The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 25, No. 112, Ed. 1 Friday, February 16, 1940 Page: 4 of 4
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I
Sooner Wrestlers to Tangle
With Wildcats Here Tonight
The Oklahoma Dailu
— JE — “
Nor man Oklahoma Friday February 16 1940 Pflgfi 4
Thirteen Boxers Survive
Semifinal Intramural Bouts
Final Matches Will
lie Fought Monday
Sideline
Slants
By Frank Spruce
HERE 18 one supporter who would
like to see big enthusiastic crowd
out tonight to see D C Matthews'
wrestlers open tne Rig Six competi-
tion against the Kansas Stale Wild-
cats The young coach has hit a couple of
rough bumps In the first mile uf his
wrestling career and he wont have an
easy time putting his first victory in
the win column tonight
Bat his team will be ready to “give
'em all they got" to borrow aa ex-
premiaa from the high school foot-
ball player who was asked to give
his first speech before a football
game
Matthewi isn’t ready to sell the
wrestling mats yet and after you watch
Harold Byrd Jay Smith Floyd Cham-
peau and some of the rest of the
Sooner you will know that there still
is material left around here
MISSOURI’S TIGERS will he short
on rest when they bump against the
Kansas State Wildcat at Columhia to-
night in their second game of tlie
week
If the Tigers have tlie usual luck
that areompnaies a hot night Kansas
Ktato will help our chances by giT-
Ing ihe Tigers ihrir second lass
Coach Jack Gardner’s team has
thrown away the crutches and la ready
to start a first-string lineup for the
first time in two weeks
Joe Roberson tlie leading forward
has recovered from the ankle Injury
he received when the Oklahoma Soon-
er beat Gardner’s quintet here
FOOTBALL WINCH ELLISUS: Some
of the boys whs say they are in the
know tell ua that Roy ” Preach" Jen-
nings who starred with Bill Jennings
at Norman high school severs! years
ago will check out the cleated shoes
when Tom Stidham blow the football
whistle along about the first week of
March
la high school ‘‘Preach" aad Bill
were a bast aa gaod a brother com-
Thirteen leather stingers
weathered the storm of the semi-
final bouts Thursday night and
earned the right to enter the fin-
al matches to be held in the Field-
house next Monday
Due to the close matching of -the
fighters ten of the 12 bouts were won
by decisions Red Ivy and Bob Cisar
were the only two fighters able to
overpower their opponents before the
end of the scheduled three rounds
Cisar received a technical knockout
over Ed Chapman when referee Dr
E T Hemphill stopped the fight In
the first round after Chapman had re-
ceived a deep cut over his left eye
Hemphill stopped the fight between
Ivy and Rob’ Estep after Ivy had bat-
tered Estep Into the ropes early In the
second round
Thursday nights results were:
118 pounds — Roy Loft Is dedsioned
Emmit Kearney Hubert Johnson won
by default from' Phil Bogvle
12fi pounds— Red Ivy by TKO over
! Bob Estep Charles Anderson decis-
j inned Bob Harper
i 135 pound— Mike Jackson decls-
j killed Bill Bell J B Long dedsioned
i Stan WoodalL-
147 pounds— Jim Shepard dedsioned
Don Slessman Bob Dees dedsioned
Harold Dane
100 pounds — Joe Eckstein dedsion-
ed Earl Kilpatrick Wayne Holmes
dedsioned Bob Weldon
175 pounds— Bob Cisar by TKO over
! Ed Chapman Phil Cook dedsioned
j Jack Gaffney
Unlimited— Waddy Young by default
J from Marshall Word Dave Obert de-
! dsioned Clair Morford
Coach D C Matthews Will Make Debut
Before Sooner Fans Visitors Strong
By A! Horwits
The university wrestling team will get its first taste of Big Six
competition this year when the Kansas State mat team invades
Soonerland tonight in the initial home match of the season The
festivities start at 7 JO in the Fieldhouse
And the Kansas State crew will be just as rugged and just as
powerful as the two Oklahoma teams that bowled over the Sooner
in their first two starts of the season
D C Matthews Sooner coach has given his word on that
“Trouble?" the young grappling
mentor half-shouted “Why those j wllh g Van neet totermjin
Wildcats base already taken large j ner-up In
eastern college into camp this
Missouri Will
Meet Kansas
State Tonight
son and they'll be just a good as
they were last year"
Msoaem Lost Last Year
Matthews referred to the last sea-
son match in which the Sooners were
defeated by single point
And with practically the same team
that won the Big Six title last year
PROBABLE KTART1NG LINEUP
a V WEIGHT - K 8
Harry James 121
Ha raid Byrd 129
Jay Hmlth Lee 1SS
Bennie Yeung 143
F Champean 133
Jay Smith 165
Don Bntllff ITS
F Fnnsher
Bill Hartman
Y McClellan
Glenn Duncan
G Van Ylett
I -eland Porter
1-eon Rrnyard
C DelBotel Heavyweight K Collins
