Bee, 1923-11-01

              the bee university of buffalo november 1 1923 vol iv no 6 financial report of athletics is made public statement submitted to university council by manager following is the financial report of the athletic association of the uni versity of buffalo for july 1922 to july 1923 submitted to the univer sity council by the graduate mana ger to the council of the university of buffalo i beg herewith to submit financial report to the athletic activities of the university from the date of my appointment as manager by your honory body on july ist 1922 to july ist 1923 this report in brief shows total receipts of 22,413.27 and a balance on hand at the close of the fiscal year of 186.71 the finances of the athletic asso ciation at the time the council of the university took control of the same through its appointment of a cjraduate manager were in a deplor able condition unpaid bills incurr ed by previous managements in the amount of 6566.25 were outstanding one obligation a note in the amount of 2300 had been guaranteed by a member of the faculty and the cred itor was pressing for payment the credit of the athletic association was seriously impaired during the past fiscal year foot ball and basketball l.ave been fi nanced out of current funds without a deficit and payments to the ex tent of 4,897.05 madei on the bills left over from previous manage ments there are still left unpaid of these old obligations of the previous man agement 1669.20 which will be re tired from the athletic receipts of the season 1923-1924 the main item is a spalding bill for 1921 equipment amounting to 1494.45 the only other item left over from previous managements is a bill from a local hotel in the sum 174.45 for board and meals for two football players in the 1921 team from no vember 19th to december 27th after the close of the football season needless to say no expenses of this character have been or will be coun tenanced under the present manage ment it is particularly pleasing to report that every effort is now being made to eliminate professionalism from our university athletics ; our eligi bility rules are stringent and rigorou sly enforced and our teams are de veloping along the lines of clean amateur sportsmanship our athletic equipment which in previous years disappeared at the end of each season is now carefully inventoried and accounted for and a large quantity of this valuable equipment is on hand ready for the coming season to mr edward michael whose un tiring devotion to the university has extended over many years is due to the thanks and appreciation of the entire body of undergraduates and alumni for his generous and unsolic ited contribution of 500 in decem ber 1922 to the treasury of the ath letic association the following are the items of re ceipts and disbursements from july ist 1922 to july ist 1923 receipts cash on hand july 1 1922 $ 71.50 loan from university 5,000.00 share of student activities fees 12,925.95 football gate receipts at home 1,471.10 football guarantees receiv ed away from home .... 300.00 basketball gate receipts at home 1,562.00 basketball guarantees re ceived away from home 425.00 hockey gate receipts 7.75 gift from mr edward michael 500.00 soft drink privilege at elm wood music hall 91.39 student dances 59.08 total receipts 22,413.77 disbursements arthur powell salary as football coach old debt $ 3,819.70 d j stickney coal old debt 132.50 merchant toilet supply co towel supply old debt 64.65 swimming manager needs assistants dan sandler manager of the u b swimming team is in need of some energetic aspiring as sistants in his work of guiding the new suc cessful varsity swim ming squad this is a fine oppor tunity for any aspirant for a managerial posi tion to come in on the ground floor of as good an opportunity as been offered by any sport on the curriculum see sandler at the law school or report at practice monday or thursday evenings at the central y pool alumni planning to attend home coming game this saturday plans are being laid for the first annual alumni home coming day it is fittingly set on a day in the fall when u b plays an at home game this year the date has has been se lected as november 3 the date of the hamilton game since there are no other games in buffalo on that date which might seriously detract from the attendance at the u b game plans to date are as follows a notice has been sent all graduates of u b living in and about buffalo urg ing them to attend a special notice has been sent out by the alumni club to all its members with an ap peal for support a parade of high ly decorated cars carrying u b graduates headed by the varsity band will leave the alumni club house 147 north street about 1:30 march down delaware to chippewa chippewa to main and main to high where the band men will board a bus and lead the parade of cars to rotary field a section in the stand will be reser ved for the grads the alumni club members have been practicing cheers all week and promise to out-do the student body only a good turn out of students will prevent that humilia tion lets show the grads that we merit their continued good will and support dents to stage minstrel show at alumni club ted terry and dr groh to be in charge of novel affair the dental school is known best throughout the university as that part of the institution which excels in pep and originality it is a big responsibility for us dents to maintain that reputation here is our chance to demonstrate that the same old tradition never say no prevails the minstrel show to be present ed at the alumni club some time be fore christmas is developing rapidly every man in the department will be needed