Women's Athletic Association Edition
XOU.XX. NO. 14(3.
STUDENT COUNCIL
ELECTION IS QUIET
Fight Centers About Junior Girl
Isabel Pcarsoll Wins by
Fifty Votes.
ALL AMENDMENTS CARRY
Meeting of Newly Elected Members
to Be Called in the Near
Future.
The Student Council election closed
yesterday with the winning candidates
having a large majority of votes over
their opponents in most cases. The
election was unusually quiet and very
Utile of the usual "electioneering"
was carried out.
All five' of the proposed amend
nients to the constitution carried by
huge majorities. The newly elected
members will take office next fall at
the opening of school. A very im
port ant. meeting of the newly elected
and retiring members will be held
in a few days.
Following is the final vote taken:
Juniors.
John Pueelik, 357.
C.len Munger, 371.
Mildred Doyle. 13G.
Isabel Pearsol, 271.
T?etty Scribner, 221.
Madeline Stenger, 120.
College of Engineering.
Fred Ding. 20. -Paul
Krcuch, 8.
College of Law.
Carl Adams, 69.
Ed Gardner, 35.
Teachers' College.
Florence Sherman, 11.
College of Business Administration.
Jack Austin, 53.
J. Wilbur, 36.
College of Arts and Sciences.
Clarence Dunham, 81.
Eugene Philbrick, 123.
Ruth Kadel, 134.
Julia 'Sheldon, 85.
,.' College of Fine Arts.,
Mary Bost, 3.
'; Dorothy Lyons, 1.
Emma Skudler, 1.
College of Dentistry.
William Byers, 10.
Edward Leigh, 9.
College of Pharmacy.
Joseph Noh, 13.
College of Agriculture.
Roscoe Ferrin, 12.
Helen Hunt, 18.
Mildren MacNamee, 7.
Graduate College.
Ruth Wagner, 1.
Amendments.
For Against
Article III 329
Article IV 337
Article VIII 375
Article IX 341
Article XII 378
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HOCKEY SQUAD BROKE
ALL PREVIOUS RECORDS
Hockey, the second sport on the
slate of the W. A. A. last fall, proved
more popular than ever before. All
records for the number of girls out
for practice were shattered. There
were two hundred and thirty-seven
girls In the squad. In the Inter-class
tournament the seniors duplicated the
performance they had made In soccer
earlier In the year and again won
the championship. Eleanor Snell was
hockey sport leader.
Mrs. Laura Pierce Has Guided
Co-Ed Athletes Twenty Years
EV. nrnfna voara f VB T ..a lira
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Pierce has been the guide, philosopher
and friend of every girl who ever
tried out for athletics at the Uni
versity of Nebraska. Generations
have come, trembling and abashed as
freshmen in the famous anthropo
metric robes, and gone, pompous and
Proud ao seniors in the cap and gown
but she goes on, setting us to rights,
keeping us in line, efficient, effective,
energetic.
Many a freshman learned first of
Henry James from Mrs. Pierce, many
a sophomore took a lesson in good
manners with very bad grace from
her. Many a junior has borrowed
her "extra blooms" to work off an
accursed incomplete, and many a
senior has been graduated only be-
book at the eleventh hour back among
the towels.
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Ruth King
Ruth Fickes
Martha Krogmann
Ethel I Ion gland
Katherlne Wolfe
Ruth McKenney
JUNIOR GIRLS WIN
Take
Final Game From
By Score of
25-13.
Freshmen
The Juniors trounced the Freshmen
with a score of 25 to 13, in the finals
of the girls baseball series, ye!e
day afternoon. The Juniors took the
load and had hit the home plate toi
fll'ten runs by the end of the second
inning. Thio freshmen began to pick
up in the third inning, but too iate.
Eleanor Snull on tho mound for I'ac
juniors was supported by N&nnie
Roberts on first, and Bob Henderson
behind the plate. Tho pennant win
ners played consistent ball, and took
advantage of the errors of the fresh
men. The freshman pitcher was not up to
lop-notch, and was replaced by
Frances Gable, an the end of the third
inning. Lois Pederson at catch, and
Marie Suavely at first played pood
ball. Blanche Simmons, and Peat I
Safford clouted the pellets for home
runs.
This is the seconl sport the juniors
have won this year. The freshmen
defeated the sophomores last wtck,
and the juniors the selors.
Miss Delia Marie Clark, was ths um
pire, assisted by Marjorie Barstow t
base referee. Madelnie Giraid ani!
Lulu Mann were score keepers.
