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EMERALD Pi UNI VERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1915 Volume XVII, No. 77 JUMIORS WILL STM REVELRY m ME PROCESSION WILL LAUNCH FES TIVITIES AT 2:30 P. M. WEDNESDAY PROSRAM IS NOW COMPLETE Classes to be Dismissed Thursday Afternoon; Unparalleled En tertainment Promised *********** * Wednesday— * * 2:30 P. M.—Parade starts from * * campus. * * 3:30 P. M.—Baseball; Oregon + * vs. Washington, Kincaid Field. * * Thursday— * * 2:30 P. M.—Baseball; Oregon * * vs. Washington, Kincaid Field. * * 4:00 P. M.—Water Fete, mill- * * race. * * Friday— * * 8:00 A. M. to 12:00 M.—Work * * on campus by men. * * 12:00 M.—Lunch on campus, * * prepared by Women’s Leagues. * * 2:30 P. M.—Track Meet; Ore- * * gon vs. Washington. * * 8:00 P. M.—“Jeanette’s Way,” T * Eugene Theater. * * Saturday— * * 9:00 A. M.—Preliminaries inter- * * scholastic track meet. * * 2:30 P. M.—Interscholastic * * track meet. * * 8:00 P. M.—Junior Prom, in * * Gymnasium. * * Sunday— * * Special services for students at * * all churches, 11:00 A. M. * ,•**•••••••* The final plans are now moulding into form and Junior Week-End for the year 1915 promises to be a suc cess, according to the Junior commit tees, who have the matter in charge. Classes will be formally dismissed Thursday at noon. At 2:30 Wednesday afternoon the Week-End activities will be officially launched by the beginning of the pa rade, made up of automobiles carry ing the notable personages for the four days’ entertainment. The fea tures of the parade will be the floats and automobiles carrying the Oregon and Washington baseball teams, who will play later in the afternoon. The procession will be made up on the campus in two divisions, and proceei to Willamette, thence to the Oregon Electric depot, back to Eleventh street and then to Kincaid Field. The first division will consist of autos, fol lowed by the Senior men, wearing white flannel trousers and white shirts; the Junior men with white flannel trousers and blue coats; the Sophomores in original uniforms; and the Freshmen with their green caps and civilian clothes. At 3:30 P. M. Oregon and Wash ington will cross bats. Thursday at 2:30 P. M. the second game between Oregon and Washing ton will be played. At 9:00 P. M., on the mill-race, the original water fete, under the direction of Don Or put,’ will be staged. The cup to be given to the winning canoe is now on display in the library. The second division will consist of features, ‘take-uffs” on the track meet, the ball games, the Junior Prom and University Day, besides the charac terization of “movie,” local and cam pus characters, in fact, as Marshal Gavin stated it, “a bunch of funny stuff.” It is in this part of the parade that the voluntary co-operation of the student is urged by Chairman Simp kins, who requests that any student or students who will undertake any of these features, excepting the Jun ior Prom, which has already been provided for, will call him up about The entire parade will be gener ously sprinkled with posters of the (Continued on P*g* *•) AVISON TO SIGN UP PREPPERS FOR FUTURE MISSIONARY WORK Registration Booth to be Conducted for Week-End Guests in Y. M. C. A. Headquarters A registration bureau, which will enable the University to keep tab on the preppers who will be here Jun ior Week-End, is the project of “Botts'’ Avison, chairman of the Junior Prom committee. Heretofore visitors have been al lowed to come and go without hav ing left any address or other clue by which they could be located later, With Avison's system, the University will be able to keep in touch with like ly candidates for a certificate of ad mission, and to ship them literature from time to time. A book will be kept in the Y. M. C. A. office in Deady basement Friday and Saturday of Junior Week-End, in which each prepper will be expected to inscribe his name, address, year in high school, and his preference among college. As a bait to entice the guileless ones into Koyl’s iair, they will be given complimentary tickets to the Prom. This will be the only way “dead heads” to the dance can be obtained by the preppers. Avison urges all members of the houses and other stu dents to see that their guests report for registration. JOURNALISTS MEET AT ON MAY 21 AM 22 A Dozen Technical Topics Will be Dis cussed and Neophytes Will be In itiated Into Sigma Delta Chi Attendance at the Northwest Cor ference of Teachers 01 Journalism, which will be held on the campus Mav 21 and 22, and which is to be a round table of about a dozen technical Jo’ir. nalism topics, will be larger than at first expected, according