THE UNIVERSITY KANSAN.
VOLUME VII.
NUMBER 40
OPEN BASKET-BALL SEASON TOMORROW
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1911
VARSITY WILL MEET BAK ER IN GYMNASIUM.
Game Will Be Close, the Coach Thinks—Johnson to Play on the Squad.
The thirteenth annual basketball season will open tomorrow night in Robinson gymnasium, when the team meets the squad from Baker University. The Baker team is composed of practically the same material as last year, and Coach Hamilton says that the varsity will have to play their best to win the game.
"The men are in the best physical condition that they could be in for this time of the year," said the coach this morning, "and I am confident that they could play forty minutes without any intermission and better ball at the end of the time than at the start. The men have been showing better form in their playing within the last few days than they have ever shown before this season. Tommy Johnson has been coming out for practice every night this week and his presence has helped the team materially.
"The men are cutting out several of the rough places in their team work; they are passing and catching the ball and shooting the goals much better. The trouble has been that the men tried to play faster ball than they are capable of at this time of the season and the result has been a great deal of fumbling.
Men who are on the squad are Heizer, V. Long, F. Long, Larson Johnson, Stuckey, Wheelock, Watson, and Snider.
"There are eleven men on the squad now and I may start any one of them in the game. I will try to give all experience on the home court."
Both squads of the varsity team were played against one of the class teams and each squad won its game by a large score.
The second game of the season will be played with Iowa State College. It will be played here. The games with the K. C. A. C will probably be played as originally scheduled, providing the management of the club can arrange for courts.
City Employee Let the Chemical Shovel Slip.
The medicated taste which permeated the drinking water on the hill and in the boarding houses today was not the result of an attempt to poison the water supply but simply a case of too much lime, and a dash of calcium-hypochlorite. These chemicals,which are used to purify and disinfect the water, are put in at the city pumping station. Yesterday the engineer's shovel slipped, too much chemicals fell in, and as a result the drinking water has a decided hospital flavor today.
As a curtain raiser tomorrow night the freshmen will meet the college five.
Laura F. Bates of Garden City, a sophomore in the College, is ill at the University hospital.
LIME IN THE WATER.
HEARD "IDLE IDOL."
Howard Enthusiastic Over Ability Shown in Red Domino Play
Joe E. Howard, the composer, who was here Wednesday in his play, "The Goddess of Liberty," gave an hour of his time yesterday listening to the Red Domino production "The Idle Idol." Geo Bowles, Matt Graham, and Moe Friedman, the composers believed suggestions from Mr. Howard would be valuable. A meeting was held at noon at the Eldridge house, which Miss Gertrude Mossler, director of the local play, also attended, and at the end of an hour Mr. Howard expressed his opinion that these students have a production of unusual merit and that several of the song selections are sure to score big hits.
As proof of his interest in the work, Mr. Howard gave addresses of several eastern producing managers together with his personal recommendation, with the result that at the staging of the play, on January 26 and 27, representatives of prominent producing houses in the East may be present. If the play is a success the work will be pushed by these eastern houses and permanent positions as song composers and playwrights may be given to the authors of this college play. Special recommendation was made by Mr. Howard to Mort Singer, his present manager, who will have a personal representative here to witness the production.
Several suggestions were made as to stage effects and musical arrangement and the composers are feeling justly elated that their initial musical comedy should receive such favorable attention from as noted a composer as Mr. Howard.
HAVE SCARLET FEVER?
Scott P. Child, a Kansas City physician, will deliver the first of a series of talks by prominent men of Kansas City at the Y. M. C. A. tonight. He will speak on the relation of the college men to the community. The meeting will commence promptly at 6:45 and be over by 7:30.
Professors Quarantined and a Student in Hospital With Disease
Because of quarantine on account of scarlet fever in their families, Professors H. P. Cady and C. M. Sterling will not be able to meet their classes the remainder of the week. At present four members of the Sterling family and two of the Cady family are down with the disease. There is said also to be several cases in the family of Professor Cone, who lives west of the University. Miss Laura Bates of Garden City, sophomore in the College, is in the University hospital with the same contagion.
Dr. H. L. Chambers, the University physician, says, "I am unable to account for the presence of this contagious fever. However. I think that with successful co-operation of the local health officers, an epidemic will be averted."
First Lecture Tonight.
Glenn Calene, a sophomore in the College, has returned to school after a week's absence on account of the death of his grandmother.
NORMAN HAPGOOD TO VISIT UNIVERSITY
WILL SPEAK TO NEWSPA PER CLASSES JAN. 25.
is Editor of Collier's Weekly and Well Known as Progressive Newspaper Man.
The University public will have an opportunity to see and hear one of the best known journalists of the present day when Norman Hapgood, editor of Collier's Weekly, comes to speak to the journalism classes Wednesday, January 25. Mr. Hapgood will speak at chapel on that day and the following hour will talk to the journalistic students, and others who are interested, on some subject dealing with newspaper work.
Mr. Hapgood's photograph is included in the collection on the walls of the journalism class room at the University. Framed with the picture is the following autographed opinion on the question of preparing for newspaper work:
The editor of Collier's comes to the University on the invitation of Prof. C. M. Harger, director of the work in journalism, and will be entertained by Mr. Harger while he is in Lawrence. Mr. Hapgood is one of the speakers at the meeting of the State Editorial association, which will meet in Topeka the week following his visit to the University.
