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EMERALD SPORTS STAFF Dick Neuberger.Sports Editor Bruce Hamby.Asst. Sports Editor Parks Hitchcock, Joseph Saslav sky, Malcolm Bauer, Bob Riddle, Edgar Goodnough. SPORTS BEAVER-DUCKS WIN Portland won the Vaughn street baseball opener yesterday from the Mission Reds, 7 to S, be fore 8,124 persons. Webfeet Drill For Big Meet On Saturday Oregon Team Is Strong In Sprints Seven Relays To Compose Annual Meet; Mile Team Good Colonel William L. Hayward will send his Webfoot track and field athletes against the Beavers of Oregon State Paul Starr next Saturday afternoon on the local oval com peting in the an nual Oregon-Ore gon State relays. The Oregon men, | although they I will be the under | dogs, have a for midable outfit and should make it hot for the Orange stars. Hayward, who has been inactive for the past two weeks because of illness, will be on hand Satur day to direct his charges person ally. The meet includes seven events, all on the track. They will all be relays—the 440, 880, mile, two mile, four-mile, sprint medley, and distance medley. Webfoots Strong In the short distances the Web feet will be strong. Holman, Starr, Bale, Hamilton, and Burr have all been burning up the cinders in practice, and competition for the teams promises to be hot. The mile relay should be Ore gon’s event. The championship team of last year composed of Johnny Marrs, Art Holman, Chuck Dolloff, and Jack Rolhvage is back intact and is showing even better form than last spring. Distance Events Reviewed In the longer distances Bob Hunter, mile ace, is the outstand ing star. Gerald Gray and William Parmelee, both sophomores, are also expected to give good per formances. Art Holman, sprint star, will specialize in the longer races this year, and will probably Starts V jUfl* TODAY ( acLAUoem COLBERT EDMUND LOWS STUART ERWIN sne waniea to be a leading lady .... but she lacked experience. ... Did k she get it? ( .... And s' HOW! Matinee, ' 25c TODAY !S4U ■TODAY landi-barrymore “Yellow Ticket” HELEN TWELVETREES “.Woman oi Experience’ rS Varsity Hoopster Executes Triple Play In DonutTilt TRIPLE play, one of the rare freaks of baseball, was executed yesterday afternoon In a donut baseball game. John Jeffers, varsity basketball play er, was the key man of the re markable play and it occurred during the clash between Theta Chi and Beta Theta Pi. Jeffers caught the ball in midair with a man on first and one on the second sack. He touched second, putting both the batter and the man on sec ond out, and threw to first, catching the runner there be fore he could regain the sack. The play was of little avail, however, as the Betas won, 17 to G. Phi Belts Wallop Betas in Lone Net Struggle Tuesday Sigma Chi, Yeomen Victors In Day’s Fairway Clashes TODAY'S TENNIS, GOLF SCHEDULE Tennis 4:00 P. M. Friendly hall vs. Chi Psi Yeomen vs. Alpha Hall Golf Beta vs. SPE Fiji vs. Phi Delt One tennis and two golf matches were played yesterday in the re spective donut tournaments. The Phi Delts and Betas hooked up in the sole net confab, which the for mer won, two contests to one, that advancing to the finals. The other two slated racket swinging frays were postponed till the afternoon when the rain around 4 p. m. yes terday put the courts out of com mission. In the fairway battles, Sigma Chi trounced Alpha hall, 9 to 0, with one match not being played. The Sigma Chians who defeated the dormitory golfers were Ken Swan, Harry Weimar, and Bill Goodwin. In the other argument, the Yeoman quartet eked out a victory over the Phi Psi aggrega tion of divot diggers, 6 1-2 to 5 1-2. Leonard Anderson, Irving Manasse, Don Caswell, and Jack Bauer comprised the winning combina tion. run in the two-mile relay as well, as in the mile event. Scores of others have been working out daily and will un doubtedly be called upon to com pete Saturday. Stimson Takes Part In League’s Parley GENEVA, April 19— (AP)— Secretary of State Stimson wrote a chapter of American history at today’s session of the disarmament conference by becoming the first high ranking United States offi cial to participate in an important international parley held under the auspices of the League of Nations and at the seat of the league. The