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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Kansas Meets Tigers Saturday On McCook In Annual Dual Meet
Tigers Have Beaten Kansas Track Men Once This Spring and May Repeat
The Jayhawkers will start against the Missouri track team on McCook Field Saturday and try to make up for the beating administered the Hamilton proteges in the dual meet at Convention Hall, early this spring. The Kansas team will be composed of the same material which lost to the Tigers earlier in the year but Kansas hopes to fare better on the outdoor track.
Since the Tiger dual meet Welty has been working out with the team regularly and is showing fair form. He may be able to annex several points Saturday in the hurdles or the pault vault. Haddock is doing better and the Kansas relay team is due for a comeback. The Kansas quarterback has won and lost two games. Mississippi land a five pointer in the event Saturday. The Kansas four is regarded as one of the best in the Valley.
All things taken into consideration the Kansas team will have a hard fight to make the meet close as the Tigers have a world of strength in the dashes and hurdles.
Neodesha Girls Win Cup Given by Debating Leagu
At the high school debate last Friday evening, the Neodesha debating team composed of girls won the state championship against the Pratt debating team. The question for debate was "Resolved: That capital and labor should be compelled to settle their disputes in legally established courts of arbitration." The winning team had the affirmative side of the question.
Phi Alpha Delta will hold initiation for their new members Tuesday night at the chapter house.
A Student Volunteer meeting will be held Wednesday night. Everyone is invited to attend.
The prevalent impression on the Hill that the Women's Glee Club concert and the University Band concert come on the same night is wrong. The Glee Club concert is Thursday night May 8, and the band will play Thursday night, May 15.
Council Installed Wednesday
The new Men's Student Council will be installed at 8 o'clock Wednesday night immediately after the last session of the old Council. All incoming members are eligible for installation, said Hershel Washington, president of this year's body.
K. U. Colors Were Once Sky Blue and Yellow
"Crimson and Blue" Has Been University Song for Thirty Years
"Crimson And The Blue" will reach it's thirtieth birthday at K.U. this year. It is the one song that has remained with the University since it was introduced by G. B. Penny in 1889, then professor in music at the University. The melody is a very old one and the words were taken from the Cornell song as Professor Penny was a Cornell man. Slight revisions were made and the song adapted to the University of Kansas.
Before 1889 "Crimson And The Blue" was not the name of the song. The colors then were sky blue and corn yellow and the song was named accordingly. It was only when Colonel McCook gave McCook Field to K.U. that the colors were changed. Colonel McCook was a Yale man and the Yale student. In his With the addition of McCook Field the University began to regard itself as the Harvard of the west in athletics and the Harvard crimson became a color of Kansas along with the blue of Yale.
Opinions as to how the Rock Chalk started differ. Prof. M. W. Sterling remembers about the "boys" telling him how the yell originated. It was at a speech of Judge S. O. Thatcher at Fraser Hall that the idea began. Judge Thatcher mentioned the chalk beds of Kansas and as the crowd of students were leaving the Hall after the speech someone began to yell "Rock Chalk." Then another student chimed in with "Jayhawk" and not long after this the complete yell was
introduced at a meeting of a scientific society that in 1887-88 was called the "H".$^{4}$ Rock Chalk has come to us with slight variations from the original.
Betas Win From Sigma Chis
Betas Win From Sigma Chis
The Beta team took another step toward the cup when it defeated the Sigma Chis 8 to 2, Monday.
Score            R H E
Sigam Chis      .001 100 0 2 4 3
Betas           .304 100 x 8 9 1
Batteries, Sigma Chi; Lonberg and Madden; Betas, Bunn and Marxen.
Vernie, Waltman.
Umpire—Weltmer.
Sig Alphs Win Fast Game from Sigma Nu
The Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity won a game Monday from the Sigma Nus by a score of 4 to 1
Bell pitched a good game for the Sig Alps pitching himself out of several bad holes. He allowed no hits and walked but four men during the game. Barter, pitching for Sigma Nus, pitched well at times but failed to hold up against then hits meant He allowed two hits but these hits were timely.
