VOLUME XXV XI
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY. MAY 3, 1927
NUMBER 1ST
Oregon Baseball
Team Has
Unusual Record
Reinhart Advises Change
In Rules According to
L. McGlook, Listener;
Baseball Summarized
By HABOLD MANGTJM
The Oregon baseball team has
established a record this spring,
but not exactly a desirable one. The
Webfoots have the _
unprecedented dis- ;§
tinction of losing g
seven of their first if
eight games, includ-|
ing four conference|
encounters, and six.
of them by the|
slim margin of ones
tally, which is cer-|
tainly remarkable. |
Therefore Coach |
Billy Reinhart hasg
torn a page from
Captain MeEwan’s
Bill Reinhart
notebook, ana is au in ravor or a
revolutionary change in the rules.
McEwan would pull spring practice
from the football category, but Rein
hart’s suggestion would be to change
the scoring rules of baseball.
According to Luke McGlook, that
mysterious key-hole listener who has
helped the Emerald out of so many
tight jams, Reinhart would alter
the rules so as to have runs count
two points instead of one. In this
manner, Oregon could arbitrarily
lose no more games by one point.
Games would be perforce be settled
in even numbers. Luke claims to
have garnered this information by
mental telepathy.
Starting against Linfield College,
the Webfoots were nosed out, 5 to 4,
in ten innings. Linfield is a wee
institution with a total enrollment
less than that of Oregon’s depart
ment of English, so the home fires
burned crisply that night. Pacific
University, another minor institu
tion whose principal claim to glory
is its ability to serve as a thorn in
Oregon’s feathery flanks, wds the
next visitor, and left town with two
out of three games in their worn
batbag. They took the first by one
run, 8 to 7, and then dropped the
second when the Webfoots got their
big bats into action. The third
went to the lads from Forest Grove,
10 to 8, in eleven innings, after the
lemon-yellow had kicked away a
dozen scoring chances.
Bill Baker lost his first start
against the Aggies, 5 to 6, in an
other of those see-saw affairs which
inevitably result in Oregon being
nosed out. The Webfoots got quite
convincingly smacked the next day,
13 to 7, but that happens in the best
regulated families.
Came the Washington series.
Freddy West surprised himself by
losing* 1 to 0, to Hal Gardner, the
Huskies’ captain and pitching ace.
That uncanny one run again. The
next day, last Saturday, the score
was 3 to 2, which, so far as per
centage goes, is the same as 1 to 0
or 88 to 2.
* » »
The point is that one run defeats
are getting monotonous. Why not
get in and lose some games right,
since they’re to be lost? Why not
put in some pitchers who’ll groove
’em down the alley, and then we’ll
see some mighting batting, at least.
* • *
Intrinsically, the team isn’t so
bad if its pitching continues as was
in evidence at Seattle. Men like
Lynn Jones, Don McCormick, Dave
Epps. Harry Dutton, Cotter Gould,
and Bill Baker have mauled the
great American apple in the past,
and they are liable to maul it again
in the future. The infield is fast,
although not overly experienced,
and the Webfoots are facing a long
home stand. Perhaps these one run
defeats will cease to be the fashion.
Shattered Romance
Will be Tried Tonight
The first civil case on the moot
court trial docket will take place
tonight, at seven o’clock. One of
the chief characters of the Creole
Moon, the Junior musical comedy,
is suing one of the male leads in the
same east for breach of promise of
marriage. The identity of the par
ties, as well as the sordid details of
the case, will be disclosed at the
trial. Margaret Woodson and Ed
Kelly are representing the plaintiff;
and Hymen Samels and Bob Mautz
are the lawyers for the defendant.
The trial will take place at the Lane
county courthouse and Dean W. G.
Hale of the law school will act as
judge.
Plans Ready
For Dramatic
Tournament
Several Committees Named
To Aid in Receiving
And Housing
Future Matinee Idols
To Arrive Wednesday
Sophomores Will Present
“Trysting Place”
T"VETAILS of the program for the
U luncheon to be held May 5,
at 12:30 in the sun parlor of the
Woman’s building for the purpose
of entertaining the participants of
the High School Drama tournament,
held three days, May 4, 5 and 6 have
been completed.
