6.20.17
DECEMBER 81, 1918.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
K. U. Basket Ball Men Practice for Contest With Ames Jan. 17-18
Early Indications Favorable for Development of Good Quintet
Veterans Back In the Game
High School Stars Try Out for Places—Freshmen to Have Team
With two games with Ames little more than two weeks off, the K. U. basketball team is getting down to practice work in good shape and as soon as Coach W. O. Hamilton returns from New York where he has been attending the national athletic conference, will put in its hardest licks developing a team. No practice could be held Monday, because the faculty had been using the gym for enrolling students, but tonight the men will be out. The Iowa games come January 17-18 at Ames.
Ed. Mason, Ray Bennett, and Uhrlaub are out for guards and are playing good ball. Bennett played with the Jola highs when they were in their prime. This is Mason's first year at the court game but he is making good. Uhrlaub won his letter here several years ago and knows more basketball than most coaches. He is a brother to Dutch Uhrlaub, captain of the five last season. Dutch Uhrlaub will work with the team and help the men along.
Matthews, who won his letter at center last season is out for the jumping position and is making good again. He is a good shot. Slonaker will be out for center also. Slonaker is a Cherryryale man and has played good ball in his prep school career. John Bunn and Marvin Harms are out for the forwards. Bunn won his letter here last season. Harms played good ball with the freshmen and got his start with the Wichita highs. Charles Heizer of Osage City is another good Varsity man, but will spend most of his time with the track men, as he is good with the bamboo pole.
The freshmen team looks good with Gross and Turner of Poly Tech of Kansas City to head the list. Both are good men. Scoop Olson, a Lawrence high school star last season is working well with the yearlings. Gardiner of Arkansas City and Ditson, the Newton star failed to return to school this quarter. The first year men will be able to give the Varsity some hard practice games this season and develop the Verosity.
"Dad" Westfall is III
Charles H. Westfall, pressman for the department of journalism press, has been ill with influenza during the holidays, but expects to return to his work on the Kansan in a few days.
Thurman's Life Belt To Man Who Didn't Swim
A. W. Thurman of Joplin, Mo., in a letter to the Daily Kanan today gives a letter he received telling of manly and beautiful traits of character that had endeared to men overseas Mr. Thurman's son, Robert, a former K. U. student who fell in battle in France September 27. The letter to Mr. Thurman follows:
At Sea—European Waters.
Mailed November 26, 1918.
Plumage.
Dear Mr. Thrumm.
Just as we get getting through the week for this trip, a fast motor launch ran alongside and tased a bag of mail on our deck. There was a letter for me from Louise dated October 26, telling me that word had come that Bob was killed in action in France a month before.
My dear Mr. Thurman, I wish my poor pencil could put down words gentle enough to say what I feel. The last time I saw Bob was in front of the steps leading to the army recruiting station in Joplin. I was trying to make the aviation school at Pensacola without success, and he did not to be disheartened and made me laugh by his comical sayings, and I went away with a light heart, whereas before I met him I had been feeling awfully blue.
A strange thing happened to me with regard to Bob, I want to tell you about it. It was so beautiful that I wrote my mother about it. A short time ago I made a liberty in Tangier, Morocco. I met a Y. M. C. A. worker there who made the port from a merchantman which was bound for the Eastern Mediterranean. He said he was going to Jerusalem, then on up to some station in Mesopotamia. In exchanging notes I told him I was from Joplin, Mo., and he said his home was in New York. Then he got out a litite notebook from his waistcoat pocket and after searching for sometime, turning over page after page, he showed me written on one page the name, Bob Thurman, Joplin, Mo., and under it, "True blue, a fine fellow. Seems to know that real happiness comes from kindness to others."
Then he went on to tell me how he met Bob coming over on a transport, and how Bob had been the most cheerful and happy fellow in his company, and was the life of his section of the ship; always seemed to be looking out for the comfort of his mates, sharing his cigarettes and such meager little sweets as he had, which men at sea crave dreadfully, with his companions in arms. This man said he was very much drawn to Bob, and if there ever was any man who showed a clean life and an unselfish soul by his eyes and face and buoyant tones of voice, it was Bob. He said he was going to keep in touch with Bob after the war and wished he could get him into Y. M. C. A. work, as his example would be so helpful to others.
