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'_ _ READ IT HERE EMERALD SPORTS STAFF rdltor YOU get your sports news first in the Emerald. With Bruce Hamby.«"s„nrta fCditor the aid of Associated Press features and other ser- Malcolm Bauer . vices, an efficient sports staff, directed by Bruce Hamby, Ned Simpson, Bill Eberhart, Ben Ba k, B » tells you what’s goinjf on in the realm of athletics. < hinnock. _ ^■ ■ ~ VOLUME XXXIV • UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1933_,___Pa£e 4 Nobody’s ! By BRUCE HAMBY | T looks like congratulations are in order for Slats Gill and his big Oregon State basketball team. Arden X. 1’angbom The defeat of tne Washington Hus kies by Idaho last night just about ended Hec Edm undson's hopes for a fifth successive north ern division title. The, champion ship is not yet clinched, but the odds in Oregon State’s favor are large enough to offset all mathe matical possibil ities during the next two weeks. In fact, the Or angemen can not be sure of the crown until the final game with Oregon, here at McArthur court, on March 4. # * # Here are the possible man ners in which Oregon State might be edged out of the title —all a bit improbable: Oregon could defeat Oregon State in the two remaining games, leaving Oregon State with 10 victories and six defeats to end the season. Counting on a Washington victory tonight, the Huskies could then split with Oregon and still end in a tie with Gill’s quintet. Washington State could win the remaining three games on its schedule with Idaho and thus make a three-way tie. * * * The weak points in the above arguments are that Washington State will have a merry time de feating the energetic Idaho quin tet, that Oregon will have an even merrier time downing Oregon State, and that Washington will probably lose a game to the Web foots. ip V Therefore the season will most likely end with the following standings: W. L. Pet. Oregon State 11 5 .688 Washington . 10 6 .025 Wash. State . 9 7 .563 Idaho . 7 9 .438 Oregon . 3 13 .188 * * * It’s always nice to notice the smiling countenance of some for mer Oregon student in the news papers. Did you nice the one of Arden X. Pangborn in yesterday morning's Oregonian ? Pangborn was one of the most illustrious journalists ever to get out of the Journalism shack and secure a job. At present he is a very valuable member of the sports staff of the Oregonian, supervising makeup on the sports page—which is proba bly why his picture got on that page. * * # Mr. X. Panborn was sports editor and editor of the Emer- ! aid some years back, before which he was an all-star football i player at Commerce high in Portland. He is a great admirer : of Wetbrook Pegler and an even greater enthusiast of the work 1 of Edward J. Neil. He plays squash and tennis and according to Editor Neuberger, has the j grace of a man playing with an i anvil under each arm. Emerald Of the Air In a couple of months the state track meet will be held in Eugene for the first time, and the Emer ald-of-the-Air will broadcast com plete information today at 12:15. j In fact, as complete a coverage of Emerald news will be made as is ( possible within the narrow con fines of a quarter-hour. The Emerald-of-the-Air is al ways there with news from far and near—don’t take our word or give us the bird 'til you’ve turned the dial to hear. EAT— DRINK— BE HAPPY -—at— Oregana Confectionery i Ducks Invade Husky Camp ForNextTilts Rotenberg Huh Knee Hurl From Beaver Game “Commodore" N'ot V'et Decided on Squad for Seattle Trip; Oregon Given Chance Commodore Bill Reinhart takes his Webfoot capers to Seattle this week-end to put the finishing touches on the complete fade out of the University of Washington’s championship hopes. Although trailing the pack with but one win as compared to 11 defeats, the Ducks are given nearly an even break against the Huskies, minus Capt. Johnny Fuller. Fuller’s absence was felt keenly Monday and Tuesday night at Moscow, and Hec Edmundson’s athletes seemed to lack the fire that gave them two victories over Oregon at Eugene earlier in the season. Ducks Get Better On the other hand, Reinhart’s squad has been improving since the disastrous two-game series with the Purple hoopsters. On two different occasions they have thrown a scare into the league leading Oregon State Beavers, and although they have both times finished on the short end of the score, things look bright for a re juvenated Webfoot five to invade the big court of the Huskies Fri day night. The Ducks came through Satur day night’s Oregon State battle with but one slight injury. Pep pery "Red” Rotenberg, reserve forward, did not turn up at prac tice last night because of a knee injury sustained in the Beaver tilt. Rest of Squad O. K. The rest of the squad is in per fect playing condition, and the long list of reserves promise to make a great fight for the privi lege of being on the traveling squad. Sure tq be among those who will invade the Husky strong hold with “the Commodore” are “Cap” Roberts, Hermit Stevens, Jack Robertson, Gib Olinger, Hank Simons, Homer Stahl, Bill Berg, and Jim Watts. The other two to make up the usual 10 on the suad will be chosen from such candidates as Ralph Terjeson, La Grande Houghton, Bob Miller, and Red Rotenberg. WASHINGTON SAT FOR PAINTERS, SCULPTORS (Continued Irani t’age One) ferent pictures of the “Father of His Country.” Even so, his col lection of contemporary portraits of Washington is still incomplete, Professor Dunn told his interview er yesterday. One of Charles Will son Peale’s nephews spent, most of his time copying one particular ly good portrait made by his uncle. Using the same head, he varied the pose of the body. “Despite the accentuation ac corded the deep eye sockets, the high cheek bones, the receding brow, the longish chin, the full mouth, these reproductions, when ever published from unexpected quarters, are habitually greeted with the attribute, ‘a human Washington’,” Professor Dunn said of this nephew's copies in a talk over radio station KOAC at Cor vallis last night at 7:45. In his radio talk he described briefly each of the portraits from which the 12 stamps of the bi-cen tennial commemorative series were made. Though four of them are described by “Time" as "unusual,” all are in his collection. It is hoped that a display of these por traits and stamps may be ar arranged in the main library the | last of this week, as today is the 201st anniversary of Washington’s birth. Stories of the making of some of the originals of the pictures in Professor Dunn's album are truly thrilling. A piece of bed ticking' in the camp at Valley Forge was the canvas for one of the most reveal ing of Peale’s painting's. Peale was with Washington throughout the Revolution and knew him intimate ly. This painting is now the prized possession of the state normal school at West Chester, Pennsyl vania. It was the original of the head on the three-cent stamp is sued during last year's bi-centen nial celebration. The portrait presented on the one-eent issue in green is one of the most famous the Houdon bust. "Romance enters into the story,” Professor Dunn remarked in his radio speech, "when we learn that the Old Dominion, Washing ton's own native state, contracted with Jean Antoine Houdon. a French sculptor of international fame, to abandon royal and im perial patronage in Europe, in or der to cross the Atlantic and exe cute a marble of America's first citizen." TAcks the Great Gene GLENN CUNNINGHAM — —--77- ./-"VV;1•• V On Ills marks is Glenn Cunningham, great Kansas miler, who re cently gave Gene Venzke a trimming in the MUlrose games. Sports critics believe that he has a good chance of proving himself the fastest man ever to run this distance. He lias proved to be a thorn in Ven/.ke’s side as he just nosed the Pennsylvania school boy out of a place on the American Olympic team last summer. ON THE SIDELINES hu Edward d Neil_ E’RNIE SCHAAF is dead, a fine, *J upstanding youngster mowed down in one of the rare duels to the death that sprinkle boxing’s history. And no one ever will know, though it brings twinges of remorse to the experts’ hearts right now just thinking such things, whether the last battle of the blonde young sailor from Bos ton was fought strictly on its merits. There is more than mere lust for pulling in fire alarms any -.ioa snouuumm oqi si oaain sun} diet of a couple dozen boxing writ ers that something is wrong with any one prize fight. Such was the case the night in Madison Square Garden that Schaaf was fatally in jured by the big fists of Primo Camera. It would seem self-evident that, on the very face of things, no fight that ended in death could possibly be faked. Some of the brethren based their suspicions on the amazing ending in the 13th round that saw Schaaf go down, collap sing mentally and physically, from a left jab to the nose that of itself would not have bothered a fly weight. The boys at the ringside never had seen that happen before to a heavyweight, and particularly to a heavyweight as durable as Ernie Schaaf had been. They had no t way of peering inside the blond boy’s head, to see the hemorrhage J surgeons saw three days later.1 Was it surprising that they looked on askance as 20,000 discouraged patrons united in one long cry — ’’fake!” * * * 1. After training lightly in Bos ton, Schaaf came to New York one week before the fight and boxed just four days. 2. He had just recovered from an attack of influenza so severe that it required hospital treat ment, yet no request was made for a postponement, although it was known that Camera had trained faithfully five solid weeks in an isolated camp. 3. Jack Sharkey, against whom the winner of the match was ti fight for the world championship in June, was Schaaf’s adviser, owned half his contract, acted as his chief second. 