The hosts, Katie Buchanan, chair
man; Diana Deininger, Ceril Mat
son, Alfons Korn, Catherine Sar
tain, Lawrence Shaw, Mary Camp
bell, Calvin Horn, William Forbis,
Arthur Anderson, Constance Roth,
Ernest McKinney and Perry Doug
las, are mainly students from the
advanced drama class.
Toasts To Be Given
Maizie Richards hi.3 charge of the
luncheon. Helen Barnett* is selling
the 50 cent luncheon reservation
tickets. She is also to assist Glenn
Potts in taking tickets at the door.
Dan E. Clark, assistant dean of the
extension division, will preside as
toastmaster. Toasts are to be given
'by a judge, Miss Elizabeth Barnes;
the faculty, Dr. 'C. V. Boyer; visit
ing director, Miss Elaine Cooper;
and a student, Alfons Korn. The
above are representing the four
forces making up the tournament.
Musical entertainment will be fur
nished by Nina Warnock and Janet
Pearce.
Arrive Wednesday
Wednesday afternoon the first
contingent of actors will arrive and
will rehearse in lieu of the eve
nings performance. Immediately up
on arrival the transportation com
mittee, Gordon Stearns, chairman;
Lynne Black, Donald Church and
Dean Condon, will take them to
Guild theatre where they will regis
ter. Mary Duckett has charge of
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Pitchers’ Battle
Lost by Chi Psi:
S. P. E. Wins 3 to 2
Canon, Cahill Show Best
Hurling of Intramural
Ball Heavers
Yesterday’s donut contest was
one of those affairs that are always
in doubt until the last man is; out.
From first to last it was a pitching
duel with S. P. E. finally coming
out on top 3 to 1.
Ganon of 8. P. E. and Cahill of
Chi Psi hurled the most consistent
and effective ball of any intra
mural game this season. Ganon af
lowed four scattered hits and struck
out nine batters. The S. P. E.
crowd found Cahill’s slants for only
three blows, but a couple of loose
plays in the Chi Psi infield let in
the counting runs.
The victors tallied twice in the
third inning when Richmond, who
was safe on an error, scored on a
long double by Fries. Fries stole
third and went home on an over
throw. Buzan scored on Wingard’s
single for the final run.
8. P. E. found Cahill's big bat
as well as his pitching a continual
threat. Cahill scored the first Chi
Psi run on an error after he had
doubled to center field. He hit safe
ly again in the .fifth inning and
came home on Robie’s triple. Ganon
struck out the next two men and
ended the game.
Sigma Pi Epsilon .3 3 1
Chi Psi .2 4 4
Batteries: Ganon and Richmond;
Cahill and Gant.
A diamond is always kept free
for teams wishing to have practice
games, said Jack Bliss, in charge
of the donut tournament.
The schedule for the second round
of games has been drawn up as fol
lows:
May 4, Beta Theta Pi vs. Kappa Sig
May 4, Beta Theta Pi vs. appa Sig
ma: May 5, Psi Kappa vs. Alpha
Beta Chi; May 6, Theta Chi vs.
Phi Kappa Psi; May 9, Phi Gam
ma Delta vs. Phi Delta Theta; May
10, Friendly hall vs. Sigma Pi Tau;
May 11, Sigma Xu vs. Indepen
dents; May 12, Phi Sigma Kappa
vs. Delta Tau Delta.
Twenty-two Miniature Landscapes
By Thomas Hunt Now on Exhibition
Selection in Art Building Said to Be of Unusual
Beauty in Color and Technique
Twenty-two miniatures, each an
exquisite dream of western and
eastern landscape, are now hanging
in the exhibiting room of the art
and architecture building. They are
the work of Thomas L. Hunt, high
ly recommended by the National
Association of Exhibitors. Some are
in oils, others in water color, yet
each, regardless of the medium of
work, betrays a technique which,
though it may not be masterful,
nevertheless is surprisingly effec
tive.
The subject matter ranges all the
way from autumnal southern land
scapes to northeastern marines.
