UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
K. U. FIVE READY FOR BIG GAME
Finishing Touches Given Jay hawkers Tonight for Ames Game
FIRST CONFERENCE GAME
K. U. Line-up Has Not Been Selected—Squad Leaves Tomorrow
The Jayhawker basketeers held the last practice scrimmage this afternoon before the chosen squad leaves, tomorrow night, for Ames, where the K. U. five will crash with the lowns Valley Conference game of the season.
The team play and floor work of the Kansas squad in general has improved greatly since the Normal encounters the Hawks to a great evening when the Jayhawkers attack the Iowa Aggies in their stronghold at Ames.
The squand which will take the trip has not been selected yet, and it is uncertain which players will get to go. The probability is that the ones who show up best in the scrimmage will be honored with the Free passes.
The squad went through an hour's practice scrimmage last night and everyone is putting in over time to be in tip-top condition for the Ames' games. The dope is that the Ames quintet will show their best form of the season against the Dallas and Friday they have the start on Kansas by having already played two games with Missouri.
TRY DIFFERENT SQUADS
The first part of the practice last night was devoted to floor work and goal-shooting while special emphasis was laid on the fast short passes. The latter portion of the practice was given over to a warm and furious scrimmage with Coach Jusuf Uhrus半夜 showed the result of some good coaching and made the Varsity men earn every point which they secured.
Coach Hamilton tried out several combinations of the squad against the yearlings to determine which would work best together. The scrimmages were the team's first game and the squad got into action at some time during the evening. Laslett developed an amazing amount of speed on the floor and will probably get into the games against the Ames team. Most of the regulars showed up in good form. After the workout tonight the Varsity players should be in trim competition their first varsity IVY conference game. Thursday night at Ames.
K. U. MAN LAYS HIGHEST PIPE LINE IN WORLI
Clay Roberts, a graduate of the School of Engineering at K. U., last month completed the work of constructing the highest pipe line in the world, which was under his charge. The sixteen-inch pipe line, fifteen miles long, over the top of the Andes Mountains in central Chile, connects with a mountain lake at an altitude of eleven thousand feet.
The American engineers who did the work had to labor under the most primitive conditions. Two hundred burros and seventy miles carried the steel sixty miles over mountain trails so narrow that two animals could not walk abreast. The pipe line will furnish water for the erection and operation of a smelter to be built by the Andes Copper Company.
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SPORT BEAMS
The Midlid College five lost to Haskell last night on the Haskell court. Bill Weildlem kept the bunch here over night for a short scrimmage with the Varsity this afternoon. They will return to Atchison tonight.
The freshman five played some mighty classy basketball in the scrimmage last night and most of them will play well, but they hard for their positions next year.
Potys Clark entered the roll as referee and had a hard time to keep from getting run over—by some of the freshmen players.
Scrubby Laaslet is developing more speed every day and is beginning to handle the ball like the basket-tossers from the team. Accordingence according to one of the coaches.
The sophomore, junior, and senior women's basketball games practiced until seven o'clock last night when as usual the men's squad was scheduled to begin. The women's teams are using every available minute in preparing for the semi-final games Wednesday.
Manager Hamilton went to Kansas City, Saturday to purchase some new track material. The greatest shortage is in shoes and jerseys.
Illinois plays Kansas at football on their field October 6 this year. Oklahoma plays Illinois the following Saturday at Urbana.
The football material is beginning to come in fast now as a result of sending out the personal statements, according to Manager W. O. Hamilton. All of the material will be in by the end of the week he believes.
Tennis will be played on ice this week in Kansas City on the Rockhill courts. This new sport has been tried out successfully at several places in the East, Krebs and Claflin will play the first games. The flooded courts will also be used for skating when not being used for tennis.
Girls at the University of Chicago will have perfumed water to swim in as a result of the installation of a sterilizing machine in the girl's swimming pool which perfumes the water. What does Kansas have?
The Kansas Aggies defeated Washburn Saturday, 71 to 5. Must have been a fine game!
Nebraska won from St. Thomas, a smaller school in Minnesota, Friday by a score of 23 to 8.
The old space in the Gymnasium used in the winter as a dirt track has been cemented and the space is now being used for hand ball. New covered lights have been installed in this part of the Gymnasium so that the men of the University can play the game at any time.
