SPORTS SECTION
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1928.
SPORTS SECTION
Oregon Nine
Wins League
TitleForl928
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Play-off Victory May
Mean Orient Trip
For 1929 Team
Heavy Hitters to Return
For Next Season; Rut
Three to Graduate
Final Western Conference Standing
Won Lost Pet.
Oregon .5 3 .025
Washington .4 4 .500
0. A. C.3 5 .375
By Harry Dutton
The University of Oregon baseball
conference season has come to a
close and for the first time in many
VPfl IS flip TiOmnn-Vnllnw m'nn -fin/I a
Coach Reinhart
themselves at the
top of the heap.
Next week-end,
Juno 1 ancl 2 the
varsity go into a
post-season scries
to determine the
final winner of
the conference
gonfalon.
The opponents
for Ee in hart’s
diamond stars will
be settled todaj’',
up north, when
Washinarton State
College and the University of Idaho
cross bats to break the tie that
exists between those two schools of
the eastern conference division. The
winner will do pitted against Oregon
next weekend.
Varsity Gets Short Rest
After putting the clamps on the
divisional leadership in their first
game with Washington on the north
ern trip, the varsity eased up and,
displaying a listless brand of ball,
^ lot Washington and the Aggies both
topple them in the remaining two
games of the conference schedule.
Since Tuesday’s game the Ore
gon boys have been enjoying a brief
respite from diamond practice.
Coach Reinhart granted the short
vacation that the squad members
might have a chance to hit the
books, term papers, and so forth,
before they go into training for their
championship series next week.
Monday practice will be resumed.
The squad will take another hitch
in their belts, and go to work in
earnest to annex the collegiate
baseball crown of Oregon, Washing
ton, Idaho and Montana.
ease Dan ± inure rsrignt
Next year, believe it or not, tlie
Oregon ball team will have a good
chance of making a trip to the Ori
ent or to tlie Islands. If Reinhart’s
men take the conference title next
week it will increase the likelihood
of this torn-.
Oregon has a good ball team, re
gardless of tlie fact that at times
it has played an erratic brand of
ball. Next year with added experi
* once, and with the addition of Bill
Baker to the pitching staff, it
should wipe up the conference in
one-two order.
There is some likely looking ball
material on this year’s frosh nine
that Coach Reinhart may find valu
able in building up his diamond
crew.
Four Pitchers Back
In 1029 Reinhart will find prac
tically liis entire squad intact. lie
will have four pitchers. Bill Baker,
peer of the mound crew, who was
forced out of competition this sea
son through an injury to his back,
will be on hand. When Bill finishes
his collegiate pitching it looks as
though he has a future in profes
sional ball.
Reynold McDonald, the Big Train
end mainstay of this season’s staff,
will second Baker in pitching holl
ers. The Big Train is admittedly
one of the most colorful chuekers to
perform on the Oregon mound for
a long time. lie has “it” with the
fans.
Reinhart will have two portsiders,
^ Curly Fuller and Art Sehoeni. Fuller
has had trouble with a sore arm this
season and has not come through]
ar expected. lie is an able left
hander and when he is going right
has plenty of stuff. Curly should
piove a valuable cog in next year’s
slab staff.
Two Catchers on Deck
Sehoeni is also a southpaw. On
the super-varsity last year he showed
quite an improvement this season
and has credit for two Aggie de
feats. Art has potentialities of de
veloping into an even better hurley
for the 1929 team.
Oregon will have two veteran
catchers for windpad duty. Ira
Woodie and Cecil Gabriel. It has
been nip and tuck between the two
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Managers' Proxy
Jack W. Eenefiel, Oregon graduate
manager and the president of the
Pacific Coast conference graduate
managers, who will preside over the
meeting at Missoula next Friday and
Saturday, June 1 and 2. Among the
important business to he decided is
that of radio broadcasting of foot
ball games.
Bill Makes Ready
For Olympics
Wetzel and Demers Asked
To Attend Tryouts
William Hayward Oregon’s vet
eran track eoaeli, will soon make
his fifth trip to the Olympics as
track advisor. He received a letter
this week from Lawson Robertson,
track coach of the University of
Pennsylvania, asking him to bring
‘■’Vic” Wetzel and Jim Demers, high
school javelin thrower, to Phila
delphia for June 3 and 4.
“Vic” Wetzel will enter the de
cathalon tryouts and “Bill” says he
has a good chance of going to Am
sterdam, the site -of the Olympics.
Demers is sure of representing the
United States in the javelin throw.
Prom Philadelphia, “Bill” will
take his two men to Boston for the
finals, then to New York. On June
11 he will start his journey across
the Atlantic, accompanie'l by Wet
zel and Demers, if they come
through with the goods. The Olym
pics will start July 27 and will end
August 0.