Patronesses of tho tourney weie
Miss Olivia Pound, Miss Louise
Pound, Mrs. Jessie Bechtol Lee, Helen
Blxby, and Mrs. F. W. Luchring
Members of the teams are:
Junior.
Henderson, Margaret, c.
Snell, Eleanor, p.
Roberts, Nannie, 1st.
(Contln uod on Tage Three)
She has seen the "leg o' mutton"
sleeve give way to no sleeve at all,
the wasp waist wax and wane, the
knee length skirt replace the sweep
ing flounce of yesterday but the girls
beneath 'em seem to be the same.
She has seen the varsovienne make
way for the grand tour jete, the
waltz step aside for the toddle, but
the girls who dance have altered
little. She's helped out the flunkers
and the P. B. K.'s, the meek and the
wild, the belle and the lime they're
exactly like the girls of twenty years
ago.
Her charges have gone to be maga
zine editors, missionaries to Ch.na,
W. A. A. C.'s o Belgium, nurses to
France and physicians to Turkey.
She's waved a friendly goodbye to
dancers, acrobats, happy brides, medi
ocre teachers and eager young cubs
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LINCOLN. NKBRAKKA,
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Paiih Dullois
Ada Stidworthy
Sue Stille
V. A. A. PICNIC IS
LAST GET-TOGETHER
W. A. A. is hardly old enough to
have traditions, but when its records
become niorf seasoned, the annual
picnic will top the list in popularity.
It is the last get-together of the ath
letes for the year. It is the coda of
the W. A. A. year book, coming after
the list dirty middy1 is taken to the
laundry, and the bloomers taken from
the locker rooms. At this frolic the
winning baseball of the year will play
a team picked from alumni members
of the association: " ' " ' . '
This year's picnic will be held May
25, 6 p. m., at Antelope park. The
committee in charge is Ruth McKen
ney, chairman; Eleanor Snell, Eunice
Hilton and Ada Stidworthy.
W. A. A.'s ARE ALREADY
ON ROAD TO FAME
Although the organization is only
four years old, ex-members are al
ready on their road to fame. Eleanor
Frampton and Helen Hewitt have
joined the Annette Kellerman com
pany and are on their way to Austra
lia for a tour of several months.
Both girls were prominent in ath
letics, charter members of the asso
citaion, as well as officers of the
board. Both girls won their "N" In
sports. Helen Hewitt holds the Uni
versity track records for women in
basketball throw, baseball throw,
javelin and high jump.
Noon Reducing Clan
Too Much For Girls
Lasted Bat One Week
As spring brought on its bevy of
highly-colored sport clothes and the
show windows their abbreviated bath
ing suits, the fat girl began to stir
out of her self-satisfied complacency
and grow restless in her desire to
grow thin. Too well was she ac
quainted with the different colored
checks of soda fountains. Too epicu
rean was her knowledge of varied
chocolate flavored extravagances.
With dull but envious eye she watched
her more nimble sisters play ball,
run the hurdles and swing on the
bars.
For this scattered elephantine
group, a W. A. A.'s heart went out
and organized them into a regular
noon reducing class. Some ran
around the track, some made use of
the new courts, while others took
seriously to bending exercises. All
worked, all puffed, and all abstained
from the sweets and with promises of
rolling exercises at home, things be
gan to look diminishing fair. The
club lived a notorious life for a week,
but as time went on the panting ranks
began to thin, each parting girl with
some excuse shamefacefully went
back to the full dinner pail idea of
life, until at the end of two weeks
only three members were left. The
flesh relgneth supreme!
Nebraskan
FRIDAY, MAY VI, 11)21.
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Helen Clark
Eleanor Snell
Mary Shepherd
Marguerite Stott
Ruth Can
Bob Henderson
SENIORS EASY WINNERS
IN SWIMMING MEET
Things went swimmingly for the
senior class when they floated away
with both class and individual honors
a t the annual meet, held at the high
pool. April 21. Martha Krogmann,
senior captain and sport leader, won
first in individual honors, Frances
Gable, freshman, second, with Helen
Clark, senior, and Katherine Wolfe,
innlor. tvine for third place. The
seniors won first class honors with
the freshmen coming a close second,
lne team members put on the bsr
meet ever held in regard to the form
and skill of the swimmers. One hun
dred and ninety-nine girls have taken
swimming this year.
Prof. F. W. Luehring, Miss Helen
Hewitt and Miss Eleanor Frampton
were judges of the meet Patronesses
were Mrs. S. R. McKelvie, Miss Louise
Pound, Dr. Winifred Hyde, Mrs. F. W.
