The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-01-08
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be inaugurated by home game Jan
uary 10. Between twenty and thirty
candidates for the team are on the
floor every afternoon and some fast
work INDUCED in. Many of the new
men are former high school stars
and their previous experience is
standing them in good stead in their
efforts to land positions on the team.
Since but a week of practice remains
before the busy basket ball season
is under way Coach Owen is whip
ping the men into shape without un-
necessary delay and the hard prac-
tice has already wrought much i'm
proyement in the squad, both as to
speed and condition. After two min
or games at home the team will take
flyer through northern Oklahoma
and the Sunflower state, playing ev-
cry day for over a week and meeting
many of the premier aggregations of
the state to the north. The work of
the candidates in practice is most
encouraging and indicates that the
Sooners will be fully as strong as last
year when they had one of the best
fives in the southwest. The return
of Charles Carey, a forward on the
1909 team. may solve the riddle as to
who is to mate up with Claude Reeds
at forward. Carey is an experienced
player and, if eligible, should be a
strong contender for the place pro.
viding he can get into condition. The
lineup will be announced this week.
# looks now as if Reeds and Gorton
or Carey will be forwards, Parsons
center. Diamond and Weeden guards,
and Brown and Porter substitutes.
Tom Buchanan Matthews, O9, who
has been in Puerto Rico for the past
two years in the interests of an east
ern concern, has been visiting friends
and former schoolmates in Norman
for the past week.
A glance at the graduating class
of 1910 reveals the fact that most
of the co-eds have become wielders
of the birchen rod in high schools
of the state. Miss May Bailey is
teaching German at Cherokee, Miss
May Baker history and Latin at Fair
fax Miss Helen Norris is employed
in the Lawton high school, Miss Lulu
Foster at Weleetka. Miss Jessie New
by at Lawton Miss Fannie Simpson
at Norman, and many others who
have not been heard from are un-
derstood to be teaching,
The paper read last week by DR.
d. w. Ohren of the department of
geology in the university, before the
Geological Society of America in
Pittsburg, Pa, has occasioned much
favorable comment from scientists
and brought the author numerous con
gratulatory messages. DR.. Ohren
was accompanied by Prof. c, W..
Gould, head of the department of
geology in the state university, who
read an able paper before the Asso-
citation of State Biologists of which
he is a member as state geologist
of Oklahoma. Prof Gould also at
tended the meetings of the Geological
Society of America He is now in
Washington D. c., endeavoring to Sc
cure better cooperation between the
Oklahoma and Federal Geological
Surveys. Prof. Gould will also visit
in New York before his return to the
university. Chas. T. Kirk and Ches-
ter A. Reeds, graduates of the uni
versity and professors of geology at
the university of Montana and Bryn
Mawr respectively, were also present
at the sessions of the Geological So
ciety of America.
Professor John Begg Cheadle, pro-
fessor in the school of law here, was
recently honored by his fraternity
bothers of Phi Delta Phi by being
chosen president of the Oklahoma
alumni at their annual banquet held
in Oklahoma City. The organization
enthusiastically endorsed the petition
of the Holmes Club" of the Uni
versity of Oklahoma for absorption
into Phi Delta Phi. Phi Delta Phi
is the largest legal fraternity in the
United States. numbering among us
members such eminent men as Presi-
dent Taft. ex-President Roosevelt,
Justices Hughes and Holmes of the
supreme court and James Garfield. 1t
has over one hundred members in
Oklahoma.
The first preliminary debate for the
purpose of choosing the Oklahoma
Representatives against Kansas and
Colorado was held last Friday. Nine