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Wday. April 16. 1943 DAILY NEBRASKAN 7 for Oklahoma UN Page Ripley! Elson Flings Another Gem Kenny Elson Continued his phe nominal pitching exploits Thurs day night as he pitched another not-hit game to lead his ATO mates to a 16-0 victory over the Sammies. Elson opened the campaign with a no-hitter against the Beta Sigs, pitched a one-hit game op posite the DU team Tuesday. One hit allowed in three games page Ripley! Not one Sammy reached first base against Elson. Craig flipped the final inning. ZBT's Lose Beta Sig batting guns nearly ran out of amunition after a 22-1 rampage over the ZBT club. Al pha Gamma Rho topped the Beta crew, 10-4. Sig Ep-Phi iDelt fray was can celled in favor of the Sig Ep measles quarantine. Delta Sigs forfeited to the Sigma Nu club. Bob Fast pitched a one-hitter to pace the Sig Alphs to a 12-5 con quest over the Kappa Sigs. A fumbling Sigma Chi club dropped a 19-2 decision to a hard-hitting Farm House aggregation. Phi Ps' Softball performers tripped the Alpha Sigs, 12-2. Gopher Club Holds Drills Minneapolis, Minn., April 15 Football Coach George Hauser in dicated yesterday that another scrimmage would be in store for his gridders today. This comes after the grueling hour session on Saturday. Wildcats Prep Campaign on Track and Field MANHATTAN, Kana., April 15. Members ST- the K-St&te track team are getting in shape for whatever track meets they may enter this spring. A meet with Kansas University and the con ference meet are the only two meets they are certain of being in. More boys are In the pole vault- We are proud to be ho$ts to The CornhuHker Co-op mnd the Pioneer Co-op Friday, April 16 -.HOME DF THE Thsty- PhstrySkop. Note Barb Managers! Intramural managers in the barb division are urged to turn in their Softball entries to Tom Brogan, Intramural Office, Coliseum. Only two managers handed in entries last week, and addi tional teams must be included before play can start. Sigma Nu Wins From ZBT Team Tennis Opens Tennis activity along the intra mural front opened Wednesday night when the Sigma NU netmen took a 2-1 decision over the Zeta Beta Tau club. A victory by Anawalt over Muskin in the playoff tossed the margin to the Sigma Nus. A scheduled match between the Sig Eps and Sig Chi'a was postponed due to the Sig Ep scarlet fever quarantine. Beta Sigs meet the Delts tonight. Future Schedule: April 16 Beta Sigs vs. Delts. 19 Farm House vs. Phi Delts. Psi Psi vs. SAE. 21 Theta XI vs. Sammies. Phi Gams vs. Kappa Sigs. 22 DU vs. Betas. ATO vs. Sigma Nu. For Uncertain . . . I wo Meets scheduled lug event this year than have been for several years. The shot put and discus are at present very definitely a problem, said Track Coach Ward Haylett "The hurdles will be fairly strong for ordinary competition." Upham in the quarter mile. Johns in the half, Socolofsky and Thies in the javelin throw and Nelson in the pole vault event show the best promise on the team. 440 yd. relay: Merrill Rockhold, Loren Von uiesen, Bob Keiin, Jim Upham, Jim Johns and War ren Pfankuch. Mile relay: Combination of Chet Peters, Bill Payne, Ernie Nelson, Jim Johns and Jim Upham. Homer Socolofsky or Bill Thies have a good chance to get in this event, High jump: Merrill Rockhold, Ray Yellcy and Don Hite. Javelin: Homer Socolofsky and Bill Thies. Pole vault: Ernie Nelson, Sher man, Joe Ridgeway, George Mcn- denhall and Ray Yellcy. Shot put: Rolf. Discus: Christ Christ High hurdles: Homer Socolof sky, George Mendenhall and Don Hite. Charles Houghton shows promise. Low hurdles: Same as in the high hurdles with the addition of Bob Keith. 100-220 and 440 yd. dashes will be assigned to the various menv bers of the relay combination. 880: Jim Johns. Mile and two mile: No expert enced candidates; Meskimen and Aggie Crew Given Nod To Triumph . Over Huskers Mentor Ed Weir and five Corn husker track and field performers departed from Memorial stadium at 8 a. m. today, bound for the triangular with Oklahoma and Oklahoma A. & M. Saturday. Transportation difficulties, cou pled with the fact that only first places count in the triangular, were given as reasons by Weir for not shipping more men to the bat tie field. A tough blow wail struck Weir as he made up his traveling list Wednesday when announcement was made that Jim Brogan, dis tance veteran, was quarantined for scarlet fever. Brogan has been developing rapidly outdoors, and clipped the halfmile route in close to two minutes flat in several workouts. Weir will use both Dean Kratz and Creighton Hale, frosh poten tials, in the 880 race. Kratz will also run the quarter and Hale the mile. Al Zikmund is slated for a workhorse role in the discus, 100, 220, high jump and broad jump. Vic Schleich will compete in shot and discus