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I . Oregon Emeral No. 71. VOL. 20 EUGENE, OREGON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 29, 1919 Johnny Gamble Drives in Five Runs With Homer and Three Bagger WILSON SHINES ON MOUND Holds Foe to Few Swats; All Varsity Men But One Connect Safely Varsty Batting Average Leslie .. Campbell NAME Durno Gamble Wilsoi} Medley Houston Morrison Rhinehart Lind A.B. H. AVE. 1 1 1.000 5 3 .600 4 2 .500 2 1 .500 5 2 .400 5 2 .400 4 1 .250 5 1 .200 5 1 .200 4 0 .000 By ALEXANDER G. BROWN) Oregon broke right into the win column in the first game of the series last Saturday, handing the Multnomah Club team of Portland, a drubbing to the tune of 17 to 4^ The varsity swat ters were on a batting rampage and gathered 14 hits, which aided by six errors on the part of the visitors, gave them a good lead. Johnny Gamble helped the festivity along in no small degree as all he did was to whack out a home run, a tripple and a single in five trips to the rubber. Oregon got at Thompson right at the start, and the former University of Washington twirl^r lasted just one third of an inning. Morrison was the first man up in the initial frame, and he started the afternoon right by get ting a single. Rhinehart forced Mor rison at second, the play being Thompson to Cole. Lind singled, Rhine hart going to second and then Medley got the first of his pair of doubles, which scored both Rhinehart and Lind. Thompson is a left-handed pitch er, so Gamble faced him from the right side of the plate and*met one of his fast ones on the way in and sent it lu uetjp center rur ct nunie run. xne blow scored Medley ahead. At this point. Mr. Thompson hied himself to right field and Billy Lewis took up 'the job on the mound. Gamble Cleans Up Lewis got by the rest of the frame without any additional scores being rung up, but in the second inning with Rhinehart, Lind and Medley on first, second and third Gamble came up again. Lewis being a right hand pitch er, Gamble took a chance on the left side of the plate and was only able to get a three base hit, which scored all of the runners. The varsity gather ed three runs on as many hits in this inning. The visitors got one run in the first inning and then laid off until the first of the sixth, when they gathered three. In the fifth inning “Chief” Wilson was hit on the head by one of Lewis’ fast ones which almost put him out for the count. He was not hurt, how ever, and will be able to pitch against the Aggies this week-end. Marc La tham, frosh regular, went in for the varsity, but he got stage fright and was as wild as a Belgian hare and was taken out after he had loaded the bases with two walks and a single, Eddie Durno then took the mound. Three rtins were scored in this inning but are not credited to Durno. Eddie pitched himself out of a hole when with Niles and Grant on the path and, only one out, he fanned Block and Thompson. Eddie got along nicely the rest of the game allowing three hits and only passing one during the three and two thirds innings he worked. The best pitching of the afternoon was done by Wilson who allowed only three hits in five innings, walked one and struck out six. The visitors should have had (Continual on Page Four) K. K. K. Sideshows Prove Barnum Was Right; Yield Coin ‘ ‘ A riot of fun and good humor, ’ ’ as the press agent would say, was held under the auspices of the order of the “ O ” last Saturday night in the gym nasium. The affair was a huge success, and although Dwight Wilson, who was general chairman of the committee that staged the “doings,” has not figured the exact amount cleared, it is thought that the athletes who have won their letter this year are a great deal nearer their sweaters than they were before. "\T e\r\ nl.T nil _ were represented by a side show and Friendly Hall and Beta Theta Pi | probably would have won the prizes i had any been offered. Friendly Hall | had two attractions in the one tent and they did a land office business. There was a row of “profs” all lined up ready to be knocked down and such inviting signs around as “He soaked ; you; now you soak him.” The car j tons of Jimmie Gilbert, Dean Straub, , Dean Allen and several others were treated very ‘rough.” In addition, the dorm had a real fire eater who ^ept the crowd guessing as he drank a pint of gasoline and blew flames out of his mouth. The Betas had a novel attraction, a huge tank of water above which sat “ Cotton ’’Manerud. Every time you hit the bullseye the seat was knocked out from under ' “Skeet’s” brother and he went under, Thompson, the Multnomah Club southpaw, put him in just about as often as he would get out. All of the stunts were good, and j “Brick” Mitchell made a swell “all highest.” Dean Straub and the rest of the boys were fined for wearing stiff collars and “pigging” to the ! festivity. The dance, which followed the side ; shows, was w-ell attended and, as it was a jitney affair, was a financial success. Initiation of the new members of the order of the “O” took place during the dance. MISS MM SIGNS FOR POST IK RUSSIA Physical Training Instructor to Work for Y. W.