*iiH Oregon Daily Emerald
Make It a
Thundering
Thousand!
volume XXII.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, OREGON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1920.
NO. 19.
lBUff ELEVEN
TO MEET PACIFIC IS
Frosh Battle To Be Staged
As Varsity-Idaho
Curtain-Raiser.
BABES’ CHANCES FOR
VICTORY HELD SLIM
Plenty of Weight, But More
Speed Needed, Say
Coaches.
The first hard gamp for the freshmen
will be played with Pacific University on
Kincaid field this afternoon at 1 o’clock
just before the varsity game with Idaho.
The only game the babes have played so
far this year was last Saturday when
they tangled with the varsity. Today’s
game will be a good indication of what
the frosh have as compared with the O.
A. C. Rooks. Pacific IT. and the Rooks
played a (! to 6 tie last Saturday at For
est Grove.
In the opinion of Coach Bartlett of the
frosh the squad lacks “pep” and he is
not expecting any big showing from
them. Bartlett is putting the finishing
touches on his backfield While “Bar.” Will
iams.who is aCtink as line coach,is work
ing his beefy squad hard in an effort to
pick the best line to put against the
visitors.
Squad Has Beef.
There can be no doubt about the
i'rosh eleven being heavy this year, they
ar< made up of beef* but whether they
will be able to produce the proper
amount of speed to go with their beef
will be better determined Saturday af
ternoon. Pacific is known to have a
fast as well as heavy eleven this year.
Line Coach Williams has announced
his line up to open the game as fol
lows: At the ends will be Jess Digman
and Mooers. Digman is an old Portland
interscholastic player and has had a
good deal of high school experience.
Mooers is a Eugene man who has play
ed on the high school team of this
town. Reed and Ivellar King will work
at tackles. Both of^ these men are
beefy and will be hard to stop. The
guards will be Byler and “Slim” John
son. “Bill” Johnson will hold down the
center of the line. “Baz” Williams also
has a number of line subs whom he
plans to use during the game. Among
them are McKeown, a tackle; Gram and
Itugh, ends; and Bryson at guard.
Backfield is Selected.
Ken Bartlett says that the backfield
that will start will be Johnson at full,
Chapman at quarter, and Webber and
Whipple at. the halves. Besides these
men he has Parsons, Myers, .Torden,
and Walker, who will probably get into
the game.
The coaches have little to say about
the game, though both think that it will
be a hard-fought battle. Coach Bart
lett had his men working on blackboard
material for about an hour last night.
SINN FEIN COURSES GIVEN.
Harvard is offering a course in the
language of the Sinn Fein. The course is
conducted by Professor F. X. Robinson
and is open largely to graduate students.
Keeney’s “Thundering
Thousand” Oskie-late
and Invade Armory
Even n deaf, dumb and blind man
could tell by the vibration of the as
phalt that something was happening
when Oregon’s “Thundering Thou
sand” led by “Imon” Keeney and
his staff of noise propagandists, in
vaded Willamette street last night
in the first rally of the year. The
old time pep and noise was so much
in evidence that even the Southern
Pacific’s scarlet street cars were
forced to let their motors cool while
the courthouse clock ticked off ”0
minutes of town clock time.
The “oskies,” “Oregons,” and
“locomotives” were followed by
cheers for “Bart,” “Shy” and Coach
Kelly,, of Idaho, after which the
pep parade proceeded down Seventh
avenue east to the Armory, where
sideshows, vaudeville, and “lint
dogs” awaited the dispellers of gloom.
Admission to the Y. M. - Y. W.
Carnival, was free, according to
“Loon”, plus a small war tax of two
bits, entitling the payer to one full
evening’s enjoyment, with the roof
as the limit, Until such an hour as
the University rules decreed that
diversion should yield to Morpheus.
Five Men To Be Picked For
O.A.C. Meet Nov. 20.
Oregon’s cross country candidates are
working out nightly over a course vary
ing from two and one-half to four
miles according to the length of time
that the individual aspirant has been
training. It is the hop« ,of the aggrega
tion that when they meet the O. A. C.
squad as a preliminary to the O. A. C.
Oregon football classic to be played at
('orvallis on November 20, they will be
able to display that same. superiority of
physical condition to the Aggie team that
resulted in the Lemon-Yellow’s victory
in the race last Homecoming.
At present the squad is concentrating
on the endurance phase of the training
and those of the candidates who are in
the best condition are covering a course
of four miles each night. Later when
all are in shape it is the plan to shorten
the course and quicken the pace making
speed the objective. A two-and-one-half
mile race is to be run when the teams
meet at Corvallis.
Probably five men will make up the
team that is sent to meet the Aggies. The
selection of this team will be made by
Trainer Bill Hayward a few nights pre
vious to the meet, a great deal depend
ing upon the condition of the men.
