TI THE SOONER MAGAZINE

April, 1933

A News Magazine for University of Oklahoma graduates andformer students published monthly except August and Sep-tember by the University of Oklahoma Association, OklahomaUnion Building, Norman, Oklahoma . Chester H. Westfall,'16 journ Ponca City, president; Frank S. Cleckler,'21bus, Norman, secretary-treasurer. Membership dues : An-nual $3 of which $2 is for THE SOONER MAGAZINE, Life$60 of which $40 is for THE SOONER MAGAZINE . Copyright

OFFICERSChester H. Westfall, '16journ ., Ponca City, PresidentLewis R. Morris, '15as, '17law, '15MA, Oklahoma City, Vice

dent .Shelley E. Tracy, 'llas, Dallas, Texas, Vice PresidentFrank S Cleckler, '2ibus, Norman, Secretary-TreasurerJoseph A. Brandt, '21journ, Norman, Editor

BOARD MEMBERSMike Monroney, '23journ, Oklahoma City, ex officioLuther H. White, '14as, Tulsa, at largeOtto A. Brewer, '17as, '20law, Hugo, at large

Oklahomans at home and abroadASSOCIATION PROGRESS

Nominees : alumni executive board

AT LARGE: Mrs Walter Ferguson, '07,newspaper writer ; Earl Foster, '12, law-yer, Oklahoma City ; J. W. Capshaw, '13,lawyer, Oklahoma City ; Errett R. New-by, '07, oil business, Oklahoma City ;Francis M. Dudley, '16, assistant attorneygeneral, Ardmore; Orel Busby, '14, jus-tice state supreme court, Ada; GlenClark, '1 .3, chief geologist, ContinentalOil Company, Ponca City ; Wesley Nunn,'17, advertising manager Continental Oil

Company, Ponca City ; Paul Walker, '12,chairman corporation commission, Ok-

lahoma City ; Harry L. S. Halley, '15,

district judge, Tulsa ; Eugene O. Mon-nett, '16, lawyer, Tulsa; Otto A. Brewer,'17, lawyer, Hugo; William L. Eagle-

ton, '14, lawyer, former member supremecourt commission, Tulsa ; Ben A. Ames,'18, lawyer, Oklahoma City ; John T.Harley, '13, former assistant United

States attorney, Tulsa ; John JosephMathews, `20, author, Pawhuska .

DISTRICT ONE : Luther H. White, '14,chief geologist, J . A. Hull Oil Company,Tulsa; Earl B . Sneed, '13, lawyer, Tulsa;

Tom B. Mathews, insurance, Tulsa.

DISTRICT Two : A. N. Boatman, '14,lawyer, Okmulgee ; Max Chambers, '21,

city superintendent of schools, Okmul-

gee ; W. L. Stigler, '16, lawyer, Stigler.

DISTRICT THREE : Charles B. Memmin-ger, '14, banker, member state senate,Atoka; Earl Brown, '20, lawyer, Ard-

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Presl-

more ; C. C. Williams, '12, attorney, Po-

teau .

DISTRICT FOUR : Leon C. Phillips, '113,lawyer, member legislature, Okemah ;

Ben Hatcher, '24, lawyer, Ada; StreeterSpeakman, '12, lawyer, Sapulpa.

DISTRICT FIVE : Lewis R. Morris, '15,county attorney, Oklahoma City ; WalterL. Barry, '17, merchant, Norman ; Mrs

CONTENTSOklahomans at home and abroad 179The educational executive order 185Engineering schools and economy 186

By Chester H. Westfall, '16Engineering at the university

187Contribution of Sooner engineers 188Engineering progress

190By W. H . Carson

Gayfree Ellison

193By John Alley

The comet discovery

195By Arno!d Court, '32

Anthropology-what's that?

196By Forrest E . Clements

The New Yorker of Oklahoma

197Patricio Gimeno

198By William H . Witt, '32

Toward banking reform

200By Elgin Groseclose, '20

Tuberculosis and genius

201By L-ewis J . Moorman

The Kentucky mine war

204By Angus McDonald, '33

Ole Bob

206By John Joseph Mathews, '20

Sooner roll call

208

Volume 5, Number 7

1933 by the University of Oklahoma Association . Entered assecond-class matter October 13, 1928 at the postoffice atNorman, Oklahoma, under the act of March 3, 1879 . Estab-lished 1928 . Joseph A. Brandt,'21journ, editor; George McElroy,'34law, business manager; Betty Kirk,'29, John Joseph Mathews,'20, Dorothy Kirk,'23, Winifred Johnston,'24, Duane Roller,'23,Elgin E . Groseclose,'20, Leonard Good, '28, Muna Lee,'12,George Milburn, '30, Harold Keith, '28, Ross Taylor, '31,contributing editors .

Neil R. Johnson, '15as, '17law, Norman, at largeDr . Ray M. Balyeat, '12as, '16sc, '18M .D., Oklahoma City, at largeLee B. Thompson, '25as, '27law, Oklahoma City, at largeJohn Rogers, '14law, Tulsa, at largeMrs Floy Elliott Cobb, '17as, Tulsa, first districtA. N. "Jack" Boatman, '15as, Okmulgee, second districtHiram Impson, '15as, McAlester, third districtBen Hatcher, '24as, '25law, Ada, fourth districtFred E. Tarman, 'l0as, Norman, fifth districtH. Merle Woods, '17journ, El Reno, sixth districtDr. Lealon E . Lamb, '26sc, '28M .D ., Clinton, seventh districtFritz L. Aurin, '14as, '15M .A ., Ponca City, eighth district

Maude Richman Calvert, '29, author,Oklahoma City .

