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EMERALD UNIVERSITY OF OREGON VOLUME 11 EUGENE, OREGON, SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1910 No. 38 CONTEST WILL BEGIN FOR DOUGHNUT GUP TEN CLUBS AND FRATER NITIES TO COMPETE FOR TROPHY Schedule Includes Fifteen Games —Playing to be Commenced During Next Week. Ten clubs and fraternities will be rep resented in the Inter-Club Baseball League which is to compete again for the famous “Doughnut Cup" this spring. The schedule will be arranged at once and tbe committee, aims to have every thing in readiness for the first game of the series to be played next week. The election of captains and man agers of the teams has been made in the majority of the clubs already. L. FI. Gregory, of the committee states that the written applications from the vari ous clubs must be filed with the commit tee not later than Monday, so that steps may be taken at once to draw up a schedule and arrange for the first game. The two other members of the commit tee are Cal Sweek and Dean Goodman. Last year’s schedule was somewhat defective, since it made it impossible for any team losing in its first game, to stand a show in the finals. 1 his year a percentage system was suggested, but this plan will Ire out of the question. It would mean more games than could be played off this spring with as many clubs represented in the league as there are. The committee has finally compro mised on a plan whereby each team shall play two preliminary games. A per centage .of 500 in the prelim inaries will entitle a team to play in the semi-finals. Here the two winning teams will he selected and the series will close with a deciding game between them. This plan assures every team in the league of playing two games, and the two strongest teams will play four games in the series. Fifteen games in all will be played. The preliminaries and semi-finals will be arranged for Wednesday afternoons and Saturday mornings of each week, and an effort will be made to date the final contest for some time during the Junior Weed -End. An announcement of the schedule will be published in the Fmcrald next week. 1 he history of the Doughnut Cup, and the conditions under which it is given have been highly interesting. It was offered last year by the Midnight Doughnut, the terms being that club or fraternity must win it two years in uccession in order to hold it perman ently. East year it was won by the Eappa Sigma fraternity after an excit ing game against he Dorm Club in which the score was 5 to 4. Great in terest was aroused among all members I the Student Body and the games play d in the Doughnut League were al ways enormouslv attended. This year, with two new clubs in the league and V;ith the present holders of the cup de termined to keep it against all comers the series bids fair to be even more ex citing. i he Doughnut League aims to bring out purely amateur baseball and for that reason, while no man on the regular (Continued on last page.) PRESIDEN T CAMPBELL GIVEh FINE ADDRESS I lie first of tlie series of "Life Work Meetings," for college men. was held in !)r. Schmidt's room in Dead)' Mali, last night, the subject of the address being "The Choosing of a Vocation." Presi dent P. L. Campbell, delivered this ad dress, speaking in the place of Senator R. A. Booth who was scheduled to ap pear at the meeting but was unable to he present. President Campbell's address was de livered in his usual earnest and attrac tive style and was most heartily ap preciated by all who had the opportunity of hearing it. His speech dealt mainly with the question of education prepara tory to choosing a vocation. He urged young men not to be over hasty to make a choice of a calling early in life, but rather to acquire first a broad and lib eral education as a basis upon which to build. If one has not, in the earlier period of his college career, any mark ed talent or tendency toward some par ticular line of work, he declared that the broadening influences of a liberal education, coupled with the environ ments in which he placer] himself would conspire to assist him in making a suc cessful choice. The meeting was well attended, about eighty men being present. The second address of the scries, on "The Call of the Ministry,” will be delivered in Dearly Hall on Friday night, March 18th. by President Crooks, of Albany College. CO-ED TEAM DEBATES AS WELL AS m SHOWING MADE IN TRY OUT WEDNESDAY SUR PRISE TO JUDGES Considering the difference in the time for preparation of their