The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-03-18
BEAT DOWN ALL OPPONENTS IN
THE ORATORICAL CONTEST
AT EUGENE.
Is no Longer a Young Thing
0. A. G. Man Got Fourth Place
A Twelve Hours Wait
for Train and Strike
Atterward--Other
News.

seven years preacher OF the GoSpel
won the first prize in the state ora
torical contest at Eugene. It is nc
fault to be advanced in years, but
still its funny for an old fellow like
that, to go up against lads and las
ses of l9 10 20 in an oratorical con-
test. They say that the miss who
took second place in the same con-
test has fled application for the a.
ward of the old gentleman's prize
on the ground that the figuring was
wrongly done, and that recount
correctly made, would give first
place to her, and second to him.
She ought to withdraw the contest
on account of the respect due to
gray hairs. Any man who was with
Noah 10 the Ark, 80 to speak, ought
not to be disturbed in the lawful
po session of any prize that has fal.
len to him. There is something
grand in the contemplation of one
who helped to build the pyramids
and who was for some time mum
my himself, and the venerable Mr..
Smith ought to be let alone 10 the
enjoyment of bis prize. Anybody
who hasn't any more appreciation
of grand old ruin or an antique
relic than 20 seek to rob Smith of
his hoaors ought to be kicked out
of the oratorical association, provid- /
ed she be not pretty young maid
nn
woman who thinks she ought to
have Smith 8 place.
The accounts are that Friday
nights contest was bowling sue
cess. Niaety peo pls went up there
from O. A. G. and the hoarseness
they brought back with them
proves the quality of the bowling.
Their orator, who was Guy E.
Moore ,>and whose subject was sol
iver Cromwell, the Man Of Action,"
took fourth place in the assignments
that the judges made. The latter
were. on composition President Da.
vid Starr Jordan of Stanford, Pres
ident Benjamin Ide .Whseler of
Berkeley, and President Penrose of
Whitman college. Third place was
taken by the State University ora
tor, and first by Erastus Smith, of
McMinnville. Albany college took
seventh place and Willamette Uni
versity brought up the rear. Next
years meeting of the association oc-
ours at Newberg, and is to happen !,
on the last Friday in January, or
two weeks earlier than has been the
custom. No age limit was added
to the bylaws at the business meet.
ing, and the contest is still open to
people of mature years and orator
ical turn of mind. If, by any new
discovery of science it becomes pos
sible in the near future to resusci-
tate the dead, Patrick Henry is to
be brought forward and scheduled
to represent O. A. G. next time. Il
In the afternoon at Eugene the o.
A. G. and the University basket
ball team locked horns for second
time, and it was with difficulty that
the college men won out. In for
mer game they defeated the Uni
versity men in score of 81 to 2,
but in Fridays game, play ended
with a score of "a for o. A. C.
and 22 for the University. The
game was played in room less
than half the size of the Armory in
which the college men practice. {
which placed them at a great disad- !,
The personel of the col {
lege team was Pilkington, center;
Rinehart and Steiwer, guards, and
Moores and Stokes, forwards. D
It was after z p. m. on Saturday s
when the Corvallis contingent l
reached home. Their last hours in ,
Eugene were mostly marred by a
desire for something to eat and a '
fear to 60 down town after it, be-
cause the train might leave them.
They were due to leave Eugene for
home at 3 a. m., but the train that
was to bring them tore into the
rear end of a freight train few
miles south of the city, and failed
to appear on schedule time. The
Corvallis push, however, boarded
the coaches at a. m. and began to
wait. Daylight came but no train
had yet appeared. The travellers
dozed in their seats and nursed an
inexpressible desire for food. Not
many of them went down town for
breakfast because the railroad men
said the train might be expected
auy time. Little by little the morn.
ing wore away and then it got to be
noon, and still the train didn't
come. It was three o'clock In the
afternoon of very, very long day
when at last the bell rang and the
train steamed out.
at Albany, more trouble over.