The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, April 16, 1942, Page 6, Image 6

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    Thursday, April '16, 1942
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DAILY NEBRASKAN
They Will Bid for Honors at K U Relays
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(It Big Elmer Aussieker, Missouri' Big Six champion shot putter, pushes one out in preparing for
the Kansas Relays at Lawrence. (2) Jack Defield, Minnesota vaulter, who finished second to Corne
lius W'armerdam, world record holder, in the Mil rose games this spring, who will match leaps with
(3 1 Harold Hunt, Nebraska's champion of the Big Six and winner of the Texas Relay's pole vault.
(i Oklahoma's distance medley qartet, Texas Relay's winner, who will be out to repeat at Kansas.
IWt to right: Smethcrs, Lyda, Burns and Sharpe. (.1) Bill Lyda, Oklahoma's middle distance ace.
In Drake Track Competition
UN Cindermen Rank Second
Only to Illinois in Victories
DES MOINES, la., April 13
With victories in eight of the ten
ppecial events that have survived
through the years, Illinois' 18 vic
tories in the individual events
lioicLs that division of the annual
Drake relays, being held April 24
and 25 this year.
failing to win only the 440 yard
hurdles and the 2-mile rune, Illi
nois outstripped second-place Ne
braska by four victories, 18 to 14.
Kansas has posted 12 victories,
Wisconsin has nine and Oklahoma
nl Iowa have eight apiece.
Teams split up
Of the six leading teams, three
--Illinois. Wisconsin and Iowa
re from the Big Ten conference,
anil three - Oklahoma, Kansas and
Ncbraaka are members of the
I5i Six conference.
Sine,' the first Drake relays
vre devoted mainly to relay
faces, no permanent individual
event hit the record books until
th 120 yiird high hurdles were
established in 1917. From then on,
Individual races and team events
followed in rapid order.
The 100 yard dash was placed
n the program in 1918, followed
Phi Gams Sweep
Top I-F Honors
In Alley Compete
Phi Gamma Delta's bowling
elub walked off with top intra
fraternity laurels at the alley last
night by defeating the Beta, Delt,
and ZBT pinmen in the final play
offs. With Bill Bomgardner rollirg
successive games of 180 and 198,
the Fiji team totaled 1,716 for the
two game run. Runnerup Betas
totaled 1.606, Delta were third and
the ZBT's fourth. Remainder of
the fraternities had been elimi
nated in the prelims.
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Lincoln Journal,
by the pole vault, broad jump,
high jump, 440 yard hurdles, shot
put, discus throw and javelin
throw in 1922.
Locke and Francis lead
Big guns in Nebraska's 14 vic
tories were Sprinter Roland Locke
and Wcightman Sam Francis.
Locke bullet-
ed to successive
victories in the
100 yard dash
in 1925 and
1926, setting
the :09.5 record
in his latter ef
fort. That has
never been bro
ken, tho tied
by Ralph Met
calf of Mar
quette and Jesse
Owens of Ohio
State.
After gaining
fame as an All
American full
back on the gridiron. Southpaw
Sam Francis won both the discus
and shot put title at the relays
in 1936 and 1937-the only years
he appeared at Des Moines. Ne
braska failed to bag victories in
only the high jump and 2-mile run.
Osborne Wins Jump.
The first Illinois triumph went
to Harold Osborne, who leaped
6 feet 6 inches to win the high
jump in 1922. That record, the
oldest on the Drake books, still
sands.
Latest of the Illinl to win an
individual crown was Ken Diefen
thaler, likewise a high jumper,
who claimed titles in 1936 and
1939 with respective jumps of 6
feet 3i inches and 6 feet 5
inches.
Kansas ranks next
One of the dozen Kansas vic
tors was Jim Bausch, decathlon
champion at the 1932 Olympics in
Los Angeles, Calif. In his appear
ance at Drake in 1930, Bausch
threw the shot 49 feet li inches
for the championship. Kansas
bunched its triumphs in the pole
vault, broad jump, high jump, shot
put and discus throw.
