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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FIVE TRACK MEN WILLWOULD-BE OFFICERS GO TO VALLEY MEETARE ALL SATISFIED
The Last Contest of the Season Will be at Ames
May 26
The Missouri Valley Conference track meet at Ames, Iowa, next Saturday will mark the close of the Jayhawk track season. Kansas has a small chance to win the meeting, according to Capt. Fred Rodley, because the probability is that but five Jayhawkers will make the trip to Ames.
The Kansas track men who are most likely to be entered in the meet are Sproul, Gratzmacher, Rice, Rodkey, and O'Leary. Gratzmacher and Rice are almost sure first place winners in the broad jump and long jump, while O'Leary will make strong bids for first places in the mile, half mile, and quarter.
Sprowl has been going good in the mile lately and will likely make Duncan of Missouri, who nosed out ahead of him here May 12, run a much faster mile to win again. He ran the mile in the Nebraska meet three seconds faster than Duncan ran the mile here.
Grustzmacher, the diminutive filer,
said he was going to try for the Valley
record in the bread jump which is
23 feet 5 inches. He made 23 feet $ \frac{4} {8} $ inch in the Nebraska meet last Friday.
Captain Rodkey said he was going to "put up a terrible scrap" for the half mile in the Ames meet and that is only another way of saying that Kansas is getting worse. Scores in place of 'OLEary is almost sure to place in the quarter mile.
Captain Rodley predicts that Kansas will take about twenty points with Missouri the strongest bidder for the championship with about thirty-for or forty points. Nebraska the weakest bidder, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Ames, and Drake are the Valley schools that will enter the meet.
SPORT BEAMS
Rainy weather prevented the women tennis players from continuing the class tournament yesterday, but play will be resumed just as soon as the courts are dry enough. Coach Hazel Pratt says the interclass tournament as served as the club tournament is finished, and that play would be continued through examination week if necessary to finish the tournament.
Again Missouri's hopes have been blasted by Kansas. The Jayhawker players report that the Tigers had a big banner out enumerating their victories this year, with one space left for another victory, and that the photographer was out and had everything all ready to take the picture of an all-victorious Tiger in full nine yards. The Tiger players did not even congratulate the Kansas players after the game. Hard luck, Missouri?
Although Missouri had a little bad luck in the last game of the season, they had considerable good luck in that they were credited with three out of the four games with the Jayhawkers this year.
The Missouri Valley Conference tennis tournament will be held at Manhattan Friday and Saturday and the Jayhawker team will be entered providing Manager Hamilton does not arrange for a place for the Jayhawkers in the Western Intercollegiate Tennis Tournament at Chicago Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. The manager Kansas team in the tournament at Chicago. It is possible the Missouri Valley Conference tournament may be postponed if Kansas and another of the Valley teams enter the Big Nine meet.
"Poiier's pitching was worthy of notice, and the Kansas second-string man must be given credit in the Nike winning streak."—Daily Missouri.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Date Rule will not be suspended this week except for Tuesday night and then only for Miss Helen Topping's recital at the Bowersock. The student was suspended during quiz week — Katherine Reding president W. S. G. A.
Course in Oral French for those intending to go on foreign service will be in charge of Mr. Rodolph O. Hoffmann this week. It meets Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at two-thirty o'clock in Room 306, Fraser.
The Woman's Forum will not meet this week.
Quill Club meets Thursday night at seven-thirty o'clock in the Rest Room, Fraser Hall. Special program.
The Senior invitations and announcements are here and may be obtained at the check stand in Fraser Hall Wednesday between 8:30 and 12:30, and 2:30 and 5:00, or Thursday between 10:00 and 12:30.
Blackfriars meet tomorrow night in Fraser Hall at 7:30. Important.
Wint Smith Writes That Men Are Getting Used to Commun Life
Camp Life
The following is a letter from Wint Smith to a friend in Lawrence. It shows what the Fort Riley School work and use, along with notes of key U. K., notables.
Fort Riley, Kans.
I just came in from “police” duty around camp. Policing around the barracks is no small job when practically all the men smoke cigarettes. Watching the men on police duty, I have found, is one of the best ways of telling whether or not they have been in the army. If a fellow rushes into the first line and gets his hands full of cigarette snipes, orange peels and paper, it is pretty safe guess that he is uninitiated in policing. If he brings wristbands to rolls a cigar, he watches the others work it is safe to conclude that he has been there before. It is no uncommon sight to see men always have a slight feeling of pity for the man who has to wear kid gloves to do police duty.
We have been issued hat cords and collar ornaments. The cords are red, white and blue, and the ornaments bear*the letters, U. S. T. C. (U. S. Training Camp.) The fellows were as anxious to wear them as a small boy to wear his first pair of long trousers. You see all kinds of combinations of dress. One fellow in my company affords a typical example. He wears a khaki shirt, a 16 shirt on a 14 model, collar oat button, very tips of his collar a derby hat, leggins that are large that they revolve around his legs, and shoes so big that they are already turning up at the toes. Some even try to wear hat cords on their civilian caps.
