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Tennis Should
Have Major
Sport Rating
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/Veer’s Record is Good
aseda Hoop Team
Enjoyed Coast Trip
By RICHARD H. STRING
Sports Editor
Tf the University of Oregon ex
pects to keep in stride athletically
with the rest of the collesres and
universities in the
Pacific coast con
ference, tennis
must bo made a
major sport. The
University of Ore
gon, along with
her sister institu
tion, Oregon State
College, are tho
only members of
the coast confer
ence tvlio have not
elevated tennis to
the major sport
Henry Neer
bn sis. Washington, Stanford, Cali
* fornia, University of Southern Cali
fornia and University of California,
Los Angeles, award large insignia.
Two weeks ago the University
of Oregon tennis team returned
from a trip into California where
thely made a i creditable showing.
Regardless of the fact that both
matches were lost, one to Califor
nia and Stanford, the performance
of the Webfoots is regarded as re
markable. Bad weather had kept
the Lemon-yellow racquet wielders
indoors until two days before leav
ing for the south.
Henry Heer, ranking number one
player of the Webfoots, probably
holds the distinction of having beat
en Stanford more consecutively
than any other Oregon athlete. Last
year he defeated McElvenny, rank
ing number eight player in the na
tional intercollegiates and Stanford
star. This year saw the diminutive
Webfoot star take Alan Herring
ton, Stanford captain and ranking
player number five in the national
* intercollegiates, down the line to a
lose in two straight sets, 6-3, 6-4.
Several weeks before the Oregon
match Herrington had beaten Ben
Goreliakoff, Occidental star and
ranking player number three in the
national intercollegiates.
Is it right that Oregon’s tennis
players should bo discriminated
against and awarded nothing better
than a minor “0”?
It cannot be said that interest in
tennis is waning on the Oregon
campus. The board of regents add
ed impetus to this form of sport
when they arranged, through an ad
ditional assessment of one dollar
fees, to open the courts free to all
students.
That Oregon students like to
watch good, fast tennis was proven
last May at the Pacific coast con
ference championship tournament
held on the local courts. Partici
pants played before crowded gallery
of Webfoot fans. The two large
bleachers constructed along courts
numbers one and five were filled
to capacity.
At a very near future the A. S.
U. O. should make some provisions
to reward Oregon tennis men as
their competitors are recognized at
their own schools in the coast con
ference.
The somewhat severe defeat giv
en the Waseda University basket
ball team here last winter was evi
dently relished by the Japanese.
At any rate, they hold no animos
ity towards the University of Ore
gon. Jack Benefiel, graduate man
ager, received a letter several days
ago from Soshima, director of the
Waseda University’s coast basket
ball tour.
The letter, dated from Tokyo,
Japan, goes on to say: “Our bas
ketball team is very young in its
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Short Story Winner
MISS FLORENCE HURLEY was
unanimously judged the winner
of the Edison-Marshall annual short
story contest on her story, “The Log
Line.” Twenty-eight manuscripts
were entered for the award.
Elect W. Norblad
Intercollegiate Association
Names Oregon Man Head
Walter Norblad, secretary of the
Oregon Knights, was elected presi
dent. of the national Intercollegiate
Association of KnightsNit the con
vention held last Thursday, Friday
and Saturday at Washington State
College at Pullman.
The organization at present is
composed of more than 000 men, and
made up 'of organizations of col
legiate knights in eight colleges of
Oregon, Washington, Montana,
Idaho, and Utah. • Many petitions
for membership in the national group
have come to the association from
colleges in all parts of the United
States, but a policy of extensive ex
pansion until the organization is
strongly founded is not being pushed
by the national. College groups in
the East will probably be taken in
within another year, however.
The Intercollegiate Association of
Knights was founded at the Univer
sity of Washington in 1919, and-has
ccme to be a strong and controlling
organization of sophomore men on
all campuses where it has been in
stalled. About forty men compese
the local group.
