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SPORTS STAFF Clair Johnson .. Editor George Jones, Caroline Hand, Fulton Travis, Bill Mcln turff, Earl Bucknum. Don Casciato, Gordon Connelly, Kenneth Weber, Pat Cassidy, Kenneth Kirtley, and Paul Conroy, Diston Wood, and Bill Parsons. READ THE SPORTS PAGE With complete campus coverage of sports events and AP wire service, the Emerald sport page gives you a daily account of what is going on in the collegiate sports world not only locally but throughout ttre'iiation. rn VOLUME XXXIV UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1934 Page 4 Duck Tracks By CLAIR JOHNSON Emerald Sports Editor Michek and Miktilak Cel On re Over; Srrilte Believes Men Are Even Football fan.s here and there have been having more than one heated session around the fire place me past few weeks trying to decide whether “Fills Mike’s Shoes” Michek really does fill Mike's shoes or not. A good many things come up in that sort of. an Mike Mikulak argument, iviayuc one of the first things to do in getting things really straight would be to make it a point to compare the boys on the basis of what Frank is now and what Mik nlak was when he was a junior. Looking at it from this angle it seems to be a pretty certain little, story that the Scappoose boy will be up for plenty of all-Ameri can consideration next season. . Right now Frankie is just a3 good and better on offense than the mainstay of last year's team was anytime during his career. Michek gets off to a faster start and consequently has just that much more drive. This decided advantage here more than over comes the weakness he has com pared with Mike in the duties of blocking out for his fellow backs. There, it is true, Mike was and is uncomparable, but a job of this sort does not usually happen to be the lot of a fullback, * >1* * Looking into the defensive abil ity of the two we see one place where Mike has an advantange. That seems to be in some sort of deep perception as to what the next play is going to be. Also Mike’s savage tackles of last year will not be forgotten for many seasons. But for the younger man’s side of it we have the resounding smashes that echoed through Mult nomah field last Saturday when he cracked into some of the boys carrying the ball. or course tlio two piay in dlf ferent positions oil defense. Mike was always directly hacking; up Ult imo, while this year’s full has the job of being; at one of the farther back members of the quartet do ing the hacking up work. So looking them both over an-1 trying to come to any definite de cision is a job worthy of an ex pert better than any schoolboy coach. Next year’s games will really tell the story. It will be then thut Michele can be compared with the all-American Mikulak we are prone to use in any arguments comparing the two, even though it would be a fairer comparison if we took Mike as he was as a jun ior and not a year later. * * * llurtl I.ooks timid Apparently the headline the oth er day about this lad Hurd, who has been splashing around so speedily in the pool at the men's gym, gave rather an erroneous impression. The wording, accord ing to some interpretations, indi cated thut Hurd had just sort of popped out of nowhere and had been completely unknown hereto fore to everyone, even Mr. Hoy man,, This impression is wrong. The fast Hawaiian came here with a record well-known to Coach Hoy man and other followers of the aquatic world. He is no sudden discovery. He was A. A. U. cham pion in Hawaii, in we don't know how many different classes. Anyhow, known or unknown, tlie lad is plenty good and teamed with such men as Jim Reed and Chuck. Wally Hug, Leonard Scrog gins, et a!., will no doubt bring in a good many more swimming lau rels to Oregon and Mike Hoyman. Although not eligible for var sity this year no one can stop the boy from breaking records and af ter a year under Mike he will be better than ever. Duck Gridders To Meet Idaho In Coming Tilt Pass - Throwing Tackle Is Vandal Ace Fury Returns to Webfoot Lineup; Del Rjork Shifted A powerful University of Idaho football team, considered one of the strongest grid aggregations to represent the Moscow school in many seasons, will furnish the op position for the University of Ore gon eleven in the Ducks’ third con ference start of the 1934 season. The Webfoot-Vandal game will be played at Moscow this Saturday afternoon, climaxing a week of homecoming activities on the Idaho campus. Benefiting from a two-weeks’ rest period following their wild tilt with the Gonzaga Bulldogs who defeated Calland’s team 