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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 12, 1927)
Play Day Plans To be Discussed By Girls Tonight Equestrians Hold Affair On O. A. C. Campus This Year Grant of W. A. A. Honors To be Explained The equestrian plans for Play Day will be worked out this evening at a meeting at 7 o’clock in tlnft Woman’s building, room 121, for all girls taking horseback riding. Play Day is an annual meet staged by the Women’s Athletic associations of O. A. C. and the University of Oregon. This year the event will take place at Corvallis, as in 1920 the program was given here. The plans include a number of sports contests and as a finale, a horseback drill by both schools. Riding Drills Set The riding drills are being worked out by the O. A. C. riding academy for both groups. They include a number of difficult feats such as right into line, column formation, wheeling with horses at full gallop. This work is being supervised by Mr. Charles Boyd, campus riding instructor. Elinor Glass, junior in the phys ical education department and the W. A. A. representative for horse back riding this year, urges that every girl in the classes attend the meeting. Miss Glass will discuss the honors to be granted, for the first time this year, to girls who pass cer tain tests which will count toward women’s athletic awards. These tests will include the ability to mount and dismount correctly, saddle and bridle a horse, know the names of the various riding equipment and be able to handle a horse well. 110 Girls Registered This course has received this rec ognition from W. A. A. because of, its popularity ns a sport. At pres ent there are 14 classes with an en rollment of 110 girls. Water Polo Is Listed As Swimming Activity As Sherman once remarked, “War is . . . ”, But he had never seen a game of water polo. The new goal nets were put up today and the ‘‘wrestling swimmers” were out in force, practicing for the sea son opening on April 21!. From all I indications it will be a successful do-nut sport. At least twenty cas ualties a game is predicted. If enough interest is shown in polo this spring, Coach Ed. Aber crombie is going to make it y. reg ular fall term activity. According to him it will serve as excellent conditioning for swimmers. It will also give him an opportunity to get a line on material (before the sea son starts. The schedule will stand as it now is. Although Phi Kappa Psi has dropped out, the Beta Theta Pi house will take the vacated place so there will be no necessity for a re-drawing. Inter-Fraternity Net Semi-Finals Set for 3:15 This Afternoon Semi-final round of inter-frater nity tennis will bp played on the j University courts this afternoon at 3:15 o’clock. Friendly hall will meet Sigma Pi Tau, and Phi Delta Theta is ,matched w'ith S. A. E. The play should be fast and superior to any produced so far. The results of the first round of play, in the upper bracket, was: Alpha Beta Chi defaulted to S. P. E. Friendly hall beat Alpha Tau Omega 6-2, 6-2. Kappa Sigma won from Delta Tau Delta 6-4, 6-3. Sig-; ma Pi Tau defeated Beta Theta Pi 6- 1, 7-5. The lower bracket results were: Phi Delta Theta beat Sigma Nu 7-5, 7- 5. The Oregon club defaulted to Chi l’si. Phi Kappa I’si defeated Theta Chi 6-4, 6-2. S. A. E. won from Phi Sigma Kappa, 6-2, 6-1. The second round of play brought] victory to Friendly hall over S. P. E. 6-0, 0-4. Sigma Pi Tail won from Kappa Sigma 6-3, 6-3. Phi Delta Theta took two sets from Chi Psi 6- 1, 6-2. S. A. E. beat Phi Kappa 7- 5, 0-1. April 13 to 23 Dates Set for Fee Payments University students, suffering a financial strain will have 10 (lays, beginning Wednesday to anticipate a check from home witli which to pay spring term fees. April Id to April 2d are the dates when fees may be paid without pen alty. Late payment necessitates a fine of $3 for the first day and i 25 cents a day thereafter, for one I week only. Early payment is advocated by E. P. Lyon, cashier in the comptroller’s office, to avoid the stampedes which usually take place near the end of the allotted time. Durgan to Head College Oratory Group of Oregon University Men to Appear In Two More Contests This Year Walter Durgan, University of Oregon, men’s varsity debate and forensics manager, was elected president of the Inter-Collegiate Oratorical Association of Oregon at its annual meeting held in Newberg lust Saturday. The association conducts three contests annually, which are open to all Oregon colleges. This year Oregon has entered only one of the contests, the State Peace Contest, which Donald Beelar won last Sat urday with his oration, “Democracy, the Hope of Peace.” Jack Hemp stead, who won the national ora torical contest last year, is retiring vice-president of the association. Th.c I. C. A. O. was instituted with the belief that