The Kansan.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, MAY 20, 1909
VOLUME V.
NUMBER 92
HIGH SCHOOL LADS SATURDAY
ANNUAL INVITATION MEET ON McCOOK.
Seven Schools With 104 Entries —Four Missouri Schools to Compete This Year.
Next Saturday afternoon the second annual Invitation track meet for high schools of the Missouri valley will be held on McCook field. Seven schools have entered men in the meet and the total number of entries is one hundred and four. For a number of years the schools which will take part in this meet, took part in the regular annual inter-scholastic meets but, being larger schools and thus turning out a faster class of athletes, they were capturing the large end of the honor roll. In fact the meet was practically a dual meet between Manual and Central high schools of Kansas City. In order to avoid this seemingly unfair division of track trophies, Manager Lansdon planned last spring for a separate meet including these high schools and the University freshman track team. The first meet last spring was successful in answering the purpose for which it was created.
The schools which will be represented in the meet this spring and the number of men they will send follow: Central, of Kansas City, 21; Manual, of Kansas City, 18; Westport, of Kansas City, 14; Lawrence, 22; University Freshmen, 17; Wentworth Military Academy, 6; and Perry, 6.
NO HELP NEEDED
May Music Festival Paid for Itself with University Guaranty.
A final summing up of the receipts and expenditures of the May Music Festival shows a small deficit which, however, will be eliminated by the guaranty put up by the University. This makes a step forward in the growth of the popularity of the annual Festival, as before the outside guarantors have been called upon to make good a large deficit.
The sale of student tickets this year was larger than that of last year; in all, three hundred and thirty-eight were sold. Last year but two hundred and seventy-four were sold, making an increase of sixty-four tickets.
Preparing for State Board.
The Senior Laws are beginning to prepare their petitions to the supreme court for admission to the bar and to send applications for examination by the State Board of Bar examiners to be held in Topeka about June 20.
MEET SATURDAY
JAYHAWKERS AND CORNHUS-KERS WILL CLASH.
Coach Hagerman Expects his Athletes to Carry off First Honors—
Team Leaves Tomorrow Noon.
Coach Hagerman will leave tomorrow morning at 11:08 with fifteen of his picked track athletes for Lincoln where they will meet the track team of Nebraska university Saturday afternoon. The men who will make the trip are Newbold, Haddock, Johnson, Martindell, Hamilton, Smith, Badger, Bergen, Cooley, Clark, Thompson, Meyer, Wood, Winter, and Wenger.
The coach said this morning that he felt safe in saying that the University would take 8 firsts, tie for another, and take 5 seconds, thus winning the meet easily. He said that he expected to take 65 points by winning first place in the low hurdles, the hundred yard dash, the two-twenty, the half mile, the mile, the broad jump, the pole vault, and the high jump; and by taking second place in the high hurdles, the quarter, the two mile, the shot put and the discus.
The athletes are enthusiastic over the meet and all believe that victory is assured. The dope now stands that if Kansas takes this meet it will place the team on a high plane in Missouri track athletics, since Iowa tied Minnesota on May 8th and Minnesota was defeated by Nebraska on the 15th, so that it is now up to Kansas to defeat Nebraska and make good.
Manager Lansdon and the trainer will also accompany the team. Saturday night's issue of the Kansan will contain a brief account of the meet in case it is completed by five o'clock.
LOST CHAMPIONSHIP GAME TO MISSOURI
The Jayhawker base ball team was defeated yesterday afternoon at Columbia, Missouri, by the Tiger team. At the final round-up the score was 7 to 1. Harlan was in the box for Kansas but was off color and Farrell replaced him in the eighth inning. This was the championship game.
The teams play again this afternoon.
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The score by innings:
R H E
Missouri...4 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 x-7 13 1
Kansas...0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1-1 5 12
Batteries-Capp and L'Hamor;
Harlan, Farrel, and Rockefeller.
