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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 31, 1937)
r THE Firing Line By PAT FRIZZELL If pitchers were as thick as out fielders on Oregon's baseball squad Hobby Hobson wouldn't have to< many worries. Pitchers, aren' however. Pitching, some contend, is 7! per cent of a ball club. Anyway it's highly important. Therefor* the first thing to do in any bird': eye picture of an outfit is to checl the chucking. Right off the bal we’re pasted in the eye with th* unpleasant fact that a young mar named Bob Millard is not at pres ent listed in the pigger's guide Mr. Millard was the prize sopho more southpaw of Mr. Hobson's staff last spring, and had he re turned to school to team with the present sophomore sensation, Bill Sayles, the Ducks would have beer all set on the hillock. But Millarc is in dental college, flinging filling; instead of baseballs, and that leaves it up to what’s left. Addition of Southpaw Boh Hardy has strengthened the mound de partment no little. Sayles 'is as good as ever and better, and that’s ’nuff said. Then there’s John Lew is, who played his sophomore sea son at third base, his junior year at short, and now is a hurler. Bill Marshall, LeKoy Mattingly, Dave Gammon, and Gordon Connelly, all right-handers, complete the mound staff, which could look a lot worse. Marshall, now a junior, trans ferred from Monmouth Normal a year ago and worked in a few games last spring. Mattingly and Connelly were reserves last year and Gammon is a sophomore. When spring term opened, exact ly no experienced catchers were in the Webfoot camp. Now there are two, both of whom are letter men, and it’s happy day again be hind the bludgeon. Chief McLean drifted up from Southern Oregon Normal the oth er day and registered here. That made receiver number one. Then John Thomas, who had decided to stay out of baseball and devote ail time to a tough law school course, succumbed to the lure of mitt and pad and turned out Monday. So the catching department is well fortified. As a third string (jack stop there’s Bob Beard, who played frosh ball two years ago. Oregon has a great outfield, numerically. Eight lads who can corral flys in capable fashion are out there. Whether any but Andy Harney can hit remains to be seen. Handy Andy, who, like most kings of clout, is stationed in right field, batted -’way up there last year and is counted upon as slugger num ber one again. In other garden spots at pres ent are Bill Courtney, who used to play first base, and Jim Nichol son, sophomore. Courtney is patrol ling left field and Nick is working in center. Five more outfielders, none of whom stack up as hitters, are Bing Croshic, who played in a few games last year; Ken Battleson, frosh pa trolman in '35; Don Anderson, an other ’35 frosh J John Yerby, the football end, and Masa Kato, intra mural all-star last year. There'll probably be another out fielder whenever Third Baseman Ford Mullen is ready to play. Mul len cut his hand with an axe and Ralph Amato, letterman outfielder, is holding down the hot corner. The rest o'f the infield is appar ently set, with Gale Smith on first, Jack Gordon at short, and Jack Coleman, peppery little transfer from Monmouth Normal, on sec ond. A reserve is Phil Thompson from last year's frosh. That’s the way the lads line up. Where they’ll finish in the north ern division scramble is a question for May, not March. Most of the Washington State team that won last year’s flag is back in school. Washington, just Hobson Slashes Squad as Ducks Prepare for Season Gamma Wins In Extra Inning With the DUs ■ Phi Delts Pound Out Win Over Sigma Nus ; Delts Win by Forfeit; Kappa Sigs Beat Sammies By MORRIE HENDERSON Pushing across four runs in an extra inning, the Gamma hall nine beat out the DUs, 12 to 8, in a close and exciting intramural soft ball game yesterday. With the score tied at 8-ali at the end of the regulation seven innings, Bo Wilson, Gamma hall, opened the extra session with a hard single off Bill Jones, DU chucker. He scored a few moments later when Bob Herzog lined a single. Three more runs rolled in when Cal Wilson, Doug Pelton, and Mike Dariotis hit safely in rapid succession. The DUs went out in one, two, three order in a vain attempt to tie the score in their half of the inning. Gamma took advantage of Jones’ wild pitching in the first three innings to pile up a com manding lead, but couldn't hold it as the DUs edged up to tie the score in the sixth inning. The Phi Delts ran up an early lead over the Sigma Nu nine and then coasted to a 9-to-2 victory. Starting right in the first inning with Lacklan, Young, and Shipley hitting successive singles, the win ners piled up a 3-to-0 lead. The