SPORTS
by the
Emerald
SporfSfaff
“I am now in training to be in
tip-top shape to run against Boland
Locke, the Nebraska sprinter, and
uphold the standard of the west at
the National Intercollegiate meet to
be June II and 12 on Stagg Field
in Chicago,” United Service has
Bussell Sweet saying in a recent
dispatch.
This is the same Bussell Sweet,
of Montana, whose case was unani
mously diagnosed as hopeless not
so long agot by every major track
coach in the Pacific coast confer-,
ence when he injured a leg muscle
at Palo Alto. Everyone gave up
hope, strange to say, except the one
most vitally affected—Mr. Sweet
himself. Electrical treatments and
the best of care wrought wonders
with the ailing member, and now
Sweet feels like matching strides
with the best ci^ them.
We hope Bussell Sweet not only
gets well, but runs the Nebraska
marvel into the ground, and comes
back to star on Montana grid and
hoop teams again, for Sweet is a
real athlete, and a credit to any
sport he participates in. His show- ;
ing at Chicago will be watched with
great interest.
• • •
The move to send Boy Okerberg
and Harry Coffin east for the na
tional intercollegiates has received
favorable comment throughout the
northwest. This is the first time
since the introduction of the court
game at Oregon that entries have
been made in the nationals.
“It goes without saying,” writes
George Bertz in the Oregon Journal,
“that these two athletes will put up
the same kind of fights for victories
at the nets that Oregon’s football
teams have put up on the gridiron
in their battles against representa
tives of eastern colleges.
“The sending of the two tennis
players east will add prestige to
the University.”
» * •
It seems to us that the abandon
ment of the annual East-West foot
ball classic at Pasadena by the Pa
cific Coast conference is playing
right into the hands of profession
als, who are striving hard to put
their game on a popular basis.
This game, which may easily be
overlooked by the big coaches,
neans a lot to the citizens of Pasa
iena, as it is a big feature of their
mnual tournament of roses. To take
in East-West football game away ]
vould be like taking the strawber- i
ies away from strawberry short- ’
ake. j
If the big coast colleges look on
vith apathy, what is to prevent two 1
representative professional teame
from stepping in and assuming the
prestige that has been gained by
past classics! And all they need is
a foothold.
“And a little child shall lead
them.” The infant northwest con
ference, yet to celebrate its first
birthday, has pointed the way to
its bigger brothers and sisters.
Washington, Oregon, O. A. C., Ihaho,
W. S. C., and Montana will engage
in an annual track meet among
themselves next spring and let the
Californians find other practice ma
terial. There will be no- more re
currences of the Oregon-Stanford
holocaust which left the Webfoot
ers holding the sack, and said bag
containing but ten insignificant
points.
The smaller northwest schools
tired of serving as doormats to their
more populous neighbors and pulled
out to form a minor conference of
their own. The big schools have now
followed their lead in a lesser de
gree. This change promises to be
conducive of much good as too much
losing is bad medicine for a team’s
morale. There is the old “inferior
ity complex” that we hear so much
ibout. “Give us a winner,” chants
the multitude.
The change was not brought about
entirely by the losses suffered in
;he past, but to suit northwest cli
natic conditions. The continual
varm weather found in the south
mables the southerners to reach the
>eak of their form long before their
iorthern rivals. Northern teams in
nid-April are In formative stage,
vhile the Californians at the same
leriod are in shape to crack records.
The coast conference meet will
lot be abandoned, but broadened in- i
to an invitational affair with al
comers welcome—Nevada, St. Ma
rys, Nebraska, Princeton, Hoots
ville Normal, and so on. It will come
at a later period so as to catch all
participants in top form.
• • •
High hopes were dashed in a re
cent high school track meet in
Portland. Miller, Washington high
sprinter, was clocked in the fast
time of 9.9 in the hundred yard
dash, and his chest swelled several
inches as it was believed he had
broken the record in this event.
Dubious officials, however, measured
the course and it was found to be
but 95 yards, so Mr. Miller went
home one of the boys again.
Past Records
(Continued from page one)
Westergren’s townsman, is wiry and
slick, and has experience enough to
fill Hobson’s shoes/^whjle Bay Ed
wards, one of the big^s^t men in
the conference as well aS -oh'e'+flf the
fastest, has high hopes of alijimng
into Jost’s niche next year. ^4,^ j
Several freshmen, 4$e on deck
who seem destijjdf to argue this
statement, and wear Jost’s. and
Hobson’s brogans themselves. Gor
don Bidings, a husky youth with an
uncanny eye for the net; Clare
Scallon, an auburn-thatched shadow
with, as much experience as any
man on the squad; Keith Emmons,
a dapper sharp-shooter; Scott Milli
gan, brilliant and heady; and Joe
Bully, a smooth checking guard,
Six Athletic Managers and an Athletic-minded King of Yelling
successful
Paul Slet
i yell staff
i
1 seem to be the pick of “Spike”
Leslie’s yearling squad.
Other promising athletes are Pat
Hughes, Earl Chiles, Howard Eber
hart, Tom Powers, Fred Joy, Ward
Beeney, “Tuffy” Chastain, Don
McCormick, and a host of others.
Coach Reinhart has every ambition
to dedicate the new pavilion with a
winning team.
Last winter’s results:
Oregon . 40 Montana . ID
Oregon . 34 Washington .. 20
Oregon . 35 Montana . 17
Oregon . 34 Idaho . 24
Oregon . 34 Wash. State .. 22
j Oregon . 26 Washington .. 21
| Oregon . 37 Idaho . 17
I Oregon . 32 Wash. State .. 23
Oregon . 35 0. A. C.. 17
Oregon . 25 O. A. C. 15
‘Oregon . 17 California _ 17
Oregon
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Three Men to Fight
For Handball Title
At the end of four rounds of
play in the campus handball tourna
ment, open to all comers, and spon
sored by the physical education de
partment, three, men are left, Alton
Gabriel, Norman Parker, and Ed
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