THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
CLUB OWNERS FAVOR LONG WORLD SERIES
Reduction to Seven Games Not Meeting Approval of Magnates
AFRAID OF LOSING MONEY
Each New York Club Made About $80,000 in Last Years
New York, Nov. 23.—Reduction of the world's series from nine games back to the old standard of seven games, which has been advocated by Commissioner Landis, is not getting a shout of approbation from the club
When this interesting bit of new business comes before the magnates of the two major leagues at their annual December conclaves, it may prove a stumbler for the commissioner.
Considering the high price of everything and the great outlay of cash that comes with the honor of being a pennant winner, the club owners maintain that they run the chance of losing money on a seven game series, especially if one club should win in straight games.
Looking at the $900,000 gate the last classic in New York, the claim seems on the surface to be absurd, but digging down and uncovering the many side channels into which a large part of the receipts find their way, it seems legitimately a bad piece of business to win a pennant.
Each of the New York clubs made about $80,000 on the late series. Had either the Giants or the Yanks followed the footsteps of the Boston Braves, who beat the Athletics in straight games back in 1904, both of the participants would have lost money.
Eight. and a half cents of every dollar taken in at the first five games went to each one of the contending clubs and the series expenses had to be paid out of that. The lavish way in which both clubs entertained the newspaperman and friends ran into thousands of dollars.
Under the present arrangement, the Advisory Board and the two league treasuries get the largest out of the receipts. The $42,500 salary which Commissioner Landis gets forced the Advisory Board to increase its share from ten to fifteen per cent of the receipts.
The players get 60 per cent of the receipts of the first five games. The increase in this "cut" from the old scale was made necessary by the rule to give the second and third place teams each league a shave of the snails.
So it seems, figuring it all up, that there is little but glory for the club owners who get into the series. In the case of the rich New York clubs this is fair enough, but supposing St. Louis should win the penalties not too much, the proposition would not be fair for the risk and the expense involved.
After the commissioner's share and the two leagues' share are deducted, the club owners haven't much left out of their forty per cent. But between seventy-five and eighty-five per cent of the receipts are divided fifty-fifty with the league treasurer. In the event of an eighth and ninth game the league profits must turn over seventy-five per cent to their respective leagues.
If the magnates do accept the recommendation to return to the old seven game arrangement, it is probable that they will insist upon a rearangement of the process of division and give the pension winner a better break.
Y. WORKERS WILL LECTURE
Foreign Student Conditions to Be Discussed at Convocation
Mr. Ben Cherrington, executive secretary of college Y. M. C. A. work for this region and Miss Leslie Blanchard, executive secretary of Y. W. C. A. student department, will be on the campus for a series of afternoon convocations at Myers Hall November 29, 28 and 30
Mr. Cherrington and Miss Blancheard were members of the party organized by Dr. Sherwood Eddy which toured Europe last summer to study social, industrial, and student conditions in those countries.
"The facts about student relief work and its results in Europe will be presented at these meetings so, in part, to give students an interest in it," said Warren Bldgott this morning. "This great work should be of special interest to K. U. students because a former K. U. man, Omar Fiman, heats up," explained Bldgott.
Janet Fink, c24, who is now teaching in Great Bend, will arrive here Thursday morning to attend the Thanksgiving game.
Kansas Railroads Do Record Business of Late
Topeka, Nov. 23—Kansas railroads did a record business in August, July, and September, figures given by Kansas utilities appear above.
HOSPITAL VACCINATES MANY FOR SMALLPOX
No Cases Here, But Precaution Is Taken by Author.
ities
The staff at the Students' Hospital vaccinated 161 students Monday.
In spite of the fact that they are no cases of smallpox in Lawrence at this time, Chancellor Lindley, in view of the serious smallpox situation, especially in Kansas City, deemed it ad- ditional to publicly students to be vaccinated at once.
Prior to a week ago Monday only thirty-eight students had been vaccinated at the Student Hospital, but not all of them. The number has increased to 330.
While the State Board of Health considers a good vaccination scar good for from five to seven years, those in charge of the dispensary think best to vaccinate all who have not been vaccinated within the last four years.
