Merriwell Stuff.
The Cougars Do It.
A New Idea.
1-By DICK NEUBEIiGEK
jy/JR. FRANK MERRIWELL him
self, in the eight or nine years
of college athletic competition al
jmL.. lotted him fcyhis
«jrv iVioiiier
generous story
book creator, did
n't participate in
any more football
thrillers than the
Washington State
college eleven has
been a party to
in recent seasons.
You'd almost
think some of the
cougars games were planned in
the scenario department of a mo
tion picture corporation. They
have everything in them that the
dashing Mr. Merriwell used to do
—last minute runs, 11th hour field
goals, flying tackles in the closing
seconds of play.
The wrestlers and prize fighters
whom they accuse of making a
good show better couldn’t put any
more punch in their performances
than the Cougars do in most of
their appearances on the gridiron.
In the last half a decade Washing
ton State has won and lost more
games by narrow margins than all
the other Pacific Coast conference
teams combined.
The fun started at Pullman
four years ago, when Porter
Barnhart climbed out of a sick
bed and thumped the field-goal
that gave the Cougars a 9-to-~
victory over Oregon State. Mr.
Bainhart did all this in the dos
ing minutes of play, just as the
sun was drifting down behind
the Paiouse hills, so you can ini- '
agine how very dramatic it all !
was. The sports writers made
their Sunday morning stories :
sound like an action description ;
of the Battle of Gettysburg, and,
consequently, all the managing !
editors bannered the game on
the front page, thereby assuring
Mr. Lainhart’s fame, and possi
bly his fortune.
The next time Mr. Bainhart
broke into the headlines was two
years later. He was a senior by
that time, and the scene of his
exploit also was at Pullman. On
this occasion Washington State’s
opponents were not the Oregon
Aggies, but the mighty Southern
California Trojans themselves.
Now Mr. Barnhart's chances of .
staging any heroics against the
proud Trojans were regarded as
about as good as those of a
snowball in Hell. This didn’t !
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ALL-CAMPUS CO-EDS
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“BLACK OUTS”
The 2nd Edition of
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The idol of the hour
in his star debut
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He Plays With Hearts and
Wins — But How?
COMEDY and NEWS
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EMERALD SPORTS STAFF
Dick Neuberger Sports Editor
Bruce Hamby....Asst. Sports Editor
Parks Hitchcock, Joseph Saslavsky,
Malcolm Bauer
OREGON SPORTS
PLAYOFF THIS WEEK
Washington meets California for
the coast championship this week
end. All games will be played at
Oakland.
Porter Wins
Round Robin
Fencing Tilt
Champion Defeats Four
To Gain Title
Clever Sword Handing Is
Feature of All-Campus
Tournament
Norris Porter is the champion of
the foil wielders by virtue of his
victory yesterday in the title
round robin playoffs in the all
campus fencing tournament. He
is the third and last king to be
crowned in that tourney, Russell
Tinkham having annexed the epee
scepter and Don Cross having gar
nered the sabre championship last
week in the first two divisions to
be run off.
Porter swept through four op
ponents in the rcuind robin affair
to take possession of the gonfalon.
He beat Tinkham, 5-1, Joe Bishop,
,5-3, Thomas Emmons, 5-2, and
John Caswell, 5-3, for a clean
sweep of all his duels. Tinkham
amassed the runner-up position by
winning three of his four duels,
beating all the other participants
in the title matches except Por
ter.
The duelists showed some fast
and clever sword handling for a
change. With the abler bladesmen
battling for the championship, the
result was that speedier and more
interesting conflicts were displayed
to the small audience who wit
nessed the arguments.
The champion penetrated his
foes’ defenses at will and had only
nine contacts scored on him by
them in four encounters. Tinkham
defeated Caswell, Bishop, and Em
mons. Emmons overcame Bishop
and Caswell and lost his other two
duels. Caswell took Bishop for his
only victory, while Bishop could
not break through for a win al
though he made himself evident
to his opponents'.
accur to Mr. Lainhart, however,
and before the game was very
old he was dashing liithlely
about, as unconcerned as if his
opposition were only the Oregon
Aggies, and not the Trojans
themselves. Mr. Lainhart con
tinued this sort of folly so long
that he eventually committed
the crime of scoring a touch
down. This sin was followed by
the kicking of the extra point by
Mr. Lyle Masked of Portland.
Along about the fourth quarter,
Mr. Howard Jones got tired look
ing at that 7-to-0 score and turned
loose a young fellow named Mr.