The score by imingns: H R H
Sigma Alpha ...002 010 1 2 4 1
Sigma Nu...100 000 0 0 1 5
Batteries: Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Bell and P. Jones, Sigman Nu, Bar
Kansas Distance Man Writes "Monty," Kansan Sport Hasher, of Athletics
Sproull Sprints up Alps to Keep in Track Condition
"There are lots of mountains here I keep in shape by running up and down then Alps several times a day," says Cargill Sproull, lieutenant in the aviation corps, now attending the University of Grenoble at Grenoble,
in the south of France, in a letter received Wednesday by John Montgomery. "Another way to train over here is to walk down the street, and you will find yourself running to get away from the women. Thus, keeping in training for the old K. U. track team. 'Nest ce pas?'"
"You doubtless remember my old partner in the mile, Herriot of Missouri. He is here at the University of Grenoble. All sorts of athletics are being planned here for the spring, so doubtless Herriot and I will be asked to compete there. We will get easily difficult proposition to get either of us in a track suit. You see, we are getting old, and have lost some of our oung ideas."
"I was in Paris with 'Potys,' linger before the game with the 38th Division, "Scrubby" and the gang just before the game with the 38th Division. "Paris" leaves. I did not see the game.
Lieut. Sproull enclosed a photo of himself in machine, christened "Theda Bara," and adorned on the sides and wings with pictures of serpents, ready for a little flight.
Sport Beams
By John Montgomery
Coach Jay Bond has scheduled a baseball game with the Haskell Indians for 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon on McCook Field diamond. The Indians have some real sluggers and the game should prove to be an exciting affair because Kansas also has some real sluggers.
The writer of this column is firmly convinced that the proposed memorial athletic field and stadium is the best idea that has been suggested and therefore wishes to correct some of the wild exaggerations about the athletic field and stadium that have been given out by a few opponents.
In the first place a very few individuals, with apparent prejudiced motives, have stated in the Kansan
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that the Yale bowl cost millions of dollars and the agitation has been to the effect that something similar is wanted for Kansas. Both of these statements are absolutely untrue. Seemingly reliable information puts the contractors cost of the Yale bowl at $300,000 for the 60,000 seats or a unit cost of five dollars per seat. The buying of the improved land is the item that cost real money, and even that did not cost millions.
Now any reasonable minded person will admit that Kansas does not need 20,000 seats because we do not have urgent need for more than 10,000 to 15,000 seats at present and additions can be added as needed. Missouri and Nebraska have built concrete bleachers for only a little larger unit cost. It can easily be seen that a fine stadium, with the unit cost of seats as high as fifteen dollars or more, could be built for $250,000, because 10,000 seats could be built for only $150,000.
Another alleged contention is that the commons would serve more students which is also absolutely questionable because about seventy-five per cent or more of the men and women students of the University are taking part now or take part in athletics of some form. With fine athletic fields and stadium more students would likely find occasion to take a little exercise.
As a matter of fact I do not believe there are very many students who conscientiously believe a commons would attract more than a handful of students. Personally I do not
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have the time to spend sitting around at a commons. I will venture to say that most of the students have a fairly large number acquaintances under present social conditions.
Every one that I have talked with says that more money can be obtained for the athletic field and stadium so it would only be practical to push something that would be most likely to materialize. Anyone that sits in the rickety McCook Field bleachers will readily realize that a big athletic field and stadium is one of the most urgently needed improvements at the University and in addition the most fitting memorial to our soldier heroes.
Ralph Rodkey tripped off the quarter Monday evening in 53 and 3-5 seconds, the fastest time that K.U. has seen in this distance. Rodkey ran in fine form, and when he finished, looked strong enough to go around again in the same time.
The Sigma Phi Sigs forfeited their game to Acomas Monday by failing to show up on Hamilton Field.
The Stoic Club won a game in the Hash-house league in the same easy way from the Dean Club. Only one Dean club man showed up on the grounds at 5:30.
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The story of "Virtuous Wives" lends itself admirably to screen presentation and with Miss Stewart in the leading role, the public is assured an evening of unusual entertainment.
This picture is running in the leading theaters of the country with phenomenal success, being booked in many of the large houses for weeks.
While this picture is being brought to Lawrence at considerable extra expense, there will be no advance in the price of admission.
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