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Kansas University Weekly.
ATHLETICS.
There will probably be no spring practice of the foot-ball team this year, Such a practice as attempted last year, but the results were flattering. Manager Burney says he will be a winning team next season, and indicas point that way. Besides the League games and the Thanksgiving game with the ers, we will meet the University of Minne- and Denver athletic teams.
Now that the indoor sports are over, the athletes are turning their energies to the track events. The date of the Field Day Meet has not yet been decided upon, but it will be in the early part of May. The date for a meeting of the track teams of Missouri and Kansas has not yet been consummated,and even should it fall through it will not destroy our hopes of a Field Day at Kansas City as there are other teams being considered.
Several of the University's athletes of past years were present at the Indoor Meet. Among them were Ricksecker, Newton and Harvey.
The cups offered as first and second prizes in the Indoor events were given out Monday. The cups are pewter ware, and on each is engraved the name of the winner, the event, and position.
There has been a change made in the officers of the base-ball team. Gear's retirement left the team without a captain, and the boys showed good judgment in electing Wagner to that position. Wagner is an excellent pitcher, and last year led the team in batting. Besides he is well liked by the boys and will make an efficient head. Luther Todd, last year's short stop, has been elected manager in place of Hugh Means, resigned.
Base-ball Prospects.
The bright weather of the past week has proved a great advantage to the base-ball interest. Each afternoon has brought out a large number of students, some ambitious to become members of the team and others only anxious
to help out, both motives equally worthy. We cannot have a ball team without the players, nor can we have a winning team without a good second nine.
In order to get the best base-ball material in the University out to play, and to give every one a chance to show what he can do, the baseball committee has arranged a series of class games. In this way it is hoped to develop some hidden talent. The first of these games last Saturday morning between the Pharmics and Medics demonstrated that there is hitherto unknown skill in these departments. Not all in base-ball, however. For the first game of the season the exhibition was not at all bad, and if the other classes do as well, this scheme will do much toward building up a strong University team.
It is feared that the team will be weak this year in the pitcher's and catcher's positions. Without Gear and Kelsey of course there is a great gap in our base-ball line, but we have promising candidates for these positions.
Wagner is a strong, effective pitcher. He is not Gear's equal, but very few amateur teams have pitchers of Gear's ability. Outland and Clark are also on the pitcher's list.
Squires and Pope are the prospective short stops today. Squires substituted last year and as he has developed in foot-ball training, good work is expected of him.
Among the candidates for the infield are Mitchell, Todd, Sherman, Blackshire, Walker, Swayze, Dryden, and Griggs, while these men are prominent among the outfield candidates. Agnew, Kaull, Stout, Morrison, Ballanger and Baldridge.
Manager Todd is working up a schedule of interesting games, the first of which will be with the Haskell Indians, April 18th. Two games will be played with the Hawkins team of Ft. Leavenworth, one at Leavenworth, April 25th, and a return game at McCook field May 9th. Ottawa and the 'Varsity will cross bats in two games, while negotiations are on for two games with Lincoln, Omaha, and the Tigers of Missouri.