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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 6, 1924)
HRS FINISH IN THIRD PLACE Injuries of Men on Squad Prove Disastrous SCHEDULE IS STRENUOUS Latham Is Main-spring of Varsity Machine With the win over the Willamette Bearcats Tuesday night, Oregon fin ished the most successful season in basketball the Lemon Yellow has had Since the Northwest championship fearn of 1920. The Webfooters start ed out this year with a dash and a zipper that carried them to sensa tional victories over the champion Washington five, and the Oregon Aggies. As these two were consid ered the logical contenders for the title it looked as if Oregon would probably pull out ahead with the gonfalon safely stowed away. Injuries Prove Disastrous However the team was hard hit by injuries even from the start of the season. Chapman being put out with his injured knee, and tho loss of the Stellar guarding ability and offen sive work of Shafer started the squad on the road of hard luck which lost them the first honors in the North ern conference race. Tho Oregon schedule during the past season was a strenuous one for any team to undergo even if they were in the peak of form. The squad opened up at home and annexed wins over Washington and O. A. C. Then they went on the road, losing a hard fought battle to Tdaho, and annex ing the scalps of Washington State and Whitman. Tieturning homo they played Whitman and Tdaho hero win ning the former, and losing a heart breaking five minute over time period contest to the Vandals, which dis lodged them from first place in the standings. The only chance left was to defeat the Huskies in their den at Seattle, a task which no team had been able to do. The loss of that game definitely put Orogon out of tho running. 19 Games Played However the scrapping Oregonian? took W. S. C. into camp again here and cinched third honors. The incen tive left was to defeat, the Aggies at Corvallis, but as tho agriculture students were believed by many cri tics to have the most versatile five in the conference. Oregon lost one of the roughest battles of the year to the Beavers. Tho record of the Oregon team is a very good one. The team played 19 contests during the season against some of the best, teams that have been turned out by members of the Northwest conference for several years, and won 14 and lost five of them. Tt is an undisputed fact that but for the event of injuries which disrupted the team, that it would have finished even higher up in the standings and would probably have won the right to play California, the winner of the Southern title. The passing of this season also witnesses the passing of some of !Oregon’s athletic heroes of the bas i ket sport. Hunk Latham, Earl Sha fer, and Hal Chapman and Haddon Bockhey played their last^ basketball game in an Oregon suit. Latham be gan his basketball career here as a membpr of the famous Oregon com bination of 1020, winner of North west honors. The big follow has steadily improved until last season he was chosen on the all-coast mythical five. This season, “TTunk” has been the mainspring in the Webfoot ma i chine, and his leaving will make a big hole to be filled in the team jnext year. Shafer Starts Well Shafer, up to the timo of his ope ration for appendicitis, shared the honors with Hunk as being the most valuable man on the team. Although small of stature Earl was enjoying the best season of his career. He was fast gaining the reputation of being probably the closest checking guard in the conference, was one of the team’s leading scorers, and was making a strong bid for all-coast .honors. Bockhey, already a two year letterman in basketball, recuperated from injuries in timo to fill up the hole left vacant by the loss o-f Sha fer. Chapman, one of Oregon’s most dependable guards during the past itwo seasons was able to play only in snatches this season, because of an injured knee suffered in football. However he wont into the contest at time when most needed, and always played good ball. The prospects for next year point to potential possibilities of another strong team. Gowans, Hobson, Gib lenwaters, King and Yost of this year's team will bo back to form the nucleus for next year’s five. Stod dard, Gunther and other members of the squad should deliver next season, Besides here is some very promising material coming up from this year ’s speedy freshman team, who will make some of the lettormen work hard tc keep them out of the regular line-up Kiminki, Westergren, Kcinhart, Flynn Okerberg, Westerman, Chiles and Hughes will be eligible for confer ence play. The yearlings had a suc cessful season and next year will probably find some of them on the varsity. And unless numerous in juries prevent, Oregon should have a strong contender for the const honors | in 1924-25. * - ■ WORK WINS RECOGNITION Article on Crosland Research Senl Out by Science Service A nows story on the article en titled, “Psychologist Discovers Wlij Proof-readers Miss Errors,” by Dr IT. R. Crosland, assistant profes sor in t.hc> psychology department has been sent to newspapers all ovoi the country by the Science Service a news service which distributes ar tides of scientific value from its office in Washington, D. C. Dr. Crosland has just completed a two years’ investigation into the causes of errors in proofreading JAPANESE INI NEW VOLUMES Foreign Universities Need Reference Works QUAKE ENDS LIBRARIES Books by Faculty Members Are Highly Valued A request to gather gift books for Japanese libraries and important edu cational institutions which were des troyed by the recent earthquake in Japan, is being made to several 'American colleges and universities ]by Nicholas Murray Butler, director of the Carnegie Endowment for In Iternational Peace. A plea has re cently been sent to the University to help towards replenishing these libraries of Japanese universities which suffered from the recent dis aster. Books Are Collected “Books of all sorts and kinds will be welcome,” states Mr. Butler in his letter to the University, “but more particularly in the fields of law, phil osophy, political economy, sociology, fine arts, literature and the natural sciences. Books written by members of your faculty and autographed by their authors will be highly valued. “Experience has proved that an nouncements to local newspapers that books are being collected