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Oregon Daily Emerald VOLUME XXIII.L NH ERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8. 1921. NUMBER 48. Offer Made Bezdek Oregonian Says That Former Oregon Mentor Has Been Approached to Head Football; Facts Unknown. No Decision Made Committee Reports Official Offer Has Not Been Tendered; Recom mendation May Precede Trip to Hawaii. Hugo Bezdek, coach of the Penn State football team, was made an of fer to return to the Oregon campus as athletic director, according to an inter view with Bezdek which~appeared in the Portland Oregonian yesterday morn ing. Dean Colin V. Dyment, chairman of the football committee, denied yes terday that that organization had made an official offer to Bezdek, however, and it is practically certain that the offer was made by alumni or students interested in securing the former Ore gon coach as athletic director here. It is a general impression that this was really made more in the form of a “feeler” than an offer and that if Hugo Bezdek declared he would accept such a contract to return to Oregon in the position of director of athletics, then the parties who made the “feeler” ; to Bezdek would make known the terms and conditions under which he would come. The committee could then take whatever action it wished to in the matter. However, the action of the football committee is not final. The executive council has the power to elect the coaches, who are paid wholly or in part by funds from the treasury of the as sociated students. The recommenda tion of the football committee will in all probability be carried out by the executive council, however, when made. The following is the statement made yesterday by the chairman of the foot ball committee when asked whether or j not the football committee had made an official offer to Hugo Bezdek: ( “The football committee has had ] only one meeting. That was about 10 ] days ago. At that time it talked over i the general coaching situation. The i views of the members were entirely in harmony. They felt that we had passed t through a good football season. The i University has a good coach, and the ( football committee knows it. The com-! 1 mittee decided to wait a few days be- s fore making recommendation, in which < it wants to take up a number of points 1 connected with coaching as well as the t actual recommendation of a head coach.! c “Accordingly it needed time, and the r members agreed to let their recom mendation wait until December 10 or '15, agreeing however, that it ought to g be made if possible before the team f left for Honolulu, so that plans for next 11 season might be got under way early. 1 “The committee did not authorize c any of its members to talk to Hugo g Bezdek, but it realized that undoub-; d tedly alumni and other interested per- j t sons would talk to him. If these per- ‘ h sons have any information to submit to the committee regarding Coach f Bezdek, or any other coach, the com- v mittee will of course be glad to con- o aider such information before making S its recommendation.” t Beyond a doubt the football com mittee has been working in perfect harmony. It is a representative com mittee and it has the confidence of the students. It is apparently taking its time, and deliberating on the choice of football coach. It is apparently do ing this with the idea of arriving at the best solution for a united Univer sity, a united student body and united alumni. No one has fault to find with the football committee. * * * In response to a rumor carried that the executive council had made an offer to Hugo Bezdek, Lyle Bartholomew, president of the associated students and chairman of the executive council, is sued the following statement yester ,dav: “The executive council, in whose power it is to hire coaches, is waiting for the recommendation of the foot ball activity committee. The executive council has not discussed the question of hiring coaches this year.” If the committee makes its recom mendation later on this week or the early part of next week it will prob ably mean that a special session of the executive council will be called to take definite action on the recommenda tion of the committee. The regular meetings of the council are on the first and third Wednesdays of each month. n i1 t: f; I t h Ct b E P n fi U b n E f < tl ti g' g w P tl E s p It is entirely probable that the com mittee will take action on its recom mendation before the football team leaves for the Hawaiian Islands. Three members of the committee play on that football team. These three are Mart Howard, captain and left end; Spike Leslie, left tackle and George King, half. The executive council would not necessarily have to act on this recom mendation until its next regular ses sion which would be January 4. The Portland Journal carried the fol lowing story last night, written by George Bertz, sports editor: “Decision of the football committee of the University of Oregon to post pone its