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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 14, 1936)
A.A.U. Track Meet Track athletes from all over the state will (rather Saturday afternoon to compete for Olympic recognition. Read Bruce Currie’s advance dope on the big event in today’s paper. £ MERALD SPORTS UNIVERSITY OP OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1936 — Dan E. Clark, II . Sports Editor Pat Frizzell . Assistant Sports Editor Bruce Currie, G. T. Smith, Ed Bobbins, Kenneth Kirtley, Robert Dean, Huhard Kuokka, Wendell Wyatt* Coed Reporters: Irma jean Randolph, Marionbeth Wolf den, Helen Ferguson. The Highball ♦ BY DOC T^OW that's the way to come ! ~ hack. The Doc' wanted some ^ information, and he got it! It is hoped that those who ventured to i feel somewhat the same way as Doc' at the track meet Saturday read the team's explanation in the open letter published in this col umn yesterday. It was lucid, to the point, and what’s more, showed something which should run as high among the students as it I evidently does among the track 1 team, SPIRIT. No one for the minute ques tinned Col. Bill Hayward's deci sions as to what was best at the meet. There are mighty few track coaches in the nation as clever as Bill in doping out a meet. How ever, in many parts of the stands last Saturday Oregon boosters, when they saw their team getting the worst of it, exclaimed, “Why didn’t they put Scharpf in the half mile?” “Why didn't they use Lloyd in the hurdles. They said last year he was pretty good in the hurdles.” The students wanted Oregon to win that meet, almost as much as Hayward and his team wanted to win. No one expected the unknown Killien to pass Oregon’s Shoeniake in the 230. If they ever meet again, our money’s still on Shoeniake by a comfortable margin, and on Bill Hayward for picking the best men. * «s * JF it were possible to pick one man on the Webfoot ball club, who is most valuable to his teanr, the selection would probably fall to Don McFadden, followed closely by Andy Hurney. Despite the fact that spotty sup port and some good stick-work by Washington and Idaho batters cost him two games, Don still leads the pack of regular hitters on the Ore gon club with a .500 average. He is a dependable outfielder as well as a fine pitcher, and has easily the coolest head in the club. He doesn't get flustered anywhere on the diamond, hasn’t during his en tire service on the Webfoot team, at any rate. He can be counted on in the pinches. Don might not be able to make the big leagues as a pitcher, yet, because the profes sional batters would just eat up his curves. Don’s fast one isn’t fast enough yet, for big time. But, he has as good a chance as any of the 1036 Duck squad of going higher as a fielder, if he cared to work for it. “Handy Andy” comes next in line on the squad as far as popular feelings in the stands count. His homers and line smashes when needed have undoubtedly been a leading factor in keeping the Webfoots right up there in the conference race. JF Oregon can win two from Washington State and split with Washington on their northern jaunt they’ll be in a fair way to taking their third consecutive pennant. WSC should have a tougher time with Washington than the Ducks will have with the Beavers on the way home. Dictator Once U.S. Lecturer Once a lecturer at the Univer sity of Nebraska, Kariis Ulmanis, above, is Europe's newest dictator, as the “Wadonis”—corresponding to German’s “Fuehrer"—of Latvia. Returning to Latvia after it split from Uussia in 1U18. Ulmanis be came its first premier. His new office combines the presidency and prune ministry. Ford Mullen Leads Frosh Horsehiders Third Baseman Hils Ball For .483 Average;Bill Sayles Wins Two Ford Mullen, stellar third saeker. j leads the regulars on the Oregon freshman baseball squad in hitting with an average of .4S3 compiled in seven games, according to figures released yesterday. Mul len has 14 safe blows in 29 trips to the plate. Lee Irwin, catcher, and Bill Sayles and John Coomler, pitchers and part-time outfielders are the rnly other first string men hitting better than .300. The team average was boosted over 20 points