BASKETBALL EDITIONS
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VOL. XVI. NO. 109.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1917.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
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VALLEY BASKETBALL ON HIGH
PLANE DURING 191617 SEASON
THREE NEBRASKANS, CAPTAIN CAMPBELL, JACKSON, AND
NELSON, ON HONOR ROLL
Kansas "Aggies" Have Clear Call to Title Missouri Ranks Next
Teams Show Strength Outside of Valley
ALL-MISSOURI VALLEY HONOR ROLL
Forwards Reynolds, Kansas "Aggies"; Vantine, Kansas "Aggies";
Campbell, Missouri; Paige, Ames; Campbell, Nebraska; Jackson, Ne
braska; Hawley, Drake; Aldrich, Ames. m
Guards Wells, Kansas "Aggies"; Ersklne, Ames; Laslette, Kan
sas; Viner, Missouri.
Centers Williams, Missouri; Nelson, Nebraska; Uhrlaub, Kansas.
BY DWIGHT P. THOMAS
liasketball in the Missouri valley
this year bas been far above the stand
ard of other years. More teams have
played real basketball than ever be
lore, and teams which in former years
have been but playthings for the larg
er schools have come to the front and
shown their class.
Nebraska has been displayed as
Valley champion, a place she has held
tor the last six years, by the Kansas
Agricultural College team. The rec
ords of the Aggies are absolutely un
questionable, and there is no doubt
that they are the best team in the
Valley. The most important successes
of this team have been the recent vie
' torh-3 over the Missouri quintet on
the Missouri floor. Two wins in suc
cession were enough to show that the
Aggies had the better team of the
two, and as Missouri was the only
rival for championship honors tho
title went to the Manhattan five.
The Missouri team, which draws
second place, was picked by many as
the best team In tho Valley until Its
series with the Kansas Aggies. The
MiHHourians got off to a poor start at
the beginning of the season, but within
three weeks bad hit a stride that many
thought would carry them to the cham
pionship. Ames Picks Up
Iowa State College at Ames is at
present in possession of third place.
The Ames team has been the surprise
of the conference this year. Starting
rather poorly, the Iowans have come
along in big jumps and in the last few
weekB have set a record far better
than any other Valley team can boast
of. Among its later victories are wins
from Chicago. Iowa University and
Grlnnell, all Rtrong first class fives.
SEE VALUE OF
THE PRECEDENT
Junior Play Cast Seconds Decision of
of Class to Use Temple for
Production
In seconding the decision of the
Junior class to hold its play. "Green
Stockings," in the Temple theatre
rather than down town, the play cast
nd the play committee are convinced
rather than down town; the play cast
and play committee are convinced
that the play will be the best ever
Riven.
Instead of spending its money for
Pensive rental of a theatre, the class
l" be able to get appropriate scen
ery, perhaps have an orchestra, and
d0 many things of this sort that
ould be impossible otherwise. The
, ket 8a,e will be confined, practical
ly, to the campus, and it will be a
un versity audience that will see the
University play. The cast will be at
some, and will have all of the friend-
'merest of the audience to encour
e them to make the first class play
the Temple a success.
Thoughtful students and members
tJe faculty, who deplored taking
th. t, , t0 a down town theatre when
Inlversltjr has its own play house.
Zl .'"P'ted the Junior class
lo2 yalty t0 the Bch00 -
Hue. The Juniors have set a
The remaining teams in the race
have been overshadowed by the first
three. Kansas, Nebraska, Drake and
Washington, finishing in the order
named, have had varied success
throughout the season, some times
playing championship ball and at other
Mrnes failing miserably.
The Honor Roll
An honor roll bearing the names of
the best players in the conference this
year will have the names of several
real stars on it; men who would be
able to hold their own in any com
pany in the country. An honor roll
such as this will not only show the
real stars, however, but men also who
have been especially valuable to their
respective teams.
Williams of Missouri is probably
the bPBt basketball man in the Valley
this season. His floor work was fast
and bis basket shooting was accurate
to , an almost wonderful degree. Ho
was easily the class of the field at
foul goal throwing. Nelson of Ne
braska and Uhrlaub of Kansas were
both good men at the center position.
Reynolds and Vantine of the Kan
sas Aggies were the mainstays of
that team and were probably the best
forwards -in the race. Campbell of
Missouri, Paige of Ames, Campbell
and Jackson of Nebraska, Hawley of
Drake, and Aldrich of Ames all
showed class as forwards.
