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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 13, 1924)
Varsity Wins Alumni Tilt First Ball Game Sees Ragged Playing Final Score Is 20-fi Hard Hitting Players Knock Homers Hard hitting and poor fielding featured the first baseball contest of the season staged yesterday afternoon when the varsity tossers handed the alumni a 20 to 8 lacing after eight and a half innings of hectic playing. Three home runs and numerous skull plays added zest to the matinee. The varsity started going right off the bat, scoring four runs in the first inning. Sorsby, lead-off man, was hit by one of “Hank” Foster’s wild ones and came in with first run later on hits by Bittner, Boss and Hobson. In the third frame, Scripture hit to deep center for a homer, scoring Peterson and bringing the count up to nine. Bitt ner next broke into the Babe Ruth class by swatting a circuit clout in the fourth. The alumni contingent did not register until the third, when Fos ter crossed the plate after a couple of hits by Manerud and Svarvc rud. In the first half of tho fifth inning, they began to find their batting eyes and brought in throe more, as a result of a home run by Svarverud. From then on they did not score until the seventh. Coach Reinhart started Williams in tho box and he managed to hold down tho opposition fairly well with good support. He was re placed by “Skipper” Brooks in the sixth. The “Skipper” was hit quite hard but had too big a lead to af fect him. After the fifth inning tho con test lapsed into a somewhat of a baseball comedy. Coach Reinhart, who began tho game at first base, now relieved Foster in the box for the grads and was nicked hard by his erstwhile proteges. In the eighth inning, Bob Earl, who for sook the insurance game for base ball during tho afternoon, went from short to the mound and pro ceeded to pitch no hit ball—walk ing four men in a row. Some re marVable playing behind him stop ncd the scoring after five men had crossed the plate. Brooks stopped the contest in the first of the ninth j bv whiffing two and making the, third pop out. The showing made yesterday in-1 dicates that tho varsity will have; a team of fairly good hitters, but' shows also a need for more practice | in their fielding. The showing of the two pitchers yesterday can not bo judged upon to much extent, due to the fact that most of the opposition were out of practice. Character Sketch of Dr. Conklin Is Given j (Continued from page one) even, youthful yet were It not for a seeming inability to unbend, to re-j lax the stiffly hold shoulders and j limbs. His hair is dark and straight, his long face made longer by the .lightly protruding length of jaw. It is a scholarly face, keen and intel- j leetual, a trifle sad even, when con templative, yet animated by a kindli ness and understanding that shows him a man before a scientist. The inevitable spectacles, the stiff brond eloth suit, and the lmt which sits too loftily upon his head, mark him as a product of old New England. TCLASSIFIED ADS ' Minimum chanre, 1 time, illei 2 time*, | 46c . 8 times, Site : 1 week, *1.20. Must I he limited to 5 lines: over thie limit | tv per line. Phone 961, or leave copy | with Business office of Finer alii, in I University l’reaa. Office houj. 1 to I 4 p. m. PAY ABt.lt IN ADVANOI ONLY^ Lost — Lady V brown leather jiurse, somewhere near the corner of University anti 13th streets, containing money and watch. Finder please call 69. Reward. A 12-13 Be a Newspaper Correspondent— With the Iloucoek Plan and earn a good income while learning; wo show you how; begin actual work at once; all or spare time; experi ence unnecessary; no canvassing; send for particulars. Newswrlters Training Bureuu, Buffalo, N. Y. F 12 tf Emery Insurance Agency Representative for OREGON FIRE RELIEF ASSOCIATION 37 9th Avenue West Phone 067 Chautauquas, an Influence for Good or Evil By Harold Kirk In the American Mercury for March, under the title of “Chau tauqua: Its Technic,” Gregory Mason dips his pen into a concoc tion of sarcasm, irony and ridicule and tells the waiting world just what he thinks of that institution. Mason is listed as a war correspon dent, writer on foreign' affairs and lecturer, and his vitriolic con clusions are the result of a tour of the Chautauqua platform. He, therefore, knows all about Chau tauqua, from the “Methodist Fathers,” who founded it, to the yokels who hold down the unplaned boards and pay their hard-earned money Sor five days of “soul-in spiring, uplifting” entertainment. The