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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 12, 1932)
-1 ' ■ . - -11!—1 11 'i " " —" ii -.in ___ __ __ ° Callison Gives Yearlings Hard Workout in the Final Basketball Practice Sessions Kappa Sigma Phi Deits Win Handball Tilts SAE, SPE Are Defeated In Donut Contests Warren Cress, Kappa Sij Performer, Is Victor Sans Loss of Point TODAY’S SCHEDULE 4 P. M. Yeomen vs. Fiji. 5 V. M. Friendly hall vs. Pi Kap. Kappa Sigma and the Phi Deits emerged victorious in the opening matches of the intramural hand ball tournament yesterday. The former took two contests from the SAE squad without tasting defeat. The Phi Delt aggregation beat the SPE handballists, two out of three. In the Kappa Sig-SAE contests, Warren Cress of the victors beat Harold Blackburn and lost not a single point to win, 21-0, 21-0. Tom Johnson and Bob Deavers, Kappa Sig doubles team, edged out a vic tory over John Hamilton and Chappie King, 19-21, 21-3, 22-20. Another singles match, which was discontinued when the results of the other two contests became known, ended at an impasse, Jack Edlefsen of Kappa Sig and A1 Phillips of the SAE team each tak ing one set. Phi Delts Victorious In the Phi Delt-SPE rivalry, Lawrence Roof won the sole SPE victory by trouncing John Finley, 21-6, 21-6. El Edwards of the vic torious Phi Delts, and Art Riehl, a SPE performer, put on what looked like a Mutt and Jeff act, Mutt in the person of Edwards beating the smaller Jeff by a score of 21-9, 21-19. Cliff Horner and Ferd Fletcher of the victors had an easy time in disposing of A1 Schmidt and Jack Rollwage, 21-6 21-7. Some of the contestants showed a lack of practice, Earl Boushey, in charge of the tournament, said, but he expects better competition as play advances. SUBSCRIPTION GIVEN The plea of the library for mag azines has been answered by one lone contribution to date. A six months’ subscription for the At lantic Monthly has been submitted. Rumor has it that M. H. Douglass, the University librarian, himself made this single donation. Oth ers, however, are expected in the near future. It’s Daring . . , Slightly Risque . . . BUT— Hilariously Funny! Starts Tomorrow .. STRICTLY DISHONORABLE FIRST RUN IN EUGENE PAUL LUKA* SIDNEY FOX LEWIS S.STONE It made blase N. Y. sizzle! MEB TONIGHT! World's Premier U. of o. Around-the-Pacific GOOD WILL TOUR MOTION PICTURES with DAVE WILSON ROGER PFAFF ROBERT MILLER In Person All the thrills of a 7 I months’ 35,000-mile ad venture tour for-25c . . . Ship'Ahoy! 3 Shows—6:30, 8, 9:30 Announcement Is Made of Handball Schedule Monday J Twenty-Five Organizations Enter Intramural Tournament The schedule for the intramural handball tourney, which com menced yesterday, has been mailed to all the men’s living organiza tions on the campus. The tournament, the first of the winter term, is on an elimination basis and is not a league affair. The final match is to be run off January 28, when all but two of the original 25 entrants will have j tasted defeat. The slate for first round play j follows: Tuesday, January 12 4. p. m.—Yeomen vs. Fiji. 5 p. m.—Friendly hall vs. Pi Kap.. Wednesday, January 13 4 p. m.—ATO vs. SPT. Thursday, January 14 5 p. m.—Sherry Ross hall vs. Theta Chi. Friday, January 15 4 p. m.—SAM vs. Sigma hall. 5 p. m.—Gamma hall vs. Phi Psi. Monday, January 18 4 p. m.—Chi Psi vs. Beta. Freshman Water Fiends Produce Pleasing Turnout Twenty Natators Working Out Daily in Gym Pool; Prospects Unknown une oi tne best turnouts in sev eral years for the freshman swim ming team, greeted Jack Hewitt, swimming coach, and Charley Fos ter, his assistant and a member of the varsity aquatic squad, when they issued a call for the yearling natators yesterday. About 20 an swered the summons. Very few workouts have shown that the frosh mermen are willing to undergo some hard work to get in condition. Since no records of the times have been taken, Hewitt and Foster say that the material is of an unknown quantity and must prove its mettle in competi tion. The aspirants and their special ties follow: Charles Best, water polo; Ralph Morrow, breast, crawl, and back strokes; Robert Hart, back stroke; Roland Glaisyer, div ing, water polo; Wilfred Paul, breast stroke, free style sprints; Fred Fowler, breast stroke; Bob Chilton, diving; Lloyd Humphreys, water