THE UNIVERSITY KANSAN.
VOLUME VII.
NUMBER 97
"THE MISSING LINK WILL BE FOUND?
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1911
IN SENIOR FARCE STUDENTS ATTEMPT IT.
Ten Actors And Actresses in Cast—Will be Staged West of Snow Hall.
"The Missing Link" is the name of the Senior Farce which will be produced during commencement week. Mat Graham, chairman of the farce committee, announced this morning that the entire play had been completed and that practices will begin this week. The farce is in one act with four musical numbers, words and music by Mat Graham. The book was written by Clem Parker and Arthur McAdams. Special feature dances entirely different from anything every produced here will be staged.
"The Missing Link" deals with original research for the missing link spoken of by Darwin. The Chancellor of a university has declared that a party of university students shall spend some time in a thorough search for the link between man and the monkey. A company is organized under faculty direction and the party leaves for some unknown land in the airship Jayhawk. The farce opens with the landing of the party on an unknown island. Provisions run out and the members scatter over the island in search of food. An edible plant is found and soup is made of it. All present eat heartily of the soup, but unfortunately the ingredients are such as to make the people light headed. Various acrobatic stunts of a rather hilarious nature follow. Two members of the company who did not eat of the soup retain their mental stability and take many photographs of the anties of the rest. These pictures are displayed later as evidence that one does not have to search in an unknown land for the missing link; we have it in various forms among us at all times.
There are ten people in the east and they are being trained under the direction of Gertrude Mossler. Special scenery has been secured from Kansas City. The farce will be staged outdoors just west of Snow hall,weather permitting.
VARSITY WAS DEFEATED
St. Marys Won a Pitchers Battle By a Score of 3 to 1.
The University of Kansas ball team closed the season Thursday with a defeat at the hands of St. Marys by the score of 3 to 1. The Catholies won the game in the first inning when Bennett hit safely and Collins walked. Both advanced on a sacrifice and scored on Ranuth's two bagg器.
The game was a pitcher's battle throughout. Mahoney of St. Marys let the Kansas batters down with two hits. Locke of Kansas was hit safely four times. Four errors were registered against K. U.
Cooley Club Elects.
The Cooley Club held their last, meeting of the year last night. The following officers were elected to serve the first term next year;
President—Orlin Weede.
Vice-president—Charles Dolde.
Treasurer—Charles Lamb.
The following members were elected to the debating council for next year: George Malcolm, F. M. Hyames, Walter Griffin, R. C. Davis.
LAST RECITAL GOOD
Misses Edgerton, Hase, Mossler
Pleased Audience.
The last graduating piano recital of the year was given Thursday night by Lyla Edgerton and Clara Hase assisted by Gertrude Mossler, reader. A large audience was in attendance and it received every number with enthusiastic applause. The program included selections of especial interest and charm. The hunters song by Tehfikowski which was played by Miss Hase and Tarantelle by Doechler, played by Miss Edgerton were especially pleasing. The readings by Miss Mossler were also exceedingly good.
The recital Thursday night concludes a series of graduating recitals given by the seniors in the School of Fine Arts this spring which has possessed extraordinary merit and has been a credit to the School of Fine Arts. The ushers for Thursday evening's performance were: Letha Edmonds, Bertha Stevens, Cora Reynolds, Josephine McCommon, Creola Ford and Elva Sanders. The program was as follows:
suite for Piano—
"From Holberg's Time", Grieg
Preclude.
Rigaudon
Miss Hase.
Reading ... Selected
Miss Mossler
Piano Solos—
Piano Solos—
Etude de Concert, No. 3.
... Chaminade
Cracovienne Fantastique
... Paderewski
Tarantelle ... Doebler
Miss Edgerton.
Piano Duos—
Sacred Dance...Debussy
Profane Dance...Debussy
Mini-Clair...Debussy
Miss Edgerton Miss Hase.
Piano Solos —
Hunter's Song . . . Tehaikowsk
Impromptu . . . Rubenstein
Spinning Song . . . Pachulski
Staceato Etude . . . Frim'
Reading Selected
Miss Mossler.
Piano Solo—
Waltz, "Man Lebt nur
Einmal" ... Strauss-Tausig
Miss Edgerton.
Piano Duos—
Le Soir ... Chaminade
Pas de Cymbales ... Chaminade
Miss Edgerton.
Miss Hase.
TENNIS TEAM TO OKLA
Nees-Richardson Playing Dual Tournament With Sooners.
