UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
BASEBALL SEASON ON
Ames Plays Opener on McCook This Afternoon Elements Permitting
WEATHERMAN THE JINX
Rain Held Up Two Ames Games Last Year
The Ames Aggies and the Jayhawkers are playing the first game of the 1916 baseball season in the Missouri Valley on McCook Field this afternoon. And it will be a real exhibition of the national sport. Both teams are in good shape and the field is in first class shape and the crowd ought to be good unless the weather man drops in late in the afternoon.
No one is hoping for a complete series this year more than the Ames squad. Last year only two of the four scheduled games could be played on account of bad weather both in Iowa and in Texas, prospects for two games in Lawrence are slim considering the present atmospheric conditions. Since the postponement last spring Ames has been claiming that they would have come back in the first two games. But the first chance will be this afternoon.
**SMEE IN BOX TOMORROW**
On the mound McCarty will have a veteran, Red Craig. Tomorrow he will have George Smee. Both these men are experienced and have pitched Jayhawker teams to victories in best teams in the Missouri Valley. Both are going at an unusually good pace this year and will annex a few more pitching records before the year is over. The Ames coach was unable to announce his lineup for today's game.
The line-up for the Kansas team today may be the following but if things do not go right at the start any one of two dozen men may get into the fraces before it is over. The line-up Webber, 1b; Deaver, 2b; Wood, ss Gibbens, 3b; Smee, If; Wandel (Capt. cf; Chinnery, rf; Weltman, c; Craig, t)
TO RESURRECT ARCHERY
University Women Preparing for Contest Next Month
The women at K. U. have added another sport to their list of out-door games, and an archery contest to be held in May is working up enthusiasm over this new-old game. Archery contests are certainly not new. From the days of Greek and Roman romantics, the sport is pictured romantically in tales of jousts and tourneys, and like so many old things is again coming into style.
But who would have thought that the followers of Robin Hood would be women? Not that Robin Hood was unmanly, but times have changed, and since the men are so engrossed with football, baseball, and the more thrilling sports, archery and its revival has been left to the women.
"We have no doubt that archery will become as popular here at K. U. as any other sport," said Miss Gladys Elliott. "But we like to keep it for the upperclassman, because they can come over when they have only a few minutes and practise without the bother of putting on gym suits."
Showers Are Usable
The showers in the basement of Gymnasium are useable temporarily.
"Next fall," said H. A. Lorenz this morning, "a larger lead pipe will be installed and the showers will be imple-mented." The water from the shower room this year has been annoying most of the time, and it has been hard to keep the sprays in workable condition at all. We hope that the improvements which have been made are necessary repairs until the new lead pipe and sprays are put in next fall."
1916 TRACK SCHEDULE
April 29 Annual K. U. interclass meet on McCook Field.
April 21 Drake Reiay games a Des Moines.
May 5 Nebraska dual meet at Lawrence.
May 6 Kansas state high school meet at Lawrence.
May 13 Missouri dual meet at Columbia.
May 19 Kansas Aggie dual meet at Manhattan.
May 20 Annual high school invitation meet at Lawrence.
May 27 Missouri Valley Conference meet at Columbia.
June 3 Western Conference meet at Chicago.
LACK OF HELP HALTS
BACK OF HELP HALTS
OREAD MINE PLAN
Failure of the volunteer system to produce recruits enough to start prospect work has delayed the starting of work on the tunnel which the mining department is to drive in. Engineering are to drive under Mount Oread. Prof. A. C. Terrill of the mining faculty called last week for volunteers to work on the prospecting which must precede the actual work tunnel, but only four men answered.
The coal vein which was found by the workmen on the bridge a few days ago about thirty feet below the level of the Kaw is in all probability the one which the K. u. Mine may try to reach. It is known that there is an opening and the people admired a hundred and fifty feet below the surface but for the present no attempt will be made to get to it with the mine.
PICK BY ROUND ROBIN
Tennis Squad Will Have Tournament—Play Starting Next Monday
A "Round-Robin" tournament is to be the method used in selecting the Varsity squad of tennis players this spring according to the decision of a dozen racket sharks who attended the tournament last week. The weather will be the only thing that will prevent the plans from being carried out on schedule time.