4. Sharkey announced that he would not, Tinder any circum stances, fight Schaaf for the heavyweight title, leaving Camera alone as a possible opponent if the champion were to earn himself $200,000 or so in June. 5. The day before the fight, Madison Square Garden signed Camera to meet Sharkey in June, although he still had to beat Schaaf. 6. Odds on the fight shifted overnight from 8 to 5 on Schaaf to 2 to 1 on Camera and offers of 5 to 1 were made as the gladi ators entered the ring. 7. From the start Schaaf was slow, sluggish, hitting weakly, whereas he had been a human de stroyer knocking out Stanley Poreda a few weeks earlier. 8. He walked straight into Car nera, exactly the way Primo might have asked him to fight, a mark for a left jab, and the Italian was so confident he took time out occasionally to leer at the crowd. 9. In Schaaf's corner was Shar key, who had demoralized Camera with the weaving, feinting style the Italian can’t beat, yet appar ently he never told Ernie. 10. Schaaf was losing steadily, but apparently hale, when he col lapsed from a left jab. Gentlemen of the jury, what’s the verdict? * * * Retrospection could do no harm. If a dead man had been maligned a crime greater than bad writing had been done. Taking an unfair advantage does the victim little harm in the long run. But it can ruin your own self-respect. So the experts got out their pen cils. Ten suspicious circumstances were set down. They are offered hereby to the jury, sworn to ac cept only the testimony it sees and knows to be proven. Robertson Gets Nickname From Mysterious Practice By HAZLE CORRIGAN Jack Robertson, Oregon's agile forward, who played the best | game of his career against Ore gon State Saturday, has a nick name, too. “Spook" he has been since his freshman days. Well, you see, it was this way: Mr. Jack Robertson had a habit of disap pearing on Saturdays you know, when there is so much work for freshmen in a fraternity house — and so his fraternity brothers christened him the “Spook." “I like to play two-handed rummy,” he said during an inter view ut basketball practice late yesterday afternoon, but he didn't say who he plays with. He is a bridge player of no mean accomp lishment also. But he isn't so en thusiastic about dancing. Rumor has it, however, that his freshman and sophomore activities centered around high school girls, but of course he would not want to have that known around the campus. One thing that he can’t deny, however, is that during basketball seasons he gets a host of telephone calls from girls. It had been conceited enough to think that it did some good to go out and be very enthusiastic for the team, but, when I approached the subject of the value of cheer ing, "Spook” said, "We don't even care. We are trained to isolate ourselves against any influence from the stands. Oh, of course, we appreciate having the fans come to see us play. And as for booing the referee, we sometimes feel about the same way as those in the stands. "The season this year has been A.A.U. Cheap Lot In Belief OfTempleton Veteran Track Coacli Says Croup Oversteps Power War Flames Between Amateur Moguls and N. C. A. A.; Cases Cited Should the Amateur Athletic Union be allowed to interfere with intercollegiate athletics? “ A b s o 1 u tely not,” says Dink Templeton, vet e r a n Stanford track mentor and coach of many American Olympic teams. Templeton, writ ing in the San Francisco Chron icle, adds a spark to the fire which has been blazing] Oink Templeton | between the National Collegiate Athletic association and the A. A. U. ever since the sensational clash between the latter group and the one and only Charley Paddock back in 1923. In March of that year "the world’s fastest human" finished up his work at U. S. C., received his degree and was invited to run in the all-world college meet in Paris. He started, and* here is where the big moguls of the A. A. U. stepped in with what Temple ton terms as “dirty politics.” A. A. U. Says No Paddock was informed that he could not run abroad because it was the high and mighty ruling of the wise heads on the A. A. U. pay roll that American amateur ath letes* could not compete across the water. Here Charley foxxed the "foxys,” however, and set sail for France. He ran, and he won. This was only the beginning of a feud between Paddock and the A. A. U?—a feud which dragged out until Paddock finally gave up competitive running. The N. C. A. A. at once took up the cause of the former college star, and to this day they have locked horns on ev ery important issue. “Kick ’Em Out,” Says Dink “The situation is rotten,” says Dink, and he finally works himself up to: “It is inevitable the N. C. A. A. will some day get so sick and tired of the cheap politics put on by the A. A. U. that it will kick the self styled "gentlemen sporteurs’ and tin horns clear out of the picture.” It is within the power of the college group to do just this thing. Someday the big guns behind the cheap bids for publicity made by the A. A. U. will get intercollegiate officials aroused to such an extent that they will sound out their own doom. And after the many Paddock cases, and the recent