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Trainer Blaine EUdeoirt's
Mile Record Mightf Fall
LAWRENCE, Kas. No one.
save the Iron Horse himself,
ever won the Glenn Cunningham
Mile, annual Kansas Relays fea
ture, more than once.
However Wisconsin's great
Don Gehrmann will rule a solid
favorite to capture his second
title here Saturday when spiked
shoe aces from seven major con
ferences put together the Silver
Anniversary of the Mt. Oread
Olympics.
The bespectacled Badger, a
two-time NCAA Mile champ and
member of the United States
Olympic team in 1948, will face
a five man field carrying fine
balance.
Top threat is scheduled to be
Alf Holrhberg, a transplated
Swede now running for Tennes
see. He won the Sugar Bowl mile
last New Year's day in New Or
leans' at 4:18.4.
The remainder' of the roster
lines up this way: Frank Prince,
Savannah State; Howard Johns
ton, Trinity of San Antonio; Bill
Conrady, Loyola of Chicago, and
Javier Montez, Texas Western.
The latter carries good cre
dentials. He won both the 3000
meters and Jerry Thompson Mile
run at the recent Texas Relays.
Last Saturday he won the open
mile at the Arizona Relays in
4:17.0.
4:10.1 Mile Record.
Conrady, then wearing the
silks of Loras college, was sec
Six Sophomores Start
Against Luther Today
By Ira Epstein
(Staff Sports Writer)
As Coach Tony Sharpe's diamond crew goes into ac
tion today against Luther College of Decorah, Iowa, six
sophomores will be gracing the starting line-up. The game
is slated for 3:00 on the Coliseum triangle. Game time for
Saturday's game is z:UU.
Besides sophomore regulars
Bill Jensen, second base; Bill
Diers, left field: and Ray Mlad
ovich, first base, the other sec
ond year men will be Del Kopf,
pitcher; Bill Fitzgerald, right
field; and Bob Lohrberg, catch
er. Rego at Short
Rounding out the starting line
up will be John Rego, shortstop;
Bob Cerv, centerfield, and Bill
Denker, third base. Rego is a
junior, while Cerv and Denker
are seniors,
In Kopf's only other start, he
hurled six innings against Parks
College giving up three hits and
getting credit for Nebraska's 25
to 3 victory.
Pitching Saturday's game will
be Ernest Behne, senior from
Brainard, who lost to the Uni
versity of Washington at St.
Louis in his only other start.
Leading in the slugging de
partment for the Huskers first
eight games is Cerv with a sizz
ling .500 collecting 20 hits out
of 40 appearances at bat. Out of
these, two were for four bag
gers, two for triples and two for
doubles.
Other boys to collect round
trip tickets in the first eight
games are Denker With two,
Diers with one, Powley with one,
and Mladovich with one.
Busy Week
The following week will be a
busy one for Husker baseball
squads. Tuesday the "B" squad
members travel to Nebraska
Wesleyan. while on Wednesday
they will play host to the Omaha
University Bees. On Tuesday the
Freshmen will tangle with the
varsity, and on Friday the cear
lings will try their Wares against
the "B" batters.
Husker batting average:
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6 4 .666
40 20 JiOO
2 1 7500
2 1 .MO
10 4 .400
3T J4 .376
37 11 .37
29 8 .276
24 .291
27 .269
21 .2!i9
31 8 .2.18
4 11 ,2M
9 2 .222
10 2 .200
8 1 .129
8 0 .000
1 0 .000
2 0 .000
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'50 Basketball
Schedule
Nebraska and Minnesota bas
ketball teams will meet again
this winter, Athletic Director
George (Potsy) Clark announced
today.
The game is scheduled for De
cember 2, 1950 and is to be
played at Minneapolis.
The game is the second of a
home-and-hCme series started
during the season of 1948-1949.
The two teams were unable to
find a mutual playing date last
year.
Minnesota defeated the Hir
ers in the first contest at Lin
coln, 61-52.
Two Stiff Tests
Face Golfers
The. undefeated Cornhusker
golf squad meet two stiff tests
tli is W6Gk
Friday, the Huskers tee off
against Washburn college at To
peka, Kas., and on Saturday they
battle Kansas In a Big Seven
match.
Latest win for the Huskers
came at the expense of Crelgh
ton University. Coach Marv
Franklin's team waUopped the
Omaha lads 17-1.
On Tuesday they dged by
Kansa State 10-8.
ond behind Gehrmann in the
CCC outdoor mile at Milwaukee
last spring.