According to Dr. Martha M. Bacon, associate professor of physical education, if an immunity has been established the vaccination will not take. Therefore the only safe plan is for all students who report to be vaccinated.
"The Student Hospital will be closed from 6 o'clock Wednesday until 8 o'clock Monday morning, but all students who make appointments and all emergency cases will receive care during," she said. "Miss Peaceck, head nurse."
up to the present time 3188
disciplinary calls have been made. This is approximately one-half the sum of last year's calls.
The entire hospital force has been called upon to do the work of the dispensary. So far no outside help has been called. Typhoid inoculations will be prepared for the present, will be started immediately after the vaccination rush.
“CON”HOFFMAN WRITES HOMI
Former Y. M. Secretary Tells of Relief Work Abroad
In a recent letter "Con" Hoffman well known here as a former Y. M
C. A. secretary, tells of the relief work of the World's Student Christian Federation. Mr. Hoffman is now executive secretary in charge of this relief work with headquarters at Geneva, Switzerland.
The work of the Federation meets with the hearty approval and encouragement of the governments of the countries in which the work is being carried on, according to Mr. Hoffman. In practically all the countrie
relief supplies and workers are transmitted over the railways free of charge. The counties give the field managers a possible in organizing their work.
The Federation aims to secure coordination and amity between the different groups of students. In Czech Slovakia Czech and German students sit on the same rolff committee as hitherto been impossible. The Federation is now organizing its work in Russia with headquarters at Warsaw.
Some of the activities of the Federation mentioned by Hoffman are: Purchase of clothing and food for needy and deserving students; providing bedridden students with nourishing food and medical attention; caring for tubercular students in sanitariums; organization of employment burboards and the repatriation of students from Switzerland.
Mr Ben Cherrington who was in Europe the past summer, and who knows just what the Federation has and is doing to relieve the students of these countries will be here next week. November 28, 29, and 30 for a series of afternoon meetings at Myers Hall.
Each spectator in the stadium Thanksgiving will be registered and his name filed away as a permanent record of the University. The "I-Was-There" cards will be given every person in attendance, to register his name and address, at the first morning before Thanksgiving will be passed among the crowd between halves by a corps of 150 ushers.
Belva Shores, c'21, who is teaching Journalism and languages in Smith Center high school, plans to be here for the Missouri game.
The University and Haskell bands will be in the parade.
There was Excitement Galore When First Football Special Left For "Ol Mizzou," 30 Years Aged
Just; thirty years ago, Saturday,
October 31, the first football special
train in the history of K. U. stool
waiting on the Northwestern Railroad
track at the Santa Fep deport
Lawrence to carry two-hundred students
to the first Missouri-Kansas
football game.
"All aboard!!!!!!, shouted the conductor.
"Rock Chalk, Jayhawk, K. U." responded the little group of two hundred loyalsists—most of the students then attending the university. Two hundred fans in that day meant more than it would in this era of the popularity of the greatest college basketball team. The training, carried more students in proportion to the attendance at the University of Kansas than the largest special that was ever chartered from Lawrence for a football game.
"Come on, you raving maniacs," warned the conductor, impatiently.
Northwestern was honored with having the privilege of sending the first special train in the history of Kansas football.
"this train leaves here at eight o'clock. If you Jawahmers want to get there in time you had better enewal aboard right away."
Chancellor Snow and fifteen K. U. professors were among the excited group which hastened aboard the group which hastened aboard the train of two coaches—the entire train of eight, the largest loyal Kansas away from the campus to see their ever-victorious gridiron warriors in action in foreign territory. The foreign land was Kansas City, Missouri. It was a neutral field and the supporters of each team had come to quantity. In the volume of velling, Kansas had the edge, according to the coach of the Jayhawk eleven—Prof. E. M. Hopkins, then as now in the department of English of the university, who was elected manager of the team, September 18
Missouri had the advantage of playing in her home state, but Kansas offset that gain by playing closer to home in a city where K. U. disciples were as numerous as the M U. supporters.
"That little band of University students who took the trip to Kansas City in 1891 was just as noisy, and enthusiastic as any other group of students," said Professor Hopkins. "The little old two-drive wheel engine had to stop between Tonganoxie and Kansas City for water; during the delay it was crowded on the engine and cars to have their picture taken.
