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About The Hesperian / (Lincoln, Neb.) 1885-1899 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 19, 1895)
THE HESPERIAN Athletics! Outlook. In marking down their "hours" on the registration cards, few perhaps mentioned their athletic proclivities. But that doesn't signify. We are still in the inter-state as sociation, and in to stay, notwithstanding certain croakers of last year who insisted that it was no use trying to make it win. Last year with odds against us, we "bucked the line" of indifference and "tackled" the financial problem with such vim, that when the dust of the last game had settled; there, waving the flag tipped with scarlet and cream stood the best eleven the west has ever seen; our boys, the pennant winners! and wc can do it again, if the "biceps, muscles" and "calves" which the fellows are bringing in count for anything. You who saw the boys carried bodily from the train when they came home from that vic torious campaign in Kansas, and you who talked "throaty" for a week after the Iowa game at Omaha, know what enthusiasm is. Well, that is the kind of support pennant winners need. We aren't going to begin the year in rags as we did last year. This week there arrived from Spaulding & Co. eleven sweaters of the first quality and an equal number of fine mole-skin trousers and what is more they are paid for. And now, while they are be ing fitted to the right men let everybody be ready to help in the "extras." Above all, don't croak about hard times, but give all your enthusiasm and what cash you can spare. It is too early of course for the personel of the team, but it will ho made up with at least part of last year's team. Yont and Dearn are the only ones who are considered impossibilities, but that means a great loss indeed. Flippin thinks ho -Hn hardly jil&y this year, and Oury at present is afraid his other work: will keep him from the game. Whipple has been sick and is as yet in no shape to begin training. Besides the "subs" of last year, some of whom will mako the old men hurry to keep their places, there is good prospects for somo new blood. Shedd, of Ashland, should find a fit at "tackle," and Volkhart, a 100 pound man from Omaha, will try hard to fill a gap in the line. Both of these men have played before. Captain Wilson is expected in shortly, and will get the candidates out as quickly as possible. The first game is at Sioux City, October 13, with the Athletic association of that place. Thk Hksi-krian desires to call the atten tion of its readers to the fall racing meet to be held at Lincoln Park, October 2S to November 1st inclusive. If this meeting is a splendid success as it ought to be it means much for Nebraska and especially for Lincoln. All who can possibly afford to attend should do so. In a recent letter, the secretary of the Park association said: "Ar rangements are in progress that cannot but result in a series of special and sensational attractions in which the fastest trotters and pacers of the season will compete, and the world's champions will attempt to lower the fastest time records of to-day." Let's all go see 'em. INQUIRY. This world's a big and whirling ball The people are but Adam's all; Each treads upon the other's toes, What harm he does he never knows. There's a crashing, crumbling noise, Something's crushed the children's toys Pass it over, grains of sand Soon are mingled with the land. You are here, and I am here Now don't you think it?s very queer That you and 1, wc can't find out What in the world we're all about? And oh, 1 wonder what the're doing Up in Jupiter, don't you ? Amv C Rkunek. Paul Clark, '80, is chairman of republican county central committee, Lancaster county.
