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.
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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. His interest
in human functioning is as continu
ally alert as is that of the child
who witnesses his first circus per
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