to Prof. C. V. Dyment, of the Journalism Depart ment, who, with Prof. E. W. Allen, head of the department, and the other members of the University School of Journalism, will be hosts to thi visitors. “In addition to A. L. Stone and Call Getz, member of the faculty of the University of Montana School of Jou nalism, and Messrs. Kennedy, Ag new, and possible Kane, of the Uni versity of Washington School of Jon.’ nalism, there will probably also be at the Saturday session several Port land newspapermen, who are expect ed to arrive in Eugene on the nig'i; of May 21, for initiation into Sigma Delta Chi, the national honorary journalism fraternity,” Professor Dy ment stated. “These men, who members of the Portland Oregonian editorial staff, are E. N. Blythe, Ches ter Moores and Dean Collins, all graduates of the University of Ore gon. “George Palmer Putnam, SecreH ry to Governor Withycombe, and Ralph Moores, also a University grad uate, who is now secretary of the Sa lem Commercial Club, will be pres ent for the initiation. These men will all be asked to remain for the Satur day session." A banquet will be given following the initiation ceremonies, to the visit ing neophytes, to the outside persons in attendance at the conference, and to two undergraduates, Harold Ham street and Leigh Swinson, who are also to be initiated into Sigma Delta Chi. At the University of Illinois, the Freshman class has resorted to tags to secure payment of class dues. Green tags are given to each man as a re ceipt. On one side is printed “Class Dues,” while on the reverse side the word “Paid” appears. OREGON’S NEW TEAM DEFEATS WILLAMETTE REJUVENATED NINE SHUTS OUT METHODISTS AND COMES BACK IN EVERY WAY BI6BEE PITCHES GOOD GAME Six Innings Go By Without Score, and Then Bez’s Crew Comes in for Six Runs By Harry Kuck. Bezdek’s new club, with Lyle Big bee on the mound, shut out Willamette this afternoon in a fast 6 to 0 game. For six innings both teams strug gled along without a score, playing good, clean ball. Then, with one down, Dick Nelson singled to right field and went to second when the outfielder mussed up the grounder. He ad vanced to third on Buck fiigbee’s in field sacrifice, and scored when Hunt ington grounded to short. Adams, on the rubber for the Meth odists, got away lucky until the sev enth. He had been nicxed for five bingles, but they were scattered and failed to materialize into runs. The cloud burst in the seventh. The rooters stood up—the band played, and “Bunny” Philbin started the pro cession with a screaming single into left field. Lyle walked and Sheehy laid down a neat bunt, moving both runners up a peg, from whence they registered on “Skeet” Bigbee’s clean hit into right field. Skeet stole sec ond, went to third on a passed ball, and scored when Nelson got his third hit of the matinee. “Maureese” Big bee did things up right by bagging a four-ply swat, and two more runs reg istered. Huntington ended the nightmare by striking out. Lyle Bigbee feavared his return to the pitching corps by striking out 12 men and allowing but five hits, three of which are placed to the credit of his opponent, Adams. Dave Philbin caught a good game. He held Lyle up in big league style and rapped out a brace of hits. If the big boy keeps up this gait, “Bez” will probably use him against Washington next week. Score by innings: Oregon 00000160.. Will. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 * * * '* * * * * * * *.* • * CALIFORNIA MEET * * Mile—Huggins, Oregon, first, * * 4:31-3. * * Two Mile—Payne, Oregon, first, T * 9:54. • * Quarter Mile—Kadderly, O. A. * * C., first, 51 3-5 seconds; Loucks, * * Oregon, third. ************* UNIVERSITY WOMEN WIN R H E 6 10 6 0 5 4 Oregon Evens Up With O. A. C. Hockey Team by Defeating Aggies 3 to 1 0 The University of Oregon women's hockey team won the return game with O. A. C., 3 to 1, this morning at the field south of Kincaid Park. Vera Moffat, captain of the Univer sity team, made two of the goals and Margaret Crosby the third. Oregon made two goals in the first quarter, and the score remained 2 to 0 until the last quarter, when Ruth Blake, O. A. C. center scored a point. Oregon’s territory was seldom in vaded by the O. A. C. girls. Miss Vance, of Corvallis, who is connected with the Y. W. C. A. work there, will speak at a conference meet ing to be held here May 22, at the Bungalow. JOY-RIDERS GOME TO GRIEF IN SENIOR PLAY n, ■ —■ I AUTO SMASH-UP STARTS PUSS BUT ACTRESS SAVES DAY FOR FRIENDS TICKLES UNO THRILLS MANY Caste Includes Celebrities Among Sheepskin Squad—Friday is Evening of Performance That the course of true love and joy riding never