The marines, especially, carry a ibe
witehing atmosphere about them.
There there is the usual autumn
sketch and the winter scene, each
rather pleasing in color.
Perhaps the outstanding charac
teristic of the work lies in the re
markable combination and amount
of color which the artist seems to
have succeeded in putting in such
a small area. Each would be ex
tremely interesting if done in the
usual size yet the very fact that
they are so small lends to them
a quaintness that gives an undeni
able charm.
Loss of Voice
Handicaps Cohn
As Singles Star
Varsity Racqueteers Win
Brace of Victories
Over Week-end
The racquet swinging varsity re
turned to the campus Sunday after
noon with a couple of victories in
Mel Cohn
ineir iropny dox
and a recqueteer
who had misplac
ed his voice. Mel
Cohn, the afflic
ted one, is not on
ly seriously han
dicapped in his
tennis, but he
contends for the
Jewett oratory
prize Saturday.
In his match
with the Reed
college ace, Cohn
linished m hue style, taking both
sets, but against the Multnomah
clubman he didn’t do so well.
O’Hara, M. A. A. C., evidently ex
pected Cohn to call his shots, but
how could he when he couldn’t ev
en whisper them? Several times
during this match, Cohn couldn’t
drawl the polite and noehalant
“pawdon me” that is quite essen
tial to a successful tennis player.
Another angle htat bothered Cohn
was ordering his meals. Saturday
evening, after the match, he enter
ed a cafe on Washington street and
through some misunderstanding of
the less than half audible splutter
ings, the waitress thought that she
was receiving a proposal of mar
riage. Mel was saved before the j
street car crossed the inter-state
bridge.
Despite Cohn’s present hard luck,
Coach Edward Prances Abercrom
bie entertains hopes for a rapid
recovery. In this case there is no
reason to believe that Cohn will not
win his share of the matches in the
future. He is developing a good
fore hand drive and plays the net
well, according to the coach. On the
other hand, the psychology of meet
ing an opponent by th nam of Mur
phy, O’Hara, or Callahan, might dis
turb the varsity court man.
The element of mystery plays a
very large part in the Colm-lost
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Appointment Bureau
Announces Placing
Of Several Teachers
The Appointment Bureau of the
University of Oregon announces the
placing of the following teachers
for the coming school year. A ma
jority of those appointed were
placed directly by the bureau.
Marguerite Jackson, 1927, Eng
lish, Latin, Seappoose, Oregon;
Clara Gravos, 1927, Linslaw, Ore
gon; Thama Barnard, 1927, English,
history, sewing, Challis, Idaho;
Susie Shepherd, 1927, history, civics,
commerce, Stanfield, Oregon; Max
ine Lamb, 1926, Eugene, Oregon;
Lois Inman, 1927, Latin, general
science, physiology, Junior high
school, Koseburg, Oregon; Olga
Jackson, 1927, Junior high school,
Albany, Oregon; Vivian Harper,
1926, English, dramatics, Junior
high school, Bend, Oregon; Peter
Christenson, 1921, department of
history, Eugene high school, Eugene,
Oregon; Leslie Blaknev, 1927, prin
cipal, Sumpter, Oregon; Grace Pot
ter, 1927, music, Springfield, Oregon;
Glen Savage, 1927, Latin, mathe
matics, coaching, Crane, Oregon;
Roland Belshaw, 1927, physical edu
cation, Lake view, Oregon; Abby .
Adams, 1925, French, English, Pen- !
dleton, Oregon; LaVerne Tirrell,
1927 English, Lakeview, Oregon.
Pumping Will
Solve Problem
Of Canoe Fete
Meeting of Fete Committee
At College Side Today
At 5 o’Clock
Positive assurances were givA
yesterday that the annual canoe
fete will be held this year, Herbert
Socolofsky, chairman of the fete,
announcing that the break in the
waterway near the portage will be
repaired so that water may be pump
ed into the present parched chan
nel. The race will be converted in
to a wide lagoon 5,000 feet long on
which will glide the floats on the
night of May 20 in accordance
with original plans.