The games of the tournament will start Monday. Each man who wants to try out for the squad will play every other applicant and the four players will perform before they compose the squad that will represent Kansas in the Valley matches this spring. The schedule will be arranged early this week. Meanwhile, the players will perform before they permit them to practice the weather regular play starts.
The squad this year will consist of four men instead of two or three as has been the case in other years. Whether three or four men will get the different trips this spring will depend on the quality of play shown by the candidates. But in any case the players must be able to fill the shoes of Dix Teacher when he finishes his Varsity work this spring.
Regular practices will be held each afternoon this week after which the tournament schedules and time for practice will be announced.
WILL HAVE BARREL FIGHT
Sophs Get New Stunt For Their Mixer Tomorrow Night
"A barrel fight," a new thing for Lawrence, which has two exponents of the manly art, fighting from unmanly barrels for principals, is. the headliner for the sophomore mixer, Ecke's hall next Thursday evening.
Taking second place on the bill is the boxing program embracing a battle royale between five welter weights, and a number of speed matches. A quartet will sing several songs supplementing the instrumental numbers, and Beau Olecot, football mentor, and Bean Olecot, basketball coach, agreed to exchange a few choice yarns for the mixers while the eats and smokes go the rounds.
A large ticket sale to date has made the management hump to insure enough smokes and eats for a crowd twice the ticket sale.
"The cankerworms are beginning to hatch," says Professor H. B. Hungerford of the department of entomology. This is the pest which has necessitated the banding of the trees. Those not banded will probably be stripped of their foliage as soon as they reach the cankerworms are only found in certain localities. The trees that are banded with tree tangle feet are free from the insects as the female cankerworm can only reach the trees by crawling up. As soon as the cankerworm gets its growth, it falls to the ground where it remains a shiny brown insect called the chrysalis until February and then crawls out and up the trees where it lays its eggs which hatch in five or six weeks.
Cankerworms Hatching
An Interfraternity Conference of the fraternities of Syracuse University has been organized. It is hoped by the members that the conference will solve all problems of interfraternity that remain unable to content successfully with those propositions which require the action of the united fraternities.
Lorenz Says Average Student Works on Inferior Apparatus in Gym
NEED NEW EQUIPMENT
"Thespecialists," says H. A. Lorenz, instructor of physical education, "theathletes of known ability in the University, are given every advantage, such as the ability to coach, and other necessities and luxuries, that can possibly be given them. The average student, however,—the fellow who is compelled by the need to succeed—can up with scant and inferior apparatus and many other inconveniences."
FAVOURS SPECIALIZED ATHLETES
"I am be thoroughly understood,
from the time I began," she said,
"that I am greatly in favor of specialized athletics and think that football, basketball, and baseball heroes, as well as the track and field stars have their rightful place in our Uni-
tities. They are very hard to find, and are given too much emphasis and attention. I know, however, that the gymnasium equipment, a great deal of which is home made, clumsy and practically immovable, is by no means used or valued; we have lost interest in gym because we cannot properly take care of them."
There is but one set of movable parallel bars in the gymnasium, and, according to Mr. Lorenz, it is absolutely unsafe, and should not be used. There is urgent need for a new vaulting bar and should modern and safe set of parallel bars.
APPARATUS IS ANTIQUE
"Our apparatus is so antiquated," said Mr. L. Burchard, who is impossible for us to have competitive exercises with other universities, as much as we would like to do so. We would like to give more exhibitions, in order that the people might see the work of our department, but we cannot even do this with the present apparatus. It is small that it does not allow us to buy the things we really need."
WILL DEBATE ATHLETICS
Kansas to Meet Tigers on Intercollegiate Sport Question
Intercollegiate athletics is the subject of debate between the Universities of Missouri and Kansas on Friday evening in Fraser Chapel. The question is "Resolved, that intercollegiate athletics should be abandoned in American Universities." Missouri will uphold the affirmative.
