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SPORTS STAFF
Bill Phipps ... Editor
Bill Eberhart . Assistant Editor
Clair Johnson, Don Olds, Dan Clark, Bill Aetzel,
George Jones, Charles Paddock.
Betty Shoemaker . Women’s Sports Editor
SPORTS
THE athletic activities of the University of Oregon,
its competitive teams and otherwise, should be the
concern of each and every student on the campus. Keep
abreast of the sport news of your University if you are
not actively ’a participant.
VOLUME XXXV
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1934
Page 4
The
Tip-Off
By BILL PHIPPS
Comments Which Are on
Basketball in General;
Dink Templeton’s Essay
AFTER Oregon basketball fans ]
have been beaten to a pulp <
for almost another whole season ]
of refereeing, or ‘
‘whistle toot- i
ng,” along comes
Dink Templeton, '
Stanford track :
coach and sports ;
jommentator ex- :
traord i n a r y of
the San Fran
cisco C h r onicle,
with an essay
that hits the
Templeton SIcaL
time right be
tween the eyes.
We have been of the opinion for
many moons that the shrill sounds
coming from the whistles of
Messers. Ralph Coleman, Dwight
Adams, et al, have resulted in the
ruination of the game from the
spectators’ viewpoint. Unques
tionably the officiating has not
been of the best this season, but
even the poorest performances on
the part of those who handle the
games could not possibly make the
exhibitions such hideous night
mares as some of them have
turned out to be. In the minds of
Mr. and Mrs. John Public, then,
pops the question, just what is
wrong, anyway?
Obviously, if the entire blame
cannot be hoisted to the shoulders
of the officials, the only other
place for the criticism to fall i3
on the game itself. If the situa
tion in the southern division,
where a wide open game has al
ways been in vogue, is acute
enough to arouse Mr. Templeton’s
sensibilities, what a horrible con
dition must exist here in the
northern loop where basketball
contests are habitually called
closely to reduce bodily contact
and speed up the game.
Right now things show signs of
looking up a bit in the northern
division. Mr. Bill Reinhart, foxy
Oregon hoop mentor, has in mind
some changes in the hoop game
that are bound to help make the
game more interesting.
Campus followers had a chance
to see some of Mr. Reinhart’s sug
gested changes used in an early
season game here with Willam
ette university. The proposals not
only speeded up the game, but an
easing up on the whistle made the
contest worth while for the crowd,
which after all comes to see a ball
game with some action and not an
exhibition of technique from the
free throw line.
Calling- fouls as often and for
such trivial offenses as do Messrs.
Coleman and Adams not only
slows up the game but makes the
game hard for the players. As a
result, unintentional fouling is
ruled with as much severity as is
that which is malicious and down
right harmful, and while trying
to call them so close a referee is
bound to make mistakes, particu
larly when he tries to make such
fine distinctions between blocking
and charging. A player must sac
rifice aggressiveness and hard
play to stay on the floor. If he
doesn’t he views the activities of
the evening from the bench and
the summary shows four personals
after his name.
Mr. Templeton’s observations
are so poignant and timely that
his column is quoted below:
» * *
"The basketball people could
take a page from the water polo
experts that would make the cage
game more popular than ull the
other indoor sports put together.
For the last ten years, basketball
has steadily become more and
more a spectacle for the two of
ficials, who become experts in the
blowing of shrill, sharp blasts that
stop action, slow down the game
and warn the players 'keep your
distance.’
"As a consequence, bodily con
tact has been almost entirely done
away with. The mad scrambles
for the ball that used to make
regular fanatics out of the fans,
and used also to bring out every
competitive quality possessed by
the athletes, have been almost en
tirely done away with.
"The game has been tamed
down to the place where its only
hope is that players and teams
will become so expert that it will
be possible for them to keep going
at high speed without committing
infractions of the rules, but the
number of fouls piled up by the
best teams we have would indi
cate that proficiency and expert
play no longer keep the boys from
incurring the wrathful blast of the
referee’s whistle.
* * *
"It does look as though the
Utopia that basketball coaches
lave been looking forward to is
[uite beyond the reach of college
ilayers, even though that old line,
you ought to see ’em back in the
Middle West,,’ is still being held
>ut as a goal.