debates, the judges declare that in the tryout for the co-ed team held in Villard Hall, Wed nesday night, • the women of the Uni versity of Oregon made as good a showing as did the men in their de bating tryout which was held earlier in the year. The team selected to represent the University of Oregon in co-ed debate against the University of Washington is regarded as an extremely strong and well-balanced team, and great success is predicted for it in the coming debate. Wednesday's tryout was the last of a series of three, in which nine of the women of the University were origin ally entered. Those who took part in the final try out were: Miss bay Clarke and Miss Hazel McKowan, on the affirmative, and Misses Corine Degermark, Lil.nh Clarke. Rirdte \\ ise. and \\ illetta Wright on the negative. The subject for debate, which will be taken up also in the contest against Washington, was in regard to the establishment of a postal savings bank. Each speaker was given the privilege of making a five minute constructive argument and a three minute speech in rebuttal. Those who were finally selected upon the team which will go against Wash ington. were Miss l ay t larkc, 12: Miss Birdie Wise, T2; and Miss Corine Deg (Continued on last page.) OREGON LOSES GAME BY A SINGLE POINT PLAYS BIG RINGS AROUND AGRICS DURING LAST HALF OF GAME Fin .! Score, 21 to 20—Return Game to be Played In Corvallis Tonight. Owing principally to tlie fact that the Oregon players didn't awaken to a realization that they were playing a game of basketball until the first half vas nearly over, Oregon lost to O. A. C. last Wednesday night, in the fastest, closest, most fiercely fought game of baskt tltall ever played in the history of the two institutions. Both teams were rough. Brook, of (). A. ( who was disqualified for hold ing, and Reed, who received a slight in jury. were taken out ol the game. Cap tain Stine of the Oregon team receiv ed a fractured nose as the result of a purely accidental collision with Morton of O. A. C. During the first half the Oregon team j seemed to be suffering from stage fright land didn’t get into the game. After the first basket of the game, which was made by Walker, Oregon didn't score again during the first half. At this stage of the game the Agries excelled both in team work and in shooting lias bets. The score at the end of the first j half stood ten to three in favor of | C<irvallis. I lie second h:ilf was a complete re versal of the first; Oregon outclassed Corvallis at every phase of the game, scoring seventeen points against eleven Jamison, Hlliott and Stine threw bas kets in quick ^accession, making the score twelve to nine. I lie crowd, which at the end of the first half had given up hope for a victory and began grim ly wondering how big the lin'd score would be, went wild and until the end of the game the noise was terrific. The Oregon team was at last playing the ball it was capable of. With her men passing and lighting like demons they slo.vly gained until the final whistle blew, jnst as victor) seemed in their grasp. For Corvallis Morton played the star ! game, while for Oregon Jamison, Walk er and Hlliott did the best work. Walter Win-do, . of Silent, refereei tie. game. Follow ing man of the Flaym Reed Cooper Keck: 11<>rt< m Brooks Jamison Stine Ruth Walker Hlliott is the lineup points made Corvallis pi isit i<m F. F. C. (i G U. of O. F F C G G and a sum (ii cals Field F. H 3 2 2 ; 3 3 2 Brrdeek and F.venden, of O. A. C. v re substitute d for Reed and Brooks wln-cu the latter were taken out of tin I game. I SARGENT WILL SPEAK ON HIGHER CRITICISM — Dr. A. II. Sargent's lecture on “The Bible front a Student's Point of View,’’ which will he repeated, in part, during his next address before the Free Re ligion Society in Deady Hall, Tuesday night, March 15, contains some valuable and interesting information on the sub ject of the higher criticism of the Bi ble. Mr. Sargent says that in the study of the Bible in its relation to other books, the student must take into consideration the fact that it is not the only sacred hook in existence; that many of its truths are shared by the sacred books of the Chinese, the Hindoos, the Mo hammedans and and others. “No one book, he says, “has a monopoly upon the whole sum of religious truth.” The Bible however represents the literature of a race (the Hebrews) which has per haps gained a broader and more thor ough grasp of religious truth than any contemporary races. 