The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-13
ON A new BASIS.
Washburn Students Propose to
ReOrganize Baseball.
Play Games Independent Of Fac.
ulty Ruling.
.SYMPATHIES SHOWN.
Kansas College Teams Regret
Degradation Of TOpekans.
Say They Are Willing to Play
Rejuvenated Team.

The trouble at Washburn over the
action of the faculty council in dis
charging John Robb as captain and
Glenn Miliice as manager of the base
ball team because they played ineligi-
Bile men, is gradually reaching the
stage where it will be necessary for the
faculty to make some amends or the
students will take the responsibility
upon themselves and organize a base
ball team of their own without the
consent of the faculty.
I This is the course threatened last
night by a number of students in a
meeting held near the campus. 1t was
decided by representative lot of stud
ents to reorganize the baseball team and
conduct it altogether independent of
any rules whatever. This would nat
urally be direct mutiny but the stud
ents feel as though they have been mis-
treated in the effect of the orders of
the faculty.
1t is planned to take the old college
team-the one broken up by the de-
cree of the faculty and conduct it
along the same lines except under a
different set of rules. Taken all in ali
the team would be perfectly eligible to
play any other college team in the state
because they would set their rules to a
certain standard-first of all, a stand
ard of good craftsmanship.
communications nave De6n ne1Q WIFI
different colleges concerning the organ
iZation of the new team and so far all
have declared themselves willing to en-
ter into contest as an intercollegiate
affair. A number of out of town col
lege men have called by telephone Cap
tain Robb and Manager Mi1lice extend
ing their sympathies and best hopes
for a way out of the trouble. One col
lege manager said: 1--WE realize that it
puts you fellows into a hole to be thus
condemned by the faculty but you must
remember that the colleges of the state
rot question the eligibility of your men.
If you can arrange game-come
ahead Well play you
AS an example of the sentiment of
the general student body in regard to
the discharge of the two most promi-
nent men in school and the two most
valuable men on the team, the following
interviews with the representative stud
ents will tell the tale.
Osborn Larimer-I regret very much
that the faculty should take this action.
1t looks to me like effort to put the
chains on baseball this spring. The
students have worked hard for base
ball and they have watched their annual
athletic assessment go toward debts
contracted last year.
Don Neiswanger-I have been reared
near the Washburn campus and 1 have
always been well acquainted with ath-
letic affairs but / never heard such a
thing as this before. 1 don't want to
dictate to the faculty but 1 do think
they have treated the fellows badly. 1
am in favor of the organization of the
new team at whatever cost it may be.
David Ferguson-If it would do any
good l would be in favor of hanging
the faculty in effigy. But 1 am afraid
that this would not have any more
effect than the general pleas of the
student body. 1t doesn't look as though
the Washburn students have a student
| organization of any kind.
Dean Davis. president of the fresh
| men class-I can say for the freshmen