A HOT TIME IN OLD NORTH.
THE VARSITY BOYS HAVE CALLERS
K. U. Girls go Through the Training Quarters and Write Their Impressions of the Same as Well as of the Inmates.
"Doctor—we have asked, some girls to come up this evening." ~
"No, no—can't have it."
"But they are the WERKLY Girls, reporting for the Woman's Edition."
"Well, that's all right."
And so they went through rain and mud and the invariable disagreeableness that always appears upon great occasion.
RUNNING THE GAUNTLET.
The reception at old North College waq graceful and impressive in the extreme, as one by one the boys were brought forward and introduced with solemnity to the chaperone and the reporter. No doubt they would far rather have faced a hundred Baker men—of the least one of whom the faculty stand in such appalling fear—than to have braved the glances from three pairs of feminine eyes, but that's another matter.
Mr. Hess from Mollie Lease's town was noticed to snatch his coat and hattu-culatively as though to break through the line, and run—no where in particular. The man from Wakarusa smiled painfully, and threw his arm around Games' neck. Mr. Mosse from Castletown leaned languidly against the wall, tapped one foot upon the floor, and remarked with his usual tact, "We're from the country—we're not afraid."
THE ICE WAS BROKEN.
The K. U. celebrities had recovered the serenity that they always display upon the foot-ball field, even in such critical circumstances as confronted them the other day, when St Marys pushed them down the field for seventy yards gain, and for which they received their daily constitutional—an unusually hot lecture from Dr Woodruff, "our famous coach."
ANTE-PRANDIAL
Time was not dragging just then for each boy and especially, Games had remembered the little speech he had thought of beforehand, and words were flying around thick and fast. Of course, the girls could do nothing but smile and listen as girls always do, you know.
Mr. Walker—by whom we mean "Sall" —was called upon to favor the audience with a soprano solo, but owing to a "football eye" which prevented him from giving the regular Cissy Fitzgerald wink, he failed to respond. It was subsequently learned however that Captain Kennedy was the best soldier of the crowd, as well as the bello, and that his rep-par-twared consist of "Goodnight, My Love," and "Answer Me."
"By the way," remarked Games, as a general move was made toward the long dining table, "since Manager McKinnie has been here, we can't any of us save a cent."
"Yes," remarked the reporter with the telling emphasis that girls assume sometime. "I have noticed that he has collected are markable large board bill," and for some reason or other Mr. Games changed the subject.
Owing to the presence of visitors, no doubt the boys had put on their company manners, or else always retained them, for no scrambling was noticed such as would make them merit the name of the Grab and Chaw club.
THE SIGNALLING BEGINS.
Mosse, as field captain immediately began signalling for the men to perform their duty.
"One swift—light completed—two," shouted Mosse, and Avery sent a slice of bread whirling across the table, with unerring aim. Cries of "One swift—Oat-croon—Two!" "Dark completed," "woofs" "Irish lemons" went up from all sides, and Blockberger, Teas, Poorman, Buzzi, and the rest were kept busy passing various edibles, from beefsteal and potatoes to butter, alias "salve," and iced tea, which posed under the very diguised and aesthetic name of "hniment."
Then came the rice-pudding, otherwise "mucilage," and the fruit, which was popularly called "goal-posts."
"Salt," the field captain explained for the information of anyone who might be interested in catching items for newspapers, is "xy," pepper, "xya," eggs are "misplaced confidence's, and spoons, as you might know, "young married couples,"—and roast beef, yes, roast beef is "shin-guards" when it is cut and sliced.
The mucilage was disposed of, the goal posts were knocked down, and the liniment all disappeared before the boys and their guests pushed back their chairs for the usual time-worn, but ever-enjoyable "feast of reason and flow of soul."
TONGUE AND TALK.
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Woodruff, hastily pulling off a cuff and placing it upon the other wrist, for in the excitement of preparation for company he had lost his usual composure and had slipped both cuffs over the same hand.
And then Games eye had to be examined and commented upon, and many were the expressions of sympathy that were going to be uttered, but Dr Woodruff cut them short with, "Oh, that's nothing; merely the skin covering the bone that projects above the eye is broken and the flesh brushed, you know. It doesn't hurt the boys never notice it in play. I have five or six scars upon each eyebrow where I have received 'foot-ball eyes.'"
