Thursday, April 8, 1943
DAILY NEBRASKAN
H
usker Trackmen
Feature Past Drake
Relay Spike Affairs
BY HENRY FISHBACK.
Initial big cinder carnival for
Nebraska's current Cornhuskers,
the 33rd annual Drake relay event,
opens April 23 and 24, with the
Scarlet epikesters once again
elated to score high in the field
events.
The "spikefest," long the big
traditional festivity of the UN
outdoor season, boasts added
significance this campaign to
track mentor, Ed Weir, who is
honorary referee.
Weight events, where Husker
strongmen have consistently com
manded the situation down thru
the years, plus the sprints and
quartermile are Husker strong
holds. One Husker record is glued to
the Drake record boards. Sprinter
Loche's sizzling 09.5 century mark
scored way back in 1926, has yet
to be cracked.
. . Francis Leads
Outstanding Husker performers
in field events have left their
mark on the meet slate and in
the scoring column.
Sam Outstanding.
Sam Francis was top man of
the more modern era hanging up
wins in the shot put and discus
in 1936 and 1937. Sam was pre
ceeded by Husker Hugh Rhea,
who scored triumphs in the 1931
and 1932 campaigns with superb
shot put marks.
Edsel Wibbels and Herb Grote,
recent strongmen also rivited
names, in relay history following
Francis. Wibbells flipped the dis
cus 158 feet for a first place in
1939 and Grote tossed the javelin
211 feet in 1941.
Bambooman Harold Hunt held
Husker prestige a year ago by
tying for pole vault honors.
Weir is confident in the weights
with Vic Schleich, and Howie De
bus in action.
Ode to UN!
Ames Squad
Drills Daily
... Enthusiasm High
Ames, la., April 7 Regardless
of what may happen to inter
collegiate football next fall, Iowa
State spring footba drills are
being carried out with the best
spirit in years.
Mike Michalske, the head coach
who is handing out some of the
toughest work Cyclones ever have
hit in the spring, may have none
of his present group of 39 candi
dates back next fall, but if he does,
they'll be in top shape.
The Cyclone coaching staff,
realizing that losses to the armed
forces might wipe out the entire
squade before fall, is working
harder than ever to get the men
in shape. The coaches believe that
Whoever uses the present squad
will get a tough, well-conditioned
group of men, whether it is Uncle
Sam or Iowa' State Cyclones.
Five new men, headed by Don
Schumacher, reported Monday to
swell the squad total to 39. Other
new candidates include Dick Dur
ham, Vernon Winfrey, Keith Nel
son and Reed Schacfer.
Mrs. Mathilda C. Wilkin, oldest
living graduate of the University
of Minnesota, recently observed
her ninety-seventh birthday with
a party.
Northwestern university now
has 1,916,565 square feet of floor
space that is used for educational
purposes.
Twenty-five University of Texas
faculty members have been as
signed to duty as instructors for
the new nava) avaition prepara
tory school at the university.
Wildcat Nine
Trips Airmen
Opening Came
MANHATTAN, Kans., April 7.
The newly organized Manhattan
Wildcats swamped the Air Crew
Students 18 to 1, Sunday after
noon in an exhibition baseball
game.
The Air Corps team was held
scoreless until the sixth inning
when Cottrell scored from second
on a low throw from Evans to
Socolofsky. Cottrell was on sec
ond as the result of fumbles. Nor
man Haag, sparkplug of the team
walked, when Evans tried to catch
him off first and the throw missed.
Tony Clementi, lead off man
for the Wildcats, made the first
score. He hit the first pitch into
Softball
Features
I-M Play
. . . Opens Tonight
Winner of the current Jack Best
trophy race will undoubtedly
double as victor in the approach-
ing intramural Softball tourna
ment. For less than 100 points sepa
rate the three top teams Phi
Gamma Delta, Alpha Tau Omega
and Phi Delta Theta in the trophy
chase. Softball, a major sport,
is worth 100 points to the cham
pion team.
Feature match tonight pits the
Phi Gams, leaders with 656 points,
against the Sigma Chi club. Sec
ond place with 653 points, the
ATO's meet the Beta Sigs in an
other spotlight battle. First Round
Slate (tonight):
League 1 5:00, Delts vs. Phi
Psi's; 6:00, Phi Delts vs. Alpha
Sigs.
League II 5:00, DU's vs. Sam
mies; 6:00, Beta Sigs vs. ATO's.
League III 5:00, Phi Gams vs.
Sigma Chi; 6:00 Delta Sigs vs.
Farm House.
League IV 5:00, Theta Xi vs.
SAE; 6:00, Betas vs. Kappa Sigs.
Intramural
Bowling On
Intramural bowling has now
passed the preliminary stage
as eight teams vie tonight for
semi-final berths.
Sigma Nu's Hopped the Sig
Eps and Farm House to gain
rights to meet the Phi Gams,
who conquered the DU's. Sig
Alphs, after victories over the
Sig Chi's and Betas, meet the
ZBT's, victors over the Beta
Sigs.