and for warded to Japan, are effective in bringing support. The Imperial Uni versity of Tokyo will be given the first choice of the books collected. T)upli()ati'es and other volumes apt, chosen by the institution will be al loted to other institutions of learn LEOCADE HAT SHOP A new shipment of fine spring hats has just arrived. “Where you always buy for less.” OPEN FOR BUSINESS The Doughnut King Fresh doughnuts every morning. Special prices to lodges and entertainments. C. H. Williams, Manager 111 West 7th Avenue ing in Japan which have suffered by the earthquake. Friendship Is Greater “The Carnegie Endowment for In ternational Peace believes that Ameri can sympathy for Japail in this time of her loss and suffering has al ready done much to strengthen the bonds of international friendship be tween the two peoples,” writes Mr. Butler, “and there is still opportunity to bring much needed aid to repair the destruction in the general field of education.” Any books that can be donated by .'individuals will be received at the circulation desk of the University library or in the office of M. H. Douglass, librarian. A number of universities have organized commit tees to gather books for the Japanese libraries. GRADUATE TO RETURN Paris Visited by Jeannette Calkins While on Leave of Absence Jeannette Calkins, ’18, is expect ed to arrive at Nyssa, Oregon, some | time next month. She has visited i in France since June. This news was received by Grace Edgington, | alumni secretary, in a letter from Mrs. Jessie Calkins Morgan, a resi dent of Nyssa. Miss Calkins has been business manager of “Old Oregon” ever since her graduation in 1918 and for the past three years lias been employed in the registrar’s office. She left for France on leave of ab sence last June and has spent most of her time in Paris. Miss Cathe rine Dobie, ’18, had been Miss Cal kin ’s companion during the entire trip. Mrs. Morgan will probably come to Eugene with her sister after Miss Calkins’ visit in Nyssa. Get the Classified Ad habit. -r '/ }> HR FSSHINC Remember the carefree days when as a barefoot boy you went fishing? Yon will be able to live them all over again in the leisure of a secure old age if you have an Reputable policy for a goodly sum maturing when you are, say, 53 or 60. Now is the time to begin saving. Many a man of 50 or older, who would really enjoy fish ing, cannot go because he must keep his nose to the grindstone. A matur ing Equitable policy will give you this means to buy leisure—and fishing tackle—in your old age. THE EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY of the UNITED STATES ROBERT W. EARl I District Mgr. Phone 1197-1 UNIVERSITY GRADUATE RECEIVES HIGH HONOR Cap't. William C. Munly Appointed Chairman of New York City Medical Committee Captain William C. Munly, M.D., who is a graduate of the Oregon Medical school, has recently had the honor of being appointed chairman of the Committee for the Preven tion and Belief of Heart Diseases in New York city. Captain Munly is located at present as medical in structor in the Aviation school at Mitchell’s field, Long Island. Captain Munly was a student on the campus in 1911, taking a pre medics course. He graduated from the Medical school at Portland with highest honors. He was commissioned in 1917 and went to Camp Ogelthorpe, in Georgia, where he was camp sur geon for 50,000 men. While there, lie wras picked for an examination from 4000 men by the national board of examiners and passed with the highest standing which has ever been recorded. In 1919, he was / FIRST CLASS Shoe Repairing at RIGHT PRICES BILLY’S SHOE HOSPITAL W. T. Shoults, Prop. 31 E 9th Avenue Shorthand ontheCampus Due to the fact that through a state ruling, shorthand cannot be given as part of the college curriculum, pri vate shorthand courses of five hours a week have been established on the campus. | These courses are exclusive ly for college students and they require a minimum of outside study. A small tuition is charged. * * # Special attention is given to those who are expecting to teach stenography. * * # Helpful instructions are of fered without cost for those who are desirous of learning touch system of typing. # # • Further particulars may be obtained from F. Ramsey, room 101, Commerce Bldg., between 3 and 5 p.m. j sent to France, and for three and one half years was in service ovei seas. When in Coblenz he was chief of the medical service at the base hospital there. During the influ enza epidemic he served a company of French chasseurs and was decorated with the French m«dai of honor by the French government For seven months after his de^ parture from France, he studied in London with Sir Thomas Lewis, the foremost authority on the heart in the world today. Since his return to America, he has been located at Mitchel’s field TODAY LAST DAY TO SEE The great mid-western classic of America’s romantic youth. THE HOOSIER SCHOOLMASTER with Henry Hull Jane Thomas and Sterling cast. # Kinogram News Weekly * Comedy ‘One Exciting Night’ Lots of fun and'excitement THE CASTLE Home of the best. Captain Munly has written some ar ticles on the heart that have been highly recommended by the surgeon general of the United States army. Captain Munly is the brother of Leo P. J. Munly, now attending the University. 0 w The First Hats of Spring arrive in colorful profusion. Models of every description —with the dash of Paris and the irresistible atmosphere of Spring embodied in their alluring designs. > You will find here a hat for every mood and fancy—for every type and every oc casion. But see them soon, for hats so whjolly charming could never linger long in any shop. Mrs. Ruth . McCallum Carter Over First Nat’l Bank Phone 652 BLOCK WOOD $6.50 per Load Eugene Fuel Corporation Phone 782 39 East 7th Avenue TENNIS Are you getting full bene fit of the new tennis courts? The Co-op has a full line of Wright and Ditson rackets in prices from $2.50 to $1 3.50, Racket covers, presses, eye shades, Wright and Ditson, Spalding, and Pennsylvania balls. m Your Term Papers will present your thoughts more legibly if written on a Remington Portable The Co-op is campus agent for this superlative letter ma chine—the one with the standard keyboard. If you haven’t the cash ask about the payment plan. f STATIONERY Have you seen our new line of Oregon Crest Stationery? 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