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About Oregon emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 20, 1913)
ATHLETICS TO MANAGERS OF SIX CONFER ENCE COLLEGES TO MEET DEC. 5 CHANGE ELIGIBILITY RULES Basket-ball Schedule Will Be Decided Upon. Track, Base ball and Football Contests Also to Receive Attention Graduate-Manager Walker an nounces that he will be in Portland on December 5 and 6 for the pur pose of attending the annual confer ence of managers of the six North west colleges. This conference is held yearly to make the various schedules in basketball, baseball and track. The football schedule for next year will also be arranged. It Is probable that the baseball schedule for next spring will be ar ranged differently than heretofore on account of the proposed trip to California, according to Walker. If this trip is taken it will be necessary to divide the baseball schedule in some such manner as the basketball schedule is arranged so that our team may have her share of games in the conference, and at the same time make the trip to California. To Change eligibility Rules. 'It is probable at this time that a new system for the purpose of ascer taining the eligibility of football players other than the one used al present will be settled upon. The present plan of allowing the facul ties of the individual colleges pass Judgment seems to be meeting with disfavor amongst the coaches of some of the colleges. Coach Render of W. S. C. is advocating a new plan of determining whether players that nent officials and foliowors of the are questioned are eligible to play. He suggests that a board of promi game be appointed and (hat they set tle the dispute once for all. Two track meets may be held here this spring as it Is O. A. C.’s turn to come to Eugene this year and W. S. C. has also signified their desire to come here for a meet. Same Basketball Schedule. The scheme used last year for the settlement of the basketball champ ionship will probably be used again this year. The scheme is to divide the conference Into two halves, ('ast ern and western, the winners of the two sections to play for the champ ionship. This saves a great deal of expense and loss of time for the melt. There may be also a few changes made In an effort to better stage the football games. Several of the managers are advocating that two sets of officials he chosen for every game, so that If some member of the first choice is unable to he present, another man will have already been chosen to fill his place. This will do away with the senseless and aggra vating arguments which crop out at times between the coaches at the last moment and which have threatened at various times to call the games off tills season. “I expect that a number of changes which will help materially to help us stage the Conference games with less friction and more real sportsmanship will lie made at this meeting In Portland," said Walker 212 students have enrolled for the short course In agriculture at the University of Missouri, The Notre Dame students are hacking Dorlas. their quarterback, for that position on Walter Camp’s All-American football team. The University of Washington, with 3000 students, ranks twentieth among the colleges of the United States. Edward' Zapata, son of the famous Mexican politician, Is attending the University of Michigan. Courtney, the Cornell rowing coach, with a record of twenty-six victories out of twenty-nine races. has resigned. LAUREAN MEMBERS TO WEAR APPROPRIATE PINS lave debate at Last Meeting Won by Holt and Colton “Resolved, That Oregon should adopt a legislative bureau of re search,” was the subject of an ex temporaneous debate at the Laurean meeting Tuesday night. Max Som mer and Frank Reach took the affir mative, and George Colton and Wil liam Holt the negative. The latter, by means of a little quick research work, were able to walk off with the bacon. Sommer and Beach, a few' minutes before the debate, went over to the library where they found a book on tlie subject, full of arguments for affirmative. Before they had a •hance to glean any of the argu ments, Colton with unflagging nerve met them at the door and borrowed tlie book. He kept it till time for the debate to start, and thought up incidentally, good rebuttals for every argument the affirmative might set forth. Another step in the rejuvenation of the LJuireans occurred Tuesday, when it was decided to choose an ap propriate pin for the members. A plain “L” will probably be chosen. A ( rest will also be selected. The Faculty Social Committee at the Ohio State University lias ap proved of tlie “tango” after witness ing it dmiceyl by a professional dancer from New York. The verdict was: "Graceful and proper and wholly unoffensive when danced cor rectly.” The ‘‘Fish walk,” however, was pronounced objectionable. Seven students at the University of Washington, were compelled to leave that institution recently be cause of low scholarship. W. S. C. SENIORS PLAY . LAST COLLEGE FOOTBALL Coulter, “Shorty” and Joe Hart er Will Graduate, Leaving Big Hole in Line At least three members of the Washington State College football team that played in Saturday's game against Whitman played before a Washington State College audience for the last time. These