“During those same ten years
vater polo has turned into more
ind more of a rough and tumble,
ind do the people, both players
ind spectators, love it ? Basket
iall and water polo are similar
n many respects, but where, dur
ng the immediate post-war pe
iod, polo was played in this coun
try with a minimum of bodily
:ontact, basketball was capturing
.he fancies of the fans because it
vas pretty much a game of keep
iway, with a constant fight for
possession of the ball going on.
"The polo teams competing in
Dlympic Games found themselves
itterly unable to cope with for
eign teams, even though we had
the fastest and most expert swim
mers, for the simple reason that
Europeans seemed never to have
heard of the technical rules al
ways enforced in this country. The
first encounters with such crude
Europeans were rude shocks to
the American pride.
"Gradually we began to adopt
Lhose methods at home until now,
a water polo game is just about
as thrilling as any athletic contest
t know of, and it is not just the
:rowd that gets a big kick out of
the games, but the players them
selves.
* * *
"The two closely fought games
that Stanford won from U. C. L.
Monday and Tuesday provided
perfect illustrations of this type
of competition, where fouls were
only called when they were foul
ndeed and where the mad scram
ole for the ball continued con
stantly.
“The boys were ducked plenty,
but they didn’t mind. There was
no dtie hurt and they had their
fun later when they ducked the
other guy. None of them drowned,
however, and no one needed the
services of the doctor, and they
were all good friends after the
;ames were over.
"But in basketball, rules whicli
are technical in themselves are
enforced so technically that a
game nowadays is more featured
by the steady blowing of whistles
in the officials’ effort to keep up
their ‘foul a minute’ record than
it is by clever play of the teams
or by the complete abandon which
characterizes a good competitive
athlete when he is concentrating
only on doing his best.
"In every game players who
have never tried a dirty trick or
a bit of foul play in their lives are
actually thrown out of the con
test for having piled up four per
sonal fouls, all of them without
intention, completely accidental
and certainly causing no physical
damage. In every other sport a
foul means dirty work, and the
fouler is looked upon as a dirty
player. Expulsion from the game
means that the fellow is guilty of
ungentlemanly and unsportsman
like conduct.
"But in basketball a fellow can
be a perfect little gentleman, try
ing to get out of everyone’s way,
and still get himself kicked out of
the game.
“Basketball crowds take cogni
zance of this by booing every time
the whistle is blown. Booing
doesn't mean anything more. The
officials expect it. They are al
most always right when they say
‘hacking,’ although the hackee
may be the most surprised man
on the floor, the little flick on the
wrist which he received having
failed to register an impression on
him.
"The official is forced into using
that officious looking manner
when calling his fouls, the one
which makes you so doggoned
mad, to show that he is sure of
his ground and to stop argument.
And he is not to be blamed for
calling everything he can possibly
call a foul, for if he does not he
is going to have coaches jumping
down his throat, claiming he is a
home towner and registering him
on the black list.
“Taking rules, coaches and of
ficials together, there must be
some solution to the ‘foul a min
ute’ program that is spoiling bas
ketball as a sport. The players,
who should be more important
than all the rest put together, rep
resent the one element that can
not be blamed for continual whis
tle blowing, but who are being
blamed by all the other three, and
by the fact that their names are
Being published after every game
is being thrown out for commit
ing fouls.”
Fourth Trial
Meet Shows
Quick Heats
Burr and Miller Turn in
Speedy Times
Track Captain Huns 500 in 04 Flat;
00 Yard Event Made in Nine
Seconds l>y Freshman
Sherwood Burr, track captain
and quarter-miler, and Ken Miller,
freshman sprinter, chalked up fast
times in the fouth of Bill Hay
ward’s track tryouts, which was
held Saturday at Hayward field.
Burr ran the 500 yards in 64 sec
onds flat while Miller turned in
the time of 9 flat on the 90-yard
dash. Although Bill Bowerman did
not run Saturday, the 500 yard
event, in which he would have
been entered, was the feature of
the day.
Following Miller's 90-yard dash,
Hayward told the managers to re
measure the distance., This was
done—it was six inches short of
90 yards. Miller finished the race
with a comfortable lead.
Johnson Noses Out Scharpf
Other features of the cinder
events included the 1000-yard run,
in which Alfred Johnson, freshman,
came from behind to nose out
George Scharpf in the last few
feet of the race. The closest finish
of the day was not on the books.
Bill Nelson, University high school
student, ran in the 350-yard event
for freshmen, but. was not counted
in the places. He finished right on
the heels of Gil Schultz, who took
first.
