Tuesday, April 21, 1942
DAILY NEBRASKAN
Husker Nine Opens 1942 Season Against Gophers
Center Fielder
Leads Hitters
At Oklahoma
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Sooner Slar Will Not End
Season in First Position
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If Tradition Holds True
NORMAN. Okl. Walt Stephen
son. Oklahoma's swift little ecn
trrl'ielder and lead-off man, tops
the Sooner baseball team in bat
ting at this writing but if tradi
tion has its way the odds are
ag-iinst Stephenson's leading the
club at th end of the season.
No Sooner batting champion
since the Big Six conference was
organized in 1928 has ever led the
club in hitting two years in a row,
records show. Stephenson won the
hitting title last year with .392.
Myers Has Top Figure.
A glance at the records discloses
that Roy Myers, Sooner sopho
more eentorf'iclder of 1934 who
jumped the club the following
season to join Oklahoma City's
Texas league champions, holds the
all-time Sooner batting high. Base
hits spewed off Myers' hickory in
1934. the slender star hitting .454
and collecting 35 safeties. Myers
was set for a big league career
when he became ill and died.
Cordon Clarke, big first-sacker
from Okmulgee, tied Myers' rec
ord of 35 hits in the 1936 season
but played in three more games.
Doyle Tolleson, strapping catch -?!,
who batted cleanup in 1933,
got seven home runs that yeHr, an
all-time record.
Blackwell Leads.
The top ranking Sooner base
thief of Big Six history is Sam
Blackwell, catcher shortstop of
1940. Sum swiped exactly 20 sacks
- the all-time top. Blackwell also
scored 24 runs in 1940, also an all
timp rprord.
The two base kine of the past
14 seasons is nobody else but Les
ter Layton, sophomore lettrieiaer
from Wichita, Kas., who plays
this season. Lavton has already
poled eight doubles, breaking the
old record of seven set Dy ueimar
Steinbock in 1936 and tied by
Virsjt Baseman Rov Mvers in 1939
and with several 1942 games left
may add to his record.
Mvers deceased centerfielder of
1934', and Jack Baer, the present
Sooner coach, are me cnampion
triplets with five eacn. Baer gar
nei'ed his in 1936.
Four Tic for Record.
The extra base hit high is 13 and
fmir nlavers hold it. Tolleson, the
big catcher, first set it in 1933. It
was later tied by Myers in 1934,
Steinbock in 1936 and Jack Riley
in 1940.
Sooner clubs are nationally fa
mous for their squeeze bunts and
the king appears to have been
Hons it "Red"' Hardwick, 1935 sec
ond saeker, who laid down seven
that season.
Ri lev's 33 runs batted in over a
21 game span in 1940 broke Eaer'S
old record of 32 set in 1936 but
Baer hs the most RBIs for a sin
gle game, nine, driven in during
an Oklahoma-Iowa State game at.
Ames. la., in 19db.
The Sooner hitting champs since
the Big Six was organized:
1929 Bud Haswell, c, .316.
1930 Johnny May, 2b. .396.
1931 Bus Wall, ss, .436.
1932 Ralph Brand, ss, .410.
1933 Doyle Tolleson, c. .360.
1934 Roy Myers, cf, .454.
1935 Johnny Hunter, rf, .386.
1936 Cordon Clarke, lb, .393.
1937 Da If Simpson, cf, .385.
193H .lack Riley, 3b, .344.
1939 Herb S( hcffl i, lb, .407.
1940 Vi. tor Lasater. 2b. 420.
1941 Walter Stenh'-nson. cf. .392
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arid Gietel" by Hurnpc.-.nak, and
"Finale from the New World M'm
nhoriv" bv Dvorak. The program
will close with "The Star Span-
cled Runner."
In addition to honoring students
In the upper 10 percent of each
class in each college, the univer
sity will present certificates for
mmerior scholarship to seniors in
the upper 3 percent of their re-
snective (lasses or who have ap
pea red on the Honor Lists four or
more years. Prizes and awards
will be presented to 75 students,
and a number of ftudent oresn
izationa will be recocnized for the
high scholarship of their mem
bers.
Women t orients at Hunter col
le!?e, .New . York, are training to
become weather observers ai air
jiorls and bureau.
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ine aoove nine nunners re uic
Husker diamond team gets the 1942
move to Iowa State lor tne tsig six opener wnn me yciones im inwnuay Bnu i utsuj. num in m 6"s .'-- .
ble, ss; Ernie Swanson, p; Dean Callan, If; Fat Boyle, 2b; Bob Heinzelman, rf ; Dean Jackson, c; Allen Artman, lb and Frank Wolff, cf Jake
Sedlak of Bee has an even chance
Fraternity -MHmker Track
Teams Must
Play Tennis
. . . Golf, Soon
Action will be resume this week
in the battle for the golf and ten
nis crowns, after a lapse of six
months. Leading the host of en
tries are the Beta net men and
golfers, vMio have reached the
finals and semi-finals :n each re
spective play.
The Betas will meet th winner
of the SAK-Phi Delt match in tlie
finals of the golf tourney. Partici
pants of the t"arns are urged to
make arrangements for the time
of the matches.
The upper bracket in the tennis
tourney finds the Betas swinging
rackets with the ATO.i. The DUs
will meet the winner of the
Sammy-Dtlt game in the lower
bracket.