polo, breast stroke; Ray Stewart, diving; Carl Heidel, breast stroke; William Catlow, wa ter polo. Clay Sherman and William Gear hart, free style distance; Glen Gummess, free style distance and sprints; John Zehnthauer, sprints and back stroke; Jack Mulder, free style distance; James Ring rose, sprints; Ned Simpson, sprints, water polo. knds COMING WEDNESDAY Sparkling, sophisticated comedy that all will enjoy. Starts TODAY MATINEE All Scats 10c EVENING All Seats 20c clTve BROOK MARJORIE RAM BLAU I IN THE PRESS BOX —. With Bruce Hamby Get out the crying towels fc Hec Edmundson, up Washingto way. Don’t get us wrong—nothin Edmundson ' to do with bas ketball. It’s track to whic! we have refer ence. During th last two weeks Edmundson ha lost two of hi, -star track am field men. Last week El bert Sellars, wh< .holds the distinc tion of havinj maue me iastesi ume lor tne two mile race on the Pacific coas dropped out of school and will bi lost to the Washington track squat for the coming season. Sellars se: the mark of 9:27.3 in 1929 at Cor vallis in a dual meet between the Huskies and Oregon State. Th< conference record is held by Arnj Gillette of the University of Mon tana who ran the distance ir 9:30.4 at Palo Alto in 1926. And as if the loss of Sellars wasn’t enough for one week at least, Pacific coast conference of ficials handed down a ruling bar ring Bob Adams, first-string jave lin thrower, from further inter collegiate competition. Basing its action on Adams’ brief appearance in 1929, the officials rated Adams as having three years of competi tion, although his part in the Palo Alto carnival was one practice throw. This one toss so affected his arm that the coach decided to keep him out of competition that year. The conference officials did n’t see it that way, and so another possible five-point winner is lost to coast competition. Make that order of crying tow els double for the University of Washington. Students attending conference basketball games there this winter must pay out 25 cents, in addition to their student body cards. The free admission privi lege was revoked by action of the board of control when it was de cided that the financial condition of the A. S. U. W. would not allow a continuation of the former pol icy. The underlying reason for the axtra charge is the surprising fact that Husky football gate receipts failed to cover the costs of coach ing and equipping the team. Word from Seattle states that assistant coaches in basketball, baseball and :rew will be cut from the pay roll. * * * Looks as if Washington State’s spectacular and elongated center, Huntley Gordon, who was high scorer in the northern division of the coast hoop league last season nay have to spend a little overtime ivork if he intends to get the honor igain this season. In the practice Ambergris Value Has Fallen9 Says “Contrary to the general opin on, ambergris is not very valu ible,” said Dr. F. L. Shinn, pro essor of chemistry, in comment ng on the discovery of a substance hought to be ambergris on the >each at Lakeside, Oregon, a few lays ago. Continuing, Dr. Shinn said that eal ambergris is a wax-like sub tance given off by whales. It ormerly was used as a base in he manufacture of perfumes, but ynthetic substitutes have practi cally replaced it. “Consequently," le said, “its value has gone down, ind ten dollars a pound for the >est grade would be an outside estimate.” The possibility that the 200 )ounds of wax-like substance, Chemistry gathered by an excited crowd of searchers after a storm had washed it up on the beach, is am bergris, is not great, Dr. Shinn said. The sample sent has not yet been received by the department, but in the past two years, at three different times, samples have been received and analyzed, and none have proven to be ambergris. He explained that the real ma terial is scarce, and many things are mistaken for it. ENESCO WEAVES SPELL OVER LARGE THRONG (Continued from Page One) nowski’s violin suite, “Myths,” was characterized by graceful glissan dos and the delicate effects made possible by muted tones. A theme and variations, Paganini’s “Ca price No. 24,” served to present the artist’s skill in double stops, weaving figures on the minor string while carrying the melody in the major, and abounded in op portunities for technical virtuosity. r sessions so far he is being