PUBLISHED THREE TIMES A WEEK
No. 84
CORVALLIS OPENS WITH
OREGON TOMORROW
CORVALLIS NINE PLAY FIRST
CONFERENCE GAMES WITH
OUT STAR THIRD
BASEMAN
NO UMPIRE SELECTED YET
Cooper, Agric First Baseman, Who
Was Reported Professional,
Will Play.
(J. Ward Arney.)
Report, came yesterday from Cor
vallis that the Aggies suffered a dis
astrous puncture to their infield in
a practice game when Thirdbaseman
Wilson, in attempting a steal of sec
ond base, caught his foot in the bag
and was carried from the field with a
broken leg. This injury will keep
Wilson out of the lineup for the rest
of the season and his loss will be
keenly felt, for he was living up to a
reputation gained at prep-school of
being a star of the first magnitude.
Coach Garrett has drawn Gross into
the breach thus made.
Cooper Eligible to Flay.
It was also reported that Cooper,
the captain and first baseman of the
team, would be ineligible for the
series with Oregon because he had
signed a contract to play with the
Regina Club in the Twilight League,
but it has been found out that his con
tract does not call for his reporting
to that club until the end of the col
lege year. The mere signing of this
contract does not professionalize
Cooper, and he will be seen at his sta
tion during the coming series. His
-entrance into professional company,
however, indicates that 0. A. C. has
a man above the average in college
circles.
Coach Ayer is whipping his aggre
gation into shape at six-cylinder
speed, devoting most of the practice
time to batting work, and his boys
are turning the ball over in a way
that is a real treat to watch. If they
swing the sticks in a regular game
like they do in practice, some oppos
ing pitcher is due for the morgue or
permanent heart failure.
“Umps” Is Missing.
The question as to who will officiate
in the 0. A. C. games is giving the
management serious trouble. Both
Manager Geary and Doctor Stewart
have submitted a list of eligibles, but
as yet no aggTeement has been
reached. The choice will probably
fall on some old leaguer, whose
knowledge of the game and non-par
tisanship will satisfy both colleges.
Whoever “His Umps” may be, he
will call Friday’s game at 3:45, and
the one Saturday at 3 o’clock.
GEARY WILL WATCH
STUDENT BODY TICKETS
“Unless the students holding sea
son tickets piesent them at the gate
at the time of the contests, they must
pay the regular admission price be
fore they are allowed to enter,’ said
Manager Arthur M. Geary yesterday.
“Too many have been coming in by
saying that they have left their
tickets at home* when in reality some
of these people possessed «no tickets
at all. We are now going to strictly
enforce this rule.
“We shall also enforce the rule that
those who give their tickets to some
one else, w’ho attempt to gain admis
sion in this way, wfill have their tick
ets cancelled. These tickets are for
the use of the purchasers only and the
management cannot afford to allow
the use of them by others.”
Next year all this trouble will be j
eliminated, as the Student Body tax
payable at the beginning of the first
semester will admit the students to
all the Varsity contests.
Another mill race party is sched
uled for Friday night, is the ruijior.
JOHNNY WELCH
W ho Pitches Tomorrow.
UNIQUE Pin STAGED
BY VALIANT FRESHMEN
NON-WEARERS OF THE GREEN
CAP GO IN MILL RACE
Only One cf Victims Showed Very
Quarrelsome Attitude in
Affair.
A little Freshman party was held
last Tuesday night, which was en
joyed immensely, especially by the
hosts. The invited guests did not
like it so well, as they were treated
by their classmates to a form of
amusement that is not wholly entic
ing on a cold night. It was an in
formal swimming party for the ben
efit of some few Freshmen who have
not been wearing their little green
caps as regularly as the rest of the
class thinks they should. There were
seven of the boys introduced either to
the cold waters of the mill race or
the black mud at the bottom of the
duck pond.
The affair was well attended and
there was much of interest to the up
perclassmen, who were there as spec
tators in no small number. One val
iant fighter did not take readily to
the suggestion of his fellow Freshmen
that he have a bath at that time of
night, and as a result there was a
little struggle. It did not last long;
the odds were too great, and he hit
with a resounding splash.