DISTRICT Six: Fletcher S. Riley, '17,

chief justice, Oklahoma state supremecourt, Lawton ; Ned Shepler, '18, edi-tor Lawton Constitution, Lawton ; C.Ross Hume, '98, lawyer, Anadarko .

DISTRICT SEVEN: George A. Meacham,'20, lawyer, Clinton ; W. HarringtonWimberley, publisher, Altus; BuffingtonB. Burtis, '27, editor, Clinton.

DISTRICT EIGHT: C. Robert Bellatti, '12,

editor, Blackwell; F. L. Aurin, '14, ge-

ol;;oist, Ponca City ; J . M. Gentry, '15,

automobile busines, Enid .

Union statusFull payment on the bonds of the

Union Memorial project cannot be made

April 1, Association Secretary Cleckler

who is also manager of the union, has

revealed . The drive to secure back pay-

ment on pledges has thus far not secured

sufficient funds with which to help meet

the April payment. The Union board

has been negotiating with representatives

of the bondholders but no decision has

been reached as this issue of the Maga-zine goes to press.

OUR CHANGING VARSITYSalary reductionsFor the second time in the present bi

ennium, salaries of university faculty

members have been reduced, this time on

a scale varying from 20 to 5 per cent, by

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action of the board of regents meetingMarch 9 at the Skirvin hotel in Okla-homa City . The reduction is applied tothe months of March, April, May andJune .As a result of the new reduction, the

university will return during the presentfiscal year a total of $293,150 from themoney appropriated by the legislature tothe state to help retire the state's deficit.This will bring the total contributed bythe university during the current bien-nium to $459,090, to the reduction of thestate deficit.At the beginning of the present fiscal

year, all faculty members were presentednew contracts for the year, in which ap-peared the provision that salaries mightbe reduced during the year without im-pairing the contract .The regents who attended the meeting

were C. C. Hatchett of Durant, vice presi-dent of the board, Raymond Tolbert,'12as, '131aw, of Oklahoma City, W. N.Barry of Okemah, Joseph C. Looney,'20as, '221aw, of Wewoka and MalcolmRosser, '21ex, of Muskogee .The reduction will affect the univer-

sity proper, the school of medicine at Ok-lahoma City, the University hospital andthe Crippled children's hospital .

Universal suffrage"Universal suffrage must be trimmed

at the edges and a process of selection inthis important matter of suffrage must

bedevised," declared Dr.P. L.Gettys, '19as,'227M.A ., assistant professor of govern-ment in the university, in a public lec-ture in the auditorium February 14 . Thesubject of Doctor Getty's talk was "ThePrejudiced Voter."

"All the old restrictions of race, relig-ion, property and sex have been removedin a liberalization of the suffrage laws .Now we must realize it is not unreason-able to require a reasonable degree of in-telligence in those who are privileged touse it," Doctor Gettys said ."One believes what one wishes to be-

lieve and the factors which keep preju-dice alive in any society are interest, ig-norance, inertia of opinion and isolation.Prejudices may be either positive or neg-ative and the importance of prejudice iswell known to the experienced politician ."Some progress is being made to insure

more intelligent voting, the speaker said,as evidenced by the short ballot and liter-acy tests introduced in some states . Pol-iticians, realizing the value of prejudicesin voters, stimulated prejudices throughartfully contrived slogans, such as "Backto Prosperity," "Down with the Capital-ists," and "American for Americans."These make an appeal to the publicthrough the channels of bias and preju-dice . Every campaign brings out a newcrop of slogans which "catch the publicear."

In the United States, a man is usually

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elected by his opponent's enemies, and noone is feared more by the public than the"perfect man."

WNAD winning playsEdwin I . Reeser of Tulsa won state

first prize for the best radio play in theplaywriting contest sponsored by the uni-versity's radio station WNAD. His playwas "A Student of Music." EugeniaWhite of Oklahoma City was awardedsecond prize with "Radio Magic" andMrs Kara J. Holcomb, \ Louisville,Kentucky, third prize with "When Kath-leen Marries." A play by Ernie Hill,'32as, of Norman, was among the tenfirst by the judges, who were Vida Sut-ton of New York and C. L. Menser ofChicago, both of the National Broad-casting Company, Don Clark of NewYork, of the Columbia BroadcastingSystem, Merrill Dennison of Toronto,playwright, and W. V. O'Connel of Ada,head of the department of speech atEast Central State Teachers college . Theplays, after presentation over WNAD,will be used by the National Broadcast-ing Company in its "Magic of Speech"hour .

Close the universitySenator H. P. Daugherty of Chelsea,

proposed March 7 that the University ofOklahoma be closed for a period of twoyears, in order that the common schoolsmight be saved. Mr Daugherty woulddeclare an educational holiday for theuniversity, Oklahoma Agricultural &Mechanical college, and two teachers col-leges. According to Mr Daugherty'splan, the schools so closed might be re-opened at the discretion of the governor ."The state faces the most critical per-

iod in its history," Senator Daughertystated . "The budget lacks millions of be-ing balanced . The income tax will fallfar short and other sources of revenuewill provide little . We are faced withthe necessity of abandoning either ourcommon schools for the limited period orclosing the university . I think, that,under present conditions, there is noth-ing for us to do but to sacrifice the uni-versity .