bi nation as Oklahoma fans have ever
area Itny and Bill were in that game
at Amarillo Tex whei the lighter
I nr man Tigrrn pasted a surprising
! defeat on the famous Texans
If the new Jennings addition to the
football team make the grade you
may ace three Norman boys on Okla-
i homa's back field J 8 Munsey is the
'other Sooner footballer He received
B R “Pat" Patterson Kansas State
coach has another winning combina-
tion Returning to the Wildcat fold this
year are nine lettermen Of these
five are now team members The other
Nine positions on the team have been
filled by able sophomore
Tryouts Completed
The Sooners finished their tryouts
Thursday Bennie Young defeated in
the 121 tryout matched with Harry
James dedsioned Bill Cummings for
the right to wrestle In the 143 div-
ision The other weights will find Harry
James tangling with Farland Pan-
ther who beat Bennie Young in the
121 close last year Harold Byrd will
mix- it with Bill Hartman a sopho-
more The 135 match will feature Jay
Smith Lee faring Yerle McClellan
tough sophomore McClellan It on the
road to a Big Six championship ac-
cording to Coach Patterson
Young to Meet Duncan
Bennie Young will find the going
rough with Glenn Duncan letterman
in Ihe 145 Floyd Champeau tangles i
I ner-up In the Big
the 135 division
I -eland Porter Kansas State Jun-
ior letterman will furnish the com-
petition in the 1G3 for the Sooners'
tough Indian Jay Stuith
The Aggie captain Leon "Red"
Reynard defending Big Six champ
who has lost but two matches in three
years of college competition will grap-
ple with Don Sutliff In the 175
Charles Delhotel heavyweight has
the Job of handling Keith Collins
who weighs but 105
Matthews put hit groaner thru
another swift pace Thursday as a
I final workout to precede the match
i
j Literary Contest ' --
I To Close April 10
The Chi Delta Phi national prose
and poetry contest open to active
member of the Norman chapter of
the women’s literary society will close
April in Mis Gold la Dell Cooksey
sponsor said Thursday
The national organization will
award three prizes for the best en-
tries received from each chapter
j Will Wildcats Win? j
Here Is Hoping
COLUMBIA Mo Feb l-W (Spec-
ial)— The league-leading Missouri drib-
biers will lie host to Kansas State's
Wildcats at Brewer Fieldhouse here
Frklay night In a Big Six conference
tilt
This night has been set aside as
Eklon night as that Missouri town of
approximately 2000 will send a group
of about 200 here to honor three of
It favorite sons Bill and Don Har-
vey and Kicth Bangert of the Tiger
basketball squad
Tlrketn Are Parrhased
Tickets have already been purchas-
ed according to Athletic Business!
the party will be seated In a block of
bleachers In the balcony 1 j
Of the trio being honored Bill Har-
vey the senior forward ' with the:
tricky Jump shot and 'uncanny abil--Ity
as “feeder" win probably be the
only member in the starting lineup
However a little Intra-rity rivalry
sprang up a week ago when Coach
Edwards stalled the sophomore Ban- i
gert in the eider llarvry’ mt
The thlivl iih-iiiInt of tlie group
MipItotnuiY Dun Harvey ha not yet
appeared in a ennferenee contest hut
h hojieful uf in-raking in before the
home folk
Than Mill lint
Wllh IFfiiut U-liK-h Haskell Tii-on
veteran custodian of the center circle
still In tlie university hospital with in-
fluenza more rexmiiiility than ever
I heaped upon tlie shoulders of’
Blaine Currency the Phillipaburg :
Kan lad with the looping over-the-shouiilcr
shot 1
His time at the pivot post will be:
divided with Arch Watson who has!
played at lioih forward and guard
spot ihrunut the year anil la capable
of playing an aeeeptalile game at
renter
Jack Gardner the youthful visit
ing warh who win lie making his de-
tail ta-foie tlie Missouri fans hO-
to have most uf hia regular recovered
from tlie effects of the Oklahoma
game two weeks ago
(lark Is Address Ot V PV A
Dr Ralph Clark of the pharmacy
acrvke detriment of Merck ami
ConqMiny Rahway X J will address
the Oklahoma University Pharmaceut-
ical association at 10 o’clork this
morning tu 310 Pharmacy building
Ilia subject will lie “The Prescrip-
tion Department" ’
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DOWNTOWN
a shoulder injury when the Nebraska
COrnhusker toppled Oklahoma 14 to
j 7 at Lincoln in the last game of the
I year
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Bradley, Carter. The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 25, No. 112, Ed. 1 Friday, February 16, 1940, newspaper, February 16, 1940; Norman, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1799083/m1/4/?q=j+w+gardner: accessed July 1, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.