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Oregon Daily Emerald VOLUME XXIII. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SATUDRAY, OCTOBER 29, 1921 NUMBER 24 VARSITY TO WATCH DEM KM TILT HI POITIMD TODAY Oregbn Team to Get Line on What to Expect From Pullman Nov. 4 CALIFORNIA WIN EXPECTED Washington Staters’ Believed Likely to Show Their Best Stuff The varsity football team will take things easy over the week-end, and practically all of the squad as well as the coaching staff will journey to Port- j land to see the Cougars and the Bruins 1 mix on Multnomah field. With Ore gon billed to tangle with the Staters’ next week in their own bailiwick it i will be a good thing for the men to see I the Washington State gang in action.' And with Welch’s team up against the Blue and Gold there will be no chance | that the varsity won’t see all that the northerners have in the way of grid strategy. Opinion is practically unanimous among the Lemon-Yellow football men that California will have little diffi culty in turning back the Pullman team. Oregon’s coaches also believe that the Blue and Gold will triumph. “Point Game” for Pullman In the opinion of Head Coach Shy Huntington the varsity will have a j decided advantage when they meet W. S. C. in that this game today with California is a “point” game. The collegians have been working for a year with just one purpose in view— to “beat California,” and when the struggle today is over, a letdown in the morale of the Staters ’ lineup is held I likely. Oregon’s green backfield, and es pecially the quarterbacks, got some valuable football experience in the game with California—experience that could be obtained in no other way and which is necessary for successful field generalship. In this connection it is j interesting to note that when Shy Huntington was playing his first year of football with the Lemon-Yellow un der Hugo Bezdek, Bez thinking that he snowed, some promise as a quarter sent him in against the strong Washington eleven. To use Shy’s own expression he was a "flivver,” but mistakes he made in that game—and they were costly—he never repeated. He later developed into one of the greatst field generals western football has seen. Steady Grind Next Week The squad will settle down next week to a steady grind of preparation for the game with the Staters’ at Pullman Saturday. Huntington is hard at work now developing two complete sets of backs and is drilling them steadily in all phases of football attack. The line was put through a stiff workout last night by Bart Spellman, while Brick Mitchell put his ends through their paces. The shifting of Latham to the backfield necessitates the devel opment of another substitute end. In addition to Clerin, who is working regu larly on the first string, Campbell who ! made the California trip, and Bislev i are being developed as alternates in the wing positions. COLUMBIA PLANS STADIUMS Columbia University is planning to ] build three stadiums on its 26-acre : athletic field at 218th street and Broad-! way, New York. The largest will be used for football, and the plans call 1 for a seating capacity of 56,000. ' SPORT NEWS By BP HOYT Western football attention will cen ter today upon the games between Washington State college and Cali fornia in Portland and between the Oregon Aggies and Stanford -at Palo Alto. While the majority of football fol lowers in the Northwest are rooting for the Cougars ’ to smash the Blue and Gold this afternoon on Multnomah field, California is the heavy favorite among men who follow the sport. Andy Smith, developer of Califor nia’s wonder team, refused to make a prediction on the outcome of the Cou gar battle, merely stating that it would be a tough tussle. Referring to the IT. S. C. game a week later, how ever the tall man was not so reticent , and predicted that the Bruins would ' have little difficulty in defeating the i Trojans. The Pullman college is placing a strong team in the field this year and should give the Californians a hard battle. Mike Moran, playing «his third year in the conference, has been shifted to fullback to fill Lloyd Gillis’ shoes. Gillis made a reputation last year, and his graduation was expected to weaken the Cougar attack. But with Moran playing the game of his life the weakness looked for has not developed. Moran weighs in at 195 pounds and is rated one of the fastest of the Cougar backs. A pretty punting duel may be ex pected between Eldon Jenne of the Staters ’ and Nisbit -and Morrison of the