While Voigt and Speak and a few others, not to mention the reporters, listened in fear and trembling, "Sal" entertained the company with numerous tales of past and present experiences and observations, a few of which were received, when they grew too personal, with stern silence—from one individual, at any rate.
Then came a tour of the apartments.
THE KITCHEN.
Upon the kitchen door was tacked a great placard bearing the words "No Admittance," but they had lost their charm. No doubt, the most interesting thing in the room was the great charcoal broiler upon which beef is prepared three times a day. No other meat but beef, and the best Kan-sas beef at that, is used at the training table; and it always appears either as roast or as beefsteak.
The long tables, the stove—far too small—the shelves, were all spick and span. In fact the kitchen and dining room were the neatest and, of course, the most attractive rooms in the whole training quarters.
THE STUDY ROOM.
"We study most of the time," remarked an athletic K. U. Er. The study is on the next floor," and with this invitation, the party ascended the stairs in the cold hall, Dr. Woodruff preceding with a little lamp in his hand very much like—if the figure may be allowed—liberty enlightening the world.
The study was found warm and lighted, and full of conscientious' hard-working students. The long reference table was strewn with books, an instructive game or two for recreation, and much describled paper. Martin's Human Body had surely kicked many a goal in the class room, and a Chemistry had come in for more than one touchdown.
"Our library," said Moss with a wave of the hand. "One book has fifty-two pages."
Sure enough, on one side were many volumes, variously illustrated and showing signs of hard usage.
THE "HOSPITAL."
"Across the way is "the hospital" said the man with the football eye and so across the hall they went.
The room was small and smelt of various liniments and lotions. Fortunately for K, U, there were no inmates, for Speaks the wounded sprinter, was able to hobble about.
THE DRESSING ROOM
On the lower floor, in a long narrow apartment full of shadows and ragged specters hung the Varsity football suits. Padded, stiff and dirty, they stood out like so many coats of mail. The intricacies of these uniforms were wonderful. They are full of queer contrivances, stitched inside and out, up and down and crosswise.
"I'm a seamaster" said the ever present Mosse. "Look here."
AN ACCOMPLISHMENT.
Oriental needlework with its showy brilliancy couldn't compare. Here was a repair' original in design, novel in purpose and showing at a distance of twenty feet just how it was done.
The training table is not a place for fun and amusement by any manner of means. To the boys who make up the two elevenes, the term "training table" means self denial, hard work, and strict attention to business
The carriage was announced. "I wish you girls would come every evening" remarked the big guard in an undertent, and undoubtedly the girls wished so too.
POSTSCRIPTS.
The hours for appearing at the quarters are punctually kept. Breakfast is served at 8, luncheon at 12;30, and dinner at 6. The bill of fare consists of the most substantial, and at the same time palatable food.
The muscular training proper begins in the afternoon when the boys go out on the field for practice games with the scrubs or for different forms of exercise with the ball.
Late hours are not permitted. About twelve of the boys sleep in the dormitories of the old north college, the others go to their rooms.
Fortunately, no serious injuries have been sustained by our football men this year. Every little cut or sprain is attended to by Dr. Woodruff, as carefully as the more serious ones. "By attending to the little things," he says, "they do not become big things."
It is often very hard for the boys to re
sist the temptation of a ham sandwich or of some delicious but indigestible bit of pastry.
For instance, Speak got hungry up at St. Marys, the other day, and thought, as he passed a restaurant, that a ham sandwich would taste remarkably well. So it would, but Speak didn't get to taste his sandwich after all, for Dr. Woodruff was heard coming along the street. Speak's sandwich went into Speak's pocket, and Speak himself dodged behind the counter. Nor does the story end here, for just as our sprinter was congratulating himself upon getting a chance to eat his bread and meat before going to bed, Dr. Woodruff entered and said, "Speak, you may come to my room tonight" Speak went, but his sandwich didn't. Captain Kennedy got the benefit of that.
All the members of the first eleven have been christened. The others do not receive names until they have been promoted to the regular team. Here is the lineup:
Mr. Kennedy, the man from Wakarusa,
Mr. Games, from Palmyra.
Mr. Voigts, the long end from Rosedale,
The red headed center from Keokuk,
Blockberger, from the “Pen.”
Shouting Speak, from St. Louis.
Foster, the long guard from Gardner.
Avery, from the short grass country.