recommendation of an ath letic director, who will aUo serve as P P si b J( U: P ir it « L w tl m in M (Continued on pago three) THREE EARLY GAMES BENEFIEL’S AIM FOR lEXT GRID SEASON Home Field to be Scene of at Many Tilts as Possible; Schedules to be Made SEVERAL SEEK ADMISSIOI\ Oregon and California Will Nol Clash; Homecoming Contest Will be Arranged There will be three early season foot ball games played on Hayward field rext year, at least one of which will be i good conference game with a strong ;eam, if the present plans of Graduate Manager Jack Benefiel are successful, recording to a statement which he nade yesterday. The schedule for next year is to be nade out at the Pacific Coast and Northwest Conference conventions vhich are to be held in Portland the Sth and 10th of this month. Manager Benefiel is desirous of let ing Washington in the Northwest Conference. “It is a northern school,” le said, “and its logical place is in the Northwest Conference.” He added that ndications are that the Sundodgers rill be admitted. Professor Howe was undecided as 0 how he would vote in case U. S. C. pplied for admission again. The larg st obstacle against the entrance of T. S. C. is that another California chool will greatly increase the number f long trips and this condition of af airs is not to be desired, either from he athletes standpoint, for the hances are always against the team taking a long trip. Distance Against U. S. C. Professor Howe is to represent Ore on at the Pacific Coast Convention, nd Graduate Manager Benefiel at he Northwest. The schedules for bas etball, football, and track will be rawn up at these conventions. The raduate manager has control of the rawing up of the schedules, and in ;nds to have as many games on the ome field as possible next year. The principal question to come be ore the Northwest Convention is hether Washington shall be admitted r not. There is a report out that TJ. . C. is going to make another attempt > break into the Pacific Coast Con ?rence. The vote last year was unani ,ous against the California school, and has been refused admittance several mes before. Homecoming Nov. 2 The Homecoming game will probably ill on November 2 next year Manager enefiel stated, because of the fact lat otherwise the downtown stores ave to close two week ends in suc ■ssion and also the students lose out y having holidays so close together, enefiel has several teams in view at •esent for the Homecoming game, but Mhing certain has yet been done. Oregon will not play California next ;ar, but may have a game with Stan ird. Since Oregon played Stanford st year, this game is only a proba lity, and the Oregon team may take 1 California trip at all next year, ven if U. S. C. is admitted to the con rence an Oregon game with them next ‘ar is very doubtful. A report is out tat Whitman is going to the conven on especially desirous of securing a ime with Oregon next season. Corvallis has its turn with the Ore m-O. A. C. game next year which ill be played November 18 if present ans materialize. This game between e two rival institutions is played in ugene every other year. PECIAL PIANO IS LENT art Land Firm Sends Steinway For Concert Saturday Word has been received from the jrtland distributers of the Steinway ; ano that a special instrument, a full; zed Steinway concert grand piano will s sent to Eugene to be used by Dr. ! ihn LandBbury in his concert on Sat •day evening. This piano is kept in jrtland for the exclusive use of visit- J g artists and it is very unusual for to be sent far away for one con rt. In his public concert work Dr. j jndsbury has always used a Stein-' sv piano and the privilege of using is exceptionally fine one is very nch appreciated. PLEDGING IS ANNOUNCED Phi Sigma Pi announces the pledg g of Edward M. Carlton, of Libby, ontana. 6 Paul Puny an9 Brings Letter From Russia There’s no telling what Paul Ban yan, the giant lumberjack, will do next. Besides digging a “ditch” for the Colorado river to flow through in his journey over the Bockies to ; the West coast and other like ex ploits, the mythical ax-wielder is responsible for a letter which Miss Ida V. Turney, compiler of the gang lore tales, has received from Russia with the envelope plastered with three stamps whose pre-war value, according to Wasily C. Muller, a Russian student on the campus, was $2000.06, The author of the letter, Ernestine Evans, who writes from the Ameri can Foreign Correspondence office, Moscow, Russia, is not known on the campus. “The mall coming In here Is satis factory now,” says the letter In part, “and would be more so If It not only came with letters, but with more tales of Bunyan, who seems to me, along with Ben Franklin and Lincoln and Johnny Appleseed to be one of thhe four most-American ‘figgers’ in ! history. “I envy you and Miss Rhodes ter ribly what must have been the joy of following his gay, fantastic trail.” Miss Turney would like to send j Ernestine Evans a copy of the big man’s western