No Chance to Train on Boat; Quarters Cramped; Practice On Ship Impossible. JELGIAN AUTHORITIES i also neglect guests "Bill” Gives Facts on Oregon i Performers, “Ken” Bart lett and “Art” Tuck. The triumph of the American tenm tn he Olympic games at Antwerp this luumier was miraculous in the opinion or ‘Hill” Hayward, veteran University of )regon trainer, who was a member of he coaching staff of the Olympic team, thirteen (lays were spent on the army transport Princess Matoika b.v the mem jers of the team in making the trip1 from New York to Antwerp, but there ivere no training facilities on the boat hid quarters were so cramped that u ivas almost impossible to do any traili ng work. The games commenced a week ifter the American team landed and in hat short time it was impossible to :ondition the men. 300 Make Trip. Over oOO men and coaches made the trip to Belgium on the transport and ;he only equipment for training was * :auk about 10 feet square and 5 feet lccqi which the members of the swim ming team used. They were anchored li the tank and allowed to condition their muscle in the work. Wrestling, lexers and sprint men, as well as the jumpers were talso able to get in some work. The distance, men were the ones who met th'‘ obstacles, in attempting to get their workouts. Daily practice schedules were earned out on ship board as best as possible throughout the trip, hut conditions were far from fav M-ahle for the practice according to Hayward. “Bill” was also a member >•. the coaching staff to the game in Stock holm in 101“ and1 draws a line when it comes to comparing the conditions under i which the 1912 team and this year's teaai were forced to work. Breakfast on Sardines. The trip over was only a part of the unfavorable conditions which the team was forced to work Hinder. Upon nr riving in Antwerp, the athletes were anxious to leave the boat at once hut were forced to spend the first uight in Antwerp harbor, on board ship, on -">a111 of the lack of housing facilities for Hie team. They were landed the next morning and were given a breakfast ot sardines, cheese, hardback and coffee an it were housed in a barracks which war formerly occupied by German officer* luring the occupation of Antwerp by the German forces during the war. The men, were forced to sleep with some "(! or more in the uooms, which were ot ['otiTse quite large, blit this was far from favorable for training reasons. In their daily workouts after landing, (he athletes were forced to use whatever ground was available, as no arrangements had been made by the Belgians to take (Continued on Page 4) CONFERENCE hours SET BY PRESIDENT Monday, 2 to 4, Set Apart for Students ___ Who Have Not Reserved Other Hours. - For the convenience of students who desire personal interviews with Presi dent Campbell, two hours on Monday afternoon of each week from 2 to 4 0 clock, have ,, been reserved. Appoint ments may lie made for interviews witn tlie President at any other time, bur Monday afternoon is set aside for those who have not made such arrangements there are a great manv students o* campus now whom. President Canvp Imll is especially anxious to meet and [some who wish to get in personal toner with him. according to Karl Ontliarih executive secretary. A large litunbeiv of parents, some of whom were students *hi der President Campbell when lie was 1 resident of the Oregon Normal S.-boo aml others who have a very high regard f’°r him have written asking that he allow their sons and daughters a chance for Personal conferences. i*——-★ | Basson Bunglers | Invited to Grand | | Burst of Harmony | The first steps toward the wguniwi? tiori of the University hand1 this year have been taken with the result that the tryouts will be held in Villain! hail at five o’clock this afternoon. Kveryone who can pl'ay inn instrument is wnntc<* 'hut one of tile band boys puts it this way: “Hey there, all you ham-boners and slip-stickers, you peek burners and go hoonists, you rnellaphonies and jazzers or the jingley jews-harp, there will be n jazz jerk-out in Villain! hall today at 5:00 p. m. All you who can toot a toot on a tooter, track out your tooter tonight nnr» toot. We want a band. “Buckets of jazz will be spilled on me football field tomorrow, so the gang must he ready. There will he a berth for every bungler of the bassoon, for every hand boy on the brass, so be out today, and remember, she starts on time.” TEN TUCK MEN OUT FOB FILE PUCTICE Walkely, “Speed” Peltier, Guy Keopp, Back, Fall track practice for the University started yesterday. About ten candidates were out for the first, session. It JS planned this year to have all track con tenders turn out during the entire winter at least three times a week. Oregon has always been handicapped in track by hav ing her men in poor condition at the time of the spring season. During the good weather the men will all work out of doors, and when the rains begins they will change to the inside track. The weight men will work out all winter using the sheds. A number or cross counrr.v nieii luiii eel out to begin work Tt* the meet to be held with O. A. C. nt the time of the varsity football game. Among them were Glenn Wnlkley, winner of the meet