The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-31
FOR A NEW Gym"
Washburn Athletic Managers
May Get One.
Propose to Erect a Building at
Cost of $4,000.
PAY OUT OF PROCEEDS.
Manager Leach Thinks Money
Can Be Earned.
Expects to Break All Records
for Football Crowds.
PAY OUT OF PROCEEDS.

| Plans for s2o 900 gymnasium are be-
ing made by the athletic interests of
Washburn college. 1t is proposed to
carry out the plan after the close of the
coming football season, provided the
season proves to be profitable.
| At present, Washburn has no gym
nasium worthy of the name. 1t has
about $500 worth of gymnasium appar-
| atus, but no place to put it. Training
quarters for the football team have
been established in the basement of
Rice hall. With the development of
football and baseball enthusiasm, the
organization of a track team, and the
interest in basketball, there is no build
ing which would be more acceptable to
the college than a fine gymnasium.
1t is proposed to pay for the gym
nasium out of the receipts from the
football games. Each year there is
pretty certain TO be considerable profit
in football, and the athletic manage
ment want it fixed that all of the
income will be devoted to the gym
nasium building In order that the
building may become Immediately
available, il is thought that the college
will loan the athletic association $2O,-
900 out of its investment funds, which
will be repaid from year to year out of
the income from athletics.
The experience which Washburn had
cluSively that if the college puts a first
class team into the field. it will get the
support of the town, and make money.
There is no reason why the athletic as
thousand dollars every year on the
football season. Topeka is a city of
sufficient size to turn out immense
crowds for big athletic events. The reg
ular Sunday attendance of ? 900 at the
baseball games shows the strength of
the athletic interest in the city.
Manager Leach says in speaking of
the financial prospects of the coming
football season: Il have hopes that
we will be able to finish the present
football season with $4,000 in the
treasury. OF course it depends a good
deal on the weather which we have
for our games this fall, but under IA
Vorable conditions / cannot see why
we should not clean up good deal
of money. In case Kansas university
has a strong team, and Washburn is
successful in most of its games, eX-
pect to see a record breaking crowd
at the Wash burn-K. L. game l want
the attendance at that game to reach
5000, and / believe we can bring IL
up to that figure. | expect to put in
the two weeks prior to that game
working up excursions from all towns
within a hundred miles of Topeka,
and ] think we will be able to get
very low rate on the railroads. want
to bring two or three thousand people
into town, in addition to the Lawrence
delegation, which will undoubtedly be
very large. This Washburn-k. u.
game should be made the biggest foot
ball event of the year in Kansas.
1--WE will have Ottawa university
here for the Thanksgiving day game
l have given Ottawa the date because
I have received assurances from there
that she will have a very strong team
in the field this year, and expects to
resume her former place as a formid-
able rival of any Kansas team. We
should have at least $500 people out
for the Thanksgiving day game.
"Our game with Haskell on No
vember 10 at Topeka ought to be an
other big drawing card, for it will be
one of the hardest on our schedule.
The Indians always draw well in To-
tendance of two or three thousand
at this game. 1 do not think the In
dams will have as strong team as
they did last year, but nobody can
srlendid line of material and are not
by any collegiate con-
ference rules prohibiting the use of
imported players
big cards of the season, all of them
az Topeka, I can not see why we
should not make money, unless bad
weather interferes. The other games |
in a good return financially, and go
a good ways toward paying the ex-
Denses of the season, which Will be |
heavy
The expenses of the Washburn |
team during the coming season will |
probably be in the neighborhood of |
$4,000, so it is evident that there must |
be a big attendance at the games to |
make the business pay. About ST. |
500 will go to the coach and manager. |
another 1000 will be the cost of the |
training table; and the other $1,000 |
for fixing up the athletic field, rebuild |
iVD the west bIeac cheers and the pur-
chase of equipment for the team. |
There never has been so much money |
spent on a football team in Wash |
burns history, and the results ought to |
be good.
According to the Lawrence Gazette, |
the members of the K. U. team have |
already commenced to train under |
Coach Kennedy. Washburn's team will |
not begin training until next week, |
when Coach Outland Will arrive from |
Wichita The following is from the |
Lawrence Gazette:
Bert Kennedy is all football. If |
the men who try for the team and |
the attendants of the university who |
are supposed to support athletics. will /
be half as enthusiastic about the game |
as Coach Kennedy is, there will be |
team at the university this year that |
Will be a credit to the town, the sehooI |
and to the state.
In spite of the criticisms that Kennedy
IS getting from the Topeka people he is |
going to keep on with his work with the
hearty support of all Lawrence and all |
the university. The fact that Bert Ken