Wells of Kansas Aggies"; Erskine,
Ames; Laslette, Kansas, and Viner,
Missouri, were four guards of excep
tional ability. Gardiner of Nebraska,
who played in only the first few games
of the season, shoWed that he had all
the requirements of a first class
guard, but was in too few games to
be considered for the honor roll.
No More Rough Stuff
To put a stop to rough chupel or
der at Baker, President Mason called
a conference of the student body to
consider means of suppressing such
conduct. It was recommended that
the student council be given power to
act as an independent governing body
with ability to adopt such measures
as seem necessary to control the
matter. Ex.
VARSITY DEBATERS
GIVE BANQUET
Prof. M. M. Fogg, Debating Coach,
Guest or Honor Last Evening
the Toast List
The members of this year's varsity
debating squad held a banquet at the
Lincoln hotel last evening, with Prof.
M. M. Fogg, coach of the debating
team, as the guest of honor.
The following toasts were
given,
17, as
' C. L.
R. B.
G. N.
with Charles E. Schofleld,
toastmaster:
"The Rulers of the Land.
Rein. '13-Law '15.
Sic Semper Jayhawkus,"
Waring.
"Why Is
a Fogg?" Prof.
Foster.
"Twenty
Years Afterward," J. N.
Norton, '03.
"Voni, Vldl, Vicl," Prof. M. M. Fogg.
tradition that will be followed by
every Junior "class, and th-i will make
the third year class playj strictly
class and varsity events.
ARTIST COMING TO
OPEN MEETING OF
PALLADIAN SICIETY
Ethel M. Dunn, head of the dra
matic art department of William and
Vashtl college, will give a program of
miscellaneous readings, "Sense and
Nonsense," at an open meeting of the
Palladlan Literary society Friday
evening, at 8:30 o'clock.
Miss Dunn is a graduate of the
Cunnock school of oratory, and has
studied in Europe. She has worked
on chautauqua platforms for several
seasons. All students are Invited.
BOOK COSTS MORE;
MUST SELL MORE
Need to Dispose of 2,000 Cornhuskers
to Make the Annual
Successful
Because the cost of putting out the
1917 Cornhusker, with its additional
features and higher quality in this
time of boosted prices on paper and
printing, it will be necessary to sell
2,000 copies of the yearbook to make
it successful. ,
This is the decision of the manage
ment when it faced the problem of sell
ing the average number of Cornhusk
ers at an increased price, or of selling
more at the regular price of ?3. When
plans for the book were made, and
later when contracts were let, those
who are producing the annual refused
to cut down the quality or the size of
the book, but on the other hand,
secured better engraving, better bind
ing, and better printing, refusing at
the same time' to boost the selling
price.
An idea of Just how much this in
creased expense amounts to, which
the management, determined to make
the 1917 Cornhusker better than its
predecessors, must meet, may be
gained from knowledge of the fact
that the cost of engraving alone and
engraving is one of the larger items
of expense in a college annual Is
fifty per cent over that of last year.
Book More Complete
The aim of the editorial staff of the
book has been to make it in contents
more complete and representative
than any previous book, and to this
purpose they have secured twenty per
cent, more junior and senior individual
pictures than in previous editions,
more organization pictures, and a
larger, more versatile student life sec
a, I 11UU.
The attempt of all Cornhuskers to
give the underclass as well as the up
perclass proper recognition is being
carried , out more successfully this
year than usual.
GAMES OF CHILDHOOD
FOR MARRIED FOLKS
TOMORROW EVENING
The married students of the Univer
sity will box, play marbles, ping pong
mumblety peg and other games at
their regular tri weekly party at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Win
ship, 1804 Q street, tomorrow evening.
Rev. R. A. Waite, who recently re
signed as pastor of the First Congre
gational church to resume his work
Funston's Fraternity Pin
Had Interesting Career
Gen. Funston wore to the time of
his death a fraternity pin, which, lost
on a snow covered trail in Alaska, re
appeared several years later fastened
in a napkin at the Phi Delta Theta
fraternity chapter house of the Uni
versity of Chicago.
No one knows how the pin traveled
from the far northwest to Washing
ton, D. C, where it was found under
the floor of a roller skating rink by a
laborer engaged in razing the build
ing. Presumably it was picked up by
an Indian, who sold it to a tourist, by
whom it was taken east and lost in the
rink. The workman who found it
sold it to a bartender for two drinks
REED '99, VISITS
LINCOLN SCHOOLS ON
INVESTIGATING TRIP
Mrs. J. A. Reed, '99, director of voca
tional guidance in the public schools
of Seattle Wash., who is making a six
months' trip investigating the main
schools in the country, left yesterday
for Omaha, after visiting the Lincoln
schools for several days. Mrs. Reed
will go from Omaha to the east. She
Is investigating in particular the trade
schools, vocational schools and the
schools for subnormal children.
