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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 17, 1928)
Wehfoots To Meet Whitman At Walla Walla Tonight W ebfooters Play Whitman At Walla Walla Missionaries Are Favored To Defeat Oregon Tonight Idaho Game Friday Will Test Duck Quint Webfeet Have Chance for Championship By JOE PIGNEY William J. Reinhart and his Web foot basketball team left yesterday afternoon for Walla Walla, where 11 IV 1 1 l l) Cg 11 against Whitman College the most difficult half of the 1928 playing Beason. The Ore gonians are in a determined mood, and if the pro verbial -“dope” works out correct ly, they will re turn to Eugene at the top of the Bill Reinhart xiuimuixi uivAsiuii ux liiu cuiixerunce. With the first conference game of the trip slated for tomorrow night, Reinhart may use his reserve squad against Whitman. If this is the ease, the Webfooters are almost certain to be defeated. Whitman trounced the varsity in Eugene last month, and have been playing exceptionally fast ball since then. Washington and Idaho have also fallen before the attack of the missionaries. Idaho Is Feared Oregon’s 29 to 23 victory over the Vandals in the first conference tilt of the season is not indicative of the strength of the Idaho team on its own floor. Idaho, in all the history of its basketball competition, has seldom been beaten in Moscow. Last year the Vandals surprised the championship Oregonians with a 30 to 35 drubbing. Idaho played a good game against Washington last week in Moscow, although the league leading Huskies forged ahead in the final minutes j of the game to win. Rich Fox, Van dal coach, is confident that if his team continues along the same pace it has been .setting lately, the Ore gonians will be conquered. W. S. C. Defeated Idaho, fresh from a 37 to 26 vic tory over Washington State, has be^ come over optimistic, is the opinion of Fox. Stowell, forward, and Jacoby, guard, are the outstanding players on the Vandal squad, and gave the Oregon defenders a tough evening in Eugene. Reinhart has taken a full team of reserves, and with two non-confer ence tilts scheduled, most of them will be used. The combination used in the Aggie tilt proved to be the most powerful and consistent of any tried during the earlier portion of the season. The two changes, Ray Edwards at center, and Don McCormick at guard, have given the needed de fensive and offensive punch to the team. Joe Bally, Dave Epps, and IcluReynolds, first string substitutes, displayed considerable improvement in practice since the O. 8. C. game, and can be counted on without weak ening the strength of the team too greatly. Bill Develops Soon If Oregon is able to slip into a tie with Washington, the credit of the success will belong to Bill Rein hart. Reinhart, with very little really experienced material, has de veloped a team that has been a threat all season, and still remains in the running for the champion ship. Gordon Ridings and Scot Milligan are the only 1927 lettermen on the team. The rest of the regulars, with Gotham Gold Stripe Hose $1.95 The New Shades White Jade Pawnee Kasha Represented Exclusively By Mrs. Halton Call 1078J Will Deliver the exception of Chastain, have seen some conference competition, but not enough to win stripes. There are four sophomores of the varsity squad who are being counted on by Reinhart to bolster the team next year. Outside of Iek Reynolds, all of the 1928 team will be eligible for next season. The following is the list of play ers making the road trip: Gordon Ridings, forward; Scott Milligan, guard; Don McCormick, guard; Ray Edwards, center; Mer vyn Chastain, forward; Ick Rey nolds, center; Dave Epps, forward; Bernard Hummelt, forward; Jack Dowsett, guard; Delmar Boyer, for ward; and Joe Bally, guard. Bert McElroy, manager. Washington To Have Good Track Team; Has Olympic Hopes UNIVERSITY OE WASHING TON, Seattle, Feb. 1C.—With the largest track squad in the history of the University of Washington turning out daily inside the new athletic pavilion, prospects for a championship team are very bright, as a matter of fact, the brightest since Coach Hoc Edmundson came to the Seattle school. Two members of last year’s year ling squad are expected to come through in great style this season. Steve Anderson is conceded an ex cellent chance of wearing America’s colors in the coming Olympic games. He has covered the high hurdles in as low' a time as 14.8 and easily outdistanced every hurdler he raced against sns a frosh last spring. Rufus Kiser of Wenatchee, former national interscholastic mile title holder, covered the mile last year in less than 4.22 and as a varsity milor is showing promise of smashing all existing coast conference records, and at the same time of breaking into the number wdio will represent the United States at Antwerp this coming summer. Death Ship Docks in Honolulu; 17 Killed As Pneumonia Rages (By United Press) HONOLULU, Feb. 1G.