with O .A. G. last year, IGaylor “Speed” Peltier, and Guy Koepp. Both of these last two boys were members of the fresh man squad of last year and showed up well in the distance and middle distance events. There are a number of other men who have signified their intention of coming out in a short time. Henry “Hank” Foster will assist Bill Hayward in handling the men this fall* “Hank” \^ns a members of the Oregon varsity track team for three years and was captain of the team twice. WOMEN MINGLE AT TEA First Get-Together Is Attended By Large Number. Miss Elizabeth Fox, dean of women, entertained at. afternoon tea at Hendricks hall, Saturday, from three to five, hon oring the new students of the U niversity. Those receiving with .Miss Fox were Miss Gertrude Talbot, Mrs. P. D. Campbell, Dr. Bertha Stuart Dyiuent. Mrs. G. T. Gerlinger, Miss Vivian Chandler, an;. Miss Ollie Stoltenberg. Assisting about the reception room were Hendrick hall gilds and one girl from each of the wo men’s fraternities. Miss Lilian Tingle ami Miss Mary Mat son presided over the tea and coffee ser vice. Hendricks hall girls served. 'Those calling during the afternoon were women of the faculty, wives of the faculty, men and women students of the Cuiversity. Practically every woman stu dent spent a few minutes at the delight ful affair. MORE STUDENTS ENROLL Registration Now 100 Ahead of Same Time Last Year. With practically 40 more students be ing added to the rolls of the 1 niversitj each day, the present registration rlg ures are now 100 ahead |>f where they were at the same time lasS year. acc-orCT ing to Mrs. George Fitch, of the regis trar's office. The first week ended with a total of approximately 1550 students registering. Those who are coming in at the pres ent time, according to Mrs. Fitch, aie the older students who were unable to return during the first few days of the term. She expects added registrants tor ; the next few weeks. i Multnomah Wants Contest' at Portland; Oregon Holds Out for Eugene. HARD WORKOUTS FOR MEN ALL THIS WEEK I Mautz and Hoisington Battle For Position on First String Team. One more letter man of the last sea son’s eleven returned to school yester day and turned out in a suit last night for the first time. This was Carl Mailt*, who played a guard position on Hunting ton’s aggregation last year. Mautz has been unable to get away sooner but has decided to stick the year out now.that be has returned to school. Mautz wan « bulwark in defense last year and is ex pected to be a strong addition to the line, although it is the line that is giving Coach Huntington the least amount of worry. Another man who' played a promising game in his freshman year on the cam pus. was Ernest Hoisington. He was a baekfield man on the frosli eleven and was also captain of the team in 1915. He has returned to finish his college career and will be a contender for a baekfield berth on the varsity this season. Both Mautz and Hoisington are going to make a. hard race for a varsity position and competition for the first string eleven gets a little more keen each day. Tentative Arrangements Made. Tentative arrangements ore on with the Multnomah chit) for a game to he played Saturday, but there appears to ho a disagreement somewhere, and the dates have not been closed. Multnomah wants the game played in Portland while the Oregon athletic directors want the game played in Eugene as a preliminary to the opening of the season. It is possible that an agreement may be reached before the end of the week and a game played here yet. The game for October 1C has not been definitely arranged as yet. al though the winged M team Is out of the question for that date as they have n scheduled game with the Aggies in Cor vallis on that day. The Multnomah aggregation has n number of former Oregon men on the squad according to reports from Port land this fall. Among them are Stan Anderson, and “Bob” Cosgriff who work ed under Huntington last year, vres Maddook who played on the Oregon var sity in 1017, is also out for a place. Coach Not Talking Yet. Coach Huntington is not giving on* the information as to the line-up in the Saturday’s game in cake It can he ar ranged. He stated today that he wou!5 be able to give out some pretty definite dope on the squad this week. Heavy scrimmage was the order of .events for Saturday afternoon and the team worked at full speedi for a solid hojjr. Hunting ton and Spellman are both working the squid overtime in order to get a firs* string eleven into shape and hard wo'iw outs are scheduled for every day this week. Trainer “Bill” Hayward and his force of rubbers are beginning to have (hep hands full since scrimmage began thr middle of last week and a goodly number of “charlie houses” and early season bruises are 'beginning to appear. Tro serious injuries have resulted yet how ever and it is hoped that I he team will not go- into the Idaho game on October 2-‘l with a crippled line-up. HALL MEETS PRINTERS. Professor Robert Hall, of the I Di versity Press went to Portland yester day to attend a meeting of thu employ ing printers’ association at the Chamber of Commerce. Dean E. C. Robbins, of the school of commerce, who is in Port land on other