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THE UNIVERSITY COURIER.
the chronic kicker, the menace to the game has got to go. No player except the catcher and 1st base will be allowed to wear padded or lined gloves or mitts. It will require more diligent work and practice to keep the hands in condition from which will follow sharper and prettier fielding The bat may be of any size and length, the only restriction being that it is round and of hardwood.
Noisy coaching will not be tolerated. This will not apply to college base ball, where a premium should be placed upon coaching Anyone who has heard Archie Latham, or Campan coach, will agree that if confined to civil limits, coaching is often the life of the game
A most important change is one which constitutes a foul ball. Hereafter any ball that goes into the foul ground, between the lines of the bases, is to be considered a foul, whether it is batted directly to the ground or in the air. This does away with the old ten foot rule.
A ball tipped by the batter and caught within the ten foot line is a strike. This is one for the pitcher.
OUR FIELD DAY AND INDOOR MEET.
The directors have decided that at an early date in April the field day and indoor exer ises will take place. They will be given on the same day. The field matches in McCook field in the afternoon and the indoor exercires at the rink at night. The former will include mile, half, and quarter half races; hundred yard dashes; hammer and base ball throwing; hurdle races; high and broad kicking; bicycle matches etc. The indoor program among other things will have boxing, wrestling, tumbling horizontal bars, twining pale, and club swinging. Foster visited a number of the
Kansas City merchants on his recent trip and has been pledged a number of handsome prizes which will be hung upon the occasion of the spring meet. Other prizes will be given by the Lawrence merchants. These are not trivial, but will merit competition. There should be a great interest exhibited in this meeting by every student in the University. Any student is eligable to compete and those intending to do so will hand their names as early as possible to the manager of track athletics, A. J. Foster.
NOTES.
Yale cleared $3,165 on her last year's base ball team. Great scott! that's more than we cleared in foot ball.
The Princeton executive committee denies the story of Mr. Ellis, of the U.of P., that Yale and Princeton are combining to boycott Princeton in foot ball and base ball.
Morrison's Faust
Faust, as given by the Morrison company, will be the attraction at the Bowersock Opera House next Thursday, March 7.
While the world endures Goet e's tragic story of Faust and Marguerite will continue to live. The story has been celebrated in song and in its operatic form has been elaborately staged for many years, but it remained for this company to present it in worthy dramatic form with all effects and accessories necessary to give it that weirdness intended by the author. In this version the role of Mephisto is made a jolly jovial devil, one well calculated to enchain the souls of men in the glamour of forbidden pleasures. The scenic effects are strongly brought out and serve to accentuate the dramatic situation in a vivid manner. One of the most notable effects is at the end of the first act, where Mephisto exults over the capture of the soul of Faust, when "midst darkness
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