STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME XI.
TOPEKA KAN
NUMBER 124
DOPE GOES WRONG---
TIGERS TAKE MEET
Missouri Cinder Artists Spring Surprise and Win in Spite of Predictions
EDWARDS BREAKS A RECORD
Clips 2-5 of a Second From Dua Record—Quarter Mile and Low Hurdles Beat K. U.
In a track meet in which Old Man Dope was upset, knocked over and stepped on, the Missouri Tigers dug out before night, in Convention Hall 48-37.
Dope was upset, knocked over and stepped on the Missouri Tigers defeated the Kansas Jayhawkers Friday night in Convention Hall 48-37. The meet was a fast one both from the spectators' point of view and from the runners'. In every event the time recorded was close to the record, while in the mile the feature team went in Benjamin Davenport's game Kansas distance mike, took the event in good shape and clipped two-fifths of a second over the dual record for the distance. In the fact that Missouri took first place in both the quarter mile and the low hurdles may be explained the reason for Kansas dropping the meet. The Jayhawkers had been looked upon as probable point winners in the first, sure sits in the second, but Given the Pork Park sticks the low sticks in fast time, and Hutsel and Murphy, Missouri sprinters, took both places in the quarter.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MONDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 30, 1914.
When George O'Neil took the opening event from the Tigers, the 50-year dash, in fast time, it looked as if Hazen's men were well on their way. The Kawasaki Racing wards pulled his spectacular stunt in the mile, and Kansas rooters were offering 2 to 1 on their choice for first place. But both places in the pole vault went to the Tigers, and beginning of the end was in sight.
The Kansas runners fought nobly, working hard from start to finish. The quarter-mile was lost owing to an unfortunate collision between Henderson and Cissna, the Kansas runners.
Kansas easily had the supremacy in running events, while the Tigers looked best in the field contests. But Missouri took the most of the second places, backed this by upsetting Alabama, who held the relay and thereby won the meet.
The half mile was one of the feature races in the meet. Fiske of Kansas, and Murphy, Missouri, started out in the lead, closely followed by Creighton and Finley. On the last lap, when the four runners bunch together, the bounding line passed Fiske and Murphy hugged the pole too closely, collided with a crash, and went down in the middle of the boards. The two runners sat up bewildered, Creighton jumped over Murphy's head, and taking advantage of the fall, shot into a long. Murphy at length rose and followed him, but Creighton couldn't get the ball. And after the race was over, Missouri protested it, and Kansas later. But both protests were disallowed.
The relay was a good race. On the first lap davies for Kansas and Floyd Lake for the Tigers shot around the track, heaven bound. Turning the east end of the track, the Tiger runner gave Davis a shove which staggered him for a minute. The Jayawker spinner caught up with his heavier rival, and they finished their bit. Then he kicked Kansas, took up the race and ran away from Butler, the Missouri artist. Eaton regained a little of the lost lead over Henderson, the third Kansas runner, and then Cissna and Hutsell shet out and the Missouri man won by a few inches, in the best relay ever seen in Convention Hall.
The two mile race was a clever one. For the first ten laps the four candidates, Malcolmson and Edwards, Moss and Hurst, took turns in taking the third pacemaker, shot into the lead. Running well, he established a good lead, while the game little Moss hung behind and carefully pedalled along 10 feet in the rear. At the beginning of the 15th lap, Moss shot out in the lead and Edwards followed him. But the Kansas runner, tired by his hard Tiger, and Moss ate up the track for the rest of the distance, finishing well in the lead. Edwards took second while Jack Malcolmson, running a good race, came in a few feet behind.
The summary:
50 yard dash: Won by O'Neil, Kan
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KANSAS HAS AT LEAST
2000 LIVE MERCHANTS
Several days ago Prof. D. C. Croisant sent out 625 cards to Kansas editors asking for lists of merchants who should be interested in the Merchants' Week to be held at the University in May. He has received 245 of these back and has a list of about 130 merchants who sell merchants from all over Kansas.
About half a dozen of the editors forgot to put the name of their town on hard, and one editor who is well known asks, ask what the Merchants' Week was.
BASEBALL SEASON TO OPEN THURSDAY
Varsity Team Will Play First Game With Kansas City Athletic Club
The Varsity baseball team will play its first game Thursday afternoon with a team of former stars from the Kansas City Athletic Club. On the K. C. A. C. team will be Pete Allen, Swede Carlson, Sprowty Porter, and Bill Owen, a brother of Benish. Bishop will pitch for K. U. "I saw a great many K. U. graduates at the meet Saturday," said Manager Hamilton today, "and a big crowd of them are coming down K. U. to attend a thousand members, and a whole lot of them are K. U. men. Some of the more enthusiastic grads are talking about chartering a train, and making the day a big holiday. I expect a big crowd down frm the city."
