511 It HIM DEBITE KIMS H FOR HI CONTEST Championship To Be Settled Bv Forty-four Youne Sneakers. ELEVEN INSTITUTIONS SEND REPRESENTATIVES Six Semi-Finals To Be Held This Afternoon; Final Comes Friday ♦ Standings of the teams are: Sa- ♦ ♦ loin ♦♦♦❖♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ High school students from all parts of the state are in Eugene, not only to en joy Junior Week-end, but to participate in the debate contest which has been an Oregon tradition for 14 years. The state has been divided into districts, and the best team of each is sent here each year. Last year Corvallis high school won the state championship. Eleven four-member teams are here, and the first of the debates were held last night. The finals will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock in the Y. M. C. A. hut. the University high school assembly room, and the assembly room in Oregon hall. The question for the debates is: Resolved, That the United States Should Onw and Operate the Railroads. Houses Are Entertaining. The visiting debaters are being enter tained at the different houses and halls on the campus. Six semi-finals will be held this afternoon at 3 o’clock. Ray mond Andrews will net as chairman for the debate held in room 3 of Oregon hall. Professor Earl Packard. Dr. R. C, Clark and Professor W. C. Dalzell will be the judges. Boyd Iseminger will be the chairman of another debatS to be held in room 4 of the same building, with Pro fessor T. ,T. Bolitho. Karl Onthank and Miss Julia Burgess as judges. Wanda Daggett will be the chairman for another. Harold Donnelly. M. H. Douglass and Alfred Lomax will be the judges for this debate, held in room 5 of the Oregon building. James Ross will also act as the chairman for one held in room 11 of the same building. Dr. M. (Continued on Page 3) 391 PATIENTS TREATED AT INFIRMARY IN APRII Maladies Varied and Numerous; Son: Throats and Colds Are On Increase. During the month of April more per sons were treated for colds and sore throats at the University infirmary than for any other cause. A total of 107 of these cases were treated. 0!) of these cases being women and 3S men. Examinations and prescriptions were given to 92, 36 women and 56 men, anti 25 casps of infections of various kinds were doctored. Poison oak had as usual its large quota of cases, there being 43 cases of this ■poison treated. During this month 49 persons were doctored for minor injuries, 6 for blisters. 6 for headaches and indigestion and sev eral for various other maladies. A total of 391 patients were treated at the infirmary during April; 202 of these patients were women, 189 were men. A total number of 36. of whom 8 are men and 28 women, were bed patients during this month. An average of 19 women and 12 men called at the dispensary each day during the month of April. Doughnut Baseball Started; Delta Theta Phi Out The doughnut baseball series got un der way at 5 o’clock yesterday afternoon on Cemetery Ridge, when the Bachelor don team ruined all chances for cham pionship of the Delta Theta Phi nine, by defeating them 8-3. The seven innings of play were characterized throughout by many errors and much harmless swat ting on both sides. Throughout the greater part of the contest the Bach elors held a slight lead over their op ponents, but the final victory was very uncertain until the last man was out. The winners started things off by scor ing two runs in the first inning. In the fifth inning Bachelordon put three more runs across and their opponents one, making the score 6-3 in favor of the former, and in the sixth they added two more, making the final score 8-3. The losers were unable to add more to their list in the seventh, noue of the first three men up getting to first. The line ups follow: Delta Theta Phi— lb 2b 3b ss P c rf cf If Bachelordon— Clark Wood McCort Webber Benedict Kelly Campbell McIntosh Cabell There will be Hillary Eben Gloss Snyder Mercer Berg Langlois Crow Covalt no more games played until after Junior Week-end. The one scheduled for this afternoon between Chi Psi and Friendly Hall will be played the first of next week. Team captains are requested to watch the bulletin board in the gym for further dope. Oregana Out; First 200 To Be Circulated Today rllie 1!)^1 Orogana will bo delivered this morning during assembly hour at the different organizations on the campus, whore they will be taken in charge by •’specially appointed agents and distrib uted to the members of the houses. Ow ing to the slowness in the binding, there will not be as many copies ready as ex pected. but about 200 copies will be dis tributed. A number will be left at the (o-op for those who are living in town. 