presse a hard by Bull Holsten, flashy foi ? ward and Ralph Rogers, a sophc - more substitute. i In a gentle fracas with Mon 1 tana's Grizzlies the other nigh - Coach Friel's men piled up a 6 ; to 31 count over the Montanans , Gordon walked off the mapl s boards with 15 points chalked u; ! in the book and Rogers who playei l part of the tilt calmly gatherei high honors with 18 digits. * * * 0 i Oregon State’s unexpected am phenomenal showing a g a i n s : Washington has given the othe I KEM FAGANSl Lcttuis in me raci something- t< thing about it their spare mo ments. It woulc look as thougl “Slats'’ Gill has pulled a foxy one and that the Bea vers are capable of just about anything in the weeks to comp At first it looked as though the Oregon State five would be all Ken Fagans, who himself is practically a whole ball club but from the scoring summary of the series be tween the Orangemen and Huskies we judge there were other per formers of note who wore the Or ange and Black. Jerry Thomas, who was just an other basketball player last season, came through with scoring honors with 16 points evenly distributed in the two affairs. The sensation al Fagans grabbed 15 during the course of the series. FROM HERE AND THERE . Bill Hayward called out the boys for the first official track workout yesterday . . . Ernie Pinckert of U. S ,C. received more fan mail than Hollywood’s finest ... he turned it all over to his wife Ohio high schools plan to insure their football players against in juries next year . . . Fred Kramer, Eugene high coach, was selected on the W. S. C. all-time all-star football eleven ... the campus wrestling and fencing tourneys will start about the middle of Feb ruary, says Earl Boushey . . . Tro jans crossed opponents’ goal lines 54 times this fall . . . made 33 con versions ... for a total of 363 points . . . Oregon will have three Olympic team candidates . . . Art Holman, Warren Demaris and Ralph Hill . . . Ernie Smith, U. S. C. tackle, is a radio tenor . . . seven members of the W. S. C. hoop team are of Scotch descent . . . should have a “tight” defense . . . New York and Chicago are sending six-man ping pong teams against each other soon . . . just an effort to settle the ping pong merits of the two cities. E N I) S T O I) A Y 15c 25c lill 6.00 Evenings —Starts Tomorrow— RISHARD DIX ii> “SECRE1 SERVICE” Frosli Squad Looks Good In Scrimmage Vacancies in Starling; Five Are Filled I'cam Works Out Again si Eugene; Jefferson Here Friday ) 1 By MALCOLM BAITER 1 The Duckling hoop squad has been working hard during the pasi week and should be in rare form l when they meet the Jefferson higt • five in the Igloo next Friday night Although valuable men were lost ! at the beginning of the term, oth ' ers have been working into the va 1 cancies left, and the frosh show every indication of having a win ' ning combination for the coming season. Saturday afternoon the first real scrimmage of the year for the yearlings took place with “Fritz” Kramer's Eugene high school team forming the opposition. The con test did not conform to all regu lations and lasted for two and a half hours with all players from both squads getting an opportunity to work out. An unofficial score gave the frosh a 63 to 24 advan tage in the long tussle. Campf Stars Although the tilt was not a regu lation one, it gave the first infor mation as to how the yearlings will look under fire. The breaking and blocking system used by Cal lison’s men proved very effective against the prep team, especially in the first part of the game while the regulars were working. Sylvan Campf, forward, was the outstanding floor man for the frosh, with Ralph Terjeson, Arne Lindgren, Bob Miller, and Roland Rourke working well in the other four positions on the starting five. Miller is big and rangy, and with a little experience will be able to fill the hole left at center when big Ted Hansen failed to enter school this term. The frosh open their 1932 bas ketball season at the Igloo next Friday night when they meet Jef ferson high school of Portland. On the following night Callison will take his squad to Salem where the yearlings will tangle with Salem high, runners-up in the state prep tourney last year. Press Meet Will Convene Soon on State’s Leading Journalists To Assemble for Annual Convention The fourteenth annual Oregon Press