The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-22
NO ONE LOST HIS LIFE
At the State OratoricaI Contest and
Wrestling Match
At THE GRAND OPERA HOUSE,

| anu a Highly entertaining n Half
Washburn College Orator Wins she
| Prize.
1t was q very nice contest after all No
body was killed nor hurt very much, and
the only people who are losers are the
owners and abettors of hospitals, and
Washburn won first place after all.
The opera house was not full and
people who witnessed the jam and jangle
of last year and went to see it repeated
| were ready to demand their money back.
| Altog it was as unsatisfactory to
| them as the Firz simmons Maher assault.
| Several hundred chairs were put on
| the stage, but not a third of them were
| used. The gallery was almost empty
and there were empty seats on both OF
the floors.
The streets yesterday were unusually
| quiet. Last year there was pande-
monium. This year there was not the
| foot of tin horn. There was an occa-
sional college yell but it was only occa-
sionaL
After the arrival of the Baker Ottawa
| Lawrence special train at o'clock, some
of the K. U. boys came up Kansas ave-
nue. with their yell, about dozen strong.
At Sixth street the hackmen and express
| men replied with groan and a Topeka
man growIed, "If drunken man would
make half that much noise he would be
arrested" 1t was the same man that OPP
! posed the bridge, the Wolff packing
house, paving the streets and building
sidewalks.
The only serious scrimmage reported
occurred at Lawrence when the special
train pulled in. The K. Q. boys made d
rash attempt to pull the colors of Otta-
was car, Canes were used with great
generosity and there were several skin
-
| the colors off, but the Ottawa boys put
them back again.
There is one thing that never fails a
college boy and that is his taste regard
ing feminine loviliness. They left all the
homely girls at home.
The opera house rang with college joy
and sarcasm. Down stairs Washburn
occupied the left half of the left side and
the upper boxes. Baker with her
orange colors held the inside of the left
side and the central por tion
of the balcony. Ottawa occupied the
south side of the balcony. Down in front
on the north side of the parquet and in
the north boxes were the white and
crimson of the College of Emporia.
Behind them on the right side of the
dress circle and extending up into the
right side of the balcony was the crimson
of the Kansas university.
Out OF Washburn's box hung a big
banner with the word "W hbu m" on i
in blue letters. In the College of EN-
poria box one of the boys was dressed in
the colors, white and crimson. Colleges
that had small delegations were hard to
find.
Most prominent among the yells was
"Washburn, Washburn. 'rah, 'rah. 'rah."
and the "Rock Chalk, Jay Hawk, K. o."
K. U. varied her yell a little occa-
sionally by singing it over and over to the
tune of Boom de aye" and the Baker
boys got even by singing their class yell
in Latin, "Io, no; Mill unquam vincet
classem nonaginta Septem 10, no." to the
tune of the long meter doxology or some
thing very like it. The yell is a great
deal less harmless than it looks and
simply means, "Nothing will ever con-
quer the class of '97."
Baker was also mean enough to garble
the K. Z. yell into Rock Chalk, Buzzard
Hawk, Kangaroo" with the accent on
f'roo."
Baker is a good Methodist country boy
school and K. U. likes to make fun of
her. Here is one way they have of do
ing it, in chorus:
"Will Baker win the contest? No.
Well, I'll be goldurned."
The K. L. orator was German and the
E. U. boys sprang this mixture.
'Bratwurst, weinerwurst, Heiza, ha
"Limburger, Lager Beer, yah, yah, YAH"
This was another Z. .. slap at Baker:
allow does Baker spell her name?
P-a-n-t-s." With a chorus of $50
voices. male and female, this was very
crushing
One of Washburn's favorite yells, and
it lasted half an hour, was:
Hippity hop. hippity hop.
WaShburn. WaShbuTn, she's on top.
Hippity whoop. hippity whoop,
All the others in the soup
Hippity hump. hippity hump.
(Any Old college name here is up the stump.
Hippity hight. hippity hight,
Wasdburn, WaShburn'S out of sight:
If possible there was an increase to the
uproar when x. .. man threw a ban
ner of the crimson over the piano on the
stage just before the Modocs came on
for the opening selection at S:45. There
were yells of Take it OFF, Leave it onY'
All over the house students arose in their
seats threatening to go on the stage and
take the crimson of. 1t was necessary to
remove the crimson before the piano
could be used and there was great yell.
The real fun came at the close of the
contest during the wait of half an hour
for the decision of the judges
Delegations from half a dozen colleges
led by the c. of E. boys, mounted the !
stage over the footlights and the surging
began. 1t was as bad as foot ball rush.
The chairs and tables were in the road |
not longer than a moment. They went
flying The chairs were of the folding
species and they folded themselves auto |
matically as they fell.
Sergeant Ellison with officers Noel |
roy, Wellman. Pinkston and two or three |
others were on the stage and made an at
tempt to preserve order There was no |
and the policemen were about |
as badly mixed up as anybody.
The spectacle of plump Officer NOEL |
roy on his hands and knees with his cap |
down over his eyes, his arms and legs |
sticking through the folded chairs and a |
monstrous sash of Z. q. crimson tied into |
a string tie about his neck, struggling to |
discover his whereabouts, amused the |