THE UNIVERSITY KANSAN.
VOLUME VII.
FIRST GAME WAS EASY FOR KANSAS
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 14. 1911
BAKER LOST AT BASKET BALL, 40 TO 17.
Contest Was Close in First Half But Superior Varsity Came Back Strong in Second.
The first inter-collegiate game of basket-ball of the season played in Robinson gymnasium against Baker University last night, resulted in a defeat for the visiting team. The final score was 40 to 17, but the figures do not tell the entire story of the game. The hard and fast game played by the Baker team in the first half made them a rather formidable aggregation, and only their weakening in the last half on account of insufficient training allowed the locals to run the score so high.
However, the varsity was clearly superior to the opposing team throughout the contest. The work of the team, despite some ragged playing gave promise that the high standard set by the squad of recent years will be kept up during the season of 1911.
The playing during the first few minutes of the game was an exhibition of fast and furious ball and it was several minutes before Heizer tossed the first basket. After the first basket had been thrown the scoring alternated between the two teams with neither school obtaining a large lead The Baker boys displayed some excellent team work in passing and dribbling the ball to their goal, but when they were dangerously near the basket, a scuffle ensued and then either "Shorty" Long or Tom Johnson would dart out of the bunch of writhing arms and legs and the ball would be taken to the Kansas end of the court. The score at the end of the first half stood 15 to 12 in favor of Hamilton's men.
The second session of the game, which proved so disastrous for the visitors, started with the same hard playing that characterized the first part, but this time the local squad out-played the Baker men with their superior training.
The boast of Coach Hamilton that his men could play forty minutes without any intermission, at top speed was assuredly verified when the varsity broke up their opponents' team-work at will and literally played rings around them
Probably Johnson did the best work for Kansas, both in playing on the floor and in goal-tossing while Long was a very close second. Long accepted every chance at free throws and many times broke up the Baker team works with his speed and head work. Captain Heizer's playing was below the standard that he has set in former years. He threw two baskets in the first half, but thereafter failed in numerous attempts at goal.
Counts, the Baker center, and Osborn, their left forward,played the star game for the visitors. The score :
Player C F FT
Kansas
Johnson, R. F...6 2 0
V. Long, L. F...4 0 6
Heizer, C ...2 2
Dousman, R. G...4 0
Larson, L. G...1 1
Totals...17 5 6
Baker
Allis, R. F...3 0 0
Osborn, L. F...2 1 0
Counts, C ...1 5 5
Liston, R. G ...0 2 0
White, L. G...1 2 0
Totals...6 6 5
Referee—Henry Ashley, K. C.
A. C.
As a curtain raiser the freshman team played the College team. The College team was defeated by a score of 27 to 5.
The next games will be with Iowa State College, on January 16 and 17.
MAY FIGHT HOSPITAL
Opposition Said to Be Forming Because of Location at Kansas City.
It is reported from Topeka that there is likely to be a fight in the legislature against the appropriation for the new hospital of the School of Medicine. The physicians of Topeka especially are said to be dissatisfied because the Regents voted to locate the school at Kansas City, Kan., and are anxious to carry a fight before the legislature to have the location changed to Topeka.
Lack of Junior Profits Made Assessment Necessary.
SENIOR CLASS LEVY.
At the meeting of the senior class in chapel yesterday it was voted to levy an assessment of $1 upon each member of the class. Due to the fact that only $15 was turned over to the treasurer of this year's class and that the class has not been making money from the class dances, the assessment became necesssary. The senior classes usually have started the year with a balance of one or two hundred dollars from their junior year. The assessment will be used to meet the expenses of the class day exercises, the senior farce, and half the cost of the sweaters for the members of the class football team
Lawrence Brown, chairman of the invitation committee, presented the matter of covers for the invitations and referred it to the class for decision. The class decided to have two kinds of covers, leather and paper.
Sweaters for the football team were awarded and the class agreed to stand half the cost, the players to pay the other half.
The class was about equally divided on the subject, so it was thought best to have the two kinds.
NUMBER 41
The pictures are to be in by March 1, but if it become necessary to receive any after that date an extra charge will be made. Under no consideration will any picture be received after March 15 says Mr. Russell.
Geo. Russell, manager of the 1911 Annual, spoke to the class about the time limit for receiving senior pictures.
W. M. Hughes, chairman of the cap and gown committee, reported that he hoped to be able to secure the rental of caps and gowns for six days at the same rate as for a shorter time.
FRATERNITIES FREE FROM TAXATION
A LAW OF 1905 EXEMPTS THEM FROM BURDEN.
Chi Omega Sorority and Pi Upsilon Fraternity Have Had Taxes Refunded.
The decision reached by the board of county commissioners of Douglas county last Wednesday that under the Kansas law the property of fraternities and sororities at the University can not be taxed, has caused a feeling of deep regret among all the fraternities that they have been paying taxes since 1905, the year the law exempting them was passed.
Congressman A. C. Mitchell appeared before the board Wednesday in behalf of the Chi Omega sorority and obtained the decision as stated. The taxes which the sorority had already paid have been refunded by the county treasurer. At the same time Ralph H. Smith, a senior in the School of Law, representing the Pi Upsilon fraternity, asked that the same exemption be made for the Pi Upsilon society, which was granted.
The law upon which the decisions were based was passed in 1905. It provides that the house and a half acre of real estate, the books, instruments and furniture of all University societies which are organized as literary societies shall be exempt from taxation. To come under the provisions of the act the fraternities and sororieties class themselves as literary societies.
VINEGAR MUST BE PURE.
Prof. Jackson to Washington to Uphold Pure Food Law.