if you can sing dance play any instrument or have ability as end man let your class president know it we can have a complete orches tra chorus feature numbers and wonderful success if every man is willing to co-operate ted terry has consented to stage the affair he has had wide exper lenca in this line and will make the affair a big hit dr russell groh has consented to act as faculty manager and adviser this adds still greater weight to our expectations for success rehearsals will start within a week lets go if you can't take part in the program be willing to volunteer for stage help publicity etc for information consult dr groh your class president or ted terry reports of progress and future plans will be made at the next assembly wednesday morning chess club schedule to be announced canisus pittsburgh and m i t may be on the chess schedule the complete schedule will be announced shortly with the assistance of dr russel w groh faculty advisor the prospects for the year are very bright the chess club will meet at the dental college library every wed nesday 8 p m this place of meet ing is only temporary a permanent place will soon be secured and will be announced in the bee chancellor capen issues statement concerning athletic situation chancellor capen gave the following statement to the bee for publication during the past two weeks there have appeared various articles in the daily papers attacking william j blackburn manager of athletics in , the university of buffalo asserting that the authorities of the university were exerting tyranical control over athletics to the exclusion of the stu dents and criticising the salary pro posed to be paid mr blackburn as graduate manager for many years the athletic fi nances of the university were under the joint control of students and graduates with cursory faculty su pervision this system resulted in a situation in 1921-1922 where the athletic association was in debt to the extent of 7,000 an annual loss of nearly all our football and basket ball equipment and the credit of the athletic association seriously im paired differences had also arisen between the athletic association and the faculty committee on student activities as to the right of the faculty committee to supervise ath letics and athletic finances the student representatives p peared before the council of the uni versity on april 22 1921 and asked that moneys contributed by the citi zens of buffalo for the endownment of the university be used to dis charge the obligations incurred thru this athletic mismanagement the council took the definite position that the endowment funds of the university constituted trust funds in their care available solely for educa tional purposes and could not be ap propriated to pay deficits or running expenses of student organizations to relieve this situation the coun cil authorized a student activities fee of 12 to be charged each student if ; i the university annually and to be i collected and disbursed by the uni . versiy authorities eighty to eighty i five percent of this fee was allocat ed to athletics the balance to other student activities the students re ceived in return season tickets to all university athletic events the cost of which if purchased at the gate would total 16 annually even with the help of the student fee the ath letic association under its former financial management finished the season in april 1922 with a 6500 deficit matters were accordingly re ferred by the council of the univer sity to its subcommittee on athletics composed of messrs edward michael g d crofts and a g bartholomew with power to act these gentlemen correctly con cluded that responsible and effective financial management of athletic af fairs in the university could only be secured thru an experienced business manager with complete financial control appointed by and respon sible to the university council such a manager should collect all athletic receipts make all contracts and commitments and pay all bills the committee left the control of athletics outside of finances in the hands of pre-existing athletic coun cil composed of undergraduates chosen by the student body gradu \ ates elected by the alumni and . faculty members selected by the deans of the various colleges the university council reserved the right to exercise such further con trol as from time to time might lie ' coin necessary amendments to i the institution of the athletic as c eociatlon were agreed upon and a c dopted by the athletic council in < accordance with the agreement ; u b club to hold first meeting the u b club will hold its first meeting of the year at the central y m c a the evening of tuesday november 6 at 6:15 p m c s marsh dean of the evening session of the university of buffalo will be the speaker dean marsh is an alumnus of northwestern university where he also did graduate work prior to his appointment as dean of the evening session he was registrar of the colltge of liberal arts assist ant dean of the school of commerce and later director of the summer session at his alma mater those who were present at the last pep meeting know that dean marsh has a pleasing personality he is a man who understands students and their interests and can be counted on to bring a forceful message to the stu dents who are out tuesday night tickets may be obtained from the office of the central y m c a and from student representatives from all the colleges at fifty cents each the charge for the dinner the meeting will be over promptly at 7:45 prof winslow of yale addresses medics movements to clean the environ ment to study the bacteriological causes of contact-born disease to educate man in the laws of