About 10 men have been turning out
among whom are Walkley, who crossed
the tape first against the Aggies last
year; Davis, who took second in last
year’s performance; Sloan, Shaeffer,
Belcher. Koepp. Peltier, Wyatt, Cole
man and English.
HARVARD GETS GERMAN.
In spite of the disfavor'of the Teutonic
tongue, twenty-seven courses in German
are open to students at Harvard. Twenty
classes in French are offered.
Dawson a Globe-Trotting Boxer;
Learned Sport at 4; Taught Gobs
INTRODUCING CHARLIE DAWSON,
"’ho has boxed from New York to
t alif., from Virginia to Guantanamo
Ray, from Cuba to Panama, and won So
out of die 00 contests he entered. Now
he is instructor of boxing at the U. of O.
Dawson was born in Arkansas, and
he is tar from slow. At. the mature age
"f four he was given a pair of boxing
gloves, and his career started at that
moment. He entered the ring in south
ern California in 1912.
Re “saw the world through a port
hole,” to use the sailor’s parlance, dur
the war. He boxed in 24 contests
given for the benefit of soldiers and
^ilors, taught the “gobs” on Mare
Island the art of self-defense, and was
spurring instructor in Norfolk, Virginia.
Boxing contests must be held accord
ing to the highest standards of sports
manship. if this sport is to regain its
old place in the esteem of American
sportsman, believes Mr. Dawson. He
believes further that this is now being
done, and they will be so conducted in
the future. Boxing has become very
popular again since the war, he declares.
I “Every man should know something
of the art of self-defense” says Mr.
Dawson. “It’s just as important as
knowing how to swim. A man’s knowl
edge of swimming may save his life
when, unexpectedly thrown into the
water. Likewise a man’s knowledge of
boxing may save his face when con
fronted with a bully.”
Idaho Team Ready for Struggle
Against Heavier Oregon Eleven;
Coach Kelley Is Non-Committal
I
WILL nil FIELD
Seating Arrangements Made;
Field In Fine Shape.
The Oregon rooting section will
be located in the south end of the
. Hayward field grandstand. Arrange
ments have been made by the cam
' pus Y. M. C. A. to announce returns
from the O. A. (’.-Washington game
on the field.
Hayward field will be the scene of one
of the biggest gridiron clashes in the
Northwest this afternoon, when the Uni
versity of Idaho and the University of
Oregon football teams meet in their an
nual battle. The setting is perfect for
the game and with the smiling face of
old Sol. nothing could be more complete
than the picture which will be presented
there today. The field is in excellent
shape and the grass covered gridiron has
been newly mowed and carefully laid
off with white chalk marks in readi
ness for the second big contest in its
history. The Oregon-O. A. C. football
game last season in which Oregon defeat
ed the Aggies by a 9 to 0 score was {Jie
first.
Hard Fight Expected.
Can the University of Oregon main
tain its record and keep the stain of de
feat from Hayward field? This is the
all-absorbing question that fans and
students are asking each other this
morning when the Oregon-Idaho clash is
mentioned. In the opinion of Oregon’s
coaching staff, it will be one of the
hardest-fought battles of the 1920 sea
son and -will be fully'as hard a grind on
the team as the Homecoming game was
last year.
Manager Marion McClain has been
carefully arranging all the minor de
tails of the game the past week, and to
day will see the approaches to the
stands and the bleachers carefully saw
dusted, the mud holes well filled and
score of ushers and ticket handlers on
hand to take care of the thousands who
will watch the big game.
Ticket Must Be Shown.
McClain is especially anxious to im-l
press upon the student minds the fact|
that the student body ticket issued to j
them when they registered this year,
must be presented at the gates or else
it will be necessary to pay $1.00 to see.
the contest. The student tickets will be
punched this season, and they must be
presented for this purpose. Excuses
will not be accepted. A great deal of
confusion is always caused by a number
of students forgetting their student
tickets at the games, and in order to
have the crowd pass through the gates
smoothly this will be strictly required.
The center bleachers which are under
the roof will not be used tomorrow as!
they are undergoing repairs, and stu
dents will use the grandstand and the
bleachers which are not under a roof,
i Xo one will be allowed on the field ex
cept the officials and the players and it
i will not be permissible for the spectators
to line the sidelines. This precaution is
taken in order that an equal view of the
g^me may be obtained by all from the
stands.
No Reserved Seats.
There will be no reserved seats, and
the general admission' tickets will admit
to everything. The rooters section will
be handled by Yell leader Keeney, in
the place he wants to seat them.
The game will commence promptly at
2:15 o’clock although a Pacific Uninver
sity-Oregon frosli game will be played
on Kincaid field at 1 o’clock, as a pre
liminary to the big contest.