'the first copy to be given out will be the leather-bound copy, which is to be awarded the Phi Sigma Pi house for be ing the first organization to have a hun dred per cent subscription list for the Oregana. An unusual feature of this year's an nual is the cover which, unlike the ac customed green and gold covers of prev ious annuals, is done in shades of green ®nd brown. The name Orogana and the • h-egon seal have the appearance of tool ing on leather. The border also repre Rents something quite different, in har mony with the cover, it is in shades of dark forest green and brown, with a design (>f pineeonibs and needles used as a background for the chief figure in the border, which is the Pioneer. And, of course, there are many, nfauy other new things, such as the feature section and—Oh, well! you II all have your books in a few hours, to see for yourselves. Everyone who has subscribed is urged to get his book just as soon as there are enough copies, as all those not called for within two weeks will be sold, accord ing to Wilbur Hoyt, circulation manager, there is a waiting list of about 50 who are anxious for the unclaimed copies. More copies will be ready by the first of next week and a few will be distributed on Friday and Saturday. The editorial staff is as follows: As sociate editor. Velma Rupert: athletics, Floyd Maxwell. Charles Oratke,. Guy Sacre. Haseltine Schmeer. Harold Shir ley; features. John Dierdorff. Madge Calkins; dramatics, Vern Fudge: classes Pauline Coad. Margaret Carter. Ray Vester. Doris Parker: organizations. El eanor Spall. Raymond Lawrence; Uni versity. Marv Lou Burton: administra tion. Betti Kessi. Wayne Akers; music. Fern Murphy: women’s athletics, Marga ret Russell. Florence .Tagger: sororities (Continued on Page 4.) vm swims ID MULTNOMAH TO HOLD MEET JUNE 11 Fast Races Predicted: Dope About Even, Sav Hedges And Codv. Coaches ALL-COAST CONTEST EXPECTED NEXT YEAR ’ ’Bus” Douglass to Head Team Mickev Wilsev Cantains Polo Plavers TTio dual swimming moot scheduled with the Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club in Portland will be hold on June 11 Hue to a conflict in dates, the previous time of June 4 had to bo canceled, and the contest set for a week later. Six events are on the program, not in cluding the water polo game which will be staged after the speed and distance events. The events include the 30 yard and 100 yard sprints, the 200 yard swim 100 yard back stroke .and four-man 200 yard relay, and plunge for distance. The arrangements for the meet are being handled for Oregon by Joe Hedges student instructor in swimming. Both Hedges and Cody, of Multnomah, pre' diet that all of the races will be fast. So even is the dope that it is practically impossible to make predietions as to the outcome of many of the events. Two Captains Named. “Bus” Douglass will head the swim ming team in the Multnomah meet and Mickey Wilsey will captain the polo players. These men were selected at a meeting of the swimming team Tuesday night. Oregon’s chances are assured only for some of the places in the various events Douglass is expected to place at least second in the 200 yard swim, which is his best race. Mickey Wilsey, Lyle Palmer and “Hap” Hazard will enter in the sprints, but will have some lively compe tition from the clubmen at the hands o? Harrison. Colly Wheeler and Alonen. The Lemon-Yellow is assured of two places in the 200 yard back stroke. Mick ey Ringler can be counted on for second place and George Neil for third. Jack Poboehenko. of Multnomah, who is the holder of the northwest record for this distance and stroke has been counted on to finish first. Relay Appears Even. The relay race as yet seems an even break, with Oregon perhaps holding the edge on the argumentt. The team of four men will be picked from Douglass Wilsey. Hazard. Palmer and Neil. The polo team has been practicing reg ularly under the guidance of Fred “Duke” Howard. “Duke” was a member of the A. E. F. water polo team and is con sidered one of the crack players on the coast. His work has been handicapped by many minor obstacles during the past | few weeks, but his aggregation expects to give the Portlanders a run for their money. Beside the swimmers who will enter in the speed and distance events, who are trying for places on the polo team “Freuehy” DePauw and Joe Merchie are (Continued on Page 2) SENIORS WllL¥f FOR MOVIE Cm “Nothing' But the Truth’’ Ready to. Present The final dress rehearsal of “Nothing But the Truth” will be held tonight. If the critics who attend are of the same as those who have already seen the stag ing of the senior play, they will be en thusiastic boosters for the production. Most of the houses on the campus have already planned to have two or more frosh in line at the ticket window of the Eugene theatre a dozen or more hours before the box office opens at 10 o’clock Friday morning. The two latest