Webfoot club to Elect
New Officers Tonight
Webfoot club, men’s independent
organization, will hold election of
officers for next yeae at a dinner
to be held tonight at the College
Side Inn. The club has sponsored
several affairs this •year and has
held bi-weekly dinners since the be
ginning of the year.
Plans for next year and topics of
interest to the club Will be discussed
at the dinner.
Retiring officers, who have served
this year, are: president, Mark Tay
lor; vice-president, Roland Davis;
secretary-treasurer, Warren Tinker;
executive council, Melvin Cohn and
Alson Bristol.
Graduate Assistants
In English Appointed
Marjory Westcoit, of Ripon, Wis
consin, and Dorothy Delzell, of the
University of Oregon, have been ap
pcinted graduate assistants in the
English department, according to Dr.
C. Y. Boyer, head of the department.
Several more appointments are yet
to be made.
National
Dutton Is Veteran *Outfielder and
Possible Candidate for Third Base
By CHAN BROWN
A sure bid for the center field
position with the Webfoot varsity,
Harry DuttQn is also a candidate
for the post at third base in case
Dave Mason does not return in time
for the coining season. Harry made
his letter in the horsehide game last
year and is expected to be one of j
the mainstays of this spring ’g ag- ;
gregation.
Dutton is a senior in the school .
of journalism# and is one of the i
prominent members of the sports
staff of the Emerald. He was re
cently pledged and initiated into
Sigma Delta Chi, international jour
nalistic fraternity.
In high school Harry played four j
vears with the baseball team as j
shortstop and alternate pitcher. He j
was a member of every athletic j
team of the Grass Valley school,
but Dutton claims that the small
number of boys in the school was
the largest factor in his athletic
success. As a member of the track
team, Harry and one other track
man went to Portland in 1924 to
compete in the Columbia Univer
sity state high school meet. They
were successful in taking a second
in the pole-vault and a third in the
high-jump at this meet.
Harry has also had some summer
experience in the local leagues,
playing for the last two years with
the Eugene town team as an out
fielder.
He is a senior and a member of
the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.
Harry is twenty-two years old,
weighs about 155 pounds and stands
fjve feet eight inches in height.
Greek Towns
Destroyed by
Earthquake:
_
Corinth Devastated by
Shock; Seven Persons
Meet Death
Citizens Terrorized by the
Prisoners Roaming
Barren Streets
(By United Press)
WASHINGTON, April 23.—Total
j destruction of the town of Kalamaki,
partial destruction of the ancient
town of Corinth, and the summer
resort Loutraki, with a loss of seven
lives and injury of six persons, was
the damage caused by the earth
quake which devastated the Isthmus
of Corinth in Greece Sunday night,
an official dispatch to the Greek le
gation and the Hellenic information
bureau said tonight.
(By United Press)
ATHENS, April 23. — Reports
from the district that was damaged
by an earthquake over the week-end
today indicated that Corinth was in
ruins.
It was not believed loss of life
would be heavy inasmuch as many
residents had fled the city before
the major earth disturbances oc
curred.
The bathing station at Loutraki,
near the Corinth canal, was reported
destroyed and many hotels and the
Casino' have collapsed.
The canal was not damaged, but
passage of vessels has been pro
hibited for the time being as a pre
cautionary measure.
Advices here said the Corinth
prison had been. destroyed and that
the prisoners roamed at will through
the stricken city. The population
was terrorized.
J lit 11 lUO V \ JUJCJlt Oil vV’ XV uvvuuvu
at 10:15 p. m. Sunday. It was felt
at Athens but there was no damage
litre.
Latest reports from the Corinth
earthquake area said seven persons
had been killed and six injured. Noo
a house in Corinth is habitable, the
reports said. Several houses still
standing were on the verge of col
lapse.
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fBy United Press)
VIENNA, April 23. — Additional
earth shocks were felt in the Gole
mokonara district Sunday, reports
said today.
Several houses collapsed and
there was considerable new damage.
Advices here said the government
had declared a moratorium in the
districts. ‘Crowds were said to have
lynched several looters and foot
profiteers.