with Howie Debus slated for javelin, discus, pole vault and shot put chores. Weight Strength. , A summary of comparative per formances gives Nebraska first places only in the shot, discus, javelin and pole vault Haffner of A. & M. has a 4:23 mile and a 1:57.3 halfmile to his credit Ralph Tate has tripped over the 120 yard high hurdles in 14.2, taken the lows in 24.0 and broad- jumped 24-11. Nichols has high- jumped 6-5 and the Aggie mile re lay team has a 3:19 to its credit "Looks dark," said Weir, "but our boys will get experience. It's the Big Six, May 9, that counts after all." Challenge! We have within this student body certain non-sports fol lowers who protest non-Nebraska news on Ye Sports Sheet "It Is a Nebraska university paper, isn't it?" is their argu ment We point out here that Nebraska as a Big Six member competes with Big Six schools and thereby news from those sources are nearly as choice as our own news. We have here only two sports track and in tramural to cover and, broth er, try to get a full sport page out of those! We want to issue an invita tion herewith to any protester to attempt a sports page, minus copy from Big Six schools and other Husker foes. We're wait ing! E'aaamai: EILWS t The Gay Nile Spot SATURDAY, APRIL 17th By Popular Request BASIE GIVENS 13 South??? Dancing v 9 to 1 Just One Mile CAPITOL BEACH ROLLER U Now Open Every Night Except Monday Skating 7:30 till 10:00 Sunday Afternoon 3 to 5 Available Monday Nights for Private Parties Lincoln' $ Largest sr w (HjflASL SsWASL By Norn's Anderson Sports Editor Hard-Working Frosh . . . Directly paradoxial to the uneven conditioning routine o! only too many members of the University o Nebraska cinder squad is the program carried on by the Brothers Kratz. If hard work and perfect daily attendance were to pay dividends in blue ribbons, these Brothers Kratz would already possess enough cloth tape for a Sophie Tucker garter. Dean in elassroom attire is a slender kid with a grin that lights his countenance like an Xmas tree. When the prize frosh halfmiler steps into track scanty-clads, the observer notices first as muscular a pair of under-pinnings as would bedeck a veight performer. Kent, a fuzzy-thatched blond aspirant, was one of Chili Armstrong's better frosh son. He has improved enough height, to warrant considerable hot once during our daily missed seeing these hard-working Sidney kids jogging around the oval. Sometimes Creighton Hale, another conscientious frosh runner, works with the duo. Fact that Hale works eight hours per day in the library limits his One thing to straighten: Dean is the distance man Kent, the hurdler. Ed Weir counted noses of his Oklahoma-bound track and field fledglings early today as the Huskers left for the opening competition of the 194.3 outdoor campaign. Saturday evening at 5:00 troubling Husker track followers outdoors? will receive at least a reasonable facimue for an answer. Loss of Al Brown, two-event winner for. the mnnerup Big Six Cornhuskers indoors, means that newcomers Dean Kratz and Creighton Hale must jointly make up the deficiency. Howard Debus, defending league javelin champion, should also add points outdoors since the spear gram. First places only will count in the Stillwater triangular. From this limb, A. & M.'s Tate-sparkd Aggies appear ten points ahead of the Huskers with IS Trackmen Prep For Meet AMES, la., April 16. Time trials to determine the entrants for the triangular meet at Grin nell will occupy the attention of the Iowa State track team the early part of this week. When Coach George Bretnall settles the entry question the Cy clones will settle down to hard work for the meet against Grin nell and Iowa Pre-flight. Four let termen will head the list of en tries with at least two places go ing to freshmen. George Gast, letterman who un expectedly returned to school the early part of the quarter, will be a javelin and discus performer. Dick Bliss, weieht man. Bert Eberlein, jumper and Jack Gibson, middle distance star, are other lettermen a i I B - Gentlemen Admission 55c Tax Included West of Town rf w i ana finest tioor ball-packers during the fall grid sea m the hurdles, despite lack of Weir attention of late. visits to the Stadium have we available practice time. p. m. a question which has been "What will the Huskers do event is not on the indoor pro- the Sooners drawing up arears. Lippy s Team Tops Farmers Coach "Lippy" Laughlin's Alpha Gamma Rho softball ag gregation topped the Farm House nine, 6-1, in the annual Ag campus classic. Marv Munson pitched the final three innings for the AGR team, holding the Farm House big bats down. Munson homered in the last frame to cinch the AGR victory. TONIGHT Aditie $1.00 Each Pins Tax Mills, :;B;i:a:;;iBB:Miii;BmiiM:aaa:B;iii!KBB:'iM'ti:aH;;iCl