The Kansan.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, APRIL 21, 1910
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VOLUME VI.
"NEBRASKAN" MAKES CHARGE
SAYS PROFESSIONALS PLAY BALL AT K. U.
Gives Names of Men, Most of Whom Have Graduated and Left School.
The "Daily Nebraskan," the official student publication of the University of Nebraska, has opened an attack upon the eligibility of the Kansas baseball men. In an article printed in that paper on Tuesday, April 19, the statement was made that the Cornhusker athletic board is working in an effort to show that the majority of the members of this spring's University team are, according to the conference rules governing baseball, ineligible to play.
Several men are named as ineligible because of their having played with salaried teams. Among them are Moss and Johnson. As far as any one at the University who is connected with athletics knows, Kansas never had a baseball player named Moss. There is a Mosse in this part of the country, who once attended the University, but he is none other than Arthur St. Leger Mosse, assistant football coach. As far as baseball is concerned it is a stranger to Mosse, as every one here knows.
The Johnson referred to is probably Tommy Johnson, the star Kansas quarterback, who ran ninety yards down Nebraska's football field last fall, carrying the pigskin with him for a touchdown. His renown, however, is confined to the gridiron game, to track and to basket-ball, and he also is not affiliated with the great national game.
Gibbs and Hoffman are two more so-called ineligibles. And Kansas will admit that they are ineligible this year, since they played their last game last year and the year before respectively. Neither is in school this spring, and neither has had any connection with the ball team this season. Harlan is also accused, but since his work with the team this season has been entirely in the capacity of "His Umps," he is meeting the accusation of Nebraska, sans spinal shivering.
In only four of the nine instances cited did the Nebraskan pick this season's players. Those four are Sevin, Palmer, Heizer and Rockefeller. Each was interviewed by a Kansan reporter this morning and all are ready for an investigation. They declare they can stand up before any riddling inspection that Nebraska might desire to enter into.
The article in the Nebraskan follows:
"A dispatch from Iowa today, states that the Old Gold school is back of Nebraska in this fight on the summer baseball rule in the Missouri Valley conference and that they intend to help the Cornhusker athletic board in this fight So far no special developments have occurred in the campaign which Nebraska has started against the summer baseball rule, but the Nebraska authorities
have been collecting data to the effate that a large per cent of the men on the Kansas team are ineligible under the conference rule and thus have no right to participate in university baseball this year and since being professionals they are barred from all university activities.
President C. E. McClung, of the Kansas Athletic board in replying to the recent action of Nebraska in regard to the eligibility of the men of other baseball teams, stated that he believed that all the Kansas men were amateurs, but that he would be pleased to receive any information regarding the standing of the men of his school that Nebraska or any other schools could gather. As a result, Nebraska authorities have attempted to prove that the members of the Kansas team and other teams of the conference had
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WILL BREAK RECORDS
COACH HAMILTON PREDICTS BIG MEET SATURDAY.
"Give us a good warm day next Saturday, and we will make some of those 'Varsity records look pretty small," said Coach W. O. Hamilton, in speaking of the second annual interclass track meet, which will be held Saturday afternoon on McCook. "If the weather is as fine as it is today I expect the meet to be the classiest of the season."
Already Sixty-Seven Men Have Entered and More Will Sign Medals for the Winners.
If the hopes of the coach are realized new records will be made in both the hurdles,the high jump, the discus, the mile, the 220-yard dash and possibly the broad jump.
Already sixty-seven men from the four classes of the school have entered in the different events and, since the lists are open until the day of the meet, many more are expected to sign.
The officials will be as follows: Referee, J. C. Masker; starter, J. A. Riley; clerk, Professor McClung; judges of track events, Professors Murray, Higgins, Briggs, and Van der Vries; judges of jumping events, Professors Gaba, Humble, Corp, and Root; judge of weight events, Prof. F. N. Raymond.
The winners of all firsts in any event will be given a gold medal. The seconds will receive a silver disc and the third and fourth place men one of bronze. A silver loving cup will be presented to each record-breaker, who will receive his "K," according to the usual custom of 'Varsity record-breaking.
The weights events will be pulled off promptly at 3 o'clock, and the track events will start at 3:30.
Delegates who have attended the conferences of the Y. W. C. A at Cascade and Geneva, spoke of their trip at the regular meeting of the association Wednesday afternoon. The Y. W. C. A. is planning to send a large delegation to Cascade this year.
MUSIC FESTIVAL OPENS TONIGHT
MINNEAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA TO-MORROW.
Miss Genevieve Wheat and Richard Czerwonky to Give Concert Tonight in the Gym.
The first of the three concerts of the seventh annual Spring Music Festival will be given in Robinson Gymnasium tonight. On tomorrow afternoon the second concert will take place and the Festival will close with the third on Friday evening.
The Music Festival found its beginning at the University in 1904 and has, since that time, sprung rapidly into popularity. From 1904 to 1907 the opening concert was given by local talent and student musical organizations. Since that time, however, artists of national and even international reputation have been brought here for the entire series of concerts.
