SPRING CUSTERS
TRAIN IN EARNEST
Huntington and Spellman Are
Working Regularly With
Squad of 40 Huskies
Spring football started out in ear
nest this week, with 40 huskies demand
ing their share of the total of 48 grid
iron uniforms which Coach Shy Hun
tington has on hand for them. From
the way the men tore through their
paces last night, there is going to be
a world of competition for places on
the varsity eleven next fall.
Both Shy and Bart Spellman are on
hand to teach the aspiring gridders
all they know about the pigskin game,
and both of them are optimistic as to
the showing made by the men who have
turned out this spring. Next year’s
varsity will in a large measure be
picked from the men who are turning
ot now, says Shy, and in order to give
them all the workouts possible, prac
tices will be held every night from
now on. Bart Spellman is of the opin
ion that there will be an entirely new
line next fall after seeing the spring
squad work out for the first time last
night. Of the 40 who have answered
the call every one is well-built and will
form excellent material for varsity
football, both coaches say. A few
have never playd football or else lack
experience, but their size, strength and
willingness to get in and work are
factors which will overcome this defi
ciency. Others have had experience on
either the varsity, freshman, or high
school teams and the added experience
which they will gain by the spring
practice will put them in fine condi
tion for the opening of the regular
season next September.
It is for this reason that the coaches
are urging that more men turn out and
fill the remainder of the quota of
suits. Just now the men are going
through the preliminary kicking, pas
sing and tackling procedure.; In a
week or so scrimmages will be held and
all in all, the practice will be made to
equal the workouts usually held in
the fall.
PUBLICATIONS OF STATE
ARE BACKING STUDENTS
(Continued from page one.)
.teams. Any coach will tell you that
students rooting in the bleachers do
as much toward winning athletic con
tests as the men who are fighting it
out on the gridiron, basketball court or
baseball diamond.
“Laying aside personal disagree
ments, which for some reason or other,
seem to develop in athletic departments
more than any other place, isn’t it more
worthwhile to keep our eyes fixed on
the goal rather than the roughness of
the path—the goal being the best
thing for the institution.
“This is the university’s private
scrap, but the Barometer can’t help
butting in to say that it hopes the stu
dents win out—despite the fact that
Bolder’s absence will make it easier
for us to ‘Smear Oregon’ next year.”
A COACH OF CHARACTER
(Astoria Budget)
“A controversy has arisen at the
University of Oregon between the-stu
dent body and the head of the depart
ment of physical education relative to
the retention of Coach Bohler of the
basketball and base I3a.ll teams. The
former wants him retained while the
latter has indicated that his contract
will not be renewed.
“Astoria is a little far away to dip
into affairs of such a nature at the
University and yet, because this is the
state university and because Coach
Bohler has established a contact with
Astoria through bringing his team here
to play the Columbia Club team, this
community has a right to offer its evi
dence.
“What merits Mr. Bohler has as a
coach may be debatable but the sports
manship of the man and the reaction
of his attitude to the benefit of the
insittution he serves are above ques
tion down here.
“A year ago last winter, Coach Boh
ler brought his team down here for a
pre-season game with the redoubtable
Columbia Club quintet. He had a green
team of youngsters and they went down
to defeat before the Astoria champions
who have humbled many of the best
teams. What impressed the big aud
ience the most, however, was the clean
sportsmanship exhibited by the Uni
versity players and their coach. Not
once was a decision of the Astoria ref-’
eree questioned by either, though there
were times, as in all games, when in
the heat of contest the temptation to
challenge the official must have been
strong. The coach sat quietly on his
bench watching keenly the progress of
the game and noting the errors of his
players. The latter, when a foi^l was
called on one of their team, quietly
accepted the penalty.
•‘Tills action was in marjicu cuuuask
to the attitude manifested on the fol
lowing evening by the coach and play
ers of another college team. The game
as a result developed into a continuous
wrangle which resulted in an Astoria
player slamming the ball viciously at
tre cantankerous coach of the colle
gians.
“The difference in the attitude of
the two groups of college players was
not due to a difference in the tempera
mental make-up of the individuals^
They were average American youths.
The diference was a difference in their
training. The one had a eoach that
stressed good sportsmanship. The
other had a coach who, by his own
example, encouraged his players to pro
test, quarrel and behave generally with
poor spirit.
