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About Oregon emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 10, 1916)
OREGON EMERALD Published each Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of the college year, by the Associated Students of the University of Oregon. entered at the postoffice at Eugene as second class matter. Subscription rates, per year, $1.00. Single copies, Be. __ E DITOR-IN -CHIEF.....MAX H. SOMMER Assistant Editors.Wallace Baida, Leslie O. Toone Managing Editor.Harold Hamatreet City Editor...Harry L. Kuck News Editor. Copy Editors.Do Witt Gilbert, Clytle HaU Special Writers. .Grace Edglngtonl Frances Shoemaker, Charles Dundore, Walter Kennon, Mary Baker. Administration .Roberta Killam Assistant...Francis Yoran Sports . Chester A. Fee Assistant ...Jam™8. Features ...Adrienne Epping, Echo /ahl Dramatic Critic.James Cellars Dramatics.Martha Beer Muslo .Eulalie Crosby Society ....Beatrice Locke Luclle Watson ElOklOftl .....LOUlSO A116I1 Reporters. .Kenneth Moores, Jean Bell, Marian Nell, Carroll Wlldin, Harold Say, Robert McNary, Percy Boatman, Coralle Snell, Luclle Messner, Luclle Saunder, Joe Skelton, Stanley Eaton, Helen Brenton. BU SINESS STAFF _„ BUSINESS MANAGER. .FLOYD C. WESTERFIELD Manager's and Editor's Phone SOL Staf f Positions. The Emerald, offers\an opportunity this semester for a limited number of candidates for positions as reporters. This offer is open to entering freshmen who are willing to do con sistent and conscientious] work in covering of assignments. Aspirants will please register their names and addresses on the assignment sheet on the E^ncrald bulletin board in the journal ism room—McClure Half. Report for assignments on the following day. 1 THE EDITOR. i_ i i Professionalism and Poppy-Cock. LIKE A bolt out of a dear sky, comes the news from some where that three Oregon men,are on the verge of being declared pro fessionals because they played on a basketball team, two members of which were signed up with a professional baseball team. While Oregon is militantly against any particle of professionalism invading the amateur ranks of college sports, this latest development is hard ly creditable, whatsoever its origin. Small wonder that the colleges have failed to remedy evils in athletics, as they are constituted at present, when they have contin ually been forced to evade the real evil of proselytism by having their attention diverted to hair-splitting technicalities. Oregon has lately taken progressive steps in the attempt to free college sports from imagined, taints. The first step was to draw up an outline of the essence of good sportsmanship, and the next was to strictly prohibit proselytism, qr as it is commonly known “scouting.” Now comes the whiff of in ill wind which threatens the amateur standing of men wholly ignorant of what a technicality can do. One of these men is at present the Captain of the lemon-yellow track team. The situation is critical to this man, not only on account of threaten ing his track career this season, but for greater reasons. He is an ticipating entering some eastern university, and to be declared a professional signals his permanent ostracism from college athletics. And this same man is also a pandidate for the Rhodes Scholarship, which carries as a requirement amateur athletic ability. But the matter is based on flimsy technicalities. The three men did not receive pay for playing, neither did they play with men who had received pay for professional baseball. The two men signed up for professional ball, which does not constitute professionalism but merely signifies their intention of engaging in professional sport in in some future time. Until tjfiey actually play professional baseball and receive pay for professional services, we cannot see any profes sionalism in their careers. 1 This affair merely emphasizes the athletic situation in American amateur circles, where there afc two forces at work: first, the Eng lish amateur spirit, which is nrit a book of rules—as a critic expresses it; and, secondly, the American amateur athletic association. The English spirit is a wonderful: thing, and the colleges are trying to graft it into their sports, but this cannot he done by merely passing on it: it must be cultivated. The counter-force is the American ama teur rules, which are as complex, technical and hair-splitting as * American law. In fact, “amateurism” is largely a matter of higgling over cases and technicalities. J Under the English athletic spirit such a technicality would never arise, but anything may be caljled professionalism in American sport. The college athlete lives in continual dread that he may do something that will lay him open to charges of professionalism. It would be an unfortunate circumstance were these men declared professionals, but at the same time the spirit of fair play, based on the English attitude, which is creeping into Northwestern athletics, would probably not endanger the statjjs of the men in the conference meets. Interesting, indeed, in the light of this occurance, are several cases in the east. Did the playing of Cutts on the Harvard eleven in 1901 against Yale deprive the ten other Harvard players of their ama teur standing? Cutts was declared a professional for giving boxing lessons as a means of working his way through college. Cuts had received pay, while the two soj-called professionals on the “Outlaw” team had never received pay. Did the playing of Bricklev with Wil liams in the Trinity game professionalize the entire William’s foot ball team? The cases of Earns on of Pennsylvania. Bingham of Har vard and Thompson of Cornell are also notable. The American amateur rules could have been so interpreted in these cases as to pro fessionalize whole athletic team's because of the violation of the ama teur rules by one man. But the rules were not interpreted such a way in these cases. 