The Southern California
Bring More Books 2000 Are Wanted
Debate Tryouts April 11
Anocittrd Student*, University of Southern California
Vol. IX
Los Angeles, California, Tuesday, March 26, 1918
No. 37
25 CANDIDATES SIGN UP FOR BASEBALL NINE
Many Former Prep Diamond Stars Among Liberal Arts Students
GRADUATE STUDENTS MUST PAY DUES
MAURER HEADS MOVE
Many Good Games In View for Team If Organized
Twenty-five students, headed by George Maurer, star southpaw pitcher of last year’s varsity nine, are making a final attempt to have baseball reestablished as a recognized sport at U. S. C.
The men, including in their ranks many former prep, stars, met in the training quarters last week, and talked over the prospects with Coach Cromwell. The coach, while not an ardent supporter of baseball, is not opposed to the organization of a nine, inasmuch as all practice and games would be held at Exposition park.
The players expect to furnish their own outfits and are asking the University athletic board for an appropriation not to exceed one hundred dollars to be used for purchasing baseballs. It is hoped that arrangements may be made whereby the uniforms used by last year’s team may be again put into service.
Among the candidates for a possible baseball varsity are two good pitching prospects in Maylor and Maurer. Maylor has done considerable twirling in the local semi-pro ranks. Recently, It is said, he struck out sixteen men in one game. Maurer’s ability is well-known to local fans. Before playing the U. S. C. team he occupied the mound for the University high school and the Manual Arts nine. He has also played on independent amateur teams.
Haygood Ardis, last year with the Downey high school team, and Ram-sell, of Chaffey Union appear to be capable backstops. Ardis has also held down infield positions at various times.
Graduate Students please see one of the following at once and pay their $0.25 assessment for space in “Stare Decisis.” Must be paid by Friday, March 29th. Those who failed to pay their $0.25 dues last semester, please pay up at once.
MINNIE HIMROD, MARION NICHOLSON, EILEEN O’NEILL,
RUTH HINSDALE, GRETCHEN UHL,
EARL DAVIS,
LLOYb HALSTED.
WINS ADMIRATION
Clickety-click, went the feet as they clattered on the improvised platform in chapel this morning.
“In chapel?” says some one.
“Yes,” answers a freshman. "Didn’t you know about the Y. M. C. A. hut program they had this morning at chapel? Why Roy Johnson jigged. “Tony” Brewster gave an original reading, Raymond Beebe did a clever sleight-of-hand trick, why he even stuck a knife straight through a perfectly good linen handkerchief. The boys in the hut (chapel annex) looked so natural sitting around the table, writing letters home (when they weren’t picking themselves off from the floor due to certain activities of their chairs, prompted by the other fellows. Hats flew through the air and sometimes landed beyond recall in the audience. Homer Simmons played— so did a couple of the Y. M. boys. Everybody had a chance to sing. After we had laughed and laughed,, temporary secretary Karl Seitter introduced Chunk” Hill, Y. M. secretary, now in active service, who talked confidentially to everybody for fifteen minutes about the part the hut programs take in the lives of the boys in the training camps and abroad, during the trying times when the boys are preparing to go over the top.	_
“FRIENDLY BUNCH" SPEND WEEK-END AT MOUNTAIN CABIN WITH DR. J. G. HILL
The “Friendly Bunch” of Liberal Arts, a group of girls who sometimes get lonely and like company, spent the week-end at Dr. John Hill’s cabin In the mountains, Dr. and Mrs. Hill were the chaperons as well as the hosts of the occasion. The twenty-one girls indulged in all sorts of sports, not the least of which was eating, they Bay.
The girls are to have lunch with Mary Stagg today at noon.
UNIVERSITY BAND MEETS
TONIGHT IN CHAPEL ANNEX
The University band will hold a rehearsal in chapel annex at 7:30 o'clock today. This meeting is important and &I1 members are urgently asked to be
Present.
‘BOOK’ DRIVE NETS 0VERJ500 BOOKS
Professor Schulz Expects 2000 Mark to Be Reached by End of Campaign
Approximately 1500 books have been collected in the University Book Drive, under the leadership of Professor Roy Schultz, who predicts that the 2000 mark will be reached by the close of the drive.
Books of all sizes and descriptions have been donated by the students. Everything from old dog-eared copies of Spanish grammars, which kept their donors up nights trying to learn the cases, to the newest books on the present war, have been donated to the soldiers’ library.
The books with the largest circulation among the Sammies are those retailing the experiences the soldier readers will face shortly. Knowing this, the university has donated 10 volumes of “Over the Top,” by Sergeant Arthur Guy Empey, and the same number of “Private Pete.”
The books are all to go directly to Camp Kearny to help fill the shelves of the large new library erected there.
Ralph Heywood Chosen
Editor ‘El Rodeo ‘19’
LIBERAL ARTS WOMEN MAY MAKE WAR-FUND PAYMENTS TO CORA ANDERSON AT Y. W.
ORATORY RECITAL TOMORROW, MAR. 27
Tomorrow afternoon, March 27th, at 3:30 p. m., In Athena Hall, the College of Oratory will hold a pupils’ recital.
The first half of the program will consist of readings, and will be completed by a one-act play, presented by the members of the Shakespeare Dramatic Club.
