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VOL. XIV. EUGENE, OREGON. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER M. UH2. No. 3 INNOVATIONS PROMISED BT JUNIORS III COMING UiEtWS STRUGGLE SANDBAG CONTEST TO SUP PLANT FREAK RACES OF LAST YEAR'S PROGRAM PUSHBALL PLANNED FOR FEATURE OF DAY Tug of War Across Duck Pond Will be Concluding Incident of Afternoon. Brevity and plenty of “pep” are i the characteristics which the Junior : class is seeking for in the second an nual Underclass Mix which is sched uled for next Saturday afternoon at 1:30 on Kincaid field. The sack race, three-legged race, and other freak events, which were a part of last year’s program, have been eliminated, for, although amus ing, they invariably cause delay and serve to drag out the proceedings. In their place the sandbag contest, as conducted in a large number of col leges, has been introduced. This event is expected to prove a feature of the afternoon’s sport, sec ond only to the push-ball contest. Fifty sandbags, weighing fifty pounds apiece, will be placed in the center of the football field, and all the men of both underclasses turned loose on them. The object of each side is to get as many bags as pos sible over its opponent’s goal line, and the class which by count of the judges has the best showing of sandbags at the end of ten minutes, will be declared the winner. The push-ball contest will be con ducted along the same lines as last year, except that the halves have been shortened from twenty to fif teen minutes, since it was found that the latter period affords ample op portunity for the expenditure of most of the surplus energy of the participants. The ball will be bor rowed from the Portland Hunt Club, which owns the only sphere of the re quired proportions in the state. A complete list of all the events, conditions, and officials, follows: Tug-of-War—10 men on a side. Ten points. Sandbag contest. All men of both classes. Ten minutes. Ten points. Push ball contest—35 or 50 men on each side. Fifteen minute halves. Each goal counts 25 points. Yells—10 points. Decorations—10 points. Appearance—10 points. Most Unique Feature—10 points. Half Mile Relay—Eight men on side. Judges of yells and drills—Dutch Young, Abe Blackman, Cecil Miller, Vernon Vawter. Judges of all athletic events—Bill Hayward, starter; Bill Neill, Dean Walker, Karl Martzloff. Announcer—Hen Roberts. Scorer—Quigley. Cops—Thad Wentworth, Chief of Police; Fen Waite, Flute Briedwell, Homer Jamison, Ben Chandler, Ercel Kay. Wally Dobie, Erwin Rolfe, Loyd Barzee, Carleton Spencer. Manager Geary left this morning for Eastern Oregon, to make ar rangements for the extensive Glee Club tour. He expects to be gone a week or ten days. Sam Michael returned from Port land Monday, having been gone since last Wednesday. i\ M. WORK OPENS WITH MEETING THURSDAY NIGHT The first meeting of the Varsity Y. M. C. A. will be held Thursday even ing instead of a week from Thurs day, as was first planned. The speaker will be Dr. Fletcher Homan, president of Willamette Uni versity, on the attractive subject, ‘The Well Educated Man.” Only at a sacrifice and after much persuasion did Dr. Homan consent to address the Oregon men at this occasion. Special music will be a feature of this meeting, and President Cash will preside. The T. M. C. A. meeting will be held in the customary meeting place, Dr. Schmidt’s room in Deady hall, at the usual time of 7 o’clock, closingj promptly at 7:50. Arthur Van Dusen, former yell leader and Glee Club stunt man, is visiting; at the Sigma Nu house. TRAINING 1A6LE HIT Hayward Defends System, and Says Abuses Are Not Probable. “Resolved, That the custom of j maintaining, at Student Body ex pense, boarding tables for athletic j teams is no longer justified by the best Universities and it should be discontinued.” This resolution, voicing merely the opinion of the faculty and not a command, was passed unanimously at a faculty meeting held yesterday aft ernoon. It was the intention of that body merely to go on record, as has been done in other institutions, against this custom, which has been main tained for many years as a necessary adjunct to football training. When interviewed this morning, Trainer Hayward said that unless this feature were introduced into the fall training at once, he would take 25 men on the Whitman trip, not risking possible injuries through lack of training. As to abuses in the system, he ad mitted that they were possible, but never happened here. He affirmed that a few, but not the larger insti tutions, had abolished the training table, and expressed himself as posi tive as to its necessity in the foot ball regime. Ml SOCIAL IS NEXT A joint reception