American delegation escort ed Colonel Stimson to his place at the conference table alongside Ambassador Hugh Gibson, who has served as chief of the United States contingent. The conference hall corridors were thronged with persons to watch his arrival. Spark ling. . . bubbling . comedy keyed I to racing pace of the day. with Mary Astor Kob’t Ames Edw. Ever ett Horton | SCREENO NITE { Hack, Hack, Do You Think They’ll Send You Back? - By DICI{ NEVBERGEB - EVERY ONCE in a while you read a story about a college boy who makes good in major league baseball and accumulates a vast j enough fortune therefrom to pay off the mortgage on the old I farm house, all of which alleviates greatly the sufferings of his sorely distressed parents. Generally the boy is fresh from college, although Tex Mlmnaugh the story-book writers now and then vary the monotony by making him a policeman, fireman, butcher or street-car conductor. But the nimble-minded gents never thought of the young hero as a bank clerk— that is not until Stanley Hack climbed off his high stool in a Sac ramento bank and stood the Coast league on its ear with his remark able third-basing for the Sacra mento Senators. wm.Ti j. a Stanley Hack Horatio Alger would have had a great time writing about Stanley Hack. He could have named the book, “The Trials and Tribulations of Stanley Hack, or Up From the Bank and Half Way Back.” But to get back to Mr. Hack. A year ago he was stacking coins and count ing currency back of the grille of a cashier’s cage in a bank in Sacra mento, when he suddenly was made a fairly-respectable offer by Mr. Lew Moreing of the Sacramento Senators. The offer so appealed to Mr. Hack that within two weeks he was wearing the flannels of the Solons. Sacramento did not have a great elub last year, far from it, bat young Mr. Hack was the class of the Pacific Coast league at third base. His dashing work afield and his lusty clouting at bat eventually attracted the notice of no less a personage than Rogers Hornsby, man ager of the Chicago Cubs. Mr. Ilornsby said lie must have Mr. Hack to play third base for the Cubs in 1932, regardless of the cost. He made remarks to that effect to William Veeek, president of the Cubs. Mr. Veeek repeated those remarks' to Phillip Wrigley, son of the late William Wrigley Jr., and soon $50,000 changed hands, the sum going from the coffers of Mr. Wrigley to the considerably smaller coffers of Mr. Moreing. In return for tiiis substantial sum, Mr. Moreing sent our hero, Mr. Stanley Hack, to the Chicago Cubs to play baseball for Mr. Rogers Hornsby. To date the young bank cashier has functioned admirably for the major-leaguers. He is hitting above .300 and his fielding is as lively as ever. • AMERICAN LEAGUE STANDINGS W. L. Pet. Washington . 5 2 .714 Detroit .,. 5 2 .714 New York . 3 2 .600 Cleveland . 4 3 .571 Philadelphia . 3 3 .500 Chicago . 4 4 .500 St. Louis . 2 6 .250 Boston . 1 5 .167 NATIONAL Chicago . 4 2 .667 Philadelphia . 4 2 .667 Boston . 4 2 .667 Cincinnati. 4 3 .571 Brooklyn . 3 3 .500 Pittsburgh . 3 4 .429 St. Louis . 2 4 .333 New York. 1 5 .167 *-* In the Major Ball Leagues * AMERICAN LEAGUE * ★ -★ YANKEES WHIP BOSTON BOSTON, April 19. — (AP) — Tony Lazzeri's home run with two on base in the seventh gave New York a 6 to 3 victory today in the afternoon game of the Patriots’, day doubleheader after the Red Sox had won the first game 6 to 5. Combs and Gehrig also hit homers this afternoon. First game— R. H. E. New York. 5 8 0 Boston . 6 10 0 Allen, Andrews and Dickey; Dur ham, Moore and Connolly. Second game— New York . 6 11 1 Boston . 3 6 3 Rhodes and Dickey; Lisenbee and Berry. SENATORS BEAT A’s PHILADELPHIA, April 19.— (AP)—Washington pounded Wal berg and Rommel for 15 hits and defeated Philadelphia 7 to 4 today. Cronin hit a homer for the Sena tors. Weaver and Marberry al lowed the A’s 11 hits. Washington . 7 15 0 Philadelphia . 4 11 1 Weaver, Marberry and Spencer; Walberg, Rommell and Cochrane, Heving. WHITE SOX WIN CHICAGO, April 19.—(AP) — Willis Hudlin held the White Sox to five hits today as Cleveland won the final game of the series, 4 to 2. Cleveland . 4 9 4 CHICAGO . 2 5 1 Hudlin and Myatt; Jones and Tate. TIGERS COP ANOTHER DETROIT, April 19.