Varsity Netmen Will
Meet Seattle Club
Hopes that the Oregon varsity
tennis schedule during the next two
weeks would include practice
matches to help condition the team,
were dismissed last night when
Cc#eh Edward Abercrombie an
ncunced that the only non-conference
tilts remaining before the Washing
ton matches on May 5 would bo with
the Seattle Tennis club, May 4.
A change from the same squad
that represented Oregon against
California and Stanford earlier in
the season is very 'unlikely, accord
ing to the coach. This will leave
Henry Neer, C'laire Hartman, Dick
Edge, and Howard Shaw as the Web
foot entries against the Huskies.
Abercrombie is attempting to ar
range a two-man match between the
freshman teams of the two schools,
with Almquist and Lockwood as
likely representatives of the Web
foot babes. These men, declared the
coach, should hold their own against
any freshman competition on the
coast.
Candidates Warned to
Declare by Tomorrow
All political aspirants for the
coming student body elections, May
2, should formally announce their
candidacy at the Emerald office to
day or tomorrow, according to Ray
Nash, editor. It is the custom for
political candidates to present this
announcement in person at the Em
erald office before the nominating
assembly, the editor stated.
A list of the aspirants’ qualifica
tions for office should also be pre
sented. These will appear in the
paper before the elections.
Friday’s Emerald to
Disill Rumors Which
Reporter Ambushes
Slipping, sliding, steadily gliding,
keeping to the shadows, came the
mysterious stranger—Rumor. Tight
in his hand he held the secret, paper.
Little recked lie that behind the
pillar lurked an Emerald reporter
whose nose was already twitching
uncontrollably, scenting hot news.
Crash—a piercing scream—silence.
“What’s this—-dope on the house
averages for the winter term?”
cried the reporter, prying back the
cold fingers of his nocturnal adver
sary.
Lighting a match and peering at
the crumpled sheet—what’s this? So
they lost the lead. And look at
those boys—they’ve made house his
tory. Well, can you beat it? And
the new tail-enders.
Quickly the match burned out
. . . a blow from behind . . . obliv
ion . . . consciousness again ... a
voice . . . “House averages next
Fiiday morning in the Emerald . . .
ho, ha, ha . . .
Beta Trackmen
Win Donut Meet
Kappa Sigs Nosed out by
Scant Margin
Beta Theta, Pi’s track team de
feated Kappa Sigma’s field team
by two and a half points in the an
nual donut track meet held last
Saturday on Hayward field. The
fraternities were on a par through
out most of the meet, but the Betas
stepped ahead in the relay event.
Adams, Beta, and Pearson, Kap
pa Sig, were the exceptions on their
teams. The Betas won most of
their points in the sprint’s, but Ad
ams took first place in the javelin.
Kappa Sigma, however, depended
on the field events to bring them
ahead, but Pearson came through
with a first in tlve 440-yard dash.
now- the donut, teams finished:
Beta Theta Pi, first, 31 points;
Kappa Sigma, second, 28 1-2 points;
Independents, third, 18 points; S.
A. Jb., rourth, li points; Sigma Ulu,
fifth, 11 1-2 points; Theta Chi,
sixth, 9; Phi Delta, seventh, 8;
Friendly Hall, eighth, 7; Bachel
ordon, ninth, 5; Sigina Nu, Phi Kap
pa Psi, tenth, 4; Phi Gamma Delta,
eleventh, 3; Sigma Pi Tau, and A.
T. O., thirteenth, 2; Phi Sigma Kap
pa, fourteenth, 1.
Following is the summary of the
meet:
100-yard dash, Lowry, Sigma Al
pha Epsilon, first; Boss, Theta Chi
second; Tuttich, Beta Theta Pi,
third; Flangus, Beta Theta Pi,
fourth. Time, :10.2. Mile, Jensen,
Independent, first; Winters, Sigma
Chi, second; Cruksliank, Sigma Phi
Epsilon, third; Kuykendall, Phi
Sigma Kappa, fourth. Time, 4:39.
