VOL. XIII. EUGENE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1012. No. 40 OREGON AND 0. A. G. BASKETBALL TEAMS POSE AS CHAMPIONS LEADERSHIP QUESTION STILL LEFT UNDECIDED BY COLLEGES TITLE COMPROMISE PROPOSED BY AGGIES Suggestion Made Collegiate and Con ference Titles Be Divided Between Rivals. By Jimmie Roberts. The title of basketball champions of the Northwest is still a weighty ques tion in the minds of sport followers, and at present is running loose with Oregon and 0. A. C. in hot pursuit. Both schools admit the other has a good claim, but are unable to reach any agreement as to the rightful own er of the title. O. A. C. has suggested a compromise whereby they call themselves “conference champions,” and Oregon to be known as “inter collegiate champions.” Just what the two titles mean is a huge question mark and could probably be defined better by the man who coined the words. The title of Inter-collegiate Cham pions of the Northwest takes in more territory and is evidently a compli ment paid to Oregon for her victory over Gonzaga College on the northern trip. O. A. C. after her two defeats in Seattle, lost the third game of the trip to Gonzaga. The claim of the Oregon team is based on the fact that the Aggies scheduled games with con ference colleges after the schedule for the season had been made out, which in itself is contrary to confer ence rulings. As is stands now, 0. A. C. has played one more game than Oregon, but both have lost the same number. In percentage 0. A. C. has .818 and Oregon .800. As no games were scheduled between the two schools and the chances for playing it off are extremely slight, the matter will probably be decided to suit indi vidual tastes, unless it is taken up at the next conference meeting and the claims of both schools are sifted down. The worst feature of the whole af fair is the recent statements of the Portland sporting writers who help to keep the breach between the two schools open by saying that the un decided championship has only wid ened it. If left alone, it would be but a short time before the differences would be patched and the former athletic relations would be resumed. It is a matter which can be adjusted by the student bodies of the two schools alone and outside aid is about as welcome as a “bust” notice from the registrar. The question to be decided is, be tween the “conference champs” and the “intercollegiate champs” who is the champion of the Northwest. Seniors Postpone Play. Yesterday afternoon, at 4 o clock, the Seniors held a short meeting: in Prof. Dunn’s room. It was decided to postpone the date of the senior play until about April 12. A senior com mittee was appointed to confer with the faculty committee as to the ar rangement for Commencement. A dinner was (riven at the Delta Sipma House Friday evening: in cele bration of the Founder’s Day of Phi Delta Theta. Toasts were g:iven by the Eug:ene towm members of Phi Delta Theta. NELSON GAMMONS COMES IN FOR MORE NOTORIETY Nelson Gammons, ex-’12, now a sen ior at Harvard and the husband of Mary Gaynor, divorced daughter-in law of Mayor Gaynor, of New York City, was recently arrested for as sault and battery upon a Boston mu sic teacher. The music teacher testified that he went to the Gammons’ home to collect a bill for music lessons, and that he was ordered out of the house with threats of shooting. As he was mak ing his hurried evit, he was met by Gammons on the porch, and in the al tercation which ensued, the musician was roughly handled. The trouble ended with Gammons drawing a fine of $25 in the police court. His bail was set at $200. It is not known as yet whether he paid the fine, or is temporarily detained by the civil authorities. GUtSSDEBAIERS CHOSEN Tryouts for Sophomore and Frosh Debating Teams to Be Held in Near Future. The Sophomore debating team of the Laurean Literary Society will be chosen by a competitive tryout at the regular meeting next Saturday even ing. Each candidate will be allowed five minutes direct argument and two minutes rebuttal speech on the ques tion: “Resolved, that Navigation of the Panama Canal Snould be Free and Unrestricted to All.” Each speaker is privileged to choose his own side of the question. The team will consist of three men, picked from the following entries: Terpening, Yaden, Cass, Collier, O. Heider, Hendricks, King, and Davies. A week from Saturday the Fresh man team will be selected, and the an nual inter-class debate will be held j the following week. The business of the Society this week will include nominations for election of officers for the remainder of the year. GREAT SHOW, CANDIDA Dramatic Club Appearing March 25th at Eugene Theatre Works to Per fect Production. In “Candida,” the Dramatic Club’s play to be given Monday, March 25, at the Eugene theatre, there will be an attempt to reproduce