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THE Firing Line By PAT FRIZZELL Yep, Oregon will have a turl field next fall, all right. Seeing is believing, and work on surfacing the historic Hayward enclosure with nice green grass is now we! underway. The field will be covered with turf taken from all parts of the campus. Then two inches of rich loam will be laid on, and it will be plowed up and worked down. Aftei that comes seeding of the grass. New grass doesn't take roots enough in a year to be strong Thus the turf underneath. And the brand new 1937 Webfoots will be out of the mud when Stanford jogs up here in October. * * * Howard Hobson’s baseball team is just now in the same mud that the gridders will get out of, and, unfortunately, you can’t turf-field the mud out of the picture in base ball. Prospects were for a home base ball opening at last yesterday, but no sjree, not for your Uncle O. Jupiter Pluvius. O. J. loaded up his sprinkler and let it drip, drip, drizzle through what was never theless a swell ball game, and by time for starting the second halt ot the doubleheader Howe field was a mud pie. You seldom see an early-season pitching duel like the one waged by our Bill Sayles and Portland University's Jim Carlin, even when a field is bone dry. With a dia mond in the shape Howe field grad ually became yesterday, a flock of errors are usually in order. No misplays at all for Oregon yester day, however, and only one rather excusable one for the Pilots. You can talk about your Fourth of July form and how Sayles and Carlin probably didn’t have it yesterday, because they weren't bearing down all the way, but you don't find many Fourth of July ball games in college company in which total hits for nine innings .are only seven. Of course, the hitters haven't found their eyes. Chief McLean and Andy H u r n e y, murderous elouters in many a ball game, were nonentities at the plate yesterday. Lacy Zenner, Portland’s- football playing rightfielder, looks like a bludgeoner of parts, but he couldn't touch Sayles. All credit, however to the chuck crs, Sayles in particular. Drizzle or no drizzle, that game was an A number one exhibition of college baseball. With Sayles pitching 3-hit ball in the rain and Bob Hardy holding Oregcu Normal to one measly bingle in six innings, Tutor Hob spn’s pitching staff looks well manned, after all. He has John Lewis, who'll work in Portland today if all the world isn’t a sea with the ball players only poor fish in it. And he has Bill Marshall, LeRoy Mattingly, and Dave Gammon. Mattingly and Gammon were hampered by poor support at Monmouth Wednesday, when the Webfoots couldn't do on Oregon Squeezes Damp 2-0 Victory Over Portland U Golden Gloves Boxing Battles Open Tonight Eugene Armory.Scene of High School Classic; 100 Sluggers Entered In 3-Round Matches The Golden Gloves boxing tour nament, one of the greatest high school athletic events ever held in Eugene, will open tonight at the Eugene armory. Close to 100 ama teur fighters representing 19 high schools will battle in opening rounds of the Greater Willamette Valley high school athletic associa tion event. Between 25 and 30 three-round matches will be staged tonight, starting at 7 p.m. The semi-finals will be held April 16 and the cham pionships on April 14. Prices Are Popular Sponsored this year by the Eu gene News, the meet may develop into a state tournament in another year, held in cooperation with the University of Oregon. Popular prices of $1 for reserved series tickets, 40 cents for single admission, 60 cents for student ser ies tickets and 25 cents for student single admissions, and the advance sale of tickets indicate a crowd of around 500 will attend the opening matches. Salem Among- Favorites Salem, Corvallis, Toledo and Springfield are the top favorites for the team championship. But fighters from other schools are likely to walk off with the larger number of individual titles. Other schools entered are: St. Mary’s, Eugene, Independence, Albany, Philomath, Sweet Home, Triangle Lake, Pleasant Hill, Coburg, Cres well, Santa Clara, Lowell, and Blue River. Officials for tonight's matches follow: Comet Gibson, Frank Riggs, Jim Nixon, referees; Ray Hen drickson, R. K. Cutler, Earle Bou shey and Ed Goodnough, judges; Dr. George Hurley, ringside physi cian; Bob Officer, trainer; Louie DeBurgh, timer, and Jack Luckey, announcer. dry land what they did in the mud and turned in five boots. This national intercollegiate bas ketball tournament they’re talking up for Kansas City ne’xt year sounds like great stuff. Jean Ebcr hart, ..Southern ..Oregon ..normgl coach and a former Webfoot bas keteer, is on the board of manage ment for it. The tournament is supposed to draw college teams that formerly competed in the AAU tourney, and | it may well attract a lot of others. It’s a step toward crowning a real national collegiate champion. The big ones probably won’t enter next year, but, if it’s handlcdi right, there’ll be more of them there each season as the years go by. *•* •!