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VOLUME XXVfl__UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGEnITtUESDAY, MAY 10, 1927 NUMBER 132 \ £2
Bill Hayward’s
Blue Pencil
Figures Dope
Changes Will be Made
In Track Placing?
For Seattle Meet
By HAROLD MANGUM
William Louis Hayward, that
grizzled track coach who has been
at Oregon since the days when
Dick Smith was the leading foot
ball hero and the total enrollment
could be crowded into one of the
larger classrooms of today, is again
playing his famous role of ‘ ‘ The
Thinker.”
William Louis got out a
piece of paper and a pencil
and doped out the Washington
State meet held here last Saturday
so that the Webfoots won by a
single point, 66 to 65,sand now he
is exercising that self same pencil
to figure a way to defeat the Uni
versity of Washington team in Se
attle next Saturday.
The task is stiffer this time, but
William is far from disheartened.
A way may develop. Perhaps he will
shift a quarter-miler to the broad
jump and surprise “Hek” Edmund
son’s merry men. Perhaps a distance
man will increase his stride and
nose out a highly-touted Washing
tonian. Hayward will concentrate
on the Husky weaknesses, and thin
out his defense against the Ed
mundson strength. That much is
certain.
Last Saturday’s meet was a clas
sic example. Hayward conceded nine
points in the half mile, and gave
away as many more in the mile, and
almost as many more in the pole
vault, yet picked. up enough scat
tered points to win the meet. If any
man had run slower than expected,,
the tide would have swung to
Cougarland, and skeptics would have
opined that those gray hairs which
sprinkle Hayward’s hair denote age
rather than shrewdness.
Track’s a funny game. Unlike
football or basketball, results can
be predicted days in advance. Men
run so fast, and little faster. Men
toss a weight a certain distance,
and no further. Such things deter
mine a coach’s success or failure. If
a man can jump an inch further or
higher than Sir opponent from an
other'school a meet is won, and the
coach gets another lease on life.
If he can’t, the coach is blamed.
The Oregon team, though, is still
a problem. Teams, depending as they
do on new and unseasoned men,
are always problems. In a year or
two, though, those youngsters will
be veterans, and each man’s per
formance will be catalogued and
cross-indexed.
Four new men contributed largely
to the victory. Two of these, Stag
er and Standard, were doped before
the meet to perform exactly as they
did, but the other two, McCulloch
and Magee, furnished pleasant sur
prises. McCulloch went five feet
ten inches, four inches above the
mark set in the O. A. C.-Washing
ton meet, and might have done bet
ter if pressed closely. Magee missed
a second in the broadjump by an
inch, ran second in the high hur
dles, and then, when his points
were absolutely necessary, ran sec
ond in the 220 yard low hurdles,
and even led the flying ” Happy
Hank” Hoon, of W. S. C., for half
the distance.
Another man, who wasn’t even
entered until the morning of the
meet, grabbed three more points
that staved off defeat in the last
moments of the meet. George Bur
nell, the boy in mind, tossed the
javelin 170 feet, and should repeat
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Kappa Kappa
GammaKeeps
High Average
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Alpha Chi O’s Are Second;
Alpha Xi Delta-Next;
A. B. C.’s Ahead
Winter Grades Higher
Than Preceding Term
Average House Ratings
Not Issued Yet
FIRST place in scholastic ratings
was retained by Kappa Kappa
Gamma with an average of 51.400
points made in the winter term. Al
pha Chi Omega and Alpha Xi Delta
were again second and third re
spectively. Alpha Beta Chi, in
twelfth place, headed the men’s or
ganizations.
List to be Corrected
Due to the rush incident in get
ting the list out at the promised
time, a number of the houses did
not appear in the proper positions
on the copies furnished the organ
ization last night. A corrected list
will probably be issued today, ac
cording to Miss Gertrude Stephen
son,chief clerk in the registrar’s of
fice, and given to the fraternities
and sororities.