TO HOLD SUMMER CAMP HERE
25 Engineers Will Make Drainage Survey of Robinson Estate as Field Work
Dean P. F. Walker announced today that the summer surveying camp of the School of Engineering would probably be located on the Robinson estate, a few miles northeast of Lawrence.
A part of the work at the camp will be making a drainage survey of the Robinson estate. The camp will be in session for four weeks, and about twenty-five men are expected to enroll for the course.
Principal Addresses Y. M.
Prof. J. S. Shouse, principal of the Westport high school of Kansas City, Mo., addressed the University Y. M. C. A. yesterday afternoon in the Chapel of the University to the opportunities of the teaching professor for Christian service.
Famous Soprano Coming
No one who remembers the unparalleled triumph of "Madam Butterfly" a few years ago, when Henry W. Savage took it from coast to coast in 500 splendid performances, can forget the young woman who created the title more than she opened a living reality to thousands than the far-away echoes of the Metropolitan ever could. She was Elisabeth Wolff.
Mme. Elisabeth Rothwell-Wolff
The young conductor of the orchestra, to whom Savage intrusted much of the responsibility for making the opera success, was Walter Rothwell. The young conductor and the young soprano will be here April 30th, with the St. Paul Symphony Orchestra, instead of "Madame Butterfly." Elisabeth Wolff now is Mrs. Walter H. Rothwell and her husband is conductor of the organization.
FEW INQUIRIE ABOUT CHRISTIANITY ESSAYS
But Many May Be Working $250 Offered In Prizes
Prizes
"It is of course never possible to know how many students are trying for one of the Hattie Elizabeth Lewis memorial prizes until the essays on 'Applied Christianity' have been published Prof. R. D. O'Leary this morning.
"So far the inquiries that have come to the committee in charge of the matter have not been numerous. The prizes are the same this year as last; $100.00; $75.00; $50.00, and $25.00."
The prizes are announced as one of the features of commencement. "Professor Wilcox, for the committee, will be glad to talk with any student who is writing in this competition, or is thinking further information or explanation," said Professor O'Leary.
The competition is open to all students of the University. Three typewritten copies of each manuscript submitted must be handed in at the Chancellor's office not later than May 1.
"There are still a few copies of the booklet containing the prize essays of last year. They may be bad the asking at the registrar's office."
LANSING COAL MINE NOT WORKED TO FULL CAPACITY
Methods of Ore Extraction Hinder Efficient Work, According to Prof. C. M. Young
Prof. C. M. Young returned last week from Lansing where he has been engaged in the inspection of the prison coal mine at the request of the prison board of corrections.
He said this morning that the mine was full capacity because of the methods used in extracting the ore, and because of the small number of men working in the shafts. As to the installation of electric haulage, on the cost of which the commission investigating the penitentiary has asked for an estimate, nothing can be done until an appropriation is made by the state authorities, even the survey necessary for an assessment would be a large piece of work.
Professor Young pointed out that an improvement on the present methods was very desirable for the University. When sufficient coal is mined at Lansing, the University can purchase it for $1.05 a ton, but at present, it is too expensive to coal from other sources, the cost to the University is about $2.50 a ton. About 7,000 tons a year is used on the Hill.
It has not yet been decided whether students of the University will be used in surveying the prison mine this spring.
HOME ECONOMICS CLUB
WILL BANQUET APRIL
An Advertising Fraternity?
The class in advertising in the department of journalism, has been inducted into Delta Sigma, a new advertising fraternity organized at the University of Missouri.
An Advertising Fraternity
Prof. U. G. Mitchell will talk to the Mathematics Club this afternoon at 4:30 on the "Growth of Mathematical Symbolism." The club will meet in Room 103, Administration Building.
Mitchell Will Talk
The women of the Home Economy Club will give a banquet for the women of that department on Saturday afternoon. April 4; in Fraser Hall. Marie Madden and Kate Daum have charge of the banquet. Letha Williams is chairman of the food committee. Katie Daum is chairman of the committee and Ruth Buchanan of the music committee. A five course dinner will be served, followed by a program and toasts. Lucy Dunbar will be toastmistress.
Debaters to Discuss Kansan
The K. U. Debating Society will meet tonight in Room 303, Fraser, and discuss the question of the election of the editor of the Daily Kansan.
