DAILY NEBRASKAN
lllini Lead
Wins in Past
Drake Relays
Dea Moines, la., April 10. (Spe
rial.) 'Fighting lllini, running in
most of the past thirty-three
Drake Relays, have garnered 51
firsts and five first place ties a
record which flings them far into
the lead of the pack.
In a close race for second-place
are the University of Iowa with 21
firsts and 2 first place ties and
Nebraska with 22 firsts. Then
comes Kansas with 19 firsts and
3 title ties, Michigan and Notre
Dame, each with 18 firsts, Wiscon
sin with 15 firsts and three first
place ties and Indiana and Rice
Institute each with 15 titles.
Fleet relay teams of the twen
ties which virtually shut out all
competitors, helped boost Illinis to
its unchallenged lead In Drake Re
lays history.
The four-mile teams took first
from 1920 through '24 and again
in '28 and '29; the one-mile team
triumphed three successive years,
1920 through 522; the half-mile
crew won 1922 through '24 and
again in '26; the quarter-milers
came through in '26, and '29 and
the two-mile team in '28. for a
total of 17 relay firsts in 10 years
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Talking over shot put matters here is Vic Schleich, 51-foot Husker
flipper and one of the nation's tops, with anotner top losser, oian
Graf of Stanford. Viwill be a featured shot entrant, in the Drake
He must top Notre Dame's star thrower, Jim
Delayen to conquer.
Relays April 23-24.
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Wall Topples
Northern portion of the antique
board wall around Memorial sta
dium toppled over Friday night
in face of a high wind. Several
other sections of the fence are
sagging badly.
Low Turnout
Keeps Track
Trvouts Out
, . Saturday work
Slim attendance forced Mentor
Ed Weir to , postpone , scheduled
tryouts Saturday for his Univer
sity of Nebraska track and field
squad to Tuesday afternoon.
Some seven or eight candidates
reported, mostly middle distance
performers, to enable Weir to
conduct tryouts in only three
events 440, mile and 100 yard
dash.
Kratz Trots.
Dean Kratz, frosh distance star,
sped a 52.2 quarter mile in face
of stern wind and soggy track to
compile the top marking. Kratz
was paced by Johnny Parkin, first
year sprint aspirant, and his
brother. Kent, a hurdler.
Jim Brogan spoiled Creighton
Male's initial stab at the mile
route with a three-yard 4:40 vic
tory. Freshman Hale, running his
first mile after concentrating on
the 880 event, couldn't cope with
Brogan's pacing savvy.
Parkin .stopped a slow 10.7 cen
tury in absence of Al Zikmund,
leading Scarlet dash man.
Tryouts Tuesday.
Weir indicated that tryouts in
remainder of the events will occur
Tuesday afternoon. Fact that
large portion of the squad carries
a heavy week end working sched
ule accounted for the poor attend
ance. A triangular affair with Okla
homa and Oklahoma A. & M. at
Stillwater Saturday will open the
campaign.
"If we can weather all the cards
stacked against usT such as heavy
classroom schedules, abundance of
outside work and a simple short
age of manpower, we may do
something," said Tutor Weir.
Gophers Lose
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Frosh GridmcD
. . . To Service
Minneapolis, Minn., April 10
There may not be many University
sophomores wearing gold football1
I suits and cavorting on the stadium
turf next season unless present
conditions take a change for the
better.
Since last fall 22 members of
the freshmen football squad have
already entered the armed services,
and it is probable that many more
will follow. The absent list which
constitutes more than a third of
the entire freshman squad includes
many of the most promising fledg
lings. Among them are ends
George Prest, Jim Low and Pierre
Mattel, center Warren Beson
tackle Carl Backes and halfback
Harold Brezny.
Two Huskers
Win Approval
In Pro Poll
Rose Bowl veterans, Vic Schleich
and Al Zikmund, three-year
Husker grid mainstays, were
drafted by pro grid teams in
Thursday's National league selec
tions at Chicago.
Zikmund, speedy wingback, who
was hampered by inquiries during
his last two campaigns, following
a brilliant career as a sophomore
was tabbed by the Chicago Bears.
Schleich, 230-pound all Big Six
tackle choice the past season, was
a Brooklyn Dodcer draftee.
Midshipmen Candidates.
Both Schleich and Zikmund are
enrolled in the navy V-7 program.
They will be sent July 1 to a V-7
college for training as midshipmen.
Additional Draftees.
Other gridders from Bix Six and
Missouri Valley conference tea iris,
claimed via the National league
draft, include:
Krooklyn DiMlitrrn Don Itcwe, MIkhoiiH
ftilllmi'k.
t'lrvrliiml Kiuns lliirnrr Sltnnimn, Olilu
Iiiiiiip liiildi-i Humid AduniN, .Missouri
Ulinrlf rhuck ; .li ft DnvlN, Mlsmiurl center.
t hiciiKci lleurs Huh sti'tihrr, Missouri
fiillliiick: W. ;. I .limb, Oklahoma mil;
Lloyd Arms, Okln'ionui A. ti M. turklc.
Detroit I .Ions Al Sea nl un (I, Okluhimm
A. It M. luil I back; Itityal l.owry. Ion a
State halfback; Mike I llit'enihl. Missouri
Cllaril; Huel llnnwn, Oklahoma Inllbaik;
Kert Kern, Missouri end.
Philadelphia haule I'ulll Purling, Iowa
Slate lullback.
(IiIcukii (arillniils Kill Campbell, Okla-
noma iiuarlerhack.
tiriTii Kay I'ackers Italph Tat, Okla
homa A. A. M. halfback.