The committe in charge of the pro
gram say that they have a list of
about twelve or thirteen up for con
sideration and are merely waiting for
one of the elected to appear upon the
campus or on the street minus the
pastoral decoration and that then
there will be another party.
To be on the safe side, it is an
nounced that Freshmen had better
wear their little green stamps for the
remainder cf the time. Their period
of servitude will last only a little over
a week longer, as the caps are burned
during Junior Week-End.
INTERSCHOI ASTJC TRACK
MEDALS ON EXHIBITION
Medals for the Tnterscholastic
Track Meet to be held here during
Junior Week-End, have arrived at a i
down town revelry store. The prizes
are gold, silver, and bronze for the
first, second and third places in the
regular scheduled events.
The fraternities will pay for the
medals again this year, each organi
zation buying the medallions for two
events. The customary prizes for the
highest individual point winner, and
winning relay team, will also be con
tributed by different houses.
The Varsity is out on the Diamond
daily—between showers.
OTHER COLLEGES HAVE
EASED OREGON’S EIGH1
PRES. CAMPBELL DISCUSSES
" PL LITER EDUCATION” IN
ASSEMBLY TALK
YESTERAY
m LEAGUE IS DESCRIBED
j Statistics Show that Two School
System Is Better Than
Consolidated.
The position of higher education in
Oregon now that the referendum on
the Univeisity appropriations is
pending, and the organization for the
support of the present system, were
discussed by President Campbell at
Assembly yesterday morning.
“The present situation of the Uni
veisity is not an original one,” said
President Campbell. “Nearly all the
middle western states have faced the
same problem, and the result in each
case has been strongly in favor of
education.
“The meaning of higher education
is ‘all the people educating all the
people.’ ” I think that the people
understand that, and the only prob
lem now is organization. Shall our
system be evolutionary or revolu
tionary ?
Double System Proves Best.
"Our present institutions have
stood for forty years, and all the
facts are in favor of the system as
the best. Where the two institutions
are combined, statistics prove that
from one-fourth to one-half more is
spent on each sdutent than in the
states which have consolidated. In
Nebraska and Minnesota, where the
two are combined in one school, the
two phases have taken a natural
course of separation. The buildings
for each , the agricultural college and
the university, have been placed on
iifferent campuses, and the activi
ties of the two are really separate,
n California there is strong agita
tion in favor of separating the two,
and adopting the two school systems,
if we were to consolidate our institu
tions, we should probably work back
to the present system.
(Contined on last page.)
ORDER OF "0” REVIVED
BY VARSITY ATHLETES
Twenty-five Men Eligible for Mem
bership in Club to be Formed
Tuesday.
Aroused by the efforts of the de
bators and orators in organizing their
Order of the Forensic O, the men of
the University who have won an
‘0” in any athletic activity, will meet
next Tuesday evening, at 7 o’clock,
at the Kappa Sigma, and revive the
old Athletic Order of the “0,” that
has been sleeping for the past two
years.
The three men in the University
now who were members of the old
order, Ben Chandler, Edward Bailey,
and Dean Walker, have been instru
mental in having the meeting called.
Their plan includes the adoption of a
small pin or emblem, other than their
Varsity “O,” the adoption of a Con
stitution, and the placing of the Or
der on the basis of an active club of
good fellowship.
Those eligible for membership in
the order include Fred Anunsen, Ed
ward Bailey, Tom Boylen, Robert
Bradshaw, Paul Briedwell, Irwin
Brooks, Wallace Caufield, Ben Chand
ler, Robert Fariss, Carl Fenton, Wil
liam Heusner, Chester Huggins, Joe
Jones, Ercel Kay, Walter McClure,
Waldo Miller, Wallace Mount, William
Neil, Don Rice, Clifford Sims, Everett
Stuller, Dean Walker, Anson Cornell,
Sam Cook, and William Holden.