ATO's, winners over the
Theta Xi's, meet th. Alpha Sig
club, conqueror of the Phi Psi
keglers. Phi Delts met the
Sammies Wednesday night.
left field for a triple and scored
when Evans was tagged out at
first.
In the second inning, Lud Fiser
got a single, stole second on a
strike out by Solcolofsky, and
scored on Winterbottom's hit
Winterbottom also scored in the
second inning.
Fiser made two runs in the
third and fourth innings on a
double and a triple. Evans walked
after four straight balls and later
scored in the third inning. Socolof
sky got a one bagger, stole second
and scored for the third run in the
third inning. .
Husker Trackmen
Look to Triangular
On the theory that practice
makes perfect, Mentor Ed Weir
will shoot his University of Ne
braska track and field performers
thru a "trial" meet on the stadium
cinders Saturday afternoon.
"We'll hold try-outs in every
event to give us a definite line on
just what we'll have to offer April
17 in that triangular with Okla
homa and Oklahoma A & M," ex
plained Weir Wednesday. '
Oklahoma A & M is noted for
strength in the jumps and hurdles.
Ralph Tate has broadjumped close
to 25 feet, ran the 120-yard highs
in 14.3 and the 220-yard lows in
The Show Must Not (36 On
Therefore We Cancel
Our Friday Juke Box Dance
Our Sunday Variety Show
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE UNIVERSITY
The Student Union
. . Weir Worries
24 -flat. A frosh sprinter, capable
of 9.7 over the 100-yard dash
route, heads Sooner individual en
tries.
Outside Work.
Pending ROTC activation, en
volving four Cornhusker track
sters, and outside work has both
ered the Weirmen thus far. Al
Zikmund, sprint hope, carries 21
hours class work and finds time
for track workouts about three
nights per week. Creighton Hale,
frosh distance star, works eight
hours daily, and Howard Debus,
all-round performer, spends five
hours per day working his way
thru college,
"It makes it tough," says Weir,
"but we intend to carry on and do
our best in face of all difficulties."
. Kent Kratz, frosh 880 satellite
went thru a three-hour workout
Wednesday. Other men laboring
over pet events were Howard De
bus, Don James, Vic Schleich, Al
Zikmund and Dick Petring.
By Norris Anderson
Sports Editor
Place Your Bets Here . . -
Page Koudini, Cardini and Thurston. Set up communica
ions with the spirit world and roll out the crystal ball. Today
the absolute monotony of the Cornhusker sport front prompts us
to loreeast the approaching big league pennant race.
Keep this under the first hat you find, but St. Louis is due
to repeat in the National race. New York will outdistance the
Detroit Tigers and Cleveland Indians in a furious American loop
deby. It will rain July 17, date of the Yankee-Detroit mix.
This is all the official information we can reveal at the moment.
Fishback mistook our crystal for a bowling ball and pres
ently is out kegling with the globe.
Note to Mr. Dobbins of the Journal and Mr. McBride of
the World-Herald : University of Nebraska spring football
drills have not "officially terminated" as you state in your pa
pers.
"Since spring drills this year are for conditioning: only,"
say Glen Presnell, "our boys might as well take full advantage
of the equipment and facilities afforded and stay out as long
as possible."
Drop around sometime, boys, to UN coliseum, Vine St., Lin
coln, Neb.
,
Notre Dame has Frank Leahy, Southern California has
Dean Cromwell, Michigan has Fritz Crisler, but Nebraska has
Al Zikmund.
Tow-thatched Master Al is currently tutoring the Teachers
high cinder aspirants beside working out for sprint dutico with
the UN track team. Present shortness of Al's locks augurs a
repetition of an early 1941 grid incident when the Zikmund
scalp sustained a severe sunburn.
"You d be surprised at the way some of these kids eat
this track stuff up," grins Al. Some of them have never been
on cinders before and don t know good times or distances, but
they soon gain interest."
Despite no personal court experience, Zikmund tutored the
1942-43 Teachers basketball combine thru a fruitful campaign.
His system? A guy. with Zikmund 's enthusiasm for all sports
requires no system. He s a born coach.
Thanks is proffered here to Drumwell Jive, certainly a
rjseudonvm. for approval of our "build a new fence around
south ' Memorial Stadium" campaign.
Graham Seeks
Fourth Award
Evanston, 111., April 7. A pair
of basketball players and a var
sity swimmer will form the nucleus
for Northwestern university's base
ball team that has started indoor
practice in Patten gymnasium in
preparation for the season s opener
with Lake Forest, April 3.
Russ Wendland, who captained
the basketball team to third place
in the conference race also is cap
tain of the baseball team on which
he has starred as a first baseman
for the past two years.
Otto Graham, the Wildcats
Jacklof -all-trades, will seek his
sixth in two years. Otto, football
and basketball player extraordi
nary, is an outfielder on the base
ball team.
Gladys Merrill, senior, is the
only co-ed at Washington State
college currently majoring in ani
mal husbandry.
x Eleven faculty members of Mac
alester college recently partic
ipated in a "war" course for the
public.
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