A centrifugal pump with a five
inch intake will be used in putting
the water into the race from the
river. This will be installed below
the bulkhead on this side of the
break at the portage and will pump
nearly 60,000 gallons of water an
hour. About six days will be re
quired in the filling process, en
gineers declared. During this time
no water will be taken from the
race for university use, univer
sity officials announced, in order
that fullest cooperation may be giv
en the committee. The present wat
er level in ihe race will be main
tained and the additional water
pumped in will give ample depth
for the munipulation of the ships
of beauty.
Meeting of the canoe fete com
mittee has been called for 5 o’clock
today at College Side Inn at which
final arrangements for the fete will
be made. These plans will be an
nounced at the junior meeting to
night. The week-end directorate
will .meet in luncheon session this
noon and all plans for the week
end outlined. Wednesday the com
mittee of representatives from liv
ing organizations for the canoe fete
will convene in Johnson hall at 5
o’clock. Through the various repre
sentatives present houses will be in
formed of definite plans. At the
meetings today and tomorrow com
plete arrangments for the week-end
will be made known.
Socolofsky urges organizations
participating in this year’s fete to
proceed with plans at a rapid pace
in order that everything will be
in readiness for the scheduled time
as there are but 18 days left in
which to work. The committee will
cooperate in every way possible with
the organizations in the furnishing
of music and other features for the
floats, he announced.
President Hall Poses
With Oakland Sedan
President Arnold Bennett Hall
left for Portland yesterday. Before
leaving Eugene, he posed with the
100,000 mile Oakland sedan, that is
traveling throughout the northwest
at this time.
President Hall was photographed
with the machine in front of the
Administration building, and then
added his blessing, to the blessings
of mayors and governors, as he left
for Portland. Oregon is the twenty
second state the car has traveled
across.
Junior Class to Meet
In Villard Hall Tonight
At the junior class meeting in
Villard hall at 7:15 tonight, reports
of all junior week-end. committees
will be made. There will also be
a discussion of whether or not the
junior class will have a picnic this
year.
Frank Riggs, class president,
urges that everyone be present.
Oregon Debate j
Men to Make
World Tour
Hempstead, McCroskev,
Thompson Chosen
To Take Trip
Arrangements Pending
With Foreign Colleges
First Debate to Be With
Hawaii University
JACK HEMPSTEAD, Benoit Mc
Croskey, and Avery Thompson
are the three men chosen to repre
sent the University
of Oregon in its de
bate tour which will
take them te most
of the English speak
ing countries of the
world. Tryouts were
held Saturday
morning, all stu
dents excepting
freshmen were eli
gible, and speeches
were limited to six
minutes.
Hempstead
The tour will start, according to |
present plans, about the first of Oe
tober, and the debaters will not |;
again reach the Pacific coast until |
the following May, 1928. They will
leave the west coast and re-enter
the United States from across the
Atlantic. This is the first time a
debate team from the United States
has ever undertaken a project of
this democratic nature. Consumma
tion of remaining arrangements lies
with the members who are to go.
Mark Taylor Alternate
Mark Taylor, alternate, is a jun
ior in pre-law and has been a mem
ber of the varsity debate team for
two years. Hempstead, junior in
journalism, vice-president of Delta
Sigma Rho, debated on the varsity
team for two years, and has repre
sented Oregon in oratory two years,
having won the national peace ora
McCroskey
t o ry contest.
(Thompson, sopho
jmore in pre-law,
I was a member of
the freshman de
| bate team last
year, has been a
member of the var
sity team this year
and represented*the
University in or
atory. MeCroskey
is a 3-year veteran
debater, two year
orator, and presi
dent of Delta Sigma Kho. He is a |
junior in pre-law.
Team Will be Trained
James H. Gilbert, acting dean of
the college of literature, science,
and the arts; J. K. Horner, coach;
and Han Clark, dean of the exten
sion division, were the judges who
selected the members of the team.
The three debaters will be trained
by J. K. Horner and J. Stanley
Gray, oratory coach, until their de
parture. They will use the Oregon
cross-question style of debate when
ever possible.