as a result of the batting spree the Yearlings went cn during the Salem encounter, The squad average now rests at .291. Gale Smith, smooth-fielding first baseman, has not muffed a ball in 55 chances for a perfect 1.000 fielding average. Fouts has ac cepted 12 chances without making a bobble. In pitching, Sayles leads the other Frosh moundsmen with two wins and no loses, w'hile Coomler and Fouts each have won one and lost one. Gammon has been charged with one loss. Batting averages of all freshman players follow: G B H Pet. Johansen. If. Nicholsen, m .... Mullen, 3 . Coomler, p . Irwin, c . Sayles, p . B. Smith, rf . Anet, lf-2 . Jackson, p-rf .... Hay, m . Gordon, s . G. Smilh, 1 . Walden, c . Fouts, p . Blackman, p . Yerby, If . Gammon, p-rf .... Thompson, 2 . Rolfe, m . Wintermute, If .. Edinger, rf . Burnett, m . Van Emmond, c Totals . ..Ill ..153 .. 7 29 14 .. 5 15 6 .. 6 26 10 .. 5 21 8 .. 3 13 ... 6 14 ..3 7 .. 4 14 .. 7 32 .. 6 25 ..2 4 ..3 9 ..2 5 .. 3 12 ..3 6 .. 7 20 ..2 3 4 4 2 4 9 7 1 2 1 2 1 2 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.000 .600 .483 .400 .385 .381 .308 .236 .286 .286 .281 .280 .250 .222 .200 .167 .167 .100 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .285 81 .291 Gamma, Sigma Win Bali Games Gamma hall, defending' champs in the interdorm softball league, defeated the..' leading contenders from Omega hail 11-8 in a five inning game last night, and Sigma hall won from Alpha hall 10-4. The Gamma-Omega game, scheduled for 5 innings on account of the approaching darkness, was won for the Gammas by Een Marty’s second home run of the game. With the bases full in the fifth frame he singled to Kato in left field, but the ball slipped through Kato’s legs and Marty chased the boys_ in for the four tallies. Forden and Bell of Omega each made two homers in the game. Emar Williams pitched for the winners. Don Casciato, tossing for Omega, struck out 12 men in the five in nings. His game was lost by errors. In.the Alpha-Sigma game, Win slow. Little, Lathrop, Engele, and Robbins made the 10 runs off Bill Close, chucking for Alpha. Close, however, scored from one and three base hits, and his teammates, Welch and Chrones, each scored one run. Herman Folland pitched for the winners. Counting last night's game, both teams have now’ won twice and lost twice. Dr. Huffaker Makes Survey al Klamath Dr. C. L. Huffaker, professor at the school of education, is in Klamath Falls assisting with a city school survey. The survey aims to tabulate facts concerning the schools 'here and to formulate statistics concerning their needs. Send the Emerald to your friends SumcnptiOB rate^ per year. University Champ Elton Owen, pictured above, is claimant of the University boxing and wrestling championship. He is scheduled to meet Joe Bradshaw, Eugene boxing coach, in an amateur show Friday night. Frosh Trackmen To Meet Rooks Ducklings Enter AAU Meet; Many Injuries Hamper Practice The frosh track season is rapid ly approaching' its climax. Next Friday the first year men will com pete in the AAU meet on Hayward field, and a week later they will be hosts to their great rivals, the Oregon State Rooks, in the annual dual meet. Injuries to two of the best men have weakened the team consider ably. Jim Schriver, sprints and 440-yard man, has again pulled a muscle in practice, and Jack Berry, Coach Nowland's versatile -sprint er and jumper is still nursing a similar injury. Although there is a possibility that Berry will com pete next Friday, Schriver with out a doubt will lay off during the weekend. Encouraging is the report that Ben Marty, who has been resting an injured' leg for over a week jumped around the six foot mark in his first workout. Sprinters Stan Carlson, Bruce Currie, and Floyd Vaughn have been working with Eddie Burkitt and Jack Wagstaff in the quarter mile in preparation for the Rook meet. The field in the sprints is very weak this year. Loyal Cody and Don Smith are diligently practicing the half mile and the male is well taken care of by Don Barker and Crawford Lyle. Pat Foley, javelin thrower, is nurs ing a sore arm. It is uncertain whether or not'he will compete in Friday's AAU meet. When the Frosh-Rook