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MASS MEETING Of all University women tomorrow after Assembly. PUBLISHED THREE TIMES A WEEK UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. EUGENE, TUESDAY APRIL 8 1913 __ _ _ ... V ol. XIV; No. 78. TO PUT COLTS WEATHER PERMITTING, BALL FANS WILL SEE FIRST GAME HERE ON WEDNESDAY PORTLAND LEAGUERS STRONG Team Will Leave on Northern Trip Friday, With String of Hard Games Ahead. (By J. Ward Arney.) Baseball dope these days ought to come out of the weather bureau. This continued rain is far more conducive to raising pond-lilies than developing ball players. This is particularly un fortunate now, with a game against the Colts scheduled for Wednesday and the trip east of the mountains starting Saturday. Unless the team gets a break of weather conditions this week, it will have small chance of tak ing the long end of the percentage column while on that trip. The trip is a hard one, including games with Salem, Washington State College, the University of Washington, and Mult nomah Club, and all these clubs are getting, in hard practice every day, while Oregon is missing it. If the team has any success on the road at all, it will be due more to horse-shoes than to training. Colts Reported to be Fast. If this game with the Colts is staged Wednesday, as planned, fans will get to see a fast, hard-hitting team in action. Reports from Med ford, where the Northwest leaguers are working this week, say that Nick Williams has gathered around him a galaxy of stars that are tearing the cover off of the ball every time they step up. In case this proves to be all fact, Mr. Ayer will be compelled to reci-uit a battery from the profes sional club to even up matters for the Varsity’s pitchers have not hed the practice necessary to make them serious stumbling blocks in the way of a gang of batting-fiends. So we can be assured of a close, interesting game. Tentative Lineup. The official line-up has not been given out as yet, but it is probable that Anunsen, Cornell, and Bigbee, with either Fenton or Billings at first, will make up the infield, while Cap tain Chandler, Mount and Kirk, Bill ings and Gorman, will appear in the outfield. The opening battery will be Welch, on the mound, and Reed, behind the bat. The game will be called at 3:30. PICKETT SERIOUSLY SICK Dispatch from Salt Lake States Ore gon Debater Has Acute Append icitis and Operation Needed. The Portland Journal prints the following dispatch from Salt Lake dated April 7: SALT LAKE, Utah, April 7.—The debate between the University of Utah and the University of Oregon, scheduled for Saturday night, was postponed until Wednesday, due to serious illness of James Pickett, one of the Oregon debaters. Pickett has been ill since his arrival in Salt Lake ; Tuesday, but not until late Friday night did his condition become seri ous. He was hurried off to the L. D. S. hospital. He is suffering from an acute attack of appendicitis, and if his condition does not improve today it will be necessary to operate on him. WHILE KEMPTHORNE DATGHES SIX FISH KOEHLERAND CONKLIN WORRY ABOUT HIM Professors Fear Mathematics Instruc tor Has Fallen Into Hands of Fish Warden. “Say,” said Professor W. H. Koeh ler Sunday morning to a cub, “as you put funny things into the Emerald once in a while, I wish you would say for Professor Conklin and myself, that we fear that Kempthorne has fallen into the hands of the fish warden for catching more than the limit of fish. He has not returned from his fishing trip yet, and we fear greatly for his safety.” The fact is that Assistant Professor W. B. Kempthorne went fishing last Saturday. He left Eugene Friday afternoon in the driving rain storm, and went to Deerhorn on the McKen zie. Fishing all day Saturday, he declares that he caught six, “which was pretty good considering the kind of a day that it was.” Professor Koehler insists that he stayed longer than usual, which was the cause of his great anxiety. DECIDED HIT SCORED BY SENIOR THESPIANS “STRENUOUS LIFE” IS CLIMAX OF DRAMATIC SEASON Vawter, Quigley, Warner, and Miss Bonnell, Were Stars of Production. (By A. H. Davies.) The Senior Play Saturday evening brought to a brilliant and spectacu ar climax the University’s dramatic sea son, and set a new standard of excel lence for student productions,—a standard that following classes cannot MANAGER OF PORTLAND COLTS, NORTHWEST LEAGUE. WHO PLAY HERE TOMORROW nBaHMaaBBBaBBBHaMMaMCaUBaHHHMaBBBMhMVg-Vnag^. A/Sc. Ac A/?yyys^ -^2 «r w ignore and that none can, without a high degree of histrionic skill and con summate management, equal. While the production did not prove financial ly successful, he would indeed be nar row-minded who would set monetary increment above the fulfillment of the ambition of every class—a play that is representative of the class and the