conference will again open its three-day sessions on the cam pus January 21, 22, and 23. Ex perts in all phases of the newspa per field will be on hand to take part in the discussions of the Ore gon editors and publishers, accord ing to the program released by Arne G. Roe, field manager of the State Editorial association and chairman of the program commit tee. Delegates to the Oregon Press conference will hold their meet ings in the Journalism building and Ben R. Litfin, publisher of The Dalles Chronicle, president of the conference, will preside over the meetings. One of the features of these meetings will be the award ing of the Sigma Delta Chi cup to the best weekly newspaper in Ore gon, which is an annual event sponsored by the local journalism professional. The Heppner Gazette Times was the winner of the cup this year, it will receive a certifi cate of merit. The Oregon State Editorial as sociation, a business organization of the publishers, will also hold a business meeting Saturday morn ing at which Ralph R. Cronise, co publisher of the Albany Democrat Herald, will preside as president. Another traditional event of the conference is the annual banquet scheduled for Friday at the Osburn hotel, at which Eric W. Allen, dean of the school of Journalism, will be toastmaster. Tom Russel, presi dent of the Eugene chamber of commerce, will speak, and Quincy Scott, cartoonist of the Oregonian, will give a cartoon talk, which has been predicted to be one of the high lights of the three-day session here on the campus. Slight Pressure On Japan Needed To Restore Quiet ^ ii rang Avers Nipponese Vi onlil Release Grip On Manchuria "The effect, of the recent note regarding the open-door policy and 9 power pact, which Secretary of State Stimson sent to Japan, will depend on the subsequent action taken by the United States,” Wu Tang, Chinese third year law' stu dent told the Wesley club at their meeting 0:30 Sunday evening. “Should sufficient pressure be brought to bear toward the Japan ese government by the United States, Japan would likely restore within a reasonable time the status quo ante of Manchuria existing before September 18, 1931. Of course, the Chinese boycott is an other important factor that may help cause Japan to withdraw her troops. “In 1915, Japan took Shantung and Kiaochow from China. In the peace conference of Versailles Ja pan objected strenuously to the re turn of this territory to China. Yet, Japan yielded to world opinion in 1922 when the Washington confer ence, under the leadership of the United States, was called. As a re sult of this conference Japan re turn Shantung and Kiaoclioa to China,” Wu Tang continued. Roger Pfaff, Pacific basin de bater, briefly expressed the greet ings sent from the Wesley Foun dation in Japan, which is partially supported by the local organiza tion, of which Pfaff is a member. Pfaff was a guest of the Japanese students when he was in Tokyo. Fewer Magazines Will Be Bound This Quarter As the appropriation for binding magazines and periodicals at the library has been cut approxi mately in half, the number of magazines to be bound this quar ter is to be.cut proportionately. Miss Casford, periodical libra rian, stated yesterday that the magazines mentioned in the Read ers’ Guide, the International index to periodicals, and the education index are to be given preference in the selection for binding. “Nation, New Republic, and the Saturday Evening Post are con stantly used,” she stated in ex plaining how popular the bound volumes are, “and many others are very much in demand.” Miss Casford strongly recom mends the above mentioned guides for students who do much study ing in periodicals. DEAN GETS INVITATION Dean Ellis F. Lawrence of the school of architecture and allied arts has received an invitation to participate in President Hoover’s commission on home building. Dean Lawrence is unable to attend as he has just returned from one trip to the East. DANCE ♦ ♦♦ < Programs and Announcements New Ideus for Everyone VALLEY PRINTING CO. 76 VV. Broadway—Phone 470 Professor H. S. Tuttle To Conduct Study .Research As a result, of a resolution passed by the State Teachers’ association, Professor Harold S. Tuttle of the education department has been asked to supervise a research on character education methods in re gard to students of the elementary