Bruins. Jenne has been averaging well over 50 yards on his boots, while the California kickers have been get ting them away for 45. The Aggies are the favorites over j Stanford, but Rutherford is looking i for a hard battle, as his team is out- ; weighed ten pounds to the man. CAMPUS BEAUTIFUL PRESIDENT’S WISH FOR HOMECOMING Committee and City to Join In Improving Neatness For Grads’ Return Students of the University and the people of Eugene should co-operate in keeping the streets, parkings, and lawns around the city and University clean and trimmed for Homecoming. This is the wish and belief of Presi dent Campbell, who, in a recent inter view, pointed out some of the methods of achieving a campus beautiful. “We want to co-operate with the people of Eugene by keeping the streets, park ings and lawns ebout the University as free as possible from papers and everything unsightly,” he said. Jim Say, chairman of the campus committee, already has plans under way to bring about the desired beautifi cation of the Oregon campus. “We are going to get a smaller, neater bul letin board in front of the library,” he stated. “There will be wires placed ! around the corners where the grass is ' tramped down.” Another hoped for : improvement mentioned ljy Say is a j board walk or a gravel path between i Commerce and Oregon buildings. (Continued os page four) Theta Sigma Phi to Sell Rib Padding on Tuesday Doughnuts! Doughnuts! Doughnuts? Where? Where? Well, Tuesday, from 8 to 12, if you can’t wait till Theta Sigma Phi gets her breath to tell you about it. Yes sir! Doughnuts, the biggest, finest, sugariest ones known in the city of Eugene will be brought to you be tween classes, Tuesday forenoon—and all you have to do is to pay the paltry sum of five cents for each delectable ring of rib padding. You may even get up later than usual that morning, because the dough nut venders will be out with their bas kets of delicate pastry before the 8 o Mocks convene, and you can break fast on the run. You will be able to buy a half dozen doughnuts, eat two of them on the way to class, give the professor one, and eat the remaining trio between spasms of looking intel ligent while the class is in progress. (No predictions were made concern ing the efficiency of the professors, and the raising-standard policy in case every student presented each eight o ’clock professor with one doughnut.) For the benefit of any who may be inquisitive or practical minded in the face of a doughnut epidemic, we wish to state that the money collected by Theta Sigma Phi is to be used to pay their annual contribution to the Na tional Women’s Begister, which is an organization having for its purpose the assisting of all women in the journal istic profession. All students and faculty members are urged to come to the campus Tues day morning bearing all niekles, dimes, quarters, pennies, five and ten dollar gold pieces, and other small, recognised mediums ef exchange that can be found about their own and their friends’ premises. HOMECOMING PROM KILL BE HELD OB SEPARATE FLOOR Woman's Building and Armory to be Scene of Annual Dance This Year TICKET PRICE SLASHED i $1 is Admission Cost; Taxis and Flowers Banned for Informal Affair By LEITH ABBOTT The traditional Homecoming dance, for the past several years held in the Armory on Saturday night of the eventful week-end, will have to be split this year with the dance being held "in two separate buildings, according to present plans of the Homecoming dance committee. The dances will be held in the woman’s building and the new armory with the alumni gathering at the former with half of the student body, probably the upperclassmen, while the two remaining classes and other partakers in the evening1 s fes tivity will collect at the armory. The price of the gala affair has been cut from $1.50 to $1. It will be decidedly informal with a ban placed on flowers and taxis. Two Floors Only Solution The committee, of which Lawrence Woodworth is chairman, found this action to be the only solution of the space problem. All members of the; committee would rather have the dance •held under one roof and probably mirrored the opinion of the student 1 body in this respect. After a careful ' investigation of all circumstances, however, two dances was the only so lution. The armory has proven to be woefully inadequate to house such functions in the past and all indica tions are to the effect that more alumni and students will be on hand for the dance this year than ever before. More Boom Offered