1905-10-20 The Wesleyan Argus

              Published weekly in the interest of the Illinois Wesleyan University and its students.
VoL. XII. No. 4. BLOOMINGTON, ILL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1905. PRICE FIVE CENTS
NO ROWDY FOOT BALL
Taft, Elliott, and Roosevelt Give
Their Opinions on Clean
Athletics
Other College News
Secretary Taft, of the War
Department, of the United States
made the announcement this
week thab'an example would be
made of any of the cadets at
West Point who played rough or
rowdy football and in order to
make this stronger said that the
dismissal of the cadet would re-sult
if necessary.
The secretary is a Yale Gradu-ate
and said "Football as it is
played is a brutal and unsports-manlike
game. T''he President
has discussed football with me
several times lately and there is
altogether too much rough play
and unnecessary injuring of
players and I am in accord with
his views.'
'I am not in favor of having
the games of the army and navy
abolished as long as they are
fairly and cleanly played; but if
there is any sign of intentionally
rough work this fall, I shall do
my best to have the game
stopped. We must rid the game
of its worst features and then we
can know if it is worth the
candle."
President C. W. Elliott of
Harvard said referring to Roose-velts
talk with men representing
the college football, "The presi-dent
with his usual vigor has
tackled a hard job. It is hard to
bring about a reform with the
very men who have long known
about the existing evils and
have been largely responsible for
their continuance. His only
chance is to convinnce them that
the evils have become intoler-able."
President Elliott was asked if
he had had any conference with
the President as regards to
cleaner football and he replied
that he had talked to him while
he was here at the last com-mencement
at Cambridge. For
many years President Elliott has
made objections to football in his
annual report and he now hopes
that with the co-operation of
the President that football will
be placed on cleaner basis.
Wesley C. Lowrher, a student
at the Northwestern Medical
Academy was found dead in his
room. His death was caused by
escaping gas and as there was
no reason assigned for his wish-ing
to commit suicide the
asphyxiation is thought to be
accidental. His parents live in
Virginia; he was always in good
circumstances and was engaged
to be married. He is a graduate
of Milton College of Milton Wis-consin.
Y. M. C. A. CONVENTION
Annual State Convention Opens
In This City Today-Some
Noted Speakers on Program
The Annual State Convention
of the Y. M. C. A. opens in this
city to-day. The sessions will
be held at the Coliseum. Gov.
Deneen will give the opening
address at the Coliseum Thurs-day
evening. Some of the
principle speakers at the con-ventionwill
be S. D. Gordon,
E. T. Colton; Fred B. Smith and
others of national reputation.
The Wesleyan association will
take advantage of this oppor-tunity
to get better acquainted
with the scope and methods of
association work and will have
about thirty delegates in attend-ance
at the convention. They
will wear badges of the college
colors, "Wesleyan"being printed
in white on green ribbon. At
the close of the meeting last Sun-day
the local association voted
to pledge ten dollars at the con-vention
for the state work of
1906. Saturuay noon a luncheon
will be given to the student dele-gates
by the Wesleyan and
Normal associations at the
Normal gymnasium. About two
hundred are expected to be
present. The luncheon will be
prepared by the ladies of the
Congregational church at Normal
and served by the Young ladies
of the Y. W. C. A's of the insti-tutions.
After dinner addresses
will be made by C. H. Gaffin of
the University of Wisconsin and
E. F. Colton of New York on
student work.
The principal address of the
closing day of the convention
will be given by Fred. B. Smith
to a men's meeting on Sunday
afternoon at 3 o'clock.
CUMMINS AND GOINS
Rev. Cummins who comes to
Hudson where he succeeds Rev.
C. W. Hamand, '05 comes to us
as a new student. He enrolled
this week.
Rev. Goins of Missouri is going
to the LeRoy Circuit for the
year. He arrived in the city
Thursday and went down to
Downs with H. W. McPherson,
former pastor of his charge,
where they spent Thursday even-ing
talking over the goin's and
comin's and ups and downs re-garding
his work. Verily things
are moving in the Wesleyan,
Goins and Cummins in one week.
The Y. M. C. A. meeting
Sunday was well attended. Mr.
E. V. Young led the meeting,
taking as his subject, "The
Shibboleth of Fate."