FIRST FOOTBALL SPECIAL IN HISTORY OF K. U. ATHLETICS
This is the picture shown in the University Daily Kansan toav.
After almost two hours of laboring the dimutive mogul engine finally chugged into Kansas City at 9:30 o'clock with the two coaches packed with powertrain equipment and the football team was escorted from the train to the Midland Ho-
The cost of a round-trip ticket on the special was the whole sum of one dollar. Bids for the chartering of the special to the Turkey Day game were more than uniting Lawrence with the outside world. The railways were the Santa Fe, the Union Pacific, the Northwestern, and the Lawrence, Galveston and Leaventworth line, which ran between Carbondale and Lawrence. The Northernwest used the Lawrence, Galveston and Leaventworth lines in Lawrence and crossed the Kaw River just east of the site of the present Santa Fe depot. A rather crude and unsafe bridge afforded passage for track across the river. The special train carrying the K. U. rooters and team to Kansas City was one of the last to be opened; it was it was the longest afterward.
tled by the students who then proceed to stage a rally on Twelfth Street. K. C. was not yet taken on the me-
K. C. had not yet taken on the metropolitan clothes that it wore today. The rally was similar to the present one, with a large band was lacking—the K. U. band was not yet begun. After the rally the participants hunted an eating house and then hurried out to wattle between the two rivals.
In this, the first of the annual hard-fought contests between the two schools, Kansas won the victor's laurals by the decisive score of 22 to 8. After the game the K. U. squad and the manager returned to the Midland team and the game was divided. After all the expenses were paid, and the magnificent sum of $300 was all that remained to be divided.
While the team was eating their supper in the Midland Hotel, the Kansas supporters were giving twist to their exuberant joy in a rally in front of the Midland. Kansas City people heard about the University of Missouri's fight against much gusto until the shades of night were growing old. Then the little band of Jayhawker revelers deciding that the celebration was complete, grew quieter and trained slowly to the special train waiting at the station—not the Union Station, but the historic land-mark of Kansas City.
It was a jubilant group of students who boarded the special for the return to Lawrence at 8:30 o'clock. Many a Rock Chalk resounded through the coaches before Lawrence was reached at 10 o'clock.
It had been a great day; it had seen the first but not the last victory of Jayhawk over Tiger. The Athletic Treasury was swollen with the $150 net receipts, which was deposited in a safe at Woodward's Drug Store, located on 28th Street in Corner Drug Store. So ends the story of the first special train at K. U.
Come on Alumni, Let's Twist the Tiger's Tail.
After they're beaten, let's show them the proper spirit by "deserting" them with Black and Yellow "Bricks."
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Record Crowd Expected At Berkeley for Game
Berkeley, Calif., Nov. 23—This year will see a record breaking crowd at the Big Game with Stanford. The Stadium at Palo Alto will seat 65,000 and from the sale of tickets it is predicted that every seat will be taken.
Such a large crowd will severely tax the transportation facilities between San Francisco and Palo Alto. All companies are making special plans.
Twist that Tiger's Tail!
Recognition is to be given women students in the College of Emporia who will wear low leeches for three months, refrain from eating between meals, and sleep with their windows open. These are provisions in the interest of personal hygiene contained in the constitution of the women's athletic association, recently organized.
Mark Twain once edited a paper in Missouri. One of his subscribers wrote him he had found a spider in his paper and wanted to know whether it meant good luck or bad. This is what Mark answered:
"Old Suscriber: Finding a spider in your paper was neither good luck nor bad luck for you. The spider was merely looking over our paper to see which merchant is not adverberate enough. The spider spin his web across the door and lear a life of undisturbed peace ever toward."-Fourth Estate.
Members of the Theta Sigma Umperson Sorority at the Kansas State Normal are eating mush and milk suppers every day in order to save money. In European countries who have insufficient funds to pay school expenses.
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It's something new for Norma
To find comedy in drama—to find her at one moment a lovable maidette, at the next a wife who knows her money buys her husband's kisses—to find smiles to banish your tears—these are the wonderful things you'll find in "The Wonderful Thing."
Larry Semon in "Solid Concrete" There's a laugh in every scene