Grades for the winter term were
higher than those for the fall term
by from two to five points per house
for the most part. Average ratings
for men’s and women’s organiza
tions were not announced.
Hours which were not passed are
not taken into consideration in fig
uring the averages. This includes all
withdrawals, incompletes, drojpped
courses, conditions, or failures.
Hours passed by students in the
graduate school and the graduate
division of the school of business
administration have likewise been
omitted.
List Given
The correct order of rating is as
follows:
1. Kappa Kappa Gamma .51.400
2. Alpha Chi Omega .48.229
3. Alpha Xi Delta .47.696
4. Pi Beta Phi .46.890
5. Gamma Phi Beta .46.576
6. Alpha Gamma Delta .46.320
7. Phi Mu .45.075
8. Delta Gamma .44.944
9. Alpha Omicron Pi .44.891
10. Alpha Phi-.44.453
11, Alpha Delta Pi .44.337
12. Alpha Beta Chi .44.260
13. Kappa Alpha Theta .44.023
14. Oregon Club (Girls) .43.890
15. Hendricks Hall .43.609
16. Phi Sigma Kappa .43.480
17. Phi Kappa Psi .43.310
18. Delta Delta Delta .43.000
19. Sigma Beta Phi .42.605
20. Chi Omega .42.435
21. Susan Campbell Hall .42.326
22. Delta Zeta .42.019
23. Thacher Cottage .41.916
24. Sigma Pi Tau .41.787
25. Sigma Phi Epsilon .40.551
26. Sigma Nu .40.326
27. Kappa Delta .—.40.064
28. Friendly Hall .39.894
29. Phi Gamma Delta .39.076
30. Theta Chi .38.741
31. Three Arts Club .37.944
32. Beta Theta Pi .37.787
33. Sigma Alpha Epsilon .37.188
34. Kappa Sigma .36.988
35. Alpha Tau Omega .36.950
36. Delta Tau Delta .36.918
37. Phi Delta Theta .36.807
38. Chi Psi .36.538
39. Psi Kappa .34.090
40. Sigma Chi .32.645
Boys Trip Merrily Over The Campus
As Ice Factory Blaze Stops Studiers
Abramson Pulls a ‘Prince of Wales’ Over Wire on Way
To Fire; Library’s Calm Broken
—And it was such a nice fire!
Who ever heard of an ice factory
burning? Well, that’s what happen
ed last night %and doused all the
‘glims’ on the campus and sent ev
ery guy and his brother (and co
eds too) running to see it.
And more fellows found wires
strung across the lawns—at the ex
pense of skinned hands. In fact,
there was more sliding done than in
a half dozen donut baseball games.
It is rumored that some of the
males had a tough time getting their
dates to come out of the library,
only to discover it wasn’t the right
co-ed, after all.
True to its onward policy, the
Emerald lighted its traditional can
dles and got out the eopy while
the editor and one of his cohorts
went tripping over the campus un
til they stopped on the lee side of
a somnolent wire. The worthy edi
tor was leading by a nose when his
fall from dignity to the gravel oc
curred.
One helpful soul offered a start
ling truth when he said: “Don’t
put water on it, it’ll spoil the fire!”
He was probably a brother to the
Scotchman who bought a seat for
the “Creole Moon’’ so far back it
the gallery he’s going to have a
nose-bleed.
And who can say what the moon
saw when the lights came on again!
Miss Julia Burgess Tells of Idyllic
Madeira, Gibralter, Algiers, Athens
St. Anthony Feast Day Scene, Tropical Algiers,
Vesuvius at Dawn, Linger in Memory
(Editor's note: The following
travelogue, which will appear serial
ly in the Emerald, was written by
Miss Julia Burgess, professor of
English, who is now on leave of ab
sence from the University.)
Nile S. S. “Lotus”
March, 1927.
Dear Friends at Oregon:
Never sail for the sunny south
without being wrapped like a polar
bear. Climate venders are liars ev
erywhere, and they sell a midwin
ter Mediterranean trip to many
shivering New Yorkers on prom
ises of liquid sunshine which they
cannot redeem—a trip should be
sold on the strength of its real
value, the study of antiquity and
present day customs of strange peo
ples.
