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.
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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.
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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
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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.