sojourn, but says she hasn’t one on hand at present, and asks if someone on the campus would be willing to offer a copy for mailing to the distant admirer. A second edition is contemplated. “Paul Bunyan Comes West” is a ! project of the English, architecture and journalism departments of the University. The stories were com posed by the students in last spring term’s English composition class. They were later revised and compiled by Miss Turney and Miss Helen Rhodes, an instructor last year in i the normal arts department. PULL GIRLS’ M TB TOUR OFFICIALS AND 24 MEMBERS TO OO TO COOS BAY Executive Council Advises That Wage of Football Referees Come Before Conference Meeting The Girls ’ Glee club of the Univer sity will take their full quota of 24 members, in addition to the director, manager, and chaperone, on their Christmas trip to the Coos Bay region, by authorization of the executive coun cil at their meeting last evening in Dean Straub's room. Following their policy of strict econ omy, it has previously been suggested by the finance committee that only j 20 members make up the club for the Christmas trip, but as the work was ar ranged for the full membership, and as the four additional girls for this trip i would only entail an extra expense of about $60, the council approved the full membership, for this time. Later trips this year will be made by only 20 members. Bernice Altstock, presi dent of the girl's glee club, appeared before the council and presented the case for the club. Lyle Bartholomew, president of the A. S. U. O., appointed a special com mittee to act with the manager of the “Oregana” in placing the contracts for the printing and engraving work for the publilation. George McIntyre, business manager of the “Oregana” presented his budget. The council discussed the maximum payment allowed under the Pacific coast conference ruling, for referee for football games, and advised that this matter be brought up at the Pacific - Coast conference meeting, to be held soon. A number of other problems were discussed on which no definite action was taken at the meeting last even ing. These included a possible charge for finals in intra-mural sports on the campus; losses in equipment of the varsity athletic teams throughout the year; and some policy for upholding scholarship among the varsity athletic teams of the University. A committee will be appointed later by President Bartholomew, to work out some definite policy to follow in this. STAFF OF CALIFORNIA’S DAILY TO HOLD BANQUET University of California, Berkeley,, Dec. 7.— (P. I. N. 8.)—Members of the staff of the Daily Californian of the University of California will hold their semi-annual banquet December j after the last paper of the semester has been issued. These banquets of the Californian are a tradition of the paper, and are attended by all members of j both managerial and editorial staffs, j as well as graduates who were con nected with the paper while in the Uni versity. UNDER CUSS GIRLS Group Like Oregon Knight; is Formed by Members of Women’s Houses A. S. U. 0. GETS OFFICE I Secretarial Services And Othei Business Activities To Be Undertaken Women of the student body hav< undertaken the organization of a bod' similar to the Oregon Knights, to taki charge of an information bureau in thi j headquarters of the associated stu dents which has just been established in the administration building, adjoin ing President Campbells office. The student body officers have adopted this location in order to centralize the business and activities of the student ' government. A committee of underclass girls has ! bee n appointed from the various wo mm’s organizations on the campus to ke-ep daily office hours at the buraau so that some one of the girls will bo on hand at all times during the day to give out information in regard to the student body, notify student com mittees of the time and place of meet ings, and attend to the official cor respondence of the association officers. Bartholomew Tells Plans Lyle Bartholomew, president of the student body, announces that plans for the organization of this women’s order which will do the secretarial work of the A. 8. U. O. will be completed in about two days. The organization will consist of a freshman woman from every house on the campus. The informing of the 420 students on various committees of their duties for the week will bo one of the duties of this office force. The or ganization will file all the papers re ceived from the schools throughout the United States and will be authorized to call meetings and make appoint ments. “This is an opportunity for the wo men of the University to become ac quainted with the work of the stu dent body, since each woman will serve about ten days,” Bartholomew said. Appointments Announced The girls appointed from the various houses so far are: Alpha Delta Pi, Brace Pick; Alpha Chi Omega, Mar jorie Baird; Alpha Phi, Lucy Hoover; Delta Gamma, Frances Lyons; Delta Zeta, Grace