"I hold no animosity toward the uni-versity . There is no reason for me to askthat this action be taken other than thatI believe that it is more important forstudents to be given grade school train-ing than that university courses be con-tinued . It is true enough that free edu-cation is a myth as long as parents sendhuge sums of money each month to theirsons and daughters, they are receivinglittle benefit from the present system ofhigher education."

Soonerland in briefBaylor university defeated the Univer-

sity of Oklahoma in debate at Norman

April

February 23, opposing the cancellationof war debts.

Salaries of university faculty memberswere ordered reduced twenty per centfor the concluding four months of thefiscal year by the board of regents Feb-ruary 23 .Coldie Charlock, of Hilo, Hawaii,

picked up WNAD's special DX broad-cast February 11, at Hilo .The new Norman postoffice is now

being used .Skeleton Key is the name selected by

the local group continuing the traditionof Blue Key, now disbanded at Norman .Phi Mu Alpha officers for the semester

are: Homer Courtwright of Norman,president ; W. H . Wehrend, associate pro-fessor of music, first vice president ; JamesWalker of Norman, second vice presi-dent ; Hugh Comfort of Norman, secre-tary and treasurer, and Rooney Coffer ofMagazine, Arkansas, historian.Dr . Visser 't Hooft of Holland, secre-

tary of the World's Student Christianfederation, visited the university March 3.Seven of the seventy-four straight "A"

students last semester were children offaculty members. They are Harry H.and John N. Alley, sons of Col . John Al-ley, head of the government departmentand the school of citizenship and publicaffairs ; Evelyn Marie Anderson, daugh-ter of Dr . J . C. Anderson, professor of ge-ology; Hugh N. Comfort, son of Rev. E.N. Comfort, director of the school of re-ligion ; Albert Guido Kulp, son of Dr .Victor H. Kulp, professor of law ; Kath-erine Rader, daughter of J. L. Rader, li-brarian ; and John Walker Swinford, sonof Dr . W. B. Swinford, professor of law.

GRADUATES IN EMBRYOPhi Kappa Sigma formalPhi Kappa Sigma fraternity gave a for-

mal dance at its chapter house Febru-ary 17, with Dr . and Mrs Victor Kulpand Mrs Clarence Clark as chaperons .Dates were :

Austin Rittenhouse and Marjorie Patterson ;Ralph Bolen and Sarah McGinty; Evans Nadiand Sally Wilbanks ; Hugh Humphreys andRuth McClung; Tom Stephens and Jane VonStorch ; Dave Stormont and Libbie Loar ; Wil-liam Pansze and Edith Owsley ; Jake C. Hamp-ton and Terease Edwards; Willard Gurley andHelen Spain ; Aubrey Denton and Auretta Bell-mon; Dwight Hamlin and Nan Reardon; JamesJarvis and Bonita Burt ; Frank Killingsworthand Phoebe Lattimore ; Lewis Killingsworth andHarriet Parker, Arthur Hennig and OdelleCrain ; Lloyd Drum and Bonnie Mee, AlbertKulp and Virginia Kramer ; Haskell Walker andHelen Harbaugh ; Milton Elliott and BettyEvans; Arthur Pansze and Helen Hayward ;Jerome Byrd and Janice Young; Dawson Engleand Gayle McCorkle, William Morris and MaryAnn Millican ; Waldron Wisdom and Eliza-beth Campbell ; Russell Prather and MaryGrimes ; Donald Hayes and Stella McKnight ;Robert Beidleman and Doris Medberry ; RobertBunch and Marjorie Meacham; Edward Dislerand Martha Jane Dowell ; B . J. Kelley and Mil-dred Brown; Freddie McDaniel and MarthaWatson ; Jim Duckworth and Mary Elizabeth

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Polk ; Clifford Mapel and Josephine Patterson ;Gordon Graalman and Margaret Linebaugh,John Beauchamp and Donlop Glen .Other members : T. J . Fuson, Harry Aggers,

Tru e Baker, William Beidleman, Melton Smith,Carl Most, George Tarter and Thomas Carson.other guests : Jack High, Jack Highley, Mau-

rice Gann, Charles Teel, Leslie Hemry, DaltonMcBee, William Newblock, Robert Hert, JohnStewart, Willis Stark, Milton Silberberger,Robert Kuntz, Donald Porter, C . T . Holmes,William Majors, Bernard Dead, Maurine Trip-plchorn, Jack Malloway, Pat Sinclair, Otho O .Sparks, Marion Waggoner, Dick Wilson, Ben-jamin Birney, Paul Eldridge, Richard Price,Robert Vahlberg, Warren Gunter, LawrenceWilson, Hirst Suffield, Gordon Watts, RobertEllis, Armstead York, Jack Clark, Dave Roper,Harold Ritter, Carl Lewis, Philip Archer, Rob-ert Mee, Harry W. Denton, Earl Sneed, JohnCooper, Alvan Muldrow, James Rutherford,John Swinford, Kelley Parker, Robert Love,William Holmes, Murray McDonald, LeonWhite, Charles Loveless, Lionel Edwards, HarveyParker and William Harsch .