"The best preparation for newspaper work, in my opinion, is as round, liberal and varied an education as possible. A journalist's task is to think well on many subjects. The surest aid to such thinking is an education which combines strict mental training with the freeing influence of general cultivation."
The subject on which he will speak before the journalism students has not yet been announced
Mr. Hapgood was graduated from the Harvard Law school in 1890, and received the degree of A. M. from Harvard in 1893. He was dramatic critic of the New York Commercial Advertiser and the Bookman from 1897 to 1902, and has been editor of Collier's Weekly since 1903.
Were First in Tuesday Evening's Meet.
The section of the inter-school track meet that was run on Tuesday evening resulted in favor of the engineers. The results of the events are: high jump, Will French first, 5 feet 6 inches; second, Hazen, College; third, Fairchild, College. Shot put: First, Ralph, Bower, engineer, 34 feet, 1 inch; second, Filley, engineer; Tudor, College. Broad jump: First, Jackson, engineer, 18 feet 10 inches; second, Smith, engineer; third, Filley, engineer.
To Talk to Bottlers.
ENGINEERS WIN TRACK.
Prof. E. H. S. Bailey will go to Wichita to lecture before the Kansas State Bottlers' association on Wednesday, January 18. Professor Bailey will talk on "What constitutes a Good Carbonated Beverage."
SWIMMING MEET TONIGHT
The Engineers Will Start the Interscholastic Events.
The first swimming meet between the schools in the department of engineering will be held in the gymnasium this evening at 7:30 o'clock. There will be seven events in the meet, of which the fancy diving and the "team rescue" exhibition promise to be especially interesting. The "team rescue" is an event in which one man is supposed to be in a drowning condition and his team-mate dives to his rescue. The man who gets his burden to the bank first is the winner of the event. The other events are: 50 foot dash, 50 foot swim on the back,100 foot swim with the legs tied, 100-yard swim, six times the length of the pool, and 400 foot relay with four men on a team.
Dr. Naismith will be the starter and Waring, Coach Hamilton, and Professor Dykstra will be the judges and timers. All men students are invited to attend the meet.
MEDALS FOR WRESTLERS.
Organization to Be Formed at University Soon.
The Wrestling club will be reorganized at the beginning of the spring term and the membership fee this year will be 25 cents.This money will be used for the purchase of medals which will be given to the winners in the tournament that will be held.
April or May next, when the championships in the light, middle and heavy-weight classes will be decided. The champion of the school will receive a gold medal and the champions in the other two classes will receive emblems of silver. Only the men who belong to the club may take part in the tournament.
Mr. Root, who will coach them, advises them to begin their training early, as he will be ready to instruct them on any day after 4:30 o'clock.
TO BE UMBRELLA TYPE.
New Street Car Station to Be Complete March 15.
Announcements have been received at the University of the marriage of Lillah Evelyn Hogue, '09, to Ralph G. Hemenway, '10, at Houston, Tex. January 7. They will be at home at 3108 Holmes street, Dallas, Tex. Mr. Hemenway was until recently editor of the Eudora News. He is now in business at Dallas.
Work on the new street car station at the rear of Green hall will be started very soon, says Mr. E. F. Crocker, superintendent of buildings and grounds. It should be completed by March 15. The station will be of the umbrella type, which is so popular through out the United States. The roof will be forty-nine feet long and sixteen feet wide, set upon three steel columns eight feet in height. Galvanized corrugated steel will form the covering for the roof, that will have a projection of eight feet at the end of the station. The platform will be made of concrete.
Hogue-Hemenway.
CURTAIL POWER OF ATHLETIC BOARD
A NEW RULE ADOPTED AT DESMOINES CONFERENCE.
Missouri Valley Conference Representative Will Be Elected by the University Council.
It was learned today that the recent conference of governing boards at Des Moines actually legislated out of existence the athletic boards of the Missouri Valley as deliberative bodies in matters of intercollegiate scope.
Henceforth the Missouri Valley conference of faculty representatives will be made up of representatives elected by the faculties of the institutions belonging to the conference. In the case of the University of Kansas the representative will be elected by the University Council and will represent the faculties and not the athletic board. From now on the athletic board will be an executive body exclusively as regards inter-collegiate affairs, and will have legislative power only in local matters.
Practically considered, the new rule will not affect the Kansas representative. Dr. C. E. McClung has been acting in that capacity and Chancellor Strong said today hat there was no doubt in the world that he would be returned as the Kansas representative by the University council. But the rule may affect other schools differently.
"Shall the conference of governing bodies treat of athletic matters in detail in the future?" was the question which came up for settlement at the DesMoines conference. The conference decided that it did not wish to take care of athletics in detail, but that the body which performed this duty should not in the future be composed of the members of athletic boards of the various schools, but must be elected by the highest legal body representing the faculties of the Universities, which in the case of Kansas is the Council. The representatives of Kansas at the conference were opposed to the motions and favored a substitute motion which would leave matters in much the same shape a they have been at Kansas, but the substitute motion was lost.
Olympic Champion Will Speak.
The sentiment which prevailed at the conference was that the governing bodies should make such radical changes in the administration of athletic affairs as would give the highest university authorities a close control of athletics under the new regime.
H. F. Porter of New York city will give an illustrated lecture in Snow hall at 7:30 tonight. His subject will be the Olympic Games at London, illustrated with slides. Mr. Porter was a member of the American team in the games at London in 1908. He holds the world's Olympic record for the high jump.
Earl Padfield, of the '09 medic class, was visiting friends at the University yesterday. Mr. Padfield now has an office in Wakenda, Kan.
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