FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1936.
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
THREE
SO THAT'S
HOW HE DOES IT.
Merman Has
14 Viking Soph
Elevens Working.
By Arnold Levin.
The secret, in case there was a
secret and you didn't know about
ii. Is out. I refer to the question
of where Minnesota manages to
gather, year after year, the kind
of football bruisers every coach is
supposed to dream about but never
realizes.
Heretofore the question has been
somewhat eristic in the common
minds of Mr. John Q. Public.
From now on out I think I've got
a solution or at least what maybe,
If I'm not wrong:, and if fortune is
on the right path, promises to bo
U solution.
Bibllomancy Scores.
Resorting to the ancient art ot
bibllomancy, which means going
into a huddle with the books of
what's going and gone on et
cetera, the seer sees something
like 160 sophomores now in winter
training for the 1936 football sea
son, opening in just nine months.
Remember, please, I didn't men
tion Juniors or seniors. I said 160
sophomores. Just second year
men. The guys who'll pick up a
sheepskin and say bye-bye two
years from now.
This is somewhat bifarious.
first, Mr. Public, you're going to
ask, how for Pete's sake, in all
God's green earth, Mr. Bernie
Blerman raked together 160
sophomores. Gee whiz and jumpin'
Jupiter crimlny, you say, and so
1?'
I.
Housing Capacity.
After I've told you I don't know
how Minnesota's coach composited
14 elevens of sophomores in Min
neapolis except that it sure must
have one awful job, you want to
know what he oes with 'em.
There's a limit to housing capacity,
you argue.
There may be, if you listen to
economists, sociologists, and other
holders of doctor's degrees In
what people should do and why
they do what they're not supposed
to do. But there's no limit to
hpusing capacity for footballers at
Minnesota. The administration
building might have to be razed to
build a practice field, but those
lads will find someplace to park
despite high water and what goes
with it.
Can D. X. Do It.
w I can imagine D. X. Bible, here
at Nebraska, trying to find space
for 160 men. He'd have to have
them coming out in shifts, start
'em at six Monday morning and
get around to coaching group I
again sometime Saturday.
But there's absolutely no hous
ing problem at the University of
Minnesota. The Federal govern
ment doesn't have to worry about
that section of the country. Min
nesota big-wigs have seen to it
that the Vikings have plenty of
room to scamper.
in the first place, there's An 80
yard indoor football field. And I
don't mean just a lot of dirt on a
floor. It's turf real honest to
gosh sod, like the boys play on
every Saturday. And it's marked
off into yard lines, sidelines, and
everything that goes with the
panorama of football.
Lots of Room.
On this interior playground thoae
160 sophomores are gathering
momentim for the push-pull thru
the 1936 season. Soon other hun
dreds will join them the juniors
and seniors and there will be
plenty of working room for them
all.
Compare that situation with the
one here at Nebraska. Coach D. X.
Bible is so hampered for room he
had to make his varsity cut last
fall on paper, before he had the
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boys assemble and had tested their
morlts. Ho couldn't help himself.
There weren't the fucllltles to tnko
care of 100 men, let alone 100
sophomores only. The freshmen
were confined to the end zones
twenty yards for some 100 frosli
to kick, pass, and run in. Anil wo
thought sardines in u can wore
pressed for room.
If Nebraska is to cope with her
Big Ten foo on par, sho must take
the necessary steps to promulgato
the capabilities of her athletes, and
so propogate Nebraska fame.
Starting in mid-wlntcr to build
storm troops and reserves for a
slcgo nine months awayl No won
der, no wonder.
OUT, SAYS F. C. ALLEN
K. U. Coach Strikes at 'Fire
Department Style' of
Basketball.
LAWRENCE, Kas., Jan. 16.-
"Pet" plays or "set" plays nro nnt
going out of fashion, declares Dr.
Forrest C. Allen, basketball coach
at the University of Kansas, after
reading a story by Glen E. Jacobs
of the Denver team of the Mis
souri Valley A. A. U. Jacobs had
declared that the "fire department
style," as used by some teams, was
far In advance of present teams'
practice.
"Set plays arc dependent upon
the fundamentals of . basketball
skilled handling of the ball, and
exact timing," said Dr. Allen.
"Timing is the basis of every suc
cessful team play, whether the
game Is basketball, football, ten
nis or baseball.