Babe Did rikson farce, it looks, even now, the days of the ancient old racket of A. A. U. rulings were num bered. -— Tax Exemption Bill Dies in Senate Fraternities and sororities will remain on the tax rolls of the state as the result of the killing by the senate of a bill classing them as benevolent societies. The commit tee on assessment and taxation turned in an adverse report on the bill and the measure was indefin itely postponed. It was understood here that the measure was not supported by the | fraternities and sororities of this campus, most of the student and faculty leaders knowing nothing of the bill. It was introduced by Joe E. Dunne, who said that the or ganizations were having financial \ difficulties. Chairman Chinnock of the com mittee declared that other classes also needed relief and that the measure would remove consider able taxable property from the [ tax rolls. rather disastrous, but we will still consider it successful if we take two games from O. S. C.” "Spook'’ has his own ideas about basketball players. “Lewis and O’Connell are the only basketball players on the j Oregon State team; the others are just big men. “Our center is as good as Lewis, but he doesn’t use Lewis' system. O’Connell is the fastest man in the conference." You could hardly name a sport at which Robertson hasn't tried his hand. Yes, he plays baseball the thinks he's a star), ping-pong, golf, tennis, and he swims. Robertson is an economics ma jor and his ambition is to be able to predict crises. He has no sug gestions for solving the present depression, however. I Main ’Libe’ Open Till 9; Reserves Shut at 5 o’clock — IN order that students who wish to work on term papers today will have access to the necessary material the circula tion and reference departments of the library will be open from 8 a. m. to 9 p. m. The English reserve and room 30 at the old library and Condon reserve will open at 8 a. m. and close at 5 p. m. Women’s Sports -By ROBERTA MOODY=» The Gamma Phis tossed in a 40 to 8 victory over the Delta Gam mas in the last of the interhouse basketball series Tuesday after noon. Nancy Lou Cullers, Gamma Phi forward, played an outstanding game, sinking 13 baskets making 25 points. Peggy Cullers, Barbara Leiter, Nancy Lou Cullers, Gail McCredie, Miriam Stafford, Jean Luckel, Miriam Henderson, and Dorothy Clifford made up the Gamma Phi hoopsters. Evelyn Bentbar, Ed na Murphy, Dorothy Roberts, Vir ginia Gaddis, Helen Binford, Lou ise Carpenter, and Francis King played for the Delta Gammas. * * * Susan Campbell hall squeezed out a 15 to 14 win over Pi Beta Phi in a basketball game Tuesday afternoon. Helen Osland was high point wo man with four baskets to her cred it. Elaine Unterman, Ebba Wicks. Juanita Young, Twyla Stockton, Katherine Briggs, Marjorie Black, Elizabeth Dement played for Su san Campbell. Helen Tillman, Nancy Weston, Barbara Wreston, Helen Osland, Doris Houser, and Greeta Kirkpatrick all played on the Pi Phi team. 5fS 3»I There will be tryouts for class teams Thursday at 4 for the fresh men and sophomores and at 5 for the juniors and seniors. * * * Hendricks hall won the swim ming meet from the Chi Omegas Tuesday afternoon, by default. * * * The Thetas won the swimming meet 30 to 23 over the Kappas Tuesday. Mary Bohoskey, Kappa, won the 40 yard free style, and 20 yard racing backstroke. Jane Fales, Theta, took the 20 yard breast stroke, Ellen Jean Bowman, Kap pa, the 40-yard single overarm, Evelyn Beebe, Theta, the plunge, and Elizabeth Langilles, Theta, and Mary Bohoskey, Kappa, tied for the diving contest. * * * The women's interhouse meets will close with • the finals which will be played off Thursday and Friday, February 23 and 24. Thursday, February 3, Alpha Omicron Pi, winner of the B league, will swim Pi Beta Phi, winner of the A league. Friday the winner of Thursday’s meet will compete with Kappa Alpha Theta. C league winner, for the champion ship. Immediately after the meet on Friday there will be a mass meet ing in the women's pool at which time the class teams will be organ ized and managers for each class team chosen. All girls are eligible, and they are urged to come out and help their teams win the Cummings cup. W. A. A. points will be awarded to those girls who are on first and second teams, providing they have a C average, and an average of two practices a week. The meets will be run off next week so as to leave the last week of the term free. The outstanding girl swimmers j on the class teams will be chosen as members of the women's varsity team for this year. DR. VON KUHLMANN TO SPEAK HERE FRIDAY (Continued from Page One) diplomat and statesman is well known and he has served in many countries of the world, including the United States, England, Swe i den, Holland, Turkey, as well as serving as minister of foreign af fairs in the German cabinet, 1917 1 18. This position he was com pelled to resign-because he offend ed Ludendorff in a speech before the Reichstag in 1918. History has proved