VOL. XII.
EUGENE. OREGON,
WEDNESDAY. MAR. 22, 1911
No. 41
MANAGER BARBOUR CON
FERS WITH O. A. C. AS
TO EXPENSES
VARSITYIRACK SCHEDULE EXCELLENT ONE
Conference Meet Will Be May 27
in Portland, but Washington
Has Withdrawn
Track Manager Barbour left this
morning for Corvallis to confer with
Graduate Manager Cox upon the divis
ion of the expenses of bringing Whit
man to the valley for a dual meet with
both Oregon and O. A. C. Manager
Stone, of Whitman, wired that the dates
were satisfactory, which leaves only the
matter of adjustment of expenses be
fore the contracts will be signed for a
dual meet at Oregon May 6.
Managers Zednick, of the O. A. C.,
and Larsen, of the University of Idaho,
have signed contracts for the tri-state
meet, wlr'ch will also be pulled off on
Kincaid Field.
The surveyors have finished staking
out the curves for the new track, and
the grading will be done as soon as prac
ticable. The extra work was necessi
tated by the inter-scholastic meet, for
Bill did not wish to over-work the im
mature high school athletes by pulling
off too many trial races before the finals.
On the new track ten men can run on
the thirty-foot straightaway, where will
occur the dashes.
Oregon’s complete track schedule for
this season is as follows:
April 8, Indoor track meet at Columbia
University.
April 22, Pacific Coast Conference
meet at Berkeley.
May 6, dual meet with Whitman at
Eugene.
-May 13, Tri-State meet, Oregon,
Washington nad Idaho, at Eugene.
I he date of the Northwest Confer
ence meet between the six conference
colleges, to be pulled off at Portland, is
not vet decided. Washington Univer
sity has withdrawn from the meet and
will not enter a team.
WOMEN’S TENNIS IS
POPULAR SPRING SPORT
M ith the advent of the spring days,
energetic and athletic women of the Uni
versity have turned their attention to
tennis.
I he courts are not yet in condition,
but work which will place them in read
iness for play will begin this week.
The girls of the University will re
ceive training in the game from Dr.
Stuart. The regular gymnasium class
hour will be devoted to tennis, after
the indoor exhibition just before the
spring vacation.
The members of the Tennis Club are
tioe, to be in trim for the spring tour
tice, to be in trim for the sprnig tour
naments. The beginners will also have
a tournament, and a cup given to the
winner.
MISS YORAN*ENTERTAINS
BETH RHEA SORORITY
Friday evening of last week Miss Lu
cile Yoran, '14, entertained the Beth
Rhea sorority at her beautiful Lawrence
street home. Covers were laid for
twelve, and after dinner all joined in
singing and playing games. Miss Yoran
was assisted by her aunt and by her
mother. Mrs. W. C. Yoran.
! FENTON HAS MOST POINTS
JAMISON MOST BASKETS
i A resume of the Northwest Confer
ence basketball season shows that Carl
Fenton secured the most points for Or
egon this year, but Captain Jamison has
two more field goals to his credit,
though he played in one less game. Fen
ton made in all 119 points, 41 field bas
kets and 37 points from the foul line.
"Jamie shot 43 baskets from the field,
and left the foul line baskets to the big
center Walker was next with IS bas
kets, Elliott close behind with 13, and
Simms secured 12. Moore landed six
in the three games in which he played.
j Invitations are out for a dance to he
given at the gymnasium by the Gamma
Phi Betas on April first.
emu as works
Several Men Hors de Combat
and Coach is Somewhat
Peeved
Mainly due to disagreeable weather,
baseball practice this week has not been
pulled off to Coach Lynch’s entire sat
isfaction. Catcher “Chuck” Taylor has
been kept off the field for several days
by la grippe. Tom Word has been
working out under the handicap of a
broken finger. Byron Houck, who is
bidding for a position on the Varsity
pitching staff, is suffering with a sore
arm. Dell Stamnrd, an outfield can
didate, is unable to report for practice.
Coach Lynch is desirous of having the
diamond laid off and the bases brought
out of retirement, at the convenience
of the assistant management.
The squad has been boiled down ro
twenty-four men. The candidates for
positions are: Catcher, Word, Taylor
and Broughton; pitcher, Peet, Houck
and Cozens; first base, Jamison; sec
ond. Barbour Newland and Jones; short
stop, Amtsen, Cobb, L. Dobie, Lyle
Brown and Gray; third, McKenzie, Rob
erts and W. Dobie ; outfield, Van Mar
ter, Chandler, Fenton, Mount and Stan
nard.