Poorman, the man from the regular
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Mr. Mosse of Castletown.
Hess, from Mollie Lease's town.
Dr. Woodruff thinks that our team compares favorably with Pennsylvania's. Taking everything into consideration the Pennsylvania team outclasses K. U., but in several positions K. U. has the stronger men.
Mr. E, E. Voigs, who plays left end, will probably attend the University of Pennsylvania next year and will no doubt obtain a place upon the first eleven.
SIDE WALKS WITH MEN.
Cupid: The correct form of address in an ordinary billet-deux is, My dear Clara, and not "My dearest —"
Hooper: Drive your hobby several times around the yard before trying a real live animal at a football game
Phi Gum: Walkcircumspectly; don't prowl around at night. You are sometimes known as "Carousers."
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Kates: Try single blessedness for a stroll to the wind mill.
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Fist: When rushing a Sunday school superintendent, serve wafers with ice tea or buttermilk.
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Add: You should certainly speak to your mother about those numerous anonymous postals.
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Wiley: No, my dear man, we are unable to answer your question, "How can Kansas university beat Yale and still be beaten by Missouri?"
Nicowood: An ordinary horse travels but ten miles an hour—. We are glad you are loyal to your native state and have an aversion to Missouri.
Sigma Si: Yes; you certainly are excused from jumping board bills for a few months. Coaching parties are expensive. $ ^*$
W. W. W.: Your vocabulary is improving. Practice in practice will better even "munckers" and "blackguarders."
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Walkus: Should long strolls toward the country produce a tired feeling, try something besides angel's food and chocolate.
Murdock: Don't tell a girl that you study all afternoon, and therefore will call in the evening, she may doubt it nor well she like you if you thoughtlessly call your 9 o'clock stroll a "constitutional."
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Dollins: No, I should hardly advise your offering a cup of anything to a young lady at a party. If she didn't call you names last time she be may justifi d in doing so the next time.
Coxy: Applications to the University of New Jersey should be forwarded without delay. Office seeking is uncertain at best, even in prosperous times.
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Bayta: We suggest that you keep under lock and key your fraternity picture. The Mellins food advertisers are abroad searching for a group of healthy youths.
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Bluemar: No? No. I-ah-shouldn't "do it again." There is a possibility that things might leak out.
Curly: After consulting the encyclopedia, it seems probable that the object in hitching a horse is to fasten horse, post and strap together, not only post and strap.
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Smith or Jones, (which?): If you must ktss a girl at a party observe the following stage directions:
Lights, red and green.
The young lady informed of your attentions—or—your room mate throw out of the window.
Doghoff: Don't contract the habit of flirting with strange girls carnival nights, unless you ascertain by accurate measurement the exact size of her escort. The chances are you may get "bilified."
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Flurry: A base ball mask may be a protection to one's facial beauty, especially when opposing a well know fraternity in a game of football
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Dodgers: Smoke often enough my dear man so that it won't be necessary to exhibit that H avana between your teeth when raising your hat to another man's sweetheart.
Schlitz: Guard your conduct on the east side of Ohio street, you are watched from many windows.
Hilrox: A word to the wise is sufficient. Catch the point in the following: She: "I do like Mr. Brown. He seems to be such a young boy."
He: "Yes, he is. He really is. One day in a moment of abstraction I took a cigar out of my pocket, we while wer together, and I had to take him home in a carriage.
Just What We Like.
In the Iowa Vidette-Reporter, we notice the following editorial:
"KANSAS GENTLEMEN."
"In sharp contrast to the conduct of the team from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and to the treatment our team received last year at Missouri stands the action of the players and students of Kansas university.
"Though we had defeated them last year, and though many of the Kansas students believed we would beat them again, our team was received with the greatest hospitality, and both before and after the game received kindnesses at the hands of students of Kansas.
"At the railway station our boys were met by a large denigration of Kansas students' with a "Rock Chalk, Jay Hawk, K. U., to be sure, but met in a spirit of genuine sportsmanship which knows no animosity or unfriendly rivalry on the field of sport."
"Much of the bitterness of defeat is softened by the knowledge that we were defeated by gentlemen in a gentlemanly manner, rather than by hoodlums after the fashion of plug-uplies."
Such words as these coming from men whom we have defeated—we say "we" because we helped to yell, at any rate, make the K. U. girl doubly proud of "our boys."
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