The tour has the support and sanc
tion of University officials, and the
team members will help finance the
trip by working on board ship and
wherever possible. Competition will
be with the University of Hawaii, *
and probably will /include forty j
other matches, in Australia, Scot- |
land, England, Canada, and the '
United States. There is a possi- j
bility of meeting an English institu- !
tion in India and Egypt.
Debates Arranged for
Unofficial negotiations have been
carried on with the British empire
institutons along the route, but be
ginning next week a contract wi^
be mailed to the proposed oppon
ents. The University of Hawaii
manager has promised to guarantee
$125, Hempstead, general forensics
manager, said. The Australia Stu
dents Union has practically prom
ised six matches with a guarantee
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President Hall to Give
Graduation Addresses
President Arnold Bennett Hall
has been asked to give several com
mencement addresses. He will go
to Vancouver, B. C. to deliver the
commencement address to the Uni
versity of British Columbia, May 12.
Among other addresses will be
the one to a general assembly of stu
dents at Vancouver, which Presi
dent Klinek of the University in
vited President Hall to give.
Dr. Hall plans also to give the
commencement exercise at Eugene :
high school June 2.
Let’s Not Dispense
With Dispensary
THE spring a young
man’s steps turn heavily to
ward the dispensary,” according
to Dr. Fred N. Miller, director
of the health service, who says
that last week was the heaviest
week of the term and Saturday
was the busiest day of the week.
Dr. Miller attributed this in
crease, not to spring fever, es
pecially prevalent during this
time of year, not to the cases of
poison oak which, although very
numerous during the picnic sea
son have not yet reached a suf
ficient number to strike fear to
the hearts of mill-racers, but to
sprained ankles, colds and other
illnesses, as well as the spring
fever and poison oak.
Horn Leaves for
Two Weeks’ Trip
To Convention
Oregon Man Will Attend
Alpha Delta Sigma
Conference
Calvin P. Horn, president of the
W. F. G. Thacher chapter of Alpha
Delta Sigma, honorary advertising
fraternity, left Sunday to attend
the national convefttion of Alpha
Delta Sigma at the University of
Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, to be
held on May 9 and 10.
Horn, a senior in journalism, is
advertising manager of Old Ore
gon, alumni magazine. He is also
chairman of the publications com
mittee and winner of the Portland
advertising club scholarship of $150,
awarded last spring.
The annual Journalism conference
at the University of Missouri oc
curs the same time as the Alpha
Delta Sigma convention, so Mr.
Horn will be able to attend both.
He is going by way of Los An
geles and New Orleans to Columbia,
but will return by direct route
through Salt Lake City and Denver.
The trip will take about two weeks.
Professor W. F. G. Thacher, of
the school of journalism, is a char
ter member and founder of the :
local chapter. The advertising club
which he organized at the Univer
sity in 1921 petitioned and obtained
a charter of Alpha Delta Sigma in
1922. The chapter now has an ac- i
tive membership of sixteen. The ;
present officers are: Calvin(P. Horn, ;
president; Paul Sletton, vice-presi- ;
lent.; James W. Manning, secretary;
and Professor Thacher, faculty ad
visor.
The other members are: Earl Slo
!um, Sam Kinley, Milton George,
Rolf Klep, Warren Small, Joe Neil,
Francis McKenna, Robert Byington,
Robert Warner, Carol Eberhart,
Laurence Thielen, Herbert Lewis,
Professor Ralph Casey of the school
:>f journalism, and Robert C. Hall
;>f the University Press.
Amphibian Club to
Give Fin Exhibit
And “Sub” Wedding
Now is the time when everyone ,
wants to go some place else. Lack
if sufficient funds, however, usual
ly sadly curbs the imagination when (
it gets to wandering into such
ELelds.
