Thursday, May 2, 1940
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By June Bierbower.
The great discus throwing of
Howard Debus has been getting
most of the attention in state prep
track and field circles, but out of
Gothenburg, which has given the
Huskers a number of fine ath
letes, including Harold Brooks,
comes word about high jumper
Harold McAferty.
V That young athletes cleared 6
leet o'2 incnes in practice me
other day on the first try, and
didn't attempt to go any higher.
In meets to date he has been sav
ing his energies, never attempting
to jump any higher than he needs
to win. Six feet, , one-eighth inch
is his best competitive this season.
Of course, practice and actual
rompetition are two different
things, but he's the logical man
to break the state record of 6-2,
which Homer Trimble of the same
town holds. McAferty has been
one of the state's best high jump
ers for the past three years, and
peems to be Nebraska's best this
spring.
Lee Todd, former Hastings Col
lege athlete, and now Kansas
decathlon champion, did 6-4
inches when in college, but that's
the best any man in this state has
ever done. If McAferty can dupli
cate his 6-5 "j . performance in the
state meet, it will be something
to see.
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While on the high jumping sit
uation, the latest handicaooed man
to star In track circles is Kelly
Horn, Alabtma. Horn was cut se
verely on his left leg just below
the knee as a child, and his par
ents feared he would never walk
again. The iniurv stunted the de
velopment of his- lower leg and
.foot, so that he wears a shoe on
!hi riant foot onlv when he liimm
Horn cleared 6 feet V Inches in
meet Saturday.
Harold Hunt, the Husker soDho
more who is eoinr to clear 14
feet one of these days, wears a
vest-like support around hia waist
when he vaults to hold up a weak
oacK. When doctors first took
X-ray pictures thev told him hp
could never vault again, but Hunt
goi mem to take another look,
after which they agreed he might
be able to vault without inruri-inix
permanent injury. Right now he
fias an insurance policy to protect
mm in case ne a hurt.
Hunt never vaults except in
cuinpeuuon, ana very seldom tries
to go any higher than he needs to
win. it wouidn t be such a pleas
ant feeline to net un in midair
and wonder if you're vertabrae
will feel in Dlace. but Hunt hrean
taking exercises to strengthen his
um:k, ana in Deen bothering him
less than ever since the track
.season started this winter.
Since San Jose and Cornelius
Warmerdam are In the track
picture very prominently, It
brings to mind the story about
Bob Zuppke.
Zup, on one of his first trips
out west was having lots of
trouble In pronouncing words
like San Jote. It was hard for
the llllni Dutchman to see how
they got an "h" out of a "j".
When Zuppke finally got ready
to leave, he said to a west coast
audience, " hope to come back
next year in Hune or Huly."
There hasn't been much pub
licity about it, but Taisto Maki's
14:10.4 performance in the 3-mile
is the best ever done in the United
States. . .Taisto beat Don Lash in
that .me the other day...Nebras
ka is the only Big Six baseball
team without a conference victory
...Bruno Konopka, sensational
Denver prep athlete of a couple
years back, is now performing
with the Southern Cal baseball
tjtom "v.- it..- iir-,--l
1 missed 15-2 i in the pole vault
baiurtiay by the narrowest of
margins . . . three times he tried,
and went over, but on each occas
(-State meet
postponed
once more
Next Tuesday set
as date; Iowa State
comes here Saturday
Same one of these fine spring
days if they ever come Nebras
ka and Kansas State are going to
engage in a dual track meet.
Wednesday afternoon was again
too cold and again the meet with
the Kansas Aggies was postponed
this time it is scheduled for next
Tuesday in the stadium.
Now, Coach Ed Weir is focusing
his eyes on Saturday, that being
the day when Iowa State will in
vade the Husker lair for a dual
meet Nebraska's first outdoor
carnival on the track if the weath
er is approving. If (and a capital
"I") good weather prevails a num
ber of new varsity marks may be
set.
Brooks may star.
Harold Brooks, Gothenburg dis
tance runner, may better the
Husker limes in both the mile and
half-mile. He has run both in bet
ter time than the varsity record.
Last Saturday he ran an 880 lap
of the sprint medley in 1:55, and
has run the distance in 1 :55.7, also.