Sigma Chi formalSigma Chi fraternity held its spring

formal dance at its chapter house Feb-ruary 17, with Mrs W. L. Perkins, Dr.and Mrs Joseph H. Marshburn and DeanCornwall as chaperons. Dates were :

Clay Underwood and Patsy Edwards, Dallas,Texas ; James Taylor and Kathryn Polk, For,Worth, Texas ; William Perryman and LetaHoltzendorf ; John Young and Ellen Fullenwid-er ; Fred Hoyt and Mary Lelia Kidd ; Tom Car-son and Mildred Miller ; William Woffordand Martha Lake Dudley ; Roland Philipsand lone Wright ; Jack Highley and HelenSpivey ; Mont Highley and Mary Doyle ; T .Myron Pyle and Hester Day, Oklahoma City ;Seymour Spears and Winette Souligny ; F . Nor-ton Cobb and Georgia Lee Abbot ; James Co-lumbus Green, jr., and Louise Kayser ; GeorgeSt. John and Garnet Wright ; Harry Jordan andVera Frances Swigert ; J . iC . Mytinger andMadelvne McCarty, Wichita Falls, Texas ; AltonBookout and Florine Hurst ; Jack High andAnna Perkins Young ; Frank Kennedy and JuliaKennedy ; Dennis Cubbage and Marian Bryant,Cushing ; Edward Clarke and Jean Garnett ; RexChaney and Marietta Darlin ; Don Machenheimerand Louise Laux ; Tommy Beeler and Marge-nell Elliott ; Charles Wilson and Louise Garrett ;Bernard Kennedy and Betty LeCompte ; TomCubbage and Maxine Williams ; James Vandland-ingham and Dainty Anne Lennington ; PaulHarrison and Jerry Mason ; Richard Carpenterand Bobbie Bowling ; Clint Moore, OklahomaCity, and Addie Lee Davis ; Matthew Kane, Ok-lahoma City, and Marjorie Kennedy ; WilliamHarsh and Mary Agnes Riley ; Bernard Doudand Marian Mills ; William Lewis and LouiseJohnson, Tulsa ; Roland DcBaker and FrancesNeal ; Max Wilson, Oklahoma City, and Mar-jorie Newbern ; Clarence Carpenter and LeRoyMcNeil : Mr and Mrs Ernest Hill, Dr . and MrsWyatt Marrs, Mr and Mrs Gene Springer, Dr .and Mrs G . A. Merritt .

Other guests : John Stewart, Louis Bond, JohnZwick, Gordon Green, Robert Henderson, Rob-ert Hull, J . N . Childers, Allan Calvert, BillBrooks, Jack Hart, Clarence Birney, Ed Hick-ey, George Borelli, Robert Williams, H . C.Luman, Lawrence Wilson, Harry Trentman,David N . Roper, Glen Davis, Walter Marshall,James Ludlum, Leo Bell, Ralph Brand, DanielBoone, Charlie Stewart, Baxter Taylor, MurrayMacDonald, James Riley, Charles Engleman,Eugene Nolen, Rupert McClung, Joseph Rucks,Frank Schofield, Norman Jones, Albert Kulp,Ralph Bolen, Lloyd Drum, Jack Kerns, Jo Ed-wards, Jack Kitten, Dick Wilson, DonaldSmith, Charles Mooney, Dale Moody, George

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McGhee, Joe Thompson, Clark Roberts, AlbionBailey, Sullivan Ashby, Paul Eldridge, ToddDowning and Richard Mealey.

Beta Gamma SigmaBeta Gamma Sigma, national honorary

fraternity for commerce students (whoare not eligible for election to Phi BetaKappa, which confines its membershipto arts and science students), has estab-lished a chapter at Norman . Eighteenstudents have been elected to member-ship, which embraces the upper ten percent in scholarship in the college of bus-iness administration . Those announcedas members are :

Jack LeFevre, Hartshorne ; Howard A . Ens-minger, Turpin ; Del Val Dale, Norman ; Har-old W . Donnell, Amarillo, Texas ; William H .Cies, Bob W. Fowler, Virginia Fisher and RevaClark, all of Oklahoma City ; Joseph Ruzek andJames Ruzek, both of Enid ; Robert Searcy,Tulsa ; Fred E . Brown, Muskogee ; Carrie RaeCondit and Charles F . Jones, both of Bartles-ville ; Harry B . Brown, Drummond ; Jack Kir-ton, Amber ; Carl O. Craig, Cleo Springs ; andDavis W . Sides, Farwell, Texas.