“Is there any question as to which
type of coach is the more valuable to
his institution—as an adverstiement for
it before the state or as a moulder of
character of those under his charge?
“Coach Bohler had a losing team all
year. He knew it was a losing team
for his players were young and inex
perienced. But he made good losers of
the'm and, while he trained them in the
1 game of basketball, he also trained
j them in the game of life.
“We are for more coaches like Boh
ler whether they win or lose games.”
Would Scrap Personnel
Salem, Oregon, April 30.
To the Editor:
Permit me to add my protest to those
already made against permitting George
Bohler to leave the University.
Other almuni as well as myself have
viewed with increasing misgiving—
since the installation of the present
Physical Education Department—the
effect of placing athletics and athletic
coaches under the supervision and dom
ination of men whose training and
knowledge of their subject is entirely
academic and highly theoretical.
One thing is certain, and that is that
no successful competition in intercol
legiate athletics can be maintained
under such a system. The past wrest
ling season is an apt illustration of
what will happen to all our sports if
this system is to prevail. The only out
standing successful schools of physical
education, such as Illinois and Chicago,
it will be noted are headed and domi
nated by men like Stagg and Huff,
whose knowledge and experience have
been acquired in the field of actual
contact; natural leaders of men.
While the iron is hot, it might not
be amiss to bring a few points to the
attention of the powers that be. And
I am not alone by any means in these
conclusions. One point is the terrific
cost of our men’s physical education
work. No school or university in the
Northwest begins to compare with it
in expense. At Washington State Col
lege the! alowaince made; for men’s
physical work is less than one-fourth
of what it costs at Oregon, and I ven
ture to say that its work is at least as
effective. If the amount alloted to
this work at Oregon were commonly
known about the state, including the
salaries paid, there would be a protest
that wrnuld jar everyone from the r«
gents on down.
Another point is the futility .,of at
tempting to approach any program of
physical /training from an academic
point of view. There is a wide dis
crepancy between theory and practice
in any sort of physical education work,
and to one who has the opportunity of
watching the present regime at Eugene
at rather close hand, it is to say the
least amusing to see the program at
work. Most of the present fol-de-rol,
not to say humorous, tests, experiments
and statistics—gathering carried on in
department could be dispensed with
with no loss to anyone.
Oregon would be far better off to
scrap the entire personnel. A man like
George Bohler, -who has a practical
knowledge of the subject and in addi
tion the confidence of students and
outsiders alike, with the help of a half
dozen half-time assistants, could carry
on more effectively the necessary ac
tivities and work. A very substan
tial amount could be turned back to
the University for needed buildings.
Also harmony and prestige would fol
low, and confidence and good-will would
be restored where at present they are
sadly lacking. Why not?
CARL NELSON, ’19.
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A double bill marks today’s offering
at the Castle, showing for the last
time today is Martin Johnson’s “Trail
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of adventure in darkest Africa packed
into two hours of thrills, and combined
with this picture will be shown Richard
Barthelmess in “The Seventh Day,” a
marvelous and very realistic story of
the sea. Today will be the only day of
the double bill. Don’t miss it.
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ALICE LAKE
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“The TIMBER QUEEN”
INTRICACIES OF STAGE
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Comedies and Tragedies Occur
Behind the Scenes
By K. W.
Out of the wide and varied experi
ences of the early life of Carl Sandburg,
that poet has woven many poems, half
serious, half smiling, which picture life
as he found it, gazing curiously with his
shaggy-browed grey eyes. One of these
poems reflects his days spent as a stage
hand in a theatre. It follows the play
in the emotional vein that the audience
is feeling witnessing it, working to a
climax and then, suddenly coming back
to the stage hand’s point of view, it
ends in a loud whisper, “Turn on the
snow! Hey . . turn on the snow . .
Man, it’s time . .My God, turn on the
snow!
Anyone who is fortunate enough to
have been permitted the pleasure and
amusement as well as the education of
a visit behind the scenes at Guild hall has
probably found the same curious mix
ture of play and life, has been awed by
the intensity and moved to laughter at
the humor of many back of the scenes
situations. Fergus Eeddie, after many
moons of play producing can relate
tragedies that would have far surpassed
the one being produced’before the aud
ience, and comedies that would have
been worth more money to see than the
sne before the scenes, all of which have
been staged in the very limited space
behind the painted world of the play.