But if any of these performers
beat Gehrmann it will call for a
rank upset. The splinter-thin
Badger toyed with Texas' fino
Thompson here last vear, then
shot past him on the final lap to
tie th eRelays record of 4:10.1
established by North Texas
States' Blaine Rideout, now Ne
braska trainer. In 1940.
In addition to his two NCAA
titles, one of them over the 1500
meter distance, Gehrmann has
wrecked the Big Ten in the 880
and mile. As a freshman in 47
he won the outdoor mile and in
door two-mile. In '48 he copped
the outdoor mile in 4:15.9. As a
junior last year he bagged the
Indoor mile and 880, setting a
record of 1:53.1, in the latter
event. He also ran on Wiscon
sin's record-breaking mile relay
team, which schooted 3:18.6 in
doors. He added his third
straight outdoor conference mile
championship. Olympic Cham
pion Mai Whitfield of Ohio State
was his only conqueror in the
880.
Don Sensational.
Gehrmann's Indoor season this
winter has been, as Hollywood
ites would say, slightly sensa
tional. He won his third Bank
ers' Mile the only man in his
tory to do so by whipping the
Net-Men Have
Two Matches
ThisWeek-End
Coach Bob Slezak takes his
tennis team on a two-match jaunt
through Kansas over the week
end. The five man team is still
smarting from a stinging 6-1 loss
plastered on them by high riding
Kansas State last Tuesday and
they will be seeking revenge.
Slezak has tabbed Jamie Cur
ran, the only returning letterman;
Frank Redman, Bob Radin, Andy
Bunten and Jerry Magee to make
the trip.
Touring with the golf team,
the netters will meet Washburn
on Friday afternoon and then
travel to Lawrence for a match
with Kansas University for a Big
Seven conference game on Sat
urday. All Intra-mural Softball
managers are asked to attend
an important meeting, Tues
day, April 25, at 2:30 In the
Dally Nebraskan offices of
the Student Union. Official
team scorers are also asked
to attend.
Faurot Ends Spring Football
Drills With Squad Scrimmage
COLUMBIA, Mo, More than 50 players will see ac
tion in Missouri's final intra
Saturday afternoon, but it s
three of the spnng combatants will be in the Tigers start'
ing lineup for the Clemson opener this Fall.
Coach Don Faurot excused ten
of his junior lettermen when
drills started in March, and Har
old Carter sophomore halfback
became the 11th absentee
when he repbrted for track. Two
other veterans were inactivated
when fullback Bill Houston and
end Dale Portmann pulled up
with injuries. Houston was lost
for the entire session, but Port
mann re-donned his pads for the
final two weeks.
In the Saturday windup, kick
off time 3:30 p.m., Faurot will
oversee the whole show as a
spectator, with assistant coaches
Chauncey Simpson and Bob
Maddock handling the Gold
team, while Huston Betty and
Clay Cooper direct the White
squad. Bob Henley, a squadman
in 1949, will quarterback the
Gold eleven, and Bob Hailey
B-team Quarterback last season
will call signals for the
Whites. The personnel who
showed the best 6ver the six
weeks' session will make up the
starting teams.
Seven Lettermen
Only seven lettermen will be
in suit for the spring topper. Of
Lthis veteran group, two players
Bill Fuchs, center, and Dave
Millican. .right tackle are sol
idly in line for first-string duty
in '50. A third letterman, Joe
Woodson, Is a near-regular, but
will have to beat out Don Keller
for the left tackle call when Sep
tember workouts, resume.
Two , other potential first
teamen Henley at quarterback
and Bob Deneke at full will be
In Saturday's game, but neither
of these 1949 squadmen has had
any opposition from the men on
top. Phil Klein, the No. 1 hold
over at quarter, and Houston,
who was Win Carter's offensive
replacement for two years, both
were not Involved In spring
drills.
Spring conditioning also has
sprung new faces and new names'
Into the forefront, and several
I highly-regarded G-Man. Fred
Wilt.
In the Big Ten meet he set a
new mile record at 4:10.4 and
also captured the 880 In 1:54.0.
Last fall, Don was second in
the NCAA cross-country to
champian Bob Black of Rhode
Island State. He also was runner-up
for the conference title,
losing to Michigan's Don Mc
Ewen, in what was classed as an
upset. '
The field is capable of push
ing Gehrmann to one of his bet
ter times. If the weatherman co
operates, he could nail up a new
record here Saturday. ,
High Schools Compete.
Sixteen defending individual
champions or co-champions,
some of them possible record
breakers, will compete Friday in
the 46th annual Kansas Inter
scholastic Relays.