will be given by the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. next Friday evening, from 8 to 10, in the men’s gymnasium. It is to be held for all students, friends, faculty, and especially for Freshmen. As in former years, a short pro gram will be given under the direc tion of the Social Committees of the two Christian Associations, of which Ruth Beach and Don Rice are chair men respectively. The defiinite pro gram will be announced later. Re freshments will be served during the intermissions. The reception will be strictly in formal, congeniality being induced through tags and a general “jolly up.” Patrons and Patronesses—Mrs, Ellen Pennel, Miss Ruth Guppy, Mrs. E. L. Fletcher, Miss Florence Cleveland, Mr. Charles Koyl, Mr. Burleigh Cash. Students on the outskirts of town may get their Emerald at the Book Exchange. Give your name to Sam Michael. Rex Turner, ’12, has been visiting at the Alpha Tau Omega house. DOPE SHEETS FORK FOOTBALL FORMULATED OREGON, WASHINGTON AND W. S C. COACHES LOOK FORWARD TO PENNANT DOBIE MOST SERIOUS CONTENDER O. A. C., Idaho, and Whitman, to Figure as Dark Steeds in Cham pionship Races. (By Jimmie Roberts.) Oregon, Washington, and W. S. C. football backers have all picked the 1912 Northwest Champs and dis pelled all doubt in the minds of the untutored as to who will be the big noise on the gridiron this season . Whitman, Idaho, and O. A. C. sup porters give out an impression that a dark horse is being groomed to kick over the dope bucket, show clean heels to the bunch and win in a can ter. The first three named look strong on paper and offer good ar guments as to why they should win. The last three are not arguing. Washington State has the 1911 team practically intact and the val uable addition of a coach whose rec ord approaches that of the wily Gil mour Dobie’s. One thing is fairly certain about Johnny Bender. If the Nebraskan is given eleven able bodied men, W. S. C. will have a team that will figure in the final account ing and with the number of veterans of Osthoff’s team back in school this year, it looks like a good bet that Bender will turn out one of the best teams Pullman ever had. Dobie says he is out after his an nual championship as usual and is smiling over prospects despite his loss of veterans. the loss ot cap tain Sparger leaves the purple and gold without a veteran in the back field, but the wily Scot smiles on. Nevertheless, Dobie can be counted on as usual. Dopesters sent their regrets to Seattle last year when Washington lost Eakins and Polly Grimm, but if any weakness existed in Washington’s pair of tackles last year, no one ever found it out. Archie Hahn predicts nothing for Whitman. There is only one thing about the Missionaries and that is that Niles is on the team and those who recall last year’s struggle with Whitman on Kincaid field will readily understand that Hahn will have some kind of a team. Pink Griffith is emulating the sphinx of Egypt and sheds no light on the Idaho situation. Griffith may be devising some new quirk in vivi sected football to succeed Jimmy Middleton’s famous “Idaho Spread” that startled football followers in 1907. Sam Dolan makes no rash prom ises for the Aggies, but modestly ad mits that his machine may be a championship contender. The ques tion of the elegibility of Houser, the Carlisle star, is worrying the mem bers of the Big Six more than O. A. C.’s championship chances. Y. M. and Y. W. Joint Reception Friday. The Y. W. C. A. and the Y. M. C. A. are making extensive preparations for the annual acquaintance party next Friday night at the gymnasium. An excellent program of music and readings, followed by refreshments, is promised. HAYWARD CASTS A ROUT | FOR CA M INSTRFCTOR | For gymnasium director, to take mtire charge of the floor and routine work. Physical Director Hayward an nounces that he has three men in view for the position. Graduates of the Springfield Training School, Grant’s School of Physical Education, St. Louis, and the Portland V. M. 0. ( A., respectively. Pending the arrival if letters of recommendation, Hay ward is withholding the names of the prospective a p p o i n t ee s. In the meantime, Hayward is di-, ■ recting the “setting up” exercises per- 1 sonally, not deeming it. advisable to employ student directors, as has been done formerly. Equipment to the extent of several pairs of boxing gloves, indoor base balls, mats and punching bags, have [ recently been added to the stock of muscle producers. Special Informal Following Under class Struggle Promised for Saturday. The first Informal Student Body Dance of the year will be held by special permission of the faculty, next Saturday night, following the Underclass Mix. This