that every statement he made in that speech was right and proper. After the address at 10 o'clock j there will be a luncheon meeting j of the international committee to which members of the faculty and graduate students are invited. The meeting is in charge of Karl On thank. The place for the meet ing has not been decided upon. i 1 Another Sande? Idaho, which produced Earle Sande and other great jockeys, lays claim to another potential star in little Lee Humphries, 17, who in his first full season is lead ing all rivals in riding winners at Agua Calientc. COLD WORDS FLY AS PROF WINS TILT WITH ICEMAN (Continued from Page One) coupons paid for two years ago— so, whenever the physics depart ment ordered 25 pounds, 50 were sent out. It was hard to waylay the ice on delivery, because the deliverer would bring it over to Deady hall early in the morning, put it in the cupboard, take two coupons out of the book which was left there for him, and go away— leaving the physics department 50 pounds of ice, without them being able to do anything about it. Finally Professor Norris’ ire be came aroused. He determined that he would get 25 pounds of ice, and only. 25. Said he to the ice com pany (by phone): “We want 25 pounds of ice tomorrow morning. We don’t need all this 50 pounds stuff you’re sending us.” All in an emphatic, vehement tone of voice. Came the dawn (figuratively speaking i. The delivery wagon stopped outside the door, and the man walked up to the cupboard with—50 pounds of ice. But just then the door of Deady hall opened, and Professor Norris walked in. The exact details of the ensuing scene are unknown, but the out come was that our hero of the physics department watched the out-tricked delivery man hack off TWENTY-FIVE pounds of ice, and leave with only one coupon. SHELDON TO TALK ON SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT (Continued from Page One) members, as well as others who desire to be informed on higher education. It is one of the regu lar series of faculty lectures spon sored by the Free Intellectual Ac tivities committee of the faculty. Date Committee Big Success, Say Bashful Lawyers With soft lights and sweet mu sic prevailing throughout the eve ning, the annual “Barrister’s Brawl,” official winter term frolic of the campus law students, was carried out last night at the Campa Shoppe. At the time this papter went to press not one complait t of any variety has been lodge*! against^ the date committee for the way' it had performed its duty of round ing up enough campus bcsauties to satisfy the needs of bashful law yers for dancing partners, so it may be possible that at last an agency at which successful blind dates can be obtained has been found on this campus. Features galore and pleinty of good punch were in evidence to add zest to the evening. Bill Dashney was chairman in charge of the event. Patrons and patronesses includ ed Dean and Mrs. Wayne L. Morse, Mr. James D. Barnett, Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Spencer, Mx. and Mrs. Charles G. Howard, Mr. Or lando Hollis, and Mr. and Mrs. Guy S. Claire. Basketball, Hash Go Hand in Hand MILWAUKEE, Feb. 21—(API — A basketball player who “doubles in hash-hustling” is Mariano Fio rani, husky reserve center of the Marquette university quintet. Fiorani got an opportunity to put his training in an Iron Moun tain, Mich., restaurant to good use recently when the Hilltoppers sought food after a game in Detroit. With only a half-hour to train time the hungry athletes — with appetites befitting huskies who strike a 189-pound average — de scended upon a small Detroit restaurant whose entire kitehen and office staff consisted of one man. So big Marianno peeled off his coat and, while the restaurateur fried the steaks, he “drew” coffee and “slung the hash” to his 11 mates and Coach Bill Chandler. The party made the train with five minutes to spare. OREGON TO BE HOST TO HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETES (Continued from Page One) 4— Douglas and Lane counties. 5— Marian, Clackamas and Mult nomah counties (excluding Port land). 6— Linn, Benton, Lincoln, Polk, and Yamhill counties. 7— Clatsop, Columbia, Tilla mook, and Washington counties. 8— Portland High School Ath letic association. CLASSIFIED MISCELLANEOUS PETITE SHOP — Dressmaking, hemstitching, alterations, etc. 573 E. 13th. Phone 3208. CORONA professional typewriter, good condition, $30. Keith Mil ler, phone 2613-J. CAMPUS BARBER SHOP for a neat haircut. Across from Sigma Chi. DON’T MISS — Berkeley Square Celebrate Washington’s Birthday by attending a play set in his period. Color, charm, wit, romance. The finest play of the season. TONIGHT AT 8:15 GUILD THEATRE SEATS 50c, 75c Box Office Opens at 3:30 For Reservations Call 3300, Local 216 On the POLICE BLOTTER (Apologies to Parks) Bernie Hughes eating 5c hot dogs at the counter— Raymond Field having his tenth cuppa— Bob Parke looking for (Tim Emmett— —not to mention the too numerous Pigglv Wrig glev coffees.