Prof. H. Louis Jackson of the department of chemistry will go to Washington, D.C., tomorrow to represent the state board of health at the hearing of the vinegar case. The manufacturers are desirious of having more freedom in the making of vinegar than the pure food law allows and Professor Jackson is to show that the present law is not too strict. He was at Topeka yesterday to see some food experts preparatory to going to Washington. He was also going on to Manhattan to see Professor Willard of the agricultural school's department of chemistry, but was unable to do so.
Dean Charles S. Skilton of the School of Music is as yet very sick. He has a trained nurse and the doctor is making two trips a day. He will be confined to his bed for most of next week. Then it will be a week before he can again meet his classes.
Dean Skilton Is Still Ill.
Prof. H. C. Allen of the department of chemistry, took the place of H. P. Cady last week in delivering lectures at Hartford and Bison, on the subject of liquid air.
Ralph Frush, a sophomore engineer, was called to his home in Kansas City Sunday on account of the death of his mother.
HURT WHILE COASTING.
Frank Chesky Thrown From Sled on Indiana Street.
Frank H. Chesky of Nickerson, a member of the freshman football team last fall was bruised about the hips as the result of a tobogganing accident on Indiana street yesterday evening. With a number of boys who also room at 1225 Oread, Chesky went to the hill after the basket-ball game to try the Indiana street coasting. On one of the trips down Chesky was occupying the rear of the long sled when it swerved and threw him into the curbing. His injuries are not considered serious.
START A NEW SOCIETY
Thirteen Sophomores Organize "Order of the Black Helmet" for Second-Year Men.
Thirteen members of the class of 1913 met Thursday and organized a sophomore society to be known as the "Order of the Black Helmet." The objects of the society as stated by the originators are primarily the promotion of the interests of the class and the University. Members will be chosen for their prominence in school activities, such as class honors and athletics. The members who will compose the organization next year will be chosen by the present members from the class of 1914.
The charter members of the new society are: Carl Krehbiel, Stanley Minor, Joe Connell, Chas Dolds, Clyde Dodge, Sandy Hamilton, Malcolm McNaughton Frank Reid, Paul Surber, Jas. Schwab, Tod Woodbury, Don Wheelock and O. H. Warner.
ELECTRICALS SWIM BEST.
Engineers Entertained Crowd With Contests in the Pool.
The electricals won the first inter-school engineering swimming meet Thursday evening in Robinson gymnasium by a wide margin. As was expected, the fancy diving and team rescuing events were the features of the contest. The contestants did good work and in some of the events showed extraordinary skill.
Over two hundred persons surrounded the pool, each encouraging his favorite. Dr. Naismith was starter and Professor Briggs was timer. The results of the different events are as follows::
50-foot dash, Daniels first, Kaffer second, Grignard third. Time 7.1; 50-foot swim on back—Griffin first, Parker second, Kaffer third. Time 13.1; 50-foot team rescue—Chemicals first, Electricals second, Mechanicals third. Time 30.4.5.; 50-foot, feet tied—Gossard first, Grignard second. Time 12.4.5. 100-foot swim—Griffin first, Parker second, Gossard third. Time 28. 100-foot dash—Daniels first, Kaffer second, Grignard third. Time 20.1. 400 foot relay—Electricals first, Chemicals second, Mechanicals third. Time 35; plunge for distance—Daniels first, Parker second, 43 feet. Fancy diving, E. W. Davis first, Griffin second.
Mr. S. M. Nees of Independence was visiting his son, Paul a senior in the College, today.
A.T.O. PARTY WAS FIREMAN'S BALL
KITCHEN FLOOR BURNED WHILE MUSIC THROBBED.
The Firemen, Uninvited Guests,
Quenched the Flames and the
Dance Went On.
While the merry couples were gliding about the floor of Fraternal Aid hall at the Alpha Tau annual party shortly after midnight this morning,fire was eating away the floor under a gas range in the kitchen below. By the time the guests learned of the blaze, the fire department had been summoned from across the street, had quenched the flames, and the danger had passed.
The fire was caused by a defective stove which was being used in the preparation of the refreshments. The cook noticed that the stove was not heating as it should and called the janitor. He told her the stove had not acted right on former occasions and that there was nothing wrong, but changed his mind when flames began to curl around the base of the range.
After unsuccessfully trying to put out the fire the janitor called the department which made short work of the blaze with extinguishers. The blaze had gained considerable headway between the boards and the floor and a lot of flooring had to be chopped up to make sure that it was extinguished.
Dense smoke from the kitchen began to fill the hall shortly afterward and some of the guests became alarmed. A few left the hall, but the others remained when they learned that the fire was over, and danced out the program.
Except for a momentary alarm among some of the guests and a slight delay in serving refreshments, the fire did not affect the party.
NO NEW FEVER VICTIMS.
But Two Professors Cannot Meet Their Classes.
The professors' children who are quarantined for scarlet fever are getting along nicely. There are four children of Prof. C. M. Sterling of the School of Pharmacy and two of Prof. H. P. Cady of the department of chemistry, who are siek. Owing to the quarantine the two professors will not meet their classes next week. Miss Laura Bates, a sophomore in the College, who has been in the hospital the past week with the fever is now convalescent. The children of Prof. Ralph W. Conew were reported to have scarlet fever, but their sickness did not prove to be such.
D. C. Porter, '05, visited the University today. Mr. Porter is now superintendent of the Caldwell city schools. He stopped here on his way to Topeka where he will be present when a school bill in which he is interested comes up.
J. F. Mackey, an industrial fellow, has been sick this week and was unable to attend to his work on the hill.