UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
JANUARY 7,1919.
K.C.A.C. Believes Boxing Should Have Prominence In College Athletics
Organization Plans Gathering of Western University
Stars
Boxing should be brought to the front in colleges since the war is over according to Director Reilley of the K. C. A. C. and tournaments between colleges and universities should be arranged the same as any of the other college sports. The men have been taking boxing lessons in the training camps and have gotten some good from boxing as a recreation.
The University of Kansas is the first school of the Valley to start teaching the men the art of self-defense under an instructor and other schools of the valley and of the states will probably fall in line in a short time and enable the amateurs to hold tournaments similar to athletic meets of other sorts which are so popular. According to Director Reilley the men should be awarded letters for their work in the ring and accorded the same honor as a gridiron hero.
The K. C. A. C. is considering a plan of holding a series of smokers and inviting amateur boxers from the various colleges of the Missouri Valley to enter him. A real college tournament will be held at one of the Blue Diamond smokers' shows; the program demands of interest, the game to warrant such a show, according to the K. C. A. C. director.
Pete Gross is working out with the men at the University in their gym classes daily and invites any of the men who have been in training camps or have had previous boxing experience to come out and help train the new men and get them off to a good start. The boxers are showing interest in their sport and Grosl will time giving the advance men and the new men the proper amount of time needed for successful work.
"Dutch" Lonborg Returns
To Basketball Squa
Varsity Team Gradually Req gains Its Normal Number of Men
The Varsity basketball squad is reaching its normal number with the return of new men every day. At the practice Friday night, "Dutch" Lonberg, who was on the squad last season, was out in uniform, and worked out for the first time. He is the fourth old man to return. Miller beat him back by one day, and Matthews and Bunn have been out since the beginning of practice.
Coach Hamilton was called away at noon Friday and was unable to be present to give the chalk-talks on signals. These will be taken up on tonight. However a snappy practice with the freshmen resulted in defeat for the first-year men. Bunn, Harms, and Miller worked at forward, Matthews at center, and Bennett, Mason and Lonberg at guards.
Sport Beams
Sports are coming back to their own in the east and critics are pushing the Olympic games, and international competition in boxing, wrestling, and swimming for amateurs.
Scoop Olson, a Lawrence man, is out of the game with a bad ankle but expects to get back with the freshman five shortly. Olson was a star on the Lawrence high school team here last season.
Pete Gross is giving the men in the gym classes the benefit of his ring experience and has asked good boxers at K. U. to come out and help with the new men.
The Kansas basketball team is without a captain this season because of the absence of *v* Scrubby Laslett who is still in the service. Bunn, Matthews, and Miller are all letter men and eligible for the honor.
The Kansas tennis team will be strong in the Valley this season with Matthews and Uhls out. Uhls is at Rosedale but can come over as last year for practice. Kansas had little trouble winning the Valley honors last season on the court.
Baseball will come into prominence all over the nation in a few weeks. It is an interesting and brainy game. K. U. students would like to see baseball revived in the Valley.
The basketball game planned by the Cornhuskers to take place at the University of Illinois on anuary 10 and 11 was cancelled January 4.
With the "du" knocked out and the S. A, T. C, K. S, A. C is outlining a program of athletic entertainment for its members throughout the new year. Handball is to be handled on a large scale. The club will get the tournaments in motion this week. The players will be classified according to their ability, into three classes, A, B, and C. Two hundred members are expected to enter the class.
Cargill Sproul Writes Of Seeing Belgian King While on Paris Leave
Former Kansan Man Now in Aviation Concentration
Camp
News of many K. U. men in France is contained in a letter received from Lieut. Cargill Sproull, A.B. '18, dated December 8. He is stationed at Isoudum, France, the huge aviation concentration camp of the A.E.F. air service, called the "mud hole of France."
Lieutenant Sproul was a prominent track man, a member of the Kansan board and a Phi Kappa Psi. He tells of twenty-four hours in Paris, seeing the Belgian king and queen, and many people who came to speak to people. Extracts from his letter are;
"I have had a little trip to Paris, and it is a great old village, full of life, now that the war is over. The new sights, together with the old ones, make a lot to see in a few hours. I saw a lot but even at that I saw only a small fraction of the city.
"Passee from here to Paris are very hard to get, but I went up to Colonel Gingham and talked him out of twenty-four hours. That means, exclusive of travel time. It is only four hours's run by express train, and three hours' time they used the plane, king and queen on parade—some crowd and jam there. Rooms in Paris are as scarce as dry spots in Issoudum.
