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Vol. VII. No. J46.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, TUESDAY, MAY 9t J908.
Price 5 Cents.
TENNIS PROGRESS
SEMIFINALS COMPLETES IN THE
DOUBLES.
Many Entries in Both Doubles and
Singles Good Tennis Being Played
Mpre Interest Than in Past
The tennlB tournament is progress
ing in fine shape nnd the numerous
entries are taking advantage of the
good weather to pull off their matches.
More interest is apparently being
manifested -in thlB branch of athletics
this year than has been shown for
several seasons. The Freshman class
is well represented both In numbers
and ability In the tournament, and it
la to be noped that these men will not
allow the spirit and enthusiasm which
has been revived this year to die out
in the future.
The quality of tennis that 1b being
played is in many, cases very encour
aging and there Is no reason why the
courts should not be improved and
the game be elevated to the position
of prominence and popularity which
it holds in other schools.
The two matches in the semi-llnal
ro,und In doubles have been played.
Young and Racely beat Wood and
Schmidt easily In straight sets. Score,
G-2, 6-2. The other match, between
Ritchie and Flower and Slaughter and
Post, was harder fought. . iVt waB
played In a Btlff wind, so that the play
was more or less erratic. Rltch'.e and
Flower took the first set easily, 6-3.
In tho second sot, however, Slaughter
and Post steadied and took the ilrst
three games. The score then went
to 3-1 and then to M, but here Ritchie
und Flower took a brace, winning live
straight games and with them the set
and match.
Ritchie and Flower will now meet
Young and Racely In the finals for tho
University championship.
In the singles there are twenty-two
entries and although a good many
matches have been played, it Is yet too
early to forecast Its outcome. With
good weather the singles may be Un
wished this week. The matcue.s played
so far are as follows:
-Young-beat Hall, 6-4, 6-1.
Flower beat Schmidt, G-. G-l.
Krskine boat Cook, 6-2, 15-6, 6 0.
Tost 'boat Ostorhout 6-3, 6-1.
Slaughter boat Kehger, 6-2, 6 1.
.Mills beat Froyd, 6-2, 2-6, 6-3.
8lgma Taus Initiate.
Four Juniors, Stroeter, Fulton, Hin
limn and Fiske, were initiated into tho
Sigma Tau rat0rnity Thursday even
ing, May 4. iio'Jtoiiiatlon was hold
at the AlnhVhetafj'hl house and the
candidates were treated to a feed of
strawberries and lco cream nnd cake
after the goat-riding was over.
A. H. Miller, '08, has accepted a
position as forest ranger with head
quarters at Denver, Colo.
Pies like mother tried to make.
Daked freBh twice a day by an ozpert
-woman pie baker, at The Boston
Lunch.
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INTERCLASS BA8EBALL.
Seniors Defeat the Sophomores by a
8core of 9 to 7.
Tho Seniors defeated the Sophs on
Monday afternoon In a seven-Inning
contest at Nineteenth and Vine streets.
There were many errors on both sides.
The Seniors got away with the larger
number of hits, getting 14 off Flem- j
lug. The following was tho line-up: j
Seniors. Sophs.
Greonslit. 3b. .lessup, lb.
Schmld. p. Cherringtou, 2b, ss.
Allen, lb. Bent ley. if. 2b.
Charlton. 21). Burnett, c, rl.
Tannei. c. Slaughter ,lf.
Mil lei , rl'. Sturtzenagei , sk, c.
Abott. If. Flowei. 3d.
Mattieson, cf.
Smith ss.
Hits Sophs I, Seniors 11.
Errors Sophs 5, Seniors 8.
S. O. Sophs S, Seniors 4.
Runs Sophs 7., Seniors 0.
The llnal intorclass game will be
played Wednesday afternoon at 2
o'clock between ihe Seniors and
Juniors. If the Seniors win this they
will have won tho championship in
baseball every year they have been in
school.
Notice. Seniors!
Owing to the fact that such a small
number of orders wore received, the
committee on Senior, invitations has
been unable to got satisfactory prices
for the paper invitations. All orders
for paper Invitations taken by the
committee are therefore cancelled.
Chairman.
Debating Squad Try-Outs.
More students havo registered for
tho try-out debates for the 1908-1909
debating squad than at any time in
recent years. Over forty have already
registered with Mr. Swenson, tho
president of the debating board. There
are other registrations for a second
preliminary, which Is to bo held next
fall. The first try-out will probably
be held at .the end of this week. Each
contestant is allowed to choose the
side of the question he prefers.
Mr. Gillespie, '90, nttended the Ivy
Day exercises last week. He recently
helped to revive the Washington
Alumni Association, of which he was
a charter member.
Notice.
All persons who have signed . con
tracts for 1908 Cornhuskors please call
at the office and get their book.
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ALPHA 2ETA BANQUET.
Agricultural Fraternity Holds Fifth
Annual Banquet.