personal hygiene and to organize medical ser vice for preventive purposes are the four important phases in the pre 1 vention of disease and the promotion of public health declared professor winslow of yale university in ad dressing the senior junior and sophmore classes of the medical col lege on tuesday october 23 pro fessor winslow talked to the stu dents in behalf of the modern public health campaign which is now be ing carried on thruout the united states scientists have been working in the interests of public health for many years and in the next twenty years a way will be found to help make medicine more preventive the speaker prophesied that the rather sharp line that is now drawn be tween prevention and cure will be destroyed in the attempt to get the physician to the patient before the patient is actually ill and in this way to aid both the physician and the public dean sumner jones dean of the mledical school announced in rela tion to this subject that at the re commendation of a meeting of phy sicians held in san francisco the senior class will be given a series of six lectures the function of which will be to teach the student how to examine the apparently well man otto willax mildred kraus a romance of long standing culmin ated in a marriage last wednesday when otto m willax student assistant in psychology took unto himself a wife in the person of mildred kraus a junior in the arts college in spite of their rather long acquaintance and at tachment the announcement of their marriage came quite as a surprise to the university bud willax is well known through out the university through his work in student activities he was art editor of the bison for two years and wa;f chosen as one of the original members of the bison head the senior honor ary fraternity this year li is stu clarkson tech narrowly escapes defeat by tie varsity makes 17 first downs to opponents 4 knapp and vanini star in unusually hard fought struggle ji.n al zisseb j buffalo in a sensational gratifying ( exhibition of bull-dog grit and loyal determination earned a virtual victory j over the strong clarkson delegation hen they battled the potsdam war | nois to a 7 to 7 tie last saturday at rotary field displaying an entire rejuvenation in all departments of the game the j blue and white eleven in the much heralded contest with the strong down | state gridders made so snappy a come | back against their reputable oppon 5 ents as to heartily atone for all pre , vious discouraging performances ' the u b cohort uncovered before • the eyes of the horde of loyal amazed ; adherants a brand of aggressiveness and punch that carried off the honors of , the day from the outset the back . field combination of rosengant knapp . magovern and vanani proceeded to dent the forward wall of tho clarkson i machine for long substantial gains ! and time and again would one of the quartet skirt a potsdam end for liberal toll in clarkson yardage bisons carry fight to foes ■ outfighting and outmniieiiveking their foes in most portions of all ses sions the blue and white grid men experienced the not ungratifying sen sation of maintaining the aggressive throughout the fracas contrary to all dope obtained by comparison with the respective merits of both combina tions as evidenced by past perform ances it was the clarkson eleven which was compelled to fight bitterly against the unlooked-for tactics of their op ponents throughout the game the buffalo delegation maintained a stub born attack against the potsdam de fences which only high-calibre ability as well as a few favorable breaks with stood time and iigaim would the buf falo warriors begin a steady aggres sive march down the field with appar ant success in view only to be stopped by their opponents taking advantage of a poor pass or an inadvertant fum ble shifted team shows class with metz shifted to a wing posi tion and rosengrant at the helm in the quarterback berth the buffalo crew put up as snappy an exhibition of or ganized aggressive team play as has ever been shown on the bailey avenue lot honors for the afternoon's perform ance rest with creditable ease one the shoulders of every blue-jerseyed parti cipant in the affray however most conspicuous was the brilliant exhibi inter-fraternity basketball a cup has been offered for the victorious team in inter fraternity basketball compet ition to be held this winter dr e v mimniaek the chair man of the basketball com mittee of the athletic council is very anxious to have every fraternity represented at a meet ing to arrange for the inter fraternity basketball league due notice as to the place and date of this meeting will be given each fraternity vocational conference for u b girls the vocational conference for wo men will be held next week it is hoped it will prove very helpful to all the women in the college the u b women's club has ar ranged a banquet as the outstanding feature of the vocational conference it will occur november 7 at relch ert's tea room 484 delaware ave nue the affair will be informal small tables being used the girls will rotate among the tables and be come acquainted with the various speakers miss hlrth will be tin principal speaker of the evening following the banquet group con ferences will be held tickets may be secured from edna fisher or any member of the committee thursday and friday november 8 and 9 private conferences with miss llirth are possible any girl can nr.ike in appointment for a table with hiss mirth by going to the of fice of p in macdonnld now continued on page 2 continued on page 3 continued on page 4 continued on page :>,) all out for hamilton game saturday our advertisers are buffalo's best patronize them