Wednesday evening at 5. the
Farm House will battle the Betas
in the first playoff niatih in soft
ball. The following evening will
find the DU mixing 'ith the Sig
Nus, that is if the Sig Nils get
past the Delts. The finals will
probably take place A Til 29th.
Debate . . .
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defeated Alpha Tan f.'nea
In round three, Phi Kappa I 'si
defeated Sigma Alfina Mu. Zeta
Beta Tuu defeated Brta Tlieta I'l.
Phi Camina Delta defeated Alpha
Tau Omega, "and Del'.a Sigma J'i
defeated Sigma Chi.
In round four, Beta Theta Pi
defeated Phi Kappa f'si. Delta
Sigma Pi defeated Phi Gamma
Delta, Sigma Alpha Mu defeated
Sigma Chi, and Zeta Beta Tuu
defeated Alpha Tuu Omega.
Leading the tournament is Del
ta Sigma Pi with four wins and no
losses. Zeta Beta Tau and Phi
Gamma Delta are in second place
each with three wins and one Joss.
Phi Kappa I'si and Sigma Alpha
Mu are tied for third place with
two wins and two losses credited
to them. Sigma Chi and Beta The
ta Pi arc tied for fourth place with
one win and three losses, and in
last place is Alpha Tau Omega
with no win and lour Josses.
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season started with a bang. They
to start in leu neia in piace oi vai
Team Awaits
Drake Relays
Nebraska's Scarlet and Cream
cinder team will pack away their
track loins this week-end and in
vade the famous Drake Relays.
Ed Weir indicated yesterday
that he would be satisfied if his
kids duplicated their 1941 show
ing. Husker Herb Grote, now in the
army, won the javelin cast with
a 211 foot toss; Harold Hunt
cleared 13-8 in the vault to tie
with Williams of Wisconsin for the
crown; Vic Schleich copped sec
ond in the shot with a 49-1 heave
and the half mile relay came in
third.
Hunt tied with Williams at tffe
Kansas Relays last week and will
aim at the 14-' i Drake Tecord.
Return of Red Littler from the
pneumonia bed insures full Husker
strength in the sprint relays.
Battle . . .
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leader in the Student Council,
Bob Dewey; Dorothy Jean Bryan,
president of the Neora.ska Inde
pendent Students' association;
and Paul Svoboda, editor of the
Daily Nebraska?.
Svoboda, a greek, explained the
universal subscription plan as a
non-partisan question while Sloan
cited the Daily with unfairness.
Dewey showed advantages of the
Hare system included in the barb
proposal, and Miss Bryan told of
the workings of the new organi
zation for independent Ktudents.
Eyram KfHke briefly on election
tactics. Dafoe served as eh aim man
and directed his attack against
greek leaders, who were allegedly
invited but did not attend the
rally.
Led by Band.
Preceding and following the
meeting, the group marched, led
by a band through the campus.
There was also the sound truck,
"calling all barbs."
Dale Theobald, chairman of the
Council judiciary committee, said
last night that the committee had
met with barb and greek leaders
yesterday afternoon and had dis
Courtpnv Sunday Journal and Star.
Vrirfav nfternoon acainst the Minnesota Gophers a the
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will play on Saturday at Minneapolis also and from there they will
an.
cussed barb campaign literature
and tactics.
"I have nothing to release as
yet," Theobald said.
He declared, however, that the
committee would do all in its
power to enforce the election rules
as interpreted by the Student
Council and approved by the Uni
versity faculty committee.
In considering election public
ity, always an election sore spot,
Theobald declared that the inter
pretation reads:
"No printed, mimeographed ma
terial will thus mean no handbills,
posters, papers, newspaper, or any
other type of materials or adver
tising on whic h appears any writ
ing, typing, printing, cartoons,
drawing, photographs, or any
other type of pictorial presenta
tion of thought, which material is
transmitted to any voter by any
means whatever or is posted in
any place except the inside of a
private home, boarding house,
rooming house, fraternity house,
sorority house, or university resi
dence halls for women except the
official posters of The elections
committee of the Student Coun
cil."
Polls Closed for Convo.
Polls will be open from 9 to 10
a. m. when the noils will close
until 12 noon because of honors
convocation. Reopening at 12 the
voting will continue until 9 p. m.
Throughout today's Daily Ne-
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Alexis Talks on Why
Study French at Present
Prof. J. E. A. Alexis, chairman
of the modern languages depart
ment, recently discussed "Why
Study French at the Present
Time?" at the St. Louis meeting
of the West Central Association of
French Teachers. Professor Alexis
attended meetings of the Modern
Language association of the mid
dle west and south in Detroit last
week.
braskan, political Issues to be de
cided at today's election have been
thrown open to discussion, and a
complete list of candidates for all
positions to be filled is printed.
Representatives to the Student
Council will be voted on by col
leges, with the exception of sen-iors-at-large
for which all stu
dents vote. Representatives to the
Nebraska Independents' Associa
tion will be wleeted by unaffili
ated students, and there are no re
strictions on voting for Ivy Day
Orator.
Students must present their
identification cards in order to
vote, Harnrbcrger said. Booths
will be in the basement of the
Union, and members of the elec
tions committee of the Student
Council will have charge of the
balloting.
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