Sigma Nus filled the bases in the first but Fickner fanned for the third out. The Sigma Nus tightened up in the next two innings but allowed the Phi Delts to score six runs in the fourth and fifth innings. Tom my Swanson, Phi Delt pitcher, slammed a home run to center in the next inning with Shipley on base. The Sigma Nus’ only score came uasumjop uagA\ Suiuut mxis am ui doubled to left field, scoring Ai Smith, and then scored on a sac rifice. Kappa Sigs 8, Sammies 6 The Kappa Sigs beat out the Sammy nine in the late innings, 8 to 6, in another close contest. Neither te.am scored until the third inning, when the winners broke the ice. The game was nip and tuck for the rest of the way with the Kappa Sigs pulling ahead. Honolulu Hughes hurled for the winners, with Vic Rosenfeld chucking for the Sammies. Ray Jewell, tall Kappa Sig first sacker, hit a home run for the winners. The Delta Tau Delta nine w6n its first game when Omega hall forfeited. as in basketball, is always tough. Idaho has a big time new ooaeh, Forrest Twogood, but material up there is usually spotty. Oregon State is a ((uestion mark, but the Beavers probably won’t be too strong. Dean Johnston, Slats Gill's ace chueker last year, didn't return to school. Bill Kalibalc and Fred Cramer, lettermen, are pitchers back at Corvallis. New replace ments include Arne Fenger, who was a summer league sensation ati a tender age a few years ago. The face of Dale Lasselle is con spicuously missing from spring football practice sessions. The slim halfback has his arm in a cast and he'll be laid up for some time. Laselle underwent an operation for a wrist injury he suffered last fail. Also out of spring action, at least for for the present, is Sophomore Steve Anderson, who cracked a small bone in his ankle the other day. But football marches on without the two ball toters and without Nicholson, Yerby, and Gammon, who are playing baseball. The lads went through a brief scrimmage, second since drills began, last night, and more sciimmage is com ing up. |CV#«M j»PNEY SWEET AS HONEY Sweet as a well-seasoned pipe, on the first smoke ! And the honey-curing keeps it sweet. Special attachment supplies (1) automatic free draft (2, double action con denser. The best pipe you can buy for $1. Nothing else has its flavor. Webfoot Netmen Face Tough Slate Washke to Select Squad From Four Veterans, Four Newcomers Facing one of the toughest sche dules in the history of Oregon ten nis competition. Paul R. Washke tennis coach, is putting varsity and frosh tennis aspirants through a double elimination tournament in r.n endeavor to select top-ranking men for both teams. Five men, four of whom are re turning lettermen, remain unde feated in the varsity tourney. Chief contenders for team positions are four lettermen—John Economus, Charles Eaton, A1 Zimmerman and Larry Crane—and four new comers—Ed Robbins, A1 Finke, Bill Winston, and Rex Applegate. Sixteen enthusiastic ex-preppers answered the call for frosh try outs and are now competing for team positions. Those turning out are Jack McClung, Bob Dent, Bob Swan, Dick Hagopian, Henry Lindstrom, Don Good, Karl Mann, Ben Clabaugh, Les Werschkul, Owen Miller, James Moe. Adolph Zamsky, Glenn Eaton, Fred Beard sly, Gerald Olson, and Dick Bird. Jack McClung has advanced to the semi-finals of tourney play to lead the field. Karl Mann and Dick Hagopian were scheduled to play yesterday in an important quarter final contest. SHORTS Freddy Funk, star UCLA full back, last fall, quit school last week to become assistant director for a motion picture company in Hollywood. He was expected to be Track Coach Duke Trotter's num ber one shot putter this spring. .... Texas college baseball teams get excellent spring training by furnishing opposition for Ameri can Association and Texas league teams. Joe Gordon, ex-Oregon short stop,, has left the New York Yankees and is now spring train ing with the Newark Bears at Sebring, Florida. . . . Before he left, Tony Lazzeri, whom Joe may succeed some day, spent a couple of hours teaching him tricks around the second sack. Last fall’s football stars step back into the headlines this spring as diamond aces. Billy Bob Wil liams and Earl Sargeant, UCLA, Joe Vigna and Tony Calvelli, Stanford; By Haines, and Jimmy Cain, Washington, Joe Gray, OSC, Washington State’s Ed Goddard, and John Yerby, Jimmy Nicholson, and Dave Gammon of Oregon are a few gridiron regulars who are playing baseball this spring. . . . Stanford after many lean years (Please turn to /'age four) Manager of Champions Joe McCarthy has a habit of turning out big league baseball champions. Last season his New York Yankees captured first place in the American league and went on to win the world