.New York iini (lenc llncmann, Okla
homa A. ik M. end.
. Nearly 200 former law students
at the University of Texas are
in the armed forces.
Copplc Drops
First Match
. . . In National AAU
Newt Copple, thumb-jerking
Cornhusker wrestler, had the mis
fortune in the National AAU tour
nament in New York Friday to
draw, a former national collegiate
155 pound champion as first-round
foe.
Copple, who hitch-hiked to the
New York meet, consequently fell
via a 4-1 decision to Ensign Ross
Hamsher, former Franklin &
Marshall grappler.
Enroute to the national meet,
Copple worked out with university
squads at Iowa State, Illinois,
Michigan and New York university.
Soouers Open
Track Season
NORMAN, Oklu., April 10.
Oklahoma's young track team will
make its first home appearance of
the 1943 season here Saturday in
a dual meet with Coach Lloyd
Russell's North Texas Teachers,
who defeated the Sooners at Den
ton three weeks ago, 72-69.
The team will run the regular
dual meet schedule prescribed by
the rules, Coach John Jacobs said,
with a two-mile run and only one
relay, the mile. At Denton the
Sooners competed under Lone Star
conference rules, running three re
lays, all of which they lost.
The Soooners" youthful baseball
team dropped its fourth consecu
tive game Friday afternoon, bow
ing before the Norman Naval Base
Zoomers, 5-2.
Stan King, former University of
Iowa hurler, and Pete Blumette,
erstwhile Louisville sou'ihpaw, di
vided mound duty for the Zooms
and held the Sooners to five hits.
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Halterie: Kint, liliimctte and Kilcksoii,
Krarheaii; Mrircll and t aims.
By Norn's Anderson
Sports Editor
Army Too Busy To Allow
Men to Enter UN Snorts
An army dispatch Saturday
spiked rumors that University of
Nebraska air corp cadets could
compete in Cornhusker sports.
Unlike the navy, the army has
stated that the soldiers attending
colleges under the army special
ized training program will not
have the time to train for, or to
participate in, any Intercollegiate
sports competition," but competi
tive team sports will be limited
only by the equipment available
and the interest of the students
themselves.
Coaches of many of the schools
had honed that the soldier stu
dents would be available for var
sity sports as a means of building
up teams depleted by the war.
Competitive Sports.
Physical training directors and
instructors at the schools, the de
partment said, have received rec
ommendations that as a means
of inculcating a will to win, com
Detitive sports such as soccer.
speedball, touch football, modi
fied football, basketball, volley
ball and baseball are strongly en-
. . Intramurals Stressed
couraged."
It is expected that the soldier
students will be devoting as much
of their Saturday afternoon free
time to intramural contests as
soon as the teams can be organ
ized.
Four Main Objectives.
In general, the war department
said, there will be four objectives
in the physical training program
1. To develop those qualities
capabilities and reflexes associated
with first class physical condition
2. To develoo in the soldier
students certain fundamental skills
essential either to safety or to ef
fective operations in modern war
fare.
3. To instill In the minds and
hearts of the soldier students an
aaaressive fighting spirit.
4. To provide a sound, sane and
wholesome counterpoise to the
highly accelerated academic study
that is involved in the specialized
training program.
Emphasis, the department said
will be placed on aquatics, com
batives, gymnastics, the obstacle
course and team sports-
Two No-Hit Games . . .
Full iipoWy is offered here to A TO Krnnv Klsoii nnl
hi Delt Wes 'Alasor for failure to recognize Ihoir no-hit pitch-
ins leats in our r rid ay intramural softhal account.
Neoreoards turned into this department bv l'hi Dolt and
ATO scorekeeprs credited the Alpha Siprs with one hit off
Maser and the Beta Sirs with securing one safe bingo from
son. investigation revealed that both "hits" were compiled
on errors, therefore removing all blots from the phenominal
Maser-Elson performance.
Elson faced only 16 men in five innings, Maser flipped to
18 over the same distance. Any softball enthusiast will certify
the fact that a no-hit pitching performance in the game is fully
equivalent to a 300 game on the bowling boards or any other
stint of sports perfection.
Scene across the Cornhusker practice field Thursday at
;10 p. m. indicated that all sport activity is not null and void
hereabouts. Seven games were in progress, some 1 00 contest
ants dotted the huge greensward and spirit was at maximum
peak.
t
Midwest followers of Al Blozis, the Georgetown strong
man, need look no further for a local replica vf their Nero.
lie is holand "Muscles Johnson, new Husker weight aspirant.
A disciple of Gunner Haegg in first name only, the Swede
aspirant warmed up for approaching shot duties recently by
tossing his coach, Ki "key-bird" Eisenhart, over the south
stadium goal post.
Johnson has definitely established himself as the Hill uob-
insou of the Husker track squad.
No word has yet been received here in regard to the an
nual spring BDOC derby, but one candidate has been fre
quently mentioned over campus circles.
Neal "Tut" McKee, Cornhusker halfback, was attired in
natty corduroys arid sweat shirt when the press asked him to
day what he thought of Adolph Menjou, national "best
dressed" man, as a clothes horse.
"What the devil!" burped MeKee. "Who js this Men
jou! "Wasn't he a second-string quarterback for UCLA in the
Rose Howl!"
You have our support, McKee.
Outdoor cinder doings finally "undo" in a belated setting
Saturday Avhen the Cornhuskers match points with Oklahoma
and Oklahoma A. & M. at Stillwater in a trianguar eonipet.
Ralph Tate, a two-event winner at the Texas relays and
an all-round performer of repute, gives the A & M crew
favored rating.
