THE KANSAN.
. UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME II.
GOOD ENOUGH
TOPEKA CONFERENCE SATISFIED WITH FOOTBALL.
Freshman Eligibility Rule Modified----New Summer Base Ball Rule.
At the annual meeting of the athletic conference of Kansas Colleges in Topeka last Saturday, several important changes were made in the present athletic rules which are of great importance to the University. Most important of course was the partial elimination of the freshman rule as it has been in force during the past year. By an extremely close vote the conference decided that all schools with an enrollment of less than 400 should be allowed to play the first year men in the football games. This does not effect the University, the State Normal, Washburn, the Agricultural College, or Lindsburg, but all other colleges including St. Mary's, Ottawa, College of Emporia, Fairmount, Friends', and Salina Wesleyan will enter under the modification of the rule. This is of the utmost importance to the University as several of the schools effected by the rule are on the varsity schedule and will be able to develop much stronger teams than Kansas had been expecting.
The other important change in the rules that is of interest to the University is that in regard to professional baseball. According to the new ruling every player that has participated in more than three games of summer ball, will be declared ineligible to play college base ball.
Aside from the freshmen rule the conference made no attempt to reform football. The University was represented by Wilson Sterling.
BASEBALL SCHEDULE.
Dates For The Remainder Of The Season.
Manager Lansdon has arranged the following schedule to follow the southern trip;
Nebraska university, April 12 and 13.
Emporia college, April 14. Oklahoma university April 20 and 21.
Emporia college, April 14.
Agricultural college, April 25. Drury, May 4 and 5.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MARCH 21, 1906.
Missouri State university, May 10 11.
Nebraska, at Lincoln, Neb., May 18 and 19.
1. B, A. C. Manhattan, May 21.
St. Mary's, St. Mary's, May 22.
Friends university, May 26, on Mc Cook field.
St. Mary's, McCook field, June 4. Missouri university, Columbia, June 5 and 6.
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Two games will be played with Baker or Washburn on McCook field April 27 or 28, the time of the track meet with Emporia college.
CAPTAIN ALLEN.
Basket Ball Captain Elected for the Following Year.
At a meeting of the basket ball squad, held in Dr. Naismith's office Monday noon, "Fog" Allen was chosen unanimously as the man to head the team for the coming year. Allen is a steady, consistent player, who can be depended upon to do all that is possible for the best interests of the team and the University. Under his leadership the team will increase the long string of victories begun this year under the able direction of Milton Miller.
There is some talk of arranging a schedule that will exceed in length any trip ever undertaken by a University organization in the west. It will include a trip to the Pacific coast,to be taken during the Christmas holidays and extending a week after. Manager Lansdon has promised to arrange it if the team is willing to miss their vacation.
CLASS DEBATE NOTICE.
Contestants Must Enter by Vacation.
Professor Frazier, of the public speaking department, who will have charge of the freshman-sophomore debate, has called for the entries of both classes not later than March 28, at noon. The question is the Missouri subject and the representatives of both classes will be chosen in class preliminaries. Regular freshmen and special students doing their first year's work in the University are eligible from the freshman class, and all second year students the same way from the sophomore class.
Freshmen should hand their names to some member of their committee, at once. The committee is Gowenlock, Apollo, Eustack Smith, and H. C. Waters. Sophomores should report to either Ansel Clark, R. L. Douglas or Kenneth Campbell or to Professor Frazier. The preliminaries will be held as soon after vacation as practicable.
Chancellor Strong has returned from Wichita where he had been for the past two weeks at the Battle Creek sanitarium, and expects to resume his duties in about a week. He is in perfect health, aside from the natural weakness resulting from his long illness. Dr. Strong will be on the hill for the Friday chapel, April 6, if nothing happens to prevent.
Chancellor Is Back.
Photographs, the kind an artist makes, at popular prices. Bauer & Coffey, 1103 Main St., Kansas City, Mo.
Will Kenny, '08 engineer is confined to his room with an attack of pleurisy.