University, that is worthy, and that! will be remembered, not only by the participants, but by all who witnessed it, as a “Success.” And the ambition of the class of 1913 was fulfilled. Feature Was the Cohesion of Units. The real feature of the production of "A Strenuous Life’* was not the spectacular work of any star; it was the wonderful cohesion of all the units into a homogeneous whole, that com pelled admiration. The entire caste gave evidence of ceaseless care and conscientious rehearsal, yet played their parts so naturally that the much dreaded stilted effect was almost en tirely lacking. Vernon Vawter and Florence Bon (Continued on last page.) I PRESIDENT OF OREGON FEDERATION OF WOMEN’S CLUBS CALLS ASSEMBLY TO OPPOSE INVOKING REFERENDUM OR CONSOLIDATION OF O. A. C. AND OREGON What was probably the first gun in the campaign of the friends of the University to fight any attempt to consolidate the two educational insti tutions of this state, was heard last Saturday evening at the Multnomah Hotel in Portland. It took the form of a meeting called by Mrs. Sarah A. Evans, President of the Oregon Fed eration of Women’s Clubs, and Doctor Homer I. Keeny, a prominent alumnus of the University. Approximately twenty-five people, alumni, students, members of the Fac ulty, and prominent Portland club wo men, together with President P. L. Campbell, of the University, were in attendance. Mrs. Sarah A. Evans, who is at the head of the Legislative Committee of the Oregon Federation of Clubs, was the presiding officer. Take Pledge to Fight for “U.” The immediate result of the meet ing was the pledging of support by j those present to the efforts to prevent: the invoking of any referendum, and the consolidation of the two institu tions. Another meeting will be called this week by Mrs. Evans, for the fur ther consideration of plans and the formation of a working organization. Eugene Brookings, an attorney with offices in the Spalding Building, and an alumnus of the University of Wis consin, opened the meeting with a brief review of the article that ap peared in the morning paper that, was the immediate cause of the meeting. He then proceeded to explain the de sirability of combating the movement from the start, and the best methods to to use. Believed that Opposition Serious. Richard W. Montague and J. E. Werlein, formerly treasurer of the - city of Portland, spoke of the neces sity of recognizing the threatened movement against the University, no matter how mistaken and erroneous were its aims for the actual better ment of the educational system of Oregon. They contended that the movement was genuine and sincere, and as such would have to be met by effective argument and strong organ ization. That the Oregon Agriculture Col lege did not support the late Millage Bill, and that its attitude on the pres ent question of consolidation may not bo what the University expects, was the burden of the remarks made by John H. Veatch, a prominent Oregon alumnus, and now president of the Poitland branch of the Oregon Alum ni, and by Fletcher Linn, another graduate, now head of the Oregon Manufacturing Company, of Port land. The former cited instances where efforts were made to get the aid of the O. A. C. graduates in the recent Millage Bill campaign, but the efforts to invoke their aid were futile. 0. A. C. Grads Work Against Oregon. Mr. Linn gave an instance wherein employees of his refused to sign the Millage petition, giving a S' their rea son the fact that their friends, O. A. C. graduates, had pledged them to work against the University. President Campbell closed the meet ing with the expression of the hope that the whole matter would be effect ually blocked, and that there would be no need of another tedious campaign. Others present at the meeting were Marshall N. Dana, of the Portland Journal, F. E. Beach, of the Portland School Board, and Mrs. F. Eggert. Y. W. C. A. MEETING TAKEN UP WITH STUDY OF PROVERBS _ * The subject of the Y. W. C. A. meeting yesterday was the study and explanation of the Proverbs. The meeting was led by Eva Brock. Marie Churchill sang a vocal solo. Helen Holbrook had charge of the proverbs. Welch and Reed will form Oregon’s battery tomorrow. AGORA COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO COMPILE “U” STATISTICS A committee has been appointed by the president of the Agora Club for the purpose of compiling a booklet containing University statistics for possible campaign purposes during the summer. The committee which will meet for the first time on Wed nesday, April 16, consists of Mrs. E. S. Parsons, chairman, Ruth Stone, Mildred Waite, and Elizabeth Busch. STAR SHORTSTOP OF PORTLAND COLTS, WHO WILL PLAY TOMOR ROW AGAINST VARSITY NINE C\ OPENING DAY PARADE MAY START BALL SEASON IN STYLE TOMORROW Geary Plans Procession Headed by Brass Band, With Two