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regon Daily Emerald VOLUME XXII. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1921. NO. 115. HHIl SQUIu TO [[lilt TOBIT FOB 7 G1ETRIPIMTH 14 Members Takien; First of Series Will Be Played In Seattle LINE-UP NOT GIVEN BY COACH BOHLER Batting’ Ability, of Men, Has Much to do With Deciding Those Selected. Fourteen members of the varsity base ball squad and Coach George M. Bolder will leave Eugene this afternoon on the ") o’clock Southern Pacific train for Se attle, where they will meet the Univer sity of Washington nine in the opening number of a two-game series, tomorrow afternoon. The series with the Sup dodgers will be followed by a two-game series with the AVashington State College' tossers at Pullman on Monday and Tues day. One Game Cancelled. On AVednesday the squad will take a jump down to AValla AValla, where they will meet the Whitman College team for one game. Thursday’s game which was to have been played in Kennewick with a semi-pro organization, has been cancelled. Friday and Saturday will see Hie Lem on-Yellow nine back in Portland, where they will meet the North Pacific Dental College team in a return game Friday, and the Multnomah Club aggregation on Saturday. Seven games will be played on the entire trip which will be the only jaunt the varsity will take this season with the exception of the games to be played with the Oregon Aggies at. Cor vallis the latter part of May. Four pitchers included in the squad which leaves this afternoon, are Art Berg. “.Take” Jacobsen, Ttolla Gray and Mare T.aihnin. Borg and Jacobsen are both letter men, while Gray was a mem ber of the frosh pitching staff last year, and Latham worked on the mound for the frosh in the spring of 1919. Lineup Not Given. Coach Bolder did not give out his line up for the opening games, although it is probable that the battery will be made up of Borg and T,eslie, while the infield positions will be filled by Smith- at first, Beller or Base on second. H. Jacobber ger at short, and Svaverud on third base. The outer garden will be taken rare of by Captain Reinhart, Knudsen and Gamble or Zimmerman. The task of selecting an infield has been no easy one for Coach Bolder and he has been working the squad hard in the batting cage? for the past week in an effort to get together a good aggrega tion of hitters. Special stress has been made on this particular point and it is evident from the selections made for the trip north that the men who are batting at the top of the list are the ones wha have been selected for the positions. Col lins, Liebe, Glos and A^eatch have all been working good in the infield posi tions and it is evident that they were left out of tiro lineup for the northern trip on account of their not ranking alongside the isfield chosen in batting averages. Stiff Competition Expected. Berg, Gray*and Jacobsen have all dem onstrated their ability in the box so far and Latham is showing promise, although he has only been out a short time. On account of the seven hard games, it was decided to stock up the pitching staff well. Both the University of AVasldngton and AVasldngton State College are rated to have a fast team this spring, and the varsity will be up against stiff competi tion in the north. The Sundodgers have lost but one game in the 14 early prac tice games they have played with the semi-pro teams in the vicinity of Seattle. WILLAMETTE TO DEBATE Women Schedule Forensic Contest With Washington State. 'Washington State College, Pullman, April IS.—(P. i. N. S.)—An all-women’s <Hate will he held between (he women Willamette University and the State College about May lb. This is the first all-women’s debate that has been held bpre for years and is stimulating much interest. The question is: Resolved. That all •Japanese, with the exception of students an<! diplomatic classes, should be ex cluded from the United States. It will ho a dual debate. The team is not ye* chosen, but final tryouts will be held Boon, disappearance of “CAESAR” IS MYSTERY Many Solutions Offered to Explain Loss of Mrs. Anna L. Becks Chronometer. Cleopatra by her wiles may have led him astray, or Brutus, not because be loved him less but because he loved Kome more, may have made away with him. However, no matter how it came about. “Caesar,” the little alarm clock that for so long has been the temporal ruler of Mrs. Anna L. Beck’s classes in the music building, is nowhere to be found. “Caesar was too ambitious, therefore some Brutus nipped him,” was the only explanation that Mrs. Beck could give of the disappearance. It appears that the clock ran a little too