Orville Mohler, of whom perhaps
you since have heard. Mr. Mohler
soon scored a touchdown of his
own, but Mr. Johnny Baker was
guilty of lese majeste a minlute
later when he muffed the conver
Coast Title Tilts
To Be Broadcast
By Oakland Radio
AKLAND, Cal., March 1.—
(Special).—The basketball
teams of the University of
Washington and (he University
of California, ancient rivals on
the court, will meet here Fri
day and Saturday nights in the
annual playoff series for the
championship of the Pacific
Coast conference. If a third
game should be necessary it
will be played Monday night,
March 7.
The games of the W'ashing
ton-Caiifornia series are to be
broadcast by KUX, Oakland
(880 kilocycles). The play-by
play description, direct from
the scene of action at Oakland
auditorium, will be given by
Doug Montell, sports announcer
of KLX, who has handled all
previous inter-collegiate sports
broadcasts for the station.
sion. Was Mr. Mohler discour
aged ? No, he was not.
With only two minutes to go,
lie started again and presently
found himself on Washington
State’s 20-yard line. Ey this time,
however, there were only 25 sec
onds to play, so it was do or die
for Mr. Mohler and his pals. At
this juncture everybody in the
stands was in a perfect frenzy, the
sports writers were thinking of
new adjectives and the coaches
were beside themselves with ex
citement.
Everything was ready for Mr.
Mohler to do something heroic, and
he almost did it.
* * *
Two weeks later Washington en
gaged in another thriller when it
whipped Oregon State, 14 to 7, on
Turk Edwards’ long run in the
last few minutes. Then the Cou
gars beat Washington, 3 to 0,
thereby winning their first Pacific
Coast football championship. Last
autumn Babe Hollingbery’s men
again were involved in numerous
close encounters. Ed Kirwan ol
California ran 57 yards to beat
thew in the last three minutes of
play. They won over Oregon State,
7 to 6, on Mentor Dahlen’s pass
play in the fourth quarter, and
beat Idaho, 9 to 8, on one of their
famous last-quarter field goals.
All these retrospective glances
into the football past bring to
mind an idea—why not occa
sionally vary the material that
appears in this column with ac
counts of the more noted college
sports events that have taken
place in the Pacific Northwest?
For instance, you can use for
material such deeds as Ralph
Hill’s world record in the mile
run, Washington’s basketball vic
tory over California, Paul Jes
sup’s discus record and numerous
important football combats.
It might be interesting to try
some time. At least it would be
something different.
* WITH
WALTER HUSTON
JEAN HARLOW
iJEAN HERSWOLT
\WAILACE FORD^
up11
Ends
TODAY
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Matinees .. 10c
Nights . 20e
BIG DOUBLE FEATURE
Slim Summerville
Zasu Pitts
“Racine Youth”
Charlotte Greenwood
Bert Lahr
“Flying High”
One of Old Eli’s Band
Adam Walsh, assistant coach at Yale university, who will be one
of the leaders of the Harvard-Yale-l’rlnceton footbail team that comes
west this summer to meet a picked band from Southern California,
Stanford and California. The game will be the feature event of the
10 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. It will take place the night of
August 8 before what is expected to be one of the largest crowds
ever to see an athletic event within one inclosure—110,000 persons.
DONUT
CHATS
by
JOSEPH SASLAVSKY
To come, to see, to conquer—
such was the purpose and goal of
the squad of University of Wash
ington grapplers who invaded Eu
gene last Saturday for a dual
event with the local crushers.
That they would do so was never
doubted, not even by the most ar
dent supporters of the inexperi
enced Oregon aggregation of grap
plers. The Huskies were doped to
have a world beating and invin
cible combination, at least as far
as the Webfoot tuggers were con
cerned. But the Oregonians
thought differently and nonchal
lantly went on the mat at the
Igloo to trounce the invaders
from Seattle in five out of seven
matches. Is Clair Meisel, coach of
the Lemon and Yellow wrestlers,
happy ? Don't ask foolish ques
tions, Alphonse.
# $ 3*.
At last, the all-campus singles
and doubles handball tournaments,
which have dragged along for
about six weeks, have come to an
end. Warren Cress was declared
winner of the holo handballists,
and with Fred Deuel was crowned
doubles champion by a forfeit on
the part of A1 Schneider and Sol
Schneider. B * *
The aim >al intramural track
meet comt off next Saturday,
March 5, a t:30 p. m. Fourteen
houses havf entered the competi
tion for t'.e trophy which will be
presented to the winner of the title
by Bill Hayward, coach of the
Oregon trackmen. The contestants
are Alpha Tau Omega, Beta Theta
Pi, Delta Tau Delta, Friendly hall.