—(AP) — Detroit engaged in another hard v hitting spree today and took the At the same time as Mr. Hack went up to the majors,, there also went Jessie Hill, ex-football half back for the University of South ern California and a star slugger for the Hollywood baseball nine. Mr. Hill was conceded equally as good a chance as staying in the big leagues as Mr. Hack’s boy Stanley, bu^ Joe McCarthy of the New York Yankees wasn’t one of those who did the conceding. As a result of which, Jesse now is playing in one of the AA eastern leagues. The Yankees still have strings on him, and eventually he will appear in the majors, but it’s rather surprising that the bank clerk should survive where the trained college athlete failed. * * # Wonder how many Oregon base ball lads have major league ambi tions? I don’t know about any of ’em, but there may be some of Bill Reinhart’s youths who have definite ambitions of making the grade on the baseball diamond. In sofar as Brian (Tex) Mimnuugh is concerned, I don't know about his big-league ambitions, but I’m sure he’d just as soon as have a job in one of the Texas circuits. « * * Jack O'Brien, Oregon’s fresh men baseball coach, ran into tough luck this week when his crack pitcher, Bill Lake, was forced to withdraw from school because of the death of his father. Jack had none too many pitchers at best, and the loss of Lake will hamper the team considerably. final game of the series from St. Louis 8 to 0. Gehringer made a triple in the first with the bases filled. St. Louis . 0 6 1 Detroit. 8 11 1 Stewart, Kimsey, Polli arid Fer rell; Whitehill and Hayworth. ! NATIONAL LEAGUE * ★ ————-★ BRAVES BEAT GIANTS NEW YORK, April 19. (AI’i Wally Berger’s triple in the 13th inning gave Boston 2 runs and an 8 to 7 victory over the Giants to day. Bill Terry’s second homer of the game tied the score in the ninth. Boston . 8 14 1 New York . 7 15 3 Cunningham, Brandt and Spohr er; Walker, Luque, Hubbell and O'Farrell. ROBINS DROP ONE BROOKLYN, April 19. -(APl-, Ray Benge held the Dodgers to '5 hits today while the Phillies pound ed three Brooklyn pitchers for 14 blows and a 10 to 2 victory. Glenn Wright’s homer brought both Brooklyn runs. Philadelphia . 10 14 1 Brooklyn. 2 5 2 Benge and McCurdy, V. Davis, Shaute, Quinn and Lopez. Beavers Win Home Opener Before 8124 Portland Defeats Reds By Score of 8-3 Dietrich Baffles Visitors as Showers Sprinkle Crowd PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE STANDINGS San Francisco .12 2 Sacramento .10 4 Hollywood .10 5 Portland . 8 7 Oakland . 6 8 Los Angeles . 5 9 Seattle . 5 10 Mission . 2 13 PORTLAND, Ore., April 19 — (API—Portland opened the sea son at home between April show ers today with a 7-to-3 victory over the San Francisco Missions. Official paid attendance was 8,124, the lowest since 1928, but showery weather affected the turnout. Bill Dietrich, spectacled hurler, strong-armed the Missions into six-hit submission. He had them shut out with only two hits, one a scratch, until the ninth, when four blows, including Hafcy's double, broke the scoring ice. .857 .714 .667 .533 .429 .357 .333 .133 Mike Higgins hoisted a home run into the bleachers in the sec ond inning. Portland scored five of its runs in the seventh, as rain was falling. With two out, Pitcher Chagnon threw Reeves’ roller, in front of the plate, wild to first and Dahlgren then made a bad throw home, the double misplay letting in two runs and R. Jacobs’ double driving in two more. Missions . 3 6 2 Portland . 7 9 1 Chagnon and Hoffman; Dietrich and Fitzpatrick. STARS DROP SUDS SEATTLE, April 19—(AP) — About 6,000 baseball fans, one of the smallest opening day crowds in the history of Pacific Coast league baseball in Seattle, saw the Hollywood Stars defeat the Seattle Indians, 5 to 1, here this afternoon. Myles Thomas kept the Indians quiet throughout the afternoon ex cept for a first inning home run by Holland. He allowed but five hits. Nelson, making his debut before the home folks, was nicked for 10 hits, one of them McNeeley’s homer with Jack Sherlock aboard, while his mates made three errors behind him. A cold raw wind blew across the field throughout the game. Hollywood . 5 10 2 Seattle . 