SCHEDULE IS POSTPONED
Doughnuts Magnates Decide to
Play no More Until
After May 10
All Doughnut League games post
poned until the close of the Varsity
season May 10, is the solution of the
problem of existence which has been
staring the frat league in the face ever
since opposition developed on the part
of Coach Lynch and Trainer Hayward.
It was found by the successors of
Lair Gregory that it was impossible to
get the teams together for games at any
other time than when the Varsity team
was practicing, and that during such
practice they were unable to secure a
diamond.
It was proposed to play the games
Saturday forenoon, hut engineers de
clared they could not cut shop work and
laboratory periods. Another annoyance :
to the distressed baseball magnates was!
the fact that both baseball and track
men were forbidden to play with the I
Doughnut teams. Thus it became nee- i
essarv for the managers of the league
to find relief, or perform the last sad j
rites over their much abused league.
A loop hole was found out of their,
difficulties in the fact that the Varsity
season closes on May 10. leaving more
than a month of school during which
the inter-frat league will have access j
to the diamond and will be allowed to •
play Varsity men.
STRAIGHT PROPOSITION
ANSWERS IN. U. ATTACKS
WILL WILLAMETTE BACK
OUT A THIRD TIME
THIS YEAR?
GIVEN CHANGE TO SHOW ON ABSURD CLAIM
Methodist College Can Now Take
Otter and Prove Much
Vaunted Strength
Eugene, Ore., Mar. 22, 1911.
Mr. Austin 1*'. Flegal,
-Man. ger Football, W illamette Uni.,
Salem, Oregon.
Dear Sir :
My attention lias been called to a
caustic article in the Statesman of March
18, entitled "Oregon Colleges at Swords
Points,” or something of that kind, and
it strikes me that somebody at Willam
ette is becoming the least bit excited,
and that unduly.
It isn’t my intention to go into past
history and discuss why Oregon did!
not meet Willamette in football and
basketball this year. Our managers are I
certain that they acted in good faith,'
and your authorities say that they did.
However, in order to avoid giving your
college any chance to rush into print
about the 1911 football season, 1 wired
your Dr. Sweetland from Spokane on
December 27; 1910, at the time the sched
ules for conference college football
games were being arranged, asking him
to name a date for the 1911 game. To
this I received no reply. On January
2 you and I fixed a tentative date for a
game, October 21st, and later you wrote
me that you would fix it definitely
while in Eugene on the 10th of this
month. Instead of doing this, your col
lege rushes into print with sarcastic
comment.
It is obviously your turn to play the i
1911 game in Eugene, and I still stand!
ready to sign a contract with you for |
the date decided on, guaranteeing you
expenses or 50 per cent of the net gate
receipts, or on any other fair and rea
sonable terms, or will sign a two-year)
contract, Oregon to play at Salem in1
1912 on a date already '.agreed on, Oc
tober 19, 1912, on whatever terms you
elect to play the 1911 game on. How
ever, if your desire to play Oregon is
bona fide, calm down whatever is back
of this at Willamette, and talk bus
iness, because I am, and always have
been, open to any reasonable proposi
tion. Yours truly,
JAS. C. JOHNS,
Mgr. Football, U. of O.
The above was called forth by Wil
lamette’s recent articles in the news
papers, which attack the University in
general, and the Varsity football and
basketball teams and the Emerald in
particular.
Willamette’s articles have appeared
in several papers, and as the most ef
fective rejoinder, Manager Johns wishes
to put the Methodists in a position
they can not worm out of, as they did in
football last fall and in basketball this
spring.
As may be seen from the above letter,
the issue of a next year’s football game
is squarely up to Willamette. Manager
Johns states that he would not care to
bother with the slippery bunch, but feels
that such an offer will be the most ef
fective rejoinder to their scurrilous at
tacks. However, from previous deal
ings, he expects Dr. Sweetland to again
pass up the offer on some pretext and to
continue in his absurd championship
talk. He feels, however, that thus put
ting it squarely up to Willamette will
be the best answer.
TENNIS ACTIVITY CAUSES
INTEREST IN TROPHY CUP
\\ itli a large number of devotees
turning out tor tennis, interest turns
toward the contest for the Lara way cup,
which was won by Shatigle, '10, Jns:
year.
Anyone connected with the University
is eligible to compete, and under a hand
icap system all have an equal chance.
The nominal entrance fee of 25 cents
is to defray the expenses of several
improvements on the court and to in
sure the appearance of all entrants. The
trophy cup is on exhibition in the gym.
I wo Varsity representatives will he
chosen by the percentage method in the
com pet it ion.
