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Meet Jacfc Best . . .
All this thunder ad fury of the tight intramural chase
brings up the query: Who is Jack Best?
Fraternity athletes have been battling in all sports for
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Courtesy of Lincoln Journal.
Elmer Aussieker, burly Mizzou shot puter, is pictured tossing
the pellet 51-7 here in a triangular last week-end. Husker Vie
Schleich tossed slightly over 50 feet to top Aussieker in the recent
Big Six indoor, but expects to have his hands full with the Missou-
rian here Saturday. Aussieker topped Vic during the 1943 Drake
relays.
Sooner Underclassmen May
Surprise UN for Second
Disc, Shot,
High Jump
Endangered
. . . Here Saturday
BY HENRY fISHBACK.
Three Big Six outdoor track
and field records in the discus,
ahot put and high jump, face pos
sible death at the conference cin
der finals in Memorial stadium
Saturday afternoon if topflight
spiksters perform up to their sea
eon's headlines.
Midwests top weight specialists,
Howie Debus and Missouri's Elmer
Aussieker, season-long demonstra
tions point to possible new rec
ords in the shot put and discus
competition, while performances
of a brilliant young Kansas new
comer, Tom Scofield, are good
enough to shatter a ten-year old
high jump mark.
Debus Set.
Debus, defending javelin cham
pion has propelled the discus past
Edsel Wibbell's 160 foot 5Vi in.
record several times this year,
Aussieker, defending iron ball
champ, flipped over 51 feet last
week, inches short of Elmer Hack
ney's 51 foot 10-inch effort. Scho
field has already cracked the old
foot 3-in. high jump record,
in several efforts.
Three other defending cham
pions put their titles on the block
Saturday. Mercury-geared Owen
Joggerst, Missouri sprinter de
fends his century laurels.
Owen's 9.6-century mark and
21.4s furlong tend him edge over
speedy teammate Joe Shy, defend
ing low hurdle timber hopper.
Debus bids well to maintain jave
lin supremacy, but Dean Li 11, K
State high jump king and Ken
Farris, Oklahoma broad Jumper
are slated here for defeat.
Missouri Favored.
Although the presence of a
dazzling flock of all-round cinder
ists rate Missouri a definite edge,
several individual duels are slated
to blossom forth.
Massive Elmer A u s sieker
clashes with Victor Schleich in a
three year old shot put duel. The
two weighBtcra have met twelve
times over the period with Aus
sieker now in front with seven
wins.
More excitement will be fur
nished by the Debus-Gast javelin
duel, the Joggerst-Shy sprint com
pct,, and the Farria-Alexander
broad jump mix-up.
Top distance race is the half
mile derby where Husker fresh
men Dean Kratz and Creighton
Hale meet such vets as Johns,
K-State; teammate Tom Brogan,
and Bosworth of Missouri.
Husker Have Edge.
Weir-tutored clubs boast eight
outdoor championships of four
teen held, having held supreme
since 1939. The Huskers possess
five out of fourteen conference
marRs, oldest one being Roland
Locke's furlong record set in 1926.
OU Athletes
Enter Service
NORMAN, Okla., May 4. Of
238 former Univeraity of Okla
homa sports lettermen now In the
armed forces, 91.5 percent are
either commissioned or non-commissioned
officers, a survey shows.
More than 77.7 percent of the
total are commissioned officers
with at least the rank of second
lieutenant in the army or ensign
in the navy. The survey did not
include 35 additional "O" winners
who are now flying cadets and
soon will be commissioned.
Sooner freshmen athletes and
unlettered squad men swell the
total of Sooner athletes now in the
service to more than 400.
Former , Sooner polo players
make the best officer material
with wrestlers second, the report
showed.
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BY GENE SHERMAN.
Alpha Tau Omega unofficially
annexed the Jack Best trophy on
the university practice greens
Tuesday afternoon.
When the second-place Phi Gam
crew fell, 15 lo 2, before a fine Phi
Delt club, the leading ATOs were
assured of the title, tho they lost
by 3 to 2 to an inspired AGR crew.
Ahead of the intramural Jack
Best pack by 27 points, the Alpha
Tau athletes can now even drop
their consolation match with the
Jiji nine and annex the award.
Top match of the two semi-final
frays was the tight AGR-ATO
fray. Leading 3 to 0 going into the
final frame on Don Monson's early
homer, the AGRs had to cope with
an ATO rally. Bill Munson walked,
then Dick Petring hit to the far
right field for a homer. Score
. Fijis, Taus Fall
stood 3 to 2, but AGR hurler Marv
Monson forced the next two Taus
to pop out.
