Wednesday, March 241943
DAILY NEBRASKAN
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By Norm Anderson
(Sport Editor)
Homegrown talent . . .
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has grown into a famiy affair, like a toothbrush or the llnps
huvn chin.
Pa Schulte, grand old man of Cornhusker track, started
the precedent of home-grown Cornhusker talent years ago. Since
then, the precedent has been stressed until now out-state cinder
candidates are fewer than decendent3 of the Ming dynasty.
Illustrative of the homi'-frrown talent are two frosh lis
lance-jofjpors who add luster to Kd Weir's eye. Both Dean
Kratz of Sidney and Oeijrhton liale of Hardy, have constantly
shaved two minutes in early halfmilc spins. Kratz oulsped
Jlale by one yard in a trial SSO twirl early I h is week.
Hale, a freckle-pussed little guy with a wide grin, is re
mindful, of Bobby Ginn. He has taken daily workouts since
fall and didn't let a broken wrist keep him from daily work
outs this spring. Kratz possesses sufficient speed a 50-second
quarter, plus a reliable finish kick.
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It is good sport this time of year to take your hound and
po looking for a bookmaker who will bet wilh you on the Hig
Six outdoor track derby.
We took our pet bloodhound, Severed Artery, for a jaunt
through bookmaking circles. Not one gambler could we flush.
At one spot, down wind from a combination bowling alley
chili pallor, hard by a bubbling steam of bock beer, you can
usually find several degenerates who make bets on such events
as Hip Six track meets. All we could raise this year was an
unemployed barber. Seems that local sports are simply too
coy with their bankrolls to quote odds on an event which can
be turned inside out in a minute.
Walt Dobbins, sports maestro of the Journal, has the cor
rect idea on Cornhusker spring practice sessions.
"Coach Presnell hopes to get outdoors Tuesday and plans
on staging a scrimmage Saturday, weather permitting, but he
will have to get a better response from squad members before
a game with the Tigers can be entertained.
'Missouri has the advantage of a field house for condition
ing purposes in the event of inclement weather. The Husker3,
with only one outdoor workout in seven drills, has plenty of
work cut out for it game or no game."
If you ( 'ornhuskers want the Missouri game, pray indicate
your de.sire by attending practice or making arran!cments with
Presnell.
New Red Boy"
Meets Hoosiers
. . . Latin Batboy
BLOOMINGTON, Ind., March
23 -When the Cincinnati Reds
came to their new war-time train
ing site east of the Landis-East-man
line, they still had a touch of
their regulah camp in Tampa,
Fla., in Marcellas Marcedo. Even
though the Reds have a "Touch
of Texas" in Infielder Damon
Phillips. Marcellus still holds the
edge.
To the unfamiliar, Marcellus is
the bat boy who trailed the Reds,
on his own money, from Florida
to Blooming too. He is not a star
on the Reds team or Is he a utility
player, but the role he plays has
Just as much to do with the team.
Marcellus, who is a Latin but
not from Manhattan, got his start
eight years ago as an assistant to
the regular batboy doing the dirty
Jobs and tending to all the little
duties that were expected of him.
He has never been "cut in" on the
world scries "takes," but apprecia
tion is shown by the fact that the
players took a collection so that
he might see the -world series
Raines. When the Reds won the
pennant in 1940 they pnld his ex
penses from his home in Tampa.
This year Marcellus got his big
break. The one he has been wait
ing for since he Joined the Cin
cinnati Reds. The regular batboy
was called to the colors and since
Marcellus was involved in a seri
ous accident which left him
slightly crippled, he was given the
ob, having been classified 4-F
y his draft board.
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Baseball Play
Stays on Coast
Portland, Ore., March 23. -Though
the "skies are cloudy all
day," Howard Hobson's varsity
baseballers aren't giving it a sec
ond thought as they daily romp
through workouts with their first
pre-season test awaiting them
March 30 against Linfield college.
Thirty-five prospects have re
sponded to the call to duty sounded
by the veteran hnrschide mentor,
seven of these lettermen veterans.