" 'Fire department' basketball is
comparable to the rough and tum
ble of the alley fighter, who con
ceals his lack of skill under physi
cal activity. The trained boxer
has the better of the argument.
"Instead of 'set plays' going out
of fashion, they are just begin
ning," added Dr. Allen, "Hign
school pluyers for a long time have
played the game without much re
gard to the fundamentals of ball
handling. Now, they are begin
ning to learn the principles.
"As a matter of fact, the more
skilled the player is, the more
likely he is to be able to make fast
plays successfully. If skillful, he
can adapt himself to any speed of
play.
"Several years ago, when some
coaches had developed a 'pail
bearer' type of play, the rules
were changed to require the ball
In the forward court within ten
seconds. Some coaches seized the
opportunity by making the move
to the forward court as quickly as
possible, instead of taking the full
ten seconds. Their fast break
caught some opponents unpre
pared, but after all the fundamen
tals of the game had not been
changed."
Dr. Allen added that he believed
the fire department type of play
is conducive to roughness on the
part of the players and boisterous
conduct on the part of the spec
tators.
"After all, are we planning: a
game to strengthen the players, or
to suit the coaches and the
crowds?" asked Dr. Allen.
HUSKER MENTOH
PROMISES ONLY
TOUGH BATTLES
(Continued from Page 1).
road trek the furniture smashing,
rip-roaring attack that has char
acterized their play thus far.
Headed by Bob Parsons, George
Wahlquist,- and Hank Whitakcr,
the Scarlet passes and galvanized
floor will be the weapons which de
cide whether Kansas or Nebraska
continue to occupy the topmost
rung in the Big Six ladder. For if
the Browncmcn master Oklahoma,
the now-shared leadership will
dangle between the two co-holders
for disposal on one side or another.
The probable starting lineups
against both the Sooners and Jay
lists Wahlquist and Whitaker, for
wards; Floyd Ebaugh, center;
Ha it Wldman and Bob Parsons,
guards.
The five additional men on the
ten-man squad including Harold
Baker, Lawrence Nelson, Robert
Leacox, Elmer Dohrmann, and Ice
land Hale.
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Final Tryouts Scheduled
For April; Htiskers Will
Wrestle in Iowa.
Fourteen wrestlers will bear
American colors in the summer
Olympald in Berlin, states Dr. R.
G. Clapp, professor of physical
education in the university and
secretary of the American Olympic
committee. Winners of the final
tryouts and an alternate for each
of the seven weight divisions will
compose the squad.
Winners nnd runncrsup from the
national collegiate, A. A. U., Y. M.
C. A., and open amateur district'
tourneys will be Invited to com
pete in the Olympic tryout finals
which will be held April 16, 17, 18.
Site of the meet has not been
named.
"Nebraska wrestlers will com
pete in the midwest finals and
Minnesota district," Dr. Clapp de
clared. "The two meets probably
will be combined and held some
where in Iowa."
When the various elimination
contests are over, about 20 men
will be on hand in each class for
the finals.
The national collegiate meet will
be held at Washington and Lee
university at Lexington, Va.,
March 20-21 and the Y. M. finals
in Wilkes Barre, Pa., April 3-4.
The A. A. U. meet will be held in
Chlcngo, iiltho the date is as yet
undetermined.
Want To Interview Hoover?
Just Try It, Says Reporter.
(Continued trom Page 1.)
fice. Let's try the state central
committee meeting on the mez
zanine, and don't stop to talk with
the hat check girl. Say, I see
Stevens of the World-Herald down
in the lobby. Maybe he knows
something about it.
Won't Answer Letter.
No luck, Steve ? There's Miller,
the UP man let's collar him.
Wherc'd you get that, Joe, a copy
of the speech! You say they were
distributed from Chicago two days
ago. Then what's the use of cov
ering it? Oh, I see, to check
against changes and additions.
Miller just saw Sexson. He
asked him about Ickcs recent
charge that three bills passed by
Hoover's administration were de
clared unconstitutional. Hoover
called it false in no uncertain
terms, and Ickcs was supposed to
have apologized by letter, which
Sexson says Hoover didn't get.
Maybe he's just stalling, and
doesn't want to make a statement
on it yet.
We'll go back to Sexson's room
now, and try to get a copy of the
speech. If these two fellows outside
the door didn't look so tough, they
might be reporters, but they must
be bodyguards. Can we get in to
sec Sexson? That's too bad we'll
wait out here.