G. W. Von Schriltz was in Springfield, Mo., over the week-end attending to some business for the Jayhawker.
SUGGESTS A COURSE IN MILITARY HISTORY
It Will Tend to Prevent Avoid able Wars, Believes Clarke,'97
To provide a course in military history is a suggestion made in the March Graduate Magazine by Adna G. Clarke, 97, now a captain in the Coast Artillery Corps, United States Army.
Mr. Clarke deplores the fact that the American youth is given a too glowing picture of our victories, and that our defeats and losses are too much neglected. "Acknowledgment of the truth about our military history," he says, "will tend to prevent avoidable wars."
"History establishes the fact that preparation for war is the best assurance against war, and a more general knowledge of this fact on the part of our people will result in that preparation for war that will render avoidable wars improbable. "It is not difficult to convince students that we trained husky students do not constitute a victorious football team. A true knowledge of our military history will as quickly convince them that a million untrained men do not constitute a victorious army."
INTERDISTRICT DEBATERS
BEGIN SERIES FRIDAY
El Dorado Meets Ashland; Caney Rosedale; and Solomon, Norton Co.—Discuss Minimum Wage
The first series of interdistrict debates in the high school league took place Friday night. All the district champions met and discussed the enacting of a minimum wage law for Kansas.
Supt. W. S. Rupe and the Burlington team, which is champion of the Fourth district, passed through Lawrence Friday on their way to the championship game to compete in the First district. The Burlington team won the state championship last year and has a strong team this year but Superintendent Rupe said it was early in the game to prophecy what will win the championship this year.
The other teams which met were El Dorado and Ashland, Caney and Rosedale, and Solomon and Norton County. The final will be held here the first of May on the night preceding the high school track meet.
GOLDFISH IN POTTER
LAKE WELCOME SPRING
Several hundred goldfish were put in Potter lake during the Christmas holidays. Anyone who happens to be strolling that way since the weather has turned warm can see some of them near the shore. They were put in for an ornament more than anything else, according to C. D. Bunker, assistant curator, at the museum.
Prof. Samuel McMullan was in Independence and Coffeyville Saturday organizing extension work for vocational courses. He has recently made trips to Leavenworth, Osawatomi, and Wichita, and will soon make a trip to a number of towns in the western part of the state. The purpose of these trips is to visit shops, garages, and factories, to get employees to take up correspondence courses.
Advertise Extension Courses
The Jurorship will be Club of the School of Law will meet Wednesday evening at the Alpha Tau Omega house. Mrs. Cora Lewis, of the Board of Administration, and Mrs. Brown, advisor of women, will attend. Woman suffrage will be the question discussed.
To Discuss Suffrage
The University band will give its second annual spring concert, April 22 in Fraser Hall. Director J. C. McCanell announces that the program will contain both classical and popular music. Numerous solos and duets will be played. Student tickets will admit.
Popular Music Too
More Candidates
Sam Johnson and Edward E. Bennett, sophomores, and Austin Bailey, a junior, are candidates for the Student Council from the College. Victor La Mer, a medic, has also announced his candidacy.
Pi Upiosls will celebrate the annual stunt night with a dinner and dance at the chapter house, Friday, April 3.
FRIENDS HELP CEELEBRATE
A PROF'S ANNIVERSARY
After taking possession of the Haworth home Friday night, thirty-six friends of Prof. and Mrs. Erasmus Haworth informally celebrated the twenty-fifth wedding anniversary of their hosts.
The couple was presented with a set of twelve sterling salads forks. Mrs. Cowdill read a notice of the marriage of Prof. and Mrs. Haworth, which appeared in a paper at Oka-lowa, Iowa, a quarter of a century ago. Prof. Haworth was teaching at Penn College, Iowa at that time. He has been at the University since 1892.
K. U. SEISMOGRAPH SHAKEN BY QUAKE
InstrumentRecordsEarthDis turbance Last Night--- Center in Mexico
An unusually heavy earth disturbance was registered last night by the seismograph in the basement of Fraser Hall at the University of Kansas. The wave began at 6:51 p.m., and continued until 7:45 p.m., and then recorded at 6:55 p.m. The instrument recorded an amplitude of nearly 1 centimeter.
Prof. F. E. Kester, who has charge of the seismograph, said that the disturbance occurred about 880 miles off of a north and south line passing through the base of the inlet where the shock was located; the shock was somewhere in northern Mexico, Professor Kester thinks, although it is by no means certain.
HAWORTH TO TALK AT JOPLIN
State Geologist to Speak Before Club of Mine Owners and Developers Tomorrow
Prof. Erasmus Haworth will go to Joplin tomorrow to deliver a lecture before a club of mine developers and owners. He will talk on the geology of the country around Joplin.
