SFORTS STAFF
Bill Phipps . Editor
Clair Johnson . Assistant Editor
Don Olds, Dan Clark, Eill Aetzel, George Jones,
Bill Mclnturff, Bill Bowerman
Margery Kissling .. Women’s Sports Editor
SrORTS
THE athletic activities of the University of Oregon,
its competitive teams and otherwise, should he 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, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1934
Page 4
The
Tip-Off
By BILL PHIPPS
----
Louisiana Sports W riters
Lash Oregon’’s Climate;
Mr. Keefe to the Rescue
SOME of the gentlemen of the
press who reside below the Ma
son-Dixon line in the fair state of
Louisiana are really having a good
time publicizing their state’s cli
matic advantages these days. In
fact, if the tirade continues the
writer predicts they all may grad
uate from the task of sitting at
little benches covering ball games
for their papers to soft jobs at
mahogany desks where they will
spend their days pounding out lit
erary classics for chamber of com
merce bulletins.
* * *
This unparalleled situation is a
recent development in Huey Long’s
stamping ground and came follow
ing the difficulties arising over
the setting of a date for Oregon’s
return game with Louisiana State.
In 1932 the Webfoots journeyed
to the Southland and downed the
Tigers 14 to 0 as an inauguration
of athletic relations between the
two institutions. The original ar
rangement stipulated Louisiana
State would meet Oregon again in
1934 in Portland.
The actual scheduling of the
contest ran into obstacles, how
ever, and it was finally decided
that the 1934 affair would be
staged in Tigers’ own stadium in
Baton Rouge instead of in Multno
mah stadium.
The announcement of the change
came as a bombshell to those in
terested in the athletic welfare of
Louisiana State, and the press be
moaned the fact that the Tigers
would be forced to play at home
as that would upset the plans that
the southerners would get sweet
revenge from Oregon and then
wind up the season by remaining
on the Pacific slope to represent
the East in the Rose Bowl.
It wasn’t long until the sports
writers finally got a grip on them
selves and made a snappy recovery
by pointing out all the advantages
the Tigers would receive by play
ing at home. The big break for
Louisiana, as the publicists finally
decided, was the climate which
would be in favor of L. S. U. if
the tussle were played in Baton
Rouge.
A rough idea of how Oregon’s
climate is regarded down South
may be determined from the fol
lowing excerpt from an article
published in the New Orleans
Times-Picayune and written by a
special correspondent in Baton
rouge:
"A decided advantage was
gained by L. S. U. in every way
by transferring the Oregon game
to Louisiana. As pointed out by
Athletic Director Heard, the mile
age to be traveled by L. S. U. and
the time that will be lost by the
athletes from their classrooms has
been cut by two-thirds. The game
with the Webfeet will help bal
ance the home schedule, and L. S.
U.’s “thin-blooded Dixie athletes”
won’t have the hardship of playing
in near or sub-zero weather such
as visits Portland in late Decem
ber.”
But Oregon was not forever to
be kept submerged under the sig
ma which had been hurled by tlie
press agents. Up rose a champion
for Oregon no, two champions
for Oregon. A Dr. C. C. Dauer,
through the medium of Win. McG.
Keepe, sports columnist of the
Times-Picayune, rose to tire de
fense of the Webfoot. state. And
for good measure Mr. Keefe added
some fine little barbs of his own
volition. Mr. Keefe’s contribution
follows in full:
"Our Baton Rouge correspond
ent, reporting the switch in plans
for the Oregon-L.S.U. football
game of next December, remarked
that the Tigers were glad the
game had been shifted from Port
land, Ore., to Baton Rouge because
they hated the prospect of playing
in subzero weather.
“That innocent-enough-looking
little remark is going to bring on
the worst kind of haw-hawing
from Oregon, we are informed by
Dr. C. C. Dauer of Tulane, who
used to live in Oregon.
“ 'I lived there two years,’ he
writes, ‘and can assure you that
December in Portland is only
slightly cooler than in Baton
Rouge.’