The Nebraska chapter or Alpha
Zeta, tho national agricultural frater
nity, held its fifth annual banquet at
the New Windsor Hotel last Saturday
evening at 8:30 o'clock. It was at
tended by the active and honorary
members of the chapter, with Prof.
H. W. Stevenson or the Soils Depart
ment of Iowa State College at Ames,
Iowa, tho national preBldont of tho
traternity, as guest of honor.
After partaking of a very elaborate
menu, the following toasts were re
sponded to, Prof. Martin NoIboii act
ing as toastmaster:
"Tho Call of Agriculture" Prof. II.
. St.evenson.
"Tho View Point" W. I,. French.
"The Teacher or Agriculture" Prof.
A. 13. DavIsBon.
"The Social Status or the Farmer"
ICrwIn Hopt.
"Pioneering" Pror. L. W, Chase.
"Practice and Prospect" Robert C.
Ashby.
Universfty Students Here.
Four botanical students from the
State University nrrlved from Lincoln
last evening and about five more were
expected on the Missouri Pacific. The
boys all had their field boxes for
specimens nnd will work this morning
along the river and this afternoon will
visit Arbor Lodge. The primary ob
ject of the trip here Is to acquaint
themselves more thoroughly In tree
culture.
The following were the boys pres
ent: H. S. Stevenson, J. ('. Kitridge.
F. W. Hofman, L. L. Bishop, A. G.
Hamel, A. H. Miller and R. . Pool.
The Nobrasku City Dally Press, May
16th.
Seniors, Attention 1
Senior play tickets will be put on
sale in a week. All Seniors to secure
tickots at special price must pay their
two-dollar assessment at once. Seo
any of the following Seniors; .
J. R. Prudle.
George Fenlqn.
I. J. -Shaw.
WInnlfred Gould. .
Maude Cauger.
Jenny Whitmore.
Jessie Cook.
Glaedcth Denny.
Lecturing before University of Illi
nois students, Mr. Hammond Tamont,
editor of the Nation, declared that
vested interests are an unsurmounta
lile obstacle to the professional ideals
of metropolitan editors.
BALL TEAM BACK
THE ANNUAL TRIP WAS FAIRLY
8UCCE88FUL:
The Fielding and Batting Averages
Good Win Three Games on
Trip and Tie One.
The University baseball team re
turned Sunday from Its annual eastorn
trip. In point of games won tho trip '
cannot be counted as a very success
ful one. but in many ways tho team
accomplished more thnn was expected'
of It. Before leaving tho toam was
considerably weakened by tho loss of
several strong Freshmen on account
of the Freshman eligibility ruling.
Hard luck wbb encountered In many
places In tho shape of bad weather,
and In others In tho shape of bad uni-
pires. In the game last Saturday with
tho Christian Brothers College in St.
Louis, the team was called off tho
field by Manager Eager on account of
continued rank decisions of the um
pire. With a runner on second, a St.
Louis batsman batted an Infield fly
to Beltzer. The base runner Inter
fered with Beltzer while he was at
tempting to Held tho ball. When the
umpire refused to call him out' for so
violating the rules, Manager Eager
called ofT his team and forfeited tho
game.
Some of tho statistics of tho team's
work for the season follows:
The Season's Games.
April 14 Nebraska 1, Wesleyan !).
April 30 Nebraska 8, Wesleyan 11.
May 2 Nebraska 4, Highland Park
16.
.May 4 Nebraska. fi, Ames 19.
May 5 Nebraska 5, Grlnnell 7.
May 6 Nebraska 5, Iowa 2.
May 7 Nebraska I, Minnesota 4.
May 8 Nebraska 5, St. Thomas 6.
May 9 Nobraska 11, Decorah 4.
May 12 Nebraska 1, Belolt 3.
May 14 Nebraska 6, Washington 8.
May 15 Nebraska 0, St. Louis I.
May 16 Nebraska 10, St. Louis 8.
Fielding Averages.
PO A E . PC
Blake 4 0 0 1000
Denslow 86 20 3 .972
Beltzer . 22 32 2 .961
Schleuter ....TTlk 1 1 .944
Ward 4 25 2 .935
Jennings It 1 1 .923
Cline 120 6 12 .913
Hetzel 0 13 2 .867
Bellamy 16 2 3 .857
Dudgeon 14-22 9 .799
Clark '. ... 26 17 15 .741 '
Stevenson 1 3 2 .667
Watson 2 1 3 .500
Totals 332 143 ij5 .929 '
Batting Averages. .
AB R H. SB SI! PC
DenBlow ... 51 13 19 2 0 .373
Ward 25 3 8 3 0 .320
Clark 49 6 13' 1 0 .265
Beltzer .... 49 7 13 3 2 .265
Watson 4 0 10 0 .250
Jennings ... 56 8 12 0 1 .214
Bellamy ... 53 6 11 1 0 .208
Cline 54 11 U Y' 0 .204
Schlouter ..55 7 10 4.0 ,182
Dudgeon ..,46 5 7 5 0 .152
Hetzel 17 2 2 0 0 .118
b Totals ...459 68 107 20 .1 .232