grades. Some 200 classroom teachers will be involved in the study. The special problem of the re search is to determine which meth ods are most effective in establish ing attitudes of good citizenship. Results of the research will be ; reported upon at the annual meet ing of the State Teachers’ associa j tion next December. Widely Acclaimed Operatic Baritone To Sing Thursday Soloist Eugberg Received Training Under Theo. Lierliammer Twenty songs, ranging from 16th century concert through the most lovely ballads of the German ro manticists, to the modernistic work of De Falla, will comprise the program of Paul Engberg, young operatic baritone who will be presented in concert Thursday night by Phi Beta, women's music and drama honorary society. The concert will be given at 8:15 in the Music building audi torium. Admission will be 50 cents. Aurora Potter Underwood, a mem ber of the school of music faculty, will accompany Engberg. The soloist’s training has been the finest available. He studied for the past five years in Vienna, appearing frequently in song fes tivals, concert, and opera through out Austria, Denmark, and Hun gary. He will return to Europe to fulfill operatic engagements in ear ly February. The rich variety of Engberg's programs is the result of long study under many masters. His delicacy of interpretation probably was most fully developed under Dr. Theo. Lierhammer, under whom Roland Hayes, celebrated pegro tenor, received his training. Engberg’s recitals in the North west within the past few months have been marked by a display of his great dramatic ability, accord ing to Seattle critics. This ability Is accounted for by the fact that his teachers in Copenhagen, Ber lin, and Vienna were conductors and performers of opera. Herold, the leading tenor of northern Eur ope and a director of the royal opera, and De Cactis, a former Ka pelmeister of the Budapesth opera, were dramatic coaches under vhom Engberg studied for long pe riods, and to whom he owes much of his finesse and artistic expert ness. FUL-TUE IVcw IMPROVED better looking CLASSES ELLA C. MEADE OPTOMETRIST Neatly Typed Papers and Notes Make Better Grades RENT A TYPEWRITER $3.50 per Month — $7.50 for 3 Months ALL MAKES — STANDARD OK PORTABLE Remember—all rentals may be applied on purchase. Office Machinery & Supply Co. Willamette Street side of Ward’s Phone 148 Seybolt Will Hold Tryouts for Studio Play Cast Friday Those of Dramatic Ability Invited To Undertake Character Parts Tryouts for the Studio plays, presented annually by members of the classes in play production, were announced for Friday, Janu ary 15, by Mrs. Ottilie Seybolt, head of the drama department. The tryouts, which will be held at 4 p. m. in Guild theatre, are open to anyone on the campus who is interested in drama. Mrs. Seybolt urged that anyone interested in dramatics be present. Each year the classes in play production produce a group of one act plays during the winter term. The plays will be presented to the campus at weekly matinees begin ning soon, Mrs. Seybolt said. Mrs. Seybolt said that there were several good character parts open for casting in the plays to be produced. Particularly she ex pressed herself desirous r>c having someone who might qualify as a large fat man tryout for the char acter role in the fantasy. The plays to be presented in clude “The Intruder" by Mater ninck, “Will o' the Wisp” by Hal man, and “The Gooseberry Man darin” by Ruthenberg. The three plays will be placed on reserve at the English desk upstairs in the old library for anyone who wishes to read them over before the try outs. The first two may be found in a collection, "Short Plays for Classroom Interpretation,” and the third in a collection edited by Isaacs. Landscaping Is Planned For Corner of Campus The northwest cottier of the Ore gon campus, which has been con sidered somewhat of an eyesore for a number of years, is to be landscaped and brought up to par with the rest of the campus as soon as the weather permits, re ports George York, superintendent of buildings and grounds. The plot will be tiled to carry off the excess water that accumulates in the lower ground. Shrubs and a lawn will replace the present bunchgrass. . ToMEN only! • NO NEED to park a “Girls Keep Out” at the top of this advertise ment. 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