Chan Berry, freshman, stole the
show from the winners of the dis
cus event, although he did not
place himself. Berry somehow lost
his balance and sliced one of his
throws into the hinterland while
he himself turned a beautiful
sommersault, landing about three
feet from the ring.
East Meet Next Week
Next week Colonel Bill will hold
the last of this term’s tryouts,
which will include the following
events: 100-yard dash, varsity and
freshman: 300-yard event, varsity;
300-yard event, freshman; three
quarter mile run varsity and fresh
man; shot put and discus throw,
varsity and freshman; 80-yard low
hurdles, varsity and freshman;
broad jump, varsity and freshman
These last two events were not in
cluded in any of the previous try
outs this term.
In speaking of last Saturday’s
tryouts, Colonel Bill said he was
pleased with the condition of those
representing, but that there were
not nearly enough men turning
out.
Summary of Saturday’s results
follows;
1000-yard run, mixed: Johnson,
freshman, first: Scharpf, varsity,
second; Bob Lading ton, varsity,
third; time 2:24.1.
90-yard dash, mixed: Miller,
freshman, first; Mason McCoy,
varsity, second; Howard Patter
son, varsity, third; time 9 flat.
500-yard dash, varsity; Burr,
first; Bob Thomas, second; Arne
Lindgren, third; Franch Michek,
fourth; time 64 flat.
750-yard run, mixed: Paul Rix,
freshman, first; Russ Humphreys,
freshman, second; Pete Brooks,
freshman, third. Time 1:49.
350-yard event, freshman; Gil
Schultz, first; John Allen, second;
C. Bilyeu, third; time 40.8.
Shot put, mixed; Stan Smith,
varsity, first; Chan Berry, fresh
man, second; Bill Estes, freshman,
third; distance 43 feet.
Discus throw, mixed: Ross Car
ter, freshman, first; Stan Smith,
varsity, second) Pat Fury, fresh
man, third; distance 120 feet 3
inches.
Officials: races: Bud Schumate,
Jack Skidmore, Maury Van Vliet,
Francis Kolkowski and Bull
Wright, judges; Art Holman,
starter Bill Hayward, timer; Bill
Paddock, clerk; field events: A1
Eagles, Bernie Hughes and Jim
Ringrose, judges.
JOHN GOSS TELLS OF
VOCATION CROWDING
(Continued from Page One)
ciety, with regulated codes and
business cases settled out of court.
Goss gave as one reason for the
comparatively small field in law
the fact that lawyers cannot man
ufacture new business for them
selves as men not in professions
may do.
Possible solutions which will
prevent over-crowding of the pro
fession were suggested by Goss
Practicing lawyers might be re
quired to graduate from an ap
proved law scljool, as physicians
are required to do in many states;
or the quota system might be
used, whereby only a certain num
ber of students would be allowed
in the profession.
Coming Attraction
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Pictured above is big Red Mc
Donald, colorful Beaver guard,
whose playing is always a feature
of any game played by the Ore
gon State hoopers. He will open
his last series of collegiate basket
ball here Friday night when the
Orange and the Webfoots fight it
out for second place honors in the
northern race.
W.A.A. Will Hold Mass
Meet for Nominations!
Nominations for new officers of
the Women’s Athletic association
will he read at a mass meeting to
be held this afternoon at 4 p. m. I
in the Women’s League room, on '
the third floor of Gerlinger hall.
A committee, appointed by Elea
nor Coombe, president, will sub
mit to the members of the associa
tion nominees for the offices of
president, vice-president, secretary,
treasurer and custodian.
Nominations of women other
than those recommended by the
committee may be made at the
meeting from the floor. All new
members of W. A. A. are asked to
be present at this mass meeting.
! Busli Named Adviser
To Skull and Dagger
Neal Bush has been elected as
student adviser to Skull and Dag
ger, sophomore men's service hon
orary, it was announced yesterday
by Cosgrove LaBarre, president.
Bush is a former chief executive
of the group.
The organization felt a need of
closer contact with general student
affairs as an aid to its program of
student activity. Various methods
of obtaining this closer contact
were considered by the society, and
it was finally determined that
some student body officer should
be selected to suggest fields w'here
Skull and Dagger, as a service or
ganization, could be of active as
sistance.
VITAMINS BARRED FOR
AWS CARNIVAL BOOTH
(Continued from Pane One)
Yeomen a n d Kappa Kappa
Gamma.