40 GflEEKS ENTERED
INTER-FRATERNITY TRACK AF
FAIR SATURDAY MORN INC
TO BE WELL CON
TESTED
SPECIAL CUP FOR RELAY
Each Team Limited to Five .Men. But
Relay Is Open—McClure to
Be Starter.
Saturday morning, at 0 o’clock, on
Kincaid field, Walter McClure will
fire the gun for the 100-yard dash
which will inaugurate the second an
nual inter-fraternity track and field
meet at Oregon. The fraternity win
ning first place will get possession of
the Hayward cup until the following
season. The cup is now held by
Sigma Chi.
From the interest displayed on the
campus, the coming meet promises to
eclipse that of last year in which sev
eral Mexican records were broken.
While the heads of the respective
houses refuse to give out any infor
mation and are keeping records secret,
it is understood there are several
dark horses in the field, who say that
they will lower all records. Bill Hay
ward will have charge of the meet
and is planning to add several of the
winners and would-be athletes to his
track squad, if they show sufficient
class Saturday morning.
The order of events as announced
by the directors of the inter-fratern
ity council are: 100 yard dash, pole
vault, 880 yard run, high jump, high
hurdles, broad jump, mile run, shot
put, 440 yard dash, 220 yard dash,
discus throw, low hurdles, javelin,
two mile run, and relay.
The probable entries from the dif
ferent clubs and fraternities follow:
Alpha Tau Omega—James Pack,
Earl Blackaby, Dick Onthank, Fred
Barbour, and William Cass.
Phi Gamma Delta- Alva Grout,
Howard Gray, Walter Fisher, Aaron
Gould, and Henry Trowbridge.
Kappa Sigma—Sam Cook, Charles
Bingham, Delbert Stanard, Glen Sto
rie, and Anson Cornell.
(Contined on last page.)
BEZDEK HIES ABOUT
1913 FOOTBALL PLANS
Says He Can Work Fifty Times as
Hard as in 1906, and With Ore
gon Spirit Can Win.
“And the last point that T wish to
make is that I have learned to work
about fifty times as hard now as
when I was there six years ago.” So
says Hugo Bezdek, the 101 .*{ football
coach in a letter received recently in
Eugene, commenting upon his plans
and prospects for the coming season.
Thpse who recall the methods .used
by Bezdek when he was here before,
may wonder how this can be true.
Bezdek declares that the system
that he will use here next fall is
partly original, copied, and also in
cludes some new develpoments in the
science. The system is, however, far
more complicated and versatile than
the system he taught in 1906. A new
system of play, both offensive and
defensive, has been developed by
him, but he writes that it will not be
used unless he finds material that can
comprehend and master it.
As a tribute to the spirit existing
in the University, Bezdek concluded
with the statement that “if the old
Oregon spirit is there now that was
there six years ago, or rather if it
has been developed, I can not see how
anybody can hold us down.”
Lawrence Dineen, ex-15, was visit
ing here this week.
MOTSl'KN HACK ER
Oregon’s Catcher.
‘1
SOPH FRQSH DEBATERS
HiLLlEAEUBESWOHDS
CONTEST SATURDAY TO HE FOL
LOWED HY DANCE
J2*11, Donald, and McConnel to Meet
O'Connell, Tooze, and Drown of
1916 Class,
1 he first annual Sophomore-Fresh
man debate, a now phase of forensic
activity inaugurated this year by
Coach Beit Prescott, will be held in
V illard Hall, Saturday evening, begin
ning- promptly at 7:.'10. The members
ol the first teams to represent these
classes in this new activity in' the his
tory of the University are, Maurice
Hill, leader, James Donald, and Gray
McConnel, for the Sophomores, and
Allen O’Connell, Lamar Tooze, and
J. Prentiss Brown, for the Freshmen.
Resolved: That life imprisonment
with restricted power of pardon,
should be substituted for capital pun
ishment in Oregon reads the ques
tion, with the Freshmen supporting
the affirmative and the Sophomores
the negative. Both teams have been
haul at work since the try-outs in
March, and each state they have
something to "spring” that will put
the other team to rout. The negative
team took the trouble to write to
governors and state penitentiary
wardens in the United States, asking
each to answer a list of prepared
questions, and submit an opinion on
this subject, with reasons. This in
formation, il the majority is against
life imprisonment, will be damaging
evidence to use against the Fresh
men.