DR. MIMS IS TO
GIVE ADDRESS
Will
Speak Before Sigma. XI and Phi
Beta Kappa Societies
Next Month
Dr. Edward 'Mlms of Vanderbilt uni
versity, Nashville, Tenn., will give
the annual address before Phi Beta
Kappa and Sigma XI societies the sec
ond week in April. His subject has
not been announced.
Dr. Minis is one of the most distin
guished scholars of the southern
states. He is the author of the "Life
of Sidney Lanier," in the American
Men of Letters series, is editor of
"Southern Prose and Poetry" and of
"Southern Fiction," and of many other
works, and he is joint editor of the
"South Atlantic Quarterly." He took
his Ph. D. at Cornell, and has lec
tured at a number of summer schools,
including the summer session at Johns
Hopkins university. He is a member
of the Modern Language association,
bas been a director of the National
council of English teachers, and has
been president of the Association of
Colleges and Preparatory Schools.
WILL GIVE TEA
F0R TOLSTOI
lllyia Tolstoi, Son of Famous Russian
Writer Will Be Honored by
Dramatic Club Monday
The University Dramatic club will
hold a tea in honor of lllya Tolstoi,
Eon of the famous Russian, in the club
rooms at the Temple, Monday, Febru
ary li, rrom A to b. ine university
public is cordially invited to meet Mr.
Tolstoi. i
The tea will be unique in that it is
a Russian tea, following the customs
of Mr. Tolstoi's native land. The chief
ceremony of the afternoon will be the
carrying out of a strange custom of
honor. The highest tribute to be paid
a guest of honor is the offering of a
loaf of rye bread and an abundance of
salt.. This honor is paid to the czar
on festive occasions.
Mr. Tolstoi Is In America lecturing
on the life of his father.
with boys, in which work he has a
national reputation, will talk on "Be
ing a Boy." All married students are
invited.
of whisky. A patron who saw It on
the saloon man's jacket bought it for
a dollar, traced Its ownerstitp through
initials and a fraternity chapter sym
bol on the back, and sent it to the
Chicago chapter of the fraternity, as
Gen. Funston was in Chicago at the
time.
Gn. Funston's fraternity brothers
at Lawrence, Kas., one of whom was
William Allen White, always called
him "Timmy." A fraternity member
who sent the names of the chapter
rledges to the society s migazine
wrote the word Funston so poorly
that it was printed "Timston," and
the name stwk.
MRS.
EIGHT TEAMS TO BATTLE
FOR CLASS A CHAMPIONSHIP
LINCOLN, OMAHA, FREMONT, CRETE, AND UNIVERSITY
PLACE SHOW CONSISTENT STRENGTH
Third Round in Class B and C Flayed Yesterday Some Surprises
and Upsets Mark Second Day of Tourney
YESTERDAY'S SCORES
Lincoln 19
Unl. Place 20
Humboldt 3
Schuyler ...... 7
Harvard 8
Osceola ....... 4
Omaha 12
Arlington 12
Kearney ......14
Crete . . . . 25
Geneva 13
Norfolk 7
Columbus .....10
Stanton ....... 7
Gothenburg ... 3
Fremont 24
Class
B
SECOND ROUND
West Point.... 11 Ravenna 10
Clearwater ...14 Ong 8
Auburn 6 Swanton 22
Hardy 11 Exeter 8
Second Round
DIVISION I
Falls City 9 Clearwater 22
Havelock 15 Ong 18
Hebront Ac... 6 West Point 12
Seward 11 Ravenna 16
DIVISION II
Auburn 20 Ewing 7
Dunbar 10 Swanton i2
Class C
THIRD ROUND
Minden 18 Fairmont 13
Bancroft 14 DeWitt 26
Lexington ....11 Chester 10
Wolbach 8 Tilden 6
Salem 14 Bloomfield .... 7
Papillion 12 Pertrand 7
Alexandria 16 Clarkson 12
Second Round
DIVISION I
Minden 28 Silver Creek. . . 9
Fairmont 10 Culbertson 7
Fairbury 4 Bancroft 8
Steele City.... 6 DeWitt .......16
DIVISION II
Lexington 19 O'Neill 4
Nelson 3 Chester 8
Diller 17 Elmwood 5
Pawnee city. . .10 Oshkosh 8
DIVISION III
Wolbach 19 Tobias 7
Tilden 20 Waco 5
Salem 18 Palisade 8
Bloomfield ....14 Davenport 13
DIVISION IV
Clnrkson 10 Holbrook . IJt.. : 8
Kenesaw 15 Alexandria ....26
Valparaiso 5 Bertrand 6
Papillion 20 Humphrey 10
Electric Lighted Oars
The Harvard crew has been prac
ticing vigorously at night indoors. In
order to facilitate keeping the men in
unison in their stroke, electric lights
have been placed on each oar blade,
so that the coxswain can watch them
all tho time. Ex.