meet is University Man Fights Grudge Battle Friday Elton Owen, 165-pound wrest ling and boxing champion of the University, is all set to meet Joe Bradshaw, Eugene boxing coach, in a real grudge battle which has been brewing for two years. The battle will be five rounds, and held at the Eugene armory Friday night as the feature of an amateur card, for the benefit of the National Guard mess fund. The Owen-Bradshaw feud start ed two years ago and has been brewing ever since. Six weeks ago Owen brought the matter to a head by issuing an open challenge to Bradshaw to battle it out before the public or in the gym. Brad shaw forced Owen to meet an im ported amateur boxer, declaring he would meet him if Owen de feated this man. Owen surprised everyone two weeks ago by knock ing out the boxer, after dropping him three times. Bradshaw Is Experienced Bradshaw has fought for the Multnomah club team in Portland, and is regarded as a clever, rugged boxer. Owen, on the other hand', is fighting his fourth bout in the ring but has done considerable boxing in the gym. His battle with Alan Wilson, football player, in the finals of the intramural boxing championships two years ago, is still remembered by those who wit nessed it. over the boys will have earned a long rest. Many of the first year athletes have been in training since the cold days of January. Send the Emerald to your friends A.A.U. Meet Saturday Is Large Affair 'Webfools to Have Most Entrants; Unattached Cindermen Enter Almost a hundred athletes will compete in the huge AAU track meet this Saturday on Hayward field. Already 79 entrants have been received by officials. The University of Oregon has the largest list of entrants with a total of 28 men entered in the meet. The University of Portland Pilots will be represented by a strong squad of 17 men. Linfield will have 11, Oregon Normal 7, Oregon State Rooks 5, and Whit man 2, and also a number of un attached runners will compete. Many of the trackmen from the smaller schools have made brilli ant performances this year. Ross Hart of Oregon Normal is con sidered one of the outstanding sprinters and all around cinder men in the Northwest. Qualifying heats will be held Saturday morning and the main meet will begin at 2 o’clock. Oregon entrants and events: 5,000 meters—Sam McGaughey, Davidson. 100 meters Shoemake, Forbes, Patterson. High jump—Janak. Pole vault Janak. Discus— Holland, Foskett. 1,500 meters Bryant. 400 meters Miller, Schultz, Mc Donald, Hall. 100-meter high hurdle—Sinnette, Lacy, Goodfellow. 200 meters—Shoemake, Patter son. 800 meters—Scharpf, Gam.bee, Kropp, Sims. 200-meter low hurdles- Sinnette, Lacy, Freeman, Wentworth. Broad jump—Lloyd, Lindgren, Fitchard. Shot put — Foskett, Walker, Berrv. Javelin— Hardisty, Nichelson. Other entrants are: University of Portland Sweet, Schooler, Hand, Columbo, Britton, Keith, Harding, Thompson, Dun stan, Lydon, DeSully, Snell, Pelly, Gardner, Pfeiffer, Mladinieh, Mil ler. Oregon Normal school —R o s s Hart, Earl Kidd, Hoy Long, Dar win Baxter, Wilford Long, Earl Sampson, Elmore Borden. Oregon State college freshmen —Bob Leslie, Bill Hoyer, Lee Carey, George Pasero, Joe Enzler. Linfield college David Hooper! George Sargeant, Clarence Jacob sen, Walter Young, Ed Greenfield, Clay Kelley, V. Spenser, D. San ders Bob Greenfield. J, Hugg, R. Leibsle. Whitman college--Robert Gra ham, S. H. Smil,h. Unattached Eld Woodcock, Cor vallis; Bob Parke, Fred Nowland, both from Eugene; Lee Grigsby, Portland; Jake Plumb, Clelon i both from Airlie; Wolf Heinberg, Portland; Robert Tugman, Eu gene; Chester Page, no address. Journalism Grad Gets Newspaper Joli Genevieve Dunlap, ’34 graduate from the school of journalism, has just accepted a position on the Condon Globe-Times, eastern Ore it 1 ook a Cannon to Halt This Stolen Car 7"' v ...yum**_ The biggest gun ever used to stop a stoien ear, this cannon halted the wild ride of a thief speeding into Colonial Circle, Builaio, N. V. ((lining off second best in his charge, the driver didn’t wait for further Mbatilities, but continued hii flight on loot, uninjured, police believe. Women’s Track Meet Friday Gerlinger Field Is Scene of Inlerelass Rivalry; PE