UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WILL KANSAS PLACE IN OLYMPIC GAMES?
Four Jayhawk Cinder Artists to Try out for Stockholm Meet
COLLEGES WELL REPRESENTED
Other Western Schools to Take Chance
French, Hazen, Wilson and Woodbury to Enter Preliminaries.
Will the University of Kansas be represented in the big Olympic games that are going to be held in Stockholm this summer? For a far western college this statement seems rather out of the ordinary, but the chances for an affirmative answer are not in the least fair-like, and the opportunities for a Kansas man in Sweden are better than ever before.
Four men are going to Chicago in June to try out in the preliminaries. Will French, captain of this year's track team, will enter in the high jump, Wilson will take a shot at the broad jump, Hazen will try the hurdles and probably Tod Woodbury will go out for both the hurdles and pole vault.
In this largest athletic meet in the world, men from athletic clubs and colleges throughout the United States will be entered. To be selected as one of the lucky ones is considered about the highest honor an athlete can attain. Many of the eastern schools work to this end in the four years' training of their athletes and some of them are successful in carrying off high honors.
COLLEGES MAKE STRONGER SHOWING
In former years the athletic clubs of New York, Boston and other coast cities have been the most successful in sending trophy winning representatives. This year, however, the colleges are putting stronger efforts to bring some of the laurels on themselves and the men who have so far signified their intention of entering are considered to be the most promising.
Eddie Hanavan of Michigan and John P. Jones of Cornell are twowho will undoubtedly place in the distance running. Carlsle is also in the training camp and several of the Indians are meeting to get the trip across the pond.
In this section of the country the St. Louis and Kansas City Athletic clubs are expecting sure places, Lee Talbot, the former Cornell weight star will no doubt represent the K. C. A. C. Nicholson of Missouri is expecting a place in the hurdles, while Reid and Anderson of Nebraska are going in for the quarter and mile respectively. These with three or four Kansas tryouts will give the West a suitable showing.
The Kansas men will leave for Chicago June 1 where they will enter the Western Conference meet held there. The Olympic tryouts will be held the following week and the men will remain in the city until that time.
CHANGES WROUGHT BY FIFTY YEARS
"Yes sir, times and conditions have certainly changed here in the last fifty years," remarked E. F. Crocker, superintendent of buildings and grounds, to a reporter for the Daily Kansas, yesterday.
"I came to Lawrence from St. Louis, in 1855. The trip from St. Louis to Kansas City was made by a long week to cover the distance."
"Coming from Kansas City here, we drove overland with horses and wagon. That trip was made in two days."
Mr. Crocker went on to tell how he enjoyed riding, both on land and on water. He told of how the boat was stopped every night and tied to the bank, and then dancing and story-telling began.
"There was always plenty to eat,
years ago. I certainly enjoyed it all."
On being asked whether he remembered the building of North College, Mr. Crocker said that he hardly could recall the building process but that he remembered playing with other small youngsters over and around the foundation and of coasting from the hill where North College now stands, down to the bottom, just about where the Manual Training school is located.
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BLANKET TAX AT BROWN
SHORT FOR ATHLETICS
Brown's experimental employment of the so-called "banket tax" for the general support of all forms of athletics does not seem to have demonstrated the unqualified feasibility of the plan to meet athletic expenses, judging from statistics obtainable as to the way the tax has been received. It is voluntary at Brown, the students being asked to elect whether they will subscribe to the tax. According to data furnished to the undergraduate body by George S. Burgess of the Cammarian Club, it would be consistent with to investigate the工作的 of the tax, the percentage of subscribers has generally fallen much below the requiree eighty per cent of the student body to make it a paying measure.
The Brown tax is $9, while at Wesleyan a similar tax is $15 and at Dartmouth it is $25, the tax being well supported in both institutions. When the blanket tax was inaugurated at Brown in the second term of 1910-11, the number embracing that method of helping out athletics was $15 way below the required eighty per cent. The second installment was supported somewhat better, with 363 signing up for it. Last fall 437 signed their willingness to pay the first installment of the year, making nearly the eighty per cent needed. The second installment brought out only 310 names, however, and the third and last of the year, recently posted, found only 260 supporters.