whole movement he terms a “crusade against the devil, with all the intolerance of other such cru sades.” The leaders of Chautau qua ho classes as a pious lot of Puritanical fathers, and the audi ence are a mass of orthodox clod hoppers with a self-betterment complex, a “lust for self improve ment found nowhere in such inten sity as in rural America.” Lecturers, he tells us, must be serious, and must conduct them selves with jdst the right degree of sanctimonious uprightiousness on and off the platform. Bryan, the “Nebraska Medicine Man,” is the arch-demagogue of the whole crew and the shining example for all inspiring young speakers. He is the typical Man with a Message and wo are told how, “—when he issues from the wings he manages somehow to intensify the smugly pained lines in his face.” Success on the platform in the brown tent is simple, he says. There are just two types of lectures, the inspirational, Home, Heaven and Mother, kind and tho informa tional, under which are classed travel talks, popular science talks and tho how I did it and the how you can do likewise lecture. This is the formula: study the methods of the more successful re vivalists and Methodist pulpiteers steal a little from Dr. Orison Swett Harden, Dr. Frank Crane, H. G. Wells or Lothrop Stoddard, and have at it. All this gives rise to a question or two. Why is it that when such a person as Gregory Mason arrives at the exalted peak of super-intel lectuality, that one must attain to receive recognition by the Mer cury, he loses all tolerance for those who have their feet in the soil and who may prefer prayer meeting to the little theater? Why shouldn’t the “folks” in some 10,000 Chautauqua hamlets, who by; force of circumstances have been j denied the advantages of our larger j cities, take a week off once a year to listen to a little entertainment I of their own choosing? And why shouldn’t this great American mob have a self-better ment complex? It is at least as good as the sex complex that clut ters up some other forms of enter tainment we might name. However, we should be thankful of Mason for discovering this new complex. Now we know what it was that prompted Lincoln to read borrowed books on his stomach before the fireplace and impelled certain hardy pioneers to found institutions of higher learning here in Oregon. It was this “lust for self improve ment.” As a satirist, Gregory Mason , wields a double-barreled pen, but in his treatment of the Great American Chautauqua, he brands himself with the same iron with which he singes the flanks of the “Baptist - Methodist - Presbyterian bloc,” which runs the show. His pictures, while exaggerated, are sometimes all too true, but if the “Fathers” are intolerant, Mason is just as much so. Wo suspect that his irony is mixed with a slight por tion of the juice of the sour grape. Obviously, he does not like Chau tauqua. We also have a sneaking suspicion that Chautauqua does not like Gregory Mason, so on that score they- are even, except that there are some 35,000,000 Chautau quans. And, when he opens his mouth to speak, one hears the dialect of New Hampshire and Vermont roll forth much after the manner of a tumul tuous Vermont rivulet. Himself a psychologist, Dr. Conk lin presents interesting material for psychologizing. Horn and raised in an atmosphere of New England Puritanism—tho Puritanism and con servatism, not Sherman’s idealized intolerance—his very instincts have been guided and fostered in the direction of reverence for things es tablished. Yet ho is a scientist, and the spirit of science shouts—“Away with the old, on with tho new.” So the still struggle goos on—-the spirit of science gushes up, the spirit of Cotton Mather dams it buck. Tell a man by the company he keeps—so runs the saying. Tho un written history of I)r. Conklin’s university has it that certain faculty groups or cliques draw apart from the throng for the purpose of quiet ly observing and interpreting, as well as forecasting tho trend of human activity. Of these groups one repre sents tho “modernists,” another, the conservatives. Dr. Conklin’s group bears the stamp of conservatism. As n hobby, one which he bewails but little time to pursue, Dr. Conk lin turns to literature. Tho probable reason for this choice lies in tho fact that the purpose of true literature is n rr to interpret human action and the laws of human conduct. And was ever a man more interested in life and the way men live it than Edmund Conklin ? I doubt it. 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