24-20, the Vandals will be in the best of shape for the fray with the Eugene footballists and are planning to stage a big upset this weekend. Stars Gone Though minus the services of Willis “Little Giant’’ Smith and John Norby, star backfield man on the 1933 Idaho team, the Vandals this year boast of a powerful pig skin squad featuring a potent aer ial attack led by “Bullet” Bob Mc Cue, triple threat, pass-throwing tackle. McCue is classed among the leading football tossers in the nation, being credited with throw ing the third longest completed pass of the ’33 season when he hurled the ball for 53 yards against Whitman university. While the Vandals will be in su perb condition for Saturday’s game, the Greenies, too, barring further injuries, will be in tip-top form for the battle at Moscow. Ter jeson, regular quarterback, is the only Duck on the injured list. Nul lifying somewhat the damage caused by Terjeson’s loss, the re turn to play of Pat Fury, hurt in the pre-conference clash with Gon zaga, has served to increase Ore gon’s chances of victory this week end. Bjork Shifted With Fury’s return the Duck lineup will probably see a slight change, Del Bjork, erstwhile tac kle, moving to a guard post while Fury fills the vacancy caused by Bjork’s shift. For the second successive after noon the reserves bore the brunt of the work in the daily practice sessions. Tuesday’s workout saw the varsity run signals and engage in a light scrimmage with the frosh, concentrating on kickoff re turns, punting, and punt returning. Kappa Alpha Psi Elect Senders as Secretary Bruce Senders, '30, business ad ministration major, was elected secretary of Alpha Kappa Psi, bus iness administration honorary, at their luncheon-business meeting held yesterday at the Faculty club. Prospective members were dis cussed and plans were made to procure a special speaker for the next meeting which will be in the 1 men’s lounge of Gerlinger hall Tuesday, October 23 at 7:30. fl—ji ■ IllIMliMllllllll —il Duck Basketball Five to Parade Beavers Leave For Southland To Play Trojans Red Franklin, Oregon State's stellar ball packer, will not leave with the Orange gnidmen today to do battle with the Southern Cali fornians at Los Arjgeles. Jim Dan eri, reserve left halfback, will make the trip in his stead. Al though Bill Tomsheck, veteran left guard, out with a bruised hip since the Stanford game will be in shape to play Saturday, Coach Lon Stiner will probably start Dan Mitola, captain, in this position. The rest of the line>-up will likely correspond with the list of starters in the Columbia game, which Ore gon State won by the decisive score of 39 to 12. At left end W. Joslin, right end Schultz, tackles Brandis and Hall, will probably hear the starting whistle. Dan Mitola and Woerner are slated for the call at left and right guards, and Devine will hold the center niche. Swanson and Daneri will start at right and left halves, while Woodman at quarter and Pangle at fullbcak will make cut the squad that begins the game. About thirty men will make up the squad to go to southern Cali fornia. They will stop for a brief workout at the University of Cali fornia field at Berkely Thursday. Southern California, fresh from their 20-6 defeat by Pitt last Sat urday, is vague about their start ing lineup, but will probably use the same aggregation that played Pitt. Writers’ Group Names Dean Leading Player CHICAGO, Oct. 16.— (AP)~Je rome Herman “Dizzy” Dean, mak ing $350,000 for himself this year, was named tonight as the most valuable player in the National league for 1934. Pitching ace of the world cham pion St. Louis Cardinals, Dean came within two points of the per fect score in the selection made by a committee of eight represent ing the baseball writers’ associa tion of America. In the official balloting, first place counted 10 points, and Dean scored 78 points. Six members of the committee voted him the most valuable play er and the other two ranked him second. Send the Emerald to your friends. Subscription rates $2.50 a year. G. F. PHILLIPS Continues the Management of THE CAMPUS GROCERY Congratulations to Aubrey L. Fletcher 1000 Philip Morris Cigarettes FREE "For particulars see notice posted at College Side Inn, Oregon Pharmacy, Univer sity Pharmacy, and the Fal con.” ;■■■■ a I Save 10 ^ on Everything ■ issr - ■ Jill Swim Contest Semi - Finals Begin Today Betas and Gammas Win; SPE and Phi Psis Tie Hurd Wins But Breaks No Records; Maguire Looks Good Today’s Schedule 4:00—Alpha Tau Omega vs. Phi Delta Theta. 