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THE NEBRASKAN-KESPERIAN.
Vol. 9-30. No. 29.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, APRIL 10, 1901.
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GIRLS' BASKET BALL.
Basketball Tournament Friday and
Saturday Five Teams to
Compete Personnel
of the Teams.
Interest among the participants in
tho girls' basket ball tournament to
ho given in the Armory Friday and
Saturday nights is reaching fever heat.
Tho university girls are endeavoring
to make tho best possible provision
for their guests that night, and have
obtained an unusually handsome- and
valuable trophy to bo contested for,
as well as a second trophy, to be fought
for by tho teams not reaching the
finals. The first prize, an antique Rus
sian samovar of burnished brass, im
ported by a Now York City dealer, is
now on exhibition in a down town
shop window.
COMI'irriNO TKAM.S.
From out of town the university
girls will bring and entertain the Wa
hoo high school team, in charge of
Miss Susan Plllsbury, U. of N. '97,
which won from tho Lincoln high
school last year, a team which is made
up of tall and active girls, and may
prove the dark horse of the tourna
ment. Also a strong team from Om
aha which will Include, it is hoped,
many of the best players from the now
disbanded high school team. These
will be in charge of Miss Helen Wood
'small, physical director of tho Y. W.
-t'C.'-A:, a sufficient guarantee for their
promise and likelihood to win. From
Lincoln the high school girls, popular
for their skilful and well concerted
playing, have been asked to take part.
These arc expected to be in the finals
for the trophy Saturday night. The
- names, of those players are: Pearl
Archibald, Edna King (captain), for
wards; Inez Everett, Ethel Ames, cen
ters; Edith nurlingim, Margaret Pills-
bury, guards. In all, there will be
five competing teams, tho two univer
sity teams,' who give the tournament,
making up the others.
VNIVIIItSlTY W.AYKItH.
Both university teams are in good
condition, though they , havoas yet
played no malchcs, and will try to up-'
hold creditably the prowess of the uni
versity. The first team, boasts two
P D K members, Eleanoc Miller' and'
Ida Taylor. Miss MlJIor captains the
team and deserves the honor fqr'cl'vor
ncss of play, quickness and good head
work. She has never played In a
match, but has had no little experi
ence, having captained last year's
team. The other forward, Blanche Em
mons, who also played last year, has
n tolling aggressive game and uses a
high overhead throw to good advan
tage. She takes a conspicuous part
when tho game Is at its hottest.
As centers, Hannah Plllsbury and
Minnie Guile are swift and versatile,
playing well together. Miss Plllsbury
is generally acknowledged as tho quick
est and most ubiquitous player since
the days of Bertha DuTiol. Miss Guilo
' plays nyioh tho same sort of game,
catching well, throwing well, and spoil
ing many a goal by swift jumping.
She won several events in tho girls'
pentathlon of two years ago.
Of tho guards, Ida Taylor P B K is a
playor of experience, and has tho name
of being perhaps the most trusty and
brilliant guard the university hns pro
duced. Only rarely may the player
whom she guards expect to make a
(,oal. Elva Sly, tho second guard, is
playing her first season but has al
ready earned her .placo on. the first
team. She makes good use of her
height, throws well, catches well, and
guards efficiently wiih a calmer meth
od than her colleagues.
On tho second team the forwards are
Nellie Itichoy, and Edith Hlggins, who
are well up in the game, and may bo
relied upon for goals when they have
tho chance. Miss Mabel Guile of tho
second team who lias been playing for
ward or center has been off the field
for some time and is out of practice.
She plays exactly like her sister and
twin and is one of the valuable mem
bers of tho team. Those at present
playing center are Gertrude Macomber
and Clara Fowler, both of whom are
strong and active and have possession
of the ball oftencr than their oppo
nents wish. The guards arc Zoe
Shields who plays a persistent, effec
tive game, takes all risks recklessly
and emerges unharmed and Edith
Shaw. The latter has played only a
few times with the team and is new at
basket ball, but needs nothing but ex-
BASE BALL
Omaha League vs- University
WEDNESOA Y, THURSDA Y, and FRIDAY
BASKET BALL
Girls Tournament
Friday and Saturday Evenings
porionco to rank with the most bril
liant. Both teams look well on the
field and combine a degree of grace
with efficiency of play.
sciiKiiui.K or matciii:s.
The matches for Friday night will
bo Wahoo vs. the university first team;
the Lincoln high school vs. the univer
sity second team; then a contest e
tween Omaha and the winner of the
first match. Tho finals Saturday will
be between the winner of this event
and tho winner of tho second match.
Then the finals for the consolation
trophy between tho teams defeated be
fore the finals. Some of tho strongest
marches will come Friday, so that the
games then will bo as well worth seing
as those Saturday.
Word has come from Omaha that a
number are coming from that city to
see tho matches. They have asked
whether tho finals can not be played
Sa unlay afternoon instead of Satur
day night, enabling them to leave on
tho six o'clock train. It is possible
that this may, bo arranged, and tho
dato of play changed. The tou'rna
men' ' to be primarily a woman's' af
f' will be a novel one, perhaps
t girls' basket ball tournament
ov ,.d. It is thought that with
three teams in the field, Lincoln ought
to have a good show at retaining pos
session of tho trophy.
