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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SPORT IS DEVELOPING IN GERMAN LIFE NOW
Boxing, Rowing, Track, and Every Sport But Baseball is Popular
By CARL D. GROAT,
BY CARL B. GRUNT
(United Press Staff) Confronted by
the health test symptom in German life today is its tremendous sport movement.
This is a post-war development which has hit the entire nation until now Germany may almost be characterized as a spartan medium. Some say sport is a substitute for the compulsory military training system with its physical culture. This is probably true to a certain extent. Others claim there is a systematic effort to build a strong force for a one-for-one preached the idea of physical culture for such a purpose. He was talking confidentially at Weimar to a group of German correspondents, not realizing that an American newspaper man was present.
But, for the average German, the sport movement has nothing ulterior about it. It is a spontaneous, wholesale thing which is likely to give the Teuton something he has needed, namely, the sporting instinct. Moreover, it is useful to make him more aware, morbid individual, who has hitherto melded. He isn't worrying so much about his own troubles.
The sport movement i, diversified. Rowing, swimming, track athletics, bicycling, walking, riding, football, boxing, wrestling—these and other sports, except baseball, are now in novice. The German hasn’t learned baseball yet, but will unwieldly come to it in time. And, he is proving a good athlete. Boxing is very popular, though as jucretly comical for flat fighting has never been on the Gymnastics defense team, he has developed a couple of medicine boxers the past two years, but the social German champion, Breitenstraeter, has been cognitively defeated by second-class English boxers whenever he has tackled them.
The German sporting world is extremely anxious to link up with the outside world. The manager of a big many for a match, charging only prosecute me when I was about to go out, but not that pathetic appeal, asked if I didn't arrange to have a professional English team go over to Germany for a match charging only low rates because the exchange was bad. He appeared heartbroken when that the rates would be prohibitive.
Thus far, the Germans have been able to finance a number of rather sized lee prizefights or "box fightss" as they term them. The newness of the sporting movement is testified by the fact that there are very few German words to express English equivalents. For instance, a knickerbocker is "knickerbocker", a boxer, and many other American and English sporting terms have been transferred to the German vocabulary.
Find Footprints Of Prehistoric Animal
The footprints of a huge, prehistoric, amphibian reptile are now being restored and worked over by H. T. O'Neill of the department of paleontology.
The tracks were first discovered by James and Robert Coghill, sons of Prof. Geo. E. Coghill of the department of anatomy, while they were on a tramp along the banks of the Wakaaruna southeast of Lawrence in the vicinity of the Dightman bridge crossing
These tracks represent probably the largest amphibion from the carboniferous or coal measures that has ever been discovered and constitute a very important contribution to science, according to Mr. Martin. Jackson, who said the rocks have ever been found in this formation this side of Germany.
There are eight tracks in the series and the materials in which they were made has since hardened to stone. No bones were found and this makes the size of the reptile purely conjectural, but from the size and spacing of the tracks it was probably seven or eight feet long.
Ku, Ku's. Have Big Feed.
Ku Ku's Have Big Feed. The Ku Ku Klan will have a feed tonight in the Robinson Gymnasium after a successful football season. Plans have been made to continue their operations through the basketball season. Section 40 of course holds here every basketball held here and the Klank contemplates in accompanying the team on several trips.
Cocky: "What is rhetoric?"
Babe: Language in a dress suit.
—Arizona Wildcat
Football Team Will be at Law Scrim En Masse
Every member of the 1921 Jayhawk football team will be present at the annual Law Scrim given in their honor Friday night in Robinson gymnasium, it became known today. The last acceptance was received today, according to John Huntington and Waggoner, manager of the Scrim.
That the student body will take advantage of the many features of entertainment that the Law Sermil will offer is the belief of the management owing to the fact that the ticket sales to date have 'been unusually
P. Connor, weather prophet of Kansas City fame, has been kind to the lovers of the dance and predicted cool, snappier weather for Friday night which, it is believed, will add much to the pop of the party.
TENNIS IS ONE OF THE "BIG MONEY" SPORTS
Reported That William Tilden Was Offered $25,000 to Turn Prof.
New York, Dec. 1 - Tennis has not only developed into one of the most popular American sports but it now takes advantage of the foremost of "gig" attractions.
The national men's championships at the Germantown Cricket Club in Philadelphia last September is said to have drawn a gate of $120.00. The challenge round matches of the Davis Cup play between America and Japan brought in over $70,000 at Forest Hills and the national women's championships at the same club would have exceeded the mark. If Mile, Suzanne Lempel, the French star, had been able to play through, the tournament exhibition tour of American stars staged to the benefit of Devastated France brought in $10,000, although it was played off season.
It is only to be expected that professional sportsmen would look with cenergess at tennis as a money making promotion and it is understood that William T. Tilden, national and international champion was offered $25,000 recently to turn professional next summer.
tennis perhaps comes closer to a real amateur sport than any other American pastime. The number of professional instructors, compared to gold is almost negligible and the star players get less cut off of their work than the great players of any other game.