15 3 Thomas and Bassler; Nelson and Bottarini. Insanity Defense Stirs Prosecution HONOLULU, April 19 (AP) — Alienist testimony that Lieutenant Thomas H. Massie was insane at the moment Joseph Kahahawai was killed put the prosecution in a fighting mood today as the de fense effort to clear four persons of the lynching approached its finale. Insisting the young naval officer was mentally deranged when he allegedly stood before Kahahawai with drawn pistol and supposedly heard the young native confess taking part in the attack on Mrs. Thalia Massie, Dr. James Orbison, Los Angeles psychiatrist, stuck by his story under a furious attack at the hands of Barry S. Ulrich, assistant prosecutor. Just before that, Clarence Darrow, defense leader, announced he would close his case tomorrow, probably call ing Mrs. Massie, attack victim and wife of the accused officer. Massie “carried around this terrible memory,” Dr. Orbison continued, and “also what his friend had told him — terrible rumors about his wife.” FLOOD LAMPS —at— BAILEY ELEC. CO. GtO Willamette Phone 234 I Oregon9 Harvard Classic To Be Broadcast Tonight Famous Battle Replayed by Announcer Hughes Of KOBE By ED GOODNOUGH “We will now turn back the pag es of time 12 years and you, will hear the broadcast of the Oregon Harvard game from Tournament Park, Pasadena. With these words the KORE an nouncer will inaugurate the first of “Rush" Hughes' weekly reviv als of famous Oregon grid con tests at 5:45 p. m. tonight. Where upon "Rush" will sweep up to the hapless microphone in the best McNamee style, brush back his patent leather hair, tune up his magnetic voice, and carry the fans back to that memorable afternoon when the unheralded Oregonians upheld the dignity of the western football world. “We i. here I am, folks, in Tour nament park today all ready to give you the play by play account of this grand battle that’s going to take place in a few minutes. The sun is shining overhead and this gorgeous California weather, that you've no doubt heard something about, is advertising itself as far Frosh Baseball Artists To Meet Campus Hi Today rpHE FRESHMAN baseball team will meet the Univer sity high swat artists this after noon at 4:00 In the opening game of the season. The game scheduled for yesterday with Eugene high school was indefi nitely postponed on account of rain. Either Kneeland or Prouty are slated to take the mound for this afternoon, said Jack O’Brien, freshman mentor. DcBRUYN WINS MARATHON BOSTON, April 19—(AP)~--The machine-like strides of Paul De Bruyn, 24-year-old German mara thon champion, wore out 220 rivals today as they carried him home first in the 36th running of the Hopkinton-Boston marathon, 220 yards ahead of Jimmy Henigan of Medford, last year’s winner. Astoria Council Denies Dance Limit Extension ASTORIA, Ore., April 19—(AP) —The Astoria city council has re fused to extend the time limit for public dances from midnight to 1 a. m. In a report made public today, the council said that “People who work for a living ought to be able to get enough recreation by mid night.” Fear of objection by religious organizations was given as anoth er reason for refusing the request. Syracuse Mayor Plans 9-Cent-a-Day Rations Syracuse, N. Y., April 19. (AP) For the next week Mayor Roland B. Marvin is going to live on food costing nine cents a day. That is the cost under a dietary schedule per person on the city’s welfare rolls. » Said the mayor: “1 do not want to give to the people of the city a diet that I would not use. I will note the effect the diet has on me and I will be able to judge wheth er it is sufficient.” If You Are— Sensible You Will Start Senior Leap Week Off Right by Letting Jim Shine Your Shoes I wo-1 oned Shoes a Specialty U. OF O. SHOE SHINE , — -.. .. as the human eye can scan the horizon. “Now the teams are out there on the field! It looks bad for those Oregon Webfoots, folks,—mighty, mighty bad! They're outweighed 20 pounds to the man on the line, and do those Harvard boys look fierce! There’s Eddie Casey, the Crimson Tide’s great all-American. Coach Bob Fisher says Casey and Arnold Horween will go through Oregon like water through a tin horn. Well, we'll see. “Are you all set, folks? Sap tains Brandenburg and Murray are shaking hands. Harvard wins the toss and Oregon will kick-off. The