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H iMM1 ' "H 11 THE NEBR ASKAN -HESPERIAN Vol. 8-29, No. 4. LINCOLN, OCTOBER 10, 1899. Five Cents. NEBRASKA, LOSES TO AMES. (tamo Friday Finds Homo Team Weak Condition Nebraska Fails to Score. in a The foot ball game with tho Agricul tural college of Iowa at Ames last Fri day resulted In a victory for the Hawk eyes by the one-sided score of 33 to 0. The score Is a good criterion to the condition of the respective teams. Ames has been in training for more than two months and at this time is In the height of her season, while the Ne braska boys have scarcely started upon their season's work. Reports of the game are unanimous in the fact that it Is entirely too early in the season for the Nebraska team to think of playing Ames. This has been clearly seen in former years. The Omaha Bee contained the follow ing of the game under the dear of a special telegram. The account shows slightly in favor of Ames, but is a rea sonably fair statement: Ames, la.. Oct 6. (Special Tele gram.) The foot ball game played here today between the Nebraska uni versity and the Iowa state college re sulted in a score of 34 to 0 in favor of Ames college, with halves of twenty minutes. Nebraska kicked off to Ames' twenty-yard line and in exactly one minute and a half the Ames team made a touchdown. The goal was easily kick ed, and in five minutes alccer Nebraska had kicked off the second time Ames "hail made another touckiown and goal. The Ames team seemed to have no trouble at all to make gains from ten to fifty yards. Nebraska's center was very weak on passing the ball, causing such an exhibition of fumbling at quarter as is rarely seen in teams of Nebraska's class. Nebraska's big gest gain during the whole game was only fifteen yards, and then the ball was lost on a fumble. The Ames team was strong on defensive and Nebraska was forced to punt often in order to make any gains. At the end of the first half the score stood 29 to 0 in favor of Ames. The westerners rallied a little in the second half and held the agricul turists down to one touchdown. The Une-up was as follows: Drain L. E Smith Brew L. T Tarr Koehler L. G Chambers Tyson C Owen Ringer R. G Byl Pearse R. T Eckles Cortelyou R. E Griffith Crandall Q. B Walker Williams L. H Leclerc Benedict R. H Roberts Gordon . -F. B... ...... Gordon No blame can be attached to coach or management for this defeat The men played well in the second half and showed the material out of which they were made. It is evident that develop ment, and a great deal of it, will be necessary, but the defeat will do no more than to ctir the men on the doubled efforts. Two years ago Ne braska was shut out in the same way at Ames and after the return home was not scored against during the remaind er of the season, although Kansas, Mis souri and Iowa were all met United effort on the part of the stu dents and hearty support of the team, coach and manager will bring about such a change before the game with the Kansas City medics Saturday that a possibility of winning becomes al most a certainty. SOPHOMORE-FRESHMEN CONTEST. The annual freshman-sophomore field meet, held on the campus last Satur day, resulted in a victory for the fresh men. The weather was good, but the poor condition of the grounds prevent ed any record breaking. For the freshmen Mouck and John son were in good form and won uost of their events Mantz for the sopho mores maintained his reputattion as a long distance runner by winning four firsts in his class. McComb, who won the short distance events in '9G, did some good work, althoug1 not in condi tion. The following Is a summary of the events: 100 yard dash McComb, sophomore, won in 11 2-5 seconds. , Pole vault Kellogg, sophomore, won, 8.9 feet Half mile Mantz, sophomore, won, 3:35. Twelve pound hammer throw John son, freshman, won, 90 feet 220 yard dash Mantz, sophomore, won, 27 seconds. Running high jump DePutron, May and Mauck, all freshmen, tied at five feet Mile run Mantz won in 7:59 1-5. Shot-put Won by Johnson, 34 1-5 feet Running broad Jump McComb won, 17.3 feet' Discus throw Dasenbrock, sopho more, won. 76 feet 440 yard run Woe by Mantz in 64 4-5. Base ball throw Mauck won, 295 feet , Foot ball kick (place kick) Mauck won, 13J feet The freshmen lost the relay race. Mauck, exhausted from previous work, fell before he reached the tape. The final score stood 64 to 57 points in favor of the freshmen. A first place counted five points, a second three and a third one point The senior-junior relay race was won by the seniors, R. D. and W. E. Andre son running against each other in the last lap. CADET APPOINTMENTS. PROGRAM FOR FRIDAY. The Delian literary society will give the following program Friday evening: Music Reading Jessie McCallum Recitation F. Goold Music Reminiscences of Manila.. M. D. Baker Story N. A. Wymore Music J LARGE INCREASE. The registration figures given out by Secretary Wade of the University of Michigan on Saturday night show an increased attendance in every depart ment over that of last year. Not only is that the case, but the number now enrolled In every department exceeds the total enrollment for last year. In the following table are given the figures at the closing of the secretary's office on Saturday and of the corre sponding day last year: Sept 30, '99. Oct 1, '98. Literary 1,196 1,092 Engineering 248 205 Medical 436 354 Law 694 517 Dental 232 199 that study was entirely out of the queo Homeopathlc C2. 