The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-04
SAY THEY SWORE
Indian Girls Feelings Hurt by
Daughters of IchabOd.
Haskell Accuses WashburnMaids
of Saying Naughty Words.
WASHBURN GIRLS DENY
One Of Them Admits She Re-
marked "DOggone IT,
Haskell Lost the State Basket
Ball Championship.

Athletic relations may be broken off
between the girls Of Washburn and the
girls of Haskell institute so far as
basketball is concerned. and the reason
now nstenLis because the Indian
maids say that their white sisters swore
and used bad language, both in the re-
cent game played between the two
teams at Lawrence, and at the one
played in Topeka on Friday night, in
which Washburn was victorious by a
score of As to Is. and won the girls
championship of the state.
Il had to take my right forward out
OF the game in the last half" said
Coach Herbert Falls of the Indian
team, well kncwn as a football star,
who refereed Friday nights contest in
Topeka, because she declared that the
girls against whom she played, swore.
and used unbecoming language, and
that she would not play against OPP
ponents who would act in that way.
She came to me herself with the COM
plant and I put in a substitute
heard some of the other girls say some
thing about it also. I could do moth
ing, however, because I was simply
referee. 1t would have been up to the
captain of the Haskell team to take her
team off the field. Personally heard
no swearing / am sorry that this has
come up, for 1 am afraid that 1t VIII
cause trouble so far as the arrange
ment of future games IS concerned.
The same complaint was made against
the Washburn girls when they played
at Lawrence recently l am very sorry
to hear the charge made.
Mrs. c. B. Wilson, one of the matrons
at Haskell institute. who accompanied
the Indian team to Topeka as chaperon.
said that the Indian girls felt very bad
,ffl, I,nfr-
sisters We're acting. All five of the
girls on the team have complained TO
me- both tonight, and at the recent
game played in Lawrence. They say
that the Wshhburn team used bad
language regular swear words. We are
very strict with our girls at Haskell,
however" continued Mrs. Wilson, and
such words as 'doggone it. darn It,,
,confound YOU are tabooed as bad
language. It is possible that the WASH
burn girls used some of those phrases.
Are any of the white girls accused
of using the word damn r tlInldly
suggested the reporter.
Yes. they We're" said Mrs Wilson. |
Some of cur girls say that they olo
use that term. And you cannot
imagine how it hurts the Indian girls |
Our first object is to bring them up /
to be ladies of good behavior /
and to carry good ideals. We have
been successful in that effort, and the |
girls have simply been shocked and |
hurt by the talk Of the white girls. l
am very sorry about it. l don't ike
to see anything about it get into the
I know that when SUI
perintendent PEARS of Haskell hears
about it, he will be much annoyed, |
and I am afraid it may put stop to
games between Washburn and Haskell /
SO far as the basket ball is concerned. /
Our girls did not play tonight es-
pecially during the latter half as well /
as they are capable The using OF
such language, as the Washburn girls
a. nf them n
that they practically just let the game
drag through
Ibid the Washburn girls use bad
language during the game?' was
asked of one of the Indian girls who
stood beside Mrs. Wilson.
Yes" she replied they did use
bad language. We don't like to play
with girls who do that way. That IS
not the way we are taught. and we
don't think that it is nice"
Captain Burdge of the Washburn
team was told of the charge made by
the Indian girls and was asked wheth
er or not it was true.
'fWhy, no it is not" was her reply.
''None of us swore. We may have
I was knocked down and my shoe
string became united I said 'doggone
it, But what is that?"
It is believed that there must be
some misunderstanding somewhere.
Possibly the Haskell girls misunder-
stood some OF their opponents eX-
pressions, but it is evident that the
Indian maids feel very bad about the
matter.
The game itself was a one-sided af-
fair=45 to Is in favor of Washburn.
Starting off like a whirlwind the
a borigines played their white sisters
off their feet. and ran uD a total of
points. before Washburn had even
grazed its own basket with the ball
But then the daughters of Ichabod
shook off their lethargy and in a few
minutes had not only equalled, but
surpassed their opponents score. And
when they did that, it was the begin
ming of the end. The Indians never
again toed the same line with the
white girls
The first half ended with some fast
playing and a score of 16 to 10. Up
to that point the Haskell girls were
making a serious bid for the game.
The second half was lifeIess, and all
n Washburn's favor. The Indian
girls occasionally seemed to sit up and
AXE notice of what was going on, but
IN general they seemed to be moody
and sulking. That feeling they ex-
,used on the grounds that they did not
ike the language of their white sis
ers, and could not play ball when
hey were subjected to it. About the
middle of the second half Waukon ,
vent out. because she could play no