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UNIVERSITY OF OREGON VOL. IX. EUGENE, OREGON, MARCH 2, 1908. SENIOR PLAY A BIG SUCCESS lute are one and the same. She also BASKETBALL SEASON CLOSES has an o th er suitor, one Bob Acres, an A Capacity House Greets the Presenta eccentric country gentlem an, som e Oregon Loses Last Game to Fast Fiv< tion of “The Rivals’’ at Opera w hat faint-hearted in love and none of Y. M. C. A. of Muscatine, House on Thursday too bold in war. W hen he learns of Iowa. the audacious Beverly he is persuaded W ith the p resen tatio n of S heridan’s by Sir Lucius O ’T rigger, an Irish L ightning passes and sure team w orl five-act com edy last T h u rsd a y evening noblem an with whom duelling is a the class of 1908 finished its four years m atter of business, to challenge the won for the M uscatine C ham pions tin of college en terta in m e n ts. T he play presum ptions lieutenant. At the sam e gam e at the arm ory last Friday night T he visitors were little superior ii was a success from every standpoint. time Sit L ucius carries on a w ritten '1'he audience of stu d en ts and to w n s courtship with an unknown Delia, basket-tossing, but four y ears of work people w hich filled the seating capacity whom he supposes to be Lydia, but to g eth er has made th eir team work of the house w ere well pleased and who in reality is the designing Mrs. well nigh perfect. T he O regon team th ey signified th e ir approval repeated M alaprop. All of this leads to a very played together well, although it has been w ithout a coach for the past twe ly w ith such o v atio n s th at the actors com plicated state of affairs which cul were forced to bow th eir acknow ledge m inates in the arran gem ent of a double weeks. In the first half S tro n g ’s bas ket-shooting was the m ost prom inent m ents. P rof. I. M. Glen, whose di-, duel, one betw een “ F ighting Bob” rectin g a b ility is largely responsible Acres and Beverly and the other be h a tm e . < hit of six goals he made four. O regon had the advantage of for the success of the affair, had so tw een Sir L ucius and C aptain Jack. better know ledge of the floor, and had m anaged the details of settin g and po O f course when the none too valorous three points to the good at the end of sition th a t the play was com paratively A cres finds Beverly to be his old friend the first hall, the score being, M usca tree from the aw kw ; ndness th a t u su al C aptain Jack A bsolute he very joy tine, 10; O regon, 13. ly atten d a m a te u r productions. T he onsly refuses to fight and the other In the second half the M uscatine stage presence and ease with which all difficulty is settled when Sir Lucius men became more confident and play w ent th ro u g h th eir p arts and the dis learns that his Delia is M rs. M alaprop. ed a better gam e, w inning nine bas play of positive genius on the part of E v ery th in g ends happily, except for kets and tw o fouls. several of the stu d en t acto rs were M rs. M alaprop who decides that all I lie gam e closed the season for ( )re- p leasing su rp rises to all. T he co stu m men are barbarians. gon. A lthough beaten many tim es, ing w as one of the principal features. Some m ention must be m ade of the the \ arsity men have won more gam es Seldom , if ever, has an am ateu r p ro individual actors for th eir m anner of this year than ever before, and bas duction equalled “ T he R ivals’’ in ele carry in g out their parts m erits consid ketball has for the first time taken its gance of th is essential feature. M an erable praise and com m endation. W eb place in the first rank of U niversity ager K estley was not n ig g ard ly in his ster Kincaid was a “ whole show in sports. In defeatin g Idaho, O regon ap p o rtio n m en t for this provision and him self as Sir A nthony A bsolute, the won its first intercollegiate game. A spared no expense in m aking the play bluff, blustering father. He entered into little more enthusiasm am ong the as a ttra c tiv e as possible. the spirit of the part in a m anner that spectators m ight have helped the score I lie sto ry of the play is briefly as bespoke a high degree of natural ta l Friday evening, vet the student body follow s: C ap tain Jack A bsolute, in the ent. H e was adm irably fitted fo r the generally has given good support to capacity of L ieu ten an t Beverly, falls in part with his robust physnjue and ru d basketball this year. The line-up for love w ith the beautiful heiress, Lydia dy countenance and his frequent ( ffegon was, forw ards, Moore, W atson, L anguish, who, filled w ith rom antic storm s of “ terror and d ism ay ” brought S tro n g ; center, Stevenson, I^oosely; notions, decides to th ro w over her in forth responsive storm s of applause. guards, (h a rm a n H athaw ay, F a rrin g heritance and elope with the penniless “ Squee" Ramp established him self as ton. officer. In the m eantim e, Sir A n th o n y a favorite at his first entrance as Bob In a fast prelim inary a team from A bsolute at his co u n try hom e fram es Acres, and up to the last scene where the ju n io r and freshm an classes defeat up a co n tract w ith M rs. M alaprop the he evinced his belief in the adage that ed a senior-sophom ore five by the guardian of L ydia, w hereby his son “ he who fights and runs aw ay will live score of 17 to 13. W hen such old Jack is to m arry th a t y o u n g lady. H o w to fight another day." he im personated stars as K uykendall, Penland and ever, Jack, u n k n o w in g who his in ten d the eccentric country squire to the W ood got into action, the goal was in ed is, refuses to en ter into such a plan, satisfaction of the most critical. grave danger of being touched. The th ereb y in c u rrin g the w rath of his u n Ben H untington in the role of Sir junior-freshm an aggregation swept y ield in g sire w ho sw ears to tu rn him Lucius O ’T rigger sustained well the their opponents off their feet in the out and never to call him Jack again, part of the Irish lord m ore trained in first half, seucring 15 points to tin l^yffia, too, proves to be in tractab le art of war that the artifices o f love. others 3. But in the second half three and rem ains tru e to her B everly, not It was Lloyd Mott who most at- new men appeared on the Upper-class- aw are th a t he and the y o u n g er A bso- i O m tin u ed <m page five, i C ontinued on page five.)
