Track, Field Under Hargiss' Direction

     ROME, April 16—H. W. Hargiss is listed officially as the instructor in track and field events and mass athletics at the Central Sports School in Rome, but with an all-sports background the versatile Kansas coach will doubtless be dabbling in other events.
     Hargiss has developed Glenn Cunningham, Jim Bausch, the decathlon great and John Kuck, the shot putter, among others in 16 years as head track coach at the University of Kansas, one stop in a long coaching career. He coached four major sports at Emporia State College for 12 years and also at Oregon State, and was a member of the football coaching staff at Kansas in addition to track and physical education. Hargiss earned a PE degree at Harvard.
     At Emporia State College Hargiss captained the football, basketball, track and gym teams and won a fifth letter in baseball. He also plays golf and tennis and coached the minor sports at Oregon. In 1942 Hargiss was scout and assistant coach of the Brooklyn football Tigers.

Bill's Doing a Swell Job.
Serving his second cycle as director of training administration and organization at the Central sports school in Rome is your old friend, Homer Wilson Hargiss or Bill to you. The school's first cycle ran four months, with 350 students in the graduating class Classes are held in gyms and athletic plants used by Mussolini to train Fascist troops. Students attending the school will serve as army instructors and coaches. C. E. McBride