The carnival, which is an an
nual event on the campus, has in
the last two years proved a popu
lar evening of diversion to both
students and townspeople.
Entertainment will be similar to
that of a regular old-time carni
val, ranging from,"three balls at
the nigger's head for a dime,” to
dancing by tickets, similar to the
"ten cents a dance" methods.
The date for the carnival, March
31, makes it difficult for the direc
torate to keep students informed
up to the minute on arrangements
of the big event, because the Em
erald will not appear then. Mary
Snider urges students to circle the
late with red and begin saving up
nickels and "dimes, as most of the
business will be done on the five
and ten cent system, in order to
make all amusements and pur
chases within the reach of col
lege students.
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Ducks Point
ForHoopTilts
With Beavers
Games to Decide Second
Place Winner
Week’s Schedule Will Mark Final
Contests in Northern
Division Race
By BILL EBERHART
Fresh from a successful con
quest into the eastern domains of
the Pacific coast northern division
basketball con
ference, the Ore
gon Webfoots are
now pointing to
ward the final se
ries of the season
against Oregon
State college, co
holders with Ore
gon of the pres
ent second place
position of the
northwest hoop
Bill Berg conrerence. The
two games this weekend, the year’s
last for both quintets, will be
played in McArthur court Friday
night and in the men’s gym on
the Corvallis campus the following
evening.
Although the champion of the
northern circuit has been decided,
with the University of Washington
in the top spot, the forthcoming se
ries with the Beavers will determ
ine which team is to rest next to
Washington. The probability is
that Oregon and Oregon State,
both having seven wins and a like
number of losses apiece, will di
vide the series and finish the 1934
campaign side by side in second
place, but both teams will be striv
ing to nullify that possibility by
winning both tilts and relegating
the opponent to third position.
Varsity Takes Short Rest
After trouncing the Gonzaga
quintet last Wednesday night, 50
to 22, Bill Reinhart brought his
squad of basketballers into town
at 11:30 Thursday morning and
immediately set them free from
basketball until Saturday when
the first practice session after the
road trip was held. Practice was
also held Sunday and is slated for
every day this week.
Several factors combine in mak
ing this final series one of the
most interesting in years. Take
:he tremendous interest and rivalry
that surrounds the ordinary gar
ien variety of hoop contests with
the Beavers, then add the deter
mination of both teams, now even,
to end the season in second place,
and on top of those factors add
Bill Reinhart’s ambition to avenge
the four straight defeats at the
merciless hands of Oregon State
last year, and you have a pair of
battles that assume huge propor
tions in the minds of everybody
concerned.
Team Hits Fast Pace
The Webfoot team of Olinger,
Robertson, W. Jones, Berg, and B.
Jones has proved itself to be a
clicking combination and is car
rying on in its starring role in re
hearsals this week. No changes
ire in prospect.
This weekend marks “finis” to
the schedule of the entire northern
Jivision. The Washington five fin
ished its 16 official games against
Washington State last weekend,
and Idaho and the Cougars will
polish off their season's next week
end with a two-game series to be
played in Pullman on Friday and
in Moscow Saturday.
Burrell Article Sought
By Reviewers in Italy
The review “Borsa," an econom
,c magazine published in Italy and
.videly circulated among Italian
students of social discipline, has
requested the right to give a re
view of an article on the “Behav
or of Bond Prices in Major Busi
ness Cycles," by O. K. Burrell of
:he school of business administra
tion.
The article was given extensive
review not long ago in several
American magazines, but this is
he first time any foreign maga
zine has asked for it.
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She Captains Coed Polo Squad
Pretty Marjorie Brock, U. S. C. coed, has the honor of captaining
one of the first women's collegiate polo squads in the United States.
Recently enterprising sorority girls of the school invaded the realm
of polo—until now the sanctuary of men—organizing a crack four to
compete with other feminine squads.
Women’s
Athletics
By BETTY SHOEMAKER
|%/JEMBERS for the class swim
ming teams have been chosen.
They are:
Freshmen: Martha McCall, Jean
Burnett, Helen Payne, Nancy
Jeffroys, Dorothy Rinehart, Ma
luta Read, Marion Smith and
Margaret Daggett.
Sophomores: Mary McCracken,
Mary Margaret Hunt, Maxine
Goetsch, Eleine Moore, Dorothy
Bergstrom and Helen Wright.