TWO MINUTES WITH CAMPUS CELEBRITIES
Q.—Do you file your nails off,
Professor Rice?"
A. "No, sir. I wear 'em off on concrete beams. I would rather go hunting than do anything else." Did you ever shoot any rags?"
A. "Not for several years. I don't know how old I am. My complete name in Herbert Allan Rice. I 'eel young."
Q.—"Have you a family, Profes:
or?"
709 Mass. Street
A. —"Just a wife. I am an Insurgent. I like to work on bridges and things. I built a cow-shed when I was very young."
Q. "I have you any gold teeth, Mr Rice?"
A. —Three. I have a keen sense of humor. My gold teeth cost me nearly a hundred dollars, but they are all fine teeth."
A. —I don't know. I have been here seven years."
Q. "—What is electricity, Professor?"
Q. "—Were you ever stabbed, Mr. Rice?"
A.—'Well, no. But a fellow hit
me with a shot-gun once. He said
he was shooting at the chicken. I
only smoke once a day."
A. "About nine hours. No, I never wore stripes. I prefer a plain gray suit, with a red vest."
Q.—"How long does this smoke
ist?"
Dr. Ida H. Hyde, of the department of Physiology, will lecture on "Social Hygiene," in the chapel on Wednesday at 4:30 o'clock. All women of the University are urged to attend this ecture.
DR. HYDE WILL LECTURE
ON "SOCIAL HYGIENE"
Q. "Can you run a locomotive,
Professor?"
A——"No. But I can run a telephone or a gasoline stove."
Dr. Hyde is recognized all over the country as an authority on the subject $f$ social hygiene, to which she has even years of study. This lecture is given at the request of many of the women of the University.
SPRING BOOTERS RETIRE
Practice Closed Friday, After Good Workouts - Haskell Scratch Image Off
Spring football practice for the 191
eleven was called to a close last Friday
by Coach Sherwin and the punter s
against him, who appear in uniform
again until next fall.
The practice this spring was particularly satisfactory and the chances for a first class team for next year look good. About thirty men were out the greater number of players, but the practices were spent mostly in running drills, passing the ball, and a little kicker.
The scrimmage that was scheduled to be played with Haskell Institute has been called off. Coach Kennedy's Indians have not come out often enough this year to warrant a mixup and the former Kansas mentor did not want his men to get a bad reputation early in the season.
FRATS PLAY TIE GAME
Sig Alphs-Betas Game in Game
Sixth Inning With a 3 to 3
Score
With the score of 3 to 3, a close game in the inter-fraternity series between the Sig Alphs and Betas was called yesterday afternoon in the last of the sixth on account of rain. The game was one of the best that has yet been played in this series, but it is probably lucky for the Betas, that the rain started right
the betas that the rain started when it did, as the Sig Algae were rapidly increasing. The probability have come out ahead if be nine innings had been played.
Honors were even in the first two innings and both nines managed to pull down two scores to their credit. In the third however the Betas got one the better on their opponents and held the lead until the opening of the sixth. It was in this stage of the game that the Sig Alphas were up with the horse or a couple of hitters more representative around the sacks and tied the score. And then it started to rain.
The Sig Alphs were handicapped at the first by not having their regular battery on deck. Hamilton and Davis are both on the sick list and though Riley substituted very well in the art of twirling the pellet, the man behind the bat could not hold his deliveries and it was necessary to change before the end of the game. This change, when Poole went in for Pucket, gave the Sig Alphs the needed stimulus for more consistent playing and in the sixth, when Rambo went in as a pinch hitter and made good, they were playing much the better game.
This is the second tie game the Sig Alphs have played in this division of the fraternity league. They divided the same number of honors with the Phi Delta a week ago in a ten innings draw. Both of these games will probably be played off later in the season.
Schwinn pitched good ball for the Betas but he did not have the smoke nor the delivery of Riley, neither did he have the same support in the field. He allowed four hits in comparison to Riley's two. Both nine chalked up three errors to their credit.
