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Oregon UNIVERSITY OF OREGON VOL. IX. EUGENE, OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1908. No. 27 more experience. The work of Dodson, MRS. CHRISTIANSON SPEAKS Downs, and May in the distances was of a high order and Davolt, O. A. C.’s To the Members of the Young Wom en’s Christian Association on premier distance runner was taxed to Tuesday Afternoon. his utmost to win. McIntyre surpris ed many by shoving the shot out past Mrs. Christianson, a missionary History repeated itself last Satur 40 feet, and Moon, in his first races, day afternoon when the University of showed class extraordinary. Altogether home from China on a furlough, ad Oregon’s track team won the Fifth it was a most satisfactory meet and dressed the Y. W. C. A. April 7, the Annual Open Indoor Meet at Columbia Trainer Hayward and Manager Bean, regular subject being postponed until University in Portland. All of the as well as the students and Varsity a later date. Her subject was, “The Chinese Woman from the Cradle to strongest athletes in the state were en supporters, are immensely pleased. tered and the V arsity team was in no The results of the meet were as fol the Grave.’’ The address was doubly interesting because of her own thrilling wise assured of victory, as the two pre lows : vious years in which she has competed. Fifty-yard dash, open—Finals, missionary experiences which she told. Therefore every man was required to Smithson, Mi A. A. C., first; Huston, She left her home in Norway at the do his utmost and even then the chan Oregon; Dart, West Portland high age of nineteen, and took several years’ medical training before she went to ces looked doubtful for a while. school. Time, :05.2. Moores was penalized in the fifty yard First heat—Gammie, M. A. A. C., China. Her work is in one of the in dash and failed to qualify in his heat first; Schroeder, O. A. C., second. Time terior provinces, and she and her hus and Kuykendall was barred from the :05. Second heat, Dart, W. P. H. S., band are the only white people among finals in the broad jump through first; Moon, Oregon, second. Time, 500,000 Chinese. In the riot of 1895 she was captured by the mob, but failure to get his take-off. :O5.4. Third heat, Smithson, first; miraculously escaped. The score stood, Oregon 36 to Huston, second. Time, :O5.3. Her address as she described the O. A. C.’s 32 when the last event was Right hundred and eighty-yard run— called. This was the relay race and Davolt, O. A. C., first; Dodson, Oregon wretched condition and miserable lives its five points were the deciding ones. second; Mays, Oregon, third. Time of Chinese women, was one of the most stirring ever given before the associa Moon and Moores had just finished I 2 :06. tion. The girls who heard it will never their heats and the finals of the 220 and Pole vault—Moullen, Oregon, first; forget it. Fresh from the field of six were pretty well “all in.” But Moores 10 feet. 9 inches; Swann, O. A. C., sec teen years’ work, she brought a pic took the first lap of the relay and se ond, 10 feet, 5 inches; Kuykendall, Ore ture at once graphic and heart-rending. cured a lead. Kiltz and Oberteuffer gon, 10 feet. She said that although the world at increased it to fifteen yards and Reid Shot put—Wolf, O. A. C„ first, 42 large thinks foot binding has been a- in a grand burst of speed finished the feet; McIntyre, Oregon, 39 feet, 6% bolished, it has not, except on the race and ( )regon was winner of the inches; Zacharias, 38 feet, 1% inches. coast, and among the nobility and the meet, the championship banner and the Running high jump—Chapman, O. wealthy. In the interior the feet of A. C., 5 feet 8 inches; Harbart, Astoria the girls are bound at the age of four silver cup. Forrest Smithson, world s champion H. S., 5 feet 7 inches; Smithson, M. A. or five years, as they will not later be hurdler, was the star of the meet, cap A. C., 5 feet 6 inches. sought in marriage if they have not Mile run—Davolt, O. A. C., first; lily-feet. Chinese women have no turing three firsts and a third for the Multnomah Club. Besides this he ran Downs, Oregon, second ; Robinson, Pa rights or privileges, and missionaries a special 50 yard hurdle race for the cific, third. Time 4:46. are powerless to aid them except in 50-yard dash, academic—Dart, West directly. Girls are cursed from birth, world's record, but it is doubtful whether it will hold owing to the fact Portland H. S., first; Kreiger, Eugene and the only happy period of their life H. S.. second; Campbell, Columbia, is the few years preceding footbinding. that he beat the gun. For Oregon, particular stars cannot third. Time, 0:05.4. Mrs. Christianson is a speaker of 440-vard dash—Reid, Oregon, first; rare ability and has strong possibilities be picked. The only two first places won were by Reid in the 440 and by Greenshaw, O. A. C., second; Smith, as a lecturer. Listening to her one Moullen in the pole vault. But Hay M. A. A. C., third. Time, 0:54.2-5. can not wonder at the fact that her 50-yard high hurdles, open—Smith- ward's team is strong in second and work in the mission fields of China thirds this year, which is testified to by son. M. A. A. C., first; Moores. Oregon,; has been so effective. Her whole life the fact that every man but one was second; Kuykendall. Oregon, third. has been spent in her work and it is a point winner. Sievers ran his first Time, 0:6 3-5. I natural that she should be filled with Running broad jump—Smithson, M. race in the mile and out of fifteen or the enthusiasm which brings success twenty entries came out a close fourth. to her endeavors. (Continued on page two.) He will be a star runner after a little FIFTH ANNUAL MEET WON --------- By Oregon’s Well Balanced Aggre gation of Track Athletes—An Extremely Close Meet.