Teams in “Buzz Wagons.” The big league baseball season may open in Eugene tomorrow in true American style—with an opening day parade. Magnate Arthur McCornack Geary wants to send a few thrills and streaks of enthusiasm through the dulled souls of ye Varsity fan, who has been under the narcotic influence of the Weather Man for the past two weeks, by a real automobile procession headed by a big brass band. The members of the Port land Colts and the Varsity nine will follow in benzine buzz wagons, to gether with the other principals of the fray, including a few of the more rabid members of the bleacher bri gade. This entire aggrandizement of not ables will assemble at the Osburn Ho tel about 3 o’clock tomorrow, and proceed from there,to the campus. “Sousa Let. 'Er Ruck” Jerard and Di rector McCosh will gather the makin’s of a band, while Geary is sure that he can furnish the autos. PORTLAND EDITOR TO BE ASSEMBLY SPEAKER A. H. HARRIS, OF THE LABOR PRESS, COMES TOMORROW Following Address by the Labor Leader, Varsity Women Will Meet. A. H. Harris, editor of the Port land Labor Press, and a firm sup porter of the University, will address PREMIER THIRD BASEMAN OF NORTHWEST LEAGUE, WHO PLAYS HERE TOMORROW Dave Bancroft. the students at Assembly Wednesday morning on the “Problem of the Peo ple of Oregon.” Mr. Harris will take up the problem that will confront the Northwest upon the opening of the Panama Canal and will put forward the laboring man’s solution for it. Mr. Harris is competent to do this, for besides being a recognized leader of the Labor Unions in the state, he is manager of the Pacific Coast News Association and Editor of the. Semi weekly Journal. He was here or. the campus for the first time in years two months ago and expressed himself as surprised at the marked growth evi denced by the institution. The jour-! nalism students were favored by an ' address at that time. (Continued from Pint Pace.) AS HE HAS NO SPRINTERS, OR HURDLERS, BILL WILL PIN FAITH IN ABILITY OF DISTANCE MEN SHIFTS M’CONNELL TO 880 Hayward Wants to Beat Hahn's All Star Aggregation this Year Especially. Unable to hold regular try-outs on account of the fly paper condition of the track, caused by the incessant rains, that seem to have abated today however, Bill Hayward has been forced to shift his plan of strategic attack that he had planned for the Columbia meet next Saturday. McConnell Shifted to Half Mile. As there has been no opportunity to develop or condition any sprinters or hurdlers. Hayward has decided to pin his faith on his distance men to pull down the big purple bunting that is the Columbia prize each year. This has made necessary the switching of Gray McConnell from the hurdle events, where he has shown some promise, to the half mile race, the event in which McConnell holds the University record. McClure, Wind nngle and McConnell will be the Var sity’s starters in this race next Sat urday, Bill refuses to swallow the O. A. C. stories about their rotten prospects and few chances that the Aggies have to take anything but third place in the Columbia Meet. He mentions the fact that they have the big armory to train in, which allows a quarter nile track, while the covered side track on Kincaid Field has been in poor shape for training until recently. Bill to Choose two Pole Vaulters. Other changes in the track line up for Saturday include Bill’s decision to choose two pole vaulters from his squad of Miller, McCornack, Watson and Fee. The elimination of McCon nell from the barrier race leaves Fen ton and Fee as Oregon’s two hurdlers. Bill Hayward wants to beat Whit man College in track this year espe cially. If he can do so with his hand ful of raw recruits, he says he will be satisfied, for Hahn has the cards given him in the shape of a collection of star athletes. All he needs to do is to play them right in order to sweep the Northwest this year, according to Hayward. TO GIVE_FOUNTAIN Seniors Will Leave Memorial Which Will Cost Class Nearly $150. At the Senior class meeting Mon day afternoon it was decided that the class should follow the custom of past years and leave a class memorial. This memorial will consist of a foun tain which will probably be located between Ready Hall and the Library. It is estimated that it will cost one hundred and fifty dollars, for which a special tax will be levied. A committee was also appointed on caps and gowns and the chairman of this committee was instructed to go ahead and get orders from those members of the class who have not yet provided themselves with the reg ulation cap and gown. Ernest Lamb’s report of the Senior play was given and accepted at this meeting. The report shows a de ficiency of $10.35. The matter of staging the play again was taken up and discussed, since an offer has been made by the Fortnightly Club to put the play on