Phi Mu Founder's dayPhi Mu fraternity observed founder's

day with a banquet at the chapter houseMarch 4. The guest list follows:

Ione Cooper, Dallas, Texas ; Alfreda Nauk,Anadarko ; Margaret Barnes, Guthrie ; LouiseBarnett, Charline Penner, Florence MacDon-ald, Thelma Bradford and Helen Brady, all ofNorman ; Lucille Mann, Doris Asburn, DorothyMcBrayer, Nadine Nabours and Beulah HelenSpears, all of Oklahoma City ; Edith Mayes,Enid ; Ruth Oman and Helen Field, both ofMcAlester ; Marjorie Capps, Mountain Park ;Roberta Alden, Tulsa ; Ann Elizabeth Short,Okmulgee ; Selma Huggins, Frances Lauderdale,Mrs H . V . Beck. Elizabeth Cox and JuanitaChurchwell, all of Norman ; Alice Shumate,Mrs Ruth Crawford, Sally Collier, Mrs Eliza-beth Michell, Larry Hoberger, Mrs Ray Weems,Eva Louise Purdum, Mariam Moyer, KathleenMauck, Doris Taylor, Mrs Stella Stiler, LoisMinnick, Mrs Grace Anderson, Mrs HelenMurphy and Margaret Brittain, all of Okla-homa City ; Gladys Marsh, Fort Madison, Iowa ;Mrs C . M . Field, McAlester ; Mrs Laurita Mote-ly, Cushing ; Thelma McCullom, Apache ; GraceCombest and Hazel Rollins, both o£ Blackwell ;Ellen Rice and Vernice Johnson, El Reno ; MrsMarie Stedman, Davis ; Mrs Mary Sessions, Guth-rie ; Ayle Tomberlin, Wetumka ; and Mrs Paul-ine Chase Baker, Tulsa .

Kappa Sigma formalKappa Sigma fraternity held a formal

dance at the College shop March 4, withMr and Mrs Joe E. Smay and Mrs FloraD. Nifong as chaperons. Dates were :

James Miller and Ann Ragsdale ; HunterJohnson and Ruby Lee Parshall ; Charles Stuardand Aileen Petway ; Denver Meacham andFlorence Gannaway, Clinton ; Harris Van Wag-ner and Mildred French ; Otho Sparks and JanieRussell ; Eugene Hodges and Dorothy LouNash ; Dan Boone and Helen Meyers, Oklaho-ma City ; Richard Price and Hilma Lee Eck-land, Clayton, New Mexico ; George Hayes andMary Hatt Hively ; Robert Satterfield and Lou-ise Dills ; John Montgomery and Elizabeth Plas-ter; Clyde Hightower and Maxine Williams ;Jacob Collar and Helen Harbaugh ; A . W . Nis-bet and Louise Lillard ; William Loy and CoraNell Fundis ; William Wantland and EdnaYost, Oklahoma City ; Glenn Taylor and JoHoppel ; Harold Webster and Page Peck ; Bert

Tuttle and Helen Hoffman ; Rupert Fogg andMary Lois Holmes; Ralph Kelly and PatsyO'Sullivan ; Don Miller and Margery Meach-am ; Eugene Gill and Lida Lea ; H . J . Brown-son and Louise Laux, Oklahoma City ; RobertWilliams and Virginia Shire ; Frank Zeliff andLouamma Edwards ; Ithomar Tuttle and JanetJohnson ; Carlton Cornels and Jennie Lee Suggs ;Marion Estes and Carolyn Shaw ; Samuel Co-bean and Sarita Mendoza ; Dan Gill and Vir-ginia Parriss ; Mr and Mrs Strother Simpson,William Pansze and Edith Owsley ; Ray Snod-grass and Georgia Lee Abbot.

Other guests : Walter Marshall, Carl Mayhall,Alfred Bungardt, Dalton McBee, Herbert Cham-plin, James Riley, Dan Alguire, Richard Taft,Rupert McClung, Norman Jones, Fred Mills,George Herr, Fred Carder, James Ray, C . T .Holmes, J . N . Childes, Eldon Frye, Fred New-ton, Ralph Wolverton, Spotswood Lomax, Eu-gene Bennett, Orval Hill, Maurice Gann, HarryJordan, Mont Highley, Seymour Spears, BruceMiller, Billy Longmire, Earl Sneed, Jack Hart,B . J . Conners, William Livingston, KennethFerguson, Charles Woods, Harold Landram,Paul Lyon, Romeo Settle, Leo Garner, CharlesGreer, William Wilson, Boyd Gunning andBruce Beesley .

Sig Alpha formalSig Alpha Epsilon fraternity held its

formal spring dance at the OklahomaUnion March 4, with chaperons beingMr and Mrs John H. Rowland, Mr andMrs John O. Moseley and Mrs ReneStone. Dates:

Cotton Hill and Pansy Love ; Robert Loveand Vera Frances Swigert ; Fred Owen andRuth McClung ; Kelly Parker and MariettaDarling ; Fenton Lamb and Kaye JohannaThomas ; Kenneth Alfred and Marjorie Ken-nedy ; James Lewis and Helen Flemming, Ok-lahoma City ; George McBee and Catherine AnnHivick ; Frank Fitzpatrick and Garnet B . Wright ;Richard Bryant and Glynna Fay Colwick ; Mar-tin Miller and Elizabeth Hustmyre ; CharlesMooney and Mary Jane Jones, Shawnee ; RobertLee Wilson and Mary Jo Sullivan ; HarrellChiles and Wilma Klein ; Marion Owens andAnne Stinnett ; Roy Johnson and Maurine Jane-way ; James Cleary and Julia Kennedy ; FredDunlevy and Mary Lelia Kidd ; Pierce Cantrelland Thelma Tate ; James Rutherford and MaryAnn Millican ; Harold Simmons and FrancesPhillips ; Thomas Braly and Helen Kelly ; Cur-tis Cannon and Marian Barrowman ; McMillanLambert and Page Peck ; Wilbur Jones and Lou-amma Edwards; John Browne and Mary Eliza-beth Stanton ; C. A . Hustmyre and MargaretLinebaugh ; John Farnum and Mary Grimes ;William Oxford and Inez Hysaw, Austin, Texas ;Howard Fleet and Ione Wright ; Alton Sullivanand Pauline Taylor ; Robert Holland and Elea-nor L . Cbowning ; Herbert Morgan and Dor-othy Melton, Chickasha ; Joseph Massie andImogene Melton, Chickasha ; Clay Chiles andMary C . Lynde ; William Scion and DorothyBeck ; Dennis Cubbage and Marian Bryant ;James Crawford and Louise Holmberg ; JamesEvans and Kelsey Lee Browne ; Paul Balbin andBetty Mae Love ; Wayne Chestnut and MaryTrapp ; Maurice Gann and Ruth Nesbitt ; JohnDudley and Margaret Hanna ; Edgar DeMeulesand Katherine Cannon ; James Miller and AnnRagsdale ; Alvan Muldrow and Vera Kennedy ;Bernard Doud and Marian Mills.