Both exceed the outdoor record of
1:56.
Red Littler may take a crack
at the 440 mark. Bob Simmons,
conference record holder, has a
:47.7 performance in the outdoors
440, with :50.4 being his indoor
record. Red has turned in :50.1 in
side this season. In a relay lap at
Kansas, he was timed in 47 flat
from a standing start, and at the
Drake Relays he did a 48 flat
quarter around two turns.
Harold Hunt, Nebraska's ace
vaulter, again bettered the old
varsity record of 13-4 '4 , this time
at Drake, when he did 13-7
With good weather, he may do
better.
Schultz to Kansas
for Phi Sig meet
C. Bertrand Schultz, assistant
director of the university museum
left Wednesday for Lawrence,
Kans., where he will speak at the
annual initiation banquet of the
University of Kansas chapter of
Phi Sigma. He will address the
honorary scientific society of fos
sil collecting in the great plains
area and will illustrate his address
with color films of Nebraska field
work.
Mr. Schultz has been studying
at the American Museum of Na
tional History in New York for
several weeks returning to Lincoln
last Tuesday.
In 'crooshial' game . . .
Kappa Sigs nip Beta's; hand
AE's Jack Best trophy
ion his hand brushed off the cross
bar. Out on the west coast it looks
as though Southern Cal's number
in track is just about up, unless
the Trojans do something fast and
furiously. For Saturday, Stanford,
with their best team in years,
faces U. S. C. Stanford beat Cali
fornia, 804 to 504. while U. S. C.
was -lucky to beat the Bears 12
to 584.
Paul Zimmerman, the ex-Husker
who is now sports editor of the
Los Angeles Times, picks Stan
ford to win 66-65, to give U. S. C.
its first defeat in years.
We haven't anything against
Southern Cal, but they've held a
monopoly so long in collegiate
track that it might be a good thing
if someone dumped them. Stanford
is the team to do that it it's done.
The Palo Altoans are almost
sure of 30 points in the meet un
less dire upsets happen. Clyde
"Heathcliffe" Jeffrey is better
than U. S. C.'s sprinters in both
the hundred and 220. Paul Moore,
newest distance phenom of the
west, is going to beat Louie Zam
perini in the mile unless Zamp
snaps out of a slump induced by
illness and a sore foot. Moore is
the favorite to win both the mile
and half mile, having done 5:13.7
and 1:54.2 in the events in a tri
angular last weekend.
Big Stan Anderson of Stanford
will have things his own way in
the shot and discus, too. He turned
in a shot mark of 53-8 and a
discus toss of 155-2 his last time
out, and all the Trojans can do
about that is stand and look. An
derson will be best remembered,
by anyone who remembers, as the
boy with the terrible war whoop.
Last summer, the AAU tossed a
Sunday night feed for the com
peting athletes here. After the eats
came a community sing in the
Union lounge. The group had Just
finished singing "When Irish Eyes
are Smiling'' or something like
that, and out burst the burly An
derson and his teammate Pete
Zagar of discus fame with Indian
war whoops which would have
curdled the blood of even the most
hardened reservation dwellers.
'News' editor gets bid
to, Journalism Week
Mrs. Ruth E. Pike, associate
editor of the University of Nebras
ka News and national employment
director of Gamma Alpha Chi, na
tional advertising sorority, has
been invited by Alpha chapter and
its faculty adviser, Professor E.
K. Johnston, to attend the Univer
sity of Missouri Journalism Week,
May -6-10, at Columbia.
By Yahudl.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon is the 1940
winner of the Jack Best trophy
thanks to the Kappa Sigs!
The athletic cup once again was
gained in successive years by the
Sig Alpha when the Kappa Sigs
squeezed past Beta Theta Pi 1 to 0
in six innings, Wednesday after
noon. Here's the story. S. A. E. was
ahead of the Betas by jsome 20
points with intramural baseball
being the only sport remaining.
The Sig Alphs lost out in their
league in baseball and the Betas
had to do likewise to insure the
Jack Best trophy for the S.A.E.'s.
Lose, playoff.
