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About Oregon emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 17, 1909)
UTAH TAKES NEGATIVE TO HOLD DEBATE HERE A telegram was received this morn ing from the University of Utah, in forming Manager Steele that they had selected the wg itive side for their de bate with the University of Oregon. This makes it necessary for Oregon to defend the national incorporation of all corporations doing inter-state business. Wlv’e m l'mlnuic1 last week Steele looked more thoroughly into the mat ter of holding the contest there and de cided that it would be inadvisable. Sev eral old graduate debaters, and members of the Law and Medical Departments thus advised him. 11 is report was ac cepted by the Committee of Oratory and Debate at their nice mg Monday and the contest will thereT re ! e held in Eugene on January Mill. Fine Program Printed The programs for the O. A. C. game were printed this morning. They are said to be the best thing in that line ever gotten out in the Northwest. Each program contains a large half tone cut of both teams, the coaches, captains, and trainers. A full page is also devoted to a description of each, telling where he is from, bis age and what lie has done. The line up of both teams is given, showing comparative age, si/e, experience, and weight. A diagram of the field is shown and a page reserve for keeping score, besides much other information of value to the spectator, and as souvenirs. 'I he program is mainly the work of \V. S. Main, one of the Oregon players and assistant on the staff of the Emer ald, assisted by Arthur Geary. They will be sold at the game for twenty-live cents each. OREGON’S FATE MAY BE DECIDED (Continued from first page.) out, Main will have to be taken from his tackle position to lill the gap. Scott will go in at tackle. Johnson is a new man who is showing up well and while lie may not he used Saturlay, he is looked upon as a coining end. Coach Forbes, in whose promises great reliance is always placed, says that with this week’s improvement in team work his men ought to win. lie says that the men worked hard against Idaho and expects them to keep up the same quality of light against O. A. C. Cordon Moores, Captain of Oregon’s team in 1007. came up from Portland yesterday and has been working with the ends. With the cripples doubtful, Oregon's line-tip will he about the same as in the last game except that Sullivan will In1 moved to fuMhack. Cilles’s shoul der is again bothering him, and he will probably be replaced by Storie. who has been show ing up well the two teams compare as follows: Oregon. Position. O. A. C. Michael U72) 1-K. R. Clark (163) Dodson (170) Pinkhatn t176) 1. 1 R. Bailey (236) LG.R, Mitchell (188) ('. Kellogg (185) k C. 1. Wallace (173) Hrinner (175) Dunn (175) L. Davis ( 173) Kvendeti t 1781 (160) Q. Reynolds ( 122) Keek (17h) II R Fnborg (178! Storie (186) (iilles (188) Main (1751 R. Scott (102) Kiltz (160) R IAL Humic; Hickson (160) Latourctte (1571 Sullivan (1(>0! Clark (182) 1 McKinley (170! Taylor (1 (v4 1 R. 11 1. Rasmusen (1 (Hi 1 Oregon average weight, 178; O. A C. average weight. 170 Officials will be — Cut t s. referee; Luck, umpire; Boyd, held judge; and Archie Holm, head linesman. The game will be called at 2:3(1 sharp. Halves thirty-five minutes each. LARGE CROWD HEARS HAWLEY AT ASSEMBLY An exceptionally large crowd attended the student assembly this morning, where Hon. Willis C. Hawley, Oregon’s Congressman from this district, gave a lecture on “How a Committee in the House of Representatives Does Its Work.” President Campbell introduced the speaker with a pleasant and compliment ary speech, and as Mr. Hawley came forward upon the platform, he was greeted with a long sustained round of applause from the asembled students. The lecture was interesting in the ex treme, giving a full and comprehensive view of the committee system which pre vails in the lower house of Congress, and the important part it plays in the conduct of national legislation. 1 he ad 'dress was interspersed with pleasing sidelights upon the customs that hold among the members of the House, which were most entertaining. In closing bis address, Mr. Hawley spoke earnestly in refutation of the statements one hears, to the effect that the I louse of Representatives is inclined toward corruption, showing that in its organization no member can hope to have any influence, or to hold the re spect and confidence of his fellow law makers, unless he is a man of tried in tegrity. No member of the House, he declared, ever occupies a position of importance in its organization until he has shown that he is a person of un flinching truthfulness and honor and an indefatigable worker foi the public wel fare. Men Meet Thursday Night The Men’s Meeting in Deady Hall this week, will be held on Thursday night instead of Friday, and President P. L. Campbell lias consented to ad dress the young men on the subject of "Some Values of Religious 'Thought.” President Campbell has delivered this address on a previous occasion, and it I is said to be one of the best on that subject that has even been given on the campus. A special musical number by a select quartette has been arranged for. The meeting will be called promptly at six forty-live and will be dismissed not later than seven forty-live, so that ill nitty be out in time for the football rally. All who attend are expected to wear their rooters’ hats and arm bands and be ready to go directly from the meeting to the Dormitory. 1911 Is Champion Why not have a junior-senior foot ball game? I'liis is the question that members of both elasses are asking themselves, and :t is rumored that the seniors will soon issue a challenge. For a purely novelty attraction, they say it would beat anything yet undertaken. Last year 1911 defeated 1912. 1912 has beaten the freshmen, so if the sen iors can win from the juniors they will be undisputed champions. The only thing in the way seems to be a lack of initiative on the part of either class. 