la. March 29.
The spring football season at the
Iowa navy preflight school will be
a battle of outstanding gridiron
names, according to the roster of
squadron coaches released Sunday
by Lt. Col. Bernie Bierman, direc
tor of athletics, thru Lt. Harry
Mullins, head of the schools sports
program department.
Twelve cadet teams will take
part in the spring schedule. Their
coaches will include outstanding
figures from college ranks. The 12
include Lt. D. E. Meyers, Lts.
(j. g.) Clyde Carpenter, Ben Doug
las, Ray Antil, Dwight Hoover,
Fred Faurot, jr., Dick Fisher, Jim
Langhurst and Irank Johnson,
and Ensigns Forest Evashevski,
John Michelesen and E. C. Bjickle
meyer. Evashevski Named.
Meyers, who will report here
next week, was the highly success
ful coach of Boston college teams.
Carpenter was head coach at Mon
tana. Evashevski had signed as
backfield coach at Pittsburgh
when, he entered the navy, after
an impressive debut as head coach
at Hamilton college.
Faurot, brother of Don Faurot,
Missouri coach, was director of
athletics and football coach at
Parsons college. Johnson was line
coach and basket ball . coach at
South Crolina. Michelesen, former
grid great at Pitt, was chief scout
and backfield coach of the Brook
lyn Dodgers pro team. Douglas
was coach at Grinnell.
V
Langhurst, who starred at Ohio
State and with the Seahawks last
fall, was assistant coach at Con
necticut Wesleyan. Fisher came
directly to the navy after starring
at Ohio State and was a Seahawk
mainstay.
Antil, another Seahawk, from
Minnesota, coached at Aberdeen,
S. D. Hoover, one of Iowa's great
football stars, coached at Fairfield,
la., and Bricklemeyer, star at
North Carolina, coached at Roan
oke Rapids, N, C.
Drake Squad
Split In Two
DES MOINES, la., March 29.
Two light Bulldog track squads
will compete in two states this
week to terminate the Drake in
door track season.
One squad will travel to Chi
cago to take part in the Central
A. A. U. meet, while the other
group will head for Lafayette,
Ind., to compete In the Purdue
relays.
, Nick Smusyn, Len Watson,
Bob Bartnick and Dick Young
are entered in the Central A. A. U.
meet.
Young, sophomore sprint sen
sation, will match strides with
some of the top college performers
In the Midwest in the 300-yd. dash
and the 60-yd. sprint.
Len Watson, New Jersey shot
put artist, is entered in his spe
cialty, and the big fellow is ex
pected to out-do his previous per
formances. Bartnick is sheduled to jump
over both the low and high hurd
les and Smusyn will enter both
the mile and two-mile rum.
Trackmen
Now Hold
Spotlight
... No Grid tiers
Husker weight stars, Vic
Schleich and Howie Debus, nu
cleus of Ed Weir's 1943 cinder
array, will form a two-man Corn
husker aggregation at the Texas
Relays, according to entries re
leased this week from the Long
Star state.
Debus, Big Six indoor pole vault
champion, will lock horns with
Southwest bamboo big guns, while
Schleich, the loop indoor shotput
titleholder, mans the favorite role
in the iron ball event.
Weir's negotiations for a tri
angular Big Six meet are still on
the fire, but should be rounded
out with conference schedules
some time this week. Weir is
hoping to promote a tuneup for
his Huskers before the Drake
Relays.
Outdoor workouts will begin in
earnest this week as the Huskers
continue to whip into shape. Week
end tabulations showed Howie
Debus flipping the discus past 150
feet. Dean Kratz breezing 440
yards in 52.2, and Creighton Hale
whizzed a fast 80. "They're get
ting into shape and should be
ready for the big meet," said Weir.
Petring Leaps.
Monday's workouts featured
Dick Petring, Doane ace, in the
high jump. Petring. under the
guiding eye of Weir, whipped his
lanky form up to 6 feet several
times.
Weir will attempt to iron some
of the kinks from the form of
spikesters with steady drills this
week. Movies will be the order
of the day Tuesday.
Only 12 grid candidates reported
Monday. March winds, dirt and
heavy class schedules kept attend
ance down.
Seahawk-IU
Game Pushed
... By Schroedet
IOWA CITY, la., March 24.
A football game may be played
next fall between Iowa university
and the navy pre-flight school at
Iowa City.
E. G. "Dad" Schroeder, Hawk
eye athletic director, said he fav
ored such a contest "if the pre
flight school used cadets entirely."
"l aon t want to matcn our
team, which probably will be com
posed, of 17 year old inexpe
rienced players, against profes
sionals who have played the last
10 years," he asserted, "but I don't
see why we couldn't play the
cadets. It would promote good
reeling."
Schroeder denied that any ac
tion toward a game had been ta
ken, but admitted he plans to pre
sent the idea to the athletic board
at its next meeting.
unless we scneduie a game
with the Seahawks, we probably
wont play any service teams,"
Schroeder predicted.
A navy spokesman said that the
pre-flight school was anxious to
play the Iowa football team if a
Indiana Nine
Meets Redlegs
Bloomington, Ind., March 29.
'The baseball diamond is in the
best condition that it has ever been
in the history of Jordan Field,"
Coach Pooch Harrell said during
baseball practice . yesterday. He
explained it is due to Mattie and
Leonard Schwab, grounuskeepers
of the Cincinnati Reds.
The Crimson diamondmen played
intra-squad games both Tuesday
and Wednesday afternoons. The
squad was divided into two tea ms,
the regulars, made up of seniors
and lettermen, and the yannigans,
composed of sophomores and
newer members of the squad.
Pitchers for the intra-squad
game on Tuesday were Donald
Spence, Dale Boehm, Eugene Sei-
fert, and Joe James, Captain Guy
Wellnian and Richard Rayl were
catchers for the game, and Frank
Hargrove and Bob Crites were
first basemen. Bill Hacker and
Bill Cronin guarded the keystone
sack in the Tuesday game, while
Kermit Wahl, Tom McConnell, and
Charles Gallutia took care of third
base.
Ames Tennists
Want Matches
. . . Material Plentiful
AMES, la. March 29. Consider
the plight of Cyclone Tennis Coach
Harry Schmidt. Most coaches be
moan the fact that they have a
tough schedule and a lack of tal
ent with which to tackle their op
ponents. This year Schmidt is re
versing that commonplace com
plaint. With a great array of stars
available for his net squad, he is
having difficulty getting a sched
ule. Champions abound on Cyclone
squad. John McNabb, a junior
transfer from Iowa State Teachers
College, won the North Central
Conference singles championship
last spring. Dave Hanighan, a
freshman from Omaha, is the cur
rent holder of the Nebraska state
high school singles crown.
The Dunn brothers, Faye and
Harry, round out the quartet of
present and former title-holders at
Schmidt's disposal. Faye, a sopho
more, is a former holder of the
state junior singles diadem, while
younger brother Harry twice whs
co-holder of the Iowa- high school
doubles laurels and won the prep
singles crown his senior year.
Schmidt also has Lawrence Gil
Icy, a 2-time major letter winner
and captain of the team, at his
disposal.
game could be arranged on an
equal basis.
The navy school hopes to use
all cadets on its team, he said,
since the average age of college
players will be lower than usual
and Big Ten teams will be com
posed of inexperienced men.
Officers played last year, the
spokesman said, because it would
have been almost impossible to
complete the Seahawks' tough
schedule without them. Next fall,
competition is expected to be
much lighter.
Who said athletes are thick?
Ten Iowa yearlings have received
scholarship awards for classroom
prowess ... A limited supply of am
munition will be made available
to hunters later this year...