THE KANSAN.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, DECEMBER 7, 1907.
VOLUME IV.
NUMBER 23
ANGNEY CAPTAIN
STAR QUARTERBACK TO HEAD JAYHAWKERS NEXT YEAR.
Urban R. Angney, quarterback on the football team the past two seasons and successor to the mighty Pooler, was chosen captain of next year's squad at the banquet given by Manager Lansdon to the football team in the Eldridge House Thursday evening. There were twenty-three football players present, every man who played in any game being entitled to a vote. The final ballot stood Angney, 12; Reed, 10; one vote blank. "Tub" Reed by his marvelous work in the Missouri game gained unexpected strength for the race.
Given Coveted Honor at Banquet Thursday—New Captain an All Around Athlete.
Angney is twenty-one years of age and is from Sumner county. He is one of the best all around athletes in school having earned three football "K's," one "K" in baseball and lacrosse and basket ball numerals. He receives his A.B. in the college in June but will return to captain the Jayhawkers next fall.
FOR LAW "SCRIMMAGE."
Committees Working on Plans for Football Dance.
The "Scrimmage," the annual dance given by the law school to the football team, will be held in F. A. A. Hall December 18. This is the big social event of the year for the Laws and every effort is being made to make the party of this year the most successful ever given. The committees have already been appointed and are working on the plans for the big event. The committees are: arrangement, Landen, Haney, Ferguson; program, Gowenlock, Blackmar, Merillat; finance, Tinder, Clevenger and Pearson.
TO MEET FAMOUS AUTHORS.
Kemp to Dine with White and Travel with Sinclair.
Harry H. Kemp, the tramp poet, is fast making a reputation for himself among the literary notables of the country. He will spend the Christmas holidays on the invitation of William Allen White at his home in Emporia. He has also received an invitation from the novelist, Upton Sinclair, to meet him in Kansas City in January and accompany him on a trip to Girard, Kansas, to visit the noted socialist agitator, J. A. Wayland. In addition to these invitations Mr. Kemp has an invitation from John Phillips and the publishers of the American Magazine to spend next summer in New York. The American Magazine is now publishing one of his poems each month. Last month he also had a poem in the Century Magazine.
COMIC OPERA NEXT WEEK
"Patience" With Large Choruses and Elaborate Costumes to be Given Thursday and Friday.
"Patience" the opera to be given by the Fine Arts students will be staged at Bowersock's opera house next Thursday and Friday evenings. Elaborate costumes have been ordered for the players from New York's largest dealer and the play will be elaborate in every detail. The cast numbers eleven, there are thirty-two in the choruses and the University orchestra of twenty-four pieces will furnish the music.
The caste: Colonel Calverly, Sam Forter; Major Murgatroyd, Carroll Fisk; Lieutenant, the Duke of Dunstable, R. E. Ridnour; Reginald Bunthorne, Everett Copley; Archibald Grosvenor, Archie Naramore; Solicitor, Emile Grignard; Lady Angela, Kate Reynolds; Lady Saphir, Jessie Baldridge; Lady Ella, Frances Houlton; Lady Jane, Hazel Tusten; Patience, Hazel Leslie.
Chorus of Dragoons: Quay Barnett, Herbert Cowan, Charles Fisher, Fred Hesser, John Hill, LeRoy Hoskins, F. B. Kuns, Fay Livengood, Frank Louks, Guy Mosher, Raymond Nothstein, Lyman Rutledge, Ralph Spotts, George Strong, Ray Wingett.
Chorus of Rapturous Maidens: Rine Anderson, Ruth Bergen, Gretta Collins, Gertrude Copley, Fern Cramer, May Davis, Clara Fullenweider, Alma Helvering, Elizabeth Laird, Hazel McGinnis, Mabel Moore, Ruth Morton, Cora Reynolds, Verna Rowe, Helen Smith, Junia Taylor.
ENGINEERS' BANQUET.
The annual banquet of the Engineering school will be held in Robinson Gymnasium on Tuesday evening, December 10.
Annual Affair Will Be Held December 10 in Gym.