4 :40—Beta Theta Pi vs. Gam ma hall. With the red flash from Starter Wally Hug’s nine-shooted, James A. Hurd, transfer from Honolulu who smashed the Pacific coast varsity record in the 40-yard free style last Wednesday, splashed in to the water yesterday to lead the pennant-hungry Betas in the most decisive victory of the week-old donut meet. The Beta Theta Pi house marked down 39 points, the highest possi ble total. Sigma Nu tallied only three times on three third places, the Betas' two entries having tak en the first two spots in each in stance. Gammas Win In the second struggle of the day the Gamma haliers and the Fijis went at it hammer and tongs, the haliers coming out on top with the capture of the last race, the free style relay, for a 26 to 16 score. Cutting through the water with the same speed and color that won for the Phi Psis twice before, Don and Dick Brooke, the popular brothers, held the Sigma Phi Epsi lon mermen to a deadlock with two firsts and a second. Don for the third time won the backstroke event and took part in the winning 1 three-man medley, while Br'er Dickey sneaked off with the indi vidual medley, formerly taken by Don, and barely lost in the breast stroke to S. P. E.’s Lottridge after an argument over the finish. Pri vot with speedy finishes in the free style and relay and Lindgren with a second in the opening event I Frosh-Oregon Normal Gridfest Slated for Saturday Afternoon According to an announce ment made yesterday from the graduate manager’s office the annual battle between the Frosh gridsters and Harold Hobson’s Southren Oregon normal school eleven has been shifted to Sat urday afternoon at 2 o’clock on Hayward field. Former arrangements called for the game to be played Fri day night. Yearling coach Irv Schultz has given out no definite start ing lineup but will probably do so following a scrimmage with the Varsity tomorrow. i ind a spot on the relay team were bright lights in the S. P. E. attack. Crowd Large Although the largest attendance of the meet to date appeared to watch Jimmy Hurd in the dash, the husky Beta failed by a full second to equal his record of last week, coming home in :19.7 sec onds. Newman, Gill, Morse and Cathey carried the balance of the pleasurable burden. Lloyd, who won the free style swim and squirmed in second in the backstroke, and Lees, who captured the individual medley and seconded the free style, presented the haliers 16 of their 26 points be side backstroking and free-styling in the relay. Dave Maguire, Fijis' prospect in the backstroke, won that race again and angled in third in the free style. Robert "Soupy" Seufert also procured scores for the Dormers. Play-off Slated Mike Hoyman, swimmng in structor, today will announce the -nanner of the play-off of the 3.P.E.-Phi Psi tie. The squads will either run off the entire meet )r vie in the 120-yard three-man nedley to decide the winner. Today A. T. O. will try to do iway with the Phi Delts, before the 3etas mix with Gamma hall in the ■ irst semi-final match at 4:40. Probably the S.P.E.’s and Phi Kap >a Psis will tangle during the day ;o pave the way for Thursday’s semi-final. Send the Emerald to your friends. Subscription rates $2.50 a year. Casaba Clinic To Meet At 8 OnlglooFloor Varsity Basketball Men To Demonstrate Veteran Triek Shot Artist Draws Mentors To School A “basketball clinic” will be held at McArthur court tonight at 8:00 p. m. Chuck Taylor, profes sional basketball player for the last fifteen years, will give a free demonstration of basketball meth ods to all comers. Taylor, who has a national reputation as one of the best casaba tossers in the United States, has played wTith the Buffalo Germans and New York Celtics. He is a trick shot artist of the first water and makes the basketball behave. The 1934 varsity basketball squad, under the direction of Coach Bill Reinhart, will demonstrate the plays. This will give the specta tors their first chance of seeing this year’s squad assembled and in action for the first time. The “clinic” is primarily a school for the spectators. High school coaches from all over the state as well as basket ball officials have signified their intention of attending the demon stration. The demonstration is the medium through which a sports shoe company presents its adver tising. Taylor’s troup has lately been touring the Pacific coast and has already put in its appearance at several southern schools. FOXX INJURY SLIGHT PORTLAND, Oct. 16.