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THE CHATTER BOX injiimniiiiiniiniiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiniimiiiiiiiininiiiiininniiiiiiiniiiinimiiitiniinniin iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin!i'!iiiiiiii!i[iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiii!iniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!iiiui By ELBERT HAWKINS L JT may be a little out of season * to talk about football, but this week winds up spring practice, and a lot of people are wondering just what kind of a team Prink Callison will trot on the gridiron next fall. Prink has just 18 lettermen in the fold, and a third of them are two-year veterans. That's what he has from last season besides 27 promising sophomores from Honest John Warren's 1936 Duckling eleven. Ten hard games, including a pair at home, and two in Portland, are listed for the Lemon - jerseyed Ducks. Here they are: Sept. 24 (N)—UCLA at Los An geles. Oct. 2—Stanford at Eugene. Oct. 9—Gonzaga at Spokane. Oct. 16—USC at Los Angeles. Oct. 23—OSC at Eugene. Oct. 30—Open. Nov. 6—WSC at Portland. Nov. 13—California at Portland. Nov. 20—Washington at Seattle. Nov. 27 (N)—San Diego ma rine corps at San Diego. Dec. 4—Arizona at Tuscon. * * * •^TOU don’t have to read a crystal ball to see that Callison has a wealth of potential backfield ma terial. There’s plenty of it. Backs arc four deep for any position at present, and two combinations can be built from returning lettermen. It looks possibly tough for Line Coach Gene Shields who is without Ed Farrar, center, and Captain Dei Bjork and Kenyon Skinner, tackles. Finding halfbacks evidently won’t worry mentors Callison and Mike Mikulak too much, for no less than 11 are listed on the squad roster, and at least seven appear to be of first string caliber. Dale Lasselle, two-year veteran, and Don Kennedy and Jim Nicholson, one-year man, are returning letter men. Much is also expected of Ted Gebhart, Bob Smith, Bill Bach, and Jay Graybeal. Looking over the string of full backs we find four outstanding line crashers. Two likely looking sopho mores are Paul Rowe, blonde dyna mo from British Columbia, and Frank Emmons, the Beaverton buster. Holdovers from last fall are Arleigh Bentley and Dave Gammon. FOR the all-important blocking quarterback position just four lads of “mow ’em down” efficiency have been picked. For the task of clearing a touchdown trail will be Hank Nilsen, 185-pounder from Astoria, who has been switched from end to the backfield; Jean Lacau, one-year letterman; Ernie Robertson, local product, and rug ged Dennis Donovan, last year's frosh team. Lack of offensive manpower put Oregon in the conference second division last year for the first time since Callison took the reins here, but the aforementiond blockers and ball-packers are expected to im prove upon that greatly. Backs aren't all though, for it looks like Oregon will have another typically strong forward wall. End Coach Dick Reed has three veterans—Leif Jacobsen, Len Rob ertson, and John Yerby—on hand besides a pair of the sweetest look ing freshmen prospects seen here in several seasons. Glue-fingered Vic Reginato, and 180-pound Larry Lance are the gents. Both are good pass-snatchers. * * $ COACH Shields will have guards galore to form a nucleus of his line, with ten candidates, including , five lettermen, on hand. Captain * Tony Amato, Joe Huston, Nello Giovanini, Bill Estes, and Chan Berry are the veterans. Pressing them are Ron Husk and Ceee Wal den, sophomores. Others are Mel vin Passolt, Edward Robison, ami George Jones. Oregon pivotmen have alway; been strong, and Vernon Moore two-year letterman, promises tr uphold that tradition. His mail competition wall be furnished bi Erling Jacobsen, freshman, anc Denny Breaid, junior, a duo fron Jefferson high of Portland. Lloyc Beggs and Bill Stein are anothe: pair of center candidates. The loss of all-coast Del Bjorl and his running mate, Ken Skinne has left a gaping hole at the tack! posts. However, Bill Foskett. regn