But. Bob had already made the supreme sacrifice he, and neither of
us knew it. This man said that what made him first notice Bob was one night at "Abandon Ship" drill. Bob showed up without a life preserver and when the ship officer discovered it and hawled Bob out for it, the man next to him spoke up and said, I have his life-preserver, I could see him. The moment "Abandon Ship" was sounded, and he handed me his while we were racing up the hatch, saying that he could swim and he knows I can't."
You realize, of course, they had no way of knowing but that it was really and truly "Abandon Ship," the real thing, especially as it was after midnight, all hands being broken out of their bunks in the inky blackness. This man said it made him shudder to look out upon the void of black water and he made up his mind to find out about that fellow, and was glad he did. I made a memo of the M. Y. C. A. man's name on a sheet of his notebook with his penkil. He tore the sheet out for me and I put carefully in the band inside my white hat, that is, the lining just above the band. Coming through the surge that night it was awfully large seas and my shipped whipped off my head by the hat that were blowing and lost overboard. I tried to grab it with one hand but I could not catch it, as I was pulling an ear and could only take one hand off for a second as I had to put all my strength to it with both hands. I hated it like everything, not because of the hat but on account of the note in the hat.
My heart is filled with deep sympathy for you and Bob's mother.
When a man marries his troubles are all over. Yes, all over the place. The young lady who wants to catch an aviator for a husband should try flypaper.
One thing that is pretty hard to steen on is a lady's skirt.
I believe Herbert Hoover should really be called secretary of the interior.
No man is a hero to his valet for no hero ever has one.
Alligator meat makes a good substitute for beef and it is almost as hard to get.
The new German government has appointed a minister of marine. That guy will have a soft snap with no ocean.
Everything is cut down on account of the war except the holes in the Swiss cheese—Topeka State Journal.
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But Two Letter Men Return to College; Bradleys Expected Back
New Men Must Win Points For K.U. Track This Year
The University of Kansas track team is going to have to depend in a large measure this Spring on its new men, especially in the earlier indoor meets. Preliminary practice is already under way at Robinson gym, and by the end of the week tryouts will be held for a tentative team for the indoor meet with the Aggies here February 17.
Dewall and Ralph Rodkey are the only letter men in school and both have been working out all winter Rodkey won his letter in the quarter and broad jump last season. He is a brother to Fred Rodkey, the Kansas record holder for the quarter mile Dewall has been training for the distance races and is in good condition. Ogelivie, who ran in some of the meets last season, is in the school of medicine this quarter and will be out for the 2-mile. Russell, a Baker athlete, will be out for the quarter. Russell was on the squad last season but did not get into the meets. Rex Brown is a good cross-country man and may be out for the quarter also.
The Bradley brothers, from Oklahoma, who did some good work during their freshman year, are expected at any time. Charles Heizer, an Osage City athlete, who did some good vaulting during his first year and won his football letter this fall, will be out for the vault and can be counted upon for a good leap. Don Wetty, a K. U. vaulter is expected to return before the season is well under way and will make Heizer a good vaulting partner. Coach Hamilton will have charge of the men, but Pat Murphey, with half-miler, is teaching in the department of geology and is helping to the men when real practice starts. Roy Pringle, the senior varsity athletes, who won last spring is in K.U. and will work out with the squad. The first year men will not be eligible for competition in the Valley meets, but will be sent to some of the open meets at Kansas City if they show up well. The Valley meet will be held at Ames this spring.
Sport Beams
Western Reserve College of Cleveland will begin its basketball season January 11. All of the games will be played in the Ohio Conference with the exception of the game with Heidelberg.
The gymnasium at Ohio State University will be open to athletics again after being closed for two years. The gymnasium was used as barracks for aviators.
Miss Alice Brown, formerly assistant instructor in zoology in the University, now instructor in zoology at Manhattan, spent several days in Lawrence during the holidays.
The City Drug Store carries the most delicious chocolates. Buy a box for her today.—Adv.
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