UNIVERSITY NAMED
IN STRANGE BEQUEST
One of Twelve Institutions for Teelv
nical Training Which May Get
Endowment Fund.
The will of the late head Of one of
the large manufacturing concerns of
the country Is of possible local inter
est in that this university is a pro
visional beneficiary. In the event of
the death of a certain heir or pos
sible heirs, before reaching the age
of thirty years, the residual large por
tion of the great estate is left to be
divided equally among twelve "institu
tions of technical learning," as an en
dowment fund, the income only to be
used by the institutions. The Univer
sity of Nebraska is one of the twelve.
The motive of the bequest Is not
stated in the will, but It is presumed
that it was based on a desire to foster
education In those institutions which
are particularly string In engineering
lines. All of those mentioned have
throuph their graduates attained dis
tinction as training schools for prac
Mcnl engineers, and it is naturally
thought such institutions would appeal
to a man whose interests were those
of the testator.
Eight teams, Omaha, Lincoln, Fre
mont, Crete, Columbus, University
Place, Geneva, and Harvard, remain In
the field to decide the championship
in class A, which carries with it pre
mier basketball honors in the state.
The third round will be played this
morning and the semi-finals this even
ing.
The teams in Class B and C finished
both the second and third rounds yes
terday, playing on three floors. Semi
finals in the two classes will be
decided today.
In Class A, five teams have demon
strated more than average tournament
ability in first and second round
games. They are Omaha, Lincoln,
Fremont, Crete, and University Place.
All of these teams won their games
yesterday in comparatively easy fash
ion, except Omaha, which caught a
tartar in Stanton.
. Stanton Fights Hard
The Omaha-Stanton game, in which
the metropolitans came out with a 12
to 7 lead, surprised the crowd which
packed every nook of the Armory to
see the afternoon's play. During the
first half, there was little to choose
between them, with two sensational
baskets by Parry of Stanton and fast
floorwork of that team offsetting the
somewhat smoother play of Omaha.
Omaha rallied and scored twice near
the end of the game, however, in
creasing its lead enough to make the
outcome less doubtful.
Lincoln high school, opening the
Class A games on the Armory floor,
defeated Arlington 19 to 12 by greater
accuracy in shooting baskets. Although
showing good team play when hand
ling the ball, the Lincoln five left the
Arlington forwards free at several
stages in the game, and, had Arling
ton had greater luck at hitting the
basket, this might have been fatal. As
it was, Eitchenkamp of Arlington
threw a scare into the Lincoln sup
porters several times by long baskets.
Crete Shows Skill
Crete gave the tournament crowd an
exhibition of clean, skillful basket
shooting in its game with Humboldt.
(Continued on page 5)
HUSKERS PLAY
FOR VISITORS
BASKETBALL AND WRESTLERS
TO MEET AMES
Playing Basketball This Afternoon and
Westling Tomorrow Huskers
Lose Grapplers
The varsity basketball team will
clash with the Iowa state college team
this afternoon at 3 and tomorrow after
noon at 4 in the Armory. At 2 o'clock
tomorrow afternoon the wrestling
teams of the two schools will meet,
also in the Armory.
These three inter-collegiate contests
will give the tournament visitors a
chance to see inter-collegiate compe
tition in these two sports.
Nebraska, having lost two games to
the "Aggies," is hopeful of victory,
but not the "Aggies" are favorites.
Nebraska Loses Wrestlers
The wrestling team has suffered
two losses in the last week that will
be hard to make up. Burgess, 125
pound man. and Msloney, heavy
weight, have both been lost to the
team. Ames has one of the best
wrestling teams in the west and if
Nebraska can win from them. It w'll
bo a long step toward a western
:ampionr.hlp.