Juniors: Louise Beers, Frances
Kortynovich, Eilene Untermann
and Virginia Howard.
Seniors: Eleanor Coombe, Ag
nes Morgan, Edith Clement, Faye
Knox and Marion Vinson.
All women on the interclass
swimming teams are asked to
meet at the women’s swimming
pool this afternoon at 4:30. Class
managers will be elected at that
time.
* * *
The sophomore basketball team
will play the seniors Wednesday
at 5 p. m.
In the first interclass basket
ball game of the term the sen
iors defeated the freshman team
by a 26-8 score.
Twily Stockton was high
score woman for the senior team
and Sue Moshberger for the
freshman team. Mildred Ringo
was referee.
Wiscarson Wins
Yeoman Tourney
Vernon Wiscarson, who has won
every ping-pong- title on the cam
pus this year, annexed another
when he defeated Ethan Newman
in a five-game heat at the Y hut
yesterday.
Newman won the opener,
slumped in the second, then staged
a rally to take the fourth. Wis
carson won in the final game,
though it was very close. Scores
were 19-21, 21-8, 21-1S, 22-24,
21-18.
In the consolation bracket,
George Teltoft is one finalist, while
Potter and Robert have yet to
fight it out for the other.
Scores made in this tournament
will be used as a basis for award
ing points in a handicap playoff
to be sponsored soon by the Yeo
men.
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Husky Forward
Sets New Hoop
Scoring Record
Galer Makes 176 Points to Break
Old Mark Set Last Year
By Ed Lewis
Bob Galer, forward on the cham
pion University of Washington
hoop team, broke the all-time
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scoring record
Saturday night,
when he rang up
14 counters
against Washing
ton State to
bring his grand
total for the sea
son to 176.
The formeri
record of 173
Ed Lewis points was set
last season by Ed Lewis, all-coast
center for the 1933 championship
Oregon State college team. Galer
had scored twelve points Friday
night against the Cougars and over
3000 fans turned out the next night
to see him make his successful as
sault on the old record.
Averaging eleven points a game
Galer made his best records
against Idaho when he piled up 48
counters in four contests. Bill
Reinhart's Webfoots held him bet
ter 'than any other conference
team by holding him to 40 points.
SALE BEGINS TODAY FOR
MASKED BALL TICKETS
(Continued from Pane One)
Olitt, Martha, McCall, Margilee
Morse, and Betty Curtis.
Representatives in women's
houses for the- sale of masks are
as follows:
Betty Ruggles, Portia Booth,
Betty Shoemaker, Lillian England,
Corrine LaBarre, Margaret Hoye!
Betty Ohlemiller, Harriet Kayser!
Peggy Carper, Anne Hounsell!
Alene Walker, Margaret Ann
Smith, Helen Doyle, Elinor Stew
art, Lois Margaret Hunt, Lee
Chapman, Marjorie McNiece, and 1
Betty Gale.
Portland Club
Swim Team
Beats Ducks
Multnomah Relay Team
Sets New Mark
Oregon’s Swimmers Take Three
First Places But Winged-M
Divers Lengthen Lead
The University of Oregon mer
men took their first defeat of the
year last Saturday at Portland,
bowing to the powerful Multno
mah Athletic club aggregation 4S
to 36, as one Pacific coast inter
collegiate record was broken.
The Winged-M 300-yard medley
relay team upset the highly tout
ed Duck trio, churning the water
in 3:15, bettering by three seconds
the old mark. The Ducks were
not up to par in this event, but
pushed the winning group to the
limit.
Although defeated, the invading
collegiate natators sprang sur
prises by taking three first places,
and were close to the clubmen all
the way. The meet was decided
when the Oregon divers were shut
out of the first and second places
in the diving events, as the home
team lengthened the one-point
lead it held until that time.
Wally Hug came back in a fine
style, taking firsts in the 50 and
100 free style events. He also
swam on the medley relay team.
Jim Reed fulfilled pre-meet pre
dictions by defeating Herb Eisen
schmidt of the club and grabbing
a third in the 100 free style.
Francis Oglesby took two second
places, and Bob Needham a sec
ond and third place.
The Oregon natators will vie
with the Beaver swimmers at Cor
vallis in a return match next Sat
urday. The Webfoots won the
first meet between the two teams,
52-32, but the losers feel that in
the longer Corvallis pool they can
take the measure of the Ducks.
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