Tilden wrote tennis articles for a syndicate last summer as did Vincent Richards. Tilden is reported to have been paid about $1,000 a month for his stories. But the champion adhered rigidly to the rule of the tennis players they must answer every word that appears in order their names.
Many of the players are engaged in the insurance business and their connection with the game brings them closer than any ultra-exclusive clubs of the country, where "prospects" are very lucrative. It is said that one of the Pacific Coast stars on his tour of the east last summer was the only one to win conventions or which netted him $29,000.
The association has done much to preserve a strict amateur standing among the players without doing them an injustice for the time and attention they devote to the sport. The players, in years' back recalls the stand the association took against allowing a player to资本化 his name by energizing in the sporting goods business. Last winter the governing body of the game also passed a rule restricting the use of their name on any recruits or paraphenalia of the game.
The p-egular meeting of the Sociology club which was to have been held last evening was postponed until further announcement. The speaker was to have been Richard L. Hogue, and because of a general meeting in attendance at 4:30 he was unable to speak to the Sociology Club alone.
Sixteen letters were granted to Tiger football players for the 1921 season. Following are the men who were awarded their "M"; Hamilton and Havin, ends; Hill, Blumer, Keller, tackle; Storms and Scott, guard; Langer, quarterback; Korshaw, Packwood, Bundes and Hunge, halfbacks; Lincoln and Knight, fullbacks; Eighteen players who tried for yearling wore given绊s and numbers
Tigers Get Football Letters.
The regular meeting of the A. I.
E. E. will be held Thursday night
at 7:30 o'clock.
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Babylonian Bookkeepers Had To Write Statements On Clay and Then Hunt A Handy Bake Over
In these days of fountain pens, typewriters, printing presses, mineographs, multigraphs, hektograms, addressgraphs, and other "graphs" let's stop and shed a tear for the lot of the poor Babylonian bookkeeper. A check, a statement, or a dum meant more to him than a few florishes with his truth Spencerian. It called for infinite patience, and skill in the preparation of the clay tablet and the imprinting of the cuneiform characters in its plastic surface. Then the tablet had to be put in an ink and baked to render it permanent.
Some interesting examples of Babbylon baked clay tablets are on display in the north corridor of the third floor of Dyche Museum. They were collected in 1963 and 1944 by David Kline. Every one is over 4000 years old.
One of these tablets is among the smallest extant examples of Babylonian baked clay tablets. It is dark in color and hardly larger than a postage stamp. Its inscription is a receipt given by a temple scribe for two
Another larger tablet acknowledged a receipt of ten sheep and another found near the site of the ancient Nippur acknowledges receipt of over 150 sheep as well as other animals.
The fourth tablet is part of the temple records and has the name of the scribe attached and a figure of the diety in relief.
sheep and one ox brought for saec rifice.
Another tablet bears a list of the supplies furnished a temple messenger. It is a light chocolate in color and about the size and shape of a coin, which covers on both sides with some of the finest and most delicately written uncuniform inscriptions we have, according to their discoverer. It dates from about 2000 B.C. The last tablet is inscribed: It is a coin to the king and was found at Warka—the Biblical Erech. It is conical in shape and white in color. Its inscription reads: "For Sin-ga-shad, the mighty hero, King of Erech, King of Ammana. In the kingdom of his kingdom, built on
SPECIAL SALE Christmas Furs
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We call this our Santa Claus Fur Sale. Mr. Fletcher Price will be here Friday, December 2nd—one day only—with the greatest collection of fur coats in Squirrel, Beaver, Raccoon, and Hudson Seal and all other fur pieces ever shown in Lawrence. This is a real opportunity to choose from a line equal to any large city store and in this special sale you can save at least 25 per cent on any garment you select.
Remember—Friday only.
First Church of Christ, Scientist
of Lawrence, Kansas, invites you and your friends to attend A FREE LECTURE ON
By making a deposit, we will hold until Christmas
Christian Science
By DR. JOHN M, TUTT, of Kansas City, Mo.
Member of the Board of Lectureship of the Mother Church The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts
At Bowersock Theatre, Sunday afternoon, Dec. 4, 3 o'clock
"Hail to our jolly crew—may they fight long, sing loud and die old,"
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Woman Kills Child and Slashes Her Own Throat
Chicago, Dec. 1.—The body of three year old Margaret Coughlin, kidnapped Wednesday, was found today, dia-
grams show. The baby is the hostess of a neighbor's home.
The body of the neighbor, Mrs. Pensif, a sister, was found in her bedroom with her throat cut from ear to ear and a butcher knife in her hand. It is believed Mrs. Pensif killed the child and then committed suicide. Poisoned blood was recovered. Mrs. Pensif child in her home since she left home and committed suicide when she saw police searching about the neighborhood.
Alice Docking's Condition Better.
Alice Docking, c22, who has been confined to her home for the past three weeks with typhoid fever is improving, and is able to be "up and about." She will probably be some time before Miss Docking can resume her studies at the University, her mother said today.
Wibur Potter, c25, and wife spent two days last week in Kansas City, Mo.
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