dance, which is being con ducted by Fen Waite in the absence of Manager Geary, will be the first of several such informal affairs planned for the college year. Students presenting season tickets at the door will be admitted free of charge. If only one of the couple has a season ticket, twenty-five cents will be charged. If neither has a ticket, the admission will be seventy five cents a couple. Tickets must be presented at the door. Manager Geary announces that this will be the best yet. Hender shott’s orchestra has been secured and the inimitable Berry will offi ciate at the punch bowl. There will be a long line of patronesses and all the college notables will be on the scene to meet the new Frosh and re new their acquaintance with the other classes. In an interlude be tween the dances, Carlton Spencer, the President of the Student Body, will present, the trophy cup to the winner of the Underclass Mix, which is to be held on the afternoon pre ceding the dance. WARBLERS TRYOUT SOON Director Bowman Will <• et Line on New Glee Club Material Next Wednesday Night. With the arrival tomorrow of M. L. Bowman, the new musical director from Portland, the Glee Club will immediately begin its fall training. The tryouts for new men will be held Wednesday afternoon, at 4 o’clock, in Villard hall, and will be under the direction of Mr. Bowman and Presi dent Frazier. About twenty-five or thirty men have already signified their intention of trying out for the club, so there will be a wealth of material to pick from. The club is woefully weak in the first tenor section, and is short a | few men in the other divisions, so several new men will be selected to fill these vacant places. The plans of the club as to the program are still in the air. There has been some suggestions of having the stunts put on by members of the dramatic club, who would be taken with the club. All this, however, will have to be worked out later, and in the meantime the Glee Club mem bers will begin work on their parts in the chorus. NSTALLMENT PLAN 10 HASTEN TICKET SATE IS SPENCER S SCHEME ;E\U\ CONTENDS Til AT OBJECT IS TO AROUSE INTEREST, NOT TO MAKE MONEY 'ART PAYMENT APPEALS TO WOMEN ncomplete Kist of Scheduled Events Shows That Ticket Includes Much. Two dollars and fifty cents now ind the rest before December 1, is he scheme devised by President .’arlton Spencer to make the student reason tickets more easily purchased jy the students who are suffering: From a flatness of the pocketbook, lue to payment of entrance fees. There is a general approval of the season ticket plan among: the stu ients, but five dollars, all at once, has seemed almost an insurmount able obstacle to the success of the plan, which necessitates that 400 be bought. The student tickets have been placed on sale at Steward John son’s office, and can be procured upon the installment basis. “There is no more money to be made by the success of the student ticket plan,” said Manager Geary yes terday, “than from charging the stu dents at the gate. The advantage to be gained is in increased spirit by having nearly all the students at the important games, instead of only a third, as statistics from last year show. The University of Washington students did not know what real col lege spirit was, until the season ticket plan was inaugurated. Since then Washington has come to the front in athletics and other student enterprises. If 400 of the students at the University attended all the games, the increased interest would enlarge the number and spirit of the candidates for the teams, so that they would be ten per cent stronger. “Upon the supposition that the sea son ticket plan will work and the 100 tickets will be sold, plans are be ing made to place movable bleachers at the north end of the men’s gym nasium. This would enable the stu dents to have organized rooting at the games, and give the rooters a fine view of the game too. “The necessity for having 400 tick ets sold, is due to the need that others buy them rather than charge the one-third that will attend all the games the regular prices. The treas ury of the student body is not in shape to stand a loss from the pro posed plan, but, no attempt was made to turn the scheme into a money maker.” “The events to which th estudent ticket will admit are as follows: Football. Washington High Schcool vs. Freshman game, October 5.$0.35 Oregon-Willamette game, Octo ber 12 .50 Oregon-Washington State Col lege game, October 20.75 Basketball. Oregon vs. Washington (two games) .$1.00 Probably Oregon vs. O. A. C. (two games) . 1.00 Oregon vs. Inland Empire Col lege . 1.00 Two other games . 1.00 Debate. Oregon - Washington (men), March 28 .$0.50 Continued on last page.