fast and Mrs. Beck thinks that some member of the class was so conscientious that he took it. so that classes would not be lot out early. Rex Underwood has an entirely dif ferent explanation of the mystery. He says he thinks “Caesar is a-roaming.” Mrs. Beck believes firmly, however, that if Caesar could tell her his story, he would not say, like his namesake, “Gal lia est omnis divisa in partes tres.” His words would be, “Gallia est omnis con tenta in una persona.” Varsity Is Handicapped By Wet Weather Thirteen track men, accompanied by Roach Bill Hayward and Assistant Grad uate Manager Jack Benefield, will make he trip to Seattle to enter the relay carnival this week-end. Relay teams tvill be sent in the half mile relay, the nile relay and the two mile relay. Ar rhur Tuck will enter the pentnthalon. The men to make the trip, in the 220 ivill be Art Knenhausen, Del Oberteuf- J ter, “Ole” J/arsen and Roscoe Hemmcn way. “Scan” Collins, Tommy Wyatt, Ray Lucas and Dick Sunderleaf will en ter the 440 distance. The half milers will be Glenn Walkley, “Speed” Paltier, Wayne Akers and Bill Coleman The track men have been handicapped luring the past two weeks by bad weath er and have not had much opportunity to work out. Kincaid field has been middy aud the Hayward field track has rot had sufficient rolling to make it lard. The tryouts were all run in slow time, due to the spongy condition of the field. Little is known of the teams of the other colleges, but with the exception of 3. A. C. they have not had to contend igainst the rain. The half mile team looks like Ore gon's best bet in the carnival, with Walk ey and Paltier running' about a dead ieat, and Akers and Coleman not far rebind. Hie 220 team is a doubtful quantity is the races this year have all been run on poor fields, and the men have not ,iad a chance to show all that they have. Rberteuffer looks better than last year, md Knenhausen stepped a good pace in the tryouts. Larsen has been laid up with a bad leg until recently, but seems to be in good shape now. “Scan” Collins, in the quarter, is able to step with any man in his distance on the coast. Sunderleaf is a letter man from last season, and is in good shape. Lucas and Wyatt are both new men and will have a chance to prove their metal in the meet. • The team will leave either tonight or tomorrow morning DURNO TO COACH U. H. S. Eddie to Handle Athletics For Rest of the Year; Baseball to Start. Eddie Durno has been secured by the University high school to teach physical raining and athletics to the boys of the ligh school for the rest of the year Jins ,vork has been handled by the Y. M. C. \ since G. U. Finnerty resigned to ae ept the position of principal of the Eu r0ne high school at the beginning of the ''The gymnasium in the University high school has made it possible for the rain ing to be conducted in the new building. As soon as the baseball diamond is m shape Durno will issue a call for camb rics for the high school baseball team. SIGMA NU HOLDS CONVENTION. The Nevada chapter of Sigma Nu. ,pn’s national fraternity, is holding i • „1 17th divsion convention at Reno “« °< <* Cnlrf'” t Arizona. California and Stanford aro epresented among the delegates. UNTIL END OF HEM Present Assistant Made Acting Graduate Manager; Final Selection May 26 ATHLETIC COUNCIL TO HUNT FOR CANDIDATES Oregon Man Preferred But i Not Essential; Applicants Are Many Jack Benefiel, a senior majoring in commerce, who during the past year has been serving as assistant graduate man ager, was last night named as acting manager of the associated students to succeed Marion P. McClain, whose resig nation as graduate manager was accept ed. Election of a permanent manager will not be made until May 26, the A. S. C. O. constitution definitely stating that the graduate manager not be named until two weeks after regular student elections, which occur on May 12 this year. Benefield Makes Schedules. Benefiel has, during the past year, largely taken over the duties of graduate manager, and is familiar with the details of the work necessary. He attended to the arranging of practically all schedules except football during the past year. In accepting the resignation of Mc Clain, the athletic council, in its meeting last night when action was taken, ex pressed its appreciation to McClain for his services to the associated students during the years he has been graduate manager. In the future McClain will devote his entire attention to the Co-op, of which he is manager. The athletic council will make every endeavor to seek the services of a fully qualified man for the position as man ager, and the committee