Kansas will be represented by three of the four following men: Henry Shinn, Odis H. Burns, Raymer McQuiston and Lynde Anderson. These men have been working on the question of whether the university ester and have just finished a trip to Independence, Cherryvale and Coffeyville where they have debated the question before the high schools. The team that will represent K. U. on the local floor, will be picked according to their standing. The names will be announced soon.
Kansas was defeated by Missour last year.
WILL PLAY "DER VETTER"
Deutsche Verein to Stage Comedy on April 8
The Deutsche Verein will give Der Vetter, a three act comedy, Saturday evening April 8, at 8 o'clock in the theatre of Green Hall. The comedy is under the supervision of Miss Margarethe Hochderfer, and Prof. W. W. Hawkins, instructors in the department of German. George Baerg, as Der Vetter, will play the leading role. Hardy in Gwennie, Wilhelm, Shomber, Blackface Gwennie, W. Goldman, R. Sibbett, Benjamin Baitzter, and Edward Kroesch have parts in the play.
Ten copies of Bryce
Ten new copies of Bryce's American Government text, placed upon the shelves in Spooner library for use by the students in the classes under Professors C. A. Dykstra and B. F. Moore. Up to the present time, the students have been greatly hindered in reading their assignments because of a lack of books. There is also an older edition of the same books in the library for the use of the law students.
"Der Vetter is one of Roderek Benedix's productions, and is a peach of play," said Professor Hawkins this year. "Proof is that proof it will be interesting."
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Send the Daily Kansan home to the folks.
The Sigma Xi banquet will be help Thursday night, April 13, at I. O. O. F. Hall. The members, as well as the guests, are welcome, as well as the case may be) will be there.
I will pay two and a half cents for each copy of the mining edition. Professor Terrill.
Women students, living west of Tennessee and south of fourteenth street, are invited to a district meet-room on Friday at 7 o'clock at 1408 Tennessee.
All Men Students are requested to be in Fraser Chapel at 12:30 p. m., Tuesday, April 12, to vote on the proposed cheerleader amendment to the constitution of the Men's Student Council.
The Forty Club will meet at 1215 Orend Wednesday night at 8 o'clock. All members are urged to be present for the coming year will be elected.
The Committee for Roaming Houses for women will meet at 4:30 this afternoon at the office of Adviser of Women. Mrs. Eustace Brown.
Mrs. Cora G. Lewis, member of the board of administration, will address the women of the faculty at 4:30 Thursday in room 114 Fraser Hall. The address will be followed by tea served by Mrs. Eustace Brown.
The Sachem honorary society of senior men will meet tonight at the Sig Alph house at 9:00 p. m.
Coach Oletti wants 25 more men out for spring football practice every afternoon. Spring training lasts until April 20.
No Soph Hop Farc Rehearsals will be held this week, as the gym will be in use. Everybody out—east, chorus, Monday next Friday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock.
The Daily Texan says that Yale students and coaches are disturbed over the possibility of losing the captains of the football, swimming and wrestling teams because of their poor grades.
Cornell fraternities will not pledge freshmen until they have finished one.
Mr. Pecan: "What seems to be the trouble, James?"
James: "One of the cylinders is missing, sir."
Mr. Pecan: "My word! Where do you suppose we could have lost it?"
The Emprioria State Normal has a "class to teach teachers manners."
Football practice 10 o'clock Saturday morning. Coach wants more men.
If it keeps you hustling to stand off the grocer, the butcher and the landlord, how would the family do it? A chef could work the Northwestern each month?
L. S. Boughly
Mary Myers, a junior in the College last semester, visited her parents the latter part of the week. Miss Myers is attending the Emporia Normal, studying in the department of kindergarten.
Miss Elizabeth Wywandt visited Mary Smith and Vioia Engel at the Alemanya house Saturday and Sunday. She will be visiting Chicago, but has been spending the
spring vacation at her home in Abilene.
According to Prof. Geo. Putnam this is the students version:
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Senior invitations at check stand in Fraser, April 3-8. Get them early.
—Adv. 127-5.
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SECOND GAME 1916 SCHEDULE
Baseball--Ames Aggies vs. K. U.
Student Ticket admits. Tickets, including grandstand, 50c. Student ticket holders, grandstand 15c. THURSDAY—TOMORROW. 3:45 P.M.