There was one exception—one
idyllic moment on a beautiful
summer isle—the stop at Madeira.
The island may be poorly adapt
ed to the enrichment of its pop
ulation but it was formed to cap
tivate the eye and the heart of
the tourist. It charms and al
lures: its central mountainous
elevations, deeply clefc with dark
gorges and rising one beyond
another in mysterious distances:
the dense verdure; the intensive
cultivation of terraced hillsides,
where every inch is made to yield
its crop of grapes or sugar cane;
the climbing city and villas, em
bowered with semi-tropical flow
ers and vines.
The peasants seem a self-respec
ting and self-sufficient people—
having pride in their island, lie
sides producing the well known
Madeira embroideries and Ma
deira wine, they expend their
skill in beautifying their gar
dens, and their streets and paths,
which they pa\e with tiny stones
set with nicety in borders and
simple patterns.
A scene that we shall remem
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Three Choruses
For Creole Moon
Practicing Daily
‘Pony’ Group Will Appear
In Dancing Number
At Assembly
With only four days remaining
before the- curtain runs up on “Cre
ole Moon,” that dashing comedy be
mg sponsored by
the junior class
in lieu of the cus
tomary junior
vod-vil, interest
is centering on
the chorus work
which will be the
outstanding fea
ture. Three groups
will be used, and
all have been
worked until they
work like auto- Charlotte Carll
matons, but much more gracefully.
Oh, much more gracefully.
Catherine Kittye Sartain,, the di
rector of the choruses, has shifted
her proteges and has finally decid
ed on the line-ups which will kick
Friday and Saturday nights, and
Saturday afternoon. The ponies,
the liveliest of the lot, danced at
the Campa Shoppe last Friday night, !
and managed to get by without hav
ing any vegetables tossed at them.
They will repeat their blackbottom
number at Thursday’s assembly,
with Madge Normile performing as
drum major.
Ponies Balk
They ■were tentatively engaged
for Saturday night at the Winter
Garden, but a day or so before the
performance was
p set to take place,
p the. ponies sud
p denly became ob
I durate and decid
B ed that t h e i r
a charms should be
i reserved for those
1 who pay admis
i sions at the re
A vue. Oh, well.
Some unkind wag
1 suggested that “A
bale of hay for
Camille Burton the donkey cho
rus,” might be an appropriate song
hit, but that’s neither here nor
there.
However, there will be no stub
bornness Friday night, and each
Shetland will cast aside reticence
and try to dance and sing her way
to fickle fame. The line-up has Pa
tricia Hatch’s twinkling toes on,,
the left wing, and the other chor
ines numbering away from her as
follows: Josephine Price, Helen
Luteher, Charlotte Carll, Camille
Burton, Katherine Clendenning,
Louise Clark, Bose Boberts, Emery
Miller, and Louise Storla. If there
was no danger of making the other
charmers jealous, we might add that
Emery was out-jazzing the jazziest
in the last rehearsal.
Beauties Have Grace
The beauty chorus is composed
of grander, statelier creatures, who
are to wear fine gowns and eat fine
food. Grace Gardner and Margaret
Bunn are dancing the wing posi
tions. Arranged between them, lead
ing from left to right, are Myra
belle Palmer, Frances Hare, Esther
Maxwell, Mayfan Yurpillat, Nancy
Luckel, Mae Tobin, Frances Mor
gan, Florence Grimes, and Dorothv
Carter. Now you know who the
campus beauties are. Telephone
numbers will be furnished on re
quest.
Last, but not least, as Moses said
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Flood Victims
To be Aided by
Student Circus
Cosmopolitan Club to Give
Benefit Wednesday
Night at 4Y»
The circus is coming! A real car
nival »nd real side shows, "with
animals, freaks, n’everything, will
be held Wednesday night at eight
o’clock at the “Y” hut. Hula
dancers will do their stuff, an or
gan grinder and his imported mon
key will play for the assemblage,
as well as the B. O. T. C. band.
