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About Oregon emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (April 8, 1920)
GIRLS' GLEE RETURNS; flECEPTION IS HEARTY III SOUTHERN OREGON Club Members Well Satisfied With Trip; Home Concert Booked For April 16 Tired, hut satisfied, the members of the Girls’ Glee Club arrived in Eugene at 4:00 o’clock this morning on the special car which had carried them on their eight-day concert tour through Southern Oregon. Members of tlm Glee Club interviewed this morning expressed themselves as more than satisfied with the trip. “We were treated everywhere witli wonderful hospitality,” said several members of the club. “People in the different towns did everything to make us feel at home.” The attend ance at the concerts in nearly every town was very large and the club has cleared expenses by a large amount.” a special car carried me uiee Club on the entire tour. Dean Fox aB official chaperon, Leland Coon as musical director, Vincent Engled Inger as accompanist ,and Jolin Hunt as business manager, accompanied the club. In nearly every town spec ial entertainment in the way of lun cheons, dances and auto trips was provided by residents. The Glee Club played to large aud iences at nearly every town. In one place bookings had been confused and the concert was scheduled to oc cur at the high school instead of the' theatre, while the Glee Club mem-! bers were sent to a boarding house, instead of private homes. But the mix up was straightened out and the concert did take place at the theatre while residents of the town hospit ably opened their homes. “We didn’t mind the boarding house experience," said one of the Glee Club members. “The onions were wonderful.” At one of the towns the concert made such a hit that the stage man ager, who was theatre owner, prop erty manager, and curtain raiser combined, became so enthusiastic lie lost his false teeth and in the ex citement forgot to lower the curtain. Concerts were held at Oakland on March 30; Roseburg, March 31; Grants Pass, April 1; Medford, April 2; Ashland, April 3, and Klamath Falls, April 4 and 5. Two concerts were held at Klamath Falls. The homo concert of the Glee Club will be held April 1(1 at the Eugene Theatre where the concert tour pro-1 gram will be repeated. OREGON WEATHER PLAYS HAVOC WITH BASEBALL (Continued from page one) Jay Fox, a former lot tor man on the varsity, it out In a suit ami is making a strong bid for an infield position. Fox did not turn out at the start of tho season but ts going good in spite of his late start. Two Infields on Tap "Shy" now 1ms two infields of about equal calibre from which to select bis regular nine, both of them fast and of first class rating. In tho one he works Captain Lind at first, Liebe at second. Manorial at short and Collins on third, in Ills other infield are lllack at tlrst, Dollar on second, Fox at short and Houston holding down third. For catchers lie expects to work a inun for the regu lar nine out of three candidates who arc all showing up to a good ad vantage in the receiving position. These are “Spike" Leslie, Vince Jac obbergor and Adams, none of them letter men, but all handling the job in first rate .shape and competition ts going to be keen for the job on the regular nine. i fit' outiit'iu itt's not ween uui Steers, "Hill” Reinhart. Gain bit*. Wil son. Foster mid Shim. These men! nre all working good and ‘"Sin" lias littl eto worry about in the outer garden this season. Prospects Look Dubious With the opening of the confer ence season hut two weeks away and the rain keeping the team in , doors the whole month of March Coach Huntington is wearing a dub ions look these days when asked about tlu> prospects "t think we have one of the best teams in the conference this season,” he said this morning, "hut we are go iff ft to be up against it for practice. Caltfor nia. Stanford and <). A. C. have all been practicing for the last two or three months and have their first string men working out together reg ularly. while we are still handicapped by this rotten weather" "Shy" is well pleased with the wealth of good material which he has to work with this season and competition lias been exceptionally keen for practically every position on the nine. “We will have a bet ter team this season than we have had for years,” he said this morn ing when asked about the calibre of this season's squad compared with that of the past few years. "But then, so are the other teams in the conference and we cannot hope for much along that line.” First Game April 23 California, Stanford and O. A. C. all have conference g*mes to their credit so far this season, and the northern teams will open the season | when Oregon starts with the Sun- j I dodgers in Seattle on April 23 and 24. playing two games also with Idaho, Washington State and Whit man. California took two games from the O. A. 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