The University Courier.
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Notes of the Meeting.
The meeting was graced by the presence of many of the University ladies.
While Faulkner's arm is severely bruised and extremely painful, yet he is able to be about and a speedy recovery is hoped for.
The faculty, by their presence, showed their approval of the meeting and their interest in the advancement of athletics.
Kelsey has a graceful "heel and toe" movement, but to win against Riggs' monstrous strides he will have to take longer steps.
The half mile walk was as comical as a monkey show.
Matteson clearly demonstrates his ability to "hitch and kick" 8 ft.6 inches.
Many were disappointed in not seeing the game of hand ball. However, this is no fault of the management, as so much time had been taken up by the wrestling.
The candidates for the Harvard Varsity nine have been reduced to about thirty men.
The winter indoor meet is an event of the past and quite naturally we now turn our attention to base ball. Practice among the men has been seriously neglected the past two weeks, as nearly all of the prominent base ball players were entered for the meet. However, the season being so far advanced, it was necessary to have the meet on last Friday night or postpone it for an entire year, while in the future the meet will be held during midwinter. But for base ball men the meet has had its advantages in shaping their agility and endurance. The number of candidates who have handed in their names, specifying the positions for which they were trying, is about twenty-two. Several of last year's team will try for places, but the majority of the candidates are new men in the University of Kansas.
With but two or three exceptions, no one can tell who will ultimately be chosen to fill the different positions and competition for final places will be close. Gear, Phillips and Steinberg are showing up well in pitching, while Kelsey and
Jonson are catching in their old form. None of the infield positions can be ascribed to any one, while the open air practice is likely to bring untried outfielders into prominence.
This year's team will probably excel that of any previous year and the management of the Athletic Association is trying to arrange for a number of games with colleges of other states. It is rather deplorable that more games could not have been arranged for in our triangular league, but the Association will see that plenty of good games will be arranged with other college teams. The University of Nebraska is quite anxious to play us and in all probability their team will make a trip upon which it will play Baker, Washburn and University of Kansas. The enthusiasm of college base ball is manifestly less than of foot-ball, and from a financial standpoint it is not so easy to arrange games with colleges outside of the state.
McLean and Prescott.
Reserved seats were placed on sale Wednesday morning for the appearance of McLean and Prescott at the opera house next Friday evening, in "L'Absintheur," Miss Prescott's new play, about which so much has been said in the east. This is one of the many new plays which have been "brought out" this season. The plot is intensely tragic, dealing with the gradual and awful depravation of the absinthe drinkers, who come under the influence of a drug much worse than even opium or hemp.
John Dillon.
In the greatest imaginable contrast to the tragedy presented by McLean and Prescott Friday evening, we will have Mr. John Dillon next Monday evening as the "Model Husband," a comedy which has made millions laugh, and which Mr. Dillon considers one of the best he has played. The name suggests the character of the play and we can guess some of the predicaments that a model husband may get into when his wife is away; in fact some of us know teem too well.
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