Friday, March 20, 1942
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Bobby Irinn
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Two Husker CinoYrmen
Will Meet Elite of Milcrs
Aim! Vaullers at Chicago
By Bob Miller.
Leaving today for the Chicago
Daily News invitational track
meet, Coach Ed Weir and two of
his prize proteges will be on hand
tomorrow to shoot the works la
their respective events.
Harold Hunt in the pole vault and
Bobby Ginn in the mile are the two
Huskers who will carry the Scar
let colors back in the windy city
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track meet.
He Holds a Record.
Hunt who at the Butler Relays
set a new world's record of 14
feet l'i inches off a dirt runway
in his pet event, the pole vault,
will meet up with the champion of
all time.
That's right! He will be vault
ing with Cornelius Warmerdam.
Warmerdam has surpassed by
seven inches any other vaulter in
the history of the event. He has
a mark of 15-7 to his credit and
does not do his vaulting until the
bar rests at around 14 feet
Hunt Rates High.
Hunt, due to his showing this
season, ranks as second best in the
country. In all probability he will
surpass his best mark of 14-2 out
doors when he enters the field at
Chicago.
He has the benefit of competi
tion which includes Warmert im,
Defield of Minnesota and others.
Then, the runway will be length
ened for Warmerdam and the
showing at Butler convinced spec
tators that Hunt can use the
longer runway to good advantage.
If this combination of things
doesn't bring out the best in Hunt,
we miss our guess.
Ginn Meets Trio.
Ginn competition will be just
as well-rounded as that in which
Hunt will compete. Bobby with a
4:10 mile under his belt will not be
favored as he takes the track
against such old stars as Walter
Mehl of Wisconsin, Campbell Kane
of Indiana and John Borican of
New York.
One thing upon which Husker
cinder fans can rest assured Is
the fact that Gill will go "all-out"
in his mile test Bince he is running
in but one race and will not have
to hold off in anticipation of a
half-mile test to follow as is the
usual case.
Has a Good Chance.
When he turned in his 4:10 per
formance last spring he served no
tice that he would be contributing
to bigger and faster miles during
the rest of his college career. Sat
urday should call forth another.
The Banker's mile is an annual
event and is always close. If
we can make predictions, we will
say that Ginn will finish very close
to the front line with his famous
stretch splint very much in evi
dence. Red Littler passed up a chance
to compete in the meet 600 yard
run, wishing to concentrate on
shorter distances for the rest of
the year.
Army v$. Navy
A.iny's number one group, en
gaged the Navy seconds and the
Army seconds tested the Navy
firsts. There was plenty of in
terest fostered as the Red Army
teams and the Blue Navy teams
got into action.
The real action came a little
later when the two number one
teams were turned over ti Elwyn
Dees for a little wind-sprint work
and Press p.ave the two second
teams the green light.
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'Frost f Cox, Phog Allen's Old
Pupil, May Surprise Kansas
With His Colorado U Cagers
LAWRENCE, Kas March 19
The University of Kansas Jay
hawkers may not emerge as na
tional champions of the NCAA
nor even be victorious over their
three Western Division foes on
Friday and Saturday at Kansas
City, but the odds are exceedingly
strong that a Kansas graduate
will be a leading figure when both
of these titles are decided.
Feature game of the Friday
night series of the Western Di
vision playoffs will pit Kansas
against Colorado.
This will be the seventh meet
ing of these two schools on the
basketball court but the first tilt
in NCAA competition.
In 1931 the two schools met for
the first time and Forrest B.
"Frosty" Cox, present cage men
tor at Colorado, was one of the
leading stars on the Jayhawk
team.
Cox Instrumental.
Cox was instrumental in the
three-game sweep of the series
and continued playing brilliant
ball that season to gain all-Big Six
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honors for the third consecutive
year.
The next year Cox became
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Hearing Bells
Second Time
NORMAN, Okla. March 18
With ten stitches in his head,
sustained when he collided with
a team mate in the recent Okla
homa Aggie defeat at Still
water, A. D. "Ug" Roberts, the
Oklahoma basketball team's
junior forward and floor cap
tain, was scheduled Saturday to
march down the aisle with
Hildreth Griffith, his high
school sweetheart, in a mar
riage ceremony at Shawnee,
Okla.
Don "Bones" Jones, another
Sooner player, will also hear
wedding bells April 3.
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freshman basketball coach at the
University. He continued in this
capacity until 1935 when he went
west to assume the reins as head
man of the Buff court squad, suc
ceeding Henry Iba of Oklahoma
A. & M. in this respect.
'Has a Past.
In his last five years of coach
ing at Colorado, Cox has won
three undisputed titles in the Big
Seven conference and tied with
Utah in 1938. The Buffs record
this year is 15 victories and two
defeats (one to Wyoming and the
other to the Denver Legion).
Colorado and Kansas met three
times again in 1932 but this time
the Buffaloes won one of the
games. At that time Cox was
coaching the freshmen and also
assisting his college tutor, Dr.
Forrest C. "Phog" Allen, in guid
ing the varsity. The role will be
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changed for Cox Friday night,
however, as he attempts to halt
the Kansas victory march and give
his old teacher a thorough drub
bing. Cox was born and raised in
Newton where he made history as
a high school cage player, being
named to the All-American prep
team as a senior In 1927.
Blue's Moment
Fred Metheny's pass to Hank
Reichel would have been good for
a touch had there not been a whis
tle. For the Blues, Howard Debus
and Roy Long were blasting the
line with good results while Bob
by Cooper was directing the play
from his quarterback spot.
Bill Bryant, senior guard from
Ashland, was on the sidelines with
both hands well wrapped with
gauze. .
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