Kansas University Weekly.
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ATHLETICS.
The third annual Indoor Meet of the University Athletic Association which will be held at the Armory on Saturday evening March 14th, promises to be a most enjoyable occasion. Its success in every particular is already assured. The program contains the names of the best men in the various events, that are in the University. The students appreciate this fact, which with the class interest that is felt in the coming meet, will secure a large and enthusiastic audience to cheer the contestants.
The entries were closed on Tuesday, the roth, so that the program is now complete. It contains some forty names for the twelve events, and several of these will compete in two or more events. The entries are as follows:
BOXING (light weight, under 140 pounds), W. McMurray, Hill, Reno, Swayze, A. Baldridge and Stanley.
MIDDLE weight, (over 140 and under 160) Schroeder, Fay, Sherman, and McMurray.
HEAVY (over 160), Foster and Walker.
WRESTLING (light weight under 140),
Stewart, Cox, McCall, Jio and C. H. Simpson. MIDDLE,(140----160) Menke, J. A Simpson Snyder, and Hester.
HEAVY, (over 160), Guy Simpson and Colvin. JUMPS, Rench, Sherman, Sanderson, Sharpe, Martindale, Katherman, Stanley and Anderson.
HITCH AND KICK, Stanley, Smith, Sherman and Sanderson.
PARALLEL AND HORIZONTAL BARS, Sanderson, Stanley, Alder, Warren, Lee, Pope and Everett.
SHOT PUT, Foster, Steele, Outland and Menke.
It would be difficult to select from these the event that will prove of the greatest interest. The light weight boxing has several names of men of almost equal ability. Will McMurry was in the contest last year, and showed himself a "shifty" man. Hill is clever with the gloves, although he is a new man at the art.
The four men of the middle class are well matched and as all of them are young in experience, the result is an open question. Foster and Walker will divide first and second honors in the heavy weight. It is scarcely necessary to challenge the statement of one of our town papers that last year there were several knock-out blows in the boxing matches, and the same thing would be seen this year, under the guise of a social event. The statement is absurd, and will not be accredited. The boxing is scored by taps and hard hitting is positively forbidden. The Indoor Meet will be a social event, because the students and towns-people have good sense enough to recognize in the indoor sports, the most wholesome and skillful of modern athletics.
The wrestling contests will be excellent. Stewart is said to be as clever a light weight wrestler as has ever been in the University. Cox is a veritable rubber ball. He played guard on the second team last year and won for himself the compliment from Captain Piatt of always being in the way. Jio, the Japanese student and McCall who carried the University colors over two policemen at the State Oratorical Contest, are also entered in the light weight class. In the middle wrestling are the two Simpson boys, J. A. and C. H., Snyder, Menke and Hester, if his lame shoulder will permit. Guy Simpson and Colvin will have a "cinch" on first and second prizes, but who will get which is the delicate question. Colvin, familiarly called "Pampadour Jim," is a giant in strength, and Mr. Sam Usher declares he will make the star foot ball player of next year's team. Simpson needs no introduction. Parental objection robs us of a great tackle for our foot ball team, in Guy Simpson.
The prizes will be an interesting feature at the meet. In the standing and running high jumps are Sherman and Rench, both of whom hold the University records. Sharpe has a good record, and no doubt Sanderson will rank