A University of Kansas tennis team consisting of Nees and Richardson left Thursday for Oklahoma where they will engage in a dual tournament with the Sooners. The first dual tennis meet between these two schools was held at Lawrence last year. Kansas won in straight matches. The meet this year will consist of four matches of singles and one match of doubles, the team winning three out of the five matches winning the meet.
Onake Near Winnipeg.
The seismograph registered a very slight quake Thursday morning at 2:09. It lasted only two or three minutes and was about 800 miles away in a north-westerly direction, making the center of disturbance near Winnipeg.
Prof. H. O. Kruse entertained his class in Wilhelm Tell Thursday evening at his home on Kentucky street.
Prof. Kruse Entertains.
STUDENT DROWNED IN POTTER'S LAKE
LEONARD RITCHEY, JUNIOR,
DIES THURSDAY.
Engineer Sinks While Companions Stand Helpless Lived at Cheney, Kansas.
In his first "swim" in Potter's lake which has recently been filled with water, Leonard Franklin Ritchley met death by drowning Thursday night while twenty fellow students stood on the bank and looked on, all unable to be of assistance.
Ritchey was a junior in the department of Civil Engineering and his home was at Cheney Kansas. His residence at Lawrence was at 1407 Kentucky street. Thursday night Ritchey in company with other members of the School of Engineering went to Marvin hall to attend the annual spring farewell meeting of the Civil Engineers. At the close of the meeting the men all went to the lake to take a plunge. Ritchey was among the first to cross the lake. On returning he had reached the center of the lake when a cry for help was heard and Ritchey was seen to be in distress. Those students near him attempted to be of assistance but Ritchey being a heavy man slipped from their grasp and sunk to the bottom immediately. Diving was immediately begun and it was discovered that at this place the water was eleven or twelve feet in depth and that the lower strata of the water were icy cold. Diving was difficult and none of those present were expert enough to reach the body. A light raft was hurriedly constructed and towed to the place where Ritchey was last seen and diving was renewed. George Bowles touched the body three times but was unable to stay down long enough to effect a recovery of the heavy body.
A phone message was sent for Drs, Naismith, Chambers, Sudler, and C. B. Root, to come to the lake at once so that if the body was found soon, attempts at resuscitation might be made.
James Daniels, captain of the University swimming team was called and he succeeded in bringing the body to the surface on his first dive. Work at resuscitation was immediately begun by the doctors but after an hour's work they gave over the attempt and pronounced Ritehey to be dead. A half hour after the recovery of the body Joseph Kaffer brought one of the oxygen machines that was used in connection with a lecture there in the afternoon, and the attempts to restore life were renewed but to no avail.
Ritchey's death evidently was caused by an attack of heart failure. He has been subject to these attacks before. At a track meet this spring he fell and was unconscious for a period of twenty minutes. He has also been seized with the attacks while in the swimming tank in Robinson gymnasium. Dr. Naismith said it could not have been cramps as all his muscles were relaxed when found.
The Power & Leshear Undertaking company conveyed the body to their establishment where services were held last night. Dr. Wilbur and seventy-five Engineering students attended the service and accompanied the body to the train at 11:00 o'clock.
Dean Olin Templin notified Ritchey's father Thursday night. A pathetic story in connection with Ritchey's death is told by
"Dad" Herman, secretary of the Y. M. C. A. Thursday afternoon he called Ritchey over the telephone and told him that he had found some work for him to do on Friday as Ritchey had requested.
"I can't take the work now," said Ritechey, "for I am going to take a quiz tomorrow."
MANY OFFICIALS TO MEET.
Faculty Representatives and Coaches Confer at Des Moines.
The annual spring meeting of the faculty representatives of the schools of the Missouri Valley Conference was held at Des Moines Thursday night. The men discussed the general status of the conditions of athletics among the schools of the Valley and the fate of inter-collegiate base ball hung in the balance. The representative from Kansas, Dr. McClung, made a fight for a more liberal interpretation of the rules regarding the eligibility of baseball players. Nebraska and Iowa have already expressed their compliance with the Kansas interpretation put upon baseball regulation and a contest was made to obtain this for the general ruling of the conference.
At eight o'clock yesterday the managers of the teams of the schools of the conference held a meeting to select the officials for the foot-ball games for the coming season. There was also a meeting of the all year coaches of the schools in which the question of establishing a system of basket ball officials for the entire schedule of games was discussed and some action taken.
Freshmen Displayed Temper After Ball Game Yesterday.
DIDN'T LIKE UMPIRE.