• “I* Short ones . . . Oregon's basket ball team played before 78,000 per (Please turn to page four') WHITE PALACE Tenth between Willamette and Oak We specialize in— 25c MEALS Steaks, Chops and Sea h oods with Potatoes, I oast and Coffee 24-HOUR SERVICE UO and OSC Slate Smoker Tonight 7 Wrestling and 6 Boxing Bputs Feature Card in i Slug.Fest Festival A squad of 13 Oregon boxers and wrestlers travel to Corvallis tonight to meet an Oregon State team in a revival of the annual “all state” boxing and wrestling championships between the two state schools. The affair, sponsored by letter man's organizations of the institu tions, is being resumed after a : lapse of one year, and all proceeds go towards turfing Hayward fiekl. Seven grappling bouts and a half a dozen mitt scraps will comprise | the card. Heading the boxing program will be an expected torrid session be tween Stan Norris, Oregon and ' Dave Perkins, pregon State, in the ! 135 pound division. Perkins has a j record of 10 knockouts in 15 in : tercollegiate ring attempts. ' Another potential headliner will be between John Yerby, husky Webfoot football end, and Jack Brandis, former Orange tackle, in the unlimited class. Lee Gibson, 155-pound, and Bob Nelson, 165 pounds, head the Bea ver grapplers and recently made an impressive showing at the A. A. U. tourney at Portland. Nelson meets, Bud Russel of the Ducks and Gibson tackles Leland Terry, ex-yell kind of Oregon. (Please turn to page four) Varsity Track Squad Training GrindContinues Geo. Scliarpf in Charge Of Workouts During Hayward’s Absence; 25 on Squad Oregon’s varsity track squad has been holding workouts under the direction of George Scharpf, last year's captain and star miler, for several days owing to the illness of Colonel Bill Hayward. Hayward plans to assume command next week. The squad had a welcomed re spite from the bad weather the past weeks on Wednesday when they worked under a warm sun, but yesterday they were again greeted with rain. There have been about 25 aspir ants turning out reguarly since the opening of the term. This number is considerable smaller than that of last year, but the squad makes up in quality what it lacks in quan tity. Weaknesses Apparent Present indications point toward a weakness in the sprints, both low and high hurdles, and high jump. Most of the other positions have veterans or promising newcomers capable of good performances try ing out. Veterans returning for another year of competition are Bill Fos kett, shot put; Sam McGaughey, two miler who will compete in the mile; Leonard Holland, discus; Frank Lloyd, sprints, broad jump, and high jump; Ken Miller, half mile; George Varoff, pole vault; Elmer Koskello, javelin; 'Gilbert Schultz, 'HO. Others Out Others who have been working out are Short Freeman, veteran reserve, Bill Harrow and Jim Sch river, sophomores in the 440; Craw ford Lyle, Eldon Fix, John David son, . Harold Draper and Chick Hardisty, distance events; Harry Adams and Duke Hardisty, javelin; Bob Goodfellow, Harold Weston, Milo Lacy, hurdles; Stan Smith and Ed Strohecker, weights. Oregon's first scheduled meet is the Oregon-Oregon State relays to I be held at Corvallis, April 24. Sayles Allows But 3 Bingles For First Win Second Half of Double Bill Rained Out; UO Gets Only Four Hits; Gordon Batting Star By PAT FRIZZELL Bill Sayles made his varsity de but a complete success on Howe field yesterday afternoon by hold ing the University of Portland's Pilots to three scattered hits for a 2-to-0 shutout in what was sche duled as the first half of a double bill. There wasn't any second half, for by the end of the first game the diamond was so wet from a steady drizzle that further mud ding would have been foolhardy. If the