—Sailing Date Indefinite Miss Gladys Gorman, instructor in physical training at the University, has accepted an offer from the Y. W. C. A. to engage in physical training work in Russia. As yet, she does not know when she will leave Oregon, as the date of her sailing is indefinite, due to political unrest in Russia at the present time. Miss Gorman does not know where her work will be or what it will consist of, other than that it will be work in physical training. It is also indefinite how long she will stay in Russia. Miss Gorman, whose home is in Montclair, New Jersey, came to the University last fall and since then has been a member of the staff of instruct ors in the women’s physical training i department, her work being mostly with the majors in physical education. She received her B. A. at Wellesley college in 1914 and graduated from the hygiene and physical education depart ment at Wellesley in 1916. She has had charge of summer camps in New Hampshire and Vefmont and has done physical education work in other colleges, summer schools and private schools. DeBTJSK ON EXTENSION TBIP ... Dr. B. W. DeBusk, professor of secondary education, left yesterday for an extension trip to La Grande and Pendleton He will address the study club at La Grande and at both places i will hold a clinic for the examination of retarded children. Thursday he will go to Portland. The following week j he is scheduled to visit The Dalles, j Hood River and McMinnville, where he will carry on examinations of retarded children. DORRIS WILL TELL Awarded Belgium Croix de Guerre for Service; Wounded in Jaw by Sniper’s Bullet. Lieutenant Ben F. Dorris, Univer sity graduate in 1915, veteran of the Argonne and other famous drives, will be the speaker at the assembly on Wed nesday morning, according to an an nouncement made by the President’s office. He will tell his own war story and this, Karl Onthank, secretary to the President says, is most interesting, as he is capable of telling the details of the Argonne drive as few men are. Lieutenant Dorris returned the first of April to visit his family in Eugene after six and one-half months in ser vice overseas. He was on sick leave at that time recovering from a wound lie had received in the jaw. Dorris enlisted in May, 1917, in the infantry and took the first course for officers at the Presidio where he was commissioned second lieutenant and was assigned to the 91st division, 362 infantry. In July he was pro moted to first lieutenant and later for a time was battalion adjutant. Dorris was wounded in the jaw by a sniper’s bullet while in action in Belgium after having gone through 17 days hard fighting in the Argonne without a scratch. The jaw was brok en and some teeth knocked out. Dorris was given the Belgium Croix de Guerre for his service. Mr. Onthank says arrangements are being made for special music for the assembly hour this week. Plans for all except one of the as semblies for the remainder of the year have been made, Mr. Onthank said also. On May 7, and June 4, business meet ings of the student body will bo held at assembly time and on May 28, all the classes will have separate meetings. On May 14, Bishop Walter T. Sum ner of Portland will speak to the stu dents. His subject has not been an nounced yet. SCULPTOR DUE THIS WEEK Proctor to Supervise Placing of “The Pioneer;’’ Rock Base Here The large rock which will be used as the base for the statue, “The Pi oneer ’ ’ has been brought down from the McKenzie and is now on the cam pus ready to be fitted into place. It will be placed in a cement foundation, and if the cement hardens in time the, statue will be unveiled at Jnuior Week end. A. Phimister Proctor, American sculptor of wide fame, who designed “The Pioneer’,’’ will come to the campus this week to supervise the placing of the statue. It will be placed between the library and Friendly hall facing Thirteenth avenue east. This work typifying the spirit of the early days, is a gift to the University from Joseph N. Teal, of Portland, in memory of the late D. P. Thompson, former regent of the University, who was Mr. Teal’s father-in-law, and Mr. Teal’s own father. Both were Oregon pioneers. The statue is of heroic size, being nine feet in height. It is the figure of a man with flowing beard and long hair, dressed in buckskin clothes, walk ing, as if into the new country. The model used by Mr. Proctor was a hunter and trapper of eastern Oregon. R. O. T. C. TO GET UNIFORMS Uniforms will be issued to members of the R. O. T. C. sometime this week. All members, according to Lieutenant Colonel Baird, are requested to watch the bulletin bodrd for announcement as to the time to go to the storeroom of the barracks for measurements and issuing of the uniforms. VAN OSDEL SUPPLIES PULPIT Edgar B. Van Osdel, secretary of the campus Y. M. C. A., spoke Sunday morning and evening at the Baptist church in the absence of Rev. C. E. Dunham, pastor. OVER TRACK MEET WITH MULTNOMAH Tryouts Do Not Satisfy