This will be the fifth time that
Hayward and Robertson have
crossed the Atlantic together and
trained the athletes of the United
States. “Bill” tells of a trip in
IP! 2, following the sinking of the
Titantic, when they went several
hundred miles out of their way to
the south to avoid the flow of ice
bergs.
Southern Cal Finishes
Good Tennis Season
U. S. O., Los Angeles, May 24—
('P.I.P.')—Having competed in six
intercollegiate matches and three
tournaments, the Southern California
tennis squad closed a fairly success
ful season when Bob Bates and
Francis ITardv entered the Pacific
Coast tournament at Seattle last
Friday.
Of the intercollegiate matches in
which they participated, Coach God
shall’s men defeated the Whittier
tennis club by a 5-1 score, lost to
Ocei College, 4-2, went down
to defeat before the Lincoln Park
tennis club 6-1, lost to Stanford 4-2,
tied California 3-3, and vanquished
the Lincoln Park tennis club in a
return match by a 5-1 score.
The S. C. net men won second
place in the all-minor sports tourna
ment in which they competed with
California, Stanford, and LL C. L. A.
In the Ojai tournament Francis
Hardy of the Trojans reached the
semi finals, winning four of his
matches.
Oregon Loses
Track Men By
Injury Route
Varsity Blanked; Frosli
Take Five-Ilandcd
Portland Meet
Tangle This A. M. Willi
Aggies May Not Swing
As Dope Indicates
By dial Nooe
Two paths that lead away from
winning track teams, scholastic dif
ficulties and injury, have been kept
Vic Wetzel
worn smooth by
departing Web
foots. Two months
ago, “Bill” Hay
ward, Oregon’s
veto r a n track
coach, had a track
team. He admit
ted it himself. To
day’s meet ends
the season and he
has no team to
send against Ore
gon State, at least
not the one ho
had earlier in the
season.
The first meet of the year was
the relay carnival with the Aggies
held at Hayward Field. They won,
taking six of the nine events on the
program. In this contest the need
of Clarence Hill, varsity miler, was
very much in evidence. He has been
out of the running all season with
an injured leg.
“Bill” has lost men from the
frosh lineup as well ns tho varsity.
Harrington, a big freshman who
heaves the javelin and puts the
shot, was lost to the cause for one
reason or another. Their first meet
was a relay duo at Corvallis and
they lost to' the rooks, three events
to two.
Fresh Lose to Babes
On May 11 tho Washington
freshmen came to Eugene and won
a track and field meet from the
Webfoot fro sir 69 to 54. The fresh
men of Oregon surprised themselves
and everyone else by taking six first
places, four men doing tho heavy
work. Seigmund skimmed the high
and low sticks for a couple of firsts
and gathered in a second in the
broad jump. The initial places in
tho discus and shot and second in
the javelin went to another Oregon
frosh, Hall by name. Lowry, frosli
speed artist, was beaten out in the
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Cougars, Idaho Vie
For Championship
Today on Diamond
* WASHINGTON STATE COL
LEGE, Pullman, May 24—(P.T.P.)—
j As a result of Washington State’s
double victory over the University
! of Montana Monday and Tuesday,
the championship of the eastern sec
tion of the northern division of the
Pacific Coast conference will be at
stake next Saturday at Moscow
when Coach Buck Bailey’s crew of
baseballers tangle with the Univer
sity of Idaho nine in the final game
of the league schedule. The Cougars
overwhelmed the drizzles Id to 0
Monday afternoon and came back
to wallop the Montana club again
Tuesday by a 13 to 4 score.
Washington State and Idaho are
each chalked up with five wins and
two losses in the title race, with the
deciding tilt Saturday. To date
Idaho holds two victories over the
1 Cougars while W. S. C. has defeated
the Vandals but once. Montana
bowed four times without taking a
game, in its series with the Bailey
tribe, while Idaho was able to gath
er but three victories in its four
games with Montana.
Yearling Tennis
Team Unbeaten
Rooks, Babes Fall Befoue
Frosh Raequeteers
Like the varsity, the 1928 fresh
man tennis team may lay fair claim
to championship honors of the
Northwest, in their class. Of the
eight, matches on their schedule, the
green-cappers have lost but one, and
that to the Aggie Books who were
taken into camp by a 9-1 score.
Stanley Almquist and Sherman
Lockwood, freshman stars, showed
their worth in the Washington Babe
matches, which they easily won,
handicapped as they were, by laek
of practice conditions here on the
campus. These two also won their
first Book matches by one-sided
scores. They should make a very
valuable pair to go up for next
year’s varsity.
' Burdick, Buel, Kueeland, and An
derson are other freshman players
who broke in against the rooks in
the past season. All have tennis
possibilities, according to Coach
Abercrombie, and will be on hand to
make their bid for the varsity when
the 1929 season rolls around.