lar last year, and huge Cliff Mor ^ lis, 215-pound reserve from las fall, are back to help plug the gar Bill Bracher, a handyman who ha seen action at tackle, fullback, an • (Please turn to page four) Oregon Will Play Host to Athletes from 57 High Schools Annual Prep School Track Championships Slated for Weekend Plans Near Completion For Entertaining 250 High School Athletes; Records in Danger Plans are nearing completion for the entertainment of over 250 of the state’s finest high school ath letes on this Friday and Saturday as preppers from 57 schools con verge on the campus for the 11th annual Oregon state interscholastic track and field championships. Qualifying meets in the eight dis tricts into which the state is di vided were held last weekend, and judging from performances re corded, several state marks are due to tumble this weekend. The regular order of 14 events is listed for the meet. Preliminaries in all events except the mile run will be held Friday afternoon. In the field events the leading six per formers will qualify for the finals. Marks made in the first day's com petition will hold good, if not bet tered Saturday. Benson Defending Champs Benson Tech of Portland will be the defending champions with dis trict 8, Portland city schools, out to retain their division title. In qualifying meets held last Fri day and Saturday three state marks were bettered by performers in different parts of the state. Briggs of Milton-Freewater high bettered the existing mile mark of 4:29.8 set by Webfoot captain Sam McGaughey, with a blistering 4:22.3 four laps. Schultz Betters Record Francis Schultz competing at the district meet at Pacific university bettered the existing mark in the broad jump with a leap of 23 feet 3 inches. The state mark is 22 feet 6V2 inches. Anson Cornell, meet director, and other officials were scratching their heads at the Igloo yesterday when the entry blank from Hood River disclosed the fact that Lov ing, Applepicker high hurdler, had negotiated the 120-yard high sticks in :14.6 in the district meet Satur day. Mixup Occurs The time, faster than most col legiate hurdlers run in this section of the country, and more than a second better than the existing state mark of :15.7, had not been officially verified last night. Officials are prone to believe that the time was :15.6, which still bet ters the state mark, and that an error occured in recording it. Arrangements for housing the 250 visitors are in the hands of a j student committee which has been ’ appointed by Barney Hall, student body president. According to Cornell each team will be furnished with two rubbers who will work over every contest ant. Each district will be given a separate locker room space in the basement of the Igloo, which is undergoing extensive reorganiza ■ tion in preparation for the coming event. Duck Golf Squad Upset by Beavers OSC Checks Long Victory String of Oregon Aces In Corvallis, 17)j-9/> Oregon's long string of dual meet, golf victories, starting in May, 1935, to reach a total of 16 con secutive wins, was cut short Satur day when a hot Oregon State squad upset the Ducks on the Corvallis golf course 17 >2 to 19'2. Sid Milligan, Oregon captain, scored a par 72 in the afternoon singles to grab three points and medalist honors, but the Corvallis team showed its calked heels to the Webfooters in six of the remaining eight doubles and singles matches to avenge at least one of the two defeats handed them last year. Saturday's loss set the Webfoot golfers back into a tie for first place with the Beavers. Oregon State suffered its lone defeat in Seattle a few weeks ago at the hands of the University of Washington. Oregon and Oregon State meet in a return match next Saturday on the Eugene country club course. The winner of this meet, last of the season, will be unofficial nor thern division dual meet champion. Saturday's Results: Oregon State, 17 >2 Oregon, 9'2 Singles: Folen, 0 Pemberton, 21 Ingalls, 2 Arenz, 1'2 Johnson, 3 Clark, 1U Milligan, 3 Cline, Watson, 1 Hamley, 