Kappa Sigma, Omega hall, Phi
Delta Theta, Phi Gamma Delta,
Phi Sigma Kappa, Pi Kappa Al
pha, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Sigma
Chi, Sigma Phi Epsilon, and Theta
Chi. * * *
The all-campus fencing tourna
ment came to a close yesterday
with the naming of the winner of
the foil championship, Norris Por
ter, in the third and last division
of the tourney. Two other titlists,
each the holder of the scepter of
two different weapons, the epee
and the sabre, were designated
last week, Russell Tinkham of the
former and Don Cross of the lat
ter. With the cruelty characteris
tic of our faculty, Warren Powell,
| mentor of the bladesmen, has an
j nounced that regular classes in
fencing will be resumed today as
I usual, although most of the par
; ticipants in the tourney declare
that they have had enough exer
cise in the last 10 days to make
up for a whole month's session of
clacseo,
Frosh Athletes
Show Strength
For Donut Meet
Demaris, Nowlancl, Meyer
Outstanding Favorites
To Take Points
When athletes of the campus
! line up for the start of the annual
intramural track and field meet
next Saturday at Hayward field a
good share of the favorites will be
from the class of '35. A large num
ber of frosh cinder artists have
been turning out daily, and in the
trials of the last two weeks they
have finished well toward the top.
Four of the yearlings are espe
cially outstanding. Warren De
maris, interscholastic javelin
champion, heads the list. The
Prineville athlete is improving
with each day, and has already
tossed the spear over the 180-foot
mark. This should be good for an
easy victory in the donut meet, or
in most other meets for that mat
ter.
Fred Nowland, last year’s state
champion in the high hurdles, has
been running McCoy a close race
in the high sticks. He is built
about right for a hurdler, and as
he becomes used to Hayward's
method of clearing the bars, he
will be able to hold his own in
any competition.
The frosh are exceptionally
strong in the distance runs. Harold
flayer, who hails from Lincoln high
school in Portland, has been cov
ering the half mile distance in
good time this year, and should
come close to the two-minute
mark. He has emerged victorious
in both trial heats so far this year.
Robert Wagner, who set a new
state prep record in the mile last
year, is showing up well. He
should press Bob Hunter, varsity
miler, in the Saturday meet.
Spring football has taken mo3t
of the frosh weight men, but a
number have been out testing
their strength on the field. Among
these are Gardner Frye, who hurls
the discus between 130 and 110
feet, and Hank Lewis, who works
in all three weight events.
Scores of other first year men
are showing promise, and the
Ducklings appear to be on the
road to a successful track season
to parallel their football and bas
ketball victories.
—
| Executive Council Meeting
Postponed L’ntil Thursday
The meeting oi the executive
council originally scheduled for
this afternoon, has been postponed
until tomorrow afternoon because
of the assembly today, acnrriir»
to Brian Mimnaugh, president of
the Associated Students.
The meeting will be held at 0
o’clock in 110 Johnson hall. No out
standing business was anticipated
yesterday afternoon.
[1932 Prospect
For Baseball
Cheers UCLA
Hruins Hope To Capture
Conference Title
LuBruiich Stakes Chance
On Infield, Battery;
Outer Garden Weak
LOS ANGELES, March 1.—
(Special). Baseball prospects for
the Bruins are the best they have
been in years and A1 Montgomery,
newly appointed U. C. L. A. coach,
expects to wind up the 1932 Cali
fornia intercollegiate baseball
season well toward the top in con
ference standings. The Westwood
Hills nine opens its league sche
dule here Monday and Tuesday
playing San Francisco university.
Bruin hopes are built practically
around the performance of infield
ers and battery men, with the out
field rather shaky on account of
the failure of Billy Gilbert to re
port. Injuries will prevent him
taking part in the game this year,
it was announced yesterday. Jim
my Soest is the only veteran re
turning to the garden, which
leaves the center and right field
berths yet to be filled.
Few Practice Games
With only two practice games
and a few hit and miss workouts
under their belts on account of
bad weather, the Bruins will be
behind practically all their oppon
ents in the matter of spring train
ing when the league season opens
next week. Montgomery indicated
today that he will be unable to use
his best pitcher, Lou “Bud” Rose,
extensively for two or three weeks.
Rose was not allowed to workout
during the basketball season just
ended.
The pitching staff which will be
available for the first few games
will consist of Bill Winter, labeled
by Coach Montgomery the best
natural hurler of the lot, Tom
Murphy, regular last year, and Ed
Solomon, the ex-Bruin football
captain. Montgomery confidently
expects Solomon to become the
best relief chucker in California
intercollegiate circles as soon as
he rounds into the proper physical
condition.