did run smooth, is the text of the sermon the Senior play ers will hand across the footlights to the Junior Week-End audience next Friday evening. * Sermon is hardly the word, howev er, to characterize their pepful and purely farcical vehicle, '“Jeanette’s Way.” Like the average musical com edy, it makes no pretensions of hav ing a serious theme; but unlike a mu sical comedy, it has a plot which is unmistakable. In fact, the situations in “Jeanette’s Wayy” are said to be about as perplexing ana thrilling as those of ‘‘Seven Keys to Baldpate,” the mystery play which recently vis ited Eugene. “It was all a harmless auto ride,” pleads Bert Jerard, as Joe Penni cuique, “our hero.” Nevertheless, it is the ride which starts the trouble, Joe. Tod Warrington, his pal (Don Orput), Ruth Bryant, Joe’s fiance (Hazel Ralston), and Jeanette Au garde, an actress (Georgia Cross), are the passengers. Joe loses control of the steering-gear and the machine tries to climb a tree. Joe, Tod, Ruth, Jeanette and the tree escape with out serious injury, but the machine is a smear. All this is supposed to happen be fore the rise of the curtain. The morning after the night before finds Joe, Tod and Ruth duly repent and apprehensive lest the papers uncover the “story” and make capital of the actress’ part in it. Their fears ar> realized when Williamson, a news sleuth of the irrepressible type (Lee Hendricks), forces his way into Joe’s and Tod’s room and pulls the facte on them. The exciting scenes that follow attract Mrs. Bryant (Joseph ine Moorhead), mother of Ruth, and Joe’s and Tod’s landlady. Tod and Joe are finally provoked to the point of throwing Williamson down stairs, but their purpose is defeated by the en trance of the elder Joseph Penni cuique, Joe’s uncle, who is putting the young man through college— played by Maurice Hill. The old gen tleman is sorely peeved by his violent collision with Williamson at the door, and he is scarcely placated when Pro fessor Gaylord (Frank Staiger) rush es in, brandishing Williamson’s pa per, playing up the whole story of the smash-up on the front page. Trouble comes' in bunches from this time forward. In the midst of the rumpus Jeanette Augarde, the actress herself, appears, closely pursued by Wilde, a theatrical manager (Clark Burgard), who seeks her signature to his contract. Jeanette is the only cool member of the company, for she herself has given Williamson the “sto ry” for its advertising value to ‘her self. She takes the situation in hand and inveigles the elder Pennicuique into taking her out to the road-house of Adolph, a German innkeeper (Gene Good.) Williamson, realizing the val ue of an arrest to her story, sneaks out, swears out a warrant charging Joe with speeding, and returns with Slink, a constable. Meanwhile, Joe and Ruth, hearing of the warrant, es cape to Adolph’s inn. Mrs. Bryant dispatches Professor Gaylord to bring Ruth back. The scene closes with the elder Pennicuique, the actress, Ruth. Joe, Wilde and the Professor off tj the road-house, while Mrs. Bryant (Continued on page 4) DASTARD’S SPYING CURIOSITY AROUSES AMORIST’S FEROCITY Fiendish Imp that Haunts the Night Makes This Spooner Want to Fight When you are floating down the race, the moon peeks over Spencer hill, with silver lips does kiss her face, you let the barge drift down at will; the hellish-panic rules are broke, the girl should be at home asleep; you take a quiet little smoke, and just a little nearer creep. ’Tis then that some benighted bloke, with nox ious, crude, unseeming cheek, a flash light in your face does poke and at your picture take a peek. The lady gives a startled squeak and nearly dumps you in the drink; the bad words that you crave to speak, a gentleman can only think. By the gods, one of these nights my barge I’ll load with “fighting fools,” and when some Filbert throws his light, with paddles, clubs and other tools, my roughs will jump astride the pest and keystone him till he can’t see; and maybe on my next mill-fest these spotlight birds will leave me be. Statistics presented before the meet ing of the National Collegiate Asso ciation in Chicago recently show that it is not the chosen few who receive the entire benefit from college ath letics. SIGMA CHI WINS GUP, DEFEATS SIGMA NU11-14 Victors Finish at Top of Doughnut Baseball League by Downing Faculty and Dorm Sigma Chi won the baseball cham pionship of the Doughnut League last night, defeating Sigma Nu 11 to 4. The only remaining game is be tween Sigma Nu and the Dorm for the second place. Dudley’s arm was all in before the game started, and the “Chis” scored four runs in the first canto. Winship