The Kansas.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOLUME V.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, APRIL 15, 1909
NUMBER 77
WHO FOR TRACK COACH?
SEVERAL HAVE BEEN MENTIONED FOR PLACE.
General Sentiment For a Good Man at Whatever Price.
The question of a track coach to succeed Coach Hagerman has been interesting the athletic authorities ever since the present track mentor handed in his resignation. Available men from this section of the country have been convassed and an attempt will probably be made to obtain an experienced man who can put track athletics on a par with other University sports.
Among the men who have been thought of for the place are; Coach W. O. Hamilton, of Central high school, Kansas City, Mo.; Arthur St. Leger Mosse, assistant football coach; "Phog" Allen, the basket ball coach; and E. E. Perry, assistant football coach at the University two years ago.
Of these men Coach Hamilton is perhaps best known as a track coach. He has turned out some of the best amateurs in the Missouri Valley and his high school squads are always among the first three or four contenders for the interscholastic championship. If he should come to the University he would undoubtedly bring with him some classy high school athletes. He is also an excellent basket ball teacher.
Coach Mosse was a weight man when he was a student at the University and he coached the track men at Western Reserve two years with success. "Phog" Allen has had little experience at the track game but there are many who feel that he could make good. Coach Perry is an old track star at the University of Chicago and coached Oklahoma A. and M. last spring.
It is the general belief that the authorities will make a mistake if they do not obtain the services of a trainer who can carry on Hagerman's good work. Many students are expressing the sentiment that an additional half dollar should be put on the athletic ticket if a first class coach can not be obtained in any other way.
New Officers to be Installed.
The installation of the new Y.M.C.A. officers, postponed from last week, will take place at the regular meeting at 6:45 in Myers Hall, this evening.
CONTEST FOR CUP SATURDAY
Saturday morning at 9:30 on McCook field the contest for The Kansan Cup will take place among the members of the football squad. One man who is eligible for the team next year may win the cup. The award will be made to the most consistent man in punting, drop kicking, place kicking, and onside kicking.
The Kansan Cup is a beautiful gold lined trophy nine inches high and five inches in diameter. It has two figured handles and will bear the name of the winner and of the donor, and the occasion for the gift in appropriate old English engraving. The cup will be personal and may be retained by the successful contestant or put in the trophy room of the gymnasium at his discretion. The cup is now on display in the window of Gustafson's College Jewelry Store.
"TOMMY" JOHNSON ELECTED CAPTAIN
Thomas W. Johnson, the speedy left forward of this year's basketball team was yesterday elected to captain next year's team. This is his second year at basketball, the first one being played when Milton Miller first captained the Jayhawker squad, in the season of '05-06. In '06-'07 Johnson did not play on the Varsity but he captained the ever-victorious team of the class of '08. Last year he was not in school.
Besides being a basketball player, Johnson is a track and football man.
Sophomore Girls' Meeting.
Miss Wilbur spoke to the girls of the University to day and will speak to them again Friday and Sunday in Myer's Hall. ___
There will be an important meeting of the Sophomore girls Friday, at 11:15, in the Latin room. Girls are excused from classes in order to attend the meeting. Self-government will come up for discussion. Let every girl be present.
Pryor Combs of Kansas City is visiting at the Sig Alph house. ___
Rev. B. T. Stauber of Salina will speak in chapel Friday morning, Mr. Stauber is district superintendent of the Methodist church for his district.
NEW WORK FOR DUNCAN
WILL ESTABLISH BUREAU OF RESEARCH IN EAST.
fo Have Full Charge After Making Preliminary Plans, Will Sail For Europe.
To establish a bureau of scientific research within a large manufacturing corporation is a unique service for an educational institution.
This is what the University of Kansas, through Professor Robert Kennedy Duncan, has been requested to do. One of the largest and strongest manufacturing concerns in the United States has invited him to establish within the corporation a bureau of research with the object of applying scientific knowledge and training to the betterment of trade and industry.
Professor Duncan, who has received permission from the University to take up this work will leave May 1 for the East to lay the foundation work.
He must study the problems of the industry, see what sort of men are needed to unravel the tangles, and then find the men.
"There is more opportunity for achievement in chemical engineering for the young man of today than in any other field of effort," Professor Duncan said this morning. "The saddest thing of all to me is that I can't find these men at Kansas University."
The large Eastern corporation has put the whole matter in Professor Duncan's hands. He will have full charge of choosing six men for the bureau.
DUNCAN TO EUROPE
Professor Duncan will sail May 15th with his family for Europe to attend the International Congress of Applied Chemists, which meets at London, May 27th.
Pharmics to Kansas City.
The Students of the Pharmacy classes have received an invitation from the manufacturers and wholesalers in Pharmaceutical chemistry to visit Kansas City Friday. The object is to visit the large wholesale drug houses in that city. The members of the Pharmaceutical society are to be entertained at the Coates House with a banquet at one o'clock.
Ellis Mallam, of Kansas City has withdrawn from school.
CORNHUSKERS HERE TOMORROW
Tomorrow afternoon the Varsity baseball team will meet Nebraska on McCook in the first inter-collegiate game on the home diamond. Coach Ebright has made a few shifts in the line-up which is as follows: Rockefeller, catcher; Harlan or Heizer, pitcher; Walker, first base; Gibbs, second base; Huff, third base; Palmer, short stop; Carlson, right field; Wood, center field; Haller, left field.
Huff replaces Blacker at third; Palmer, Haller at short; and Haller, Lovett in left field. When asked what the chances were on the games with Nebraska, Coach Ebright said: "If the boys settle down and do as they have been doing in practice, I will expect them to win all the rest of the games this season. While on the trip we ran up against a little hard luck in the way of weather and hard trips. However, I was a little disappointed in the way they showed up in some lines. But Friday I expect the boys to be steadier and settle down and win easily."
So far this season Nebraska has been cleaning up all along the line, only dropping one to Missouri. Taking all facts into consideration, the games Friday and Saturday will be good, spicy ones with the odds in favor of Kansas.
Debaters Leave for Missouri.
M. O. Locke and L. E. Overman leave tomorrow for Columbia, Mo., where they will argue the ship subsidy question with the Missourians on Saturday evening. Locke was a member of the team that defeated Colorado last year. Overman was on the Freshman team in the inter-class debate last year.
Chemical Club Next Week.
The Chemical Club, which was to have met Wednesday, postponed its meeting until next week on account of the faculty meeting, at the next meeting Professor Landrum will talk on "The Design and Equipment of a Small Chemical Laboratory.,'
Corwin's Classes Win.
Corwin's freshman gym classes now hold the record in the five-mile relay. Wednesday morning thirty-three men made the distance in 19 minutes and 13 seconds, the record time. The races were run against time, the contest starting April second.
Band Party Friday, April 16th Robinson Gymnasium
50 CENTS. Dancing at 8:30. Lights till 12:10.