The program includes several noted engineering men. With Prof. H. P. Cady as toastmaster, those who will address the engineers are: J. M. Meade, Chief Engineer of the Western Grand Division of the Santa Fe; F. E. Richardson, General Manager of the Electric Light Co. of Kansas City; Dean Marvin, Professors Walker, Hoad, Young and Freeman will respond to toasts.
KENNEDY COACH
"Soke" Smith came down from Kansas City for the Masque play Thursday night.
WAS RE-ELECTED BY ATHLETIC BOARD YESTERDAY.
Will Sign Two Years Contract To Choose His Own Assistant Coaches.
Bert Kennedy and Arthur St. Leger Mosse will coach the football team next season. At the meeting of the athletic board held yesterday, Kennedy was elected coach for two years longer and was given power to chose his own corps of assistants.
Although Kennedy has not yet accepted the contract it is understood that he will sign the paper in a few weeks and will suggest to the athletic board that Mostse be made assistant coach next year.
It was the Kennedy-Mosse combination that beat Nebraska last year when the dopesters saw nothing but defeat for the Jayhawkers. Kennedy has directed the Kansas team for four years and has had splendid success. This year with a hard schedule and no particularly promising material he developed a team that walloped the best team Missouri has had for many moons.
The athletic board was unanimous in voting to renew Kennedy's contract and all the members praised him for his work this year.
OPENING GAME FRIDAY.
Ottawa Basket Ball Five to Play Jayhawkers Next Week.
The first inter-collegiate contest in the new gymnasium and the opening game of the basket ball season will be played next Friday evening between the Jayhawker squad and the Ottawa University five. Alpha Brumage, an old K.U. football star, is coach of the Baptist squad and has an extremely strong team.
The Jayhawkers have been practising hard for the past two months and will put a strong team in the field. The probable line-up will be: McCune, Peard, and Wohler, forwards; Bergen and Randall, centers; Woodward and M. Miller, guards.
The complete schedule for the season will be completed next week.
Professor W. H. Carruth Returns.
After five months of study in the great libraries of Germany, Prof. W. H. Carruth sailed from Hamburg today for the United States. He is on the President Grant which will arrive in New York harbor next Thursday morning. Upon arriving in this country Professor Carruth will proceed to Madison, Wisconsin, to visit his daughter, Mrs. Elmer
McCullom, whose husband is connected with the chemistry department of Wisconsin University. Professor Carruth will again be at the head of the German department of the University at the beginning of the second term.
MASQUE CLUB SCORES SUCCESS
"Green Eyes" Made Hit with Large Audience—Nance and Hopkins the Stars of Play.
With a good play and a strong cast the Masque Club scored another of its successes in its ninth annual play "Green Eyes" which was staged at Bowersocks Opera House Thursday and Friday evenings. The audience neither evening was hardly as large as those of past but extremely appreciative. The play was of a much lighter nature than either of those given last year but was replete with amusing situations and took well with the audience.
Vale Nance as John Weatherby and Miss Edna Hopkins as Gertrude West the jealous wife, were easily the stars of the evening. Nance portrayal of his character was exceedingly clever, Miss Hopkins probably had the most difficult part of the evening but handled it skillfully and was always good.
Harold Bozell did very satisfactory work with his interpretation of the character of Oliver West, especially so considering the short time he had to study his part.
Miss Tess Critchfield did some clever work as Mrs. John Weatherby being particularly strong in her quarrel scenes. Miss Dorothea McKnight made an excellent "Senora Gonzales" and was well supported in her part by Brock Pemberton as Edward Marsh. One of the brightest bits of work in the play was that done by Arnold Hoffmann as the youthful lover. Miss Walmer took the difficult part of the old servant very skillfully.
Among the others who did good work in the play were: Will Perry, Roy Dietrick, Fred Mervine, Earl Fischer, Patti Hiatt, Muriel Culp and Isabel Barton.
Professor F. H. Hodder was in Topeka Friday attending a business session of the State Historical Society of which he is a director.
Prof Becker will lecture to the English history classes, Monday at 4:30 in Green hall. His subject will be "The Church of the Middle Ages."
The orchestra has been enabled to guarantee the expenses of the Nebraska orchestra and expects to announce the date of the concert soon.