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THE UNIVERSITY COURIER.
We wish to congratulate the stockholders of the KANSAS UNIVERSITY WEEKLY on the election of such capable and deserving men and women to offices on the board. If these people are put where they really belong instead of where they go on account of their political faith, ring or non-ringster, the future of our new paper is assured. It looks now as though the personal of the paper will hardly be what it should be on account of politics. We have in mind the positions that different people have been slated for by the "powers that be" that while they will be filled well enough, they would be filled better with the people who are compelled to take positions for which they are less suited. We trust that the good of the school will be looked after at all times, and that personal feeling will be thrown aside. Let us be up and doing and have a paper equalled only by the best.
TWO FROM EMPORIA.
The K. U. Boys are Playing Great Ball
Some Good Records at the Field Meet--Senior Faculty Game.
The students of Kansas University and people of Lawrence never had more good cause to go wild over her athletic teams than to-day with her base ball team of 195. Never have twelve more valliant, stalwart young men graced the diamond of McCook field than the boys who to-day don the crimson uniforms, and are batting the colors of Kansas University to the highest pinacle they have floated from in the annals of University athletics.
If any one is still asleep to the fact that we have a ball team "what is a ball team,' he would do well to study out the official score of the two games with Emporia last week, instead of brooding over the memory of those two games with the Kansas City professionals.
Emporia has an aggregation of ball players who are away up. While they sail under the colors of the College of Emporia but five of the team are enrolled in the college, the other four belonging to the state team that has its picture circulated as the "Champions of Kansas." Two games from them on their own grounds shows the
strength of our team, and the boys should be well supported in the return games here. The first game was played in a cyclone of dust, and called at the end of the seventh inning on account of rain. The weather was against brilliant ball playing, but the boys played a hard, steady game. They got six clean hits from Oliphant, and were aided in their run getting by the errors of Emporia. Gear pitched his usual good game, and was well backed by Kelsey.
The following is the score:
COLLEGE OF EMPORIA.
A B R B H S B P O A E
Barnes, lf ... 4 0 0 0 0 0 0
Patterson, c... 4 0 1 0 5 0 0
Sheppard, s s... 2 0 0 1 2 2 1
Parrington, 1 b... 3 0 0 0 10 0 2
Bracken, r. f... 2 0 1 0 0 0 0
Evans, 2 b... 3 0 0 0 1 1 3
Oliphant, p... 3 0 0 0 0 7 1
Backus, c. f... 3 1 2 0 1 0 0
Haver, 3 b... 3 2 1 1 2 0 3
Total ... 27 3 5 2 21 10 10
KANSAS UNIVERSITY.
| | A B | R | B H | S B | PO | A | E |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Chamberlain, c f | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Wagner, r f... | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Kelsey, e... | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 |
| Gear, p... | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 |
| Alden, 2 b... | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| Mitchell, 1 b... | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 |
| Todd, s s... | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Williamson, 3 b. | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Agnew, l. f... | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Total... 34 7 6 2 20 10 3
SCORE BY INNINGS.
K. U. 0 0 1 1 1 2 2-7 C.of E. 0 0 0 0 0 1 2--3
Earned runs, K. U. 1. C.of E.0. Two base hits Mitchell. Bases on balls—Gear 2, Oliphat 3 Hit by pitched ball-Oliphant 3 Struck ont-Gear 6, Oliphant 5. Left on bases-K. U. 2, Emporia 4. Passed balls-Patterson 4, Kelsey 1. Umpire-Miller.
The second game was a decisive victory for Kansas University; and came almost being a shut out to their credit. The boys batted like Trojans, and fielded a beautiful game. Alden's second base playing was parexcellence, he accepting ten chances without an error. Gear covered short in excellent style, besides leading the batting. The