Fourteen fraternities at Washing
ton State College will enter teams
in the annual ibtramural track
meet to be held June 1 and 2.
Frosh Team
Closes Good
Ball Season
Games Shows Well
For Yearlings
dinger and Barnes Among
Ev Warren Tinker
The 1928 freshman baseball son
sen, far from being a failure, lias
developed several men who look like
varsity material. Four games won
and four lost gives the frosh team a
.500 win average which is not so
bad, considering various things, ac
cording to Spike Leslie, frosh coach.
The Oregon varsity will return
next year practically intact and it
is doubtful whether many of this
year’s frosh will be able to place on
Ihe varsity next season.
Among those considered as first
rate varsity material are Harold
Olinger and Robert Rarnes, fresh
man outfielders. Both are fast men
and able to get under the most diffi
cult of flies from opposition batters.
Besides this the two have the best
batting averages on the frosh list.
Olinger has batted consistently over
.500 through the season, while
Barnes failed to get, started until
the frosh-rook tilts and has hit .600
in the four games with the Aggie
yearlings. He has a batting average
of .485 for the season.
Park Promising Catcher
A hitting catcher is in prospect
for next year’s varsity squad. Ted
Park, while kept out of some games
because of lack of experience, has
done some good bat work for the
freshmen. Maurice -Sussman has
caught several of the frosh games
but his batting must improve con
siderably before he can bo con
sidered as varsity material.
The freshman season started out
with a rush, two wins by large
scores being tabulated in a like
number of games. Ashhind normal
was defeated in the first, 10-1, and
the Salem high school was crushed
for tlie next one, 17-4.
From that time, on, however, it
was hard sledding for the green lid
boys, and disastrous too, as four
cut of six games were lost during
the rest of the playing season.
The first out of town gamo was
tiie sign for the initial defeat ad
ministered the frosh. Oregon nor
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Even
on
Big List of Stars
Oil Squat!
Trojan Bat Slingers Now Touring Orient
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Seven of the University of Southern California willow-slingers who are playing on the varsity team
which landed in Japan yesterday on its tour of the Orient. Team in Hawaii, Japan, Korea, and Manchuria
will tangle with the team before its return in August. The team is being coached by Sam “Wahoo” Craw
ford, Trojan varsity coach.
Harden and Dixon
W ill Have Positions,
Oberteuffer Says
Harold Harden and Homer Dixon,
ex-Oregon grid stars who will grad
ate in .Tune, have been elected di
rectors of physical education at
Kndicott_ Washington, and Indepen
dence, Oregon, respectively, was the
announcement of Delbert Obcrteuf
fir, acting director of physical edu
i ation.
Both men are from this department.
Harden will also serve as principal.
Dixon held down a tackle berth
for three years on the varsity. He
is a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon
fraternity, and his homo town is
Elk City.
Harden won his letter at guard
two years ago. He is a member of
Sigma Nil, and hails from Marsh
field.
(Hen Howard, another physical
education major, will ontoT the
teachers’ college at Columbia Uni
versity after his graduation this
year. He will try for his master’s
degree there. He is also a Sigma
Nu.
Clifford Kuhn, assistant in the
physical education office, graduating
this spring, will forsake his career
in that department to enroll in the
Portland Medical School. Cliff is a
member of Phi Sigma Kappa.
Herman Oawer, student assistant,
will accept an assistantship in the
department here, next year.
Do-Nut Tennis
Attracts Many
Pin Psi’s, Phi Delts Win
Way to Finals
For the second successive year,
Plii Delta Theta walked off with
the intramural tennis championship,
though the tournament this spring
was a walk-away for no one.
Phi Kappa Psi reached the finals
after winning its way through such
teams ns the Kappa Sigs, Phi Sigma
Kappa, and the Sigma Nu’s. Me*
Cook and II. Miller were the Phi
Psi players who were, defeated by
Fletcher and Earl Miller, the Phi
Belt champions.
The S. A. E.’s, Belts, and the A.
T. O. team dotted the Phi Belt half
of the draw when the curtain for
the beginning of the do-nut net
season was raised. The Sigma Nu
and A. T. O. pairs were the semi
finalists.
Interest in do-nut tennis, as evi
denced by tho number of entries,
and the enthusiasm of the players,
is growing every year, and though
no cup was offered this year, it is
the hope of Coach Abercrombie that,
next year’s tourney will find an
award for the winning team, and
overy fraternity on the campus will
enter the competition.
Husky Crew Will Try
To Place for Olympics
SEATTLE, May 28.—(I’.T.P.)—
For the first time in the history of
rowing, n University of Washington
crow will have the opportunity to
compete for the honor of represent
ing the United States in the Olympic
flames at Amsterdam. Official fac
ulty permission has been given Coach
A1 Ulbrickson to race his varsity
eight in the 2,000-meter Olympic
trials on the Scliuykill river at Phil
adelphia, July (i and 7.