The score:
R. H. E.
Sig Alphs. . . . 3 110 001 - 4 4
Betas. . . . 111 000 - 3 2 3
Batteries- Sig Alph, Riley, Pucket
and Poole. Beta, Schwinn and Ath-
rton. Umpire, Plank.
The score:
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Fred Bower of Emporia is the guest of Lenard Hurst, a freshman in the College.
Miss Agnes Conrad, ex-'11, of Kansas City, Mo., is visiting Miss Nadia Thomas, 1134 Louisann.
Miss Evalyn Wilson, ex'11, of Leavenworth, is visiting Lillian Matkins, 1140 Ohio Street.
Miss Elva Saunders, '11, of Burington, is visiting Flaud Johnson, a junior in the College.
Alpha Tau Omega entertained Ch Omega at dinner, Sunday, May 5.
Mat Graham, '11, of Osage City,
visited in Lawrence over the week-end.
Stanley Myers, '08, has located in Portland, Ore, where he is working on the Portland Telegram. He started for Worland, Wyoming to open up a law office, but decided to locate on the coast.
Frank J. Merrill, '07, of Paola, was selected as a delegate to the Republican state convention in Independence, from Ossawatimie County.
The Phi Psi will hold their annual Mother's Day at their chapter house Saturday May 11. Sunday is national Mother's Day.
Frank E. Tyler, of the class of 1909, who is remembered because of his fluency on the platform and his victory over Missouri in debate in 1906, has talent to the political game. He is president of the Roosevelt for President club at Harvard.
Beta Theta Pi entertained Kappa Kappa Gamma Sunday at Dinner.
Frank Theis, a senior in the law school spent the week-end with his parents in Kansas City.
Miss Mildred Morton, of Topeka, was a guest at the Kappa house over the week-end.
Joe Hull, of Topka, spent Sunday at the Pohl Delt house.
Miss Nellie Taylor '11, of Kansas City, is visiting the Theta house.
Jim Boring '11, was operated on for appendicitis Sunday in a Kansas City hospital.
Princeton to Have a Dorm
Work on the erection of a new dormitory at Princeton is actively under way. The new building will be erected at a cost of $150,000 and is the gift of the alumni to the University.
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Esperanto is a "good old has been". Its special alphabet, with letters contained in no language, living or dead; its badly chosen roots and unnecessary grammatical forms (obligatory accusative, plural adjective—Esperanto says "goods men," "bads boys," &c.) condemned it in the eyes of the committee of linguists known as the "Desert" and named for the question several years ago in Paris and elaborated a simplified Esperanto known as Ido.
Girls Outdo The Boy.
Those Shoes You Want Repaired.
The fanatical Esperantists, influenced by those interested in the sale of existing books, refused to accept the changes and are still trying to force on the world their crude, cumbersome and curious creation.
Not to be outdone by the Boy Scouts, fifteen East Lynn school girls have formed a walking club. The girls say that they return home perfectly fresh from their long trips, and thus far they have shown much more endurance than boys who have covered the same ground.
"DOPE" IS COMING ALONG
Ed.A. Van Houten For President
Members of the Cast Are Already Letter-Perfect in Their Paris,
PALETTE CLUB TO HOLD
SALE OF EMBROIDERY
Harold Brownlee
For
Vice President
The girls have been working all winter on pieces of Tussah embroidery. They have made opera bags, table covers, and luncheon sets. There are about twenty members in the club.
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Rehearsals of "Dope," the senior play, are proceeding satisfactorily, if the "dope" put out by "Suee" Brumage, the play-wright manager, is straight.
"Everyone in the cast has his lines learned and the play is fast rounding into shape," said Mr. Brumage this morning. "The other arrangements for the production of the play next week have secured scenery for the third set from the Willis Wood theater in Kansas City."
We will appreciate your support at the coming Student Council Election
The girls of the Palette club will give a reception and sale of embroidery to the Lawrence club women, and women of the faculty, on Thursday afternoon, in the Administration building.
May 9
1912
Louis La Coss For Secretary
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