UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
AGAIN THE HOPEFUL JOURNEY TO THE CITY
As for the Past Seven Years Kansas Has a Fighting Chance
MISSOURI STRENGTH UNKNOWN
The Performance of Untried Athletes Will Decide The Result of The Meet.
The meet between the Tiger and Jayhawker team tracks tonight in Kansas City promises to be the hardest fought in years. It is impossible to make a dope sheet that will be more than a wild guess as to the result and for this reason each event scheduled will hold special interest to the rooters.
Kansas track followers have returned from Convention hall credited with the short end of the count for each of the past seven years. But hope rises eternal. Every year they go to Kansas City with an air of almost forlorn hopes, that this may be the time to win. Such persistence as this will surely be rewarded, some time. It may be tonight.
KANSAS' EARLY PROSPECTS GLOOMY
Never did a track season open so inuspiciously as did the present. Osborne, Schwab, Ammons, and the Woodbury, to say nothing of the men who had been lost by graduation, did not appear.
Then began a period of hard work to develop new material to fill the vacant places. Many good men turned out and the team began to look as though it might pick up a point or two, occasionally.
From that time on, the climax coming with the Woodbury return, the hopes of the Kansas track boosted, but he been climbing higher and higher.
The more optimistic hope for vice-
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tory this year. The less hopeful say that the Tiger will have a battle that will be worth his while.
QUALITY OF TEAMS UNKNOWN
The meet tonight will be a meeting of unknowns in many events, and on these events hang the hopes of Kansas. Missouri has lost several of her most reliable point winners, notably in the distances. In these events Coach Jones has developed new men who will attempt to fill the places vacated by Steele and Johnston. But can this be done? The experience of years says that it can. The Kansas fighting spirit says it cannot.
NO CLEAN ATHLETES?
Track Men Ordered Not to Bathe for Three Long Days
Days
Coach Hamilton has issued an edict to the track men and the general import of the order is that indiscriminate bathing preceding any track meet is strictly tabooed.
The coach well knows the merits and good qualities of a refreshing bath after a hard workout in the gym, but his two months course in the School of Medicine preceding his undertaking the athletic management, taught him that showers and tub baths are enervating.
Therefore the coach so orders that all men desist from jumping under the showers for at least three days before any meet and that they should be given aqueous desires by a simple little sponge bath followed by a vigorous owel rub.
Mayhap the bathing propenities of the Jayhawkers in former years have been the cause of successive track defeats and the embargo on bath tubs may mean the ruination of Missouri this year.
Who knows?
REDS AND BLUES AGAIN
Girls' Basket Ball Teams Play the Second Game of the
Series
The second basket-ball game between the Red and the Blue girls' teams will be played this afternoon on the courts in Robinson gymnasium. The teams are picked from the two organizations into which the Women's Athletic Association has divided itself. The Reds have about forty-two members in comparison with the twenty-six on the Blues' side. The last game, played about two weeks ago, came out in favor of the Crimson team, but the Blues have been putting in some real "varsity team" practice since then and promise an exciting and close game this afternoon.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Prof. C. A. Dykstra will make the closing address on political subjects now being given to the University Class in Applied Christianity at the Methodist church next Sunday. His subject will be "World-Wide Peace."
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Home-Made Cookie Sale
The Woman's Mission Circle of the Baptist church will hold a sale of home-made cakes and cookies, Saturday, March 30, at Mrs. Premits' Home Store, 505 Tenn. St., and at S. H. McCurdy's Grocery, 1021 Mass. St.
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The "Greatest Show on Earth" Will Have an Excellent Representation in all Circus Departments.
The circus hand-ball is out with its the secrets of the great Circus Maxiums that will be given in Robinson gymnasium, Tuesday night April 2, for the benefit of the Women's Dormitory fund. It appeared early this morning in the form of green, yellow and blue robes and a program that will be put on for the benefit of the fun loving, death defying spirit of the students and faculty.
Such a wonderful conglomeration of tight wire artists, aerial performers and mirth provokers have never before been united under one roof and the variety of acts that is being offered by the management is large enough to accommodate the varied tastes of both co-eds and professors. Every act will be a feature act and will consist, according to the bill, of "a magnificent collection of worldly wonders, combined with a complete comprehensive collection of curious creatures and congress of living wonders."
Signor A. McCain's great band of forty pieces heads the list and will furnish the crowd with amusement while they are being seated. The seats will be arranged around the second floor of the gymnasium and on the running track and it is expected that it will be necessary to use every available space The big performances will take place in the two rings and stage that will be erected in the center of the floor. As soon as the big auditorium is filled there will follow in quick succession the arobatic, contortionist, slack wire, tumbling and bun punching acts, with side issues, fast and frantic, by Rofn's own collection of clowns. The four Leonards, "extraordinary exponents of equilibrium," will put on some breath taking, hair raising stumps that should make even the most reckless sit back and hold tight to the seat.
The grand after concert, featuring the highest prized acts in vaudaleure, will be a fitting finale to the program. In this will be seen the Lawrence concert company, the White City Four, Signor Alonzo Fuller and Herr Musselman, Charles Younggreen in a great American drama entitled," Copperhead the Warrior," with Rattlesnake Gulch," ending with the Dan Connaught's original production of minstrels as produced before the King of England.
Tags, which will be used as admission tickets to the entire show, will be sold Monday and Tuesday by the girls of the freshman class. Reserve seat tickets will also be on sale at the check stand Monday. General admission will be twenty-five cents; reserved seats thirty-five cents. The performance will commence at eight o'clock sharp Tuesday night.
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