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DAILY NEBRASKAN
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This is the talc of two boys and
a pole.
Working on the conception that
the third time is the charm, we'd
like to see Husker's Harold Hunt
meet Wisconsin's Williams in a
bit of pole vault competition just
once more this year. It could be
that a contest of this caliber
might settle quite definitely the
question of who is the best pole
vaulter.
Not long ago, these two lads
went to the Drake relays and
after giving their all in this par
ticular event each came home,
with a half of a first place under
his belt. Best these two chaps
could hit 13 feet 8 inches and
nothing over that.
Then with the triangular meet
in Minneapolis last week between
the Gophers, Wisconsin, and Ne
braska, the wise men sat around
and decided that this meet would
afford an excellent opportunity to
work off the hangover tie from
the Drake affair.
Saturday saw these two men
pitted against each other each
carrying the intent to settle the
current track problem. Interest in
their particular event ran high
because Hunt and Williams were
out to win.
We grabbed our late evening
paper on Saturday night to see
how the tilt came out, hoping to
see Hunt in the headlines as a
winner. The second paragraph
from the top of the story read,
"Hunt of Nebraska, Williams of
Wisconsin, and Defield of Minne
sota tied for first in the pole vault
with a leap of 13 feet 6 inches."
Well, we just sat back and
Bighed.
So concludes our tale of three
boys and a pole.
For you sports fans who know
your sports scribes, Whitney Mar
tin, top Associated Press sports
man, is the brother-in-law of in
structor Harold White in the Eng
lish department Upset within a
team is the win registered by
Bophomore hurdler Ralph King
Weirmen meet
Missouri here
Saturday
Coach Ed Weir's Big Six confer
ence cinder champs will make their
first home showing against the
Missouri Tigers this weekend. The
Tigers would like nothing better
than to upset the Cornhuskers
after Nebraska's startling victory
over the Minnesota and Wisconsin
clubs last Saturday.
Interest will settle around fleet
Gene Littler who walked off with
first honors in the 100 yard dash
and the 220 and 440 yard sprints
last Saturday. This fete is almost
unprecedented in any college meet.
The spotlight will also be on
Ralph King, who won an unex
pected victory over Bill Smutz in
the high hurdles at Minnesota;
Herb Grote, javelin; Bob Ginn,
mile; Harold Hunt, pole vault; Bill
Smitz, hurdles; Vic Schleich, shot;
and Dale Garrcls, two mile. All
these boys triumphed at Minne
sota. The state high school track meet
will add to the weekend track ac
tivities. Nebraska baseballers will travel
to Iowa State to try for their first
season win. The Cyclones are look
ing for easy pickings over the
Cornhuskers, but are apt to be sur
prised. Golf and tennis teams will also
meet the Cyclones Saturday. Kan
sas State and Kansas, respectively,
fell under the Husker onslaught
Saturday. Bye Adams, No. 1
golfer, who failed to see action last
week, will probably go into action
against Iowa State Saturday.
Hilgert A matter of mind plus
wins gym matter; our box score
compet
Don Hilgert scored 806 points
placing in horizontal and parallel
bars, side horsef flying rings and
tumbling competition to win the
annual all university gymnastics
championship completed last week
in the coliseum.
C. K. Miller, gymnastic coach in
charge of the tournament, stated
that this meet was a proving
ground for next year's varsity
squad and that the high men could
make the team if they wished to
compete.
Other high point men are Jack
Donley, 761 points; C. H. McMas
ter, 740; Bob Cooper, 733; and K. J.
Greenwood, 640. In the separate
events, Donley won the flying
rings and horizontal bar competi
tion, Hilgert the parallel bars,
Loren Toohey the side horse and
Cooper the tumbling.
Scoring in the horizontal bars
gave Donley 162 points; Green
wood, 160; Hilgert, 156; Jim Grif
fith, 153; and W. H. Jennings, 139.
On the parallel bars Hilgert
made 169 points; Greenwood, 163;
Les Oldfield, 162; McMaster, 161;
and Griffith, 156. Toohey scored
167 on the side horse while Hilgert
made 159; Don Bush, 158; McMas
ter, 156; and Donley, 148.
Donley led the flying ring scor
ing with 169; McMaster made 168;
Hilgert, 167; Greenwood, 159; and
Warren Stranathan, 157. Bob
Cooper led in tumbling with a tally
By Chris Petersen.
If youre a normal person, start
reading tVie ad at the bottom of
the page because this is a story
about baseball box scores and no
normal person reads the baseball
box scores. Yes, you need not say
it, we know that we've been read
ing them for years.
No. 1 trouble with baseball box
scores is the way they streamline
the names. This is a favorite proc
ess and is accomplished by leav
ing the vowels out of the names.
If all of the left out vowels were
laid end to end there would be
vowels no end.
Take for instance the name, a
good American name, of Kama
zchinis, Brooklyn Dodger boy. De
spite the fact that you can't pro
nounce the name there is nothing
a matter with Kamazchinis as a
label. Give that monicker to a
slaughtering sports writer tho and
you get Kam's out of it. This con
tinues all thru the box score and
pretty soon you begin to wonder
where the Dodgers got all the new
men. The Dodgers managers, too,
are wondering why in the hell
they're paying 56 salaries when
there are only 28 kids on the pay
roll. Bare facts.
Then after causing all of this
trouble, this same sports scribe
turns around and writes the rest
of his story in what we choose
to call the accepted style. It's all
very confusing and like Lady
Godiva we believe the best way
to clear things up is to get down
to the bare facts.
In the first place, imagine this
paragraph written in the language
of the box score world:
A tall one.
But let's take a moment aside
and use it to find a couple of the
prize winners. Here is a case
which we couldn't call accident or
intent but does things regardless.
This particular name was the last
on a list in a box score that ap
peared directly above a beer ad
and read as follows, "Fress'l." So
there it was, funny to warped
minds, Beer and Fressls!
Prizewinner of the field is a
chap whose label is Nuematz. By
the time he got into the Sunday
paper, he was labelled Nutz and
let go at that. And that, in a shell
of the same variety expresses our
attitude toward box score linguis
tic efforts. Yea nutz!
of 174; as Bill Conner scored 161;
Greenwood, 158; Hilgert, 155; and
Donley, 132.
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FRIDAY, MAY 9
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over Willy Smutz in the high
hurdle event Saturday. King has
two years of competition left. A
quick glance at a few of the let
ters to the editor that appeared
in the Herald sports column yes
terday indicate there is a growing
sentiment against the coaching of
baseballer Wilbur Knight, whose
teams haven't had a particularly
good seasons. It's rather hard to
blame Knight because one never
knows when a squad is going to
hit a material slump. We hope
that's the trouble now.
Ilertzler speaks in Omaha
Prof. J. O. Ilertzler, chairman
of the sociology department, lec
tured on "The Family and the
Community" before the Society of
Liberal Arts at Joslyn Memorial
in Omaha, April 27.
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