series. This season his Yankees are favored to repeat. High Jump Champion Likes Oregon Climate By LARRY QUINLIN Tall, quiet-mannered Cornelius Johnson, world’s champion high jumper, lolling on the sidewalk in front of Hill military academy two hours before start of the indoor relay carnival in Portland Saturday evening, smiled amusedly as he was asked: "What do you think of Jesse Owens turning pro?” “Well, a fellow' can't eat medals and honors, you know," he answered. We waited for more—and got it, briefly. “Owens may get up an all-pro track team to travel next year. Don’t know yet.” Two high school boys, autograph seekers, handed Johnson a couple of envelopes. He signed them with a slow, smooth left hand, smiled, handed them back. "What do young fellows get who turn out for track ? Is their time well spent?” he was asked. "Yes. For instance, they can' travel, if they get good enough. You take a football team, and a fellow can be all-American and yet not get to travel if his team is not so good. In track, of course, not so much depends on team work.” Johnson dubbed stories telling of class discrimination shown athletes "a lot of propaganda.” by Germany during the Olympics "I've been to Europe three times, and they’ve always treated me swell,” he said. Dressed in a light, close-fitting suit, Johnson was waiting, as were hi the Middle of It That’s where -Joe Louis stands in heavyweight boxing’s three-way squabble. Jim Braddoek, Max Sehmeling, and Detroit’s Mr. Louis are a seemingly eternal triangle in the heavyweight picture. Tennis Tourney Will Start Today Weather permitting, the opening of the annual intramural tennis competition will be staged today when the Sigma Nu net squad meets the Pi Kaps at 4 p.m. on the University courts. In the only other scheduled match of the day, the Phi Delts will clash with Canard club at 5 p. m. Each team is composed of two doubles teams and a singles play er. Two out of three sets consti tutes a match. Sigma Hall, defending champ, will feel the loss of Ed Robbins, who is out for varsity competition and A1 Newton, who has with drawn from the hall. Karl Mann, rated as one of the best in the hall, is out for frosh competition and is ineligible for donut play. Intramural managers, whose teams have a few days before tournament competition, are asked to make a definite selection of their players. According to intra mural rules, a player may not shift from doubles to singles, or vice-versa others, some in tuxedos, for the banquet preceding the track meet. Oregon’s track milers and George Varoff, world champion pole vault er, were there too. The Los Angeles colored jumper took a deep breath, stretched. Somebody called banquet time. “Yes, I like Oregon fine," he smiled before he entered the ban quet hall. “I'd like to come out here some time and go way up in the mountains away from every body, and just fish and hunt.” Look for Her at Taylor’s Send the Emerald to your friends. 4 New Sports Are Listed on Coeds’ Slate Baseball, Golf, Archery, Tennis Are Featured On Women’s Calendar For Spring Term Lined up on the women's outdoor intramural sports calendar for spring term are four sports—base ball, tennist golf, and archery, in which any woman is eligible to compete. Participation in any of these sports entitles a girl to a WAA checks provided the required two practices a week are filled. Beginning this week, baseball practices are to be held during an intramural hour from 4:30 to 5:15 on Tuesdays and Thursdays at Ger linger field. The inter-house games, however, will be played on a field near one of the participating houses. Tennis Twice Weekly Tennis players are also required to practice twice a week, with the choice of competing in either the inter-house or all-campus tourna ments. The inter-house tourna ment will be one in which any girl who can wield a racquet may en ter. The all-campus tournament will be an individual championship play of singles and doubles. Golf will be played off the cam pus, whereas archery will be prac ticed during an intramural hour at 4 Mondays and Wednesdays on the target field beside Gerlinger, if the weather permits. Major Letters Will Be Given Duck Merman ,Oregon First School In Nor ill west to Elevate Swimming to Level of Big Time Sports Varsity swimming is now a full fledged major sport at the Univer sity of Oregon. The student execu tive council has approved the rec ommendation of the Order of the “O” that the paddlers be awarded major letters. Oregon is the first school in the northwest to make swimming a major sport, according to Gib Schultz, student body president. The promotion will take effect next year, when swimming will be placed on the same plane as foot ball, basketball, baseball, and track. Four IJIg Years Great success of Oregon's swim ming team in the last four years, during which Mike Hoyman's men have not lost a single dual meet, is the chief reason for the move. The Duck churners have won the northern division conference meet for three consecutive seasons and have overwhelmed all opponents in dual competition. 