UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SMEE CHECKS IN SUIT AND SAYS "GOODBYE"
Baseball Captain Leaves School and Varsity Nine Is Badly Disorganized
The prospects for a Jahawk victor victory over the Tigers at Columbia next Friday and Saturday took a considerable slump yesterday when Captain George Smee, the heaviest slugger on the team and one of the star players, checked in his suit and left for his home at WaKeeney. He has withdrawn from school and will work at home.
The team has been still more crippled by the withdrawal of Leon Gibbens, who played a star game in center field the first of the season but who was brought in to the field after missing Missouri games here. He has gone to the officers' reserve training camp at Fort Riley. Although the withdrawal of these two men will make a big hole in the team, it is not probable that the squad will end until after the two Missouri games at Columbia Friday and Saturday.
Captain Smee was out at McCook Field yesterday afternoon to the regular baseball practice to bid his teammates "good luck" in the two remaining games on the schedule. He did not suit up. Manager W. O. Hamilton has cancelled the four Aggie games, two of which were to have been played here 23 and 24, and the other two at Manhattan June 1 and 2, so that the Aggies and Jayhawkers will not meet this season.
Stem Foster, quarterback on the football team last season, was out to the practice yesterday afternoon and from the good showing which he made at short stop it is likely that he will off-set to a large extent the great loss of Captain Smee, Lindsey, Gibbens and some of the other K men players. The nine were rearranged again yesterday and Weber played first, Sonfeldt second base, Pratt third base, Foster shortstop, Taylor left field, Chase center field, and Stevenson right field.
Most of the practice was given over to batting practice but the infield also had a short workout. The players worked well together for the first time and will likely be able to present strong opposition to the Tigers, although this is but a guess, as there are but three more practices before the squad leaves for the den of the Tiger at Columbia.
Coach McCarty still seems optimistic about the outcome of the last two clashes. He is depending a great deal on Craig and Poirier to hold the Tigers to a low score. Eleven players were out to yesterday's practice. Those who were out were: Carter, Smith, Poirier, Weber, Schoenfeld, Pratt, Foster, Taylor, Chase, Stevenson, and Melhennoy.
CRACK H. S. ATHLETES COMING
Invitations to Teams and Individual Record Men Expected to Bring 100 Visitors Saturday
Invitations for what promises to be the best invitation high school meet in several years were sent out yesterday morning by Mgr. W. O. Hamilton to the track squads of Kansas City, Mo., Kansas City, Kas., Lawrence, and Topeka, with special invitations to thirteen of the best Kansas high school athletes in the state. The meet will be on McCook Field Saturday.
One hundred high school athletes from Missouri and Kansas are expected at the meet next Saturday. Seventy athletes will represent the two Kansas City track squads, about ten will come from Lawrence and Topkea, along with the thirteen stars who will be selected to receive a special invitation are the ones who made the best records in the track meet here May 5.
The men to whom special invitations were sent include Bruce, Topeka high school, with a record of 54 2-4 seconds in the quarter; McKown, Pratt, pole vault, 11 feet $2 \frac{1}{2}$ inches; Sanderson, Lyndon, mile, 4.5E; Evans, Ossage, 100-yard dash, 10 1-5 seconds; Neeley, Abilene, 220-yard dash, 23
seconds; Cochrane, Ottawa, broad jump, 20 feet 3 inches; Tomlinson, Eskridge, shot put, 39 feet 11½ inches; Shepard, Wichita, shot put, 43 feet; Leslie, St. John, dashes; Tucker, Pleasanton, high jump, 5 feet 8 inches; Bailey, Pratt, high hurdles, 17 seconds; Mathias, Perry, mile, 4:38; and Bradley, Cheroke, high jump, 5 feet 9 inches.
KANSAS TRACK SQUAD CONFIDENT OF VICTORY
Jayhawkers Will Meet Corn huskers at Lincoln Next
Saturday
The Jayhawker track squad is working hard to get into shape for the Cornhusher meet at Lincoln next Saturday, and from the showing of the squad in the Missouri-Kansas meet here last Saturday and helped by new track men who have come out for practice since the meet, it looks very good. The Cornhusher meet according to Captain Fred Rodkey.
Rudolf Uhrlaub and George Yoe-kum were the new men out yesterday for the hurdles. Both men have had some experience in running the hurdles and should be able to take at least second place in the Cornhusk meet with a little more practice. Uhrlaub was entered in the hurdle events in the last round of the Cornhusk meeting Saturday but he was "out of town" according to Lefty Sproull a score keeper, so that he did not get to show what he could do in these events.
Captain Rodkey said this morning that he was not certain whether Pattinson, the star pole vaulter would be able to go to Lincoln or not, but that there was a possibility that he would go with the squad. He was very optimistic about the results of the meet with the team. He added that by a fair margin as Ames beat Nebraska about five points and Missouri beat Ames by a large score.
The entries in the Cornhusker meet will be the same as in the Tiger meet if all the track men now in school do not withdraw which seems hardly probable now as school will close in about three weeks. In the 100-yard dault O'Leary, Davidson, Noel, andolan, with chance Sproull, Statler, Howland, Groene, and Rodkey can be depended upon for the mile, while the hurdle events are doubtful, but Kansas should at least take second place.