High School Newshawks.
We're not alone there's George
Brenner of the Havelock High
School Signal and the Lancaster
County News he's been waiting
for two houi'3 for what he calls "a
smear of copy." There's Sexson
now, and here's a copy of the
speech. Let's sit downand read it.
When Time magazine said he
ha3 a new sorse of humor, they
weren't exaggerating the whole
thing Is satirical derision. It doesn't
look like we'll get an Interview,
and we've got that hole in the
front page to fill. How nbout get
ting a commentary feature from
one of the political science instruc
tors by letting them read the ad
vance copy?
Out of four called, we get four
refusals, but each for a different
reason. Guess we'd better try to
interview him. , He was behind the
buildinsr of Stanford's union build
ing maybe we' could get him to
talk with a non-political question
like that.
He's Here.
What's that noise in the lobby?
There he enmos now! Ho walks
up to the desk, accompanied by
four men, registers, and walks di
rectly to the elevator. Two rounds
of applause go through the
crowded lobby. He's gone now,
but there's Dr. Condra, taking a
hand in organizing the dinner i
crowd. Professor White is visiting
with folks on the mezzanine, and
Dean Thompson and Dr. Pool and
their wives arrive for dinner.
Dinner time, and no Hoover in
terview. Stevens suggests that wo
write a feature on how hard it is
to get one. and it sounds like a
good Idea. He's going to write one
In letter form to his b03s, Robert
Lasch.
We'll try both offices once more,
and then go to the coliseum for
the speech. What a crowd! Big as
the one at the Wyoming basket
ball game. Those red cards will
get us a seat at the press table
up in front.
The Old Constitution.
Everyone sings, "The Old Con
stitution, it's good enough for me."
They use music at revival meet
ings, too. John Landis swallows
once, then makes a founder's day
meeting announcement. Maybe the
CBS microphone bothered him.
Hoover must be here now. Pho
tographers are playing hide and
seek in the wing curtains, and the
balcony begins to applaud. Here he
comes now. The ovation times ex
actly forty-six seconds. That lady
in brown sitting on the stage is
wearing an Alpha Xi Delta pin.
Hoover turns to Spencer and Jack
son to suggest that they stand
when the band gets to the third
measure of the national anthem.
A simple introduction "Ladies
and gentlemen, the Honorable
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carnival sponsored by W. A. A.
surrounded by ten attendants.
Herbert Hoover of the United
States of America." Now comes
the iob trvinsr to read conv with
his speech. His first paragraph is
intact, but he deletes the second to!
ndd n. loko a rrood Idea. He
doesn't have the smiling voice of
F. D. R. never was much of a
speaker.
Welcome Disaster.
Wonder why people clap when
he said the country is worse off
now than it was when lie was in
office? They just about went
wild with joy when he predicted .1
communistic state as the next step
In the new deal program.
Copy is going fine over nine
tenths of the printed speech Is all
right. He does ad lib a lot with
"no doubt" on the front of a
sentence. He's done now, and
everybody rushes to the stage.
"I've done it," shouts one red
faced chap, "I shook hands with
Hoover!"
But weve got to tear back to the
hotel to get that interview. Extras
on the street already have the en
tire speech printd in thm, but they
can't fool us we have a joke in
our copy that they haven't. Eight
men in the lobby are harmonizing
on "Tara-ra-ra boom-de-ay, how
we love the AAA."
Back Again.
Hoover arrives, and we ride up
with him. asking: Sexson ae-ain
about chances for an interview,
and getting another indefinite re
fusal. People arc coming up to
his room to shake hands with him
there's Link Lyman coming up.
A West Branch, la., man mumbles
something about a letter he wrote
him, and introduces" his son and
daughter. Bob Simmons comes up,
remarks ' the applause in the back
of the crowd was good."
He goes down to the radio sta
tion studios, where four cameras
record his comments for the news
reels. Back in the lobby, he shakes
more hands, autographs copies of
"The Challenge to Liberty," and
always answers with "Glad to see
you."
