OREGON
VOLUME 11
EUGENE, OREGON, SATURDAY, OCT. 16, 1909.
No. 6
FRESHMEN WIN
ROUGH CONTEST
AGAINST E. H. S.
SUPERIOR WEIGHT AND
TEAM WORK WIN
FOR VARSITY
High School is Game to the Last,
But Cannot Withstand Terrible
Rushes of Bailey and Walker.
The University of Oregon freshmen
team defeated the local high school
boys with little difficulty this after
noon on Kincaid Field. It was a rough
game, the high school lighting desper
ately for every inch of ground. Several
men were hurt and one put out for
slugging. The freshmen played good
ball and won by clean hard playing and
superior weight.
The freshmen kicked off to Eugene,
who fumbled almost immediately. Walk
er failed to make yardage and Kay
attempted a drop kick that proved a
fizzle, but a freshman recovered the
ball. Taking the ball on the thirty
yard line, Walker and Bailey then set
tled down and bucked it over for the
first touchdown. Walker failed to kick
the goal.
Eugene then kicked off to the tresh
man twenty-yard line. Kay made live
yards on an exchange of punts but lost
on an onside kick immediately after
ward. Johnson recovered a fumble and
then Walker caught a long forward
pass, carrying the ball to the freshman
15 yard line. Held for yardage, Kay
tried another drop kick but failed.
After the kick-out Eugene recovered
an attempt by the freshmen at a for
ward pass and, taking a brace, made
yardage once before punting. The
freshmen then negotiated a successful
forward pass after which, by a series
>jf straight line bucks, they again
scored a touchdown. Walker failed to
kick goal and the half ended. Freshmen,
10 ;high school, 0.
In the second half DeBar replaced
Morrison at end. The high school
kicked to the freshmen’s 8 yard line.
Kay then recovered one of Walker’s
punts and made a sensational run to the
freshmen’s 18 yard line. Koch was put
out for roughness and Captain Jenkins
was disabled, Nolan taking his place.
The freshmen made a successful for
ward pass and then Walker failed in
attempting a place kick. A touchback
was forced on the Eugene team, adding
two more points for the freshmen.
Johnson then replaced Walker and
the freshmen bucked the ball over for
another touchdown. Kay kicked goal,
making the score 18 to 0.
The game ended without sensation,
the ball in the middle of the field. \ he
line up follows:
Freshmen E. H. S.
Mitchell
Roberts
Stein
Allen
Railey
Johnson
Onthank
Kay
Knox
C
R G L
L G R
RTL
L T R
R. E L
L E R
Q
R H L
Penga
Scott
Bradshaw
Rae
Koch
Morrison
Abshire
Dustin
Jenkins (Capt.)
Bartell L H R
Walker (Capt.) E
Eppcs
Gray
GOODMAN RESIGNS
BURKE IS MANAGER
Tom Burke, 'll, first tenor for the
past two years and one of its most
prominent members, was unanimously
elected president of the University of
Oregon Glee Club at a special business
meeting Thursday afternoon to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of
Dean Goodman. Burns Powell, ’12,
was elected secretary in Burke’s place.
Goodman, the retiring president, was
elected at the close of last year’s sea
son, but is unable to sing this year on
account of lack of time for rehearsing.
He is managing the Varsity football
team, is in bis senior year, and has
been with the club for the past three
years. Last year he was business man
ager of the Oregon Weekly.
Enthusiastic speeches were made by
both Goodman and Burke on the pros
pects for a good club during the pres
ent year, each speech ending with an
earnest appeal to the members to do
their best towards making the work a
success.
The club has been hard at work dur
ing the past week, going through an
hour or more of hard practice every
afternoon. Prospects for a good club
seem unusually bright. Out of the
forty who tried for places, Professor
Glen was able to pick sixteen that he
believes have exceptionally fine voices.
His gratification increases with each
practice.
“For the first time in the history of
the club,” says he, “four men sit in the
first tenor section whose voices are
really first tenors. The low basses,
too, are unusually good. Each man has
a deep mellow voice and the whole sec
tion sings with much more than ordin
ary power.”
Two new men are in the first bass
section and one in the second tenor
section. Both sections are doing sat
isfactory work.