Coach; Freshman Entry Still Uncertain ‘ ‘ Bill ’ ’Hayward figures that Oregon will not bring homo the bacon in the Multnomah-Oregon dual meet, which is to be held in Portland Saturday, unless the unexpected happens before then. “The score will be something like 53 for Oregon against 79 for Multno mah,’’ Bill said. “This allows the clubmen’s use of Philbrook, whom O. A. C. protested in their meet last Sat urday. ’ ’ Hayward further declared that he would not enter a protest against Mult nomah’s use of Philbrook. “If the clubmen want to use him, that is up to them,” he said. “It looks to me as if lie is entitled to be entered, because if he were a professional, he could not be a member of the Multnomah club.” Hayward is not satisfied with the results of the tryouts held on Kincaid field last Saturady. “The results were rather discouraging,” he said. “Some of the members of the team expect to go to Portland and win the meet on our reputation. This is an impossibility, and I don’t know how they can expect to win anything when they are not putting forth their best efforts at a try out. ’ ’ May Enter Freshmen “Bill” is uncertain whether he will enter freshmen against Multnomah or not. He will be allowed to do so if he desires, but Oregon’s track mentor is trying to work up a good Varsity team. O .A .C. entered freshmen in the meet which they won by protest last Saturday. The track men upon whom Oregon is placing her hopes in next Saturday’s meet are beginning to figuro on their possible showing against the Portland clubmen. The result of that meet will undoubtedly also serve as an indica tion of the showing Oregon will be able to make against O. A. C. Oregon’s inilers, Walyley Parr, Bur gess and Bolding, will have to run against Coleman of Multnomah, who took second place against the Aggies Saturday. In the sprints, Oregon may be expected to make its best showing. Foster and Ilemenway, both gooil men, may possibly place, as O. A. C. won all three places against the clubmen. Trio Will Work Hard Philbrook, whom the Aggies pro tested, was the only Multnomah heaver who placed in the shot put, also win ning the discus, in which event Mult nomah took all three places. This looks as if Starr, Tegart ami Bunquist, Oregon’s heaving trio, will have to exert themselves to place there. Kadderly, of Multnomah, who won the 440 in the Portland meet against the Aggies’ best men, will be the most serious competitor of Anderson, Sun deleaf and Hayslip, while Windnagle and Coleman will be the club’s offer ings in the 880, where Belding is ex pected to make a showing. The best Multnomah could get in the hurdles last Saturday was third, so Wilson, Hollenbeck and Hunt, may be expected to win some points for Oregon. Spearow and Webster form a team of jumpers for Multnomah that will make Oregon’s pondidates exert them selves quite a bit. These men took the first two places in the high and broad i jump and in the pole vault last Satur day against O. A. C. Chapman, Estes, Hargreaves, Meyer and Poster rnfc.y ; expect real competition next Saturday, | when they bump against the Portland clutbers. On the whole, the Oregon men have a fairly good chance to break into the limelight with some surprising wins in different events, even if they do not win the meet. Winners in Tryout . Some of the results of Saturday's tryouts are: Mile—First Walkley;,second Parr, third Burgess. Hundred — Freshmen, Hemenway, (Continued on Page Three) Dress Suits, Hats Deck Neophytes of Sigma Delta Chi No, Mabel, you’re all wrong. Young men of the University do not stay out all night and appear the next, morning in dress suits. That is just Harris Ellsworth and Harry Smith being ini tiated into Sigma Delta Chi, national journalism fraternity and they are going to make a speech from the li brary steps at 10 o’clock Wednesday. Wednesday morning will see a de parture from a proper dress and there i will be two men on the campus, during . the greater part of the day, in full j dress, including cane and silk hat. The i two young men who will get this op | portunity to place themselves before ! the campus public, on assembly morn ing are the latest neophites of Sigma Delta Chi, which observes the full dresS custom for initiation every year. The speeches have already boon written and have been read to the members of Sigma Delta Chi; Jimmie Sheehy, Harold Newton, Leith Abbott and Alexander Drown; and have been gone over and edited by the inactive members of the fraternity—Dean Erie W. Allen, Professor George Turnbull, Karl Ontlmnk and Carlton Spencer. All agreo that the speeches are the best they have ever seen and expect that, they will get by big on the day, which is Wednesday. The dress-suited neophytes have been ordered, by the members of Sigma Del ta Chi, to turn down all of the bids to dinner that the girls will probably throw at them, unless the whole chapter is invited. II. C. A. TO GIVE PIAT AT T. M. OUT Skit to Show Life of Students in Japan; No Admission Fee Charged A Japanese play depicting the life of students in the orient, taking girls