Friday, March 29, 1940
THE DAILY NEBRASKA!-?
7,
By June Bierfoower.
Nebraskans who saw both In
diana and Kansas play basketball
here this winter can count them
selves fortunate indeed in that
they saw those two, play for the
national championship Saturday
night. Nebraska is the only team
in the country which has played
both teams, and Nebraska's is the
only court in the country where
both teams have appeared.
Coach W. H. Browne thinks
Kansas will win, and so does Sam
Barry of U. S. C, whose team beat
Purdue which has beaten Indiana.
From seeing each team in action,
our pick would be Indiana, altho
the Jayhawkers, great opportunists
that they are have come along in
a great late-season rush. Indiana,
to refresh your memory beat the
Huskers 49-39 . K. U. won here
48-41, and 40-24 at Lawrence.
Kansas may be lucky, but
they're good, too. They drew the
bye in the Big Six playoffs, faced
Oklahoma A. & M. in the regional
playoffs when the Aggies had just
finished a New York tournament,
after which they boarded an air
plane for the midwest; then drew
a comparatively easy first round
opponent in Rice before beating
U. s. a
When the chips were down KU
came through against Southern
Cat, to win 43-42. Browne credits
Phog Allen with some good strat
egy and Dick Harp with a great
performance in the U. S. C. game.
Phog put Harp on Ralph Vaughn,
Southern Cal's great lefthanded
shooter. He told him to disregard
Vaughn's right-hand fake shots,
but to play his left handed shots
close. That is what Sir Richard
did, and he had Vaughn practi
cally at his mercy. Harp scored
more points than the U. S. C. man
did all night.
The Huskers can put an all-
married backfield in now... Roy
retsch, Harry Hopp, Bob Kahlcr,
Henry Rohn. . .that quartet is very
likely to be one of the Biffer's first
two sets of backs next year, at
that... Leo Yeo, the Kansas State
swimmer, is a promising candidate
in the 440 and 880 as the Wildcats
go into the outdoor track season
...Clark Hetherington, Oklahoma
polo star, is out for football...
Iowa State college is sponsoring
the national AAU wrestling tour
nament at Ames April 5 and 6. . .
Campbell Kane, Indiana sopho
more, who won the junior AAU
800 meters here last summer,
turned in a 4:16.2 mile the other
night... and Martin "Bob" Biles,
California U. sophomore forward
whom yours truly interviewed on
a radio program last winter when
the Bears played here, got 207 feet
11 inches as he won the Javelin
throw against Stanford in their
recent meet.... Stan Andersen,
Stanford footballer, got 53-3 in
the shot.
Telle article reviewed
Dr. Emile Tellc's study of
'"Marguerite of Navarre" was re
view recently in the Modern Lan
guage Review by Prof. H. V. Law
ton of the University of South
Hampton, England. Telle is an in
structor in romance languages.
Harry Hopp
back at NU
grid practice
Huskers refrain
from scrimmaging;
new lineups listed
Biff Jones held his Huskers out
of scrimmage for the second con
secutive day, as yesterday's prac
tice featured a return to the fold
by Harry Hopp, latest benedict of
the team, who arrived back in
Lincoln after a short honeymoon.
Jones drilled the team on punt
ing, passing, pass defense, and
blocking, and the Yalea and Har
vards ran throue-h a few nlnvs.
Charley Carper, end candidate
irom Lincoln was on the side
lines with a knee injury.
A scrimmage is certain for Sat
urday, while there may be one
this afternoon.
Sauadmen were shifted Wednes
day afternoon, with promotions
Dasea ror tne most part on early
season performances. Some moves
were necessitated by scholastic
difficulties of a few candidates.
Waddick moves up.
Don Waddick, Grand Island,
was moved up to second string
right end for the Harvard team,
and Willard Bunker, Lincoln,
went up to second team left end
for the Yales. Gerry Kathol, Hart
ington frosh, was moved from the
Yales to the Harvards, where he
is second string left end now.
Fred Methcny, Lincoln, moved
up behind Roy Petscji in the Har
vard backfield, and Joe Parting
ton, another former Lincoln star,
moved in behind George Abel as
Yale's left guard.
Jerry Dutcher, promising end
candidate from Omaha Benson,
was forced down the list because
of scholastic trouble.
Association appoints
Meredith to committee
Miss Mamie Meredith of the de
partment of English has been ap
pointed a member of the commit
tee on teaching materials of the
American Business Writing asso
ciation.
NU athletes
get letters
5 major, 13 minor
awards presented
Gymnastics, wrestling and swim
ming squad members were
awarded a total of 5 major and
13 minor letters, according to a
recent announcement from Maj.