Other members : William Mullins, JohnSwinford, Charles Mount, jr ., Dale Moody, JackWagner, William Vaughn, Ben Franklin andRoy Neel .

Other guests : Ralph Bogart, Joseph Thomp-son, Clark Roberts, Robert Allen Street, JackHigh, Thomas Carson, Clay Underwood, Thom-as Cubbage, James Mytinger, James Hopkins,Alfred Bungardt, William Dalton McBee, Rob-ert Hert, Walter Marshall, George Massey, James

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Ludlum, Bruce Miller, James Buchanan, EarlSneed, John Edward Cooper, Roy Gardner, Har-old Sullivan, Jack Fleming, Steiner Mason, War-ham Parks, William Majors, Robert Lockwood,Fred Mills, James Fellers, Melvin Smith, JakeHampton, James Gurley, Jerome O. Edwards,Charles Capelentz, Hirst Suffield, William Bate-man, James Roy, Stanley Marsh, William Major,Richard Taft, Joseph Rucks, Glen Hall, PaulLyons, Glen Davis, Malcolm Hudson, RobertMee, Wayne Heckler, Charles Engleman, Rich-ard Wilson, Paul Hodge, Denver Meacham,James Mendenhall, Hunter Johnson, CharlesHaves, Millard Sinclair, Marshall Brown, Wil-liam Lewis, Maurice Tripplehorn, Baxter Tay-lor, John lilep, Albert Laughmiller, David St .Clair, Don Stinchecurn and Jack Cheairs,

Out-of-town guests : James Johnson, JewellScott, Hadvn Linebaugh, Joseph Hert and Rob-ert Barbre, all of Muskogee ; Edward Parks, andLeslie Ford, both of Shawnee ; Wilson Gibson,Hoyle Jones, jr., and Robert Cloid, all of Tul-sa ; J . H . Shelburne, Stewart Mark, WarrenSherman, Millard Prety, Connie Ahrens, JohnNValbert and William Roach, all of OklahomaCity.

SPORTS OF ALL SORTSBasketballThe feat of Andy Beck, University of

Oklahoma forward, in scoring eleven fieldgoals and two foul shots, a total of 24points, against Iowa State at Norman Feb-ruary 20, establishing a new individualscoring record for the Sooner Fieldhouse,prompted an extensive basketball researchhere, object of which was to unearth thegreatest scoring achievements of all timeby Sooner players since basketball was in-augurated here in 1907 .

Ernest C. Lambert of Okmulgee, cap-tain and forward of the Sooner five of1909, emerged from the excavating as thedemon scorer of them all . Mr Lambert,the records show, scored 47 points in agame against the Edmond, Oklahoma,Teachers January 15, 1909 in the old gym-nasium, twenty three field goals and afoul shot . Oklahoma won 93 to 7.

Besides Mr Lambert's feat, two otherindividual scoring performances by Soon-ers stand out during the era from 1907to 1920, although each was aided by thefact that Sooners were meeting a weakopponent and playing in the old "cracker-box" gymnasium, whose dimensions were

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50 by 30 feet, and which had no out ofbounds, the ball being played off the wallsas in handball .Howard McCasland of Duncan, tallied

35 points February 30, 1916 against theEdmond team, shooting seventeen fieldbaskets and a foul shot, for the secondbest performance . Mr McCasland jumpedcenter for the Sooners.Homer Risen of Hooker, forward on

the Oklahoma team of 1918, scored 34points against the Durant Teachers Feb-ruary, 1918, for the third best score . Ok-lahoma won this game, 116 to 13, believedto be the greatest score ever amassed by aSooner five . Mr Risen got seventeen fieldgoals, Maurice "Slick" Bass of Ramona,sixteen, and Dorsey Boyle of Anadarko,ten, making three Sooner players who shotat least ten field goals in the same game .