The concert tonight will be given by Genevieve Wheat, soprano, Richard Czerwonky, violinist,Carl Preyer and Miss Maude Cooke. Miss Wheat is a member of the Metropolitan Opera company of New York and has appeared in many concerts already this season. Mr. Czerwonky is a famous European musician and has been leader of the Boston Symphony orchestra until recently. Professor Preyer and Miss Maude Cooke are well known a being among the best local talent
The concert tomorrow afternoon will be given by the Minneapolis Symphony orchestra, a musical organization of international reputation. The same orchestra will give the evening concert, assisted by Professor Carl Preyer, pianist, and ProfessorEdward Hubach, tenor.
Tonight's program follows:
The Festival, has as usual, been under the supervision of Dean C. S. Skilton, of the University School of Fine Arts, and promises to be the best ever held at the University.
CARL PREYER
MAUDE COOKE
GENEVIEVE WHEAT, Contralto
RICHARD CZERWONKY, Violinist
Accompanists
Adagio...Viotti
Serenade...D'Ambrosio
Hungarian Dance, Brahms-Joachim
MR. CZERWONKY
Selected... Convocation Witness
Selected...
GENEVIEVE WHEAT
NUMBER 82
Selected...
Continuing Writes...
GENEVIEVE WHEAT
To a Wild Rose ... MacDowell
Andante from Violin Concerto ...
... Mendelsohn
Alla Polacca ... Scharwenka
MR. CZERWONKY
GLEENVILLE WHILE
Abendlied ... Schumann
Gondoliera ... Fr. Ries
“Moses” Variations for G string ...
... Paganin
... Mu. F.
Selected.
MISS WHEAT AND MR. CZERWONKY
Dr. and Mrs. Egerton, of Randolph are visiting with their daughters, Lila and Eda, this week and attending the Music Festival.
THE WEATHER.
Unsettled tonight and Friday; showers tonight, and cooler Friday.
TENNIS TRYOUT TODAY.
First Game Will Be Held April 30 With Baker.
The tryout for the University tennis squad will be held on the courts at 1633 Vermont street, beginning this evening. An effort will be made to complete the tryout before the end of this week. The men who will contest for places on the squad are Bragg, Purton, Kneeer, Leland, Richardson, Marshall, Seddon, Lobaugh, Lee, Hawes, Hall, Motz, and Miller and Watson.
The first contest of the season will be held Saturday, April 30, on the University courts with the Baker University team.
SPOTTS A CANDIDATE
Petition to Put His Name on the Ballot Is Being Circulated This Afternoon.
The candidacy of Ralph Spotts for the presidency of the Student Council was announced this afternoon. A petition to place his name on the ticket which will be voted May 5, is now being circulated.
GAME POSTPONED
For several weeks friends of the Student Council have been urging Spotts to become a candidate, but he did not consent to allow his name to be used until this afternoon. Spotts' supporters point to his record as an efficient worker for student interests to show his fitness to head the Student Council.
Baseball Game at Topeka Next Week.
Freshmen Elect Captain.
Washburn will play at Lawrence Saturday, at 2 o'clock.
The game of baseball with Washburn, which was to have been played at Topeka Friday, April 22, has been postponed until Wednesday, April 27. The Western League opens the season at Topeka Friday and Washburn does not wish to compete for attendance.
Harold Woodbury, of the School of Law, at the meeting of the freshman track team last night was chosen to captain the team this year.
Woodbury has already lowered the records in the low and high hurdles, and is expected to establish a new University record at the inter-class meet to be held on McCook field next Saturday.
German Play Postponed
Because of a conflict in dates, the German play has been postponed one week, from April 28 to May 5. The original date of the play conflicted with the lecture which will be given in Robinson gymnasium next Thursday evening by Ambassador James Bryce.
ELECTION TO BE HELD MAY 5
CHOOSE MEMBERS TO STUDENT COUNCIL THEN.
Three Officers and Thirteen Members to Be Chosen—File Petitions Next Week.
The second annual election to membership in the Student Council will take place on May 5, two weeks from today. All candidates must submit petitions allowing them to become candidates for election, to Edwin Baumgartner, the present president, before 6:00 o'clock on Friday afternoon, April 29. The names of the candidates will then be announced and the election will take place the following week.
Up to this time no petitions have been circulated for signatures of electors, but it is expected that within a short time a number of candidates will have announced themselves.
Three officers of the council president, vice president, and see retary, will be chosen. Each candidate for either of the three must present a petition signed by not less than seventy-five electors, not more than one-third of whom shall be registered in any one school.
Thirteen students will be elected members of the council. Each candidate is required to secure a petition signed by twenty-five electors from the school in which he is enrolled. Of the thirteen Council membes, four will be chosen from the college, five from the School of Engineering, two from the School of Law, and one from both the School of Medicine and pharmacy.
The election will be conducted according to the Australian ballot system. The polls will be open from 8 o'clock a. m. to 6 o'clock p. m. on the date of election, May 5. Separate booths will be provided for the electors of the different schools.
INVITATIONS TO PROM
Have Not Been Received by Many Seniors.
Some criticism has been current during the past few days among seniors and post graduates who have not yet received their invitations to the junior prom.
The trouble has arisen over the fact that last year's class is the first for several years that has kept a complete record of the students who paid their prom dues.
Paul Carson, chairman of the invitation committee, stated this morning that he would be glad to issue invitations to any who had not yet received them, if they will present their receipts for prom dues paid.
The members of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority gave "His Lordship," a farce, for the benefit of the Y. W. C. A. last night.
Mrs. Hess, of Alma is visiting her daughter, Ethel Hess, of the School of Fine Arts.