game's on! Horween takes the ball and he’s coming up the field—5— 10- -15—20 yards. They've got him! No, no, no! He’s up! He’s down. No, he's up again. Downed on the 30-yard line! “Harvard fumbles! Oregon’s ball. Big Bill Steers tucks the ball under his arm and ploughs into the line for three yards. Time out, folks. My, but the ozone is refresh ing. I can't seem to get enough of it in my lungs. Oh! Oh! He's way off around end, folks. No one's near him! And he runs out of bounds. Pardon me, it’s just the water boy.” The above is a fair (or unfair) example of how Mr. Hughes will unreel the exciting game of Janu ary 1, 1920, when Oregon was de feated by a such heavier Harvard team but was not outfought. What Oregon fan doesn’t remember when Big Bill Steers booted a spec tacular 30-yard field goal, and how Oregon was barely deprived of vic tory in the final quarter when lit tle "Skeet" Manerud's try for an other field goal went wild by inches ? It is estimated that the program will be on the air from 45 minutes to an hour. The multitude of local fans that enjoyed Mr. Hughes’ football broadcasts last fall are urged to tune in tonight at 5:45 and hear just how “Rush" would have “put the 1920 game across." Plav in Donut Race Enters Second Round SAM, Pi Kap, ATO? anti Beta Take Clashes Yeomen, SPE Among Day's Victors; Two Slug-Fests Postponed TODAY’S SOFT BALL SCHEDULE 4 P. M. Phi Psi vs. Omega hall Zeta hall vs. SAE Phi Sigs vs. Chi Psi Friendly hall vs. Delt 5. P. M. Fiji vs. SPT Alpha hall vs. Sigma Chi Kappa Sig vs. Theta Chi Sigma Nu vs. Gamma hall Six of the eight soft ball games originally slated to be played yes terday were completed, amidst! rain and generally inclement weather. The other two would-ba slugging bees were postponed until next Friday at 4 p. m., the tilts being between Sigma Alpha Ep silon and Kappa Sigma and be tween Sigma hall and Sigma Pi Tau. Summary of the games: SAM, 17; Alpha hall, 2. Bat teries: Goldschmidt, Bloom and Rotenberg; Windes and Stryker. Pi Kap, 14; Friendly hall, 13. Batteries: White, Green, Cuppo letti and Hartley; Bullock, Min turn and Scott. ATO, 7; Phi Delt, 3. Batteries: Lake and Welch; Laurln, DePit tard and Vaughan. Beta, 17; Theta Chi, 6. Bat teries: Gunther and Hug; Gile and Granger. Yeomen, 15; Gamma hall, 5. Batteries: Mobley, Schneider and Wicks; Mann and Ekterovich. SPE, 7; Alpha Upsflon, 1. Bat teries: Kalina and Foley; Dolloff I and Kirby. Roduner’s Recital Enjoyable, Fair-Sized Audience Finds By DAVE WILSON There was not a packed house at the music auditorium last eve ning, but a fair-sized audience found Kenneth Roduner’s song recital one of the most enjoyable of the year's series. Roduner has a sound ter ?r voice which clearly shows the results of two years’ study under Arthur Boardman. Last night’s perfor mance was well-balanced and con sistently creditable to both singer and instructor. Roduner opened his program with an operatic group consisting of contrasting arias from Handel and Mozart. In "Oh sleep, why dost thou leave me?’’ from Han del’s "Semele,” he showed good range and sustained smooth tones. The slow, sombre style of this aria contrasted with the spirited tempo of the aria from Mozart’s "Don Giovanni," in which Roduner showed the classical restraint which must be used with Mozart's compositions. In the remainder of the pro gram, three selections were out standing. The romantic Italian style of Donizetti's aria, “Una furtiva lagrima” was particularly well-suited to Roduner’a lyric voice. In Kremer's “The Crystal Gazer” and Faure’s “Hymne,” the singer was very sure of himself, and showed real voice power. Of the three songs by Schumann which formed the second group, the dashing "Wanderlied” was out standing. Dupard’s “Chanson Triste” and Debussy’s “Romance" were similar in rather plaintive beauty. Sanderson's "Harlequin,” with its stirring "ring down the cur tain” theme, made a fine conclud ing number. The informal expositions with which Roduner preceded each group of songs added much to the significance of the program. Which Do You Prefer? 1. College Side Inn 2. The Oregana 3. The Anchorage 4. Green Parrot 3. Gosser’s 6. Gray Belle 7. The Cottage But It Doesn’t Matter—■ They All Serve I(jiMuuu/) MILKMAID BREAD