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Show Badger Captain Guided Tourists, Prefers Grid Johnny Parks, husky Oklahoma boy who Is captain of the University of Wisconsin football team, has a European Euro-pean background. He was a guide for a group of tourists who "did" the continent. 1 , "What did yon know about Europe?" Eu-rope?" he was asked. "Nothing, but 1 guided them until the going got pretty tough. Then another an-other fellow took over the guide job and 1 checked baggage," Parks explained. ex-plained. The Badger leader spent five nights in Paris, but prefers Madison and Camp Randall stadium as regular haunts. Fraternity brothers at the Alpha Delta house claim there were several attractive girls in the party which Parks escorted to places that were as new to him as to any of the tourists. Parks, who Is one ot the most modest mod-est athletes who ever wore a Cardinal Jersey, claims they were all old maids. Parks would like to make the Badger Bad-ger crew. "I never rowed a shell before be-fore my sophomore year, but always wanted to learn," he said. In his sophomore year, Johnny won his letter in the varsity boat. Last spring football practice kept him out of this sport. Ramming his head Into enemy formations for-mations has worn Parks' black locks a trifle thin on top during the last two years, but nobody dares to mention men-tion that. It doesn't affect his playing play-ing at guard of his praiseworthy leadership lead-ership of the team. |