NO OUTSIDERS AT
SOPHOMORE DANCE
The class of 1912, which last year
proved so unruly in the matter of re
stricting their dance to University stu
dents, has evidently changed its mind,
for at the meeting Wednesday it was
unanimously decided that no outsiders
should be invited. The committee in
charge has decid 'd upon December 12
as the time for he dance.
FRESHMAN PARTY IS
POSTPONED ONE WEEK
When the freshman class met yester
day afternoon, the date of the Acquaint
ance Party was postponed one week.
A challenge from the sophomore class
to a football game was accepted and
a committe appointed to arrange for
the game. A class day was discussed
and a committee appionted to make
preliminary arrangements for it.
J. Elwood Luckey, who made many
of the illustrations for the last Ore
gana, is at work on several cartoons
for the first issue of the Monthly. One
of these is a drawing, taken from life,
of Hayward’s freshman track pros
pects.
COACH BUCHEN
PLANS NLW SYS
TEM OF TRYOITS
FOOTBALL METHODS USED
TO CHOOSE DEBATING
TEAM
Two Weeks’ Tryout For Each
Team—Utah Debate January
14th—Probably in Portland
Immediately after the Thanksgiving
holidays, all candidates for the Uni
versity of Oregon debating team will
meet in Villard Hall and under the
direction of Coach Buclicn, they will be
put through an extended series of try
;outs lasting two weeks, at the end of
which time the team will be selected.
T his is the new and extraordinary sys
tem introduce! by the new coach and
heartily adopted by the committee on
oratory and debate at the meeting yes
terday afternoon to consider plans
for the coming year.
Each man will be called upon at least
four times, lie will be allowed to pre
sent his argument after which he will
be confronted with an opposing argu
ment and a new phase of the question
assigned him. His versatility and
capacity for improvement will be taken
into consideration as well as his form
of argument and style of delivery. At
the close of the series, two men will be
chosen to represent Oregon against
Utah.
On January third the second tryout,
exactly similar to the one just outlined
will take place. Six new men will then
be selected to enter a final contest in
which the alumni medal will be award
ed and the teams selected to debate
against Idaho and Washington licxjt
March.
The committee, in following the ad
vice of Coach Buchen, believes with
him that the proposed change will great
ly improve the selection of the teams.
It will give every man a chance to show
his true ability as a debater instead of
forming a hasty opinion on reciting
a memorized exercise. The preliminary
practice will also develop the powers
of the men in ready debating and build
a strong foundation for the future.
Definite arrangements were also made
at the meeting yesterday for the Utah
debate, a contract was drawn up and
will immediately be forwarded to
them for their approval. The question
will probably be the same one as Ore
gon submitted as her choice for the tri
angular debate; "Resolved, that all cor
porations engaged in interstate busi
ness should lie required to incorporate
under federal law, it being mutually
conceded that such legislation would be
constitutional and that a system of fed
eral license shall not be available as an
alternative solution.”
'Idle debate will be held on January
14th, probably in Portland. The teams
will each have two men, each to have
two speeches of fifteen and five minutes.
Idaho’s choice for the wording of the
triangular league question has been re
ceived. It is the same as Oregon’s ex
cept that it docs not provide against
an alternative scheme of federal li
cense for the negative. Coach Buchen
is very anxious that the latter provision
TENNIS CLUB PLANS
SPRING TOURNAMENT
Tennis players met in Villard Hall
yesterday and organized for the com
ing year. Gerald Eastham, 'll, was
elected president, and R. Burns Powell,
secretar-treasurer. Ralph Newlands is
manager. Several talks were made
forecasting the season and predicting a
more general interest in the game for
this year.
The president, under authorization of
the cluh, appointed Harry Stine, Ralph
Newlands and Paul Bond to work with
himself as chairman to promote the
interests of the game in general and to
arrange for a series of tournaments
next spring. The policy of the or
ganization is to interest the largest pos
sible number of students and to es
tablish tennis as a thoroughly repre
sentative game at Oregon. To this end,
the tournaments will be not merely for
the purpose of selecting the Varsity
team, hut there will be handicap tourna
ments to interest everyone and to give
them tournament practice.