HISTORY NEAR COMPLETION.
The history department of the Univer
sity of California, which is compiling a
history of the service men in the •south
ern state, hopes to have*their work com
pleted by January 1.
Eighteen Players Accompanied By Mentor and
Graduate Manager Reach Eugene Last
Night; Train Held Up By Oregon
City Freight Wreck.
★-★
I What the Coaches Say
I
★--★
“Tom” Kelley, head coach Uni
versity of Idaho. — “With Oregon
having a string of thirteen annual
successive victories over the Univer
sity of Idaho eleven I would be fool
ish to attempt to make a prediction
as to the outcome of today’s game.
I expect this to be a hard fight,
and our team can be depended upon
to do its best, which is all that
any team can do.”
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“Shy” Huntington, head coach
University of Oregon: — “While the
team has shown considerable im
provement during the past few
weeks, it is still far from being a
finished product. I think the game
today will be a hard ono and Ore
gon will have to fight from the be
ginning to the end if they hope to
win.”
* * *
“Bill” Hayward, Oregon’s veteran
trainer: — “I think it will be a hard
fight. I feel that we will win, but
^bichevor team ooes win it will be
by a small score. Oregon has the
fight.”
* * *
“Bart” Spellman, assistant coach
University of Oregon: — “I figure
on a hard game this afternoon, Idaho
is already playing in midseason
form, while Oregon is as yet an un
known quantity.”
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OUT FOR SCTIOil
Democrats and Republicans
Gather Forces to Win
Each of the two rival political organ
izations of the campus is trying to steal
a march on the other by winning the
Emerald straw vote which is to be held
next Wednesday.
Homey Cox, president of the Harding
club states that he doesn’t think there
is any use of having a straw ballot be
cause everyone is in favor of Harding.
P>ut the club is going to have every re,
publican student on the campus out
Wednesday just to show how unani
mous thinks are, according to Mr. Cox,
who thinks that such a straw ballot
will be a reliable forecast of the way
things will go on election day.
The Cox-Roosevelt club will be
heard from next Tuesday night when
they will put on a big rally to stimulate
an interest among the democratic stu
dents in the straw vote. Victor Tirade
son, who is making the arrangements
wants every Cox-Koosevelt supporter on
the campus to attend the meeting Tues
day night and to cast their ballot Wed
nesday. A committee is making plans
for the meeting and will announce the
speakers the first of the week.
Mr. Bradeson suggests that students
go to the library and get some of the
democratic literature which is being dis
tributed there. The student can vote
more intelligently and if enough of the
material is gone by Wednesday he
thinks that the vote will be hea vy.
The Harding club* will wind up the
day Wednesday with an old fashioned
republican pow wow in the “Y” hut.
Mike Harris is getting things lined up
and it is announced that there will lie
a speaker from out of town. It is plan
ned to have a republican quartet and
to use campaign songs.
Gem State Backfield
Outweighed by Pound
Line-Ups Are Announced By
Rivals On Eve Before
Gridiron Battle.
Line-ups for the Game.
Oregon. Weight. Position. Weight. Idaho
Leslie, K. 178
Ward 174
Mautz, 182
Leslie, E. 180
Shields, A. 183
Howard, 170
Brown, 170
Rinehart, 100
Steers, 170
Hill. 150
King, 170
c. 183 Plastino
l.g-.r. 173 F. Brown
r.g.l. 108 Neal
l.t.r. 172 Glindcrman
r.t.l. 170 Perritie
l.e.r. 175 , Evans
r.e.l. 148 Gowen
q. 148 B.Breasliers
r. h.l. 172 Irving
l.h.r. 103 Whitcomb
f. 102 H.Breashers
“Tom” Kelley, head coach of the Uni
versity of Idaho football eleven, Gradu
ate Manager Priest and eighteen players
arrived in Eugene last night on a be
lated Southern Pacific train. The train
on which the Idaho men made the trip
to Eugene from Portland was held np
behind a freight wreck near Oregon
City for four hours, and did not reach
this city until 7 o’clock last night. The
Idaho coach as well as the players were
disappointed at not being able to get a
chance to work out in light signal prac
tice on Hayward field yesterday, as they
left Portland in plenty of time to have
a few* hours to spare in Eugene.
To say that the Idaho huskies were
hungry when they reached Eugene last
night would be putting it rather mildly,
and Coach Kelley barely hesitated to
give out his line-up for the game, be
fore he selected a little tin whistle from
his pocket and sounded assembly. Soon
after there was a scramble for the din
ing room at the Gftburn where the eight
een warriors, ably assisted by their
coach, proceeded to down some several
pounds of big fat steaks. The Idaho
eleven is in the pink of condition and
"bear” stories are conspicuous by their
absence. Tt is evident that Washington
State suffered more injuries in the game
last Saturday at Moscow than did the
Gem State squad.