"Dr. Dauer probably wouldn't
have said that had he been in Bat
on Rouge last December, when
Oregon and the Tigers played. I
was. And I'm not afraid so much
of what Oregonians are going to
call us for low rating their weath
er as I am of what Oregonians
(those who were in Baton Rouge
or who heard about it) are going
to say about Baton Rouge weath
er.
“If it is slightly cooler in Ore
I
Group Votes
Swimming as
Major Sport
Order of 0 Cites Fine
Record of Team
All Basketball Letter Winners and
Managers Receive Membership
In Organization
An unanimous vote to have
swimming established as a major
sport at the University of Oregon
was one of several important pieces
of business transacted last night
at the Order of the O meeting held
at the Sigma Phi Epsilon house.
The organization’s desire will be
expressed to the athletic commit
tee of the Associated Students for
further decision. Reasons given
by members of the group at the
meeting for the establishment of
the sport on a major basis were nu
merous.
Reasons Cited
The primary purpose cited was
that the group wished swimming
to develop into something really
important and be on an equal ba
sis with the sport at Oregon State,
where it has a major rating.
The low expense of the sport
during the past year was brought
forward by some of . the members
who showed that it had been op
erated at only a $60 cost to the
Associated Students during the
past season.
Records of the team this year
under the direction of Coach Mike
Hoyman revealed that it had gone
through a six meet schedule and
had come out second best only two
times. This was in the Pacific
Northwest meet and one with the
Multnomah Athletic club.
Other Business
Other business taken care of
during the course of the meeting
included the voting of member
ship in the Order of the O to all
letter winners in basketball this
winter and all managers of sports
who received letters.
Also the selection of the mem
ber of the group to receive the
scholarship award for the year was
postponed until the next regular
meeting. The first Tuesday of ev-f
ery month from now on was se
lected as the date for regular
meetings to be held.
Sport Chats
FROM
HERE and THERE
By DAN E. CLARK Jr.
-Did You Know That:
rpHE present rules committee on
* football can take a few tips
from some of the boys from the
ooold countrrie? Back in 1618
King' James issued a proclamation
prohibiting a football player from
stepping on the nose of a pros
trate opponent. Durante evidently
was born 300 years too late.
A correct definition of a bum
is as follows ? An official who
calls a foul on the favorite. An
umpire who prevents a tie score
by calling a man out at home
plate. Often preceded by the ad
jective big and accompanied by
expletives and pop bottles. (Ex
cerpts from an athletic dictionary
- An Athletic Anthology, by H.
V. Porter.)
* * *
England’s sports program cor
responds more nearly to our intra
mural program than to our col
lege competitive sports? Over
there they have very little inter
collegiate competition. Everyone
who can turns out for the teams
and everybody has a good time.
gon than it was in Baton Rouge
on the occasion of that game last
fall between Oregon and the Ti
gers, then we’d just as soon pass
up Oregon and go and visit
Commander Byrd.
"I for one don’t believe it possi
bly could be colder than it was
last December in Baton Rouge for !
that contest. Though there were j
a couple of stoves in the press box, 1
the concrete floor was so cold and j
my feet were so cold that before j
! long the soles of my feet froze in
to the concrete solid and I had to!
borrow and ice pick to pry myself
loose.
"The stoves tried their best but 1
gradually got colder and colder, |
; and so the pre^s-box custodians,
; with method in their madness. |
icalled the 125 ushers and 13 spec-;
1 tutors in from the ice-encrusted ■
grandstand and let them add their!
: bodily warmth to the press box at - j
! mosphere. That’s why the major
I ity who were there escaped double I
j pneumonia or worse.
"So anybody who lives in Baton 1
I Rouge should think twice before
throwing icicles at Oregon.”
Chi Psi and S.A.E.
Donut Golf Teams
Win First Games
Veither Squad Allows Opponents
To Score; Betas Win
Initial Tilt
TODAY’S GOLF SCHEDULE
Delta Epsilon vs. Sigma I*hi
Epsilon.
Delta Tan Delta vs. Phi Sig
ma Kappa.