business, also planned to attend. ALPHA DELTA PI MOVES. Among the sororities and fraternities which have moved to new locations since the close of school last fall is the Alpha Delta Pi. The sorority house is now located at 1201 Alder. Last year the house was located at 71o Sixteenth ave nue east. THREE LIVES» IS RESULT OF WORK BY OREGON STUDENT Joe Hedges Gave Instruction in Rescue from Drowning In Thirty Towns TRICKSTER UNABLE TO DECEIVE; FAKE FAILS JVIan “Going Down For Third Time” Had Lung Full of Air, Held Breath. Field work in water first: aid under the auspices of the northwestern division of the American lied Cross constituted the summer work of .Toe Hedges, a sen ior in the law school of the University. Hedges traveled over the major portion of the states of Oregon. Washington and Idaho, and gave instruction jn life saving and qualification tests for life savers in some 30 towns and cities. Tim purpose of the work was to visit those points which had swimming fa cilities and to give instruction in life saving. 'Local life saving corps were es tablished from those who were able to pass the tests. A local board of examin ers was usually established so that the tests might be continued and thereby keep the local corps of life savers built mp with new members. Puget SountU'First Visited. The Puget Sound district was the first to be visited by Hedges. From there he went into eastern Washington, then northern Idaho, from there down to Lew iston, Pasco, Walla Walla, Pendleton, La Grande, and points in eastern Oregon and southern Idaho. Several lives are known to have been saved as a result of the wort. Shortly after Hedges gave the life saving tests at Lewiston, a drowning woman was res cued from the Snake river and resus citated by one of those who had passed the test. Another rescue was made by n life saver who had passed the test tun two weeks before. He pulled two boys out of the Columbia up in eastern Wash ington. Hedges himself assisted In re suscitating a woman at. American FaTTs. Fake Fails to Lure. At Wall,'! Walla a fake drowning was staged for his benefit, said Hedges. The man in charge of the tank there asked him to watch the tank for a short time while he was'absent. Soon after the man left Hedges was attracted by a splash and save a man fully clothed, struggling in the middle of the tank. lie pulled off bis sweater and started for the tank but stopped in suspicion when he saw that the “drowning” man took good care, to draw a long breath and avoid swallow ing any water before he went down ‘for the third time.” Finding that he was not to lie rescued the victim swam to the edge of the tank and crawled out in dis gust . Towns in the Willamette valley and bench r sorts were on the original itiner ary of the Red Cross hut the cold weath er in September made further work inad visable. OPEN HOUSE SUCCEEDS Men and Women Meet A? Campus Or ganizations Saturday. Open house, the introductory social function of the college year past, Univer sity life will now start in earnest, Every year is started by this hand-shaking feat and through it congeniality and Oregon's hospitable democracy are in their best running form for the ensuing year. Open house is held to give tin* men and women of the campus a chance to ’meet. This is accomplished h.v the or ganized men’s groups to visit on mass/ the women’s houses of the campus. Di rectly following rush week and pledging, open house serves also as a reception for pledges and their first appearance In the respective houses. ‘‘Hello” forgotten or ignored on Hello Dane after this occa sion is an unforgivable offense. The committee for this year’s open house consisted of .Johnny Houston, chairman; Vivian Chandler and llemy Cox. Upon conference with Dean Eliza beth Fox. it was decided to divide the houses so that a group from earn means house would visit every girl’s house on the campus. Different arrangements may be made before the winter term. *--* i Baby Gator Dies; ! Delta Taus’ Food | Too Much for Him | *-* Bevo, the ‘baby alligator of the 1 ><’lt;i Tan house, is dead1, the victim of Eugene's first hunger strike. Hevo. who was three months old. was brought from the wilds of New Orleans by Freshman Gastroek. Don Portwood, ‘house manager, indignantly denies that the ipiality of the chow at tlie Delta iilaee half anything to do with the early demise of the youthful 'raptile, although it is pointed out that Bevo refused the Portwoodian diet with unbroken eon- . sisteney. Gastrock at several times resorted to forcible feed1, but Bern managed to do without the necessary food ,and passed away this morning. There are some alligator experts in tin' University who say it is too cold in Oregon for “gators.” UNIVERSITY PLAYERS TO PRESENT COMEDY Cast Selected; Irene Stewart Has Title Role. “The Cassilis Engagement.” ‘a four act comedy by St.. John Hankin, and the first production to be presented tills year by the University Play Producing company, is to he put on November j and 5 at IGiuild hall. One class in the public speaking ^de partment will produce a number of one act plays during the term, the best of which will be selected for production, be fore the public. ‘Members of the play producing