Evans; Chi Omega, Edwina Ttichen; Hendricks Hall, Cleo Vase; Gamma Phi Beta, Geraldine Morrison; Susan Campbell, Winifred Graham; Delta Delta Delta, Helene La Fontaine; Pi Beta Phi, Dorothy La Roche; Zeta Rho Epsilon, Marian White; Kappa Kappa Gamma, Mary Skinner. Rep resentatives from Thacher Cottage, Ore gon Club and Kappa Alpha Theta have not yet been chosen. LOVELACE RECOVERS SIGHT Freshman Player Writes He Will Re turn for Winter Term Raymond Lovelace, who received a severe injury to his eye in the foot ball game between the University of Oregon and the University of Wash ington freshmen at Seattle, sends word to his friends on the campus that ho is completely recovered. Lovelace was taken out of the Washington game in a serious condition. Surgeons there feared for the sight of his eye. Lovelace was on the campus during Homecoming. At that time his sight was by no means perfect. The jpera tion had not brought the desired re sults. He wrote to one of his friends i here that his eye is now all right and that he expects to return to the Uni- j versity next term. BULLETIN OPT PRESS SOON The 1922 issue of the Graduate School bulletin is expected to be ready early in January. Copy for the bul letin has recently been sent to the deans of the various schools and the heads of the departments and will later be checked and edited by a committee of the graduate council. Dr. George 1 Rebec is the dean of the graduate school in which there are 64 students enrolled on the campus. The bulletin is issued by the Univer sity yearly and contains announcements of courses and schedules of particular interest to the graduate students. It j is being issued earlier this year than previously in order to reach the stu dents more quickly. GREATER OREGON WORK A. S. U. 0. MEET SUBJECT More Effective Work in State Planned; Amendment Allowing Minor Sport Admission Charge to Come Up I The official plans of the Greater Oregon committee for the year will be outlined at the last student body as sembly of the fall term, this morning in Villard hall. « : The greater Oregon committee has I been reorganized and is planning a | schedule which will be more all-prevas | ive than it has ever been before, ac- j | cording to Student President Lyle Bar-! tholomew. The Men’s and Women’s Glee clubs [ will give several numbers. The as ; sembly will be in charge of the Ore gon Knights. Under the guidance of Paul Patter ‘ son, general chairman, and David Graham, alunfrii chairman, the com mittee is going strong, he says. The minor sports activity committee and the committee on debate, will also ; be heard from. 1 After the routine business has been I disposed of a debate rally will be held 1 to work up enthusiasm over the de ; bate Friday night, when the Oregon ! debaters will meet the team from the ■ Oregon Agricultural Oollego. Clar ence D. Thorpe, varsity debate coach, will speak briefly, telling of the strength of the Oregon team, and the j : men they are to go up against.. An amendment allowing a small ' admission charge for minor sport games is to be brought up for consideration, j President Bartholomew urged that all students attend the meeting ns seve ral important matters are to be acted upon. TRACK CALL WILL BE AAADE VARSITY AND FROSH CINDER MEN TO REPORT NEXT TERM Moving Pictures of Athletes Will be Used to Show Positions and Forms; Competition is Slated The call for track men, both var sity and freshman, will be sent out at the beginning of next term. So far, the track coaches havo been too busy, Hay ward with football and Foster with gym classes, to hold fall training. How ever, when Hayward returns from Haw aii next January, the knights of the cinder path will start the old grind. The varsity squad will probably be last year’s team with the addition of the stellar performers from the ’24 frosh. Some of the sophomores who will probably prove to be good point getters nre Spearrow, polo vault and high jump; Grilley, sprints; and Par sons in the weights. The team will also bo strengthened by the return of Leith Abbott, a letter man in this sport and captain in 1920. During the summer, nayward as sembled an unusually fine collection of “slow” moving pictures of the best athletes in the country in their respec tive events. These pictures make the movements of the athletes seem so slow that the various positions and forms i may be easily explained by the coach. The varsity and freshman squads will ; probably work alternately during the week, with competition meets between the two on Saturday. Tn the spring the intensive training will set in and the two teams will work out every night. FIVE UNIVERSITY MEN TO SPEAK AT BEAVERTON Varied Subjects to be Discussed by t Kilpatrick, Parsons, Robbins, s Gilbert and Sweetser » Members of the University faculty 1 ^ will bo speakers at a scries of lectures •'< to be given at Beaverton from Decern v ber 11. The lecture series is in charge ^ of 1’. M. Nash, city superintendent of ‘ schools at Beaverton, and is offered as ! r a result of the success of a similar ser I ies which was given last year in Har I <' risburg. The lectures will be given in f the Beaverton high school building. t Earl Kilpatrick, director of the ex- ( tension division, will be the first ^ speaker, and has for his subject: “The ^ Movies: Shall We Use Thera or Abuse 0 Them?”