O'Leary, Rodkey, Sproull and Crowley should be able to take the quarter mile, and Rodkey, Murphy, Sproull and O'Leary should make a strong race for first and second place in the half mile. Davidson, Noel, O'Leary, Crowley, and Robey should barely reach the 220-yard dash. Rodkey, Stateler, Howland and Groene can be depended upon to place in the two mile event.
It is not certain who will run the relay but Rodkey, Sproull, O'Leary, and Murphy probably have the best chance. Pattinson, Ziegler, and Rice will be entered in the pole vault event if Pattinson is persuaded to go. Woodward and Ziegler will handle the weights, and Grutzmacher and probably another broad jumper will be entered in the broad jump event.
ANOTHER SCHOLARSHIP TO
SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS
A scholarship of $50 for the benefit of a sophomore music student has been given by Mrs. John T. Stewart, of Wellington. The scholarship will be awarded by the Fine Arts faculty in September.
This makes the third scholarship that has been given to the Fine Arts students by friends in the state. The first was given by Governor Capper and the second by Mrs. A. C. Stich, of Independence.
The Women's Athletic Association announced this morning that Gladys Drake, c19, received an athletic "A" Saturday. Other sophomore women who made 400 points and who received athletic "A's" are: Helen Wagstaff, Darlene Woolsey, and Lucy Heathman.
Another Athletic "A"
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ANNUALS GO ON SALE MONDAY SAYS EDITOR
Nordstrum Says This Year's "Jayhawker" Is Ready for Delivery
Delivery
"The 1917 Jayhawker goes on sale next Monday, the hour and the place on the Hill to be announced later," said Arnold Nordstrom, editor of the annual, today. "The books are all off the press and will be ready for demand. The Studies will get their books in the morning and others in the afternoon.
The Jayhawkter this year was planned to be a picture book, even at the sacrifice of written material. The annual is dedicated to the yell, "Rock Chalk, Jayhawk," and the simile is carried throughout the book. The dedication section is printed in crimson, blue, and gold. The proberbial Jayhawk is impressed on each page in different poses.
The snapshots are classified anne are given individual titles. Such titles as "Openings for Bright Young Men," "All American Fish," "Submarine Views of the Campus," and "Humanity Fair" we attract attention. Our snapshots took four artists three weeks to mount the snapshots," said Nordstrom.
In the Campus Beautiful Section views of the University buildings and unusual views of the campus are displayed with dark green ink.
The Gay Squalk or comedy section is a burlesque of the main part of the book. In it are takeoffs on classes and student activities. In the Vanity Fair section, three poses of the two girls and two poses of the other girls will be shown. The pictures are mounted in frames and printed in green ink.
WAR KILLS FOOTBALL PEP
The Rock Chalk Jayhawk section of sixteen pages shows the yell in action. There is a picture of the memorial down made against Nebraska, rally chants of all descriptions, and Rock Chalk from an aeroplane.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
Each Day Speed Heath Watts for Some One to Go Through Spring
Spring football practice has practically been suspended because of the great rest and interest in military training among the football men, according to Speed Heath, who is in charge of the linemen this spring. He said he had been out to the track house at Five o'clock every afternoon to play a game, and then right out, out, but no one had been out for a couple of weeks or more.
The rainy weather that lasted for about two weeks also caused disinterest as the players gradually lost interest in the practices. Heaith said he will be out every afternoon until school is out and will work out with any one who intends to come out for the Varsity squad next year.
Coach Olcott believes the spring practices will not bring satisfactory results since the athletes' interest has been focused along with home work on the farm.
Gives Special Course
Dartmouth College has inaugurated a special six weeks' training course in preparation for the Government Military Stores Service. The Truck School, which will conduct the course, has accepted 80 men from the 100 odd applicants. Seventeen seniors and students, not connected with the Truck School, have enrolled and will be permitted to give up their other college work and substitute the work called for in the new department.—Cornell Sun.
Columbia has announced that plans are complete for a course in military science to be given this summer. Those who enroll in the camp will be given a course in military science, military engineering, and the regular infantry drill. The plan of the school is to take care of all men who are unable to get into the Platttsburg training camp for any reason. Ex.
Botany Club picnic Wednesday evening at 5:30 o'clock. Meet at South Park, near band-stand.
Signa Delta Chi meets at Pi Kappa
Alma house, Wednesday evening 7:38
p.m.
No Finals at Penn State
Prof. Else Neumenschwander will have charge of the Oral French class at 3:30 o'clock Monday, Wednesday, and Friday in F306.
No Finals at Penn State
Final examinations at Penn State will in all probability be done away with this semester if the faculty approves of a plan submitted by the students. If the classmates have already left college that it is considered unfair to the students remaining to compel them to take examinations. If the plan goes through, examination week will be taken up with intensive reviewing or with military drill.-Cornell Sun.
A student in the State University of Montana has withdrawn to raise potatoes on a 6,000 acre farm in Oregon.
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