drizzle stops in time, Howard Hobson will take his ball club to Portland today for another sche duled twin bill with the Pilots. Sayles Whiffs Eight Rain fell in varying amounts through almost all of yesterday's game, but it sepmcd to bother Bill Sayles not at all. The sturdy sophomore righthander whiffed eight of the Pilots and only once did he allow a man to reach third. That was in the fifth, when Pitch er Jim Carlin laced a triple to centerfield. Carlin pitched corking baseball himself, and the game was an old fashioned mound duel, despite the downpour. The Webfoots got only four hits off the Portland right hander, but they made two, both by Jack Gordon, count in the clutch. Gordon and Bill Courtney, with two blows apiece, accounted for all of Oregon's hitting. Three Double Plays There were three double plays in the mud. Fielding gem of the affair came in the Portland ninth, after Hawkins had opened a po tential rally by drawing a walk. McGinnis hit sharply on the ground to Ralph Amato at third. Amato snapped the ball up out of the mire, fired it to Mullen at sec ond, forcing Hawkins, and Mul lens relayed to Gale Smith at first in time to nip McGinnis on a close play. Smith turned' in Oregon’s other double play unassisted. The Webfoot runs came in the third and sixth. Carlin got off to a bad start in the first, but pitch ed himself out of a terrible hole by striking out McLean and Hur ney in succession and teasing Smith into hoisting a pop fly to Shortstop Curran. A walk to Mul len and Courtney’s fluke single over short put two Ducks on the ponds to start the inning, and the bases bulged as all hands were safe on a fielder’s choice on Gor don’s roller. Then Carlin bore down. Gordon’s Hits in Clutch In the third the head of Ore gon's batting order went after Cgrlin again. Mullen drew his sec ond free ticket to first and moved up a sack on a wild pitch. Court ney popped to short, but Gordon laced a hard drive down the first base line for a single, scoring Mullen. Gordon was caught off first on Right Fielder Zenner's throw-in. Courtney drew a walk to pave the way for Oregon's second run, in the sixth. He went to third as Gordon smashed a double into left. McLean lofted a fly to Zenner and Courtney scored. Gordon was left stranded on second when Hurney whiffed and Smith roiled out via Ledbury at second. Score: Portland— B K 11 O A E Graser m 1 0 0 0 0 0 Curran, s . 4 0 0 4 0 0 fjawkins, c . 3 0 1 9 3 0 McGinnis, 1 . 4 0 1 6 0 1 Zenner, f . 3 0 0 2 1 0 McGee, 1 . 2 0 0 0 0 0 Gearin, 3 . 2 0 0 1 1 0 Ledbury, 2 . 2 0 0 2 3 0 Carlin, p 3 0 10 10 Q’Hagan ;;-s . 1 0 0 0 0 0 Totals . 28 0 3 24 9 1 SWEET AS HONEY Sweet as a well-seasoned pipe, on the first smoke I 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. Si fELLO-BOLE ir SPORTS QUIZ By MORRIE HENDERSON How well do you know college sports ? Below are ten questions cn college athletics which are guar anteed to be tough. How many will you get? Answers are on page 4 of today's Emerald. 1. What midwest college will meet the University of Washing ton this fall in football ? 2. Centre College, home of the Praying Colonels, is located in what state ? 3. Name the colleges in the Big Ten Conference which are not state universities. 4. What college recently won the national intercollegiate swimming championship ? 5. Bilikens is the nickname of what midwest university? 6. What professional football team did Bill Morgan, 1932 Oregon football captain, play for last year ? 7. Who were the Rose Bowl teams on January 1, 1936? 8. What conference is Louisiana State university a member of? 9. Who is the right fielder for the Washington Senators who was national intercollegiate broadjump ing champion in 1931 ? 10. What was the score of last year's Army-Navy football game? Drizzle Curtails Frosh Practice Rain again curtailed frosh base ball practice and all John War ien's men could do was sandwich in a little batting drill between drizzles. Batting is still a weak point of the team and so far the rain has permitted no practice, st> the fault can be remedied. Several consist ent bitters have been found, but the rest of the men are not bat ting up to the standard they have set in previous seasons. Pitchers worked out in the un finished part of the new gym to keep their arms in condition for Saturday's game with Milwaukic. Bright spot on the pitching staff is John Linde, former Grant twirl