OFF FOR THE SOUTH.
Base Ball Team Left Last Night. Johnson Eligible.
The University base ball team left last night on its southern trip and will stop at Wichita today where a game is scheduled with Friends' University. Manager Lansdon and Coach Relihan accompanied the team composed of Brookens, "Ben" Young, Carlos Johnson, Hetherington, "Spide" Bailey, as infield men. Andy Brown, Bunny Wilson and one of the pitchers as out field and Hoffman, Jones, Meade and Kirmeyer as twirlers. Captain Johnson was declared eligible in the University Council meeting today noon and will join the team at the Chillocco Indian school tomorrow.
As Manager Lansdon says this trip will give the boys a chance to taste salt water and will cover the largest number of games ever scheduled for a 'Varsity base ball team.
Dr. Moffat Here Friday.
Dr. Moffat, president of Washington and Jefferson College, and Moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly, will address University audiences three times this week. He will speak in chapel Friday morning and will deliver an address that evening in the chapel on "Modern Science and Christianity." On Sunday afternoon he will address the regular vesper services at 4 o'clock.
Dr. Moffat has the religious earnestness one would expect from a man originally a minister of the United Church of Scotland. His good judgment and large hearted personality have been invaluable services to his own church in the settlement of the question of a new creed and in the bringing together of the northern and southern branch separated since the conflict over slavery. The long time he stays and the number of times he appears will give the University public a good chance to get acquainted with this earnest and large hearted man and ought to be of great spiritual significance to our life.
Senior Play Notice.
Senior girls who wish to try for places on the play will meet in room 15, Friday afternoon at 3:30 and all men at 4:30. Candidates are requested to come prepared to read a short selection from Shakespeare's As You Like It. PLAY COMMITTEE.
Alumnus Honored.
Miss Nadine Nowlin, of the class of '03, who has held the fellowship in zoology at Bryn Mawr this year, has just been granted a travelling fellowship in that subject. She will travel in Europe for a year with all expenses paid.
WAS NOT IN IT
KANSAS LOST OUT AT THE ST.LOUIS MEET.
Kansas Lost Relay On Foul--- Russell Was Only Man Not Handicapped.
The squad that represented Kansas at the indoor meet held under the auspices of St. Louis University, at St. Louis, last Saturday night returned Sunday night but not loaded with victories. The only entries were in the relay, the shot put, and the pole vault. In the relay race was a fight for supremacy between Missouri and Kansas teams, with the odds considerably in favor of Kansas. All went well until the last relay began. Ellis of Missouri had a considerable lead at the start, when Capt. Driscoll succeeded in closing in the first lap. On the next round Driscoll attempted to pass Ellis, but was fouled by him. Driscoll in turn fouled Ellis, who dropped out of the race and refused to finish. Driscoll came in but was disqualified by the judges and the race was given to Washington University. The Kansas relay team finished in fast time, having made the eight laps of 1400 yards in 2 minutes and 52 seconds flat. The K. C. A. C. team considered the fastest team in this part of the country defeated the M. A. C. in 2:48 flat, showing up but 1 second to the man faster than Kansas. In the pole vault Russell was at a disadvantage in being the only man not given a handicap. This was a good recognition of his ability but it failed to procure a place for him. Subtracting the various handicaps of from two to fourteen inches from the records of the other vaulters, Russell would have tied for first place. Putnam failed to win a place in the shot put. The next meet will be the annual class tournament on McCook field April 12.
Another Coasting Accident.
Several students were severely shaken up in a collision with a four-horse sled on Hancock street Monday night. No one was dangerously hurt, but William Montgomery of the Law School lost several of his front teeth, and other members of the party were considerably shaken up. The sled was the same "bob" on which Miss McCracken was hurt last week. It is the third collision in which it has figured this year.
Notice to College Athletes.
All students of the college who are interested in the interschool meet of April 14, will meet in the lecture room of Snow Hall to elect a captain and two sub-coaches, Friday at 4:30.