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CAPTAIN MILLER
IN BASKETBALL
TWO VACANCIES TO BE FILLED THIS YEAR.
Captain Miller's Squad Has Been Working under Difficulties. Schedule Is Incomplete.
The basketball team has been working hard to develop men to fill vacancies caused by the resignation of Captain-elect Allen and the graduation of "Red" Barlow. To fill the position of captain, Milton Miller, captain of last year's team was reelected. Griggs, the Topeka athlete, has been out to practice a few times and shows remarkable skill at forward. If he works for the position, he will be able to fill Allen's place easily enough. It is Barlow's place that is causing the greatest worry now. Hackett, McCoun, Bergen and Smith are candidates for the position. The competition for the place will, it is hoped, develop a strong man. At center, Siler and Smith are the contestants. Siler has held the position for two years and will probably make good. At the guard position, Milton Miller, the captain of last year's team and again this year the choice of the team, is one of the best players in that position in the west. His long agile form is able to cover several points of attack at one time. For the two years that he has played at that position he has not been excelled. The other guard is safe between Johnson and Hackett.
The great difficulties in developing a team are, the lack of suitable quarters in which to train, and the lack of a coach. Dr. James Naismith, the inventor of the game, is so busy with his work as Athletic Director that he rarely finds time to give the men a thorough training. But the time that he does spend with them counts. This is shown by the record of the team last year. Nebraska was defeated on her own floor 38 to 17. Before the freshmen were eligible, Baker has beaten us 24 to 18 in a poorly played game. Shortly after Nebraska had gotten her defeat at the hands of the Jayhawkers, who were then in good training, the Cornhuskers invaded the Methodist camp and easily defeated Baker. This year the Methodists will be put off until the team is in mid-season form. The showing of Kansas on the Chicago trip was good considering the teams met. Armour Institute was defeated but the other teams of Chicago proved too much for the Jayhawkers at the end of a long trip.
The schedule for this year has not been completed as yet. The first trip will be westward. Washburn, Manhattan Pt. Riley and perhaps a Salina team will be played. In February, the team will meet Nebraska in Lawrence and will make an eastern trip. It has not yet been decided just how far east the team will venture. The western trip will tell just how strong a team Kansas has this year and how much the schedule can be safely extended. Missouri will be be played at Columbia if the Tigers are willing to match a game.
MANDOLIN CLUB DATES
Club Will Give Five Concerts During Christmas Holidays.
The University mandolin club has arranged a holiday trip of five dates beginning at Ottawa on New Year's Day. The other concerts are at Olathe, Garnet, Iola and Yates Center in the order named. At Olathe and Iola the concerts will be given in connection with county club banquets and receptions to high school students. Twelve men are to be chosen from the regular club of twenty-five to make the trip.
Several short trips are planned by the club for the spring season and one long trip is planned for the whole club of twenty-five men. The regular University concert by the club will be given some time in March.
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CAPTAIN PARKER
GOOD PROSPECTS
CAPTAIN PARKER WILL HAVE A STRONG TRACK TEAM.
Lack of Sprinters Is the Greatest Weakness—Much Is Expected of Hagerman's Influence.
The Jayhawker track team for the coming season will be the strongest team that has ever represented the University on the track. The team will have a coach for the first time in the person of J. P. Hagerman, who has volunteered his services free to the University. In him Kansas will have one of the best track coaches in the west. All that is necessary to develop a winning team is to get the men out on the track.
Frank Parker, captain of the team, has won the high jump in every meet that he has entered during the past two years with only a single exception. He made five feet, nine inches in the Convention Hall meet last spring against Anderson, the Missouri captain, and won the event but the record was not given him on account of the ruling requiring that records must be made on McCook field.
In the field events, Kansas could compete successfully with either Yale or Harvard. Russell made 11 feet, 4 inches last year in the pole vault and is good for a few more inches this year. Putnam threw the hammer 140 feet in practice and will be able to beat this record this spring. In the other weight events he will show a marked improvement. These two men with the aid of Young, Lapham and Butler, and other good men, ought to carry away the field events easily. It is on the track that the Jayhawkers are weak. Miller and Priest, who won the half-mile and mile from Nebraska, are to be re-enforced by Cooley, the Kansas City boy who ran the mile in 4:30, and Worden, of Sumner county. In the sprints Kansas will have the same men as last year, but the outlook in the short distances is darkened by the fact that the new gymnasium is not completed enough to allow the men to train for the short or long runs. It is high time that some arrangements for training the sprinters be made. The annual indoor meet will be held in Convention Hall sometime in March. Kansas has never won in track athletics from Missouri. This year the Missouri track team is the best that hss ever represented that institution. Besides Branham, who made the 100 yards in 10 seconds last year, they have Shannon Douglas and Tidd, men who have made the distance in 10], and Burr Douglas, who has gone the quarter in 51 several times. Against this field the best we can expect in the meets this year is a chance second in the sprints. In the half-mile we have a chance if we can get enough men out to make a spirited competition. In the mile, too, the prospects for the Jayhawkers coming out in the lead are good. Cooley is in a class by himself in the mile and should win the mile both in the indoor and outdoor meets. The two mile event will go to Jackson, the Tiger captain. This leaves Kansas with only one first and one or two seconds on the track. Wallace is the only man at the University who can hope to win a first in the sprints. There is no doubt that he is the crack sprinter at K.U. With the proper amount of training he could make it hot for the Tigers in three events. In the field events, Monilaw is working out men and he says that he will develop men who can compete with Russell and Putnam by March. He does not hope to beat Parker in the high jump but he says that he will make sure of the hurdles.
Since the Thanksgiving game the Athletic Board has given up all hope of hiring a track coach and J. P. Hagerman, the Y. M. C.A.secretary, will do all the track training. He will help the men greatly and everybody is satisfied that a good track team will result.
The one thing that the track team has worked for in the past is to beat Missouri, and this year the same object is ahead of the team. In everything except the running events, Kansas is superior to either Nebraska or Missouri but on the track Kansas is woefully weak. Either Missouri or Nebraska would find it easy enough to defeat the Jayhawkers as our men are now, but with the material at hand and the proper coaching, Kansas may develop the best team in the West. Both Missouri and Nebraska will be scheduled on McCook field sometime in May.
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