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
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By Oregon’s Well Balanced Aggre
gation of Track Athletes—An
Extremely Close Meet.