On top of all, no charge will be
made, but since the Cosmopiltan
club is giving the show to raise
funds for Mississippi flood relief,
a contribution box will be placed at
the door, and before or after the
show one can give what he likes to
help out the Bed Cross.
A fortune teller will demonstrate
her knowledge of spiritualism, train
ed animals will cavort in the hall*,
and those indispensibles, the beard
ed lady, the living skelton, the fat
lady, Siamese twins, and numerous
“polar bears’’ will add to the gen
eral entertainment. It is also' rum
ored that refreshments will be
served.
The Cosmopolitan club, instead of
giving its yearly pageant, decided
to help the flood victims now, and
for this reason are putting on the
benefit.
The committee in charge of the
carnival is composed of Elsie May
Cimino, Alice Morris, Eucho Chung,
and Bieado Leones.*
Northwest Oratorical
Meet Slated for May 11
Wednesday night at 8:00 in the
Music building will be staged the
last oratorical contest of the sea
son. The contest will be held be
tween the University of Oregon and
the University of Idaho.
Jack Hempstead, two years a var
sity debater and orator and at pres
ent general manager of forensics,
will be Oregon’s entry. The title of
his oration will be “The Tide of
Crime.”
Accompanying the oratorical pro
gram will be several musical num
bers including violin solos by Ed
ward Best.
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Sophs, juniors Call
Nominating Meetings
Two classes, the juniors and
sophomores, meet today to nomi
nate officers for next year.
The sophomores meet at 4:30
in Villard and the juniors will
meet at the same place at 7:30.
Each class will elect regular
officers: president, vice-president,
secretary, treasurer and sergeant
at-arms. In addition the junior
class will elect a class barber.
McEwan Issues Call;
Spring Football Today
Captain John J. McEwan, coach
of the Oregon football team, an
nounced yesterday that spring prac
tice would be resumed this after
noon for backs and ends exclusive
ly, and accordingly practice will
start today at 4 o’clock on Havward
field.
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Many Errors
Cost Oregon
Game, 9 to 5
Eleven Webfoot Fumbles
Bring About Downfall
Of Lemon Yellow
Blunders, Overthrows
Help Washington Win
Bill Baker Shining Light
For Varsity Squad
By DICK STRING
HEN William Shakespeare
said that the world was a
stage and everyone in it was an
actor, lie forgot all about the bad
performers. A comedy of errors was
presented by Reinhart stage yester
day afternoon by a sadly off-color
troupe of University of Oregon
baseball actors. It was immensely
enjoyed by the visiting University
of Washington Huskies to the de
gree of 9 to 5.
The acting, which had previously
made the Webfoots gallery gods
during the first two Washington
horsehide dramas, was absent yes
terday. Instead of producing tho
soothing effect, stage director Rein
hart ’s entertainers looked very
mediocre, the ham and egg variety.
Eleven times they forgot their
cues, so consequently made 11 er
rors. These blunders helped miake
the afternoon’s entertainment very
uninteresting for tho large local au
dience assembled to view Rein
hart’s artists in their first confer
ence play on the home stage.
Baker Fans Bight
Perhaps the only John Barrymore
of the local troupe was Bill Bak
er, flinger, who occupied the upper
part of the stage for the local
crew. It was his line of entertain
ment that kept the audience from
walking out. Eight times he made
tlie visiting University of Washing
ton thespians 'bow at the plate with
his puppet-like string of fast, curv
ed, and underhand balls. Oregon’s
leading light allowed the Huskies 10
hits .but they were well enough
scattered that his supporting cast
should have brought home the hon
ors.
After the opening curtain, the
play was but slightly exciting un
til the fourth act when Joe John
son, the visitor’s leading man,
rushed on the stage. He performed
nobly, crashing out a single. Beck
ett next up was safe at first ^on a
fielders’ choice. Beckett was safe
at second with a steal, but Don Mc
Cormick overthrew the home plate
and Johnson scored.