Under the new plan there will be i plenty of room at both buildings and ; at the woman’s building the alumni ! will have more of an opportunity to j get together. Details of the dance are rapidly tak ing form with committee^ planning decorations, programs and arranging for music. All committees arranging details for Homecoming week-end reported pro gress made at the weekly meeting of the various bodies Thursday night. Letter Campaign Starts Monday will see the beginning of a letter writing campaign in which all campus organizations will see that each member writes'’to some alumni or ex student inviting them to reurn for the week-end. A brief outline of salient points which should be mentioned in every letter will ^e printed in Tues day’s Emerald to aid students in this work. Carl Newbury, chairman of the letter writing committee, outlined plans for this campaign to members of cam pus organizations last night. On next Saturday night each organization will be called upon to give a report of the number of letters sent out. It is hoped the total will reach 5000. The Homecoming issue of Old Ore gon will be off the press today and will be sent to every member of the alumni whose name is listed on the records of the alumni secretary’s of fice. LEAGUE WILL ENTERTAIN Wives of Real Estate lien Who Attend Conference to be Guests at Tea Mrs. P. L. Campbell, Dean Fox and the executive council of the Women’s league, were the dinner guests of Ella Bawlings at Hendricks hall Thursday night, previous to the weekly meeting of the council. At the executive meet ing plans were made $br new and broader activities for the league dur ing the coming year. Saturday after noon the league plans to entertain the wives of the real estate men who are | to be in Eugene for a real estate con ' ference that day with a tea in the Wo man ’s building. HOMECOMING EDITION OUT Presenting campus scenes in sepia, the homecoming edition of the Daily Iowan, student newspaper of the Uni-1 | versity of Iowa, appeared on the cam-: ; pus of that school Saturday. The pa- j ! per is composed of four sections, de-1 j voted to general news, sports, alumni, and pictorial. The issue contains 32 P**«« NEW HERBAGE ON CAMPUS ********* Seniors Mustaches Sprout Nicely * * * * * * * * * * LANDSCAPE GARDENER WINS To hoi 70 hoi »nd something to sip, Sixteen hairs on a senior’s lip. Why is n senior’s mustachef With this question written in his eopy pad, an Emerald reporter sauntered about the campus yesterday viewing mus taches and interviewing seniors. He had been informed that a story could easily be obtained, since seniors are conspicuous by their facial herbage, which has budded forth nicely, lured by the autumnal rains. But it was not so easy to collect the desired inform^iou. Over in the jour nalism shack there is a room with this card on the door: “John Dierdorff, correspondent for Portland Telegram.” Knowing that a newspaper office is a a source of information, the reporter stepped in and asked the little man seated at the desk where a senior could be located. “Why, I’m a senior,” answered the little fellow as he rubbed his upper lip. The reporter backed out without any further verbal parley. After much original research the an swer to the question propounded in the initial paragraph has been defined variously as follows: Leith Abbott, president of the mus tached herd: “Primarily, a senior mus tache is erected for the purpose of keeping the sunlight reflected from the teeth out of one’s eyes.” Lyle Bartholomew: “A mustache, es pecially the senior gauze, lends a Gothic mysticism to the portals of the face.” f “Hank” Evans: “The labial decora tion effected by myself and colleagues greatly assists in the maintainence of cranial equilibrium. “Pete” Allen: “Proud to say, I’m of an altrustic disposition and wear the cute little curtain because very inti mate friends of mine tell me it tickles them.” “Bobby” Burns: “The prevalent opinion among juniors and underclass men is' that the senior mustache race tradition has been fostered by Eugene DOUGHNUT SERIES LIVELY GOOD MATERIAL DISCOVERED DURING WEEK’S GAMES Teams to Play Every Day Under Newly Revised Schedule; Much Interest Shown DELHI GAMMAS BUY HOME GIRLS PURCHASE HOUSE THEY NOW ABE OCCUPYING Building On* of Largest on Q am pus; Funds Raised by Sale of Bonds Among Alumnae The doughnut basketball series is coming along nicely under the able direction of Coach Bohler, and a great deal of good material has been seen in action on the gym floor up to date. The .entire schedule had to be revised, from Monday onward, on account of j the late entrance of the team represent I ing the Delta Theta Phi. This team will play its first game against the i Beta Theta Pi at 4 o ’clock on Monday. I here are to bo three games Monday, j all of which will be played in the | afternoon, starting at 4 and ending at 6. The idea at first was to have no games on Friday, on account of other activities, but the schedule included so many teams, and there are so many games to be played that the depart ment has changed the original plan, and starting next week, games will be played every day. Many of the teams are showing up bet ter than was expected, and the race this year will no doubt be much more heated, and between stronger teams than in previous years. One trouble of the games played so far is that so many feuls have been called on the men that the games are preceptibly slowed up, but as the series progresses, and the teams become ac customed to the game, this will no doubt disappear. It is very evident that the teams and ' students are taking a great deal more | interest in the jteries than before, and j the crowds even for the 8 o ’clock games are quite large. Coach Bohler, assistant coach Durno, l and Boll Andre have been officiating at the games and have been keeping them as clean as possible, by calling all attempts at roughing. Every team in the league with the exception of the Delta Theta Phi has played one game, and next week, most of the teams will play two games. The games for Monday are: Delta Theta Phi vs. Beta Theta Pi, 4 o’eloek. Alpha Tan Omega vs. Phi Delta Theta, 4:45 o’eloek. Kappa Theta Chi vs. Sigma Mu, 5 o’clock. barbers. This is erroneous. The fact is that recently one of oar youthful number requested a barber to apply some powerful determinator to the fuzz on his upper lip, and as a sub stitute the barber put on some exter minator. ” Virgil DeLap: “We all have to suf fer disappointments at times, and at tempting to grow a classy mustache for a mustachey class develops patience.” Kenneth Smith: “Can’t say why is a senior mustache, but I know what kinds there are around the campus. All seem to be cultivated according to ath letic rules. There is the football mus tache with eleven hairs on each half of the nostril beach, the baseball kind with nine on a side, and the basketball variety with five on a side. Yes, mine is of the tennis singles style. Allan Carncross: “A senior curtain is induced to sprout forth in all it’s atrophied glory so the owner can have a foundation for the application of dye.” Harry Smith: "A senior nose ver anda is something you can’t seo, but something that should be there. It is a phenomenon, visually speaking, which is, but isn’t. Mine got frostbitten.” Ep Hoyt: “Filaments on the upper lip plus a corrugated bifurcated gar ment and an expansive cranial weather shield are the distinguishing marks of that eampestrian denizen known as a senior. My mustache is because I’m one of ’em.” • The intention of obtaining a defi nition from every masculine member of the cultured class wont by the board when the reporter meandored across the campus to the place where a gen tleman with a luxurious labial land scape picked up maple leaves as they swirled to the ground. “Pardon me, sir, but you have the appearance of being indigenous to this habitat, and perhaps are versed in the traditions of your class. Why is a senior mustache?” asked the cub. “I’m sorry, mister, but I’ve never studied botany. I ain’t a senior. I’m one of tho landscape gardners.” Negotiations for the purchase of the four-story building occupied by the Delta Gamma sorority were completed yesterday when papers were made out to three trustees of the Alpha Delta 1 of Delta Gamma building corporation. The building was owned by the Bren ton estate of Portland, and was sold for a sum said to be $10,000. Miss Amy Dunn, house mother, ■Teanette Calkins and Catherine Dobie, treasurer of the building association are the trustees through whom the sale was transacted. The Alpha Delta of Delta Gamma ! building association was organized a ! | year ago by active members of the sorority. The fund for the purfchnse of the place was raised by issuing I bonds in $100 denominations to the | Delta Gamma alumnae. | The building is one of the largest on the campus; and was erected in 1910 for the Lambda Rho which became on October 17, 1913 the Alpha Delta of Delta Gamma. The organization has occupied the house since that year at a rental of $116 a month. PHI