Temple Theotre
12 & R
April
Outdoor
Weirman
Work Out
Cornhusker track and field per
formers were hoping today that
some form of competition would
loom before the Drake Relays, first
competition scheduled. April 24-25
is the date of the big Des Moines
derby.
"Unless we can schedule several
dual meets first," said Coach Ed
Weir, "we'll open at the Drake re
lays, April 24-25." The Scarlet
tutor has been invited to be hon
orary referee at the relays.
A tentative triangular affair
with Iowa State and Kansas State
is pending, with transportation
difficulties expected to enter the
scene. Since Oklahoma and Kan
sas intend to graduate their sen
iors during the first week of May,
the Big Six meet must be sched
uled for either May 7 or 8.
May 21-22 is the present date
for the affair, scheduled to be
staged at Kansas City. Word from
there indicates that a high school
meet is dated for the track May
7-8, so the meet site may require
transfer to some Big Six school.
Possibility that the Cornhusker
oval, perennial site of the outdoor,
might be chosen is strong.
Two frosh middle-distance per
formers have checked in times
which may make Mentor Weir for
get the air corps departure of Al
Brown, indoor 440 and 880 champ.
Hardy's Creighton Hale, despite a
fractured wrist, trailed slender
Dean Kratz by less than a yard in
a 2:02.6 half. Both candidates have
moved within a tenth second of
bettering 2:00.
New Distance Talent.
Weir will use the speedier Kratz
for 440 and 880 duty and enter
Hale in the 880 and mile. Jim
Brogan, Big Six runner-up half-
miler, completes the backbone of
the distance-jogging crew. Veteran
Bob Bowles is another 440 hope.
Cornhusker strength is concen
trated ostly in the weights, where
Vic Schleich, Howard Debus and
Ki Eiscnhart hold forth with the
shot and discus. Debus also is de
fending Big Six outdoor javelin
tosser. Other Javelin men are Jack
Hazen and John Thompson.
Schleich, now topping 51 feet,
ranks near the head place in na
tional shot-putting circles. Best na
tional mark posted thus far is 52-4.
Debus has neared 48 feet.
Al Zikmund is expected to bol
ster sprint and broad jump hopes,
with Dick Petring and Al Abbott
manning the high jump burden.
Lee Christensen, former Neligh
star, and Ted Treece head the
hurdlers. Debus, Big Six indoor
vaut champ, will pair with Don
James in the outdoor rendition of
the event.
Tri Dclts Win
Bowlinir Title
Delta Delta Delta defeated Al
pha Chi Omega in the women's
intramural bowling finals this
week. Basketball games sched
uled for this week are Tri Delts
(1) vs. Chi Omega, Delta Gamma
(1) vs. Howard hall, Raymond hall
vs. Kappas and Alphi Xi Delts vs.
Camma Phi (1).
In last week's games, Tri Delta
(1) defeated Gamma Phi (2) by
default, Kappa Kappa Gamma de
feated Kappa Alpha Thcta and
Howard hall defeated Kappa Al
pha Theta (2) by default.
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Red Promoted
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Courtesy Lincoln Journal
Now head of a group of offi
cer candidates is erstwhile
Husker track star of 1939-42,
Eugene "Red" Littler.
Littler Gains
Big Promotion
. . . Cadet Officer
Lt. Col. R. C. Mag rum writes
the Daily Nebraskan that Cadet
Lt. Eugene Littler has been ap
pointed acting Cadet Commisary
officer for the sixth battalion,
Cadet Regiment. Littler, former
Cornhusker track star, is stationed
with the'U. S. Marine Corps at
Corpus Christi, Texas.
"Littler won this distinction
thru meritorious performance of
regular duties and in recognition
of the officer-like qualifications
which both his actions and efforts
have displayed," wrote Mangrum.
Purdue Relays
Open Saturday
. . . Irish Favored
Lafayette, Ind., March 23
Michigan's Big Ten indoor cham
pions and Notre Dame's Central
Collegiate title holders, matching
their full team strength against
each other for the first time this
season, will be favored to fight it
out for top honors in the Uni
versity division in the Purdue Re
lays to be held here Saturday,
March 27.