er, who has shown plenty of stuff both in pitching and batting since practice started. Starting pitcher lor the Milwaukie game has not yet beet announced. The same lineup that started the University high game will probably start Saturday, although anyone who shows some hitting ability will^get a chance to play. The regidars afe Kelly, catcher; Dick, first; Cox, second; Quinn, third; Jones, short, and Jackson, Goode, and Fisher in the outfield. Oregon— Mullen, 11 Gordon, s .... Courtney, 1 McLean, c . Hurney, r Smith, 2 . Sayles, p ..... Amato, 3 Nicholson, m i; K H o 2 10 2 3 0 2 0 3 12 0 4 0 0 8 4 0 0 3 3 0 0 12 3 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 3 0 0 2 A K 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 4 0 2 Q 0 0 Totals 27 2 4 27 11 0 * Bat ted for Curran in eighth, Portland. 000 000 000 0 Hits . 000 111 000 3 Oregon . 001 001 00 2 Hits . 101 001 01*-4 Struck out by Carlin 7, Sayles 8. Bases on balls, off Carlin 4, Sayles 4. Hit by pitched ball, by Carlin (Amato). Wild pitch, Car lin. Runs responsible, for Carlin 2. Three-base hit, Carlin. Two-base hit, Gordon. Sacrifices, Gearin, Ledbury, Gordon. Runs batted in, Gordon, McLean. Double plays, Amato to Mullen to Smith, Smith unassisted, Hawkins to Ledbury to McGinnis. Passed ball, McLean. Stolen bases, Amato, Hawkins. Left on bases, Portland 5, Oregon 7. Umpire, Don Husband. Time; 2:0b. Duck Netmen Take Bearcats In 7 Matches Washke’sMenWhitewasli Willamette for Second Victory? To Meet Reed Hen* Saturday By CHUCK VAN SCQVQC Another shutout! Oregon's var sity netmen scored another sen sational victory here yesterday when they soundly spanked the Willamette Bearcats and sent them back to Salem with a 7-to-0 defeat for their efforts. Taking every match in straight sets, Paul Washke's racqueteers/ outplayed the hapless Bearcats in every field, and scored six love sets to top the day off. Keononius Blanks Foe John Economus, ranking No. 1 for the Webfoots, opened the after noon's activities by subduing Bill Clemes, Willamette star, in straight love sets, 6 - 0. 6 - 0. Eco nomus, playing a back-pourt game, out smarted his opponent by play ing consistent tennis and letting Clemes commit the errors. Larry Crane followed Economus by blanking his opponent, Joe Har vel. 6-0, 6-0. Crane’s power serves and net volleys proved too much for Harvey, who dubbed the major ity of his shots. Eaton Adds Another Chuck Eaton added another shut out victory to the Webfoot total by whitewashing Aris Sherwood of the Bearcats, 6-0, 6-0. Eaton’s steady playing, coupled with er rors made by his opponent, gained him an easy victory. Bill Zimmerman encountered little difficulty in disposing of Herman Estes, a transfer to Wil lamette from Puget Sound, 6-2, 6-1. Zimmerman sho\yed improve ment since his match in the Ore gon Normal meet, when he was forced to three sets to clown his opponent. rmiic iigms niU'K A1 Finke, No. 5 for the Web foots, experienced the greatest dif ficulty in the singles division, but managed to take his match from Don Saunders of the Bearcats in straight sets, 7-5, 6-1. Finke used a hard driving game until he found himself on the short end of a 5-3 score in the first set, when he changed his tactics and let his opponent take the aggres sive. Saunder’s errors in hard driv ing cost him the match. At the conclusion of Finke’s match Old Jupe Pluvius decided to stop things on the outdoor courts, and his misty contributions drove the nctmen into the B. E. gym for the completion of the match. Doubles Are Tougher In doubles competition, the Ducks found things a little tough er, but managed to complete the match in straight sets. Oregon's No. I duet of Econo mus and Eaton breezed through the Bearcat team of Harvey and Clemes, 6-1, in the first set and managed to eke out a 7-5 victory in the second to keep the slate clean. Finke and Zimmerman encount ered a similar difficulty when they met Sherwood and Estes, but wound up the day with a 6-2, 7-5 win. The third match this week for Washke’s squad will be with the racqueteers of Reed college of Portland, when the two squads meet Saturday afternoon at 2:00 on the local courts. VARSITY SERVICE STATION 13th & Hlllyard Western Thrift Stores TOILETRIES CIGARS REMEDIES Hesson Guard Pine . . . Special Regularly priccil ;i1 Special — 98c THERE ARE ONLY TWO WESTERN THRIFT STORES , IN EUGENE • 804 & 917 WILLAMETTE STREET