UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
BASEBALL MEN RUSH TO OUTDOOR PRACTICE
Coach McCarty's Men Long to Get Into Scrimmage on McCook
With the coming of a good spring day the candidates for the Jay-hawker basketball squad rushed to McCook Field early this afternoon and the team took over the season. Coach McCarty has been anxious to get his men into the open for more than a week and the change in weather was hailed by the base-ball coaches, training and fencing practice will be the feature of the first outdoor workout.
The prospects for a star outfield this year were lessened considerably Monday when Ward W. Weltmer, a k man on the nine last week, withdrew from his school work and went to his home in Smith Center because of sickness or weakness. Well, he was missed by Hawker fans, but the coach hopes to develop another good outfield man from the many new candidates.
Captain George Smee wants to play in the outfield if a man can be found to take his place on the mound. Eighteen men already have come out for the battery positions, and a few more will probably come out in a day or so. Carter, W. Smith, M. Carland, Nudson, Allen, Crowder, Walters, are the candidates for the receiving position so far and one of them will have to fill the hole left by Loren Weltm of last year's sound.
Batting practice will start as soon as the men get outdoors. Regular practice games between members of the squad will be started in a few days, and baserunning and teamwork will then be in order. Coach said he was going to bass this selection of batting to base a great extent by hitting and headwork. The pitching candidates have been limbering up for about three weeks and should be able to hold the Jayhawker sluggers to a few hits in the practice games which probably will start the first of next week.
SPORT BEAMS
Now is the time for all baseball players who are eligible for the Varsity to begin practice, according to Captain Smee. He said there was always room for one more, and that he wanted to see a larger squar out this year than at any time since he has been in school. The more players out for practice, the better will be the team this year.
In just a few more days the freshman baseball players will be called out on Hamilton Field by Coach Potsy Clark, and preparations will begin to develop a nine that will give them the number of freshmen have already started to limber up in anticipation of the first practices.
Prof. Charles B. Harrison, of the department of physical education, has not been able to meet his classes for several days because of the fact that Mrs. Harrison is ill in the Simmons Hospital. He said he would probably be able to take charge of his work again the last of the week.
Wrestling and boxing are favorite sports in the Gymnasium. Every afternoon several bouts take place between members of the gymnasium and also between upperclassmen who wish to take a little exercise.
Prince Reitzal has come to the conclusion that he does not care to box with Ralph Foster, a former lightweight champion of Missouri and a brother of Stem Foster of the Jay-hawker football squad. Prince says Foster's one great achievement across the Gymnasium. Foster will mix affairs with Justin Blount at the stag mixer at Myers Hall Saturday night.
The women's sports are confined to gymnasium exercises at present. The swimming pool is being painted but will probably be open for swim- in, or swim-out classes the later terclas swimming meet is the next big event in women's sports.
At Illinois University there is a basketball team composed of women faculty members, and this team contests with the various co-ed class teams. The teachers are not such bad players, either, as is shown by the fact that the Junior girls, who were team scarcely able to down the faculty team, winning by the narrow score of 26 to 22—Texan.
A Daily Letter Home—The Daily Kansan.
FORMER DEAN OF MEDICS
MAKES FLYING VISIT
Dr. Samuel W. Williston, former dean of the School of Medicine in the University, and at the present time professor of paleontology in the University, has been a frequent friend in Lawrence. Doctor Williston stopped off to visit friends at the University while on his way to New Haven, Conn., where he goes every month. He has been spending his vacation with his daughter in New Mexico.
Doctor Williston is a native of Kansas. He was educated at Manhattan, and started the School of Medicine at the University. He was dean of the School of Medicine for about twenty years, and has been considered one of the strongest men the University had had. He is today recognized as the world's greatest authority on reptiles.
DAILY HEALTH HINTS
Mental recreation is a necessity for all brain workers. It is a mistake to suppose that cerebral activity can be brought to a stand-still. Even during sleep, the brain never ceases to act. Sleep does give rest to the higher centres. Cultivating such abilities in the method, diverting the activity into channels that afford a pleasant or soothing reaction upon consciousness.
Join the "Don't Worry" Club.
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Watch your friends and see how a man may crush a woman, as the time being may cripple a man in the use of his intellectual faculties.
New rules in regard to Wisconsin's football team have been recommended by the faculty of the University of Wisconsin. These rules provide, among other things, that any one making a false statement on the eligibility card, be dismissed from the university, and that practice be begun two weeks earlier than has been customary heretofore—Ex.
Dormitories are too expensive and will not be supplied at the University of Wisconsin for some years to come, so the students are divided among rooming clubs. No man will be compelled to stay in any one group, as reorganization will take place each year, so there will be no narrowness and undesirable exclusiveness—McGill Daily.
TRACK SQUAD STARTS OUTDOOR PRACTICE NOW
First Meet Scheduled With Drake April 21—Inter- Class Games Soon
The Jayhawker track squad, which finished the indoor season with the Missouri-Kansas meet Friday night, will begin outdoor practice today. The workouts for a while will be light and involve a little rest following the indoor season.
The first outdoor meet will be the Drake relay games at Des Moines, April 21. One of the important tasks of preparation for this meet will be to develop a two-mile relay team. With a month of preparation the coaches expect to turn out a strong squad for the games. The Kansas half-milers were able to take third place in the Illinois indoor meet at Urbana, March 3.
Men who are candidates for the team are Captain Rodkey, O'Leary, Murphy, Welsh, Sproull, Stateleer, Howland, and Groene. With these trying out Kansas sport followers are figuring on a team that will make the two-mile somewhere around the eight minute mark.
The interclass meet will be held soon after the Drake games, and the coaches are expecting men to begin practice for this event the latter part of the year. The interclass meet, Captain Rodley, will bring out many new men.
Men are badly needed in the dashes and hurdles, as well as the weight events. At present only Casey is working in the hurdles, and only Small and Casey in the shot put. Only one man so far has shown up for the disc throw. However, the coaches believe that other men will come out for these events now that outdoor practice has begun.
The department of mathematics at the University of Washington will not give final exams to seniors this year—Ex.
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LAWS PILE BOOKS ON STAIRS
Weighty Volumes Are Too Heavy for Common Stude
to Carry
Because the rooms of Green Hall are not properly equipped with book shelves and because their text-books are too heavy for an average man to carry around, students of the School of Law are forced to deposit the weight volumes on the stairways and in the windows.
"We hate to do it," said one student, because it gives an untidy appearance and is a terrible strain on the stairways. But what happens if we carry our books around all the time as the college students do, we would all be sleeping
beneath the daisies within a year."
From fifty to a hundred books are to be seen on the stairways each morning.
Migrating Duck Meets Tragedy
Migrating Duck Meets Trajectory
One of the tragedies of bird life was encampment. In anthropology class this morning when it came across a duck's wing which it had been covered from the owner when it struck a telephone wire while in full flight. Migrating birds fly at terrific speeds and are often like a knife. Ordinarily, however, they fly at a great height, often a mile or two above the earth.
A two-headed fish has been placed in the fish hatchery at the University of California.
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Members of the De Pau band will receive sweaters at the close of the semester. The sweaters will have a music lyre on the sleeve—Emerald.
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