announcements in re gard to the play are that the curfain will rise at 8:15 sharp, Friday night, and that houses which buy too many tickets will not have the privilege of re turning any. Practically all of the houses on the campus are planning to take their Junior Week-end guests to see “Nothing But the Truth,” according to the man ager. Besides their appearance Friday night the senior actors will be “shot” in a scene or two by the Junior Week-end movie camera, which is to record all the 1 activities of the celebration. COAST TENNIS MEET STMTS HERE TOUT S COLLEGES ENTERED Washington, Stanford. O.A.C., Stanford and W. S. C. to Be Represented OREGON ISCLASSED IN CELLAR DIVISION Phil Neer. Holder Of Title For State Of Oregon To Plav Fo.r Stanford With lack of practice, due to bad weather, as their main obstacle, Coaches Carre more and Warner will send their Lemon-Yellow tennis pair into the first rounds of the Pacific Coast Conference tennis tournament this afternoon. Local dopesters have it that the race for top place is between Washington California and Stanford, with California having a little the edge on it, and Ore gon. O. A. C. and W. S. C. battling for cellar positions. Drawing for positions in the meet will he held today at 1:30 and games will start at 2. During the contest, which will last for three days, each man will play sin gles and every team will have a doubles match to start things off. The Oregon : coaches will probably act as judges. In speaking of the tournament. Coach Sam Warner says: “These games will be easily the fastest played on the local courts. The Oregon players desire that you support them just as you would a football team. They are going to do their best and although they hardly ex pect to win the meet, they have a chance to come out near the top. We are not charging to see the meet and it is hoped that a good shore of the students will turn out.” juntos ana l .evy, ot (Jaliforma, and Webber and Heale. of W. S. C.. arrived yesterday afternoon and the other teams are expected this morning. The Oregon Aggies will be represented by two entries, Ken Joy and Caldwell, while the University of Washington has four men to enter in the tournament. These are Don Waller, Marshall Allen. Bill Taylor and Lang. Allen is rated as the best man on the Sundodgers’ team. He defeated Phil Neer at Stanford last year, but he in turn was defeated by .Timmy Davies of the Stanford team. Lang, of Washington, was the champion of the frosh team at the northern school last year. The Stanford entries of Neer and Da vies are expected to show up in great form. Phil Neer, of the Cardinals, at one time held the northwest title and at present holds the title for the state of Oregon and the British Columbia dis trict. Davies and Neer arrived in the north from Palo Alto the first of. the week and have been playing a series of exhibition matches in Portland. Carroll Webber and Merrill Heale. who are representing Washington State Col lege. have already defeated the Univer sity of Idaho team in a dual match at Pullman early this season and they will no doubt give a good account of them serves in the matches here. Smith and Westerman, of Oregon showed that they are to be reckoned with in the tournament by their defeat of tlie Multnomah Club players here last Saturday, and the California and O. A. C. teams are considered among the best. ’ ARTHUR HICKS HONORED Mildred Hawes Has Highest Grades of Those Chosen By Honor Society. Through a typographical error—the substitution of a wrong line—the name of Arthur Hicks, a major in Romance language, was omitted from the list of those chosen to membership in the T ni versity Honor Society Tuesday after noon. Hicks, who is a senior, had one of the highest scholarship averages of those admitted. The highest was that of Mildred Hawes, whose mark was 1.12 for the two years of her work taken in this University. The highest possible average under the new system of grading, which counts honors as I. is the grade of 1 Only two of the 15 students admitted by the honor society had averages ns low* at 2. for the whole of their courses. DR. BOVARD BACK FROM EAST. Dr. John F. Bovard. dean of the school of physical education, has just returned from an extended trip in the east, where he has been visiting department of phy sical education in different schools and universities. • FORMER EDITOR HERE FOR WEEK-END EVENTS Liith Abbott, Now of Pendleton Tri bune, Will Visit Friends On Campus Several Days. I.oitli Abbott, last year's editor of the Emerald, arrived in Eugene Wednesday loon ana will spend a week visiting friends on the campus. Leith was elected track captain this year but has been working on the Pendleton Tribune this 'year. Abbott will return to Pendleton before the 116th, when an industrial show will be held in