—Seventeen dead and 38 seriously ill was the toll of the pneumonia epidemic which has been raging aboard the liner President Cleveland when the vessel reached port here today, after a dramatic race against death. Fourteen of the most serious cases were removed to local hospitals soon after the ship reached quaran tine and doctors and nurses went aboard the vessel to relieve the heroic ship’s surgeon, Dr. George Belden, who has worked unceasingly for four days and five nights fight ing the. spread of the epidemic which was confined largely to Phil ippines in the steerage. Ridings Takes Second Place on Scoring List UNIVERSITY OF WASHING TON, Feb. 17.—P. I. P.—Monty Snider, by virtue of his high scoring in the Washington State and Idaho games this week-end, regained his lead in the individual scoring lists, as Ridings of Oregon and Burr of Oregon -State were held down by their opponents. Alfie James and Percy Bolstand of Washington, jumped to seventh and ninth places respectively. The first twelve scores follow: Snider, Wash.68 Ridings, Oregon .65 Burr, O. S. C. ..57 Overturf, Mont.47 McDowell, W. S. C.45 McMillan, Idaho .44 James, Wash.42 Chinske, Mont.42 Bolstad, Wash.41 Milligan, Oregon .38 Kain, Mont.” ..36 Bc-renson, Wash.35 Wetzel To Enter Decathlon Meet At Philadelphia Four-Mile Relay Team May Run in Penn Meets At Same Time That Victor Wetzel, star athlete, will be entered in the Olympic decathlon tryouts at Philadelphia, April 27-28, is the word of William L. Hayward, vet eran Oregon track coach. Wetzel lias already started training in the various events e o m p o s in g the ieeatlilon. There is a possibility of a fou r-m i 1 e relay team from* here entering the Penn relays to be held at the same time as the tryouts. Vic Wetzel There are 10 events in the decath lon. Scoring is based upon a per centage of 1.000 for each event. The 1.000 mark represents the worlds records in all cases. Ed Moeller, who in practice has been nearing the world’s record for the discus, is the only man in school who could possibly compote with Wetzel, but he has decided to stick with the discus. Wetzel is working on four events each day in his training. In order to compete he must make a qualify ing score in each event. The milers’ chances of going de pend on their ability to make an average time of 4:30 per man. This is not necessary to qualify, but Hay ward thinks that a relay team will make the trip if this time is made in trials. Hill, varsity miler, can make the time, according to the track coach. Enough others may make the re quired 4:30 by the time of the Penn relays, which meet is attended by the fastest teams in the country. Be sides Hill,' the men who have a chance to make the team are: Beals, Jensen, Standard, Boss, McKitrick, and Overstreet. Basketball (Continued from page one) home court. In 1925 Oregon dropped two tilts to the Aggies, one in the Eugene armory and the other in Salem by a one-point margin for the Northwest honors. The game in Corvallis was won, however. From the looks of the playing of the Oregon freshman basketball team, and its record, Coach Bein hart will have little help from this year ’s yearling'ranks. The Oregon babes’ performance against the O. S. C. Books in Corvallis last Satur day night was nothing short of piti- : fill. Harold Olinger, former Salem high school performer, is about the only first year man that shows promise of developing into varsity material. According to Aggie sport critics, they think that they have one of the best rook basketball teams in ithe history of the school. The rooks, who meet the Oregon freshmen to night in McArthur court, certainly lived up to the expectations last Saturday night. Coach Bob Hager will have plenty of material to take the places of Burr, Mathews, Har tung and Savory. Two Californians, MacLeod and Ballard, show plenty of promise for tho Beaver young sters. MacLeod hails from San Francisco, where his height and big frame performed for the Olympic club at center. This boy Ballard, forward, received his early hoop training at Long Beach and it must have been a thorough one. He is all over the floor like a shot, and one-handed push shot is his specialty. * * * The University of California Golden Bears, last year’s Pacific coast champions, seem to be having a tough time of it in the south. They have won but one of the three games played with the University of Southern California. The Univer sity of California, I.ns Angeles, was defeated twice, once by a 35 to 34 score, the other time, 33 to 2(5. The ! Los Angeles Bruins, however, won ' the second game of the series, 48 to | 30. To date, “Nibs” Price’s hoop- ; sters have scored 19- points to their opponents’ 207. Coach Leo Calland's Trojan lioop sters seem to be the favorites in the ! south this year. Besides the two wins over the Bears they succeeded in toppling Stanford for