However, at 8 o’clock in the eve
ning of May 24, students at the
University of Oregon will lie able ,
to have all the joys of Atlantic ■
City, with none of the attendant
ixpense, save a paltry 25 cents! \
3uch is the promise of the Amphib
ian club, which is putting on a ,
swimming demonstration that eve- i
ling. I ,
The Atlantic City beach is to be, ;
die scene into which the women’s .
oool will be transformed for this ■
ivent, and there will be bathing ]
leauties galore to decorate the
icene. A style show, featuring bath- i
ng costumes from 1880 on, will be |
fiven. :
Other stunts, including a wedding i
ieremony under water, will be on :
die program, as well as form swim- *
iiing and diving.
i
Howard Connaughton
To Address Classes \
G. Howard Connaughton, of the
itaff of the Seattle Daily Times,
will address Mr. Turnbull’s and
VIr. Casey’s newswriting classes this
norning at 9:00. 1
Mr. Connaughton is a graduate of 1
Cornell University and was former- <
v a member of the staff of the i
tfew York Times. He will be in Eu- i
jene for a few days. i
Violators of
April Frolic
DrawCensure
Prominent Campus Figures
Get Ultimatum From
Disciplinarians
Flanagan, Foster and
Unknown Caught in Net
Money Sought for Damage
To Woman’s Building
A N ACCEPTANCE of a dare, a
A*-mess of jumbled estimates, and
the higher education of three cam
Flanagan..
pus celebrities fig
lure prominently in
the latest tid-trit
that has caught
the fancy of the
student body.
The tale has
: grown out of the
;April Frolic en
S joyed a month ago
I by campus women.
The day of the
^frolic, it seems, the
S Emerald ran a.
father sweeping
challenge to mem
bers of the opposite sex to “just try
and get in.” Following an all-uni
versity men’s smoker held in Mc
Arthur court on the same night, a
group of students, studiers, and
pupils, variously estimated at from
20 to 100, migrated to the Woman's
building and proceeded to “crash
the gate.”
Girls Show Guns
The “vandals” got in all right
and serpentined the floor while the
girls giggled in high glee. Some of
the sisters decided the intruders
should bt? ejected, and concentrated
their efforts that way. The male
horde was pushed playfully back,
while, it is said, several of the girls
brandished toy pistols in the most
approved bad man fashion. In the
scuffle a pane of glass was broken,
a ukelele came up missing, a brass
vase disappeared, and a fire ex
tinguisher sprouted legs and ran
away.
Things slipped along for awhile,
but yesterday they came to a de
cided focus. Procter Flanagan,
track captain and star broad jump
er, Bob Foster, sophomore president
and recent candidate for yell king-,
and one more who desires to remain
anonymous, although he was elected
junior man on the student council
last Wednesday, were brought be
fore the discipline committee yes
terday, and an ultimatum was
handed them which wasn't wrapped
with any pink or blue ribbons.
Ultimatum Delivered
Said the discipline committee, ac
cording to one of those affected,
“That 35 cent pane of glass was
worth $5.00, and those fire extin
guisher and brass were worth $22.50
in any womam’s building, making a
total of $27.50. Therefore, unless
said amount is available by Wednes
day noon, three young men, now en
tered in the University of Oregon,
will be skating on thin ice.”
The ukelele, claimed tt» be worth
$12.00, but actually cost $2.75 when
new, according to sales information,
was returned with one string brok
en, and the owner will not prose
cute.
Hero’s the grief. The three men
implicated were, at the worst, only
three of from 20 to 100, and they
don’t feel that they should suffer
the deficit, split three ways. There
fore they have made a plea to those
interested in solving the mystery of
what goes on at April Frolic to
come through with their share of
the damages. If 20 assailants were
on hand, as claimed by a member of
the discipline committee, the charge
will come to $1.371A> apiece. If 100
were there, as the men involved be
lieve, the bill is $.27x/> per capita.
If anyone has the brass vase or
the fire extinguisher, they aro urged
to return them to Mr. Procter Flan
agan or Mr. Kobert Foster, who will
restore them. No questions will be
asked, or answered. Men involved
are urged to contribute their quota
to the same receptacles. If any
money is left over it will be donat
ed to a slush fund to take care of
further college boy pranks.
Elizabeth Lewis, ’27,
To Visit Los Angeles
Betty Lewis, who graduated from
the physical education school win
ter term, left today with her moth
er for Los Angeles, where they will
stay on a visit until about the mid
dle of June. Miss Lewis and her
mother are driving south.