Two donut golf teams, Chi Psi
and Sigma Alpha Epsi'.on, won
complete victories over their op
ponents last night. Beta Theta Pi
won the first half of its contest
5 to 1 and will continue with the
play-off of No. 3 and 4 men today.
The four Chi Psi Lodge golfers
won three points apiece to take
their match from Sigma hall 12
to 0. Number 1 man for the
Lodgemen was Haberlach, who
scored a 76 on the 18 holes as
compared to the 84 of R. Thorn
ton. Other scores made by Chi
Psi were: Wells, 87; Neighbor, 82;
P. Felds, 92. The Sigma hall team
was composed of R. Thornton, W.
Engele, T. Dolan, D. Pelton.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon also scored
a 12 to 0 victory. Omega hall
was its opponent. Each one of
the four S. A. E. golfers, Harold
Hall, Dud Lindner, Bill Catlow,
and Bud Johns, defeated his re
spective hall opponent.
Beta Theta Pi played off two
of its matches with the Pi Kappa
Alpha donut golfers and will play
off the remaining two this after
noon. Wally Hug, lead-off man
for the Betas, scored three points,
and Charles Shey tallied with two
—a 5 to 1 victory for the Beta
house in the first round of com
petition. Fowler and Hampden
are the Beta men who will play
this afternoon.
Delta Upsilon Net
Team Lose Donut
Contest to S.A.E.
Kappa Sigma Wins Other Mateh
From Sigma Alpha
Mu Athletes
Delta Upsilon dropped its first
donut tennis tourney to the S. A.
E. athletes with muttered curses
of "they've got a tennis court in
their back yard.” The score by
sets was Sigma Alpha Epsilon
2, Delta Upsilon 1.
Bob Dean, D. U. racqueteer had
little trouble in out-courting his
S.A.E. rival in the singles match
es. In beatingLClark, Dean showed
good form. The final score was
(i-3, 6-2.
Both doubles matches were S.
A. E. victories. The first doubles
joust between Harrison and Johns
of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon and
Temple and Haberman of D. U.
was a long, drawnout affair. The
S.A.E. netmen won the first set
6-4. Temple and Haberman evened
the score by a 6-2 victory. Then
the winners of the first set drove
the wilting Delta Upsilon racquet
wielders down under a 7-5 score.
In the second doubles Mcln
turff's superb net playing backed
up by Silvan’s cautious drives
were to be to no avail to Delta Up
silon for the team of Neuner and
Biden took them to a systematic
cleaning.
The match at 5 o'clock between
the Kappa Sigma and Sigma Al
pha Mu tennis players was a com
plete Kappa Sig victory. Both
houses were able to muster enough
men for but one singles match
and one doubles match.
Stearns of Kappa Sigma defeat
ed the Sammy representative 6-4,
6-1 in a nice display of court work.
Harris of Sigma Alpha Mu, how
ever, put up a good fight at his
end of the court. The doubles
match was won by Ealde and
Whitely over Goldschmidt and
Blank by a 4-6, 7-5, 6-1 score.
DateChanged
For all Donut
Softball Tilts
Sigma Chi, Yeomen and
Delt, Winners
Other Victors Arc Alpha, Omega
Hall anil Phi Delta
Theta Teams
Intramural softball, as now
scheduled, will be played on Mon
day, Tuesday, and Thursday nights.
Games had previously been sched
uled for Wednesday nights instead
of Thursday. Due to the military
parade drill held each Wednesday
evening for all freshmen, sopho
mores, and many upperclassmen,
the date for the softball play-offs
has been changed to Thursday.
However, donut golf and tennis
will run on the old schedule of
Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
Intramural managers should take
these facts into consideration and
make the proper changes on the
kittenball schedules sent them.
The second round of the soft
ball tourney found the baseball
rooters up to their full strength—
a bit more sunburned, perhaps, but
just as enthusiastic. And the ball
clubs that turned out to do battle
did not disappoint them.
Alpha Hall, 16; S.P.E., 1
One of the most one-sided and
yet exciting games yesterday was
the match Detween Alpha hall and
Sigma Phi Epsilon. Frank Mi
chek easily stole the show. In
four times at bat the gridiron stal
wart knocked out three homers—
a record for the participants in
the coming games to shoot at.