Back upstairs now, and we're
becoming impatient. Hang tho
newspaper's good name why not
just go up and ask him a few
questions outright, even if ethics
do demand previous consent? Here
we go this macks the third time
we've shaken hands bu t ho
doesn't care to comment on any
thing. After the crowd had gone,
wo wait in his room, because
Simmons said that after his med
ical examination he might find a
few moments to talk. No use
the doctor's verdict is that he must
stad in Lincoln all night and miss
his Fremont train, and we miss
our interview. But come nlong
some other time, and maybe we'll
have better luck.
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Ten Veterans at Kansas, But
Cinch First Placers
Lacking.
LAWRENCE. Kas., Jan. 115.
The days of Cunningham, Eddie
Hall, Dees nnd Clyde Coffman ns
track contenders and first place
winners nre for the moment gone
at the University of Knnsas, and
Track Coach H. W. "Bill" Harglss
is working with the material at
hand in the hope of developing
some point winners In the track
competition, which starts in a few
weeks.
Coach Harglss has eight or ten
veterans, including such runners
as John McNown of Lawrence;
Charles Bekacrt, New York; Rob
ert Schroeder, Bcndena and Gor
don Guise, Lawrence, and some ex
cellent sophomores, such as Don
ald Bird of Arkansas City, pole
vaultcr. Emil Wlcnccke of Tulsa,
who made an excellent record in
football his sophomore year, is
trying out for the javelin.
Prospective track men for Kan
sas this year Include:
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Lincoln School of Commerce
W. A. ROBBINS, Pres.
209 No. 14th B6774 Lincoln, Nebr.
Mrs. Cochran Crowns Carnival Queen
shown presenting the sceptre to Betty Christensen. queen of the Ice
and held at Oak creek park Wednes day night. Miss Christensen whs
Springs; Ducle Chads. Medicine
Lodge; Robert Hughes, Emporia.
Two milers: Robert Kaiser,
ola; Robert Cameron, Astoria, N.
Y.; Ruben Zadlgan, New York, N.
Y.: Charles Bekacrt, New ioik
N. Y,
8S0 yard run: Gordon Guise,
Lawrence; Robert Schroeder, Ben
dena; and Donald McCoy, Marys
villc. 440 yard run: John McNown,
Lawrence; Claude Trotter, Kansas
City, Kas.; Wade Greene, Bis
marck, S. D.; and Harry Wiles,
Macksville.
100 yard dash: Jack Richardson,
Ottawa; Lloyd Foy, Hutchinson;
Forrest Hardacre, Smith Center;
Gordon Clucas, St. Louis, Mo.
120 yard hurdle: Donald Bird,
Arkansas City; Noel Stewart, Val
ley Falls, and William Robinson,
Lawrence.
220 yard dash; Jack Richardson,
Ottawa; Forrest Hardacre, Smith
Center, and Foy and Clucas.
Pole vault: Bird; Robert Ardrey,
Zenith; Ray Lawrence, Smith Cen
ter; William Robinson, Lawrence.
Shot put: George Stapleton,
Lawrence; Harry Kanatzar, of
Hutchinson; and John Seigle, Cot
tonwood Falls.
Broad jump: Charles Pitts, Law
rence; Clucas; John Morrison,
Lawrence; Frank Ewing, Estanla,
N. M.; and Man-in Cox, King
man. High jump: Dale Shannon, Pow
hattan; Cox, Ewing and Morrison.
Discus: Stapleton and Seigle.
Javelin: Stapleton; Emil Wien
eckc, Tulsa, Okl.; Jack Pearce,
Lawrence, and Dick Sklar, Monon
gahela, Pa.
HOOVER LASHES
ADMINISTRATION
FARM PROGRAM
(Continued from Page 1).
merit service before this sort of
idealism get ahold of it This
new breed of middlemen every day
tried hard to bring agriculture into
balance with politics." To remedy
this, he proposed that "the admin
istration of these methods should
be handled by the Land Grant Col
leges and farmers themselves in
order to free agriculture of politics
and the vast bureaucracy now
loaded upon the farmer."
Expansion of new crops was
pointed out by Mr. Hoover as an
alternative to the curtailment oi
products, including those which
would be marketed or which would
improve the fertility of the soil
Si'ch a policy, he declared, "would
employ more than nil the acres put
out of nction by the new deal."
From all this decrease in home
consumption and shift in foreign
trade the farmer has lost the mar
ket for snore acres than the whole
New Deal curtailment of 50,000,
000 fertile ncrcs. Is that not the
principle of the Economic Dog
chasing his tail?"