WILL DISCUSS INVESTMENTS
H. P. Wright, an investment broker, in Kansas City, Mo., will lecture to the students of the economics department on "Investments" in Snow Hall tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock.
H. P. Wright, of Kansas City, Will Deliver Fourth Economic Lecture Tomorrow Afternoon
BIRD MAN WILL LECTURE
Henry Oldys to Talk to Students in Chapel Tomorrow
Henry Oldys, the bird man, will lecture tomorrow in chapel on "Birds and Bird Music." His talk will include bird notes, aesthetic sense of birds, music of man and birds, bird protection, and songs of birds. "He is one of the biggest men we have had in chapel," said P:of. D. C. Croissant, of the chapel committee, "and will probably prove by far to be the most interesting to a majority of the students. His talk will be very entertaining and at the same time instructive."
Y. W'S TO BE BIG SISTERS
Members Plan to Meet Freshmen Women at Train and Establish Them at University
The Y. W. C. A. is planning to organize the Big Sister movement tomorrow afternoon at the meeting at 4:30 in Myers Hall. The essential feature of the movement consists in each upperclassman being a "big sister" to the new girls who enter next fall.
The eight annual founder's day banquet of the Phi Beta Pi medical society was held at the Baltimore Hotel in Kansas City, Saturday night.
Ward Barber Ill
Spring would be but gloomy weather
If we had nothing else but spring—
T. Moore.
Ward Barber a junior in the College, is at his home in Abilene sick with pneumonia. His father, W. H. Barber, was in Lawrence yesterday, returning to Abilene in the evening with his son.
Phi Beta Pi Banquets
ANOTHER CUP OFFERED TO HASH HOUSE LEAGUE
Proprietor of College Book Store Offers Third Prize for Champions
HAMILTON CAN'T GIVE BALLS
Manager Says The Expense Would be Too Great—Teams Can Use Association Grounds
"I'd like to, but I can't afford it." Manager Hamilton said this morning when asked whether or not he has bask balls to the hash house league.
"I'll see that the teams have one of the outsides diamonds whenever they are out."
"Baseball is run at a loss of $1,500 or $2,000 a year as it is, practice costs five dollars a day, and we have spent a pile of money on the new fields. We simply can't afford to mall, bulls, pigs, much in favor of the Hash House League, and will do all I can to help it.
Bob Rowlands, proprietor of the College Book Store, offered the third cup for the championship today. He suggested that the cup be awarded to another division champion, the division champions to play for the cup offered by the Athletic Association, through Manager Hamilton. "If the league has to be divided into more than some other merchant would no be glad to give a cup," he said.
The Hash House League Commission will meet tomorrow evening in the Daily Kansan office and discuss ways and means, and prepare some sort of a plan for presentation at the general meeting of the League at the Student Union Thursday evening.
Sixteen of the 18 teams now entered have prepared a list of plays and had it printed in the Daily Kansan. Any other teams desiring to enter must hand in a list to the Kansan for publication before the meeting Thursday night, when a schedule will be adopted, according to a rule passed at the meeting last week.
Carl J. Peterson Says Public Mis interprets "Blue Sky" Measure
LAW IS NOT UNDERSTOOD
The bane of the Blue Sky law is the disposition on the part of the public to take a permit issued to a company by the banking department as the equivalent of a recommendation of the company's goods, according to Carl J. Peterson, special assistant in the State Banking Department, who lectured on the population law Friday afternoon. Mr. Peterson explained the cost meaning of a permit issued to a company; that it simply meant that the produce of the company or the stocks or bonds which is offered for sale were represented by the company.
Sunner in the Workhouse
A $4.00 dinner at a down town cafe Friday evening and supper Saturday evening in the workhouse is quite a contrast but such is the case with some of the K. U. students who travel to Kansas or-Kansas track meet at Kansas City.
Those who had this misfortune were members of a sociology class that went with their instructor to workhouse to do some research work.
Hard Luck, Says Lansdon
W. C. Lansdon, formerly manager of athletics at the University, was at Convention Hall Friday night and said that he never saw a track meet where all the luck broke for one team so consistently as it did for Missouri. "We will get them next year, however," he added optimistically.
Music Tickets Sell Lowly
The tickets for the musical festival, which are on sale at the Registrar's office have been going very well. For the four concerts cost $1.50 and the general season tickets cost $2.
Football Practice to Begin
Coach Arthur St. Leger Mosse today announced spring football practice to begin Wednesday. All football players should appear on McCook Wednesday afternoon.
Mrs. H. W. Humble and her two sons will return from Rosedale Friday.