THE GOVERNOR'S VETO.
Appropriation Voted by the Legisla
ture Reduced $90,500 by
(lovernor Dietrich
Kappas Return.
Governor Dietrich struck tho death
blow to the projected Improvements on
the university campus and at the state
farm by vetoing the appropriation of
$90,500 for that purpose. Every Item
of the bill had been closely scrutinized
in the committee room and had been
endorsed by the members of both
houses of the legislature, but under
the plea of economy the governor saw
fit to withhold his sanction from this
portion of tho measure.
In his veto message the governor
makes the following statement:" In tho
case, of the appropriation for the State
University some of the improvements
asked for should no doubt bo made,
but the items are grouped together un
der the caption of permanent improve
ments into ono sum of $90,500. No
part of this could be stricken out with
out striking out tho entire amounc,
and as the appropriation In the sum
total would exceed the amount avail
able from -the 1-mlll levy and result in
a largo deficit, it became necessary in
order to guard against this large de
ficiency to veto tho section relative io
permanent improvements."
It is difficult to see just how this de
ficiency would arise. Tho temporary
university fund is derived from three
sources, viz: Tho permanent endow
ment fund, which approximates $2G7,
000 in two years; the 1-mlll levy,
which, figuring on tho basis of tho
amount of taxable property as shown
by tho tax lists for tho last two years
and deducting 10 per cent, for uncol
lected taxes, will amount to $314,000;
tho university cash fund, arising from
fees and tuition In the law and art
schools, laboratory deposits, etc., which
last year amounted to approximately
$40,000, and in tho two years will yield
approximately $80,000. In addition
thoro Is an unexpended balance of $15,
000 remaining over from the last bleu
nlum. Tho total amount which, will
be received into the university fund
will not bo far from $C7G,000.
After deducting $592,000, tho amount
as it originally Btood thero would still
bo a balance of over $80,000 remaining
in the fund. This money cannot bo
touched except for university pur
poses and must bo Idle in tho state de
positories until appropriated by the
legislature.
KAPPAS RETURN FROM COLORADO
Nineteen of the girls from Sigma
chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma at
Lincoln, Neb., left Thursday evening
for Boulder, Col., to establish Beta Mu
chapter of that sorority in tho Uni
versity of Colorado.
They were met Friday morning in
Denver by ten members of Alumnae
Association of that city, who at 11:30
accompanied them to Boulder. Thero
they were mot by the Alethea girls.
Alethea was a local society founded in
tho fall of 1S98. Ever since its estab
lishment its members have been apply
ing for a charter of Kappa Kappa
Gamma, and have just this spring had
It granted. After lunch a hasty view
of the campus and buildings was tak
en. At half after two tho three men's
fraternities, Sigma Alpha Epsllon, Beta
Theta PI and Delta Tau Delta, ten
dered a reception to tho members of Pi
Beta Phi, Delta Gamma and Kappa
Kappa Gamma. At 4 o'clock the Delta
Gammas gave a reception to tho Kap
pas and from there they went to a five
o'clock tea given by Mrs. Duain, wife
of the professor of physics in the Uni
versity of Colorado.
At 7 o'clock the chapter was in
stalled. The service was held at the
home of Miss Edith Do Long, daughter
of the professor of mathematics. This
was followed by an old time college
spread at which greetings from the
other grand officers and chapters were
read. Miss Whiting, grand secretary
of tho fraternity, was the installing of
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The site of the University of Colo
rado is a beautiful one, among the foot
l'lills of the Rockies. It is a growing
and prosperous institution, where there
is a great abundance of college spirit.
Saturday morning tho entire party
went to Denver, where at 12 Mrs. Al
bert Sechris", formerly of Lincoln, en
tertained at breakfast. Tho place
card? were shaped like the fleur-de-lis,
which is tho fraternity flower, and tho
decorations were jonquils and roses. In
tho afternoon tho alumnao gave a re
ception at tho home of Miss Alice
Maitland, also formerly of Lincoln, in
honor of Beta Mu, to which all of tho
active members In Boulder and alum
nae in Denver of Pi Beta Phi and Delta
Gamma wero invited.
In tho evening fifty-one sat down to
a beautifully appointed banquet In the
ordinary of the Brown Palace hotel.
Tho hall rang with the songs and yells
of tho respective colleges, and with
songs improvised for tho new chapter,
among which wero the following:
"Oh! Beta Mu wo greet you,
Oh! Beta Mu, at last
You're in our mystic circle,
With tho double blue bound fast.
From Kappas In Nebraska
Tills word we bring to you,
They drink with us tills toast now,
Then here's to Beta Mu."
"When you hear those Kappa Gam
mas sing,
All join round and gaily wo will sing,
And when tho songs are done wo'U
form tho mystic ring,
For there's a chapter in Boulder to
night." "Oh girls of Beta Mu, this song we
sing to you
From every chapter,"" from every chapter,
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