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'NIK II HSPKRI AN.
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'yo A. J. MeClatchic was icccntly successful in passing
the examination Tin i high school leachei's eettilicatc in Cal
ifornia. Ho was the only one ol seveinl college giaduutes
Hint succeeded in passing.
'85 A. (i. Wninrr hns been chosen us one ofthe lecluieis
in the new school of political economy nt the Wisconsin stntc
uniuis'uy which has seemed nlmost nil ol the Johns Hopkins
fneultv in political econoni).
'SS (. S. I.obingoi is pi noticing law in Omaha, lie finds
it necessaiy to nin down to the capital uhotil once a week.
'yo II. K. llellleinan is piactieinglnwnt San Diego, Cnl.,
and is nicely fied.
P. K. Jewel, 'y2, is with a suivcying pnity in South
Dakota.
'y 1 -.Miss Ida Houiiell spent some time in Lincoln last
week.
Ginham, 'yo, and Chnpin, '8y, me in Omaha.
ATHLETICS.
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J. II. Seals, captain ofthe Hniv.ml fool hall team dining
the season of S8, speaks as follows concerning the nuxnl,
mental ami physical effects pioduecd by the college game as
it is phued at llaivmd lleing a vcteinn loot hall playct his
views aie not meie theoiies:
"A young 'buck' he mhs, "comes to college full of life
and ofthe .sense of his new -found freedom. He soon falls in
withaciowd ju-t like himself, and IhU ciowd casts about
foi an outlet foi iheii animal spiiils. Then, beloie any
lim in is done, comes, the call Tot candidates foi the vauous
foot-ball teams.. They join piacliee sipiads nnd nic foiced to
keep icgulai houis nnd to put by smoking and di inking and
all Iheii newly ue(uiied vices."
It is. tliflicull to lenlize pcifcetlv how much wholesome
rostmint such an athletic spoil eeits oei new men at col
lege, coming at the time when they aie weakest. The need
of good oseicise is ilic cause of much of the dnngei of a uni
toisity life. Wlint couhl be a betlei piepmation foi molality
and health and success than the houi's ocicise on Jaivis mil
the hot and cold -howei nmf nib down that follows? Tlnce
months of it will easily udd twenty pounds to ,t man's
physique and 10 pei cent to his evuminatiou maiks and 50
pel cent to his manly self icspect and ability to use his com
mon sense. The game is an education itself, foi it gives a
man "certain necessaiy qualities that do not come from much
reading of books." "Active thinking, self leliance, power
to can) out what is attempted, and ability to decide at once
and in the light way -these sue qualities, not to be disic
gauled, nor is any tiaining that lends to perfect them." The
mere fact that "faculties appoint committees to guide and
piopctly icstiain athletics, is evidence of a lecognied im-
poitancc." Thegieat trouble is in the alleged biutality of
loot hall which is unscrupulously eaggeiated by newspapcis.
In the more impoitaut games of last season there is
scaicely an instance of lough, biutal, 01 unfair play. The
repoit of the Athletic committee in 1888 shows this often dis
icgauled fact: that out of 365 students who played foot ball
during the two months (165 of whom piaoticc evciy day),
only 7 leceived at all serious injuries. "Now aie those that
do occur, more lasting than some of the moral and mental
injuiies that the game helps to pievent?"
ituHo nun.
In our last issue the athletic column contained the sub.
stance of a talk given by Mr. Holmes to the base ball play
ers, in which he piopeily scoies the univeisity for lack ol
enthusiasm in college athletics and the slip-shod methods in
.vhich they have been pievlously conducted. This seems to
hnve had the desiied ellect in kindling intciest, nnd hence
competition, in base ball mattcis. Whcic we find eighteen
01 twenty men tiaining evciy evening in the gymnasium it
shows that stiong competition must follow, and wlieie there
is such competition among the candidates foi positions on
the club a well-tinined team is nlwnvs the icsult. Only about
half of this uumbei can obtain positions on the fust nine,
and the ones who will be disappointed will be those who show
the least intciest in tiaining and the least enthusiasm in the
club.
Mi. Holmes is liked by all the boys, and they put in an
hour 01 two each evening in earnest tiaining uudci his
iusliuctiou: consisting laigely in base 1 mining, slatting from
bat, luuning high jumps, high icnch, pulley hat and hoisc
cseicise. Hnlls aie used only on the llooi, ovcept in batlciy
vvoik or wlieie tennis balls aie used foi stiaight tin owing or
batting piacliee. The billowing men air in tiaining, and as
neailyascan be asceitained, have inspiiations us indicated
below: pilchei, Hnines, lllout; cntchei, Holmes, Howling;
liist base, ('olson, Heels; second base. Sliouiau, llutls;
thiid base, ll.ukley, Putnam; shoitstop, Pace, White; centei
field, Howling, Moshei; light hold. Westeiman, lliadey, left
field, ('haudlci, Haiightou
Suioly a team that Hums as faithfully as this one should
leccive the suppoit ol the college which it icpicsents. The
athletic association should not hesitate to luinish the team
with all suits, glove-, balls, etc., Hint it needs; and if the
association lias not the funds they should be uiised at once,
oitliei by subsciipliou 01 by u benefit conceit, ns wns the ense
with the fool ball club If the association will settle this
mallei at once and assuie the team that they will be given
ample financial suppoit, it will ai.l mateiially in their prepa
intiou nnd tiaining Nothing aids a club so much ns to
hnve encouingement from the studenls nnd faculty consti
tuting the institution which the learn lepiesentenls. What
encouiagemei.t have 0111 base ball Imjs leceived liom
eitliei students 01 piofes-ans? None whnlevei! And yet the
plaveis snciilice tlieii olhei inteicsts and give Iheii lime to
tiaining, so that theii club may compete with olhei ball clubs
and not go to Ciete 01 IIn clock lo suffei defeat at the hands
of a motley aggiegation of boys icpiesenting a kindergaiten
01 grade school, as has heielofoie been the case. This indif
ferent tieatnient of 0111 ball club must cease if we expect them
to compete with olhei college clubs. The students and fnc
ulty should display enthustnsiu enough so that when out bull
nine stalls foi the field to play theii lust game they could
feel assuied that lhe would be followed by 700 students with
the old gold, and shouting the shouts of confidence in the boys
in led unifoims and theii ability lo pla good ball. This is
what gives encouingonrnl nnd helps lo build up a club.
Sawyei has a gieat eye foi business and economizing of
time. Though he is the champion college long distance run
nei ol the state and will piobably still hold that position after
the spiing field-day contests, he takes no extia time foi tiain
ing. As lie icsides a mile and n hall from the university he
takes that oppoitunity to do his training lively morning
about 8:30 j ou may see him flying, so to speak, down the R
sticet pavement from Twenty-eight lo Sixteenth street. Then
he spurts till he icaches Fourteenth stieel. Il may be the
Case that there is some inducement for him to quicken his
speed the last two blocks. At any rate Sawyei always makes
the coiner of Fourteenth and R streets the termination of his
runs..