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Miss Pauline Ketchum spent the first of the week visiting at her home on Tenn. St.
BIG BANQUET IS NEXT WEEK
Y. M. C. A. WILL ENTERTAIN ONE HUNDRED GUESTS.
Those Who Expect to Attend Should Get Tickets at once Admission $1.
The committees in charge of the banquet to be given in the gymnasium next Wednesday evening in honor of the track team, basket ball and base ball teams, the debaters and the members of the band are completing arrangements to make the occasion enjoyable for all who attend. The men who have represented the University in these various capacities have a large acquaintance among the students who in turn should show their loyalty to the school by attending and honoring their representatives at this banquet.
As it was necessary to select a midweek date for the banquet the committee plans to have the supper begin promptly at 6:30 and that with the addition of the speeches every one may yet leave the gymnasium by 9:30 thus leaving a part of the evening for study.
Tickets at $1 each are on sale at the check stand and at several of the boarding houses. The committee wishes students to buy tickets at once so that proper orders may be given to the caterer by Saturday night.
MASS MEETING WILL BE HELD LAST WEEK
Action was taken concerning the canoe club "K's." It was decided that malicious misrepresentation was not intended by the club and the council suggested an explanation in the Annual if the plan was feasible.
The Student Council held its regular meeting Tuesday evening. Representatives from the Law and Pharmic schools were present. An amendment to the constitution providing for the qualification of officers of the council to be reduced from five semesters' work to one semester was proposed. A mass meeting will be held in two weeks.
At Board of Health Meeting.
Last Tuesday Professors Bailey and Sayre, of the Chemistry department, and Professor Willard of the State Agricultural College, met in Topeka with the State Board of Health to raise the standards of foods and drugs. This revision was necessary because of the new state law respecting pure foods which goes into effect next month.
Miss Hannah Mitchell will entertain the Chi Omegas with an informal dance May 21, at the home of Mrs. J. H. Mitchell.
ANNUAL REGATTA
WILL BE HELD ON KAW SATURDAY
Canoe Club has Charge of Sports Individual Cup for Most Points
The second annual regatta on the "Kaw" is to be held Saturday morning at 9 o'clock under the auspices of the canoe club. More than fifty entries have been made. A silver loving cup will be presented by the canoe club to the highest individual point winner. Before the regatta starts, there is to be a parade of all the contestants.
There will be a quarter mile swimming race, a 100 yd. dash and a long distance dive. The events for boats and canoes are: $ \frac{1}{4} $ mile double-boat; $ \frac{1}{4} $ mile single-boat; $ \frac{1}{4} $ mile, mixed-boy and girl; $ \frac{1}{4} $ mile double-canoe; 220 yd. dash, single canoe; 220 yd. dash, mixed, boy and girl; 100 yd. dash, standing in canoe and $ \frac{1}{2} $ mile race for five crew boats.
Besides these events, there will be tilting contest in canoes, greased boom walking and rescue and reviving demonstrations. Several of the fastest launches on the river will have races.
It has been rumored that the Canoe Club members will wear their "K's" in the regatta but commodore Power, who is at the head of the club, said in an interview with a Kansan reporter this morning, that such a thing would not happen. He also said that the club members are willing to do anything expedient in rectifying their blunder.
A LARGE VOTE CAST AT GIRL'S ELECTION
The following officers of the Women's Student Government Association were elected Wednesday: President, Maybeth Parker; first vice-president, Pearl Stucky; second vice-president, Kate Hart; third vicepresident, Keene Fones; secretary, Mable Evans; treasurer, Helen Philips. The contest was close, Pearl Stucky receiving only one more vote than Kate Hart and this makes Miss Stucky the president for next year.
The executive committee will go to work at once to divide the town into districts and will appoint district chairman to hold the office until next fall.
Great interest was shown by the girls. There were about 370 votes cast.
Miss Margorie Bodle, a Sophomore in the College, returned to her home at Meade, Kansas, today, on account of sickness.