1 he seniors say their rivals made such a poor showing in the recent track meet that they haven’t spirit enough to fight a high school team, to which the juniors retort that the elders are too dignified to put on a football suit. I he meeting of the Faculty Colloquial which was scheduled for last night was postponed until next Tuesdax night on account of the reception to Representa tive Hawley. Isabelle Hughes and Miss llrodie. of Portland, are visitors at the k. T. house this week. Janies O’Hell, 'll, was called home last Mondax h\ the sudden death of his father. IDAHO GAME RECALLS DEFEAT TWO YEARS AGO j Anxiety and doubt were plainly mark ed on the lace of coach, trainer and cap tain when the Oregon football squad re turned from Portland Sunday afternoon Bruised and crippled and tired, the men went out on the held Monday and i ues day in the poorest condition they have shown during the entire year. It was not that the team lacked care and attention. Fate seemed against them in the Idaho game, and, while its out come was never in doubt, it left behind a trail of wreckage that Oregon may have cause to look back upon as the most disasatrous of any contest in her history. It bears a striking resemblance to the Willamette game two years ago, which Oregon had been looking forward to as an easy preliminary scrimmage. In fact, there was much talk of advertising it as a second team game, lint when the final whistle blew, four of Oregon’s greatest players were on the hospital list. Clarke had a sprained ankle, Pink ham had a wrenched knee, Zacharius was absolutely unable to walk, and Arn spiger had several ribs broken. 1 he last w'as unable to play in the O. A. C. game a week later, and it was doubtless due to these injuries more than any other thing that Oregon lost to her riv als, the only defeat of the season. In the game last Saturday live of Ore gon's best men were injured and two of them are very serious. Besides this, Clarke already had a foot that kept him out of that game, and it is mending so slowly that there is little prospect of his playing Saturday. Walker also nurs ing a stiff leg, an injury that Hayward declares cannot be cured this season. It is almost certain that neither of these star men will be in the game against O. A. C. The other men on the crippled list are Latourctte, Oilles, Pinkham and Sullivan. I lie first named has an exceptionally bad shoulder which may keep him from playing. It is more probable, however, that it can be protected so that he can enter the game, lmt Forbes doubts whether he will be able to do his usually gool work in handling punts. None of the other injuries are serious enough to keep the men out of the game provided they do not get worse. But in any case they cannot help but handicap the play ers. These facts arc greatly worrying the coach and trainer. One game would not be so had—the men could stand the ■ punishment all right—but after the first, they will lie in no shape for the second. They leave for Seattle Saturday, giving no time to ascertain what shape they are left in and no time for doctoring. The trouble is that so many of the men will have to be kept out of the first game to insure their condition for the second that Oregon is in serious danger of los ing both. “Why. the Gym looks like a hospital every night," said Hayward speaking of the condition of the team today. "It will be impossible for several of the best men to play. Clarke can walk, but he is not able to kick the ball so he might just as well be saved for the next game. I here may be a chance of playing him then." Taylor has been weakened lately by an atack of tonsilitis. Tonight was his first appearance in pradtiee but be will probably be in the game Friday. Mrs. Young and daughter Frances en tertained Satan! ic evening for the mend ers of the Gamma Delta Gamma Sroriy and Mrs. Dunston, Miss Maud Stinson and Mrs. DeCou. “Five hun dred" was the game played in which Miss Fwn Roche won the prize. l ickets for the game h'riday will he on sale at Kuykendall's drug store and Sid Smith's cigar store tomorrow after noon and h'riday morning. General ad mission is one dollar and the grand fifty cents. PRESCRIPTIONS We use knowledge and care in the selection of ingredients which go into prescriptions, and science in compounding them. Ask your doctor if there are any better drugs than Merck, Squibb and Park Davis manufacture. In case of sickness which is most im portant, that the prescription be filled by a “cheap” druggist or a GOOD druggist? Free Waiting Room Free Telephone Bowers Drug Co. (Incorporated) Cor. Ninth and Willamette Sts. Phone Main 62 Campbell -Fellman Co. Complete House furnishers Students call at our New Store on Willamette Street YOUR CREDIT IS GOOD OUR PRICES RIGHT Bleachers for Oregon Rooters The new bleachers finished by the stu dents last Saturday will be reserved for the Oregon rooters in the game Friday. They have seating capacity for eight hundred and the rooters will occupy as much as they need on the west end next to the grand stand. Those rooters who wish to pay for seats in the grand stand will be given seats in the east end of it so that they can form part of the crowd in the bleachers. The old bleachers on the north side of the field are reserved for the O. A. C. rooters. Between halves the Oregon supporters will dance the serpentine ac cording to custom on their own field. After the game,, the winning side will have the honor. At the University of California, those rooters who appear on the bleachers without the regulation rooter hat are prevented from entering the rooter sec tion. Each man wearing the official hat is then given a megaphone. The “Evergreen” published at Pull man, Washington, will offer prizes of ten and six dollars for the best de scriptions for the Christmas number. Gladys Farrar, '09, of Salem, is vis iting at the Gamma Phi Beta house.