The players and Coach Kelley stead
fastly refused to make any predictions
as to the outcome of the game today, but
that they are determined to give Ore
gon the battle of her life is assured by
the quiet blit determined manner in
which they expressed themselves. Idaho
has a lighter team than Oregon bul
what they lack in weight they are ex
pected to make up in speed.
Both Captain Plastino and halfback
Irving who played the star game for the
Gem State aggregation against the Cou
gars are in first class shape and are ex
pected to last the whole game through.
If Idaho plays up to the form they did
in the Washington State game they will
go like a mid-season conference team,
while Oregon in (he words of the coach
“Shy” Huntington, “is far from being a
perfected team.”
According to the weights given out on
estimates by Coach Kelley of Idaho and
Coach Huntington of Oregon, the Ore
gon eleven will average 171 pounds as
they enter the game this afternoon,
against 166 pound average of the Idaho
eleven. The difference in weight in the
two backfields amounts to a single
pound with Oregon balancing the scale,
with the ejfJtra pound. The lemon-yellow
* backfield averages 1(52 pounds, Idaho
averages 161 pounds. Oregon’s line is
heavier than that of the invaders and
it is not to be expected tha{ the Idaho
backs will avail to line plunging tactics.
(Continued on Page 2)
WATER POLO TEIM
TO BE ORGANIZED
HERE THIS YEAR
Fred “Duke” Howard, A. E.
F. Swimmer Will Coach
Oregon Men.
EUROPEAN STYLE OF
PLAY IS INTRODUCED
Many Games Promised With
Multnomah Club and
Stanford.
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* According to Claire Keeney, v«r. *
* sity yell leader, a freshmen rooting *
4 section will be organized at the Ore* *
* gon freshman - Pacific University *
* football game. The game begins *
* promptly at one on Kincaid field, *
* and will be over before the varsity *
* game on Hayward field starts. *
*,?********
The University of Oregon is to hare
a real water polo team this year. Fred
(Duke) Howard, former Multnomah
(’lub swimmer and of international fame
ns a water polo expert, says that there
is material in the University for a
good showing in this aquatic sport.
Howard spent two and one-half years
in Honolulu, during which time 1 or
ganized several teams among the Island
ers. In France and Germany, during the
war, he gained a wide reputation through
his work on the Inter-allied and A. E. F.
swimming teams.
Some Material Promising.
Raymond Douglas and Myron Wilsie,
also of the Multnomah Club, are experi
enced men in swimmers’ activities.
Douglas did much swimming in France
and Germany while in the service and
Leslie has been very active with the
club in Portland, contesting, chiefly, the
50 and 100 yard swims. Austin Hazard,
.Toe Hedges, Albert Capps, Roland An
dre and Teddie Kurashige, the latter of
Honolulu, are among the others who
are showing themselves as promising
material for the water polo team.
“The game as formerly played, under
American rules,” said Howard, “is more
of a ducking contest than anything. We
shall play the style of nolo Dlaved hv
Fiance and England under the interna-,
tional rules which makes a cleaner and
faster game, eliminating many of the
rough methods.” The rules to be used
in the University require greater skill
and much team work, according to How
ard.
Six Weeks Coaching Needed.
in Portland, recently, I was
talking with Locke Webster, captain of
the Standard water-polo aggregation, and
lie assured us a game with his team if
the men here can work into condition. I
would like at least six weeks to com
plete the training and coaching neces
sary. Much team work and coaching in
dribbling and backhand throws are need
ed to develop a competent team in polo
as it is now played,” Mr. Howard said.
Any number of games can be scheduled
with the Multnomah Club of Portland.
At California and Stanford, as in east
ern colleges water polo is a major sport.
Xo definite steps have been taken to
secure inter-collegiate games, as yet, as
other colleges on the coast are only just
developing their prospects. It is tbe.
opinion of Mr. Howard that polo as it
is played in the water is destined to be
listed under the majors on the Pacific
coast.
Something Like Basketball.
Many of the principles of basketball
are embodied in the game. The team is
composed of seven men, the center, two
forwards, three guards, and the goal
tender. Fast swimming combined with
ability' in shooting goals and throwing
fouls is necessary.
U. OF W. FOOTBALL COSTLY.
Football is costing the Associated
Students at the University of Washing
ton .$”4,020.00. Out °f this amount
$19,000 goes to the visiting teams, $15,
020 for the material and coaches’ sal
aries. Included in the material ordered
and on hand are six dozen footballs,
$1,000 worth of headgears, $1,500 worth
of jerseys, and $050 worth of shoulder
uads.