three men, “Shorty” Harter, Joe Harter, ex captain, and Leo Coulter, captain^ have been stars of the gridiron ever since they have worn a State College suit. “Shorty,” the delicate little chubby fellow who passes the ball between his legs to the quarterback, has been selected as an all-North west center for three years by the majority of those who pick the myth ical eleven, and if his work in Sat urday’s game does not fall off in the next two conference games, they I will have to lay awake nights figur ing #ow to keep him from being named again this year, i - OLYMPIC RUNNER OF FINLAND GETS HEARING Committee Satisfied He Had Not Pawned Any Prizes Awarded Him Hannes Kolehmainen, Olympic runner, who came from Finland and joined the Irish-American Ath letic elut), appeared before the reg istration committee of the metropol itan district of the Amateur Athletic union to be questioned regarding re ports that he is a professional and not an amateur. Having been di rected to produce ail the prizes he has won since coming to America, Kolehmainen surprised the commit tee by producing three more trophies ■ than the investigators had recalled. The Finnish runner drove up in an autonr bile filled v.ith cups and med uio auci proved to the committee’s satisfaction that he had not pawned any prizes awarded him.' The com mittee reserved its decision. Sporting men familiar with the in quiry characterized it as having fall en through for lack of evidence. All of his prizes were returned to him and it was pointed out by his friends that had he been found guilty of professionalism they would have j been withheld by the committee. It [ was' learned that no direct charges were filed against the runner, and in some quarters the inquiry was re garded as the outcome merely of statements by athletes envious of his success. Norma Hendricks has returned from Pullman, where she assisted in the installation of chaptef of Kappa Alpha Theta. A HELPFUL HINT TO CHRIST MAS SHOPPERS. Obak, the high priest of the great god Nicotine, has Santa Claus crawl ing up the chimney of a gas range as a dispenser of Christmas gifts. If nobody loves you and you are shy the necessary cash to doll up a Christmas tree of your own, mur mur your name and class into Jack Luckey’s auditory tract, be real good until Christmas time, and you will be remembered with one of those emerald Fatima cases which almost every college man totes around on his hip these days. Each case is a work of art; handsome, shapely, almost voluptuous in appearance, just big enough to accommodate twenty joy candles; with your John Henry and what class, if any, there is to you, printed on the outside together with the Oregon seal. Obak is yearning to slip you one of these cases as a slight token of his affection. Paid adv. “MARRIAGE IS NOT A QUESTION OF LAW—IS IT?” BERNARD SHAW’S COMEDY “There’s as many different sorts of mar riages as there’s different sorts of people.” n2“; FRIDAY t SArDAY Under Auspices of UNIVERSITY OF OREGON ASSOCIATED LEAGUE FOR THE STUDY OF THE DRAMA Director—Professor A. F. Reddie Reserved Seats at Eaton’s Art Store and Linn’s Drug Store RESERVATIONS FIFTY CENTS •'The Common Law,” a dramatiza tion of Robert W. Chambers’ sensa rio: al novel, which Manager A. H. Woods produced last season with such gratifying results, is booked as one of the special attractions at the Eugene theatre on Thursday, November 20, and countless num bers of fiction readers who have been charged and fascinated by Mr. Chambers’ truly remarkable book, will doubtless look forward to wit nessing the play with much pleas urable interest. The presentation will be made on a scale of general magnificence and every assurance is offered that the cast is an absolutely reliable one. oooooooooooooooooo o o o SAVOY THEATRE o o Big Special Program o o Two Vaudeville Acts o o Big State Right Feature o o Always Ten Cents o o o o WEST & HEATH—In a big o o funny comedy and singing act. o o A splendid classy attraction. o o DANCING DEPARS—A strict- o o ly high grade novelty danc- o o ing, with song and dance act. o o GRANDMOTHER’S LAMP— o o A big 3-reel state right Am- o o brosia feature; an unusually o o strong drama of love and war; o o this big state right feature ,0 o played the Majestic theatre o o in Portland last week. A fea- o o ture the Savoy management o o especially recommends. o o AN ERRAND OF MERCY— o o A dandy one reel play featur- o o ing Florence La Badie— o o Thanhouser. o o - o o COMING SOON—Another of o o the famous “Mary” pictures. o o 0 oooooooooooooooooo Eugene Quick Shoe Repair Shop 22 WEST EIGHTH ST. ^ MARTIN MILLER HARDWARE CO. Headquarters for “SHERWIN WILLIAMS” and “OLD ENGLISH” FLOOR WAX Phone 135 65 East Ninth St. THE WHITE HOUSE Eugene’s Sanitary Barber Shop 724 Willamette S. BURR, PROPRIETOR REX THEATRE WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19-20. PHOTOPLAYS The Edison Two-Reel Comedy Fea ture ‘‘WHY GIRLS LEAVE HOME” (Half an Hour of Laughter) Pathe Weekly ‘‘ILLUSTRATED TOPICAL EVENTS” Also A KEYSTONE COMEDY VAUDEVILLE 1. The Lester Trio “THE BATH ROOM MYSTERY” Another Quarter of an hour Laughter W. CLAYTON FARNSWORTH Lyric Tenor in New Selections ADMISSION 15c S. H. Friendly Co. THE LEADING STORE Say! 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