"Blessed arc the Young."
In a cryptic thrust directed nt
government spending nnd an un
balanced budget, he stated
"Blessed arc the young, for they
shall Inherit the national debt."
About fourteen billion dollars, no
estimated, would rest on the farm
ers as a "supermortgage."
In concluding, he offered "a
woid of personal emotion." Re
counting hln experiences In foreign
countries, where he had seen "at
first hand revolution creeping In
under promises of relief from the
agonies of war destruction," he
charged "unhestltatlngly that our
country Is following step by step
the road thru which these milllotiM
of people in foreign countries lost
their liberties.... It wns the farm
ers who fired the first shot at
Lexington. It must be the farmers
of America who defend that heri
tage. I ask you to stop, look and
listen."
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Lincoln Feb. 7
For Event.
LAWRENCE, Kas., Jan. 16.
The University of Kansas wres
tling squad which has been train
ing intensively for the past month
under the direction of Jimmy Cox,
wrestling coach, will meet as its
first opponent, the team from the
university at Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 7.
Expecting a tougher brand of
competition this year than in pre
vious seasons, Coach Cox has been
maintaining a rigid training sched'
ule calling for two to three miles
oi roaaworK ana at leasi one nour i
of wrestling every day, six days a I
week. J
oadwork and at least one hour
The Kansas team is built around
Captain Robert Childs of Hoising
ton who placed third in the 135
pound class at the Big Six tourna
ment last year. Most of the team
is made up of green material, with
very little previous training.
Cox is also counting heavily
upon the services of August Anne
berg, Leavenworth, and Myrl Brat
ton of Lawrence, both of whom
made good showings on the team
last year. Anneberg wrestles in
the 155 pound class, and Bratton
in the 118 division.
Other men striving for a place
on the Kansas team are: Richard
Rhea, Lawrence, 126 pounds; Jim
Boutz, Concordia, 145 pounds, a
member of last year's squad; Sig
mund Brunn, Kansas City, Mo.,
155 pounds; Jack Vogel, a foot
ball player from Cody, Wyo., and
Sam Ericsson, Lawrence, who won
his division in men's intramural
wrestling last year, both in the
heavyweight division; John Mc
Coy, Hiawatha, and Tom McCou
well, Wetmore, both in the 175
pound class.
The schedule for the 1936 sea
son is:
Fob. " Ktbratka at Llnculn.
Feb. 1 Missouri at Columbia.
Feb. 22 Iowa State at Lawrence.
Mar. 5 Kas. Stala at Manhattan.
Mar. 6-7 Bis Sir. meet at Norman.
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Adam's Men Challenge Iowa
State Teachers
Jan. 29.
Armed with nothing but eight
talented mat men, Coach Jerry
Adams journeys to Minneapolis
this afternoon where he will watch
his wrestling pupils battle Minne
sota, Saturday, Jan. 18, in tho
first meet of the present cam
paign. After the Gopher encoun
ter, Adams will continue the jour
ney to Cedar Rapids, la., homc
of tho Iowa Stato Teachers col
lege, whom the Cornhuskcrs aro
scheduled to meet Monday, Jan.
20.
Tho eight men scheduled to
make the trip include Walter Mc
Danlels in the 118-yound division;
Cleo Smiley in the 126-pound
clnss; Julius Wittman In the 135
pound group; Ray Larson in the
145-pound division; Fred Mallon
In tho 155-pound bracket; Don
"Flash" Flasnlck in the 165-pound
class; "Dutch" Simons In the 175
pound group, and Bernard
"Bcnno" Funken In tho heavy
weight division.
; Flasnlck, star of last years
team and one of the best wrestlers
' in the Big Six, is expected to come
i through with flying colors for his
alma mater, and should be a sure
point winner for the Scarlet team.
' Others expected to show up well
i include Funken, who has been
going great guns lately and de
feated all heavyweight wrestlers
to win a place on the team; and
Simons, a veteran of last year's
team, is expected to gather a few
points for the Nebraska cause.
According to Adams, Minnesota
will be represented by an all-veteran
team, which will offer the
Huskers some very formidable op
position. The Gophers have had
one meet this season, and dis
posed of their opponent with very
little trouble. The victim of their
powerhouse being Carleton Col
lege, whom they defeated 29-3.
Adams has no information as to
the strength of tho Iowa Teach-
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