L. M. Jones.
Three wrestlers and two swim
mers won major awards. William
T. Edwards, Lincoln, and Ralph
Worden, Alliance, are the swim
mers. George Cockle, Omaha;
Newton Copple, Lincoln; Milton
Kufcka of Colby, Kas., are the
wrestlers. Worden and Kuska are
juniors; the other men are sopho
mores.
Swimmers letter.
Six swimmers won minor
awards. They were James H. Ager,
Lincoln; Norman Bordy, Omaha;
Fred Fairman, Philippines; LeRoy
Foster, Lincoln; Charles Roberts,
Lincoln, and Fred Rodenbeck, Lincoln.
Four members of Charley Mil
ler's Rocky Mountain AAU cham
pionship gymnastics squad won
minor awards. They were Gaius
Cadwell, Broken Bow; Jake Geier,
Lincoln; Guy Johnson, Heming-
ford; Roy Proffitt, Hastings.
Three wrestlers won minor let
ters, awards -going to Ed McCon-
nell, Lincoln; Dale Ruser, Omaha;
Raynold Tomes, Utica.
Big Six basketball
slate released
Wednesday the dates for Ne
braska's ten Big Six conference
basketball games for next season
were released.
The schedule;
Jan. 7, Kunsas State In Uncoln; 13.
Oklahoma In Lincoln; IS. Kansas State at
Manhattan; 10, Missouri in Lincoln; 25,
Iowa-State at Ames.
Fen. 1, Iowa State In Uncoln; 10. Kau
nas at Lawrence; IS. Missouri at Colum
bia ; 21. Oklahoma at Norman.
March 1, Kansas in Lincoln.
Simmons to run in select
500 yard race at New York
Bob Simmons, Nebraska grad
who holds the Big Six indoor and
outdoor 440 records, left last night
for New York where he will race
Sunday night in a special 500
yards race against the country's
best men at that distance.
The race, one of seven top-notch
events which will be contested in
the Finnish Relief fund program
at Madison Square Garden that
night, will pit Simmons against
Charley Belcher, Georgia; Roy
Cochran, Indiana; Dick Gill, Bos
ton. Simmons is filling in.
Simmons has never run the 500
In competition, although he has
worked out at that distance. Bob
won a special 600 yard race at
Kansas City recently in 1:15.5.
A three-mile race between Greg
Rice of Notre Dame and Finland's
Taisto Maki will be the feature of
the meet. Simmons will return to
Lincoln on the Burlington Zephyr,
arriving here Monday night.
The Husker grad, now a law
student, had to pass up an invita
tion to run the 440 at the Millrose
games in February because of his
law studies. He, however, was no
tified Wednesday that he was
chosen to run in Herbert's place
Sunday night, and can make the
trip. He may also run as a mem
ber of a "west" relay team against
an "east" outfit.
Baseballers drill outside
for second time this week
By Don Pollock.
Nebraska's baseball team
worked outside for the second day
in a row yesterday, but the high
wind and dusty weather curtailed
drills to batting practise.
The practice consisted of lim
bering up drills, infield workouts,
batting practice, and pepper
games. Sid Held, Oscar Tcgtmeier,
"Ole" Swanson, Harry Tmscott
outstanding plene pitcher at An
napolis two years ago, and Bob
Garey pitchers, warmed up easily
with catchers, Cliff Hurley, and
Dick Joyce.
Knight divided the infield into
two groups. The first outfit had
Lance Ray on third, Bernie La
Master at short, Ed Ockerman at
second, Frank Rubino on first base
and Dick Joyce catching. The sec
ond lineup had Leonard Van Bus
kirk at third, Bob Blakewell at
short, Frank Coffman at second.
Don Pollock on first, and Cliff
Hurley catching.
Dow Wilson, hard hitting sec
ond baseman from last year's
team, John McDermott, and Al
Schmode were the lettermen ab
sent from last nights' woikout.
Knight expects these men to re
port later in the week. Pitcher
Edsel Wibbels, and the outstand
ing first base prospect Lloyd
Kronick were in street cloths for
the drill.
Regular workouts will be held
outside daily at 3 o'clock if
weather permits, and if not
strategy meetings will be held in
the coliseum. Practices will be
held daily prior to the first game
with Luther at Decorah, la. on
April 18.
The scheuule:
April
April
April
April
spoils.
May
May
May
May
ater.
May
May
IS: Luther at Pecorah, la.
19, 20: Iowa Stale at Amea.
26. 27: Missouri at Lincoln.
29, 30: Minnesota at Minne-
3. 4: Kansas at Lawrence.
10, 11: Kansas State at Lincoln.
13. 14: lows State at Lincoln.
16: Oklahoma A M. at Still
17, 1R: Oalaboma at Norman.
24, 25: Colorado U. at Lincoln.
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