12 Points Necessary To receive a major letter, a swimmer must win 12 points in at least three different meets during one season in official coast confer ence competition, or break a north west, coast, national, or world’s record. Minor letters will, as in the past, be awarded members of tennis, golf, and cross country teams. No man snores at Taylor’s Send the Emerald to your friends. Go to a Barber Shop for a . . . ? NAH!! ( But would you go to a Vintage Shop for Vintages? Yah! ! ! * & Our stork tils Freddie Freshman's pocketbook at tin beginning of the term And also -Joe Sophomore’s wallet at the end of the term BELL’S BASKET GROCERY p Delivery Service Iff E! lOtli Hiouc 770 ■ I Eleven Games On Frosh Schedule Warren’s Horsehiders Face Grant High Saturday at Portland Eleven games have been sched uled for John Warren's frosh base ball team and six more will ue added to complete the nine's ac tivity for the season. Grant high school is first oppo nent on the list and Milwaukee second with the games being play ed next Friday and Saturday. The first home tilt will be with Univer sity high school Wednesday, April 7. Warren made his first cut today but many survived for furtner trial. Those still on the list folow: Catchers Maurice Kelly, Astor ia; Marcel Empey, John Day. ' Pitchers— John Linde, Grant; Bill Garrett, Grant: Tom Robert son, Grant; Pete Mitchell, Pendle ton, and Frank Lukowski, Burns. Infielders- John Dick. The Dal les; Ray Burlingame, Pomroy, Washington; Matt Pavalunas, Ray mond, Washington; Tom Cox, Cot tage Grove; Paul Jackson, Oak land, California; Wimpy Quinn,; Grant; Jim Jones, Long Beach, California; Jake Fisher, Oakridge, and Dennis Donovan, Benson. Outfielders Lyle Goode, Falls City; Rudy King, Coburg; George Heilig, Lincoln; Burton Burroughs, Eugene, and Jay C.raybeal, Pendle ton. This list will probably be cut again. Practice yesterday consisted of batting, infield work, and fly catching in the outfield. Quinn, Jones, and Linde looked strong in the hitting department but the rest did not show to good advan tage. Twelve men will make the trip to Portland and Milwaukee but the traveling squad has not been an nounced' yet. The incomplete schedule; April 2- -Grant at Portland. April 3 Milwaukee at Milwau kee. April 7—University High school at Eugene. April 10—Milwaukee at Eugene. April 14 Silverton at Silverton. April 17—Silverton at Eugene. May 8—OSC Rooks at Eugene. May 15—OSC Rooks at Corval lis. May 21—Reed college at Port 24 Men Work For Saturday’s Twin Program Willamette to Play Here This Weekend; Dozen Practice Tilts Listed Before April 23 By ELBERT HAWKINS Overcast skies threatened to dis rupt baseball practice for the Web foots yesterday afternoon, but Coach Hobson chased his tentative first-team lineup through a brisk fielding drill in preparation for Saturday’s doubleheader against Willamette. Hobson cut his squad to 24, and is planning on slashing the list to 18 men before the north ern division opener which is set for April 23. Surviving yesterday’s cut were three catchers, seven pitchers, six infielders, and eight outfielders. With prospects for a fair infield and outfield already lined up, Men tor Hobson is concentrating on his battery problem. Addition of Cliff McLean to the catching staff leaves Hobby with a trio of ex perienced receivers. John Thomas, two year veteran, and Bob Beard will share duties with McLean be hind the bat. A schedule of numerous double headers and games on consecutive days has necessitated a large pitching staff. Coach Hobson plans on using all of his big four—Bill Sayles, Captain Johnny Lewis, Bob Hardy, and Bill Marshall in Sat urday’s doubleheader against the Bearcats. Seven Man Pitching Staff Completing Oregon's seven man pitching staff are Dave Gammon, Leroy Mattingly, and Gordon Con nelly. Gammon and Connelly are both sophomores, while Mattingly is a junior. Oregon will swing into its 13 contest pre-season schedule with a vigor next week, playing seven games. Five contests are on tap for Friday and Saturday, which will be a terrific job for Hobby’s pitchers. The team plays Portland (rlease turn to page four) land. May 28—Rooks at Eugene. May 29—Rooks at Corvallis. WHITE PALACE - , A M.A*. Jt *v T* r offers Specialties Hamburger Steak with potatoes, toast and coffee. Liver and Onions with potatoes, toast and coffee. 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