CLOSE SEASON ON FRO&H
Stanford Prohibits Tubbing, But
Does Not Provide Mill
Race
I lie sound of running in the frat |
houses at Stanford will have no terrors
for the Frosh at that institution here-1
after, for an edict has just gone forth
th: t all the fraternities must put a stop
to the time honored custom of hath
tubbing Freshmen. Since the anti-haz
ing rules in 1909, the Student Affairs
C anmittee litis .attempted to put a stop
to the practice several times, on the,
grounds that it interfered with the school ’
work of the first year men, hut could
think of no effective way of carrying
out their plan. The head of each fra I
ternity is now made responsible for the
conduct of the members of his house.
David McDaniels is suffering from tt
severe attack of tonsilitis, and Satur
day was reported to have a temperature
of 104. The rumor was about that the
President of the Juniors was coming
down with the typhoid, but his physi
cian has now diagnosed his malady as
tonsilitis.
The W. S. C. Evergreen, March 14,
appeared in a brilliant and glaring green
appropriate of St. Patrick’s Day.
WILL NOT FIGHT FRATS
Though a Bit Sore Over Turn
down, Oregon Club Will
Uot Retaliate
At a- meeting uf Lite Doughnut Bottl'd
of Directors Sunday morning the peti
tion of the Oregon Club, for admission
to the league, was denied. The reasons
given for such action by the league
members tire that the Oregon Club
asked for membership too kite, the
schedule already having been arranged
and one game played, and that the Or
egon Club is not yet firmly established
as a permanent organization, with its
own home.
I he Oregon Club feels disappointed
over the refusal, and rumor had it that
it would come back with a vengeance,
place a ticket in the field tit the annual
elections in May, and try to oust the
fraternity element from college offices.
I bis rumor, however, is emphatically
denied by the members of the Oregon
Club. They say they have no antipathy
for fraternities and want none to arise.
1 hey will place no general ticket in the
field at the May elections, and will vote
no straight barb or fraternity ticket.
They are in hopes that by next year
they may be considered organized to
such an extent that admittance will be
given them to all inter-club leagues.
Bill hopes great things of his new
idea in coaching, though he says he will
in future apply it mostly to Freshmen,
RE-ELECTION IS UNANI
MOUS AND COMES AS
RECOGNITION
WAS ALL-NORTHWEST SELECTION
Jamie Is Also Strong Man On
the Gridiron and the
Diamond
Homer L, Jamison, '12, was re-elected
captain of the \ arsily basketball team
tor the s, .son of 1912.
I be election was unanimous and came
as a just recognition and reward for his
important services to the team the past
season, as, besides acting as a most effi
cient captain, he made himself feared
for his prowess as a point taker through
out the conference circuit, and won a
place on the official All-Northwest se
lection. Also lie was picked for this
position by Coach Griffiths, of Idaho,
anil other authorities on the basketball
game.
Besides his exploits in the winter
game, Jamie is a football and baseball
matt of no mean ability. Last season
he made his initial appearance on the
gridiron and easily won the position of
right end. He has played first base on
the Varsity nine since his advent at Or
egon, and last year was named as the
stellar first baseman of the conference.
The last was also his third season in
Varsity basketball.
This year Jamison made 86 points in
conference games, and did much to put
Oregon in the honorable position it
held in the Conference League.
Jamie expects every one of the pres
ent team back for the coming season,
ami believes that with the increased in
terest in the indoor sport, which has
been .aroused this yeii>r, the 1912 basket
ball season will be the most successful
in the college’s history.
The final balancing of the official
score book shows that Curl Fenton se
cured 119 points in the conference games
this season, 41 field baskets and 37
points from the foul line. Captain Ja
mison was next with 86 points, till of
which were made from the field. He
made two more baskets than Fenton,
though he played in one less game.
Dean Walker landed 18 baskets, and the
guards, Elliott and Simms, totalled 15
and 12 baskets respectively.
DRAMATIC CLUB TO PLAY
DURING JUNIOR WEEK
The Dramatic Club met Thursday
evening with Professor (lien, and after
considerable discussion, decided to pro
duce a play during Junior Week End,
probably on Thursday evening. This
date has been reserved by the Student
Affairs Committee for a Dramatic Club
play Final selection of the play to be
rendered will be made at the next meet
ing of the club.
CHARLES VAN DUYN, T4,
IS SLOWLY RECOVERED
The reports current, to the effect that
Charles Van Duyn, ’14, of Eugene, is
dead of typhoid fever, ire incorrect. Mr.
Van Duyn has been very low for some
time with the dreaded scourge, but is
now recovering rapidly. The false re
ports are said to have originated
| through a Sophomore hearing two of
Van Duyn’s friends talking of sending
him some flowers. Without waiting to
verify the conclusion, the men decided
| that he was dead, and thus started the
report.