Winning two straight first
place medals at the big K. U.
meet is a tough assignment. Six
teen defending champs went to
the post last year and only seven
won. However, the majority of
this year's group will be top fav
orites to repeat. Dick McGlinn,
dashman from Immaculate who
will threaten the 100 and 220
records, is the only returning
double winner. Three of the de
fending titlists are in Class AA,
f6ur in Class A and nine in
Class B.
Bitter Rivals
Side by Side
At Banquet
Bitter rivals during the basket
ball season, Coaches Harry Good
of the University of Nebraska
and Bruce Drake of the Univer
sity of Oklahoma will be "side
by side" at the forthcoming
Booster Club banquet for Lin
coln's high school athletes on
Tuesday night, May . 16, spon
sored by the Chamber of Com
merce. In fact, Drake will be the prin
cipal speaker, and Good even
now is preparing nice things to
say about hi mbecause he's going
to introduce the Sooner mentor
to the boys and business men,
according to Chairman Joe Sil
verman. "It's part of our plan to bring
outstanding figures in the sports
world here for these semi-annual
dinners honoring high
schol athletes, and it shows good
sportsmanship to them when ri
vals on the field can be good
friends at the dinner table," he
declared.
Two of the lucky boys in the
crowd, which will cover all let
ter winers in every sport ex
cept football from College View,
Cathedral, Teachers, Northeast
and iLncoln high schools, will
get basketballs as door prizes.
These have been given respec
tively by the athletic depart
ments of Nebraska Wesleyan
and the University of Nebraska.
Tickets for the event now can
be secured at the Lincoln Cham
ber of Commerce, 2-7511. Silver
man said . his committee would
meet on Thursday, April 27, to
consider further plans for the
event.
- squad football game here
a good bet that only two or
newcomers already have won
the coaches' tacit approval as
top prospects for varsity togs
come autumn. With Missouri'
lettered talent at the guards and
ends scarcely dipping below the
urst-string level, sophomore B
teamers Don Hanners and Bill
Hampel have out-scrambled all
rivals to move In behind veteran
ends Gene Ackermann, Bob Eb
inger and Portmann . . . And
freshmen guards Jack Lordo
and Bob Castle, likewise, look
set as the understudies for John
Kadlec and Bronko Maruslo.
Varsity Set
Beyond Lordo and Castle,
however, the rookies probably
won't infiltrate varsity ranks
very heavily. Talent runs deep
at the halfbacks where the Ti
gers already are well-stocked
with six veteran returnees. Here,
Bill Wilkenlng and George Car
michael have been the top year
ling standouts, with Ray Hull,
Tom Minetree and Charles Hei-
merdlnger just a shade off their
pace.
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DON COOPER Husker pole vaulter will compete against some
of the best vaulters in the country on Saturday afternoon in the
25th annual Kansas Relays. Cooper has cleared 13-9 in practice
this spring and could be in the money on Saturday.
Good Refutes Experts; Starts
Practice in Defense of Title
BY BOB BANKS
(Staff Sports Writer)
Although the "crystall-ball
gazers" are telling him he hasn't
a chance of retaining the Big
Seven basketball crown, Coach
Harry Good isn't planning on
throwing in the towel until the
whistle has been blown ending
next year's final game.
He started drilling his Corn
huskers last Monday in prepa
ration for the coming season.
They will continue practicing in
the Coliseum until May 5.
Ten Graduate
Chief opponent of Good will
be the loss of ten seasoned stars
via the commencement line.
Among these are such reliables
as Milt Whitehead, Joe Brown,
Bob Cerv, Henry Cech, and An
ton Lawry. These men spear
headed a Nebraska champion
ship team for two consecutive
years.
Fortunately , the basketball
team is one sport which will not
be hampered by the climatic con
ditions as have been most of the
other sports that have been get
ting under way this spring.
Concerning his present drills,
"Handsome Harry" is dealing
primarily with offensive and de
fensive fundamentals during the
beginning part of his tutoring.
: Offense Next
Next week he will start his
men working on offensive play in
an effort to find out what brand
of basketball the Huskers will
employ for this next year,
The type he finally decides to
use will depend entirely on the
type of playing his freshman and
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"B" teamers respond to. The final
decision on this will probably be
made next fall after the team is
more definitely decided upon.
Coach Good is using the spring
practices basically to test out his
men and see who has the ability
to play basketball for Nebraska.
He doesn't plan on pushing his
boys too hard but wants to
sharpen up their slinotin.ff eyes
plus polishing up the funda
mentals. He isn't singing the "blues"
too loudly but nevertheless points
out that the Cornhusker hopes
will depend almost entirely on
untested freshman and "B"
teamers with a fair sprinkling of
regulars.