1 he meeting Tuesday night will be gin promptly at 7 o’clock and will close at eight o clock sharp. All who are in terested in the subject are invited to attend. SOPHS WININTEFkCLASS TRACK MEET TODAY MILE AND SEVENTY-FIVE YARD DASH ARE FAST With the discus throw and broad jump yet to he pulled as this story goes to press, the score in the interclass meet stands: Sophomores, fifty-eight; Fresh nun, twenty-eight ; Juniors, fifteen ; and Seniors, eight. I he mile was run in live minutes: George Riddell, first; Garrebrandt, sec ond; and McClure, third.. 'I lu1 seventy-live yard dash was run ft eight seconds: Kay winning first; films, second; and Hawkins, third. I he three hundred yard dash was won by McDaniels: Time, thirty-five sec onds. Johns and Williams came in sec 0 nl and third. The high jump was won by llaibert: li' ight, five feet three mcnes. Johnson and Murphy were second and third. In the high hurdles Hawkins came in first; Latourctte, second, and Holmes third. In the 660 yard dash McDaniels fin ished first; Riddell, second, and Gar '■'•brandt, third. Time, one minute and t hirty seconds. I he javelin throw was won by "Chuck” Taylor who made a throw of 124 feet; Mill Neill was second with a throw of 123 feet, and Hawkins third. I he 160 yard dash was run in eighteen seconds by Kay. Johns was a close sec ond. Williams took third place. I he low hurdles were won by Latour ctte, first; Hawkins, second, and Har hert, third. I he hammer throw was won by Bail j ey who threw it 114 feet. Struck was second and Kellogg, third. Pole vault was won by Sweany, who vaulted ten feet ux inches. Clutck Tay- - lor took second, and Meyers, third. Captain Williams was unable to enter tfi meet on account of a bad foot, hurt 1 while training some time ago. FIRST PLACE IS NOT FOR OREGON ROUNDS LOSES INTERCOL LEGIATE CONTEST BY NARROW MARGIN Only Two Points Behind Winner In Averaging .Percentages— Judges Favor Spread Eagle. Salem, March 12—Oregon failed to land first prize in the Intercollegiate Jratorical Conttst last night by the nar rowest possible margin. Edwin F. Mc Kee, of McMinnville College, with an • ration entitled "The Anglo Saxon," :ied with Rounds at sixteen points on mmmationo frank and won 89.9 to 87.7 m averaging percentages. Hounds (<iets Most First Places As last year, Oregon’s rppresenta ive received more lirst places than any >tlu r man, once more he made a pro toutul—probably the most profound ef fect on the audience, and again the ad verse marking of one or two judges matched from him the coveted laurels. In composition he received one first (>lace and two fifth places, a total of eleven points. In delivery he received two firsts and a third, making live more, nr a grand total of sixteen. President Wilson, of the Portland Academy, who awarded hint first place in composition, said that he referred the paper to Prof. B. A. Thaxter, a graduate of Yale, who pronounced Round’s oration by far the best. Winner Gets 7'wo I* ■irsts The winning orator received one first, one sixth, and one second, a total of nine points, in composition. This gave him an advantage of two points over Rounds, in delivery he received one second, one fourth, and one first, two more than Rounds had in delivery. I herefore, the two men were even and it was necessary to average percentages. I he judges who had given McKee first place had spread their marks wide, while those who gave Rounds first had bunch ed theirs. Accordingly, Rounds’ marks averaged less than McKee’s. Of the other contestants and the con test itself, there :s little to say. W. E. (iwynn, of Pacific University, who re ceived third place, was six points be hind tlie other two and none of the oth ers were in the race at all. Thty ranked as follows: Albany College, fourth; O. A. C. fifth; Pacific College, sixth; and Willamette University, seventh. I he Contest 1 lie spirit before and during the con test did not run as high as usual, though there was some, lively rivalry between the "midgets.” Miss Georgia Starr, with a violin solo, the Ladies’ Glee (.luh and the Men’s Glee Club, of Willamette University, added to the program by well rendertd selections that were heartily encored. The first orator was C. Despain, of O. A. C. Mis subject was “A Duty to Civilization." lie made a strong plea for the peace movement, cantending that it is America’s duty to lead it. The second speaker was Miss Ruth Rees, of Willamette University, on the subject, “Womans Place in Social and Political Life.” She was followed by Miss Florence Rees, of Pacific College, (Continued on last page.)