440-yard, Pearson, Kappa Sigma,
first; Butherford, Delta Tau Delta,
second; McKarty, Alpha Tau Ome
ga, second; McKarty, Alpha Tau
Omega, third; McKennon^ Theta
Chi, fourth. Time, :51.7. High hur
dles, Hendricks, Sigma Chi, first;
Foster, Phi Psi, second; Balston,
Beta Theta Pi, third; Sigmund,
Beta Theta Pi, fourth. Time, :16.1.
220-yard, dash. Boss, Theta Chi,
first; Lowry, Sigma Alpha Epsilon,
second; Angstoad, Friendly Hall,
third; Anderson, Phi Gamma Del
ta, fourth. Time, :22.3. 220-yard
low hurdles, Sigmund, Beta Theta
Pi, first; Balston, Beta Theta Pi,
second; Hanford, P-W Delta Theta,
third; Foster, Phi Psi, fourth.
Time, :25.3.
880-vard race, Hill, Independent,
first; Bunvon, Independent, second;
Overstreet, Sigma Chi, third; Brack
er, Beta Theta Pi, fourth. Time,
2:13. Belay, Beta Theta Pi, first;
Kappa Sigma, second. Time, 1:38.
Discus, Hildreth, Friendly ^Hall,
first; Dickson, Kappa Sigma, sec
ond; West, Phi Delta Theta, third;
Boyden, Kappa Sigma, fourth. Dis
tance, 116’ 9”.
Pole vault, Bobinson, Independ
ent, first; Brocker, Beta Theta Pi,
and Moultby, Beta Theta Pi, tie
for second; Boone, Sigina Chi,
fourth. Height, 12 feet. Broad
jump, Bredtheauer, Bachelordon,
first; Ord, Kappa Sigma, second;
Lowery, Sigma Alpha Epsilon,
third; Sigmund, Beta Theta Pi,
fourth. Distance, 21’3".
Javelin, Adams, Beta Theta Pi,
first; Dickson, Kappa Sigma, sec
ond; West, Phi Delta Theta, third;
Stadelman, Sigma Nu, fourth. Dis
tance, 166’6“. Shot put, Dickson,
Kappa Sigma, first; Stadelman,
Sigma Nu, second;' West, Phi Del
ta, third; Ord, Kappa Sigma,
fourth. Distance, 42’8“. High
jump, Beed, Sigma Alpha Epsilon,
and Boyden, Kappa Sigma, tie for
first; Everts, Phi Gamma Delta,
third; Dickson, Kappa Sigma,
fourth. Height 6
Developments
Planned For
Girls’ League
Oregon Delegates Back
From Conference
In Seattle
Big Sister Movement Here
Declared Superior
By Leaders
About seventy-five delegates rep
resenting colleges and universities
of the Western Division of the In
tercollegiate Association of Women
Students attended the conference
held on Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday of last week at the Univer
sity of_Washington in Seattle. The
conference was held partly in .joint
session with ^meeting of the deans
of women of the western colleges.
Diegon was represented by Dean Vir
ginia Judy Esterly, Hazel Prutsman,
her assistant, Esther Hardy, presi
dent of the Women's League, and
Edith Dodge, president-elect.
The western conference includes
all colleges west of tho Mississippi
river, but the University of Kansas
was the only institution east of the
Rockies to send delegates. The
meeting next year will be national
and will be held at the University
of Oklahoma. The western confer
ence will meet again the following
year at the University of Wyoming.
Both Miss Hardy and Miss Dodge
hove come back to the Oregon cam
pus with many plans and ideas for
carrying out the work of the league
here moiT: efficiently, although both
report flic work of the local league
comparing favorably with that of
other colleges. Tho Biff Sister move
ment on the Oregon campus is espe
cially well developed, they say.