named at the last meeting of the council will continue to act. Every possible candidate for the position will receive ample considera tion, it was stated, and the entire field will be looked over. Large Number Apply. A large number of appli^knts have al ready appeared, and are being taken under consideration by the committee and the council. A motion made during the meeting was to the effect that Oregon graduates were to be favored for the position,, providing they were found to possess the proper qualifications. A previous motion to the effect that only Oregon graduates be considered, was withdrawn. The meeting was held at 5 p. m. yes terday afternoon and lasted until 6:30. The executive council was also present. All Planet To Be Shadow Cov ered at 11:23, Says De Cou. T'lie moon doth eclipse this night, and all who are wakeful through the eerie hours when the day is spent may view the phenomenon—provided the god of storms chases his clouds into the fold and clears the sky. “This will be a total eclipse, and if it occurs according to astronomical predic tions, it should begin to be visible to the eyes of the ordinary observer at three minutes past ten, at which time the moon will enter the umbra, or shadow proper, and will appear to have a small bite taken out of the side,” says Pro fessor E. H. McAlister, who teaches as tronomy in the University. “The shadow of the earth will continue to move across the moon, darkening a bigger section, until, at 11:23, totality will begin. The disc will remain completely in the shadow until 12:05, when the observer may see its light appearing again on the side. “At 1:25, the moon leaves the umbra, and the eclipse is over as far as the ordinary observer is concerned,” contin ued Professor McAlister. “It will be in the pneumbra, or outer shadow, until 2:32. but this shadow- is faint and per haps the only unusual thing visible to an untrained eye will be a coppery color which is sometimes noticeable in the moon at this stage of the eclipse.” Total eclipses always occur at full moon, explained Professor McAlister. There will be a partial eclipse on Octo ber 1G of this year. “Of course,’ warned the professor, in conclusion, “if the sky is overcast, the phenonemon will be lost to us.” Fenton Law Library, Gift of Father of U. of 0. Graduate, To Be Presented At Assembly %Tho Fenton Memorial Library, given to the University of Oregon by Mr. and Mrs. William David Fenton, of Portland, in memory of their son, Kenneth Lucas, will be formally presented this morning at the regular assembly meeting in Vil lard hall. The library itself, representing one of the largest gifts ever made to the Uni versity, consists of approximately 12,000 volumes, and will increase the size of the present library to more than 20,000 vol umes. The gift is to bear the name of Ken neth Lucas Fenton, who was graduated from the Portland Law school in 1911, after which he was admitted to the bar. practicing with his father until the time of his death on May 31, 1917. Before attending the law school in Portland. Lucas was graduated from Yale, with the class of 1910. His pre-legal train ing was obtained at Stanford, where he was prominent in athletic as well as academic work. lie starred at both Rugby and baseball, coaching the fresh man baseball team at Yale. Lucas was^one of three sons of Dr. W. D. Fenton, all of whom attended the University of Oregon. Dr. Ralph Fen ton was graduated with the class of 1903, and Dr. Horace Fenton took his degree with the class of 1900. The library represents the entire legal collection made by W. D. Fenton during a long period of practice. Its compila- : tion was started in 1875, when he was | admitted to the bar of the Oregon su- j preme court after ten years of study j while acting ns assistant librarian at Salem. The library was steadily added to until his retirement from active prac tice at the beginning of the resent year. The books include reports from every state in the Union, complete reports of ithe supremo court of the United Stales; statutes at large of the United States, together with numerous volumes of di gests and lawyers’ reports. It includes also a number of valuable books on im portant cases, which are out. of print, as well as a complete set of Oregon session laws of the organization of the territory. The law library has been received here and will be placed in the present law reading room, which will be converted into stacks as soon as the space can bo made available. The intrinsic value of the library is estimated at between $45,000 and $47,000. Personally representing the donors, George II. Burnett, member of the Ore