President Eastham said: “A large
majority of the men in college are not
on the football, track or baseball squad.
It is this class that we want to inter
est in tennis. We hope soon to have
more adequate facilities.”
Ralph Newlands, who represented
Oregon in the intercollegiate tourna
ment last spring, said: “We are going
to work hard to popularize the game
with the students at large. The stu
dent body recognizes it hut does not
support it as it does other branches
of athletics. We have the best pos
sible track, gridiron and diamond and
the best trainers and coaches money
vv id buy Tennis does nat ask for
coaches—only a place to play. We
want to train in the same conditions
in which we play. Last year we lost
out by a very narrow margin and it
may have been the difference between
good cou'ts and bad that was to blame.
The association was not organized mere
ly to help the Varsity players. If we
could secure one good court it would
give everyone in school a chance. Mult
nomah with 1000 members has only
four asphalt courts and Stanford has
but two. As long as Oregon puts out
tennis teams they should be given op
portunities so they can keep up the
C.'regun standard.”
l)r. Leonard has been appointed a
member of the athletic council to take
the place of Professor Hawthorne.
shall remain as, in his opinion, it makes
the question much fairer and places the
affirmative on much safer ground.
Washington’s choice has not yet been
received.
I here is a great deal of material in
the library bearing directly on the pro
posed subject and those who intend
to tryout need not wait for the final
wording of the question. Coach Ruchen
is desirous that candidates get down
to work as soon as possible and has
called a meeting fur Monday after
noon to impress on the men the fact
that time is short and there is no ex
cuse for further delay. Lveryone who
intends to try for the team is expect
ed to be present at this meeting as Mr.
Rue-hen intends to explain the propos
ed tryout and to direct the men in their
preparation of the question.
SENIOR CLASS
FACES DEBT OF
$266 ON ANNUAL
FAILURE OF OREGANA IS
LARGEST IN HISTORY
OF UNIVERSITY
Meeting Called for Wednesday to
Hear Manager’s Report And
Make Plans to Fill Treasury
I'inancia! failure of the 1910 Ore
gana, amounting to $266, has plunged
the senior class heavily in debt. As a
result each member now faces an as
sessment of about two dollars before
the class can graduate.
A meeting has been called by Oliver
11uston, president of the class, for next
Wednesday afternoon to hear the final
report of Manager Loosley, of which,
the above is a synopsis. Six hundred
copies of the book were printed, at a
cost of about $700. About half of them
were sold last year, netting a little over
$300. This year the price of the book
was reduced to fifty cents, but even
then they found little sale. The re
maining copies have been turned over to
Claude i )owning and it is possible that
he may dispose of them, but, at pres
ent the above indebtedness stands
against the class.
The Junior Annual never has been
a financial success, but the 1910 failure
is probably the greatest on record.
This, of course, is largely due to the
ambitious work undertaken, the “Ore
gana” being the first real Annual put
out at the University for three years,
liven the small paper covered affairs
of recent classes have gone behind.
“It is a thankless job and I’m mighty
glad it's ocvr,” said Editor Huston,
when asked concerning the Oregana’s
failure last night. “I never want an
other job like it. T did my best to put
out a good book, but the students did
not seem to appreciate it.”
Manager Loosley had the same com
plaint. “The book just wouldn’t sell,”
he declared. “I put copies in all the
houses and made personal appeals to
almost every student, but they took lit
tle interest in it. I never saw such a
listless spirit taken in a college enter
prise. I wish particularly to complain
of the attitude taken by the members of
the class itself. They arc the ones
who should have supported the book.
But they took no more interest in it
than the other classes. In many cases
the juniors gave far less support than
any other class. They certainly have
no kick coming, it serves them right.”
Just what action the class will take
is unknown. So far there has been lit
tle disposition shown to criticize the
management, and it seems probable that
the report will be received without com
ment and the time spent in considering
plans for raising the necessary coin.
It is possible that the matter will
be left lill later in the year until the
returns from the senior play are avail
able in the hope that it may yield suf
ficient surplus to settle last year’s bills.
The probability, however, is that a
straight class tax will be levied, either
by forcing each member to buy a num
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