Emporia State University - Sunflower Yearbook (Emporia, KS)

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and every Jayhawker present was proud of our teacher of oratory. After these speeches, the Minnesingers from Iowa gave the audience a sample of superb male chorus Work, and after the storm of cheering sub- sided, the rally was turned over to Professor Butler. The Orchestra and Chorus filled the hall with music for two hours, and the success of the Kansas sup- porters was amply attested by the unstinted applause. About noon the ball team arrived to tell how they won the game at Ottawa at the rate of 12 to 6. The programme for the afternoon was the ball game between the Missouri and Kansas teams, and an excursion to Pertle Springs. Before the game began, rumors were in the air of a wonderful pitcher with the Warrensburg team that could not be hit. Why, said the Missourians, he struck out seventeen men the other day in one game! The game began at 3 o'clock in a fast and furious fashion. Kansas scored one in the second inning and again in the fourth, Missouri scored once in the fourth inning and twice in the fifth. In the sixth, three men went down on each side Without a scoreg the Warrensburg fans were becoming hilarious, and the faces o-f the Emporia boys began to show a growing determination to win. In the seventh the old gold aggregation hit the famous Thomas for six runs, and then went out to the field and retired the other side in forty seconds without letting a man get to iirst. In the eighth inning Kansas scored again. In the ninth Missouri, with two men out, got two men on bases, when Thomas made a drive over left-field fence for a home run. Neither side scored after this, and the game closed, Kansas, 9, Missouri, 6. The game over, the cars for Pertle Springs iilled, and a merry crowd spent an hour at this pleasant summer resort. At 8 o'clock the assembly hall began to nll with a throng eager for the great event. The program for the evening was as follows: PROGRAM. Invocation .......... . ..... Rev. W. C. Coleman. Vocal Solo, Waiting,', .......... .............. M illard Katherine Bunn, Warrensburg, Mo. Oration, American Volunteeru.. ......... .. Bert E. Manville, Warensburg, Mo. Oration, Silence, the Soul's Opportunity . . . Iva E. Purdum, Emporia, Kans. Music, Comrades and Arms ................... Adam Minnesingers, Iowa State Normal. Oration, The Spirit of Progress ............ Roy Franklin Barton, Normal, Ill. Oration, The David of America ............. U. Grant Hayden, Cedar Falls, Iowa. Violin Solo, Mazurka de Concert .......... Ovlde Musin Prof. W. G. Butler, Emporia, Kans. Oration, Human Progress, Egoism and Altruismu . Mark A. Cline, Milwaukee, Wis. Vocal Solo, He Was a Princet' .................. Lynes Mildred Williams, Emporia, Kaus. Music .......... . ................... ...... S elected. Min-nesingers, Iowa State Normal.

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The Trip to Warrensburg. Next to Commencement, the great day of all this school year was May 10. This marks the date of one of the victories for the old gold banner. There have been other days just as great, but none so genuinely, hilariously, supremely successful as an all-around great day. When the time came to consider what musical delegation to send to the Interstate Oratorical Contest at Warrensburg this year, Prof. Butler's Mandolin Orchestra easily became the favorite of the School, and after two months steady labor in the way of preparation, the Orchestra reaped a reward in the cheers of a delighted audience at Warrensburg that greeted them after every number. The double quar- tette chosen from the Euridice and Orpheus Clubs, re- inforced by the delegates sent by the Association, won round after round of applause for the humor- eus and musical presentation of our side of the case in a number of topical and characteristic original songs. The Simpson Quartette, in company with the Orchestra, was also kindly received. The Emporia delegation of eighty-five, and our baseball team, left our city over the Ottawa Branch at seven o'clock on the morning of May 9. Pandemo- nium broke loose as soon as the car-wheels began to roll, and continued Iwith the exception of the hours between 1 and 4 o'clock on Saturday morning, the 11th.J till the arrival home on the afternoon of May 11. At Ottawa the ball team was left behind, confident of a victory over the Ottawa University team. The rest of the party went on to Warrensburg, arriving there at four in the afternoon. At Kansas City a car- load of Minnesingers from the Iowa Normal were coupled onto the rear of our car, and when the two delegations left the train at Warrensburg, the brass band that came to meet them was silenced by a'roar of college yells. The entertainment was in the main good, but it was not what the friends in Missouri had intended to give. They had planned a treat for the delegations in the way of entertainment by caring for them at the Pertle Springs hotels just south of the city of Warrensburg, but the persons responsible for getting the hotels ready failed to complete their Work. Friday morning all the delegations were invited to join the home school in their chapel for a. general ratiiication rally. Here Kansas shone. After the opening ,exercises one person from each school was called upon for a sho-rt talk. Miss Marsland's re- sponse for Kansas was the best talk of the morning,

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While waiting for the decision of the judges, the Minnesingers sang five songs, and after each song the audience cheered louder than before, and Iowa became extremely popular. The Kansas Quartette were called for, and they sang two numbers. The decision of the judges was now ready, and M. I. Roberts, President of the League, won the esteem of a thousand people by reading the report without any comment. Begin- ning with the last irst, he read, Iowa, Missouri, Illi- nois, Kansas, Wisconsin. The decision seemed all right to us, and the Kansas yell filled the house and the Kansas crowd filled the stage, while Miss Purdum, of Kansas, perched high on a chair and Mr. Kline, of Wisconsin, perched on our shoulders, were carried up and down the stage in irrepressible glee. In the absence of the Wisconsin delegation, Kansas yelled for both orators. This tale would not be complete with Professor Payne left out of it. This jolly man followed the dele- gation about eight hours late, arriving in Warrens- burg at midnight Thursday. Not knowing where the Kansas headquarters were, he went to another hotel. He turned over to the porter his grip with about fifty dollars worth of goods in it. Friday afternoon he called for his grip and was given a grip that was not his own, though very much like his. After an indig- n-ant time, he learned that a traveling man had his grip and had gone to a neighboring town. The dis- comnted hotel proprietor immediately dispatched a man to this town to reco-ver the grip or die. It has been reported that the recovery was made, but it has been discredited as idle- rumor. The Professor told us on the side that he had a borrowed Smith and Wesson six-shooter in the grip, a dandy new one, worth sixteen dollars. This he brought along to show the Missourians. i Q kg, , 'O' 4 . ,ef 4' 1 I ,kk-. , Q . Q I . Cas -36-