112 Ramsey, 0 Stockton, 1 Vi Best ball foursomes: Folen-Pem-, berton 3, Milligan-Ramsey 0; In galls-Clark 2, Watson-Hamley, 1; Arenz-Johnson 2, Clinc-Stockton 1. Ducklings Drop Net Title to Rooks Frosh Losl First Match Ot‘ Season by a 6 to 1 Count at Corvallis Playing the worst tennis of the entire season, the Oregon frosh were soundly trounced by the Ore gon State Hooks, 6 matches to 1, in the opening clash of the “little civil war" series last Saturday. Every man of the Frosh squad appeared off form, and in nearly every match, a “blow-up” con tributed to the Duckling losses. Karl Mann, No. 1 for the Frosh, lost the first match of the day to C. Dougall, by 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 scores. Werschkul blew up in the second set and lost to Levin of the Rooks, 9-7, 6-0. Weiner of the Rooks took Dick Hagopian into camp by 6-1, 7-5 scores. Kevins, Rook No. 4 man, defeated Don Good, 6-2, 6-4, and Collier of the Rooks measured Webfoot Nine Sweeps Pair From Huskies Ducks Win in Fourteen Innings Behind Sayle? In Opener, 6-2, Oral Second Tilt. 8-6 Coach Hobson's traveling Web foot baseball team clubbed itsell right back into the northern divi •sion race at Seattle last Fridaj and Saturday by downing Wash ington’s strong Husky nine twice The Ducks grabbed undisputec possession of second place bj trouncing Tubby Graves' outfit, ( to 2, and 8 to 6. Buck Bailey's ti tie-defending Washington Stater: protected their first-place lead, bj taking Oregon State twice, 5 to 2 and 17 to 3. Fourteen Frames It took a fourteenth inning bar rage of four runs to win Friday': game for Bill Sayles, sophomori fireball artist. The score was tier at 2-all from the fifth inning unti the fourteenth, with Sayles out pitching Washington State’s twc chuckers, Johnson and Lou Bud nick. An error by Pitcher Budnick and a ringing double by Cliff Me Lean, who drove in Sayles anc Jack Coleman, contributed mainh to the damage. Bunts by Colemar and John Thomas, Duck catcher pushed over the other tallies. Lewis Wins Again Hobby's boys came through witr a five-run outburst in the fifth inning of Saturday's contdst to spot Captain Johnny Lewis with a pitching triumph, and a sweep of the series. The teams won't mak< up their postponed pair unless th< championship standing warrants it. Four hits and an error nettec Oregon five runs in the *big fifth The Ducks added two more in th< sixth when Ford Mullen doublet to drive in Lewis and Amato wh( had' walked. The last Oregon rut came in the eighth. Hardy Reliefer Relief Hurler Bob Hardy, Oregor southpaw, was called to the mount in Washington’s half of the eighth when the Huskies touched Lewi: for four runs. Three hits, one a two-ply swat by George Zeigen fuss, Cougar first sackcr, sent Pitcher Lewis to the showers. The scores: Friday's game: R. H. E. Oregon . .6 13 A Washington .2 3 1 Sayles and Thomas; Budnick, Johnson and Marlowe. Saturday’s ga.me: R. H. E Oregon .S 7 ( Washington .6 7 1 Lewis, Hardy and Thomas Kohls, Johnson and Marlowe. Ben Clabaugh, 5-7, 6-2, 6-4, to give the Orangemen a clean sweep o the singles matches. Oregon's only victory of the af ternoon was scored by Mann am Good who succeeded in downing Weiner and Bosmer of the Rooks 6-2, 6-1. Oman and Laird of Uu Rooks wound up the slaughter b\ drubbing Hagopian and Werschku by 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 scores. Piano Legs Still Booms "’Em Out LOU -SHOT OF THE VAMKiE.ES.... g£ Webfoots Lose ToOSCNetters j In Initial Clash Beavers Take to 2 Vi in To Hah Duck Winning Streak; Teams to Flay Hi re Saturday By CHUCK VAN SCOYOC The hopes of Paul Washke’s ten nis team for an undefeated season were sadly shattered last Saturday when the racquet wielders of Ore gon State administered a five to two-defeat to the Webfoot varsity netmen. It was the first defeat of the season for the Ducks who were dropped from the top spot in the conference to a possible tie for first position. The two teams will en gage in another civil war next Saturday on the University courts, in a