The Huskies again took the center
of the stage in the fifth act when
Duffy, no relation to the great ac
tor, got on through an error. Bob
bles at second, third and a passed
ball at home gave the visitors their
second score.
It was not until the fifth act
that the local troupe got into ac
tion for two runs. Baker singled
and scored on Mimnaugh’s double
to right field. Mimnaugh scored on
Dutton’s scorching left field line
drive.
Gould Lays Ball Down
A bit of poor acting on Umpire
Mike Moran’s part gave the Husk
ies another tally in the seventh.
Arnold filed to right field and Cot
ter Gould caught it but laid the
ball down before throwing it in.
Moran ruled the runner safe. A
sacrifice, walk and a hit put Arnold
across the plate. The local perform
ers retaliated with two in their half
of the seventh. Mimnaugh crashed
out his second double of the day
• nd scored when Hidings, injected
into the cast for Iluttou, singled.
Hidings scored on Gould's single.
It was during this canto that the
Huskies’ stage director, “Tubby”
Graves appeared on the stage and
gave Actor Calhoun the “hook” in
favor of Captain Hal Gardner,
Washington matinee idol.
Two errors, which made the lo
cals look “hamier” than ever, a
double, a single, and a walk scored
four runs for the Huskies during
the eighth act. A pair of hits and
a hit batter gave the victors two
more in the ninth.
West to Hurl Today
Try as they may, the local troupe
could not win the favor of the au
dience in their half of the ninth.
Bill Eddy doubled and scored on
Have Epps’ double but this fell
short of the Huskies’ lead.
Freddy West will occupy the lime
light for the Webfoots this after
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Dr. Sigmund Spaeth
“America’s most popular speaker
and writer on music,” who will lec
ture this evening.
Lights Go Out;
Trio Rolls Over
30 Foot Bank
Prisoned Under Car Two
Hours, Yet Unhurt;
Car a Wreck
Two University students, Cal
der McCall and Frank Soule, and
Miss Virginia Zan of Portland,
narrowly escaped death Saturday
night, when the Ford roadster in
which they were returning from
the Chi Psi picnic went over the
thirty-foot embankment at Osman
Curve on the McKenzie highway,
making two revolutions on the
way down. None of the party were
hurt, excepting for a few bruises
received by Miss Zan, although
they remained under the car al
most two hours before being able
to get out.
The three were returning about
12 o’clock from Belknap Springs,
where theN picnic had been held,
in a car belonging to Calder Mc
Call. As they were nearing Os
man Curve, about 30 miles out of
Eugene, the lights of the car went
out, and, unable to see the road,
they went over the embankment.
Although they were only going
20 miles an hour the car turned
over twice and landed 20 feet
from the river below. Calder Mc
Call was the first to extricate
himself. He and Miss Zan were
unable to reach Frank Soule and
had to obtain help before he could
be freed.
When they returned with a help
er the man asked McCall: “Is the
other man dead?”
“No. I am not dead!” shouted
Soule from beneath the car.
The roadster was demolished.
Mr. McCall disposed of the re
mains for $15 the next day.
. Calder is a junior majoring in
pre-law. He and Soule, a senior
in history, are both members of
Chi Psi fraternity. Miss Zan at
tends Miss Allen’s school in Port
land.
Frosh Women to Flave
Own Debate Manager
The selection of forensic manag
ers for 1927-28 has been considered
by the forensic committee prior to
submitting the names to the ex
ecutive council.
Next year, because of the in
creased activities in which the de
bate department plans to engage,
an additional manager will be need
ed. Besides the general forensic
manager, debate manager, assistant
manager, and women’s debate man
ager, a freshman women’s manager
will be chosen.
General forensic manager this."
year is Jack Hempstead, debate
manager, Walter Durgan, assistant,
Joe McKeown, and women’s debate
manager, Frances Cherry.