Well, the Betas lost in a playoff
of their league which automatic
ally eliminated them from the run
ning. To get back to the old ball game
an extra inning was needed be
fore the battle was decided. John
Sullivan and John Stoddart, Kap
pa Sig and Beta pitchers respec
tively, had the batters at their
mercy thruout the game.
A strong wind blowing in
toward home plate kept flies in
the outfielders' reach to aid the
hurlers' causes. It wasn't until the
extra inning when either side
threatened. The Beta rally was put
down on a play at home plate.
In the last half of the sixth,
Sullivan led off with an infield
hit. Jim Evinger beat out a bunt
Husker tackles to pack power
Schwartzkopf only vet lost
Nebraska's football teams have
long been noted for their great
tackle strength, and from the looks
of next year's tackles, the 1940
Cornhusker crew won't belie that
tradition.
In reecnt years, the Huskers,
though, have been a little short
on tackles. Last year, though,
the big boys came through in
good shape, and an even better
showing seems due next year.
Sam Schwartzkopf, Lincoln
starter, is the only man not re
turning. Royal "King Kong" Kahler,
behemoth 220 pounder, was named
on several second all Big Six teams
last fall, and is set for a banner
season in 1940, his last year.
"Kong" and Schwartzkopf
started most of the Husker games,
while Forrie Behm and Clarence
Hemdon were on the alternate
team.
Six foot, four Inch Behm, one
of the finest combinations of
athlete and scholar the Huskers
have ever had, will be a senior,
and seems slated for a starting
position. Behm, severely handi
capped by bad leg burns he suf
fered as a child, has developed
Into a fine college player.
Hemdon, a Grand Islander who
played his first year last fall, is
considered by many observers to
be one of the best tackle pros
pects Nebraska has ever seen.
He's not particularly big, but is
speedy and alert, and a tough cus
tomer both offensively and defen
sively. Leonard Muskin, Omaha, who
lettered as a sophomore at guard,
but who saw little service last
year, flashed good form in spring
practice, and is pretty certain to
be a member of the first four
tackles. Muskin scales over 200,
and was one of the mainstays of
the "Harvard" line this spring.
Four inexperienced men are
next in line. Vk Schleich and
Frannie Leik, the rhyming boys,
are both holdovers from last
year. Schleich, big Llncolnite
who scales around 225, was out
because of a broken leg bone
last fall. Leik who hails from
Hastings, was carried with the
team for more seasoning.
Ralph Whitehead, Minatare,
who Is redheaded, tho, was In
eligible last fall, but stuck In
school and is ready for action.
Along with Whitehead is 226
pound Bob McNutt, Colby, Kas.
prospect. The 18 year old honor
student, who Is also all-university
heavyweight wrestling king,
came along fast in the latter
part of spring drills.
Behind those men there is Hub
Knichrehm, Grand Island holdover
still in the running, and John
Goodscll, Omaha redhead, who re
duced from 245 to 215 during, griJ
drills; Jack Clcavcnger, Mullen,
who has had no high school expe
rience; from last year; Glenn Hen
nings, Silver Creek; and Melvin
Kuska, Fairmont, freshmen.
and both runners advanced to
third and second bases when an
overthrow of first base moved the
runners on. The relay back into
the infield was wild and Sullivan
slid safely into home plate to win
the ball game and win the trophy
for the Sig Alphs.
Starring for the winners were
Wayne Mack, Dick Hitchcock, Rex
Crews, and John Sullivan. The
Beta standouts were Bud Tallman,
John Stoddart, Bob Pillsbury, and
Leon Davis.
Dodgers finally lose;
Walters beats 'em 9-2
The world can come back to
normal now!
It finally happened the Brook
lyn Dodgers went down to defeat.
After nine successive wins since
the start of the season, the Flat
bushers lost to Cincinnati 9-2.
Bucky Walters hurled six hit ball,
while Ernie Lombardi and Bill
Werber hit homers. "Schnozzle's"
came with the bases full.
Boston's Red Sox regained their
winning ways by a 12 to 4 win
over Chicago in the American
league. Jimmy Foxx connected for
his fifth round tripper. The New
York Yankees, behind Monte Pear
son's five hit pitching, downed St.
Louis 5-3.
The Philadelphia Athletics
trimmed Cleveland 5 to 1, and De
troit edged past Washington 10-7.
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