took a turn at flinging and was touched up for two runs in the third and five in the fourth inning. The game was called after the first half of the fifth by mutual consent. The Sigma Chis hit safely seven times and Sigma Nu secured three bingles. Errors were too numerous to men tion. Two more close and hard-fought baseball games were added to the number of thrilling encounters that have marked the Doughnut series this year, last Tuesday, when the Kappa Sigs’ third man fanned in the last in ning of their game with the Sigma Nus, when the tying run was on third; and when the Sigma Chis cut down the Dorm’s early lead of three rune and beat them out 6-5 in the last of the semi-finals Wednesday evening. The Kappa Sig-Sigma Nu fracas was the play-off of the 5-5 tie which the two teams played some time ago. Afte* the early innings no scoring was done and the 2-1 score stood till the end of the game. „ o 0 Dudley, for the winners, and Earl, for the Kappa Sigs, both pitched flaw less ball. Discounting an adverse score made by the Dorm early in their little meet ing last night, the Sigma Chis earned a victory in the finals by nosing out the Dormers, that made possible their final win. The game was a ragged, see-saw affair, that belonged to either team until ‘Botts’’ Avison brought in the winning run with a three-base bingle, his only hit of the season. Bullock, who passed out the poke's for the Sigs, pitched in fine style, which was almost equaled by Harry Kuck, the Dorms’ sniper. EI6NT MORE ASP1IUNTS SEEK STUDENT OFFICES FITZMAURICE AND WESTER FIELD CAST THEIR CHANCES FOR EMERALD MANAGER PR0SSERENTERS16JUNSTKIICK Lucile Watson, Echo Zahl, Bob Me Murray, Karl Beck and Wilmot Foster Break Into Lists Additional nominees for Stu- • dent Body offices: * Vice-President—Bob Prosser. * Manager of Emerald—Floyd * Westerfield and Bob Fitzmaurice. * Senior Men for Student Coun- * cil—Wilmot Foster. * Senior Women for Student * Council—Lucille W?tson. * Junior Men for Student Coun- * cil—Karl Beck and Bob McMur- * ray. • Junior Women for Student * Council—Echo Zahl. * ************ While there was not a single can didate for the position of Manager of the Oregon Emerald at the reg ular meeting for nominations held last Wednesday at 10:00 o’clock, the names of two men, whose sponsors in turn declared that each really want ed the job, were put up at the special meeting at 3:00 o’clock yesterday af ternoon in Villard Hall. The men were Floyd Westerfield, whose name was presented by Peter Crockett, and Bob Fitzmaurice, who was put up by Wallace Eakin. While Crockett stated that it wa3 ‘useless to waste dying oratory,” he gave two reasons why, in his opin ion, Westerfield is the man for the place. First, he said, Westerfield ia majoring in Journalism and intends to make the newspaper business his life work. He has had, besides the training received from his position on the Emerald staff, opportunity to ob serve real newspaper management, for his father is editor of the Grass Valley paper. Crockett’s second rea son was that his candidate is working himself through college, and so ho really wants the job. Eakin admitted that his candidate was not majoring in Journalism, but said that he was nevertheless versed in every detail of the newspaper bus iness. For eight years Fitzmaurice has had experience on his father’s pa per, at Condon, Oregon, continued Ea kin. He has worked at Yoran’s print ing office, and last year helped out the Oregana. Eakin also asserted that his nominee really wants the managership, and knows the busine33 end of the newspaper game from start to finish. The name of Bob Prosser, the ad< ditional candidate for Vice-President, was presented by James Donald, who stated that he was sure everyone was well enough acquainted with Prosser and his executive ability to realize his fitness for the position. Prosser will run against Harry Kuck, of The Dalles, who was nominated by Bert Jerard at the Wednesday meeting. The argument advanced for°Wilmoj: Foster for Senior man on the Student Council, by his sponsor, James Don ald, was that <there were times when outside questions arpse in the Stu dent Council, and that Foster is a man who would be in touch with these questions. “I have the peculiarity of nominat ing good people for office, therefore I nominate Miss Lucille Watson for Senior woman for the Student Coun cil,” was the entire speech of Sam Michael, Miss Watson’s champion. Karl Beck and Bob McMurray were nominated for Junior men for the Student Council by Anthony Jaure guy and James Donald, respectively. Echo Zahl was nominated for Jun ior woman for the Student Council by Earal Bronough.