. Dean E. C. Robbins of the ^ school of business administration will r talk on “The Organized Community.” * Professor James Gilbert of the econo- ! mics department will give a lecture on “Taxation and Vexation.” Professor v Albert R. Bweetser of the botany de partment has “Rwat the Fly” for his a subject. Professor P. A. Parsons, di- * rector of the school of social work at the Portland center, and professor of sociology at the University, will dis cuss the subject of “Knowledge and t Liberty.” , s Dean Robbins will speak also before j 0 the Beaverton high school. 1 PLEDGING IS ANNOUNCED } Mu Phi Epsilon announces the plcdg P ing of Marian Linn of Eugene, Hil h dred Hall of Glendale, California, and e Dorothy Dickey of Eugene. ? OREGON HOOPERS TO TAKE PRACTICE TRIP IN HOEIDATS Bohler to Give Candidates For Team Chance to Take Part in Battles FIVE GAMES TO BE PLAYED Coach Watching Men Closely for Line on Material for Conference Season The Varsity basketball squad will start Monday, December 19, on a barn storming tour for the Christmas holi days. Arrangements for the trip and the schedule are about complete. The team will play Chemawa, North Pacific Dental Colloge, Astoria American Leg ion, McMinnville American Legion, and probably the Newborg Legion team. Mark Latham will be the only letter man making the trip. The rest are men svlio have shown up well in the dough nut basketball series, and who have been given individual instruction by Durno and Rohler. “We know about what the letter men can do,” Rohler said, “and we tvant to find out how the now men will ict when they get on a strange floor.” Not to Bother About Scores Rohler says he isn’t even going to nko a score book nlong. That part s immaterial. Tho big idea is to get lie players used to facing the enemy in strange floors so they won't get ost in the conference games, and to nit them in condition. Tho players vho will make tho trip have not yet teen chosen. Bolilor doesn’t want the our to interfere with any man’s holi lay plans, and, as yet, knows nothing if their arrangements. The coach plans on playing one group n one game, and in replacing them ns 'nr as possible in the next in order to nako the trip accomplish its primary mrpose of giving every man who goes dong a chance to show up for con 'oronce material. While this squad will day under tho varsity name there will le, in all probability, a change in the ino up before the conference series tarts. Last Year’s Veterans Available Hunk Latham, Reinhart, Roller, and lhapman are nil to be reckoned with fter the holidays. However Hunk La ham and Chapman will not be able o put in an appearance on tho squad intil the football team returns from Iawaii, the second week in January. Vitli the exception of Chapman these sen are last year’s veterans, and 'hapman bids fair to make some one ustle for a place in the aggregation. Doughnut basketball players have eon under the close scrutiny of Dur o and Rohler from the beginning of he scries and the coaches havo picked rom them about 15 of the most promis lg, and given them individual instruc ion and coaching. These men have een at this work for several weeks, nd have been putting into the dough ut games what they have learned. Games With Five Teams Rurnett, Reaver, Couch, Rockhey, fcMillan, Altstock, and Coar are gat ing in good work in the games and tand good chances of going along, ndre also will be eligible for the ver ity at the opening of next term, .ndre is a player of exceptional cap bilities. ITis passing and general floor rork are exceptional, and will no doubt e an asset to the team. A definite schedule has been ar inged with five teams, and it is ex acted that several more will be in haled before the quintet leaves. The irst game is with Chemawa on the 19th, io second with North Pacific Dental ollege on the 21st, the third with the storia Legion on the 22nd, and the nrrth with the McMinnville Legion n thhe 2drd, and the fifth with the rewberg Legion on the 24th. If it an be arranged Rohler wants to plav bn Multnomah Club while in Port ind. Return games have been arranged ith North Pacific and Chemawa for anuary 20 and 27. Rohler is trving to rrangc a game with Willamette for le first week in January. DUNN SPEAKS AT PACIFIC U. Professor Frederick S. Dunn, head of le Latin department, delivered the as >mbly address before the student body f Pacific University at Forest Grove hursdav morning. His subject was Christmas in Fact and Fancv.” Wed esday evening Professor Dunn spoke efore tho Forest Grove Patron-Teach rs Association on certain phases of is experience in Italy, where he was ngaged in Y. M. C. A. work during the rar.