De Benardi, the star center of the lola high school five of last winter, is playing the same brilliant game this season for the Northeast team in Kansas City. Thus far this year he has only two games to his credit, but his school has played only two games. Those who saw him in action last March had a hard-hat backup last March realize what a valuable addition such a man would mean to the Jayhawker team in a couple of years.
The annual high school basketball tournament will be held in Robinson Gymnasium March 16-17, this year.
Sixty thousand Scotchmen witnessed a soccer game between two Glasgow clubs on New Year's day. There was probably no gate charge.
Elmer Oliphant is out for his fifth letter at West Point. He is the only athlete who has ever won his “A” in four branches of Army sport and now
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he is determined to win a fifth in hockey. He was counted on as a regular on the basketball team but his team's defense has flipped and now he is devoting his time to hockey. If he wins his letter in hockey, he may establish a new record. Oliphant has won his letter in ball, track, baseball, and basketball.
The new running boards, which Coach Hamilton ordered for indoor for indoor track work, have proved to be the best ever used in Robinson Gym. They fit perfectly and thus eliminate the noise and also the spring which made the running boards used last year so unhandy.
Dick Treweke gave an impromptu exhibition of his ability to high jump yesterday. He is warming up with the pole at five feet seven inches. He is going to good shape and the coaches expect him to beat his old record this year.
Captain Cowgill and Ken Uhls have been working out in the hand-ball room at Robinson Gym, getting into shape for the tennis season. Prospects for a winning team this year are fine. Ken Uhls, who made his let-tle Leed Stanford in that sport, will add greatly to the strength of the team.
A tryout tennis tournament is being planned in which all students who are interested in this game will have a chance to play and the advantage of coaching.
The joys of merry skating time were experienced by students and citizens of Lawrence yesterday for the first time this winter. The ice was thick and smooth as glass, and the Kaw and every pond and lake in the vicinity had its crowd of merrymakers. Rusty skates were pulled from their resting places in the attic and into a large basin for a great day for skating, judged from the Kansas standpoint, and lovers of ice sport took advantage of it.
STUDENTS MAKE MERRY
ON POTTER'S LAKE AND KAW
Potter's Lake, as usual, was the favorite place for student skating parties, although there were hundreds on the Kaw river. Some of the more adventurous parties ventured as far north and west on the river as Lakeaway.
The nearness of final qizzes kept some at home, but in the case of the majority of the students, the "scratch scratch" of the fountain pen was forgotten for the metal ring of the steel cylinder that held them in place and siz-zags over the smooth ice. It was great! Were you one of the skaters?
Patterson Speaks in Lecompont Prof. D. L. Patterson, of the department of history, will deliver a lecture tonight in Lecompont on his experiences in France last summer. The lecture is the same as the one given in Fraser Hall some time ago, "A Day in the Trenches."
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RODKEY APPEALS FOR VAULTERS
Men Needed in All Events—Try outs for Normal Meet Next
Fred Rodkey, captain of the track team, made a last plea yesterday afternoon for pole vaulters. With only four competitors in the meet and part of one broken up by final examinations, the need for several men to start work on the pole vault becomes urgent. Allwood did not have time to time the day but two men at least are needed.
Sproull ran an easy mile yesterday with no competition in 4:55:12. This is fairly good time for so early in the season. Of course it does not compare with a race that was made by the Missouri quintet of quarter milers who are said to have done the 440 in 48 and 49 seconds indoors already this season. Groenec had a mile in 10:45. Coffin, a freshman on an easy race, in the half in 2:18.
No work was done with the shot put because the men were waiting on the new shots which will arrive from Kansas City today. The old weights are badly damaged from hard use. The new running track is proving most satisfactory as the boards lay flat on the floor, do not slip, and are not as hard as they appear. If you run off the track now there is little danger of his turning his ankle as was the case with the old and higher boards.
Miller is the latest addition to the squad of high jumpers. The work of the sprinters continues to improve, and they needed in the mile and in the quarter.
The Normals will have the advantage over the K. U. men in that they have no final exams to break into their track work the last week of the month. Most of the work done by the Kansas men will probably be to be done this week according to present indications. Tryouts for the Normal meet, January 29, will be the first of next week.
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