The University Courier.
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ATHLETICS.
ST. JOE HAS organized a team tor this season, and will probably join the Western League. ___
YALE'S NEW CAGE is the finest in the country. It is well lighted and firmly padded, being thirty feet wide and over one hundred feet long. ___
THE TEAM FOR Saturday's game with Haskell Institute will be chosen from the following men, unless new material is soon developed: Hogeboom, Lewers, Mitchell, Alden, Matteson, Williamson, Chamberlain, Kelsey, Steinberg, McMahon, with Smith, Strothers, Wagner and Clark in the box.
THE FOLLOWING is the list of events to be contested in the Yale-Harvard games this spring: 100 and 220 yard dash; quarter-mile dash; half-mile and mile runs; one mile walk; 120 and 220 yard hurdle races; running high and broad jump, pole vault; putting shot and throwing hammer, and two-mile bicycle race. This list will be a good one to adopt for our contest with Nebraska.
AND STILL THE ball field is in the chaotic state of old. The posts have been removed from the out-field, but for some reason or other the parties neglected to take away the holes. So about every ten yards there exists a miniature well. Accidents are inevitable. The in-field is in a still more wretched shape. Further delay in this matter is inexcusable, and certainly does not reflect a large amount credit on those in authority.
THE FOLLOWING SUGGESTIONS, advanced by The Lantern, of the Ohio State University, might not be out of place in K. U.:
"We would suggest to the players, hard practice.
To the manager, vigorous oversight of the work of the team.
"To the captain, a fast place for the players.
To the captain, a last place for the players. 'To the students, to attend ever game at home and all possible abroad.
" To the faculty, to attend the games occasionally.
"To the band, to learn to blow louder at each game."
IT SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE for Madam Nature and athletics to arrive at an agreement. For of all disagreeable days on the calendar, the past two Saturdays hold the palm. The high wind and dust made playing impossible, and, in consequence, very little was attained. The candidates for the 'Varsity have been reduced very little, and the committee will not lack for available men. The most vulnerable point at present is in the box. Of course it is early in the season to predict, but—forewarned, forearmed, etc.
THE FOLLOWING ARE the crews and hours as furnished by the committee: Hill and Ricksecker, 5-6; Newton and Stewart—Raymond and Topping, 6-7; Parker and Jautzen-Ohler and Clark, 7-8; Duffer and Edwards, 2-3; Crosby and Shrouder-Taylor and Cheedle, 5-6; Allen, Waltmen and Galbreath, 6-7; Orrand Cox, Squires and Wyrick-Rigs and Brown, 7-8. If proper interest is shown, the association is willing to equip this department more fully and insure its place among K. U. athletics. It remains with you.
A SOPHOMORE ASKS that this article be printed: "The sporting editor of the Students' Journal is certainly not an admirer of the 'Baconian method.' For no mortal could predict future events and anticipate nature with the apparent certainty that clothes this athletic editor. Quantity evidently means far more than quality in his eyes. True indeed, the Seniors did post the largest notice, and did flaunt it longest, until their success made even the timid Freshman bold, and soon eyes were greeted with '97's announcement. But for no other reason than the above this same sporting editor does claim the honor of having the strongest nine in school, due to the Seniors. I have heard it rumored that the Sophomores immediately accepted the empty challenge, but were unable to secure a game. The Junior Laws suffered the same rebuff. O editor and Senior, thy reigning sin is not shyness."
THE UNIVERSITY ATHLETES are the only ones that are sorry the supply of Columbian stamps at the Lawrence post-office has given out. They were the only things of any size that they have been able to lick. —Topeka State Journal.
What latent forces of witicism, what mighty powers of thought, and last, but far from least, what admirable knowledge of the Queen's English must have been the property of the author of this squib Who knows but that a second William Nye may arise from the ranks of this evening sheet. Its first attempt is encouraging indeed; but please address all like communications to the English department instead of to the athletic editor.
NOTES.
What has become of the inter-frat league?
Ogg may figure in the box for the Junior Pharmics.
Fifteen candidates are trying for the battery at Harvard.
The Yale Mott Haven team will go to the table on April 1st. in their annual best
Oxford defeated Cambridge easily in their annual boat race.
Yale will not play with professional base-ball teams this year.
Mr. Cowan took in Wednesday's practice game from the grand stand.
The young ladies of Baker gave a benefit concert Monday, March 5, for the athletic association.
What is the matter with the Omaha tournament? Surely this is not one of those irredescences?
The Yale faculty has announced that no more boxing will be allowed in any public contest given by Yale.
The spring foot-ball match between Cambridge and Oxford was won by the former February 21, three goals to one.
An annual prize of $60 is to be given at Dartmouth to the member of the athletic team standing highest in his studies.
The big universities have adopted the rule of the National League, in having the pitcher's box sixty feet from the home base.
Plans are being made for a field meet in Chicago, at which all the western colleges may contest for the championship of the West.
James Harding, K. S. U., Lawrence, Kansas, is the man to whom all communications for dates, etc., should be addressed-not to the athletic editor.
A new rule goes into effect this year. It is, that any player, while attempting to punct makes a foul, shall have a strike called on him for each foul so made.
The superintendent at West Point may allow foot-ball teams to come there and play if he deems it advisable. But the West Point team cannot go away and play.
The ball team of the College of Emporia has been chosen and is now put on the field for active work. V. L. Parrington and Ray Evans will do the battery work this season.
O Baker of Baldwin, has recent success made you forget past and future? Has '93's eleven obliterated memories of field-day, base-ball (III times) and tennis? "O say, wont you come out and play."
From the present outlook, it appears that Coleman will have little trouble in getting his athletic team in good shape. New material is out every night. We congratulate Mr. Coleman on his early efforts.
The University of North Carolina has decided to discourage football until the rules of the game are so modified as to make it less dangerous; also to forbid attendance of students on games away from home except upon written request of father or guardian.
BASE=BALL!!
SATURDAY,
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M. COOK FIELD.
HASKELL INSTITUTE - vs. - K. S. U.
Everybody turn out.