THETA KAPPA MEETS Means of Bailing Scholarship Funds Discussed by Members At a meeting of Phi Theta Kappa, women's honorary commercial frater nity, held in the commerce building Wednesday at 5 o’clock, the means and method of raising money for the fra ternity scholarship fund were discussed. This scholarship of 50 dollars is given each year to the fraternity mem ber obtaining the highest scholarship in the organization. Plans we*e also laid for the Phi j Theta Kappa luncheon to be given nest! Thursday at the Campa shop and a committee appointed to make arrange ments. This chapter of Phi Theta Kappa has been active on the Oregon campus since 1919. The officers for this year are: Ila Nichols, president, Virginia McDougall, secretary, and Helen Nel son, treasurer. FRESHMEN TO MEET 0. OF I. UK 00 GRIDIRON TOUT Trick Plays Expected From Northern Team; Baz’s Men Will Fight BATTLE TO BE REAL TEST Coaches Not Hopeful, Though Frosh Have Worked Hard in Practice This afternoon tho freshman football eleven throws the gauntlet before the University of Washington yearling ag gregation. The group of 18 players who left Eugene at 5:35 Thursday evening was full of pep and the deter mination to bring back with them the long end of the score. The men who went to Washington are Wilson, Goedecko, Bliss, Davidson, Spear, Bag ley, Smith, Lovelace, French, Haak, Haynes, Moist, Reinhart, Langrell, Brocker, Quinn, Barton, and Tegerson. ' Baz’s men have played only one game so far this season, and that on the home field. In that battle they had no great opposition, being superior in every phase of the game. Today they will not have the friendly bleach ers behind them, nor will they play a team inferior to them. Coach R. L. Matthews of Washington has his men well drilled in every department of football. In scrimmage they outdo the varsity. Walkaway for Neither In today’s struggle neither team will have a walkaway. It will be a fight to tho finish, and the teum which dis plays the most fight will probably come away the winners. Baz and Brandy have this fact pretty well drilled into their men and they know what to expect. Judging efrom past teams turned out by Matthews, trick plays and open formations will have to be watched for, as against the closed formations and straight football played by Mt. Angel last Saturday. This week the coaches have been put ting the men through scrimmage and signal running, getting a little more unity into the plhys and a little more speed into them. In scrimmage the frosh did not look good during the first part of the week, but got things running "smoothly again before they left. French Expected to Star French, fullback, who was the ont standing figure of last week’s game, is expected to show up well today. He has speed, weight, and a good head. Every member of the backfield is fast, and upon this fact depends to a large extent the hope for victory. The coaches feel far from confident of victory. The frosh have not been tried sufficiently to teH how they will go under fire. However, they feel that the men will fight to the last ditch and win if it is in their power. ADVERTISING HEAD TO VISIT C. H. MACKINTOSH TO ADDBE8S STUDENT ASSEMBLY University Ad Club Plans to Entertain Visitor During Stay; Will Arrive December 1 Plans for the entertainment of Charlts H. Mackintosh, president of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World, on his visit here December 1, were discussed yesterday afternoon at a meeting of the University Ad club. A committee, composed of Wil ford Allen, chairman, Arne Bae, Ran dolph Kuhn and Professor W. F. G. Thacher, was appointed to make the necessary arrangements for his stay on the campus. While here, Mr. ^daek intosh will address the assembly and will also speak to a meeting of down I town business men. Mr.. Mackintosh is a young man and is said to be an exceptionally inter esting and vigorous speaker. In ad dition to the office of president, he retains the chairmanship of the educa tional committee of the A. A. C. W. and is associated with La Salle Extension. University of Chicago. His hobbies are truth in advertising and education of the A. A. C. W. last June, Mr. in advertising. Since his election to the presidency Mackintosh has been making a tour of the entire country. His trip here has been arranged by W. P. Strandborg, publicity manager of the Portland Rail way, Light k Power company, who is vice president of the A. A. C. W. for the northwest. Randolph Kahn was elected sec re- , tary-treasurer of the club.