Hits were few and far between
for the S.P.E.’s. On the other
hand, whenever the Alpha hall
boys got on base, they usually
scored a run. Alpha battery:
Chrones and Michek. Lone run for
S.P.E.’s was produced by Swanson.
Dolts, 8; Sigma Hall, 4
Although Blantz of Sigma hall
pitched a wonderful game to fan
seven men, the Delts proved to be
the superior bat swingers and sent
eight of their number around the
sacks and into home. W. Bruce,
Delt pitcher, turned in a much bet
ter performance than the average
pitcher last night, being credited
with, five strike-outs. Reed Swan
son wan high score man, as he
pranced across the home plate
thrice for old Delta Tau Delta.
Omega Hall, 4; Beta, 3
The closest game staged came
between Omega hall and Beta
Theta Pi. Bob Kidder, the Rose
burg flash, fanned ten Beta bat
ters, to best Goldschmidt's record
of Monday by one. Omega got off
to a flying start by tallying three
in the first inning. In the fifth
the score was tied three all when
Moore scored the fourth and win
ning run for the hall team. Sieg
mund pitched for the Betas and
Pete Buck played his usual good
game on first.
^•h*”** v iiiv iVi , » mi ^i^nt iii
Lanky Ed Wheelock, Sigma Chi
hmler, smacked out a beauty over
the heads of the fielders and round
ed the bases in three long strides
to bring in the first homer of the
game against Phi Sigma Kappa.
Pitcher Wheelock was backed by
a reliable infield composed of
President Kendall at first, Sher
I man Ladd at short, and LaBarre
on third. With the score at 21 to
9 in favor of the Sweethearts, Bill
Phipps stepped up to the plate to
lead the Phi Sigs in a seventh inn
ing rally with a loft homer. Mor
rison, Massey, and other Phi Sigs
made hits; three runs were scored;
but the Sigma Chis triumphed.
Yeomen, 4; Fiji, 8
In a real last inning rally, the
Yeomen scored three runs to come
from behind to beat a fighting
Fiji ball club. Bill White appeared
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Grid Coach Turns Inventor
Earl Pomeroy, former all-American at Utah university, now
assistant coach at Arizona State, has invented a new tackling dummy.
The dummy can be regulated to provide the tackier with more or less
opposition. The coach-inventor is pictured watching one of his men
tackle the dummy during a spring practice session.
as the whitehaired child of the
Phi Gamma Delta outfit to score
the first two runs of the game, the
second a home run. Rothenberger,
a newcomer to the Yeoman ranks,
showed he knew how to manage
the seamed pellet, while Tom
Mountain, behind the plate, kept
the independent team’s spirit
alive. Casey on third, and Mize
on the mound stood out among the
Fijis.
Phi Delt, 7; Kappa Sig, G
Another fast game with lots of
chatter was the Phi Delt-Kappa
Sig battle. The affair was nip and
tuck for the full seven innings
with Kappa Sigma always trailing
by a small margin. Malcolm
Bauer played a spectacular first
base for Phi Delta Theta. At one
time he dove and caught a low,
hard-driven fly, rolled over and
over in the dust—a tangle of lan
ky arms and legs. Then he
jumped up, tagged the Kappa Sig
ma runner who had overstepped
his base to make a double out. Joe
Darby pitched for the victors and
Howard Bobbitt for the van
quished.
Oregon Ball Club
Put Through Stiff
WTorkout by Coach
Putting his charges through a
stiff workout Tuesday afternoon
Coach Billy Reinhart prepared
them for their coming tilt Friday
with Willamette university. The
contest will be the third game of
the season for the Ducks. They
split their first series of two, with
Oregon Normal, losing the first
4-3 and taking the second on the
local field, 9-2.
The Willamette game here Fri
day, and a contest with the Lin
field ball tossers the following
weekend are the only two pre
conference games left on the Web
foot varsity schedule before the
regular schedule starts.