We had inspection of quarters yesterday. Some spent about an hour getting ready. When all was ready the major came in and merely looked down the aisle and went out again. Then we entered the kitchen, exclamation of most of the men. They had expected that each would be favored with an individual inspection.
In one respect this bunch differs greatly from guardsmen on the border last summer—all of them have money. It is a real sight to go over to the canteen at night after study hour and see the mobs arriving. You have to wait your turn and beat some fellow out of his turn to get anything. Each company has a bootlack who it making money by the fistful. It costs a dime for a once-over. Where there is a bunch of soldiers there is always a gang of agents relieving them of their money. In many cases, the leather puttee agent each takes his turn at gathering in the shekels.
You asked what the K. U. men thought of the camp, and how they spend their spare time. The Follow-ons that I have been able to gather;
Don Woodward; "Say boy, we've got the best captain in the bunch, but he sure hikes us up hill and down, over ditches and rocks. He just came back from the border, and he seems to think we'll thrive on those rocky
hikes. We have a fine bunch of fellows in our company. Why, Yale's third sacker is on a cot right beside mine."
Swede Vernon: "This is sure doing me a lot of good. That captain we have is great, but we have a pill in one of our non-coms. If they have a fowl show, I'm going to enter him this fall."
Bonnie Reber was sitting on a pop case with a signal book in his hand and a cob pipe in his mouth, talking to the hammer thromer from Harvard.
Floyd Welch: "I haven't been off of my cut but once today. My vacation is over."
Steve Fahringer: "I can stand if he comes here, if the post service keeps up."
J. P. Harris: "Most of the fellows are all right but some of them swagger around too much to suit me. Our captain is great. He played three years on the West Point team. All the fellows are wild about him."
Ennis Whitehead: "It is great to be here. Missouri is sure here in force. I not from Kansas any more, because every day some Missouri guy comes on and roads to come something. My only comeback is 'Oh, that's all right, but don't forget we beat you at tennis."
Buck Seward: "It's fine, but competition for a commission is going to be mighty keen at the end of this camp."
Hubert Paul: "I like it fine. There is a fine bunch in this company. The non-coms are all right except one, who is a cop from St. Louis. He acts as if he isn't there. They are very few Kansas men in this company. I went down the street and asked, 'Anybody here want a Lawrence paper?' Yes, spoke up one. I took a picture of him, 'Aw, I want that. I thought it was a Lawrence, Mass, paper.'"
Roy Gress: "According to the menu for next week, we will be mighty busy. There isn't another man in my half of the company from K. U."
Claude Voorbees: "Most of our men are all right, but some of them use awfully detestable language. But I am having the time of my life."
John W. MacMurphy was trying to
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Harold Matoon: "Why I can't find anyone here. I have hunted Leland Smith two days and can't find him. Yes, I like the work fine."
Prof. W, W. Davis was picking his way through the mob, trying to get up to the bar to get an ice cream cone. He disappeared, but in about ten minutes he came wriggling his way down the hall, holding the cones high above his head.
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Dick Treweeke: "What do you know about the track meet with Nebraska? Good night, it was awful! I sure wish Grutzey could have gone an inch farther. He deserves t."
Oberlin Girls Enlist
ROBERT E. HOUSE In the 700 Block on Mass.
A Daily Letter Home—The Daily Kansan.
As a result of a plan for mobilization of college girls for physical efficiency and service brought by Dean Florence M. Fitch from the Collegiate Alumni convention at Washington, D.C., and presented to the girls of Oberlin college, the women's senate voted to give the Oberlin girls an opportunity to enlist for the college woman's service.—Ex.
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The only meeting of the Y. W. C.
A, Commencement Week, will be the
Alumni Meeting on Monday morning
at ten o'clock in Myers Hall. This is
the annual alumni meeting at which Miss Anne Gittins, secretary, will make a report of the work done by the organization this year. Plans for next year's work will also be discussed.
Richard Barnd, c'19, who has been visiting at his home in Ness City, is back on the Hill today for inspection of Battery B of which he is a member. Inspection will be held tonight at seven-forty-five in Robinson Gym.
Your Back Work
If you are going to be here for Summer School, now would be a good time to try our lunches and see how convenient you are going to have things this summer.
If you are behind in any of your school work—and will have to spend extra time at the library this week—now would be a good time to begin economizing on your time. You can save one hour a day by eatig lunch at the Oread Cafe. Your time is worth a great deal now.
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The University of Kansas Summer Session
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Two separate terms-June 7 to July 18, and July 19 to August 15.
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Work applies toward graduate and undergraduate degrees.
All courses are offered which are required for State certificates.
Special opportunities for outdoor games, swimming, lectures, music and other recreation.
For Special Summer Session Catalog or other information, call upon
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