two loses the early part of this week. Age of Gas Stations Fits American Speed, Says New Guild Book Soda pop, radios, plus- fours, auto mobiles, gasoline stations, extension courses and bigger and better mur ders are the themes of the various chapters in the Literary Guild Book for February, by Charles Merz. Those bright new spokes in the wheels of time are treated as foibles in comparison with the unpainted spokes of the good old days. Merz justifies the present whims of the American people because they af ford relief from a too fast life. “Trails of _the Troubadours,” by DeLoi, is a story of the life and loves of the poets of France in the 13th century,” said Murray A. Fow ler, graduate assistant in the English department. “DeLoi followed the actual trails of the old troubadours and writes their stories in a very interesting manner,” ho continued. “The author compares the life of the 13tli century with that of the 20th, to the disadvantage of the latter. The vein of ironic comment end caustic wit which runs through the tale makes it very refreshing to read.” These two books are now on the rent shelf at the library. A list of the new books received at the library, which will be reported separately later, follows. “The Thunderer,” E. Beck Bar rington; “Essays Old and New,” Essie Chamberlain; “Boy in the Wind,” 'George Dillon; “Draught of the Blue,” a translation by Bain; “Castles in Spain and Other Screeds,” John Galsworthy; “Myr tle,” Stephen Hudson, “The Letter,” W. Somerset Maughn; “More Ports, More Happy Places,” Cornelia Strat tan Parker; “Gallions Reach,” H. M. Tomlinson; “Ilesperides,” Ridge ly Torrence; “Requiem,” Hum bert Wolfe; “Readings from the Bible,” chosen by Henderson and Russell from the authorized edition. Miss Burgess To Talk To Theta Sigma Phi A talk by Miss Julia Burgess, piofessor of English, on her recent travels in the Near East, will bo the feature of tho open meeting to be held by Theta Sigma Phi, women’s national journalism honorary, Tues day evening, February 21. Tiie 'meeting will be held at the haute of Mrs. George Turnbull, 1010 East Twentieth, beginning at 7:15 o’ciodk. It is to be open to all women in journalism, and tho or ganization is especially solicitous hat they be present. Formerly Watts Optical Parlors Clfteaik Opt&m eirist. 14 W. 8th St. Eugene Oregon There’s No Other Like it - - We give the most prompt and highest quality service possible. Come in after the show and you’ll be convinced that you should always eat here. We serve only the best. The PETER PAN 996 Willamette Drama Monthly Prints Play by Mrs. Alice Ernst Gold Mining on the Yukon Theme of Tragedy by Oregon Teacher Iii the February number of the Theater Arts Monthly appears “Spring Sluicing,” a one-act play by Alice Henson Ernst, instructor in versification and play writing, now on a year’s leave of absence. Stark and realistic, the play is laid in the Yukon valley in the early ’90’s, preceding the epic, gold rush I of the ’!)0’s. The atmosphere throughout the play is one of harsh and stern reality, with an under current of something mysterious and inscrutable. The mood for the whole drama is laid down in the introduc tion and setting of the play, of which a part follows: Part of Play Given “Chill silence enwraps tho scene. The hills, huddled in the distance, are still shrouded in bluish snow.” “Here lives Joe Belyca, known as Trapper Joe, an old time settler in the Yukon wilderness, together with Klayquah, a native, and a young boy, whom the laughter-lov ing, talkative Joe calls Tombstone, because the boy so seldom speaks. Joe had picked him up, nearly froz en to death, on the trail to Candle, but he can never get the boy to toll him how ho happened to be on the trail, nor anything about himself. “Joe (laughing) — “Tombstone, you ’ro dam funny fella. Seem lak it hurt you wen you talk. Wy you don’ spile lak oder people?’ “ Tombstone (awkwardly)—‘ Pun 110 .. . (pause) Jes’ always ben that way, I reckon.’ “And then once, when the boy has admitted that lie comes from the south: Joe (resuming) — “Down sout’ . . . dat’s Louisan?” Tombstone (hesitating)—“No, not that- . . . Wliar I wuz raised tliar wuz blue hills . . . not like these uns . . . they wuz all blue and sun ny . . . t’wan’t Loosiany . . . don’t matter, do it?” Always the boy, insists that he j wants to go back: Tombstone (suddenly)—“I got to j git back tha'r . . . right now . . . . ' I tell ye ... I got to go, I tell ye “Limpy Jim” Peters, prospector, Mines to the lonely river where Joe Belyea has his claim and cabin, and offers great sums for the claim,' which he nevertheless insists is worthless. It is the first presenti-1 ment of the great gold rush which later was to come to the country. Joe shows the boy gold nuggets. They mean only one thing to Tomb stone—a means of getting home. But Trapper Joe will want him for the spring sluicing, and, the boy knows, will stay