All Liberal Arts women should make their payments for the Student Friendship War Fund to Cora Anderson in the Y. W. office, between 1 p. m. and 2 p. m., on Tuesday and Thursday.
Both men and women of all other colleges should make their payments, either to the registrar of their respective college or send the money to the campaign treasurer, Samuel Stagg, Y. M. C. A., College of Liberal Arts.
All first and second payments are now past due.
DEBATE TRYOUTS, APRIL 11
The first local tryouts for inter collegiate debaters will be held April 11, the first Thursday after spring vacation. It will be a double debate between men and women speakers. 'I he winner will be given a semester’* tuition at U. S. C.
Long Awaited Miracle, a Speechless Woman, Due Wednesday Afternoon
WAR INVIGORATES UNIVERSITY MEN
“Instead of sleepy youths Btrolling along the streets with their hands ln their pockets, one sees to-day on the college walks youths of alert expression, vigorous gait, erect carriage, and a general appearance of purpose and dignity.”
Thus Mrs. Arthur T. Hadley, wife of the president of Yale University, compares the college man before the war and the purposeful student of today. Mrs. Hadiey, who is on tlie committee on woman’s activities of the Connecticut State Council of Defense, has, herself, two sons in the Army, one of them a major, and she has been active in the organization of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps and the Yale Naval Training Unit of the university.
“The change in the facial expression of tbe average undergraduate has also been remarked. I am told that the change Is noticeable in the class rooms. There is more alertness and more attentiveness. When a inau real izes that he may soon be of age to leave college and go ‘over there’ he begins to appreciate keenly a number of advantages in college work and life that had not occurred to him before.”
TRYOUTS TO BE HELD
FRIDAY IN ATHENA
HALL FOR FROSH PLAY
The freshman class has decided to give a play. Tryouts for the parts are to be held in Athena hall, Friday at 11:40. Watch bulletin board for particulars.
It is truly pathetic that the men of the University are to be denied the privilege of seeing some of the fair sex when they are absolutely speechless. Men have long dreamed of a speechless woman, but up to the present time, history does not show that woman ever has been speechless. Now right in our midst, at our very feet, as it were, this interesting spectacle is to occur.
At two-thirty o’clock on Wednesday, the women’s track-meet is to be held. Only women are allowed as spectators, and they will have all of the chance to se ethe agony of the feminine tracksters when they are trying to explain why they won or failed to win, and are unable to say a word on account of lack of breath.
FIVE MEN TO WA1CH WOMEN S TRACK MEET
Bruce, Maurer, Weiss, Gansner and Cromwell to Act As Officials
Henry Bruce, George Maurer, Ben Weiss, “Owl” Ganser, and Dean Crom well will be the "men of the hour," and the only men of the hour, at the Women’s Track Meet Wednesday at ternoon, at which event they will preside as officials. The women officials are Miss Edna Cocks, Jessie Grieve, Grace Witherell, Ruth Durkee, Esther Grua, Lillian Mucilvaine, Louise Gran thame, and Mary Stagg, athletic man ager.
The events scheduled are 25, 60 and 100 yard dashes; broad and high jumps; CO yard hardies, basket ball and baseball throws and shot put.
Bovard Field will be closed on Wed nesday afternoon to all but women and officials.
The meet starts at 2:30 o'clock.
Nellita Schlotte, June Rayner, Mildred McKim, Laura Crittenden, Dorothy Misner, Eva Miller and Martan Hoskyns are showing up well. Nellita Schlotte is expected to take first place in shotput and in several other events.
C. LAUDERBACH ELECTED MGR. BY SOPH CLASS
New Editor and Manager Are Prominent in University Affairs
NO PLANS FORMULATED
New Book’s Heads Come to S. C. With Good High School Records
Ralph Heywood was elected editor and J. Calvin Lauderbach manager of the 1919 “El Rodeo,” at the sophomore class election, which was held last Friday.
Heywood is a graduate of Hollywood high school, where he was known as a debater, and where he held down a position on the staff of the annual. He was president of last semester's Bopho-more class. He Is a member of the University men’s glee club, and belongs to the Sigma Tau fraternity.
Lauderbach was graduated from Santa Ana high school, wtih a good record as au athlete and a debater. In his senior year he was treasurer of the high school student body. Lauderbach has been prominently connected with debating while at the University.
Juneau Shinn and Bert Marston were the other candidates for editor and manager.
No definite plans have as yet been made for the publication of next year’s book.
GREELEY AND DOUGHERTY TO DEBATE FOR UNIVER8ITY
HIGH AGAIN8T WHITTIER
BOB" CHESNUT PROMOTED
“Government ownership of Railroads” is to be the subject for the debate between the University high school and Whittier high school next Friday night In Athena hall.
Paul Greeley, a member of this year’s senior class, and Louis Dougherty, a junior, will uphold the affirmative. Coach Reeves says his men are in fine shape and the Whittier men may expect a hard fight.
The University liiigh sctiool publishes an annual every year, the “Codex,” and the 10 cents admission to be charged Friday night will go toward financing the book.
SOCIOLOGICAL CLUB MEETS TOMORROW
“Bob” Chesnut has recently received The Sociological society will meet a commission as sergeant in the avia- tomorrow in room 17, at 4:15 o’clock, tion corps. He Is at present at Phila- Dr. E. S. Bogardus will discuss the so-delphia aud expects to sail for France ciological books published during the in the near future.	I year 1917.
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