Three Lettermen
Lettermen working out at this
time are Bob Pierce, Jim Buch
anan, and Norman Wilnes.
Pierce may be the answer to
Good's most fervent question
which is to find a capable re
placement for Whitehead. The
big boy is a good rebounder, a
strong defensiveman, and should
improve in the scoring column.
Buchanan patterns along the
same lines that Claude Rether
ford did. He is a fine set-shot
artist and is the only returning
regular from last year's squad.
Among the outstanding fresh
men figuring in on the future
Cornhusker cage strategy are
Roland River, a center; Joe
Good, guard or forward; Graves
Holloway, center; Bob Mercier,
guard; George Paynich, forward;
Gus Lebsock, forward; Ron
Roeder, guard, and Paul Fenske,
a center.
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Coach Ed Weir will enter four
Nebraska relay teams and eight
individual performers In the 25
annual running of the Kansas
Relays at Lawrence on Friday
and Saturday.
Husker relay quartets will
compete In the sprint-medley,
distance-medley, half-mile and
two-mile relays and Weir will
have individual entries in the
high hurdles, 100 yard dash, pole
vault, discus, shot put, Javelin
and high jump. In addition, Jim
McConnell will compete in the
decathlon.
Jim Defends Crown
McConnell is defending cham
pion in the ev-snt. He won a
narrow victory over Bill Ter
williger of Madison, Wisconsin
last year, finishing with 6698
points to Terwilliger's 6668.
Big Jim has a good chance to
retain his crown and should im
prove his marks in at least three
events. McConnell's performan
ces last year include: 100 yard
dash, ::11.3; broad jump, 20-11;
shot put, 42-10yi; high jump, 5
10; 400 meter run, :51.1; 110
meter high hurdles, : 16. 1 ; discus,
109-9; pole vault, 11-6; jav
elin, 166-4; and 1500 meter run,
4:56.4.
McConnell should improve his
marks in the shot put, discus and
javelin during the 10-event grind
and although much of his com
petition is untested he is an
early favorite in the event.
Chance in Relays
Several of the Husker relay
teams should have a better-than-even
chance of placing on
Saturday.
The sprint-medley team of
Loyal Hurlbert, Harry Meginnis,
Bill Baker and Harold Kopf and
the distance-medley team of
Wendy Cole, Hurlbert, Kopf and
Lee Moore are the best bets.
Both will be up against stiff
competition. .
MAIN FEATURES START
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1:32. 3:32, 5:32, 7:32, 9:33
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1:29, 3:58, 6:26, 8:55
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2:29, 4:58, 7:26, 9:58
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2:18, 5:00, 7:46, 10:18.
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of
Baker, Cole, Meginnis and
half-mile relay while a tenta
Hurlbert will compete in the
tive entry in the two-mile affair
lists Moore, Ken Jacobs, Hurl
bert and Kopf.
Individual entries Include Bob
Berkshire and Ray Magsameu in
the high hurdles, Meginnis in the
100 yard dash, Don Cooper in the
pole vault, Wayne Sees and
Charlie Toogood in the discus,
Toogood in the shot put, Magsa
men in the javelin and Dick
Meissner in the hgih jump.
All will be up against stiff
competition and on the basis of
early season performances, Coo
per, Meginnis and Berkshire
have the best chanoae of garner
ing Nebraska points.
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Meginnis turned in a :09.9
century against Kansas last
week, Berkshire ran the high
barriers in :14.8 and Cooper has
cleared 13-9 in practice this
spring.
All time Kansas relay cordst
100 yard daih Leland, Texaa ChrHtlaa,
1930, :09.4. .
120 yard high hurdle Dillard, Bald
win Wallace 1948 :13.6.
One mile run Rideout, North Texas
Teachers and 1940 and Gehrmann, Wis
consin 1949, 1:10.1,
High Jump Waltera, Texaa 1949,
6-8 316.
Broad Jump Gordon, Iowa 1981, S6
4H.
Pole vault Bryan, Texaa 1939, 14-2.
Shot put Fonvllle, Michigan 1948,
88-.
Dlscua Harris, Indiana, 1941, 171-6.
Javelin Terry, Hardin Slmmona, 1937
229-2 .
Quarter-mile relay Iowa 1935, :40.S.
Half-mile relay Iowa 1935, 1:25.2.
One-mile relay Texaa 1935, 8:16.1.
Two-mile relaV Oklahoma A It it
1949 7:41.0.
Four-mile relay Illinois 1931. 17:38.7.
Dlatance-medley relay Kansas Stat
College of Emporia 1936, 10:12.7.
Sprint-medley relay Indiana 1941,
3:25.2.
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