In 1920 Sooner teams moved from theold gym to the new R.O.T.C . Armory,which had a floor ninety by forty eightfeet, and Ed Waite, of Oklahoma City,Oklahoma's all-Missouri Valley center of1922, twice scored 24 points there duringthe period from 1920 to 1924 when oneplayer could throw all his team's freethrows . On March 3, 1920 Mr Waite madeseven field goals and ten free throwsagainst Oklahoma A . and M., and on Feb-ruary 11, 1921 he repeated those figuresagainst Washington university .Maurice "Doc" Ruppert of Tulsa, set

the scoring record at the Armory afteradoption of the rule in 1924 requiring theplayer fouled to attempt his own freethrow. On February 13, 1924 Mr Ruppertshot eight field goals and two free throws,18 points, against Iowa State.The Sooners moved into the Fieldhouse

in 1928 and on March 3, 1928 Vic Holtof Oklahoma City, scored 19 points againstNebraska, Tom Churchill of OklahomaCity, tying it February 3, 1929 againstOklahoma A. and M. Then Elvin Ander-son of Norman, scored 22 points againstTulsa university here last December, whichwas the mark Mr Beck broke last week .

Best known scoring performance by aSooner player on a foreign court wasHomer Montgomery's fourteen field goals

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against the Springfield, Missouri, Y.M .C.A . five at Springfield February 21, 1916,which was tied on the same road trip byMr McCasland's f o u r t e e n field goalsagainst Kemper Military academy atBoonville, Missouri . Mr Montgomery wasfrom Muskogee .Mr Holt's 25 points, eleven field goals

and three foul shots, scored against IowaState at Ames, Iowa is the best road gamescore made by a Sooner on a large for-eign court.

Best scoring records by opposing playersat Norman since 1907 are : OLD GY~-,r-24 points by Johnston, Edmond Teachers,February 28, 1917 : OLD ARMORY-25points by PayseuA, Drake, forward, Janu-ary 11, 1922 ; and FiELDHOIISE-15 pointsby Larsen, Bethany college, center, Janu-ary 5, 1930 . Johnston scored twelve fieldgoals, Payseur eight field goals and ninefree throws, and Larsen four field goalsand seven free throws .The boss free throw performance by

an opposing player at Norman occurredFebruary 12, 1921 at the Armory whenThompson, Washington forward, sankfifteen of sixteen free tosses .

Bruce Drake, Sooner guard of 1929, hasthe best free shot record since each playerwas compelled to shoot his own fouls . AtLincoln, Nebraska, in 1929 Drake pocket-ed nine free throws out of nine tries .

Coaching schoolThe second annual free coaching

school for state high school coaches andathletes, sponsored by the University ofOklahoma, will be held at Norman May31 and June 1, 2 and 3. Last year theschool attracted a splendid attendance .Each Sooner coach conducted coursesin both theory and practice in his par-ticular sport, while Ray Morrison, South-ern Methodist university football coach,attended and interpreted the new foot-ball rules . Moving pictures of several ofOklahoma's 1932 football games will beshown in the football theory courses thisyear, says Lewie Hardage, footballcoach.

Speedy Dawson"I just didn't run fast enough," wrote

Glen Dawson, University of Oklahoma'sgraduated distance runner, to friends herein describing his defeat by Glenn Cun-ningham, University of Kansas phenom,in the 880-yard dash at the BrooklynCurb exchange meet February 13 . Cun-ningham won and Dawson was second .Dawson and Cunningham are rooming

together in a New York hotel . "Bauschlives next door and Frank Wykoff about

Coaches Hardageand Roland giving theirmen a chalk-talk

three doors down the hall . We have beenseeing New York," the Oklahoman wrote.He added that he may stay back east forthe Knights of Columbus meet March 15 .Dawson said Cunningham made good

time considering that the runners didn'tuse spikes and that the track wasn'tbanked . Dawson was awarded a 16-inchhigh figure of a track athlete as the sec-ond place winner . Dawson won the 1,000yards event at the Boston A . A. games aweek earlier, defeating Earl Bonthron,Princeton, and George Bullwinkle, NewYork Athletic club, in 2 :17.62 .

First spring practiceFirst spring football practice held at

the University of Oklahoma was back in1908, exactly twenty-five years ago, news-paper correspondents have discovered.The March 25, 1908 issue of The Um-

pire, Sooner student newspaper of thatera, said :

Spring practice for football games goes mer-rily on . Boyd field looks quite fall-like withthe old stars getting down after the ball again .Capt . Key Wolfe is in charge of the squadand Bennie has been out a few times droppinga number of hints on how things footballshould be done .And the 1908 spring practice must

have brought results because Coach Ben-nie Owen's Oklahoma team of 1908swept its schedule clean with the excep-tion of a tie with Washburn on a mud-dy field, and a 0 to 11 defeat at Law-rence, Kansas to one of the greatest Jay-hawker teams ever developed.

Indoor trackWhen the University of Oklahoma track

team tied Nebraska for the Big Six indoorchampionship March 11 at Columbia,Missouri, it marked the fourth time in thelast seven years that Coach John Jacobs'Sooners have either won or tied for thetitle .

In 1927, 28 and 29 Oklahoma won threeconsecutive indoor championships . In 1930,31 and 32 Coach Henry Schulte's Ne-braska team tied this record by winningthree in a row. Previous to these runs bythe Sooners and Cornhuskers, no MissouriValley team had ever won more than twoconsecutive indoor championships.The squad Coach John Jacobs took to

Columbia numbered thirteen men, thesmallest attending the meet. Moreover, itwas composed largely of sophomores andwas competing in its first indoor meet thisseason whereas all the other schools hadparticipated in at least one dual meet . Butwith Coach Jacobs expertly juggling hissmall squad to get the maximum of scor-ing out of it, the team came through, and20 of the 33 points it scored were made bysophomores . The mile relay team that tiedthe Big Six record and won by twentyfive yards from its nearest opponent, wascomposed entirely of sophomores.When the mile relay, last event on the

program, started, Oklahoma was trailingNebraska and Kansas in team scoring.