from rice fields to college is to be put on by the Y. W, C. A. in the Y. M. C. A. hut next Thursday. There will be no admission charged and every one is invited to come. The association is supporting work in Japan and wishes everyone to know something about the program of its work in the orient. The play, which is cleverly written takes up the interesting work of the factory girls who work hours each day making the safety matches, silks, hairbrushes and neckties which we in this country consider such necessities. These girls in the majority of cases have until recently been unable to re ceive the benefit of the splendid pro fessional and special schools which are in the city, owing to the long hours of labor. A few factory laws, owing to the efforts of the Japanese Christ ians and missionaries have boon made but there is great need for more. Tokyo in Japan and Calcutta in India are the largest student centers in the world. Tokyo has 15,000 students of college and university rank and many more thousands in high school and girl’s schools. The interesting part which the mis sionaries and secretaries of the Y. W. C. A. play in the lives of the factory girls and students will be a revelation to those who will see the play on Thursday, for never could conditions be realized as vitally as they have been represented in “It Happens In Japan. ’ ’ The cast is as follows: Haki . Aila N. McMurphey Ichiro .Ella Rowlings 0 Hrar Ban . Evelyn Bmith Students: Michi . Margaret Studer Kiku .Geneva Stebno Chiyo . Ruth Nash Prisoners: Elme .Mabyl Weller Masa . Helen Carson Hana .Helen Huntington Matron . Isla Gilbert Yoshida San . Grace Young Hoshino Ban . Margaret Thompson Miss Ray . Marjorie Holaday Messenger . Marion Bowen AMBULANCE MEN FROM FRONT TO BE WEEK-END BIS University to Show Old Students “Oregon is Just as It Used to be” CAMPUS DAY IS FEATURED Everything Will be Cleaned up; Frosh and Sophs to have Tug-of-War Junior Week-end will have an added feature this year in a celebration of the return of the Oregon men who have been in the service. The University ambulance company will arrive in time for the week-end, and events are being planned that will again turn their in terest to Oregon. “We want to show the old men of the 361st that we are right on the job and that Oregon is just as it used to be, ” said Herald White, president of the associated students. “We want to have the big gest Junior Week-end that Ave have over had and show these men that the old pep and vim is still here.” The men of the ambulance company will be special guests at the prom Saturday night. A Avord of Avelcome will be given them by Governor Olcott before he awards the medals to the high school track winners. Grace 11 miiiiui i hm mu, in riiiiigo ui iuo promises something good and original. Lee Hulbert says that the decorations will sorely be an “artistic riot of color. ’ ’ Frosh. to be Kept Busy Campus clean up day will be a big feature of the Week-end. Early Friday morning the freshmen will be put at work and the prospects are that they will be kept busy all day, with timo out, of course, for the big feed by the Women's League on the campus. “We are going to work the campus all over again," said Herald White, who is in ehargo of the committee. “It, will bo a regular spring house cleaning." A cement walk is to be built on the north end of the campus running paral lel to the railroad track. It will be about 200 feet long and will take the place of the old board walk that runs from the north side of the commerce building to the school of music. Sug gestions have been made that the planks at the base of the library steps be replaced by a strip of cement. Following the custom of previous years, considerable work will be done on the mill race. Tn several places logs have lodged land sediment has gathered. This will be cleaned out. The overhanging branches and berry vines are to be clipped and carried out. There will be some work on the upper portage also. “O” and Frosh to be Painted The “O” on Skinner’s Butte is to V>e given a new coat of paint bv a husky crew of frosh. These same frosh will paint each other and parade after their work is done. A good job of cleaning is to be done in the “back yard’’ of the Administration building. The heaps of dirt are to be removed to Kincaid field and the yard cleaned up in general. Bill Hayward has asked for fifteen freshmen to get the track in perfect condition for the inter-scholastic track meet Friday afternoon. He wants it hoed, scraped and leveled off, all the pits dug up and “softened.” The white chalk lines must be put on just before the meet. All the antagonism that has been growing between the freshmen and sophomores will be fought out by twenty of the huskiest men from each of the classes in the tug-of-war over the race. ‘The contest is to be abso lutely square,” said Herald White. ‘We are going to see that the judges show no partiality and that no under handed work is done. We want to give each team a chance to work off its grudge against the other.” (Continued on Page Three)