Luehring, Mrs. R. G. Clapp, Mrs. N.
Z. Snell and Miss Margaret McPhee.
ONE HUNDRED GIRLS
WERE OUT FOR SOCCER
Over one hundred girls learned the
game of soccer, the first fall sport
conducted under the direction of the
Women's Athletic Association. In the
inter-class tournament the juniors and
seniors met in the finals. The seniors
captured the championship by a small
margin. Ruth Fickes was the sport
leader in charge.
"Wears" Know Woes of
Charley-horse as well as
Genuine "Phys-Eds"
The "Nears" started with a group
of sixteen spirited girfs. who consider
the gym the hub of the campus, and
worry the life out of Mrs. Pierce, buf
are not registered as "Phys-Eds."
When the department girls had parties
or feeds and these girls were left out
because of a mere technicality in
their college schedule, they resolved to
band themselves together into a rival
"gang." Nothing formal in the way
of organization was done, they gather
together at the beck and call of the
ring leader.
Every girl who wears the sombre
gym garb is a "near," the degree de
pending on her love of the sports.
She may sacrifice her membership
when the brow-beaten requirement for
two years are up, or she may keep
on paying the twenty-five cent locker
fee the rest of her school days.
The real "Near" knows the woes
of charley-horses, smashed ankles and
tired muscles" as well as her more
trained sisters. She knows also every
nook and corner of the gymnasium,
the best sliowers and how to borrow
gym shoes from Mrs. Pierce.
The "Nears" who will begin to toss
the moth balls into their old gym
clothes soon, are Kuth McKenney,
Ruth Carr, Carrie Roberts, Doris
Hayes and Sue Stllle.
W. A. A. LUNCHEON AT
DELAVAN SATURDAY
Tho W. A. A. luncheon will be held
at the Delavan hotel, Saturday, May
I I, at 1 o'clock. This luncheon will
nerve as a celebration of the fourth
anniversary of the organization as
well as tho final touch to an unusually
successful year In girls athletics. Ths
members of next year's broad will be
announced, the senior cup and the
sweaters awarded.
Tho girls receiving "N's" this year
are: Helen Clark, '21; Ruth Carr, '21;
Ruth DuBois, '21; Ruth King. '21;
Ethel lloagland, '21; Ada Stidworthy,
'21; Ruth Fickes, '22; Katherine
Wolfe, '22; Eleanor Snell, '22; Mary
Hardy, '22.
BASKETBALL POUPLAR
SPORT WITH CO-EDS
Basketball, which Is the popular in-
('oor sport during the winter months,
iilwnvs has a large squad of girls. One
hundred and thirteen girls played the
game this winter. Two tournaments
were held, a Monte Carlo tournament,
made up of teams chosen by "gamble"
and an inter-class tournament.
Annabcll Ranslem captained the
winning team in the Monte Carlo
tournament. Eight teams were en
tered. In the inter-class tournament the
juniors carried off the high honors.
Eleanor Snell was captain of the third
year squad.
Margaret Henderson, sport leader,
was in charge of the tournaments.
HUSKERS DEFEAT
HASKELL INDIANS
Schissler's Team Captures Second
Game from Redskins by
9-2 Score.
Coach Schissler's diamond athletes
handed the Haskell Indian tribe the
short end of the score yesterday for
the second time. The Huskers cap
,urfd the final game by; a 9 to 2
score. Carman on the mound for the
Scarlet and Cream pitched excellent
ball and let the Indians out with six
hits.
Thomsen and McCrory were the
heavy hitters for the Huskers. Thom
cen connected with three safe hits in
four times at bat. The Husker center
fielder clouted the ball for another
home run in yesterday's contest.
McCrory got two safe bingles, the
second one going for three bases.
Anderson for the Haskell team hit two
safe ones but was left on the bases.
The Huskers will rest this week-end
and will meet the Oklahoma Sooners
in a three game series her next week.
The Oklahomans defeated the Husk
ers twice last year and Coach
Schissler feels confident of cleaning
up this year.
Summary of yesterday's game:
Nebraska 9.
ab. r. h.
Pizer. 2b 1 2 0
Bailey, ss 4 10
Carr, 3b 4 0 1
Thomsen, cf 4 2 3
McCrory, If 5 12
Bekins, lb 4 0 1
Schoeppel, rf 3 0 0
Anderson, c 4 11
Carman, p 4 11
Wythers. rf 1 1 0
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Founders of W.A.A. Were Like
Pilgrim Fathers-Never Dismayed
When our Pilgrim fathers landed on
the well known rock, and were
promptly set upon by vicissitudes and
woes, were they dismayed? Far from
It. A poisoned arrow now and then
and a few lusty massacres only
whetted their courage. It made their
first Thanksgiving all the gayer.