Howard Zimmerman will be presid
ing officer. Special music will ally
the nervousness of both the debaters
and those interested, while the judges
are forming a decision.
And after the contest, those present
at the debate will have the privilege
of attending, free of charge, a dance
to be given in the Gymnasium by the
two classes.. Jf the debate does not
draw the interest of others who wish
to attend the dance, they will be ad
mitted to-the dance for fifty cents.
Both the classes have held meet
ing-, and the loyal support of the
members solicited by the debaters,
and others who most want to see their
class win.
Miss Guppy Attends Alumnae Meeting
Miss Ruth Guppy, Dean of Women, j
will be in Portland Saturday attend
ing a meeting of the Portland Branch
of the Alumnae Association of Ore
gon Women, held that day at the Ho
tel Oregon.
W. A. McLnnnen is a visitor at the
Alpha Tau Omega house.
"DUAL MEET LOOKS
; SAFE” SALS HAYWARD
HAYWARD PREDICTS VICTORY
OVER V. OF \Y\, MAY <>, IF
WEATHER STAYS
HOOD
FAST TIME MAT BE MADE
Huggins in Two Milo, McClure in
Milo, and Windnagle in 880, to do
After Records.
According’ to Rill Hayward, the
chance of the University of Wash
ington to come anywhere near Ore
gon in the dual meet in Eugene next
week is in the same class as the pro
vet bial snowball. Hayward is en
thusiastic with the work of his men
during the past few days since the
Multnomah meet so much so that
he admits he is pleased, which is a
rare thing for “Bill.”
"All 1 ask for is a few days of
good weather next week to point up
the team; it is in tine shape now.
I he t ime for “bear” stories is past.
I don’t believe in putting out a
"bear story when I am sure of my
team. I have a good team here, and
when they come, I'll show them.
Watson Is Back.
"Watson, after a two week’s lay
off with an injured ankle, is back;
uul the fust night out he vaulted fl
teet four. I expect to see Fee and
Bryant do the hurdles in 16 seconds.
Cook and Foster are doing consist
ently over <10 feet with the shot.
“I fully expect to see Neil break
all his records this year with the
javelin, lie is doing wonders with
it. And Sam Cook is running him a
close second.
"In the broad jump Parsons has
bettered his high school record at
”1 feet 6 inches.
“I’ve switched Kay to the 220 hur
dles. Upon the second time out he
ran within two-fifths of a second of
the college record, which is 25 sec
onds. Heidenreich has done 118
feet, and bids’ fair to beat that of
McKinney.
Men to (Io After Records.
“I have little to say about the dis
tance races. Everybody knows what
we have in that line. But I’ll tell
you this much: This meet will be the
only chance I’ll have to send the men
in after records. And I'm going to
send them after them: Huggins in
the two-mile race; McClure will try
to lower his mile record; and I want
to see Windnagle break something in
the halt mile. The first race on the
program is the mile; the half does
not come till well toward the last.
I bis will give McClure ample oppor
tunity to rest up after running the
mile. McClure has done better than
two minutes in the half mile; this will
lie a pretty race between him and
Windnagle.
" The only department in which I
am weak at present is the high jump.
Stullir has been out with a weak
ankle. But he will be buck in shape
in time. He is taking light work on
ihe track and I’m letting him take
no chances by jumping. I think I
an count on five feet ten from him,
which will take a place in the Wash
ington meet.
"Altogether, track prospects are
far from as gloomy as at the first
of the season.”
TRIPLE-A” AGAIN
FLANS TO HIKE
At a special meeting of the Triple
A, Wednesday afternoon, it was de
cided that, weather permitting, the
club will go on a “hike” Saturday,
May 3. I he destination has not yet
been determined. The start will be
made from the Library at 6;30 a .m.
This is one of a series of long walks
planned by the club.