The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, May 15, 1949, Page PAGE 3, Image 5

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    Sunday, May 15, 1949
Cathor and Taylor Carry
Tech to ;A' Championship
Paced by Hurdler Blake Cath
ro and sprinter Bob Taylor, Om
aha Tech. scoring 45 points, de
throned Alliance as Class A cham
pions in the stale track meet held
at Memorial Stadium Friday and
Saturday. Lincoln trailed with 36.
Cathro took firsts in the high
and low hurdles, and Taylor came
home first in the 220, and sec
ond in the 100. The two teamed
with Aaron Reed and Dale
Si'hnakel to win the 880 yard re
lay, in 1:32.8.
Cathro raced the lows in 23.3,
Cold Medal time, and by his vic
tory became the first winner of
the Merlin Stackhouse Memorial
Trophy. It will go annually to
the gold medal winner in the 220
lows.
The only record breaking per
formance in the two-day show
came in the polo vault. Don Cou
pons, Alliance, soared 12 foot, 8'
inches to establish a new mark.
The third place Alliance team's
hopes were dealt a severe blow
when Coupons injured his ankle
and was forced to withdraw from
the broad jump, in which he rated
as favorite.
THE 880 record withheld the
test of Hobe .Tones in the Friday
feature race. .Tones, a pre-meet
favorite to smash the ten year old
mark set by Bob Ginn, was
hampered by an ailing ligament
and i list missed in his record at
tempt. The Lincoln High ace,
however, turned the distance in
the creditable time of 2:00.7.
The most surprising competi
tor in Class A was Bob Fairchild
of Omaha Central. Fairchild upset
last year's century winner, Bob
Taylor, as he won the 100 in 10.3.
The easy striding Negro became
a double winner when he edged
Bobby Hahn of Grand Island in
the 440. He toured the lap in very
good time. :51.8.
ALL-STATE football player,
Ted Connors of Hastings also
pulled an upset in capturing the
shot with a heave of 49 feet 1
inch. Dick Pucilek, Creighton
Prep, was second with 47 feet, 7 'A
inches.
Connor's teammate. Ho ff arbor,
surprised Leon of Alliance in the
mile. Hoffarber ran the distance
in 4:40.6, far outdistancing the
Alliance second and third place
combo of Leon and Sampson.
The final rundown on team
scoring: O. Tech, 45; Lincoln
High, 36; Alliance, 31; O. Benson,
24; O. Central 21.
Thcta Sigs Elect
Liz Schneider heads the list of
new officers of Theta Sigma Psi,
women's journalism honorary, as
president. She succeeds
Barbara
Rowland.
Marian Battey will be vice
president of the group and
Dorothy Travis, secretary. They
succeed Marian Crook and Na
dine Anderson, respectively.
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Nebraska Deaf
Award inTri-K
Crop Judging
Dean Brittenham's attempt to
carry Brady to a repeat win in
Class D fell short Saturday as
Nebraska School lor the Deaf won
the title. NSD scored 36 points
to 27 lor Brady.
Kail Malloy led the NSD scor
ing with 14 'i points, lie won
the 100 and took second in the
440. Hritlcnham accounted for all
27 of Brady's total, including
wins in the high hurdles, high
jump, and seconds in the broad
.lump.
George rochaska of Ulysses led
his team to fourth place with an
other one-man show. He threw
the shot 48 feet 3 inches to win,
nd was barely nosed out of first
in the discus.
Glenn Edwards of Hardy estab
lished a new polo vault record
Friday when he cleared the bar
at It "feet 9 and '.'i. The old rec
ord was 11-9. Two other boys
were close behind, Brittenham of
Brady and Young of Madrid top
ped 11 feet 6 indies.
200 Annul Ag
Tet
Ball
race
From the balcony overlooking
the terrace outside the Ag union,
Russ Kruger played to about 200
students dancing under a misty
moon at the Starlight Terrace
ball Friday night.
Sponsored by the combined
Ag Union entertainment commit
tees, the ball was the first of its
kind in recent years at the Uni
versity. Crepe streamers and a
garden archway turned the front
of the Activities building into a
fitting garden backdrop. Tables
on the lawn were provided to
which service from the Union Dell
was available.
Preparations for the dance were
in charge of the four Ag Union
entertainment committees, spon
sored by Harriet Moline, Neil Mil
ler, Jack DcWulf and Sue Bjork
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Alliance Star
Breaks State
Vault Record
A new state record led the
Gold Medal performances in the
state high school track champ
ionships Saturday as Howard
Dcbus's pole vault record of 12
feet 8 inches, set in 1940, was
cracked by a quarter of an inch
by Coupons of Alliance. The
indoor field stands were given
the best show of the meet as
Coupens of Alliance and Som
mers of Lincoln Central went
into a two-man race for the
title, with Sommers finally drop
ping out at 12 feet fi inches.