Only one condition was attached
to the action of the faculty and this
condition which depends entirely on
the oarsmen themselves is—that the
varsity eight make an impressive
showing in the intercollegiate re
gatta on the Hudson, Juno It).
Once before, in 1924, Washington
had a crew which would have en
tered the Olympic trials if the fac
ulty had not decided against it on
the grounds that the 1924 crew
should defend the national cham
pionship won at Poughkeepsie in
192.'!. The reason for this decision
was that the Olympic trials and the
Poughkeepsie regatta were both held
during the same week, and it was
impossible for Washington to take
part in both contests.
U. H. S. Wins Net Title
For Willamette Valley
The University high school tennis
team has won the Willamette Valley
championship, and is dickering with
Grant high of Portland for a match
June 1.
This may decide the state cham
pionship, or at least that of western
Oregon, as Grant hag a record of
twelve straight wins over Portland
high schools.
The local team is starting to prac
tice regularly and the chances of
victory are very good, those in
charge believe.
Prospect for
Football Team
Is Excellent
MeEwan Is Pleased With
Results of Practice
During Spring
Heavy Line and Back field
Will Feature Oregon
.Varsity Lineup
By Clian Brown
When football practice opens tho
loth of September, Coach J. ,T. Mc
Kwan will begin the final whipping
McEwan
mo s n a p e ot
ivliat ho bolieves
will bo tho bost
Oregon grid iron
squad that lias
inado its appear
ance within tho
last few years.
Me Ewan bases his
hopes for success
upon tho heavy
lino and baekficld
which ho will bo
able to form. In
t li o p a s t t h o
fi o in o n - Yellow
grmsrors nave otten been badly
outweighed by opposing teams and
this has often been a largo con
tributing factor in the defeat of
the Webfoots, but next year new
candidates from the present fresh
man class alone are capable of
forming a line that would averago
close to 200 pounds, while their
baclcfield averago would bo about
185 pounds. In addition to this
promising group of in-coming soph
omores, at least 13 varsity letter
men are expected to answer the
first roll-call.
Long Spring Practice
Preliminary football practice was
begun about the 18tli of January,
and from then until spring vacation
“Cap” McEwnn drilled his linemen,
principally upon fundamentals, with
frequent hard serimmago sessions.
After the beginning of the spring
term, there was some more intensive
drilling for tho lino, and later a
good deal of forward pass practice
for tho baekfield.
The freshman squad will con
tribute, greatly to tho strength of
tho baekfield in the porson of
Johnny Kitzmiller, 170-pound full
back, who was the-most .outstanding
player produced by Spike Leslie
last fall, “dec” Gabriel, varsity
catcher, was ineligible for tho pig
skin game last fall, but ho is ex
pected to bo on hand this year
and will be one of the fastest half
backs on tho squad. Gabriel com
bines a gross weight of 190 pounds
with his unusual speed and the bat
tering-ram effect should provo very
satisfactory to I he Oregon cause.
“Speed” Burnell to be Back
“Speed” Burnell, two year var
sity letterman at half-back, is
another certain yard-gainer in most
any fracas. lie will return for his
last year of fool ball, and will en
deavor to excel! even his former
stellar performance. One of the
hardest-hitting ball carriers in tho
game last year was “Chuck” Wil
liams, and this game little fighter
is sure to break into tho liueup
next fall.
Fully recovered from tho injury
to his arm, Bobby Robinson will
probably continue to bo tho best
broken-field runner of tho outfit.
Two able men are eligible for the
position at quarter-back. Ira Woodie
and Dave Mason have both mado
letters as team pilots, Ira earning
two stripes and Dave being one of
tho sophomores of tho 1927 eleven.
Freshmen Will Help
John Donahue and “Choppy”
I Parke of Billy Reinhart’s crew last
year are regarded as good possibili
ties by Me Ewan. Both boys were
stars with the yearlings and tip tho
scales at 180 and 170 pounds respec
tively.
Freshman contributions to the
varsity line aro of an exceptionally
high caliber this year, and these •
men added to returning” lettermen,
will give the Oregon mentor a truly
formidable forward wall combining
both strength and speed.
Three stellar tackles wore pro
duced by tlie yearlings, and with
the two lettermen who will return,
it seems that McEwan will not have
to worry about that position. Aus
tin Colbert is a fighting 195
pounder whoso specialty is smear
ing the plays of the opposition be
fore they can get started. His per
formance with the freshmen last
season left little to be desired.
Marion “Tiny” Hall, present weight
man with the Duckling track team,
stands well over six feet in height
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