Frankovlch Steps in
Coaching duties will be handled
by the sophomore, Mitchell “Mike”
Frankovich, Ralph Koontz, regular
last year, and Bill Campbell. The
remainder of the infield shapes up
with Capt. Bill Brubaker at first,
Bill Athey, transfer from Santa
Monica Junior college, at second,
Bob Decker at third, and Duane
Stevenson, als oa transfer from S.
M. J. C., at short. Relief men at
second, third, and short respective
ly will be Kiyoshi Okura, Gene
Hirsch, and Joe Berry, Glendale
Junior college transfer.
Sanborn Gets Many Galls
For Biological Treatise
Letters 1 rom as far away as
H angary and Holland have been
received by Dr. Ethel I. Sanborn,
assistant professor of plant biol
ogy, requesting copies of her bio
logical treatise, published in 3929.
The most recent request received
by Dr. Sanborn was from Profes
sor Gyorffy of Szeged, Hungary.
Not long ago, one was received
from Fr. Verdoorn of Utrecht, Hol
land.
“Hepatical and Antrocerotcs of
Western Oregon” is the title of the
article requested. It was published
by the University in pamphlet
form.
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world ANY right §
to crush 0 beau- M
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1932 Conference
Meet Scheduled
For Sonud City
rJMJE northern division Pacific
('oust truck and field meet
will he held this year in Seattle,
it was annonneed by graduate
managers of conference meet
ing in Seattle last week. The
dates set for the competition
ure May 27 and 28.
Head o f Portland
Symphony Group
Widely Acclaimed
One of the world’s foremost con
ductors, Willem van Hoogstraten,
will direct the Portland Symphony
orchestra when it appears in con
cert at McArthur court next Sun
day afternoon as the fifth event
on the concert series sponsored by
the Associated Students.
The feature will be free to stu
dents upon presentation of their
student body cards, according to
an announcement from Ronald
Robnett, assistant graduate man
ager in charge of the concert se
ries, and will start at 3 o’clock
Sunday afternoon. Admission pric
es for the general public have been
set at 50 cents for reserved seats
and 25 cents for general admission.
Reserved seats now on sale at Mc
Morran and Washburne.
The concert will be the only one
given outside of Portland by the
orchestra and will mark the fourth
time that the Portland symphony
has appeared in Eugene under the
sponsorship of the Associated Stu
dents. A program of special in
terest to University students has
been arranged by van Hoogstra
ten for the Eugene appearance of
the group and the full personnel of
70 musicians will take part in the
concert.
SENIOR WOMEN WIN
The women’s P. E. major league
game Tuesday between the seniors
and sophomores was won by the
seniors, 43 to 20.
The next major game will be
played today at 4 o’clock.
Trojans Bear Off
Trophies Galore
By Grid Victories
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 26.—Be
fore you relegate the 1931 football
season to the scrap heap, read this
| one about the national champion
ship Southern California Trojans:
They won the Rockne Memorial
! trophy, the Erskine cup and the
Rissman trophy, emblematic of a
national championship.
They won gold footballs, or those
who played against Tulane in the
Rose bowl did, presented by the
Pasadena Tournament of Roses
association.
They won certificates verifying
their status as members of the
championship team.
They won gold footballs present
ed by the university, with silver
footballs going to the non-letter
winners.
Seven seniors won additional
gold footballs for earning three S.
C.’s for three football seasons.
Seven seniors award gold life
passes to all Trojan athletic events.
Five All-America players won
collection of cups, watches and cer
tificates from various sectors of
mythical honor teams.
Entire group of 28 letter win
ners won S. C. sweaters.
And Coach Howard Jones won
a shiny new automobile.
EMERALD
... of the A I R
An oration entitled “His Last
Opinion” will be given by John
Pennington as the feature of this
afternoon’s Emerald of the air
over KORE. The program will be
held at 5:45 instead of the usual
hour of 4:15.
Pennington's oration is the Uni
versity of Oregon entry in the
State Old Line Oratorical contest,
which will be held March 11, at
Ashland, with all colleges and uni
versities in the state participating.
The oration is based on the re
cent resignation of Justice Oliver
Wendell Holmes from the United
States Supreme Court bench.
Now That the
\ New Allowance
Has Come—
Why Not
Be Thrifty and
Get a
Five Buck Meal
Ticket fr
Only Four-Fifty?*
((iooil for candy and
cigarettes as well as food)
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Which Do You Prefer?
1. College Side Iun
2. The Oregana
d. The Anchorage
4. Green Parrot
G. Gosser’s
(>. Gray Belle
7. The Cottage
But it doesn’t matter
they all serve
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