Warren Barth and Kenny Maser
shared honors for the Phi Delts.
Maser pitched another of his mas
terpieces a two-hit job this time
to keep the big Fiji bats under
control. Barth homered with the
bases full in the second to give
the Phi Delts an early margin
which the Fiji club could not sur
vive. Alpha Tau Omega outhit the
AGR's 6 to 2, but crucial errors
led to defeat. It was the initial de
feat for Kenny Elson, an ROTC
"activee" who was not slated to
perform.
Finale fray for the title between
theAGRs and Phi Delts will be ex
ecuted Thursday at 5 p. m. The
Fiji-ATO consolation fray is slated
for 5 p. m. Thursday also.
BY HAROLD KIETH
(Nebraskan Correspondent)
NORMAN, Okla., May 4.-Like
sprouts burgeoning from an old
stump, Oklahoma's track and field
Kindergarten has begun to show
improvement as it points for its
final action of the 1943 season,
the Bix Six outdoor meet May 8
at Lincoln, Neb.
John Jacobs, veteran Sooner
mentor, has had to do more A to
Z coaching this spring than ever
before in his 21-year career at
Norman, and despite the fact
they've been plowed and harrowed
by practically every track and
field team in the midlands, his
young Sooners are at last begin
ning to come around.
From a bewildered outfit that
scored only a scant 5 points in
the Big Six Indoor at Kansas City
last February 27, Jacobs hopes
to see his Oklahoma entry talley
close to 25 points in the Big Six
outdoor. The Sooners may even
have an outside shot at third place
in this meet which would consti
tute a fine showing for a squad
that lost 80. percent of its 1941
and 1942 strength to the armed
forces and defense industry.
Missouri, which returns most of
its last year's veterans, ran off
with the indoor championship and
is highly favored to repeat the
operation outdoors.
leadership in the race for the Jack Best trophy since late Sep
tember. There is no better fratei,..ty rushing point than a
Best trophy on the shelf.
Faithful, white-headed Jack Best served as University
of Nebraska trainer from origination of sports here until far
into the twentieth century era. Despite the fact that he was
no youth when he started, Best outlasted five Cornhusker
coaches.
He mothered Scarlet ftthlet.en like tho original laAv in
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a shoe and was as mellow as old U hafl. Jack was the Uni
versity of Nebraska, the very spirit of Cornhuskerland.
And so did the Jack Best trophy come into being.
There is a word for courage in the athletic dictionary
vulgarly it's guts, scholastically it's intestinal fortitude.
Ed Weir's slender distance trotter, Jim Brogan, has the
requisite, be it scholastically or vulgarly termed. Husker track
men at Iowa State returned with a glowing account of the
vet endurance runner.
"You have to hand it to Jim," said Don James, pole
vault co-winner with Debus at Ames. "He ran his heart out
in that mile. Richardson barely beat him in 4:27.8. Then
'Brog' came back not long after to run a nice third in the.
two-mile. He collapsed completely at the tape and kept
murmuring something about just one more lap to go."
If more current Cornhusker athletes had Brogan 's spirit,
emblematic of past Scarlet enthusiasm, our all-round athletic
status at the moment would still be ace-high.
A request on the desk today for a list of present American
college records is herewith granted.
100-yd. dash, 9.4s, Simpson, Ohio State, 1929; Meier,
Iowa State, 1930; Wykoff, Southern California, 1930; Met
calfe, Marquette, 1933; Owens, Ohio State, 1935; Jeffrey,
Stanford, 1940.
220-yd. dash, 20.3s, Owens, Ohio State, 1935.
440-yd. run, 46.4s, Klemmer, California, 1941.
880-yd. run, lm. 49.8s., Burrowes, Princeton, 1940.
1- mile run, 4m., 6.7s, Cunningham, Kansas, 1934.
2- mile run, 9m., 2.6s., Rice, Notre Dame, 1939.
120-yd. hurdles, 13.7s, Wolcott, Rice, 1940.
220-yd. hurdles, 22.6s, Owens, Ohio State, 1935.
16-lb. shot, 56ft., y, in., Bloris, Georgetown, 1940.
16-lb. hammer, 183ft., 10in., Bennett, Maine, 1940.
Javelin, 234 ft., 3y2in., Peoples, South California, 1941.
High jump, 6ft., llin., Steers, Oregon, 1941.
Broad jump, 26ft., 8V4in., Owens, Ohio State, 1935.
Discus, 174ft., 8in., Harris, Indiana, 1941.
Pole vault, 14ft., llin, Meadows, Southern California,
1937; Sefton, Southern California, i.937.
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