—(AP) — The fear that his head injury might end the brilliant baseball career of Jimmie Foxx was vio lently pooh-poohed tonight by Earl Mack, business manager of the barn-storming American league all star team. Send the Emerald to your friends. Subscription rates $2.50 a year. Reporter Relates Story Of J. Reed- W. Hug Swim ijuiiui nun. I m a story by Fulton Travis, who made the trip in the boat which accom panied Jim Keed and Wally Hug in their swim last summer from Seaside to Tillamook Rock. July 20, 1934 is part of history but a day remembered by residents all up and down the Pacific coast. There has been a great deal of in terest shown on the Eugene cam pus about that particular date. Be cause of this and the fact that the Emerald wishes to recognize two champions, we are giving a brief summary of the Seaside-Tillamook Rock lighthouse swim made by Jim Reed and Wally Hug. For those who are not well ac quainted with the north Oregon coast, the Tillamook Rock light house is a mile and a half from a rocky coast and guards one of the meanest stretches of reef and cur rent to be found between the Col umbia and the Oregon line. A dir ect mark on government charts from this isolated beacon to the prom at Seaside shows nine miles of rough water and adverse cur rents. Plan Swim Jim and Wally, acting as life guards at Seaside, determined to make this swim over the advice of those who know the area in ques tion. Chances were reckoned as about 1 in 1000 of their making the trip and 50-50 for return. Accompanied by Bill Hoops, ar experienced oarsman, and the re porter, Jim and Wally took to the water at 5:45 a. m. July 20. Aii coast weather signs were wrong for the trip; the only advantage being that the water was glass} smooth and even that in a restless way which threatens storm. The sun shot angry red stream ers into the misty dawn, the rollers were oily and long, a faint south west breeze was pushing softly up the coast and fog threatened tc sweep out from the Necanicurr valley at any time, enveloping the two swimmers. If this more than likely eventuality occured before their boat, launched a mile from their starting point, caught up they would be three-quarters of a mile off shore, lost and without assistance. Fog Holds Off Fortunately the fog failed tc spread. At the end of an hour, how ever, both swimmers were chilled and Wally became violently ill Good sportsmanship was shown at every stage of the trip, however, neither Wally nor Jim taking long icaia agauiot minutes Hug had conquered the nausea. For two more hours they surged on, bucking a sea which was making rapidly in that "after dawn” rise of wind. Sprints, desperate in intensity, were necessary to make the com pletion of the swim possible— and with every burst of speed their endurance was lessened. At the end of three hours they were on the edge of a current which sets southward past the lighthouse about three miles an hour. Here, before entering the current itself, they struck a ser ious rip-tide which, while a scant hundred feet wide, took several minutes to cross and an unwanted gain of 300 yards southward was made. Ligntnouse »een Slowly the lighthouse became a bulking reality after the gruel ling hours when its very existence must be taken on faith. The cur rent carried them swiftly toward the rock, but a slight mis-calcula tion on the part of Hoops, our pi lot, had forced them too far on the shore side of the light and al though they battled for better than a quarter hour in heavy surf, land ing on the light was impossible. At length, they were taken aboard the skiff and rowed in un der the rock—in some ways the most dangerous part of the entire undertaking The basket, attached to a forty foot hawser, swung out on a boom, was lowered. The only trick is to get into the basket when the boat and basket are even—before the craft drops ten feet in the trough of a wave. First Try Missed Wally was lucky, but the boat dropped out from under Jim and for a breath-taking few seconds, he dangled between sky and sea, his greased hands slipping—if he fell—but thanks to a cool winch operator, the basket was skilfully bounced and Reed tumbled to safe ty Swiftly they were wafted aloft. Presently we followed, and the big gest trip for the reporter, at leas*, was being allowed to enter thi3 note after the names of Jim Reed and Wally Hug, whose names, in cidentally, were the first signa tures in the guest book since April 1932: “The first men to make the swim from Seaside to Tillamook light. Time: 3 hrs. 45 min."—An everage of 2.4 miles per hour. , A man ivloo has been smoking Granger for a long time said this: "A package of Granger gives me and my old pipe about 9 hours of enjoyment. 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