A FEW CLASS ELECTIONS
Officers For The Year Are Elected
in Various Classes After Fierce
Political Campaigns
The past week has been filled
with politics, fierce and partisan.
On Monday evening the Senior
Law class assembled to elect offi-cers.
It soon became evident that
no factions existed and the fol-lowing
slate was elected without
a dissenting vote.
President, John Sullivan; Vice
President, Matz Thompson; Sec-retary,
Shelton McGrath; Treas-urer,
B. O. Sumner; Banquet
Speaker, Geo. Smith.
However, in the law class of
1907 harmony was non-existent.
Two factions developed and as a
result a bitter fight was raged.
Harsh words were exchanged.
Many confidential talks and per-suasions
were indulged in and
we fear not the best of spirit pre-vailed.
Finally after some clever
pulling of the ropes by the boss
of the class, who evidently had
ambitions set on the honor of the
Senior presidency, the election
was settled and the prevailing
party chose these:
President, A. Cochran; Vice-
President, C. Kirkpatrick; Secre-tary,
W. W. Dameron.
The Freshman Law class re-fused
to allow any such partisan
spirit to rule and after a short
conference the officers were billed
thus:
President, W. G. McCauley;
Vice President, C. Heyl; Secre-tary,
Paul Pollock.
Last Tuesday the Freshman
class of the Literary Department
gathered together for the sake of
the organization. Although
there were two tickets in the
field the contest was short and
decisive. Following are the
officers:
Presidenl, L. Kuhn; Vice
President, Miss E. H. Roe; Sec-retary,
B. K. Welch.
On Wednesday morning the
class of '06 met and observed the
time honored custom of re-elect-ing
the old officers. But one
exception to this rule was ob-served
and that was because of
the absence of the vice-president
of last year. These are the
officers:
President, D. S. Jeffers; Vice
President, S. E. Coss; Secretary,
Miss Grace Chapin; Treasurer,
J. Austin Burrows.
The resignation of Miss Emma
Parker came as a surprise to the
student body. Miss Parker has
been conducting the Greek classes
and has shown her ability along
this line by most excellent work.
Her departure is regretted by all
of the Greek students. As we
go to press we are authorized to
state Prof. Wilbert Ferguson has
been unanimously chosen to fill
the vacancy.
WESLEYAN, 0; U. OF I., 0
Our Boys Put Up a Plucky Game
and Succeed in Holding
Opponents Down
Five Regulars on Team
Wesleyan football team played
five varsity substitutes and the
best of the University of Illinois
scrub team Sat. Oct. 14 at
Wilder Field and held them to a
tie score. The final standing
was 0 to 0, neither team being
able to carry the ball over for a
touchdown.
The best eleven that could be
picked outside of the varsity
team at Ill. was sent here to-gether
with five of the varsity
men that have played in regular
varsity games this season. Three
of the men in the game against
Wesleyan have been playing ball
at Illinois for the past three
years.
While the Illinois men were
heavier than the Wesleyan team,
they were held for downs time
after time and Wesleyan played
with a dash that carried the Illi-nois
line off its feet. Kays for
Illinois was the surest gainer for
the visitors, making his gains by
hurdling the line. The Ves-leyan
back field attack was
vigorous at all times. Kennedy
at right half made the best gains
for Wesleyan and did splendid
work on the defensive several
times stopping sure touchdowns
and throwing the runner for loss.
On the offence he carried the
ball for two long gains, the first
one was an end run through a
broken field for thirty yards.
The other was a forty yard run
after a fake place kick.
McCulloch did good work at
left half and finished the game
in as good condition as when he
started. Baum at full back for
Wesleyan was one of the
brightest men in the game, but
he hit the line for a gain in
almost every instance. Powell,
one of last season's star players
who recently joined the team did
fine work in the line. It was
impossible for the Illinois team
to make any gain through him.
Kohl played his usual game
many times breaking through
the visitors heavy line. Zweng
at tackle was pitted against a
man that outweighed him twenty-five
pounds and played his man
well. Doolittle and Denton at
ends had little to do as the
Illinois backs were unable to
circle them. Denton made good
gains whenever he carried the
ball. O'Connell at guard played
hard and was replaced by John-son
owing to the fact that he
had not been able to practice.
The rest of the season he will be
out for practice every night.
Capt. McCulloch at quarter-
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