class will have charge of them, not only in the filling of the cast, but also in costuming, and in arrange ment of settings. According to Mr. Reddle, head of the department, Oregon is very well pre pared to put on these plays because of the superior equipment that is in the possession of the department. Few other colleges have anything that, will compare with Guildl hall, according to Professor Reddie, and people from other places are amazed at the amount of ma terial the department has to work with. The cast for the “Camilla Engage ment follows: Mrs. Oassilis .Irene Stewart Geoffrey Gassilis ....... .George Sterns Countess of Ilemenham, Dorothy Woo ton Major Wairrington ..Claire Keeney Lady Mabel Venning ....Marian Taylor Mrs. Porridge ..Mart If a Rice Ethel Borridge.Marion Gilstrap The Rev. Hildebrand He tries. .... .Vern Fudge Mrs. Herries ...Loeta Rogers Watson.Ervine Ludemnn Doirset ..Helen Madden ARCHITECTURE CLUB HOLDS FIRST MEETING Martjarct Goodin Chosen New Secretary —Aims of Club Outlined By President. Margaret Goodin was elected secretary of the Architecture club at its first ree ular meeting of the year Thursday af ternoon nt ii :30 in Architecture1 hall. Lyle Bartholomew, who was elected president last Jume gave a short talk stating the ‘aims and purposes of the eltd). He explained that the club wen organized to work in co-operation wltvj, Dean Lawrence for the furtherance of interest and understanding of the mreht-• tectural students in the various branches of architecture. The school of architecture has he»wr> lished itself in the public eye as one or tin' leading schools in tin- country in its line and the students expect to keep up its reputation. Guild meetings are to lie held at reg ular intervals. These meetings are at tended by the. students of the school of architecture and the men who are work ing on the buildings now under con struction on the campus. Various prob lems that come up from time to time as the work goes on are discussed. “Jury Day” is to be a feature of the school again this year. Several archi tects from out of town, usually from Portland, visit the school of aTchltectv/e and judge the work of the students. The visitors are entertained and the students get a fair audi unprejudiced rating of their work. HOMECOMING DUE MlOn IV. 13; COMMITTEE I1IED Johnny Houston Is Appointed General Chairman of Arrangements FIRST MEETING TO BE HELD THIS EVENING Preliminary Arrangements to Be Made For Great Week-End. Saturday, November 13 will mark the opening of Homecoming Week-end this year. This announcement was made today by taw-Itou Savage. president of the A. n. V. O. In making the announcement*. Savage appointed: the committees who will make the arrangements for the btg day wheli Oregon graduates and former students will he the guests of the Uni versity. Johnny Houston was named general chairman of homecoming arrangements. The other committees, with chairman named first, follow: Dances—Wilbur Carl. Carl Newbury, •Claire Hold r edge, B. Wctierbee, **. Orewdson. Rally — Lyle Bartholomew, Claire Keeney, Wayne Akers. Advertising—Jack Benefiel, Abe Ros enberg, Bay Tester. Slogan — Harry Smith, Alys Sutton, Ruth Griffin. Welcome — -Iton Davis, Mary Ellen Bailey, Louis Macy, Warde Nelson, Nish Chapman. Registration Booths — Warren Kays, Arthur Campbell, Nancy Fields. Room Committee — Norton Wiunard, Alice Hamm, Lueile Branstotter. Luncheon—Vivian Chandler. Decorating Grandstand — Chuck Hug gins. Helen Nelson, Betty London. Ralph Taylor. The committees will meet at 7:30 o’clock tonight with Carlton Harnge »n Dean Straub’s office. Miss Charlie Fen ton. 'Karl Ont'hank, Dean H. Walker and Marion McClain will attend the meet ing. Preliminary plans are to lie formu lated then for what, according to> CihtI Savage, is to he one of the biggest Homecoming Week-ends ever staged by Oregon. Gamma Phi Leads List With 13; Alpha Phi, 12, -- * Rush week ended Saturday with the pledging of ninety-eight gills to the twelve national and local sororities on the campus. The announcements were made at noon when the new . members marched to the different houses. The 'Gamma Phi Beta’s announce^ thirteen new pledges, thereby heading the list. The Alpha Phi’s come second with twelve. Four fewer pledges were made this fall than ii.st, when the number waa a hundred and two. Women’s houses have taken in thirteen i more new members than the men’s houses have yet announced. The frater nity list is now eighty-five. Thirty-nine of the list live in Portland, twelve give 'Eugene as their home ad dress and five are from Salem. The pledges are as follows: /eta Rho Epsilon — Decile Brand stetter, Frances Gross, Eugene; Edna Sargent, Silverton; Opal Gilmore, Port land; Marie Hastings, Thurston; Ger trude Foenwm. Duluth,Minn.; Ruth Tuck, Eugene; Lettie Biddle, Meridian, Idaho. Kappa Kappa Gamma — 'Margaret Griffith, Mary Albert, Helen Rose, all of Salem! Margaret Alexander, Eliza beth Stirowbridge, Laura Ball, all of Portland; Vivian Stinting and Florence Magilvery of Eugene. Pi Beta Phi — Virginia Pearson, Hel en Ball. Estelle Modlin. GJuella Hauster. Eunice Cowgill, all of Portland; Evange line Foster, Eugene; Ruth Giesler, (Continued on Page 3)