Phi Delts Take Omega Hall, 4-2 Rest of Games Scheduled Postponed Because of Rain Cutting oft an Omega baiting rally in the first half of the fourth with only one run, the Phi Delts won the only donut softball game completed yesterday, 4 to 2. Claiming that there was never a better day in spring, the. Phi Delts insisted on playing through a minor cloudburst which started during the second inning. The Phi Delts opened the scor ing in their half of the first in ning when Vadnais singled and scored on Huddleston's hit. In their next time at bat the Phi Delts scored twice. Laddie Gale got on base with a single and Tom my Swanson pounded a triple in to field and scored on the wild throw-in. Omega scored once in the sec ond when Cosley singled and scored on Meyers' hit. Shipley singled in the last half of the third inning and scored on Huddleston's hit to finish the Phi Delt scoring. The hall boys rose up in their half of the fourth inning with suc cessive singles by Cosley, Meyer, and Rutz. Tommy Swanson then walked Wilson, scoring Cosley. This was Omega's first run as the hits were all short and the run ners were unable to score because of the slippery field. Tommy Swan son then settled down and made Brennan pop a foul fly to White at first base. Chuck Shimomura struck out and Dell lined out to Lacklen to end the game. Bob Kidder chucked for Omega. The Sigma Nils and Zeta hall started ^heir game, but were rain ed out after two and one-half in nings, thus making it no contest. Zeta led, 3 to 0, at the time. No regular games are scheduled this afternoon. The la Qiis, ATOs Win Intramural Tennis Matches Theta Chi defeated Kappa Sigma in intramural tennis Wednesday. Delta Upsilon forfeited its match to Alpha Tau Omega. Clifford Kamph and Herbert Clark paced the Theta Chis by beating John Keyes and Ray Jew ell jn straight sets, 6-Q, 6-4. Bob Hailey and Henry Minger had more difficulty in downing Dean Littel and A1 Carter, but finally took the third set to end the match, 8-6, 0-7, 6-2. Chi Delta Theta’s nctnien won their way into the second round with a win over Canard club in a postponed match. Bill Young of the Phi Delts won from Morris Brubaker of the club in the singles, 6-0, 6-0. In the first doubles match AI Haener and Bob Bechtel, Phi HuskiesSlated To Meet Ducks In Golf Today Opening Conference Tilt To Be Held on Eugene Country Club Course; Milligan No. 1 By LARRY QUINLIN Oregon's varsity golfers meet the veteran University of Wash ington team in a 36-hole match on the Eugene country club course today. The Webfoots will be after their second win of the 1937 season in as many starts. Playing coach Sid Milligan and the rest of the Oregon six-man team expect this match to be one of their hardest this year. The Huskies have brought five letter men to Eugene to avenge the two defeats handed them by the Web foots last year. Huskies IJave Vets In a match with College of Puget Sound last week the Washington divoteers won, 27 to 1. It was their first tilt of the 1937 season. Pitted against the Webfoots to day will be the lettermen—Carl Jonson, Don Simpson, Don Picht, Jim Longmuir, and Dave Norton. Chub Vaughn, a newcomer, com pletes thp team. Doubles in Morning The morning round will be a best-ball doubles match. Tentative lineups for Oregon are Sid Milli gan and Dave Hamley; Walt Cline and Bill Watson; and Doug Ram sey and Bill Stockton. Washington doubles were not announced. The singles matches, slated for this afterncon, are as follows: No. 1, Milligan, Oregon, vs. Jon son, Washington; No. 2, Cline, Ore gon, vs. Simpson, Washington; No. 3, Doug Ramsey, Oregon, vs. Don Picht, Washington; No. 4, Hamley, Oregon, vs. Vaughn, Washington; No. 5, Watson, Oregon, vs. Long muir, Washington; and Stockton, Oregon, vs. Norton, Washington. Golf fans may witness the matches without charge. Play starts at 9:30. Celts, drubbed Elbert Hawkins and George Tichy, Canard, 6-0, 6-1. Ken Shipley and Scott Corbett of the Phi Delts whitewashed Tichy apd Lynphllds in the second doubles, 6-0, 6-0. Racqueteers of Pi Kappa Alpha reached the second rpund by trouncing tl}e Sigma Nuy in two doubles matches. The singles match was called off, as jt would have had qo effect on the outcome. Dpug Simms and Rill Pierson, Pi Kaps, won the first doubles match from John Dungan and Rill Van Duspn, Sigma Nu, 6-1, 6-1. 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