exactly, as to mannerisms and local color, with out any elaborate costuming, one of Bernard Shaw’s “pleasant” plays. From the reports of those connect ed with this production, gratifying progress has been made on the “dram atic antagonist for shortsighted Christian Socialist idealism,” which is Shaw’s characterization of “Candida.” The work of Miss Beals and Mr. Dunton, as well as Walter Dimm, the freshman, who was the sixth or sev enth to try out for his part, “March i banks,” being mentioned by Prof. J Reddie, wTio is coaching the perform I ance, which will assist the Inter I scholastic Track Meet financially. As to “Candida” itself, we find in 1 the introduction to volume of Shaw’s works, in which it appears, the state ment that “No equally subtle and in I cisive study of domestic relations ex ists in the English drama.” The point of the play it that, with every true women, the weakness which appeals to her maternal in stinct. is more powerful than her ! strength that offer protection. Seats will be on sale Saturday morning, $1.00, 75c and 50c. The cur tain will rise at 8:15. NORTHWEST BASKET BALL MAGNATES PICK THEORETICAL CASTS BOHLER OF W. S. C. AND STEW ART OF O. A. C. HIT UPON FIVE FOR SPALDING HAYWARD CANT SEE 0. A. C. FOR DUST Oregon Coach Tells Why His Team Is Entitled to Official Recog nition. I Following the close of the inter | collegiate basketball season, it has I been deemed expedient to pick an all Northwest conference team for use in the annual Spalding publication, and most sport lovers are already familiar with the selection made for this pur pose. Bohler, of W. S. C., and Stew art, of O. A. C., the men delegated to choose the paper team, have already announced as their selection the fol lowing lineup: Forwards, Jamison, Oregon; Cooper, 0. A. C. Center, Savage, Washing ton. Guards, Keeler, Staatz, of Wash ington. Bill Hayward, the coach of Oregon’s stellar basket-shooting quintett, holds a different opinion from that of the disgruntled Bohler. In Mr. Hayward’s choice three Oregon players, Jamison, Fenton, and Sims, and two Washing ton men, Staatz and Keeler, would appear on the hypothetical aggrega tion. In explaining his choice for the all Northwest team, Mr. Hayward said: “I have picked these men with refer ence to the manner in which they ac tually played their own positions, not because of the way in which they might have held down other positions. O. A. C. does not figure in my selec tion because I have not seen their .bunch in action, although some of them may be sufficiently good to war rant favorable mention. “Jamison, of Oregon, as forward, deserves the position of captaincy. In spite of the fact that he has been saddled with the best sticktight guards in the league, more baskets are listed to his credit than have been ac quired by any other Northwest player. Staatz is fast, an accurate shot, and would make an excellent partner for Jamison. “For center there seems no doubt in my mind but that Fenton is the log ical man for the place. He has easily distanced all others playing his posi tion in the matter of point gaining, having run up 95 points for Oregon in conference games. Only in the second match with U. of W. in Seattle was he outclassed, when Savage ran up one tally against the big Oregon man’s zero. “Sims of Oregon, and Keeler of Washington, I would name for guards. Keeler is the best stick-tight man in the league, while Sims is fast, plays the floor and dribbles and shoots well.” APRIL FROLIC POSTPONED UNTIL APRIL TWENTY-SIX The April Frolic, which was to have been on March 29, has been postponed owing to the fact that the Stanford de is extremely undesirable to bring two student body affairs into conflict in bate take place that evening, and it be held April 26. Seid Back, Jr., ’07, one of Portland’s j foremost citizen. Mr. Back is a rela tive of two former students of Ore eon, Harry Ding, ex-13, and “Bill” Lai, ex-14. PORTLAND SCHOOLS WOULD ENTER JR. WEEK AQUATICS The Canoe Club enthusiasts have begun a search for a suitable location : for their canoe house, which is de sired adjacent to the campus. With the opening up of the spring sports, much interest is being- mani fested in canoing, and it is the hope of the club that the house be erected in the near future, in order that every thing be in readiness for the Canoe Carnival during Junior Week End. Lincoln High, Portland Academy, Jefferson High School, Columbia Uni versity, and the Eugene High School have asked to enter teams in the ca noe and swimming contests at the Junior Carnival. If the Athletic Council gives its consent, the entries will be accepted. Miss Barbara Booth has cards out for an “at home” Saturday. BASKETBALL PAYS WELL Manager Geary, by Careful Economy, Turns In $110 Profit to Student Body. By dint of judicious management and at the cost of many mental con