Irvitig Thode of Loup City
was the only double gold medal
winner as he took both the high
jump and broad jump cham
pionships. Thode was hard
pressed to win in the broad
jump event as ho edged Hoppy
McCue of Arapahoe by one
quarter of r.n inch at 22 feet
3 -md -''h inches. Thode tried for
a new record of 6 feet
inches in the high jump but
missed all three trials, lie was
released from the hospital YVed
neday for treatment on his knee
and spent all day Friday in bed.
before corning to the meet.
Blake Cathro won one gold
medal and tied lor another as
he took the lows in :23.3 and
tied for the highs in : 15.3 with
Tolman of Indianola. Cathro
also won the new Stackhouse
memorial trophy awarded the
gold medal winner in the 22
yard low hurdles event. Stack
house held the present record
and was killed in the war.
Moorhouse of Culberfson, gold
medal winner in the half-mile
last year, came back in the 440
yard dash this year as he took
top honors with a time of :51.4
Cily Y Wins Softball Duel
The city YMCA won the tradi
tional soltbnll game from the Ag
YM Wednesday and so are now in
possession of the "little brown
jug," a trophy which the winning
team takes possession of for the
following year.
The picnic was held at Pioneer
park Wednesday evening. Dave
Keen lead the City Y's on to vic
tory with an excellent job of
pitching supported by a surprising
campus team. The game was fol
lowed by a picnic lunch and group
singing.
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Swedes amassed 45 37 points to
win over favored Ainsworth who
scored 34 points. Sidney, the
number two team in pre-meet
predictions, ran third with 19
tallies.
TWO GOLD MM) Aft perform
ances were turned in by Class B
athletes. David of Gothenburg
tied for the top spot in the hun
dred yard dash with Fclton of
Springview who was competing
in Class C. Gold Medal time was
: 1 0.2. Kinney of Sidney was Gold
Medal winner in the shot put with
a heave of 49 feet 1 and 1i inches.
This distance was 35 of an inch
better than Ted Connor's winning
throw in Class A.
AINSWORTirs Anthens was
top scorer with wins in the low
hurdles and the broad jump. Ho
back of Nebraska City and David
tied for nfcond place honors with
13 points each. David won the
century, took second in the high
hurdles and anchored the winning
relay team. Hoback anchored his
relay team which tied for second
as well ts winning the 220 yard
dash and running second to David
in the hundred.
Playoff Positions
fold by IM Dept.
Playolf positions in the soft
ball finals have been announced
by the intramural department.
Six games are scheduled for
Monday, four at the Coliseum
fields and two out on the Ag
campus.
On Coliseum 1. the Phi Delts
tangle with the Sig Alphs. Over
on Coliseum 2, Sigma Phi Ep
silon meets Beta Theta Pi. Alpha
Tau Omega, defending cham
pions go against Beta Sigma Psi
on Coliseum 3. and over on
Coliseum 4, the V-5's meet the
Geology nine.
Out at Ag. on field 4, the Op
erators meet Alpha Kappa Psi,
while the Lilies tangle with the
Ag Men's club on field 5.
Two games were played Fri-
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Arapahoe Cops
Class C Crown
With 30 Points
Living up to all advance ex
pectations, Arapahoe's two-man
track team made a runaway of
the Class C track championships
Saturday by racking up a total
of 30 points between themselves
to completely out distance the
rest of the schools.
High scoring honors went to
Hoppy McCue of Arapahoe who
scored a total of 18 points on one
first, one second, one third and a
tic for fourth in both the pole
vault and the high jump events.
Close behind him in second place
was teammate Don Dutcher who
picked up 12 markers on a first
place in the discus throw wilh
138 teet, and a second tie in the
high jump. .
McCue picked up his big points
with a first in the 220-yard dash,
a second place in the broad jump
and a third in the century.
IN THE broadjump event. Mc
Cue lost out for first place by one
quarter of ai. inch to living
Thoda of Loup City, who jumped
22 feet, 3 and r,k inches. McCue
had a jump of 22 feet 10 inches
but crow hopped a half of an inch.
Husky George Witter of St.
Joe's of Atkinson didn't quite live
up to advance notices as he won
the shot put with a throw of 48
feet, three feet under his best
throw, and lost out to Dutcher
of Arapahoe in the discus.
Arapahoe's two-man :quad will
be back intact next year as Mc
Cue is only a sophomore and
Dutcher is as junior.
AICliE Hoars Cliem Prof
Dr. G. M. Kosolapoff, associate
professor of chemistry at Alabama
polytechnic institute at Auburn,
addressed a meeting of the Ne
braska section of the American
Chemical Engineers society Thurs
day. A dinner for Kosolapoff and
AIChE members and their wives
or husbands preceded the meeting.
Rollers defeated the CYO by 7
to 5.
The two remaining events in
the intramural track meet will
be run off today at 5 p.m. The
pole vault and high jump were
postponed because of the state
high school track and field
championships.
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