"Just after getting off the train, I went to the American University Union, then to a large cafe—the Cafe de Paris—for lunch. As I sat down I noticed a captain across from me was John Dykes, a Phi Gamma Delta from K. U. He had been wounded in a fight with an enemy couple of hours together, in which we learned a lot about the other boys, for he was in the St. Mihiel drive.
"From the minute I landed in the city until I pulled out I was on the go except for a few hours' sleep. I got there at noon yesterday and left at noon today.
"He was busy, so I hiked out to see some things and shortly I heard some one yell out, 'Hey, Cargill! Imagine such a thing on the streets of Paris near the Place de l'Opera! Isn't it a small world? This was Sam Pickard of Lawrence, a Sigma Nu at K. U. He and I had a big time. He is a flier, just back from the front, and was shot down twice.
"Then we ran into Jack Gillette, a K. U. Phi Delti. After visiting with them for a time I went to the University Club and met L. B. Flinton, a Phi Psi. He is a captain in the Marine Corps, stationed in Paris. He has a car there, so we spent some time together.
"We organized a K. U. party and saw some of the sights of Paris. Paris is some town for the night owls. We took in as much as possible, but of course we missed a lot no doubt. We saw, however, some of the big cafes, theaters, hotels, and such other interesting things. This morning I got up bright and early to see the Place de la Concord, the Louvre, the Palais Royal, and the captured war material on display. Also the parks, buildings and monuments along the Seine.
"I forgot to mention seeing the Belgian king and queen near the Place de la Louvre and the Rue de kivelli yesterday afternoon. What will Paris be like when President Wilson hits it? As I look back I find I made good use of that twenty-four hours. Paris is crowded with Americans, mostly Americans, and prices are sky-high.
"I plan to run down to Limoges next week-end to see Captain Elliott and some of the other K. U. boys who are stationed there with base hospital No. 28. One of the boys has written me that Doctor Elliott is now a capitan.
"Another K. U. man came into camp today. He is Herman, a Sigma Chi.
"I expect to be kept busy this week flying above the fog and in the low clouds."
A Message and An Appeal
In the closing days of the most momentous year in the history of the world, I want to express to the people of the State of Kansas the appreciation of the State Director and all County Chairmen for the splendid co-operation in the dissemination of the lessons of thrift and saving and the translation of these lessons in the purchase of Government War Savings Stamps. We may be a little short of our quota but we will continue to work with the United States. Had it not been for the serious crop failures in the larger part of our State we would undoubtedly have sold more than the amount assigned to Kansas.
The War is over, victory is ours, but it could not have been won without the magnificent work of our boys over there, and the equally willing work of those who stayed at home.
In order to achieve an orderly readjustment of War conditions it will be as necessary for people to save and invest in Government securities for the next year, as it has been for the past year.
May I not appeal to the chairmen in all the sub-divisions of the State organization to continue in the good work of keeping the necessity of further saving before all the people, and making sure that they are benefited by bringing about the fruits of peace gained through victory.
Kansans have been among the first in the hearty support of the Government and let us be the last to discontinue the work of reconstruction.
Gratefully yours.
State Director.
On Other Hills
John A. Moyer, director of the department of university extension, Massachusetts Board of Education, enlisting the following letter to students:
"The cessation of hostilities does not mean a cessation of our efforts in every branch of endeavor, as some might be inclined to believe. Efforts greater than before will be demanded of each of us in the huge task of adjustment if we continue to do our bit. Not only is trained help needed for rebuilding of the devastated region of Belgium and France and for the reorganization of Russia, but it is needed also in our own beloved land, were the activities of war must be transformed to those of peace. Our students have also their after-war responsibilities to the department. Studies can now be resumed with a will.
"It was easy to work and to sacrifice as long as the war continued—easy for all of us who knew what disaster and allied failure would bring us. But the work of reconstruction is not so spectacular, not so dramatic, and its aims are easily lost sight of. There will be much for each one of us to do in the great work, the work of bringing about 'better than before the war' conditions, and each of us, now of all times, should be preparing himself for the greatest possible service.
"Education is of the utmost value in this preparation. The government has realized this, and is continuing the training of thousands of young men at the different colleges and schools for the work which will be expected of them. The War Department saw the need and acted accordingly. Plans for giving educational work to our boys in France who are not to return are also under consideration.
"During the last eighteen months education has undergone a change never dreamed of in such a short period of time. This most important activity, so essential to the welfare and progress of our nation, is being recognized, with the result that a movement is on foot to have a Secretary of Education in the President's Cabinet.
"Now is the time to avail ourselves personally of every opportunity offered to increase our stock of knowledge and future value to the country. Now is the time to resume our studies, temporarily abandoned, with renewed vigor, purpose and enthusiasm. Let us make ourselves ready."
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