So with the W. A. A. Had its
founders, that fearless, farsighted clan
who gathered to put women's ath
letics on the university map been of
frail courage, there would be today,
instpnd of a happy birthday celebra
tion, a great jigging upon the graves.
"We hold," said they, "that athletics
are beneficial for college women. We
want every girl in school on some
team. We want all manner of com
petitive affairs. We want to manage.
and finance these affairs ourselves.
So with these highly insubordinate
and inflamable ideas, they met at the
I'KICIO KIVK CUNTS.
MS
RECORD
TIED IN W.A.A. MEET
LaVerne Brubaker Equals Women's
Record in 30-Yard
Dash.
FRESHMEN GRAB HONORS
Ruth Damme, Sophomore, Wins In
dividual Honors With
65 Points.
The world's record for women in
the 30-yard dash was tied at the an
nual W. A. A. track meet yesterday,
by LaVerne Brubaker. The freshman
class won the clasis honors by a large
margin over their older sisters. Ruby
Damme, sophomore athlete, won the
individual honors with 65 points to
her credit.
The freshman class stepped out in
all their glory, and by 1 o'clock had
collected 230 points. The seniors
came second with 150 points, and the
sophomores with 90. Ruth McKen
ney, senior, won second individuals
with Francis Gable, freshman, follow
ing a close third. It was a bad day
for the juniors, who won two firsts
and a third place. Betty Ball, a
junior, won first place in the 50-yard
dash, but hurt her ankle in the
hurdles, and was disabled for the rest
of the meet. The seniors showed
up well in their last sport as they
whizzed around the bend in the relays,
carried off first place, just one and
two-fifths seconds behind the world's
record for the event. Ruth McKen
ney, crack cinder artist, tied her own
university record which she holds for
the 30-yard dash.
N Winners to Get Feed.
The freshmen for the first time
this year will be the guests of the
losing classes at a feed as is the
custom after each sport season.
The officers of the meet were Coach
Schulte, Dr. R. G. Clapp, Prof. F. W.
Luehring, Mr. Adkins, Madeline
Girard, Irene Cullen and Ada Stid
worthy. Patronesses were Mrs. Jessie Gegh
tol Lee, Miss Louise Pound, Mrs. R.
G. Clapp, Mrs. H. C. Collins, Mrs. W.
L. McKenney, Mrs. Samuel Avery,
Mrs. F. W. Luehring and Mrs. H. F.
Schulte.
Results bf the events were:
30-yard dash LaVerne Brubaker,
freshman; Ruth McKenney, senior;
Lauda Newlin, freshman.
50-yard dash Betty Ball, junior;
Mary Herzing, junior; Mary Shepherd,
senior.
75-yard dash LaVerne Brubaker
and Lauda Newlin, tied for first;
Ruth McKenney, senior.
60-yard hurdles Ruth McKenney,
senior; Anna Hines, freshman; Lois
Foose, freshman.
Running broad jump Bernice Bal
lance, lieshman; Lois Foose, fresh
man; Isabel Pearsoll, junior.
Running' high jump Mary Shep
herd, senior; Lauda Newlin, fresh
man; Francis Gable and Bernice Bal
lance, tie.
Run, hop, skip, jump Francis
Gable, freshman; Pearl Safford, fresh
man. ( Pole vault Francis Gable, fresh
man; Pearl Safford, freshman.
. Basketball throw Ruby Damme,
sophomore; Eleanor Snell, junior; Jo
Creekpaum, freshman.
Baseball throw Ruby Damme, soph
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Delta Zeta house to draw up plans for
their association. Armed with con
stitutions from similar organizations
in progressive schools, bolstered up
by the personal observation of one
girl who had actually served as an
officer in such an order at the Uni
versity of Kentucky, Inspired by their
glorified vision of "Every girl an ath
lete," they set to work.
There was more intelligent action
(if we can take tho word of Mr.
Lansing) on the point system of the
W. A. A. than there waa on the point
system of the peace conference. There
was commendable co-operation, a
unity of action and a steadfastness of
purpose which were remarkably effec
tive. They promptly got into action.
The bulk of the work, as always,
fell upon the workers, a compact,
efficient little group known Jovially as
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