Old Favorite
Songs Topic
Of Address
Sigmund Spaeth to Talk
Tonight in Music Hall
At Eight o’Clock
Illustrations, Vocal
And Piano, to be Given
Lecture Based on Book,
‘Read ’em and Weep’
anpHE Songs You Forgot to Be
-J- member” is the subject on
which Dr. Sigmund Spaeth will lec
ture tonight at 8 p. m. in the music
building auditorium.
The lecture is based on the book
recently published by Dr. Spaeth,
“Read ’em and Weep,” which has
proved a best seller and i3 today
one of America’s most popular
books.
“Read ’em and Weep” is a book
in which the old favorites, songs
that have been sung for years, are
brought together. Not only as an an
thology of songs is “Read ’em and
Weep” popular, but because each
song is accompanied by an enter
taining history of its author, its
time, and the actors or actresses
who made it famous, as well as a
multitude of the keen, mirthful
footnotes for which Dr. Spaeth is
famous.
Many of the old songs found in
“Read ’em and Weep” are known,
at least in part, by many people to
day. They have become stock
phrases of the American language.
“More to be pitied than censured,”
“Just break the news to mother,”
“With all her faults, I love her
still,” “Where did you get that
hat?”—in this book you will find
complete words and music of the
songs which planted these expres
sions in our national conversation.
In his lecture, Dr. Spaeth will
give illustrations from his book,
both on the piano and by voice.
As an entertainer, Dr. Spaeth
^olds a place among those of the
first rank throughout the United
States. lie is a favorite toastmas
ter among New York music circles.
Dr. Spaeth has been called “Am
erica’s most popular speaker and
writer on music.” His method of
introducing an appreciation of mus
ic is unique and has been enthu
siastically received through the
country. His philosophy presents
the idea that music is fundamental
ly appreciated through the feet—
that oars are but secondary factors.
John Stark Evans, professor of
music, who has heard Dr. Spaeth,
says that, his presentation of how to
appreciate music is funny and his
illustrations on the piano are full
of wit and humor but that there is
a well founded philosophy of music
in his message. Mr. Evans feels
that the University was very for
tunate to bo able to secure Dr.
Spaeth to lecture at this time.
Dr. Spaeth has been music critic
for several Now York papers, he
has written several best sellers and
is a popular platform speaker every
where he goes. Newspapers are en
thusiastic in his praise, wherever he
has spoken. As a radio announcer
he has become very popular.
“If Sigmund Spaeth, nationally
known musician and musical critic,
ever comes on the air again, we
shall listen to him no matter wheth
er it be at 4 o’clock in the morning,
or whether we liaye to cancel an
important engagement to0do so. His
program Friday night rvas ono of
the most entertaining, amusing and
instructive broadcasts we have
"hoard since we were introduced to
radio,” says an eastern paper.
The lecture will begin at 8 p. m.
in the auditorium of the music
building.
Campus r Valentinos9 Do Stuff Before
Critical Eyes of Movie Camera-Men
‘Maker of Stars’ Calls for Dark Gentlemen and Then
‘Red’ Slauson Steps Up and Wins
“Hopo!”
What would the world be with
j out it?
It is the hope of gain—the lure
of riches and of fame—that “holds
; children from play and old men from
the chimney corner.”
Tt was hope that drew thousands
6,f novices across the plains to Cal
ifornia In the balmy days of ’49.
It w-as hope, yesterday, capital
HOPE, that brought 00 male beau
i ties, “the cream of Oregon men,”
j aod part of the skimmed milk, to
j McArthur court for the long-her
alded screen tests.
Sixty of the most collegiate, the
! host-looking, the most optimistia
of university men. Fifty men—try
i ing to appear nonchalant, not dis
appointed. Ten men—suppressing
1 desires to be a trifle elated. That
! was the result of it,
“The man with the tall, athletic
' build, dark hair, and dark eyes,
'• screens the best,” said the Qrand
I Mogul in a preliminary talk, and.
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