To Establish Office
As a result of the conference, an
office for the league will be estab
lished in the Woman’s building in
the room which is known as the
woman’s lounge. It will provido a
definite place for the business of
the league and a place where girls
interested in the work may come to
get started. Scheduled hours in the
office will doubtlessly be kept by
successive presidents.
A book scheduling meetings of all
women's organizations on the cam
pus is also an outcome of the con
vention and will be arranged soon
to alleviate present conditions of
many conflicting sessions. It will
piobably be placed under the charge
of the chairman of the activities
committee and be kept in the Wo
men’s League offices.
' Variety of Activities Here
A notable difference in Women’s
League work on the Oregon campus
and that done at other schools is
the placement of emphasis on dif
ferent league activities, says Miss
Hardy. The work of many of the
leagues is taken up with details of
discipline, while the Oregon women
stress more constructive organiza
tion by vocational research pro
grams, and the foreign scholarship,
according to her report. Neurly all
of the leagues represented are fi
nanced by budget from, the asso
ciated students.
Resolutions rccomi/fending the en
couragement of scholarship by of
fering awards, the establishment of
organizations for independent wo
men such as Phi Theta Upsilon on
this campus, and participation ip
freshman orientation week were
passed by the conference. The con
stitution was also revised.
Paper Organized
Plans for the establishment of a
paper for the western conference, to
be issued once or twice a term, were
also effected. It will be edited by
a delegate to be appointed by the
president of the next conference, and
will contain articles from the var
ious colleges of the conference. Hues
of the organization were raised to
finance the paper.
A committee appointed at this
meeting of the conference will con
sider the junior college problem to
decide whether a separate confer
ence will be established for junior
college delegates, associate members
a* present, or whether they will be
admitted to full membership. The
former action will probably be
taken.
Huffaker Addresses
Oregon City Meeting
Hr. C. A. Iluffaker, professor af
education, went to Oregon City last
night to address the meeting of the
taxpayers on the finances of the
Oregon City school system.
World Racer
TOICHIRO ARAK1, who is cross
ing Atlantic on Aquitania in
around-the-world dash.
—Courtesy P. & A. and Oregonian.
Ex-Oregon Man
In World Dash
Araki trying to Lower the
Present Record
Taieliiro Araki, a former student
cf the University of Oregon, is
racing around the world. He is one
of the two men selected by the news
paper Jijo Sliimpo of Tokio, Japan,
for the around-the-world dash. Tho
other man is Tatsukichi Matsui, a
graduate of Keio University.
The Aquitania is carrying Araki
across the Atlantic ocean at the
present time. Ho left Tokio on April
6. arrived in San ^Tincisco April 17,
and hopped out of a mail plane at
Hadley field, New Brunswick, N. ,T.,
April 19, two hours ahead of his
schedule.
Matsui is headed in the opposite
direction in an effort to reach Tokio
before Araki and win the prize of
$1500 offered. Tho loser will get
$500. Both men were furnished
with $2000 each as expense money.
The utilization of all modern
means of transportation with tho
least possible expense and greatest
speed is the main object of the race.
Both men are striving to lower the
existing around-the-world record
made in 1913, 35 days 21 hours 3(i
■seconds.
A. R. Sweetser Writes
Wild Flower Articles
Aii article on the wild flowers
of Oregon by Professor A. R. Sweet
ser, head of the botany department,
is one of the features of the April
issue of the “Oregon Motorist.”
A plea for the preservation of
wild flowers along the highways
forms the basis of his discussion.
Tho common flowers now in dan
ger are described and three meth
ods for preserving them are given.
They arc: Conservation, education
and legal protection.
Professor Sweetser is also writ
ing a floral calendar of Oregon
which will appear in the Eugene
Morning Register. Each Sunday a
picture of some flower in bloom and
a short description of it will be run
in the paper. Last Sunday the ar
ticle was on the common cone bear
ing plants in Oregon. Students in
Professor Sweetser’s classes will
make the drawings for the illustra
tions.
Dream Follies
Disagreement
Is Boomerang
Vodvil Price Squabble
Settled in Favor
Of Juniors
Arbitration Courts View
Squelches Contention
Of Council
By B. N.