There is the new man who has only
one line, but, perhaps the line on which
l whole scene depends. And he stands
outside watching through a crack, wait
ing for his entrance. So tensely that
be forgets the pi omen t he must go on,
and the principals are at a loss for a
brief instant. He walks away, makup on
bis face that he has labored on pains
takingly, brokenhearted because he for
got, because he feels he has ruined the
olay, most of all because he wanted so
much to do it and failed.
There is the rifle shot that goes off at
the wrong time. There is the stage
furniture which collapses at the wrong
time . . . and there is always the dub
who leans against the scenery.
In a recent Guild hall play when a
man dashed off the stage in haste, he
bumped into a super who was peeping
through a curtain and the poor super
bad to go on with all the symptoms of a
black eye. And once a black; box upon
which the entire plot of the play was
hinged was missed about two minutes
before it had to be taken in. In some
mysterious way it had been misplaced
and a substitute had to be found at
once. The mere fact that it was a wire
basket with a copy of the Literary Di
gest in it instead of a black box with
manuscripts made a difference to the
astounded girl who received it on the
stage, but none, apparently, to the good
aatured audience which was willing to
;all white black. A moment later the
footman walked on explaining his delay
with the proper box.
Once in a while things happen which
require actual courage. The use of can
dles has more than once come very near
jausing a calamity, and not very long
ago a girl in the company went on say
ing her lines after the candle had ig
nited her lace collar, the audience un
aware that one of the men behind her was
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trying to extinguish it before it became
noticeable.
It isn’t just playing at life. It’s liv
ing life more consciously than we usually
do, giving more and seeing things in a
more true proportion. It is not being so
swept away by the thread of the story
that we are not aware when it is time
to turn on the snow.
VARSITY VANITIES FULL
OF COLOR, ORIGINALITY
(Continued from page one)
“Skinny” and “Cootie” use the piano
and violin to put across their num
bers. The glee club quartet has a sur
prise to spring in the way of harmony
and “Out of the Fog,” is the mystery
number.
The evening is closed by the Mid
night Sons, featuring a song dance by
Ed Stevens, who does a laughable char
acterization of an Englishman, and
some extra close harmony by Mildred
'Burke and Zelma Arrasmith.
Mystery to be Cleared
Interest in the program is heighten
ed by the revelation of the identity of
the mystery man and the awarding of
the $10 prize to the first successful
guesser. He appears again today at
9:50, 10:50, 1:05 and 2:05. The re
served ticket window opens today at
the Heilig at 10 a. m. Organizations
are planning on having freshmen keep
a vigil in front of the window all night
tonight. Friendly hall’s representative
went on duty yesterday, according to
one report.
The program is in charge of four stu
dents who have specialized in dram
atic work for a number of years. They
are Ted Baker, Darrell Larson, Kath
erine Pinneo and Asteria Norton. Prop
erties are being handled by Hally Bar
ry, John Boyd, William Poulson, and
Dave Swanson.
SHORTCAKE IS BLAMED
FOR LOVE ALLIANCES
(Continued from page one)
fraternity pins on the young ladies of
their hearts’ desire.
How blind they are that they can not
distinguish between these two passions;
that they can confuse a man’s love for
woman and a man’s love for strawberry
short-cake. It seems impossible that one
who has felt the fiery blood of youth
surging through his veins—has felt the
call of sequestered nooks and quiet wa
ters—could be so blind as not to recog
nize the high ideals of our betrothed ones.
Yet they are not content with doubting
the timber of the young men's love. They
also doubt the young women. They say,
that the young women become engaged,
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There is only one hope, that a kind
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tence, and that they who would break
the golden bubble of romance may fall
in love too.
MISS COLLIER IS SPEAKER
Y. W. Secretary Addresses Presbyterian
Women at Salem Convention
Miss Dorothy Collier, secretary of
the campus Y. W. C. A., left yesterday
for Salem, where last night she spoke
before the 'Willamette Presbyterial,
which is holding a convention there.
The Presbyterial is an organization of
women of the Presbyterian churches of
the Willamette valley. Miss Collier is
expected to return today.
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