the colleges of the state should be brought into ( loser relationship and that an inter collegiate association should be formed for the purpose of creating fellowship among the Iiijjfher insti tutions of learning of the state. Since the association was estab lished Oregon has had a representa tive in one or the other of the con tests; and in nine years of competi Oregon representatives have won five first places and nine second places in twenty-seven Old Line con tests; ad in nine years of competi tion in the Peace Oratorical contest has taken four first places and three second places. There are nine schools represented; Pacific College, Oregon Normal School, 0- A. C., Willamette University, Pacific Uni versity, Eugene Bible University, and the University of Oregon. Oregon debaters will take part in two other oratorical contests, both of which will be held here, this spring. Jack Hempstead will enter the E. F. Blaine Northwest Orator /NEW _ arvd becorrYing styles „ in, FV°arr Dr. "Roi]dl Qick OPTOMETRIST — OPTI ClAN Next door to First Nat’l Bank ical contest to be held May 4. “The Tide of Crime” is the subjeet of his oration. Benoit McCroskey wtfl rep resent Oregon in the Intercollegiate Constitutional Oratorical Contest on April 29. Sox and Jones Before Moot Court Tonight Ed Sox, student in second year law, and Jack Jones, sophomore in pire-law, will face trial in moot court this evening at 7 o’clock, charged with illegally disenterring a body from a graveyard. The prosecution will be handled by Hymen Samuels and Bob Mautz. The attorneys for the defense are Edward Kelley and Margaret Wood son. All attorneys are students in third year law in the University. Gordon S. Wells, deputy district attorney for Lane county, will act as judge. The trial is to be held in the circuit court room of the Lane county courthouse. The publie is invited. - Wesleyan College Men First in Glee Contest NEW YORK—(IP)—The Wesley an (Connecticut) Men’s Glee Club won tlie national glee club contest held here recently under the aus pices of the National Glee associa tion. Second place was accorded to the University of Missouri, while Yale was given third. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE EMERALD REX LAST DAY The Exotic JETTA GOUDAL in Fighting Love The drama of fervid passion and a wife’s quest for the one love COMEDY NOVELTY THERE ARE NO FEATHERS IN OLD GOLD CIGARETTES SO THEY CAN’T TICKLE YOUR THROAT __ 6 _ _ . Hi Spy, the Human Ferret , crawled out of the haystack, a beaten and baffled man. “I’ll tell the cockeyed world that you can’t find a needle in this haystack,” he declared. “I’m going to look for something easy now,” he added, “a cough in an Old Gold cigarette.” Eight days later, lie > crawled out of another pilp ... a pile of Old Gold cigarettes. “There’s 8,932,158 cig arettes in that heap of smoking enjoyment,” he announced. “But not the sign of a cough in one of them.” “I’m going back to the haystack,” he continued. “I ntfty have overlooked the needle, but I’m con vinced you can’t find a cough in a carload of Old Golds.” OLD GOLD IT’S THE SMOOTHOT CIGARETTE “NOT A COUGH IN A CARLOAD” TENNIS—The True Sport of The Spring Term Oregon Men and Women—Play The Game! RACKETS, BALLS, SHOES AND ALL THE EQUIPMENT YOU NEED * Get out your old outfit, check it over and see what you need—what ever it is we have it, you may rest assured. Spalding, Wright and Ditson and Bancroft rackets, rang ing in price so that you can buy according to your pocket book. Pennsylvania, Spalding and Wright and Ditson balls, all ready to leap and bound over the court at your command. Don’t fail to get in the game. While things look sunny today it may be raining in a week—play while the sun shines. Save Money by Having Your Last Year’s Racket Restrung NINE WEEKS MORE OF THE YEAR TO ENJOY In the afternoon when the sun shines beautifully and the natural desire to do something falls upon you — don’t waste it, the best part of the day inside a stuffy room or lounging around lazily on a fraternity house porch. There are fourteen smooth and inviting tennis courts just north of Hayward Field—all you need is a tennis racket and a few balls. You know where to get them—you know where to use them and you know the companionship and pleasure offered by tennis. Why not play? The Student’s Own Store is the general service department of the University of Oregon We have the best facilities for restringing rackets that can be obtained. Restrung With Armour Gut $4.00 $6.00 $8.75 $5.50 $10.00 Restrung With American Gut Co. String $6.00 to $10.00 If you have an old racket that you think is beyond repair don’t throw it away—bring it in, maybe it is worth to you more than you think. The Student’s Own Store characterized by courteous service, convenience and fair prices. The University of Oregon Co-op 13th and Kincaid