70 Total 2,937 2,483 General Satisfaction Expressed Over the Selections for Officers Battalion Will ho Large. Appointment of officers for the cadet battalion for the coming year was made the first of last week. In nearly all cases appointments were made in tho regular order of promotion, and as a rule everyone Is satisfied. The appoint ments were as follows: To be cadet captain of Company A, Sergeant Major Don J. Adams; first lieutenant, senior grade, Color Ser geant A. S. Pearse; junior grade, W. H. H. Moore; second lieutenant, Drum Major B. B. Abey; first sergeant, H. A. Tukey; second, J. H. Klinge; third, C. H. Abbott; fourth, R. W. Jones; fifth, M. H. Hcmber. To be cadet captain of Company B, First Sergeant Paul Weeks; first lieu tenant, senior grade, Sergeant F. C. Williams; junior grade, F. W. Brown; second lieutenant, Sergeant A. T. Hutchinson; first sergeant, R. A. Drain; second, H. W. Sherman; third, A. S. Shane; fourth, Elmer Berry; fifth, W. W. Bun.t To be cadet captain of Company C, First Sergeant A. J. Collett; first lieu tenant, senior grade, Sergeant Frank Miller; junior grade, Sergeant C. E. Williams; second lieutenant, C. W. Pearson; first sergeant, C. W. Reed; second, W. R. McGeachin; third, B. K. King; fourth, Clinton Carter; fifth, W. T. Fleming. To be cadet captain of Company D, First Sergeant F. W. Woodlawn; first lieutenant, senior grade, L .W. Kors meyer; junior grade, Sergeant W. L. Hall; second lieutenant, Sergeant J. J. Grimm; first sergeant, Guy Barnes; second, J. F. Langer; third, H. C. Swal low; fourth, J. T. Hewitt; fifth, L. J. Marsh. To be first lieutenant and adjutant, N. W. Liebmann, first lieutenant and quartermaster; sergeant major, R. R. Rainey; color sergeant, M. M. Hope well. The following promotions for the band were announced Wednesday even ing, October 4: Drum major, Corporal W. P. Fitzgerald; chief musician, Earl A. Wehn; principal musician, Sergeant E. M. Heffner; first sergeant, E. M. Dunaway; second sergeant, Corporal H. P. Peterson; third sergeant, R. A. Hamil; fourth sergeant, C. B. Sturde vant; corporals, A. J. Archibald, A. O. Elliott F. Hawksworth, H. B. Camp bell. The appointment of corporals is tem porarily postponed, pending their selec tion according to the ability shown by the squad instructors. The promotions for the band will be announced on Wednesday, October 4. The different companies will soon be brought into well drilled organizations. Last Monday evening the cadets were ordered to provide themselves with the prescribed uniform. By the time these are finished the men will be ready to go into their respective companies. The companies will be quite large this year, about ninety in each, as over three hundred and fifty have already registered. urday morning General Manager Adams of Kansas arrived in this city to discuss tho matter with the board. A meeting was called and Mr. Adams was given a hearing tho same morning. Mr. Adams stated tho grounds that the Kansas board took for tho action and asked that the board here to de cide to play a game at Lawrence No vember 4. This would have been in di rect opposition with tho arrangements made at the board meeting in this city last April, and coming as the date does, JuBt two weeks before tho regular league game in this city, it would ma terially decrease the attendance at tho game here and would otherwiso injure the situation. For this reason tho Ne braska board stood firm in their de cision. Mr. Adams was given a state ment to the Kansas board that out lined tho position of Nebraska and stated the reason why a game would be out of the question. At the time of the league meeting Nebraska cancelled the Thanksgiving game with Iowa at tho request of Kan sas, and this second request looked to the board too much like a case of bull dozing, consequently the decision. Since the trouble with Kansas has been in progress correspondence has been carried on with Iowa to arrange a date for a game. A letter was received from the manager of that team Satur day, stating that they would meet Ne braska November 4 either in Council Bluffs or Omaha, whichever offered the best guarantee. This offer will be ac cepted. Effort is also being mado to arrange a iT-jJue with Northwestern and three or four other institutions far ther east It will be possible to ar range a Thanksgiving game with Drake, but since the recent troubles that this team has had with the Iowa league it is deemed best to make haste slowly in regard to the matter. BOARD TAKES ACTION. At a meeting of the athletic board I last week it was decided to notify Kan sas that no return game would be play ed with them at Lawrence, in spite of their insistence that this be done. Sat- WORD FROM WEEKS. Commandant LaRue Brown has just received o. letter from Lieutenant Chas. Weeks, written on shipboard in Manila bay and dated August 10. Mr. Weeks had not yet landed when he wrote the letter. By this time be has reached his regiment, the Sixteenth regulars, which is located at the island of Negros. ABOUT "CORN TASSELS." When the first edition of this moat popular book appeared one of the com unents that was made upon it was the following by Carl Smith, the well known critic. The criticism appeared In the Chicago Record, together with several of the poems from the volume. Mr. Smith said: "His book is called "Corn Tassels." for it Is of the westland in prime and chelf. It tells of prairies and sod houses and desolation and aspiration and ether things that are mixed with life of the home reader. But while youth Impels the author to write pessi mistically sometimes, a wholesome life and an honest heart cause him to see a great deal of good in his sand-hill world. His little book is a sort of hopeful edition of Hamlin Garland." A few days ago the Omaha Dally Bee contained the following comment con cerning the edition that Is about to ap pear: "A new edition of "Corn Tassels," the book of Nebraska verse, by William Reed Dunroy, will be out in about a month. The first edition of this book was received with much favor In this and other states and won for the au thor some very flattering reviews from