on forever in the grim land in which tho old trapper has lived for so many years. There is’ no chance to get home, and so, mor bid, distracted, ho attempts to shoot j Joe, and thinks he has succeeded.: He immediately kills himself. Play Ends on Tragedy Note The play ends on this note of tra-i gedv, with a mystery unsolved— the mystery of the young southern er. Joe (rising slowly) — “Yukon, she's got hold o’ nodder one . . . Nobuddv ever knows what grief is buried wid you, garcon. (There is a' long pause as the dusk creeps down upon the two.) Joe—“Jes’ Klayquah now .... ,jes Ink before . . . an’ all dnt quiet ness again . . . Bon Dieu, she’s lonesome dose tarn . . .” (The gaunt form of the sluicebox looms across his gaze, like a threatening creature, as he stands, a figure of desolation.) Joe (brokenly)— “Dose tarn, I ain’t got much heart for start spring shi icing.” Mrs. Ernst has conveyed in the play a sence of grimness and chill ness, the atmosphere of thw then un explored North.. In this respect, the play is admirable. The character of doe Belyoa, the trapper, too, is well drawn, but the blurred and enigmat ic portrayal of Tombstone, the young southerner, weakens the play con siderably. Audiences like to be sat isfied ^witlv an explanation at the eml of a play, and here none is giv en, only the most elusive of hints, and the average playgoer would re sent such a conclusion. Mu Phi Epsilon Has Charge of Program For Sunday Vespers Members of Mu Phi Epsilon, wom en ’s honorary musical fraternity, will have charge of the vesper ser vice, Sunday, February 19, at 4:30 in the music building auditorium. An organ number, “Andante from Fifth Symphony,” by Tchaikowsky, played by Cora Moore, will open the service. Violet Mills, contralto, will sing “Love Divine.” A violin solo, “Adagio Roligioso,” by Vieuxtemps, will bo given by Gwendolen Lainpshire Hayden, in structor in the school of music. Dr. Clara Millard Smertenko, as sistant professor of Latin, will give a reading. The closing selection will bo “Ave Maria,” by Schubert, with Cora Moore at the console. Daisy Belle Parker and Mrs. Rex Under wood are the accompanists for the service. Godfrey in Portland; Boosts Summer Work George IT. Godfrey, assistant in oumalism and director of the Uni versity news bureau, left for Port 'und Thursday morning to do work ’n the interest of the 1928 summer session of the University of Ore gon. lie is expected to return Sat urday morning. Lee Tires 20 PERCENT OFF REGULAR PRICES BUY THEM AT THE Mark C. Sanderson Co. Broadway at Oak Phone 1554 Do away" with that Long]\Wait > Li Why spend valuable time waiting for a taxi? Just come down and rent a car. Drive it yourself and save time and trouble. Phone 2185 Taylor’s Auto Rental Frosh Battery Men To Report Monday For Spring Practice Earl “Spike” Leslie has issued the first call for frosh baseball candi dates to report to McArthur court next Monday at 4 o’clock. Only battery men are asked to report at this time, and work for the whole , squad will not be started until after the basketball season has closed. The early season practice will bn held inside tho pavilion, and will consist merely of limbering-up and conditioning exercises, according to Coach Leslie. Plans are being made to construct a batting cage on tho court to be used by both the varsity and freshman teams. Four games with the O. S. 0. rooks are scheduled for the frosh, and it is expected that games with sev eral state high schools and small colleges will bo arranged. Pat Vindicated From v Intimate Challenge rat Gainer, heavyweight contes tant in the intramural boxing tour nament, was quoted in yesterday's Emerald in such a way that it was intimated that he was issuing a wholesale challenge to the campus for scrappers of his weight to don the mitts with him. Such is not the case, for Tat, allhough he is going to box, had nothing to do with the intimated challenge. The articlo was written without his knowledge. So Pat is vindicated. However, this does not alter tho fact that heavyweight boxers are wanted up in tho men’s gymnasium to sign up for tho free lance donut boxing tournament which starts next Monday. Sign before- Friday, or you will be out of luck. President Hall Plans To Attend Inauguration UNIVERSITY OF WASHING TON, Feb. 17.—(P.I.P.)—Eighteen eollogo presidents and official dele gates of more than 10 other Ameri can and foreign institutions have already signified their acceptance of formal invitations to the inaugural of President M. Lyle Spencer on February 22. Twelve national societies and learned organizations have named their representatives, among whom are members of tho University fac ulty and men-ifrom various cities in Washington and Oregon. President Arnold Bennett Hall, from the University of Oregon, has signified his intention of attending tho inauguration. COLLEGIATES! 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