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Bob Moore led off for the Sooner quartetand handed a five-yard lead to BillThompson, of Tulsa, regarded as theslowest of the four Sooner runners. ButThompson had his dander up and ran ascorching quarter to increase the lead stillfarther, and then the rest of the race wasjust a romp for Loris Moody and BartWard .Although the Columbia track was slow-

er this year than ever before (Glen Cun-ningham, great Kansas miler, could dobut 4:21 .8 on it although pushed consider-ably by Chapman of Iowa State), two newUniversity of Oklahoma indoor recordswere set . Moody's 880-yard time of 2:00.1replaces the old mark of 2:01.8 set atKansas City in 1930 by Warren "Bus"Moore. The Sooner mile relay team'stime of 3:29 broke by three full secondsthe old indoor mark of 3 :32 set by Guth-tie, Schaff, Ringo and Frank at KansasCity in 1925, and tied by Potts, Cherry,Abbott and Mell at Columbia in 1931 . Italso tied the Big Six record set at Colum-bia last March by England, Siefkes, Rod-gers and Ostergard of Nebraska .Ward ran a heady race to win the 440

yards by four yards. The Weatherford boyled every foot of the distance, turning onthe power when his foes challenged himon the straightaways and gliding smoothlyaround the curves to hold his lead .Moody was harder pressed in the 880,

and ran third until half the race was gonewhen he shot around Guse and Lebertewof Iowa State and sprinted the entire lastlap of 220 yards to win by five yards.

Bill Newblock won the high jump at6 feet 2 inches, clearing that height onhis first jump. He then postponed histrials for a new Big Six record until heran the 60-yard low hurdle finals, placingfourth in a blanket finish with the secondand third place winners. Newblock thenresumed his high jumping at the 6-foot4-inch level, and cleared the height withhis body but knocking off the bar withhis elbow.Ward did 23 feet 4.5 inches for second

in the broad jump, Albert Gilles did 44feet 11 inches for second in the shot,Douglas Barham leaped 6 feet 1 inch totie for second in the high jump, Don Ad-kison won a tie for third in the 60-yarddash, and Bob Moore finished third in the440 yards. John Meikle was sixth in theshot with 40 feet 8 inches, Jack Clark wassixth in the broad jump at 21 feet 6.25inches, Jesse Hill was eliminated by onlyinches in the dash, while Ralph Dale wasflagged out of the two-mile by CoachJacobs who feared he might have to usehim in the mile relay ."We've certainly got a fine bunch of

boys on our team this year," says MrJacobs . "They're all competitors, they allrun curves well, and they all train. I alsowant to say a word for our cripples . Bar-ham's ankle went dead after his first jumpbut he went on anyhow to tie for second .Clark's ankle also bothered him but he

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toughed it out and went on to lack butone inch of qualifying for the finals .Mood), showed no ill effects from beingin the infirmary for three days last weekafter running a nail in his foot ." JohnKniseley, the team's only polevaulter dis-located his ankle the afternoon before theteam left and stayed at home .

BaseballPitchers and catchers, both varsity and

freshmen, at the University of Oklahoma,reported to Coach Lawrence "Jap" Has-kell early in February at the varsity base-ball field for the first of several daily pre-liminary workouts preceding the generalcall to arms to be made early in March .Missouri's Big Six champions will playat Norman April 18 and 19 while fourcontests with Kansas State, two at Nor-man and two at Manhattan, also may bebooked . Haskell's Sooners probably willplay a 16-game schedule this season .

Night track meetAnother night track meet has been

booked between the University of Okla-homa and Oklahoma A. and M . college,it was announced today by Ben G. Owen,othletic director . At 8 P.m . on May 12Coach John Jacobs' Sooner team, and whatpress dispatches pronounce the strongesttrack team Coach Wash Kenny has everdeveloped at Stillwater, will clash . Okla-homa won a night meet at Stillwater twoyears ago, 86 to 45 .

Briefer mentionThe Kansas City Star and the United

Press named Andy Beck and BudBrowning of the Sooner basketball teamas members of their All-Big Six team .Ben G . Owen, director of athletics,

was made a member of the nominationcommittee of the National CollegiateAthletic association .

Oklahoma ended its wrestling matchwith Oklahoma Aggies February 17with a draw, 12 to 12 ; the decision oCthe referee was booed liberally since thespectators felt that Ellis Bashara hadgained falls on his opponent, but thereferee ruled otherwise.Kappa Sigma fraternity defeated the

College shop 9 to 0 February 23 to winthe soft ball intramural championshipof the university .Joe Levine, baseball scout for the New

York Yankees, may sit in on some of theUniversity of Oklahoma's home baseballgames this year . Lawrence "Jap" Haskell,Sooner coach, recently received a wirefrom Levine asking for Oklahoma's BigSix conference home baseball dates. "Iwant to scout your games for my club,the Yankees," Levine's message said . Has-kell has developed a number of minorleague baseball players, among whom isColonel "Bus" Mills, who is now with theRochester Red Wings of the Internationalleague .