Only in a case where class activity
would injure the entire student body
loes the student council have a con
stitutional right, to interfere. This
was the decision handed down by
the arbitration court yesterday after
deliberating over the dispute be
tween the student council and the
Junior Week-end directorate.
The occasion for this test case
grew out of the price-boost to $1.50
for tickets to the Dream Follies.
Student councilors thought it too
much and legislated to force a cut
last Wednesday. Since the plans
were all laid and equipment con
tracted, however, the juniors suc
ceeded in having the measure with
drawn. But the student council still
smarted under the cockiness dis
played in the face of student ad
ministrative dignity, so it suggested
a hearing to sanction or condemn its
action in the light of the constitu
tion. The board condemned it.
An unqualified victory cannot bo
claimed for either faction involved
because tho committee of arbitration
showed that, after all, the deter
mining authority lies in tho coun
cil, although in this particular case
it overestimated tho degree of
jeopardy in which the general stu
dent interest was placed by tho
juniors’ rising prices. But ordinar
ily tho council can proceed with re
strictive legislation whenever stu
dent welfare, broadly interpreted,
can be shown to bo at stake.
“The criterion which should guide
the student council as to where it
should take jurisdiction and inter
feio with class and other grou'p
activities would seem, according to
sound construction aj: the constitu
tion, to be this: if the class or par
ticular group may conceivably bo
acting reasonably with respect to
student welfare as a whole, then tho
student council should not inter
fere,” the report reads in part.
“When reasonable men may differ
as to whether the welfare of tho
group is detrimentally affected, tho
student council should not inter
fere.4
btuilent council members, how
ever, must shoulder the responsibil
ity of judging whether an action is
going to impair the rights of tho
student? body.
“If it comes to the attention of
the student council that proposed
activities on the part of a class or
group are unquestionably in opposi
tion to tho welfare of the student
body, it is, in tho opinion of tho
committee, the province of tho
council to decree against it.”
Incidental to the main purpose of
the hearing, was the questioning of
a student body provision which re
quires each class to submit a bud
get to the council for.approval be
fore undertaking an activity. Tho
arbitration court found this ruling
unconstitutional.
“Tho committee does not feel that
the student council has any power
to require a class to submit its bud
get for a proposed class activity, for
its approval or rejection. If it
seems doubtful to the class officers
or others in charge of such a pro
gram whether or not the particular
undertaking is so out of the ordi
nary as to be possible of being in
terpreted as unreasonable by the stu
(Continucd on page two)
fDream Follies9 Rehearsal Goes
Over Big; Repertoire Bag Filled
By ARDEN X. PANGBORN
Tlio man who wrote that song .
about being “crazy over horses” !
must have been thinking about the
pony chorus. All the bald-headed
men in Eugene—according to Billy
“Ziegfield” O’Bryant, who is di
recting the “Dream Follies” of
which the ponies are an integral
part—will be in the front rows at
the lleilig when the show opens next
Friday night. And not only that,
either, for Billy says that a good j
many of them will be glad of the
chance to spend a second dollar- '
fifty on Saturday.
A dollar and a half is a lot of
money, as the junior class has found
out in the last few days. It will ;
buy a good necktie, a fair meal or
three rides to the depot in a taxi. I
When it comes right down to figur
ing out just how much three halves
will purchase,* probably not even
Prof. DeCou could decide. How
ever, it’s certain that somewhere
near the top of the “buying poten
tiality” column stands one of those
little pasteboards marked “Dream
Follies, Admit One.”
Proof?
Well, there was another rehearsal
on Sunday. Last week an Emerald
reporter by the use of means known
only to those few who feel it en
tirely unfitting and improper to pay
for anything, squeezed into the
Heilig at the first dress rehearsal.
The rehearsal went over big; the
resultant enthusiasm found its way
into typo and the gate crashing was
superceded by a much more digni
(ConUnuccl on page four)