Both the Irish and Wolverines,
keen rivals for top collegiate hon
ors, have entered full teams for
the Purdue track carnival, which
will climax the indoor season.
Altho Notre Dame, which
wrested the Butler Relays from
Michigan last spring, recently
topped the field in the Illinois Tech
Relays, the Wolverines completing
minus the services of its unde
feated two-mile quartet, composed
of Bob Ufer, Big Ten indoor 440
yard champion; Capt. Dave Mat
thews, runner-up in the Big Ten
mile; John Roxborough, Big Ten
half-mile champion, and Ross
Hume, Big Ten mile title holder.
Reinforced by the brilliant quar
tet which added the K. of C. two
mile title to its string at Madison
Square Garden the same night as
the Illinois Tech games, the Wol
verines are expected to provide
formidable opposition for the Irish
in the first real test this season
of the full team strength of the
two rivals.
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Reserved Scats 55c
General Adm. 30c
Curtain at 8
Past UN Men
Win Honors
... In Army
Word reaches Cornhuskerland
this week from Florida of the pro
motion of ex-husker footballer,
Vike Francis, to lieutenant in the
army air corp.
Vike, recently on leave in Lin
coln graduated as an athletic of
ficer from the Miami officer train
ing school, March 3. The former
UN fullback will report immedi
ately to Nashville, an aviation
classification center.
Capt. Bill Herrmann, Osceola,
an another ex-husker gridman, and
Lt. Pat Patterson were stationed
20 miles away from his own camp,
according to Francis.
English Promoted.
Press notices this week revealed
the promotion of another Husker
gridiron star, Lowell English. Eng
lish, recently was appointed to the
rank of major in the marines.
Frank Returns.
Fresh from the overseas battle
front, Lt. Eldon D. Frank, former
Big' Six hurdles king, recently re
turned to this country visiting on
leave in Lincoln.
"I can't tell you where I've been
nor the nature of my work," Frank
seated to the press. "But needless
to say I've had some very unusual
and interesting experiences."
Lieutenant Frank lettered three
years at UN, winning the Big Six
hurdles in indoor and outdoor low
and high hurdles in the clockings
of 15.2 and 25.5.
Big Diamond
Turnout At MU
. . . Future Doubtful
MINNEAPOLIS, March 23.
Minnesota's baseball hopes for
1943 will rise or fall depending on
two factors call to service in the
armed forces and scholastic stand
ing. With the threat of men be
ing called at any time and the ac
celerated programs of most stu
dents keeping them busy, however,
baseball will be an uncertain quan
tity. The squad is large but with only
three lettermen returning from
last year: Stu Olson and Casey
Dowling, the two lettermen catch
ers, Norm Gallup, letterman
pitcher. There is also Stan Kaess,
who barely missed his letter last
year. All of last year's infield
and outfield have graduated or
been called up for active duty with
Uncle Sam. Outstanding frosh
are: Hudson Mealy, pitcher from
Faribault; Max O'Melia, second
baseman from Marble; Dick
Meers, Shortstop from Bethel ;
Earl Bruhn, Milt Bruhn's brother,
and shortstop from St. Bonifacius.
No outstanding frosh candidates
are out for first base, catcher or
the outfield. Sophomore candi
dates include Curtis Berg, infield,
and Vince Kelly, pitcher. Other
sophs are former members of the
basketball squad who turned out
enmasse for baseball. Howie
Shutz, third base; Leo "Fagin"
Shields, first base; Wes Wind
miller, pitcher with good possi
bilities; Butz Lchrman, scrappy
shortstop from North; Bill Lind,
first base, and Jerry Carle, infield.
Football is well represented by
Herb Hein and Herman Frickey,
shortstop and outfield. One senior,
Dick McKesson, a. lefthanded
pitcher has possibilities.
Of the last 23 all-America quin
tets Purdue has placed a man on
thirteen of them. . .
P. M.