Other team leaders, according to
victories, are: Louisiana State, 7;
Minnesota, 7; Rice, 6; Marquette,
6; Indiana, 6; Texas, 6; Drake, 6.
Drake, the host school, has Linn
Philson, a high jumper, to thank
for three of its victories. Philson
won or shared the jump tiara in
1934-35-36.
Herlzlcr, Ilcinlinnlt '
Attend Convention
Professor J. O. Hertzler, chair
man, and Professor J. M. Rein
hardt of the sociology department
will attend meetings of the Mid
West Sociological society in Des
Moines, April 16 to 18. Dr. Rein
hardt will contribute to a discus
sion on criminology and to a panel
on "Sociology, Sociologists, and
the War." Dr. Hertzler is chair
man of the panel.
Saylor Talks on Future
Of Junior Colleges
Professor Galen Saylor of Teach
ers college addressed the Nebraska
Junior College association at its
spring meeting in Falrbury April
11. His subject was "What Should
Be the Future of the Nebraska
Junior College?"
'Queen of Queens' to be
One of 6 of 20 of 3,000
... Iii iV Club Election
Choosing one from among six
chosen from among 20 chosen
from among nearly 3,000 Nebraska
coedsythat's the job of the N
Club members who will chose a
"Queen of Queens" to reign at
the annual dance May 16.
Members have already selected
six finalists from a list made up
of 12 Cornhusker beauty queen
candidates, the Typical Nebraska
Coed, Pep Queen, Nebraska Sweet
heart, Prom Girl, Pledge Sweet
heart, Inteifraternity Sweetheart,
Goddess of Agriculture, and two
other candidates nominated at a
meeting yesterday.
The six coeds selected from the
field of 20 (in one case a contest
ant, in addition to being a bauty
queen candidate, was also a
"sweetheart") will be revealed in
future issues of the Nebraskan,
and one of the six will reign as
"Queen of Queens" at the N Club
dance.
Virginia Ford, Typical Nebraska
Coed; Betty Nichols, Phyllis
Welch, Lynn Dale, Lois Drake,
Lois Scofield, Shirley Johnson,
Beldora Cochran, Harriette Cos
tello, Becky Wait, Maryellen
Robison, Jessie Moore and Ruth
Iverson, all Beauty Queen con
testants; Janet Hemphill, Pep
Queen; Becky Wait, Nebraska
Sweetheart; Ann Craft, Prom
Girl; Hazel Abel, Pledge Sweet
heart; Tonl McQuiston, Interfra
ternity Sweetheart; Ben Alice
Day, Goddess of Agriculture, and
the two other nominees, Alice
MocCampbell and Shirley McNeel
from this list of 20, six have
been chosen one of the six will
be "Queen of Queens."
Bill Smutz, chairman of the
dance committee, has promised
"a fair election, with discussion
there'll be no politics here," and
so, on May 16, the one-from-six-20-from-3,000
will be revealed.
University of Wisconsin students
who attended the 1942 junior prom
went without corsages to. buy more
than $500 worth of defense stamps.
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Hey! The new Arrows are in!
Such shirts! Such patterns! Such colors!
And collars button-downs . . . short,
wide-spread points . . . long, wide-spread
points . , . every one a perfect fit.
The new Arrows are here. In an assort
ment wide enough to satisfy every man in
town. But every Arrow has this in common:
Sanforizcd-Laheled (will Mi rink less than
1) ... famed "Mitoga" figure-fit . . .
buttons that are anchored on . . and
tyled right I
NOW! Strike up the Band!
Gobs of Girls... Fun.,. Music
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Always a 30c Seat
LINCOLN
Now's the time to come in and see for
yourself . . and stock yourself up. $2.23 up.
GOLD'S Men's Store.
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