The game yesterday afternoon between the University freshmen and the Lawrence Y. M. C. A. ended in a display which has seldom been witnessed on McCoolfield. Although the freshmen won by the score of 14 to 4, they were dissatisfied with the umpiring. They approached the center of the diamond after the game and picked his upms up and shoved him over the fence. Too many "rotten decisions" was their explanation.
Wilson President and Young green Manager Next Year.
The Y. M. C. A. nine took the bint and went from the ball grounds. The clink of their spike was heard upon the cement walk as they ran swiftly down Mississippi street.
MASQUE ELECTS OFFICERS
Funston Writes of the Twentieth
The University Masque held a meeting in room 110 at chapel time Friday and elected the following officers for next year; Harold Wilson, president; Clarence Conner, vice president; Fay Chisham, secretary; and Chas. Younggreen manager of next year's play. The Masque club will give their play in the spring term next year.
General Frederick Funston, a former student of the University is the author of a series of articles which will appear in Scribner's Magazine, on "The Making of a Regiment." The organization and experiences of the Twentieth Kansas, Funston's first command, are described in the articles, the first of which is published in the June Scribner's.
KANSAS DID WELL IN PRELIMINARIES
IOWA'S WITHDRAWAL FROM
CONFERENCE ANNOUNCED
Jayhawkers Failed to Place in The Hundred—Bermond Beaten in the Quarter.
The annual Missouri Valley Athletic association track and field meet to be held this afternoon at Drake Stadium will be a battle royal is indicated by the preliminaries in five events held yesterday. What the outcome will be seems extremely doubtful as the preliminaries yesterday entirely altered the advance news on the meet.
Drake and Iowa, the latter of which announced its withdrawal yesterday from the Missouri Valley Assn., in order to contine relations with the "Big Eight," proved the surprises of the preliminaries, Drake placing three men in the quarter, and Joslyn of Iowa nosing out the speedy Keeney of Ames in the 100-yard dash and winning a preliminary of the 220-yard dash.
Kansas seems to be in the pink of condition at the close of the preliminaries, having placed three men in the 220-yard hurdles. Nebraska has half the men to start in the 100-yard dash, and a strenuous battle is expected between Wilson of Coe, May of Nebraska and Reed of Nebraska in that sprint. Missouri also placed a man in every event. The summaries:
100-Yard Dash: First heat—May, (Neb.), first; Joslyn (Iowa), second. Time :10 2.5. Second heat—Wilson, (Coe), first; Reed, (Neb.), second. Time, :10 2.5. Third heat—Kirksey, (Mo.), first; Christmas, (Neb.), second. Time, :10 3.5.
120-Yard Hurdles; First heat—Nicholson, (Mo), first; Walker, (Ames), second. Time, 16:4-5.
Second heat—C. Woodbury, (Kas), first; Bishop, (Drake), second. Time, 16:4-5. Third heat, Quarnstrum, (Morningside), first; Drier, (Des Moines), second. Time, 16:35.
440-Yard Run: First heat—Herrold, (Drake), first; Bermond, (Mo.), second; Black, (Kas), third; Amberson, (Neb.), fourth Time, 53-3.5. Second heat—Reed, (Neb.), first; Lemon, Morningside), second; Havens, (Drake), third; Vreeland, (Drake), fourth. Time, 52-3.5. 220-Yard Hurdles: First heat—Kirksey, (Mo.), first, Hamilton, (Kas), second. Time, 27-1.5. Second heat—C. Woodbury, (Kas), first; Capron, (Mo.), second. Time, 26-4.5. Third heat—Quarnstrum (Morningside), first, H. Woodbury, (Kas.), second. Time, 27.
220-Yard Dash: First heat—Wilson, (Coe), first; Davis, (Kas.), second. Time 231-5. Second heat—Joslyn (Iowa). first; Hamilton, (Kas.), second. Time, 231-5. Third heat—Christmas, (Neb.), first; Kirksey, (Mo.), second. Time, 232-5.
Good Government Club
The Good Government Club will hold its last meeting of the year at 10:30 tomorrow morning at the Sigma Nu house to elect officers and new members for next year. All members are urged to be present.
Bailey to Speak in Indianapolis. Prof. E. H. S. Bailey will go to Indianapolis the last of June where he will read a paper before the American Chemical Society.
Senior Class Picnic.
LUNCHES CAN
Monday after the Regatta, while the K. U. Band plays, the class will meet at Potter's Lake for a Picnic BE OBTAINED THERE