While the regulars worked out
on the varsity diamond, the sec
ond team scrimmaged the frosh
in a scrub game. Coach Kelley’s
proteges showed considerable
promise.
Women’s
Athletics
Ey MARGERY KISSLING
'T'HE first women's baseball game
*• opened the season with a bang,
rhe Pi Phis defeated the Kappas
yesterday with a score of 38 to 9
with Greeta Kirkpatrick, Pi Phi
star player.
There was a good crowd for the
game, among whom were several
Phi Dslts who yelled comments
about blue-eyed blondes. Amid
various wisecracks the Kappas
rallied in the final inning, causing
an exciting grand finale to the
game.
The next game will be played
between Alpha Omicron Pi and
Susan-Hendrieks Thursday, April
12.
Installation of P. E. club of
ficers will be held this after
noon at a very important meet
ing. The officers to be installed
are: president, Dorothy Berg
strom : vice-president, Mary
Margaret Hunt; secretary, Mar
garet Daggett; treasurer, Helen
Payne.
There will also be an election
of class representatives to P. E.
council. The meeting will be
held at 4 o’clock.
The attendance at archery prac
tice from 4 to 5:30 is slowly but
surely picking up. With added in
terest in the sport there should
be more than the usual competi
tion this year.
Don’t feel backward about com
ing out for practice if you haven’t
shot an arrow before. There is
supervised instruction at all prac
tices and from all appearances the
beginners who have already ven
tured forth don’t find it as hard
as some people would believe. So
come out and try it, if only for a
few minutes.
* * *
All tennis fans are being given
a chance to prove your skill. There
is a chart in the women’s gym on
which you can sign up for singles,
doubles, or mixed doubles. As yet
there are only a few names, but
that’s no reason why it shouldn't
fill up quickly.
Coach Plans
Handicaps for
Cinder Teams
Rivalry Between Frosh
And Varsity Keen
Foxy Colonel Has All Events
Arranged to End in
Dead Heats
Those who are fortunate enough
to have A. S. U. O. tickets, will
have a chance to see the Oregon
varsity and freshman track teams
compete in an interesting meet on
Hayward field Saturday afternoon
at 3 o’clock.
From the results of last week’s
time trials, Bill Hayward has com
puted a set of handicap distances
in relation to the full distances.
He will set the winner at scratch,
and the men who finished second,
third, and so on will be given ad
vantages of feet or yards accord
ing to how close they finished.
According to the foxy Colonel’s
figures, every event should end in
a dead heat, or there should not
be a variance of more than a foot.
This meet will see the freshmen
and varsity men compete against
one another in every event. Be
sides the closeness of the races
and field events because of the
handicap arrangements, there will
be a keen rivalry between the
frosh and varsity cinder men.
Some new stars will be added
to the list of those competing in
tfie meet Saturday. Mason Mc
Coy. who has been nursing an in
jured ankle, will probably be
showing his wares in the high and
low hurdles. Captain Sherwood
Burr strained himself badly while
playing his banjo, but may be back
in spikes for Friday’s competition.
In the sprints, Elwood Merrill
and Walter Hopson will be very
much in the race to challenge Bud
Shoemake, who held a slight ad
vantage Saturday.
“Patronize Emerald Advertisers.”
Blind Man’s Buff
Remember the game? A handkerchief over your eyes
.... your hands searching for someone, feeling blindly
over features your eyes could so easily know. It seems
foolish—deliberately to blindfold yourself and go search
ing. You wouldn’t blind yourself deliberately when you
start out in search of purchases that help make life a
game.
If you can read the advertisements first you are spared the
doubts and mistakes. Advertisements take the handker
chief off of your eyes. They equip you with keen vision.
They lead you direct to the shaving cream that will give
most freshness to your skin, to the most tempting clothes,
to the sparkling drinks most pleasing. They put in your
hands familiar good things guaranteed to please.
You can’t afford to buy under a blind man’s buff. Read
the advertisements to avoid the blindness—and the buff.
DON’T OVERLOOK THESE TODAY.
Advertisements help you find the best
there is to find and know it when
you find it