Clfih Sponsor The women's interclass track meet, sponsored by the Physical Education club, will be held Fri day afternoon, May 15, from 3 till 5 o'clock on the field in back of the worn en' s building, Jane Thomas, chairman of the meet, announced yesterday. Competition in 10 track events by class representatives will de termine the women's track cham pionship. Each contestant al lowed to participate in two events other than the relay race. Miss Janet Woodruff, associate professor of physical education and adviser of the PE club, \yill bo referee for the entire meet. Of ficials for the various events will be appointed the day of the meet. Dorothy Burgess will assist Jane Thomas with the meet. Events and participants are: 50 yard sprint Louise Pursley, Lucie McCormick, Helen Nickachou, and Iris Franzen; 70-yard sprint: Louise Pursley, Jane Thomas, Elaine Untermann, Shirley Bennett, UO Meets Reed In Tennis Today { Deplete*! Squad Is Favored To Take Return Match At Portland Minus the services of one and possibly, two of its first three play ers, the varsity tennis team goes to Portland to play Heed college today. Norman Winslow, the only play er'with a clean singles record will be unable to make the trip, and Captain Larry Crane, sometimes number one player may have to stay in Eugene. When these tearn^ met in Eu gene, Oregon was the victor by a 7 to 0 score, but many of the matches were close. With the ranks depleted for this match, the score promises to be much closer, but Oregon should squeeze out a win. A probable lineup for Oregon would place John Economus as number one; Jack Crawford, after his brilliant game against Hock ley, as number two; Chuck Eaton as number three; Worth Chancy as number four; and Bill Zimmerman as number five. If Bill Hutchison makes the trip he may play at number five position. gon newspaper. She will solicit advertising and do reporting. Miss Dunlap has been working on the Eugene Morning News as proofreader. Send the Emerald to your friends Subscription rates $2.50 a ypar. Dress Wear For Every Occasion At DeNeffe’s Thousands of Ore gon men have en trusted their dress wear requirements to DeNeffe’s and found complete satisfaction, in the knowledge that every detail of their dress was correct. DeXeffe's pride them selves upon 1 he quality of their merchandise, plus a personal service that is unsurpassed. It’ you are looking for the most for your money, you will find it at DeNeffe’s Washington State Drubs Ducks 10-3; Teams Play Today Cougars Hit McFadden Fret'ly While Oregon Garners Only Eight Safe Blows Washington State took a firmer grip on first place in the northern division baseball race by drubbing Oregon's Webfoots' at Pullman yesterday, 10 to 3. The loss dropped Howard Hobson’s team to the .500 mark, two and one-half games behind the Cougars and a Gertrude Branthover, Eileen Dem ent, Iris Franzen. Running broad jump Edna Carl sen, Dorothy Meyer, Margaret Reid, Bee Scherzinger, Eileen Moore, Mary Van Hoomisen, Shirley Ben nett, Helen Lewis, Takako Naka (Please turn to pac/e four) NORTHERN division STANDINGS W. . Pet, Washington Stale .7 2 .778 Washington .5 8 .625 Oregon .4 4 .500 Oregon State..2 5 .286 Idaho.1 5 .187 game behind the second - place Washington Huskies. Buck Bailey’s bombers blud geoned out 15 hits off the slants of the usually reliable Don McFad den and had an easy time in coast ing tu victory in the first of the two-game series. Pitcher Bob Kin naman allowed the Webfoots eight hits and only one earned run._ A home run by Cliff McLean account ed for the earned tally. Nethercutt Homes George Nethercutt slammed one for the circuit for Washington State. Bishop and Kranc of the Cougars clicked out four blows in four up to lead all batters. Bob Millard will be Hobson's mound choice for today in the se ries finale. Opposing him will probably be Mel Marlowe, the cocky southpaw who blanked the Ducks here. After the Washington State se ries the Oregon team will move to Moscow for games with Idaho Fri day and Saturday. Score: R. H. E. Oregon . 3 8 3 Washington State .10 15 5 Batteries: McFadden and Mc Lean; Kinnaman and Fields. 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