1 From these cases alone, it seems impossible that three basketball players could have contracted professionalism, that contagious dis ease which often invades colleges, when the so-called professionals with whom they played had notj yet contracted it themselves. f CAMPUS NOTES 1 ★ -,★ Mrs. 8. S. Neil of Portland was a week-end guest at the Delta Gamma house. Miss Amy Dunn entertained at the Country club with an informal dance Monday night, for Delta Gamma and the following guests: James Sheehy, Lynn McCready, Bob Atkinson, Pete Sex ton, Dick Onthank, Paul Reaney, Ken neth Farley, Turner Neil, Roger Jayne, Lloyd Segart, Carl Nelson, Roger Hoi comb, Percy Boatman, Roy Brown, Sprague Adams, Marshall Woodworth, Larne Blaekaby, Joe Denn, Francis Yoran, Ross Geiger, Maynard Harris, Joe Bell, Russell Fox, Russell Calkins, Neil Morfitt, Harold Tregilgas, Edward Pixley, Curtis Peterson, Thurston Lara way, Ray Couch, Charles Johns, Paul Smith and Kenneth Moores. Claire Haines, a Chi Omega from the University of Utah chapter, who regis tered here this last semester, has re turned to her home in Salt Lake City. Mabel Van Zante and Bess Colman spent the week-end in Portland. Edith Thesize, ex. ’18, of Boulder, Col. has reentered this semester. Delta Tau Delta entertained Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose Middleton of Springfield at dinner on .Sunday. Harold Broughton, T3, Portland, spent the week-end at the Beta Theta Pi house. Pete Anderson of Corvallis was a week end guest at the Sigma Nu house. Dobie Garrett, ex-’16, has re-entered college. Clark Burgard spent the week end with his parents in Portland. Leslie Tooze spent the week end in Salem. C. Harold Cochran, ex. T8, and Mel vin P. Ogden, ’ll, spent the last of the week at the Beta Theta Pi house. Harry Booth spent the week end in Roseburg. Alpha Phi entertained with an informal dance Saturday evening at the local house. Decorations were in cardinal, one of the fraternity colors. Those enter tained were: Burleigh Cash, Bernie Cor bitt, Wendell Burbour, Joe Bell, Paul Renney Basil Williams, Ward McKinney, Cleveland Simpkins, Victor Chambers, Marion Nelson, l)olph Phipps, Maynard Harris, Herman Gilfilen, Joe Skelton, Kent Wilson and Mr. Heintzleman. Chester Fee left Saturday for Seattle where he acts ns best man at the wedding of his brother, J. Alger Fee, a garduate of Whitman College and of Columbia University, who is at present city attor ney of Pendleton, Oregon. Sunday dinner guests of Sigma Nu were: Dr. and Mrs. B. W. DeBusk, Mild red Thomas, Dorothy Montgomery, Haz el Rader, Virginia Peterson, Anne Hales, Helen Bracht. Eulalie Crosby returned Monday from The Dalles where she spent the week end between semesters. Eyla Walker spent the week end at her home in Corvallis. Friday afternoon Delta Tail Delta on tertained with a matinee dance. The guests were: Mildred Woodruff, Lucile Huggins, Rieta Hough, Ruth Rothrock, Marian Springer, Erna Petzold, Agnes Busier, Echo Zahl, Louise Bailey, Helen Ourrey, Dorothy Downard, Miriam Page, Caroline Alexander, Beatrice Thurston, THE RAINBOW ! We are now making our own candy. Try our Mexican chews and other fresh dipped nuts. High grade chocolates and pan goods. LUNCHES THE CLUB Popular Resort Bowling Billiards Smokes Sporting Dope —Meet Me There— 8th and Willamette Ruth Tnlmadge, Dorbthy Dunbar, „Mar garet Cornwall, Jeannette McLaren, Dorothy Dunn, DoTcthy Bennett, Mild red Brown, Claire Rjfley and Alice HalL Miss Barbara yachtrieb of San Francisco, who was here this fall as visiting delegate of Alpha Phi, has been appointed executive secretary for the commission for the with a salary of new social insurance state of California, $2400 a year. The Sen Francisco papers say that Miss Nachtrileb is the first wo man to be the head of a commission in the state. I The Famous; Nettleton “Saxon” Every Day Model i $7.50 And Worth It Bala in black calfskin—A splen didly proportioned shoe. During our mid-winter sale this shoe is reduced to.$6-35 BURDEN & GRAHAM i Censored ! Valentines and DENNISON’S ! Hearts, Arrows, Seals and Caps at SGHWJIRZSGHILO’S BOOK STORE Special! 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It is a picture that should be shown in every church and movie in America. Every loyal American should see it.” - — SAVOY THEATRE NOTE—Owing to the enormous cost of securing “The Battle Cry of Peace” we are forced to mak<* the prices 10c and 20c, The Heilig at Portland and the Moore at Seattle 'each placed the admission prices at 25s and 50c. The big Eastern theatres charged an admission price of $1.00 to $2.00. A Eugene man, wrho saw the picture in Portland, said: “I would not have missed it for $10.00.” You cannot afford to neglect this opportunity of seeing this great film.