gon supreme court and an intimate friend of the family, will make the presentation address, .fudge J. W. Hamilton, of ltose burg, president of the board of regents, j will formally accept the gift on behalf of the board, and Dr. W. G. Hale, dean j of the law school, will express the thanks j and appreciation of the University to the j donors. Louis E. Bean, speaker of the state j house of representatives and a prominent member of the Lane County Bar Assoc iation, will represent that body. Men and women connected with the legal profession and Oregon state editors have received a special invitation to par ticipate in today’s ceremony. An excel lent musical program has been arranged by the University orchestra to precede the speaking. The students have been especially urged by President P. L. Campbell to at tend the assembly this morning, not only for the reason that the talks, by some of the most prominent men in the state will be worth while, but in order to show the University’s appreciation of the splendid gift. WILLHH “Bill” says “No”, But Supt. Newell Is Optimistic “It’s far from finished, and I doubt if it’s in shape for the Pacific Coast Con ference track meet,” said Bill Hayward, track coach, in discussing the new oval around Hayward field. W. K. Newell, superintendent of the University grounds, who has charge of supervising the work, reports that the track is all but finished, is in fairly good shape, and will surely be ready before the date of the big meet. “It’s all finished but the final touches,” said the superintendent, when inter viewed. “.fust as soon as it dries up work will start again, and Hayward’s gang can start work there.” Before the recent trains a number of tracksters tried the new track out and were quite enthusiastic.about its possi bilities. Work was started last fall on the field hut during the rainy months very little cculd be done toward its completion. Approximately $8000 has been spent to date in its construction. A cross section of the track, which is a quarter of a mile long, would show several feet of subsoil, graded to a nicety, then six inches of coarse gravel four inches of crushed rock and a sur face of three inches of crushed cinders, mixed with clay. Considerable difficulty was experienced in obtaining cinders from the O.-W. It. It. N. and their final cost was $5.50 a yard Little or nothing has been done on the short track for broad jumping and this is one of the features of the work which caused Coach Hayward to despair of having the work finished in time. IRUCH’S STORY PRAISED I *_ | Former Principal of University High School Gains Recognition. The February 21st issue of the “Bul letin of tiie Bureau of Tests and Meas urements of the University of Michigan” reviews with appreeatiop G. M. Itueh’s i “A Study of the Mental, Pedagogical and i Physical Development of the Pupils of j the Junior Division of the University I High School. Eugene, Oregon.” This study was published as number 7 of the Uni versity of Oregon publications. Mr. Ituch was last year principal of the University high school. He now has a fellowship at Stanford. John Stark Evans Picks Up Features While Studying A number of new ideas gained while he was studying in the east last year are said to be incorporated by John Stark Evans in the Men’s Glee club con cert which is being presented under his direction next Saturday evening. Many new features were picked up from east ern glee clubs which Mr. Evans heard while in that part of the country. Exceptional ability at directing a men’s glee club is possessed by Mr. Evans, ac cording to those in close touch with the local organization. He has good quali ties of leadership and the men have re sponded for him in an admirable way, it is said. The members have been prompt at rehearsals and have steadily coloperated with him in his efforts. In addtion to the glee club rehearsals, Mr. Evans has been training a quartette, which will offer several numbers at the Saturday night concert, lliis quartette is composed of George Hopkins, John Stark Evans, Glen Morrow and Maurice Eben. In the Portland concert last January tHis quartette received a great deal of praise and a critic of that city stated that it was one of the best he hud ever heard. A varied program with a well balanced assortment of offerings is promised by those in charge of the concert. A new stunt with a good bit of local color mixed in is said to form a pleasing part of the evening’s entertainment. Tickets for the concert are now on sale at the Poop and at Kuykendall’s drug store down ttown. All seats may be re served after 0 o’clock Saturday morning at the box office of the Eugene Theatre. Prices are fifty cents, seventy-five, and one dollar. O. A. C. PLANS WEEK-END. Elaborate preparations for junior Week end, to bo held Friday, Saturday and Sunday. May 20-20, at O. A. C., are an nounced by the committees in charge. A baseball game between the University of Oregon and O. A. C„. the big athletic event, is scheduled for Friday, May 27. All classes will compete at. the junior vaudeville show, nt which a silver loving cup will be presented for the most orig inal skit. Saturday the freshmen and sophomores will stretch a rope across the mill race for the annual tug-of-war to see which class is pulled into the water. 