tortions, Graduate Manager Geary is able to report for basketball $110 sur plus. Compared to the financial re sults of preceding seasons this is a small fortune. Last year basketball cost the university $60, and the mem ory of man runneth not to the days when this game paid for itself. The Harrisburg game at home brought $65, the Willamette games $60, the Inland Empire trip about $50, and the Washington game $133. When Idaho came down here, however, Geary saw his credit column dwind ling over half a century’s worth, for 3liq '0 ’S 'M IPPJAVO ;sod uoqi the dust. These losses were recouped on Washington’s visit for the closing games. The final struggle took place before a $200 crowd, though the dance immediately after was a considerable drawing card. These are the principal items of expense and profit, incident als costing over $60. On the conference schedule there was just about an even break. ZEDNIGK AWARDS U. 0. Declares He made a Mistake in This Morning’s Oregonian—O. A. C. Must Lose. As Oregon’s claim to the basketball championship was based upon the statement of Victor Zednick, that games scheduled after the conference season had opened, would not count in the percentage makeup, naturally the Oregon students were thrown into con sternation by the statement of Zed nick in the Oregonian this morning that O. A. C. deserved the champion ship. The atmosphere, however, is cleared by Zednick himself, who, in answer to Geary’s telegram of in quiry as to why he changed his form er stand on the matter, sent the fol lowing telegram this afternoon: Seattle, Wash., March 20, 1912.— Graduate Manager Geary, Eugene Oregon: I had overlooked the fact that 0. A. C. had signed two of her games after the conference season had opened. Games scheduled after1 the season has commenced do not count in the percentage makeup; therefore these two games of O. A. C.’s cannot be counted and O. A. C. cannot be awarded the conference championship in basketball upon the percentage basis. Victor Zednick. Continued on Becond page SWEET CHARITY ALL SMILES AT SUCCESS OF BIG COUNTY FAIR GYM IN GALA ATTIRE FOR SEC OND ANNUAL AUGMENTATION OF BUNGALOW FUND 20TH CENTURY DANCES GATHER DIMES Minstrel Show Proves Desired Oppor tunity for the WTise and Other wise. “There was a sound of revelry by night, And Oregon’s ’Varsity had gathered, then Her beauty and her chivalry; and bright The lights shone o’er fair women and brave men.” —-Apologies to Byron. The night was last Saturday, and the source of the aforementioned sound of revelry was the second an nual County Fair for the benefit of the Y. W. C. A. bungalow fund. Eclipsing, both financially and artis tically, the success of last year’s fair, Saturday night’s entertainment was a reproduction in miniature of the scenes of New York’s Coney Island scenes. “Bill’ Hayward’s academy was transformed almost beyond recogni tion, until it resembled, as the adver tisements promised, the Midway at a County Fair. Every available corner and ante-room was occupied by some species of device for the extraction of coin from the multitude; and through it all moved the merry mas queraders—clowns, cowboys, “rubes,” Oriental dancers—while painted and padded masculine pretenders in fe male disguise rubbed elbows with the bona fide representatives of the gen tler sex. It was tnis general enwiusiuBm with which the Varsity men and wo men entered into the spirit of the evening which assured its success. Miss Ermel Miller, President of the college Y. W. C. A., estimates that $235 was cleared for the fast grow ing bungalow fund. Last year about an even $200 was realized. The attractions were varied, but the general tendency of the present age toward terpsichorean forms of entertainment was clearly discerni ble. Nearly every show offered as its chief attraction some more or less spicy dance, and all the modern in novations in the “tripping of the light, fantastic toe” were introduced, from the “Texas Tommy” of the Sig ma Chis, to the “O. A. C. Rag.” Practically every fraternity and so rority in the University was repre sented by some form of attraction. The Beta Theta Pi’s led in the mat ter of gate receipts with their show, “Jardin de Paris,” but their expenses were also heavy. This attraction was a voluptuous scene of Baccha nalian revelry, participated in by half a dozen more or less attractive im personations of female loveliness. Another most popular resort was the “Orpheum” production, which was staged in the handball court and con sisted of vocal and instrumental mu sic, feats of magic, and the ever pres ent “Turkey Trot.” The “Texas Tommy” show fur nished bv the Sigma Chis, and “Jack, the Grabber,” the Fiji attraction, were both frankly on the “bunco” order, and caused great merriment. “Hell” was given by the Acacias, and al most everybody went. The Sigma Continued on page five.