50 SCIENCE FACULTY; MEMBERS OF 0, A. C, UNIVERSITY GUESTS Sigma XI Fraternity Attends Banquet Held By Local Organization SIX STUDENTS GIVEN INITIATION INTO CLUB Dr. H.B. Torrey Elected Head: Interesting Lectures Are Heard ' The University Science club enter tained as its guests nt its regular April meeting on Tuesday, about 50 members of the science faculty at the Oregon Ag ricultural College, members of Sigma XI, national science organization. Most of the visitors arrived from Cor vallis during the afternoon, and were es corted about the campus by graduate as sistants, and under-graduate scholars of the various science departments. A dinner was served at the Anchorage nt. (5:,‘!0 to the visiting members from O. A. C. President P. L. Campbell and Dean Colin V. D.vment were the invited guests. About 80 people were present. Club Makes Special Recognition. Following the dinner, a short business meeting, with the initiation of the six students from the various science depart ments who had been elected to honor membership in the club, was held. It has been the custom of the science club for n number of years, suys Dr. R. H. .Wheeler, to bestow special recognition on students in the science departments, who show serious interest in science and research. It is one of the highest honors which the science faculty can give to students who have a genuine scientific scholarship standard. One of the requi sites for this honor is that the individual must have flip ability to think independ ently, and another that he must be act ively engaged in some particular re search. The ceremony of initiation was in charge of Professor E. L. Packard, who gave a short account of this system of inviting honor members, and then.called upon the heads of the various, depart ments to formally present to the club those members whom their department had elected. Alice Thurston, Marie Rid ings, Mary Chambers, Ben Horning, Wil bur Hulin and Arthur Bramley were the students honored. Elections Are Held. In the business meeting following the initiation, Dr. PI. B. Torrey was elected president, and Dr. It. J. Williams, secre tary of the club. The rest of the evening was taken up by two lectures given by members of the O. A. C. delegation. The first of these was by Professor Henry Hartmond, of the horticulture department, on "Lo calized Variations in Plant Individuals.” This lecture was illustrated'with actual samples and pictures of plant leaves and fruits; showing types of variations which he discussed. “The Physical Properties of Metals as Revealed by Their Mierostructurc,” was the subject of au illustrated lecture by Professor Samuel II. Graf, of the experi mental engineering department. He ex plained the different types of steels used in safe building, and told why some steels were dangerous for construction pur poses, due to the influence of heat and strain. Invitation Is Extended. The O. A. C. science men have extend ed an invitation to the Oregon science men to go to Corvallis next October and present a program there, and although there has been no opportunity to express a formal acceptance on the part of the local scientists, it is believed that the invitation will be accepted. The people on the campus who are interested in science feel that this ex change between the two schools will prove helpful to both institutions. The stimulation in ideas which must result will lead to better work. CO-EDS GETTING HUSKY. Co oris of the Oregon Agricultural Col lege ere learning how to throw the jave lin anrl to hurdle in order to compete in the interehiss track meet the last of May Much interest is being shown in the various track events, and several stars are being developed. The follow ing events are listed for the meet: Fifty yard dash. 2." yard hurdles, running broad jump, shot put, discus throw, jave lin throw, basketball and baseball throw for distance, relay race. PLEDGING ANNOUNCED. Alpha Delta Fi announces the pledg I ing of Ramah Her,' of Toledo, Oregon.