match which will probably determine the conference champ ionship. VYashkc Comments 1 Coach Paul Washke contributed : his team's showing to let-down af ; ter the Washington victory. “I expected that the Washington match would have an effect on ■ their playing for the Oregon State match,” he said, "but I believe thal the boys will make a much better showing on the home courts next . Saturday.” Things started badly fur the Ducks as they dropped three out of . five singles matches. Captain John Economics was the first to lose for the Webfoots, being defeated by Claude Hockley in straight sets, 6-3, 6-3. Hockley played superb tennis, passing his opponent with many well-placed lobs and drives. Gallagher Wins John Gallagher, playing No. 2 for the Beavers, stopped Larry Crane in short order with 6-3, 6-2 wins. Crane appeared off form, making many double faults and bad drives. Charlie Eaton brought the first glory to the Webfoots by decisively drubbing Louis Deitrich, No. 3 for the Beavers, in straight sets, 6-0, 6-1. Eaton was apparently little af fected by the smooth and glaring courts as he coasted to au easy win. Bill Zimmerman lost the heart breaker of the day when he was edged out of a victory by Bob Trouten in the eighteenth game of the deciding set. The scores were, 0-3, 1-6, 10-8. Trouten had little trouble in the first set, but Zimmerman rallied in the second to even the count. The deciding set was a hammer and tong battle from start to finish, with the Duck netman losing when a high lob into the sun struck him before he could dodge it, costing him the match. Finke Comes Through A1 Finke won the second singles match of the day by defeating G. McComb in three sets, 1-G, 0-2, 0-3. Finke relied on aggressive net play and hard drives to subdue his oppo nent. In doubles, the Beavers cinched the match when Gallagher and Hockley decisively drubbed Crane and Zimmerman in the No. 1 match by 0-2, 0-4 scores. Both Beaver players were in top form and out drove their opponents at every hand. After taking the first set by a 0-0 count, Economus and Eaton "blew up” in the second two sets to lose the final match of the day to Trouten and McComb by 0-6, 0-3, 0-2 scores. Zeta, Omega Win In Dorm Softball With Gene Truby pitching two hit ball find receiving errorless sup port from his mates, Zeta hall trounced Alpha 14 to 1 to win their fifth straight game in their march to the dorm championship. In the meantime, the Zeta boys were pounding Bob Wines for 13 hits, with 5 Alpha errors failing to do Zeta any harm. Phil Johnsrud, Shelby Golden, and Truby led the Zeta sluggers, each getting three bingles in five trips. Truby got the longest hit, a triple in the fifth to score Jonsrud and Golden. Zeta scored four runs in the first, seven in the second, and their other three in the fifth. Omega 29, Sigma 1 Omega applied a neat coating of wax to Sigma hall, 29 to 4 in seven innings. The climax to the Omega hitting spree came in the fifth when they punched over 11 runs. (Please turn to payc four) 14.6 by Prepper In High Sticks? OfficialsWonder "Taln’t right," muttered offi cials of the coming state high school track meet at the Igloo yesterday as they saw recorded on an entry blank a time of 14.6 turned in by a high school ath lete in winning the 120-yard high hurdles. Scratching their noggins and speculating to high heaven, the puzzled directors checked with newspapers and found the time was upheld in all sheets so a quick telegram was sent to the chairman of the district. Up to press time no report was received and the men around the Igloo are still wondering if a high school hurdler has run a faster race than most collegiate performers, and which is within one-fifth of a second of the coast mark in the event. Rooks Top Frosh In Doubleheader Baby Beavers Come From Behind to Win 9 to 8 Ami 9 to 6 By BILL NORENE The Oregon Frosh baseball team Saturday dropped two games to the OSC Rooks, 9 to 8 in the morn ing, and 9 to 6 in the afternoon. John Linde, former Grant hurl er, was touched for 13 hits in the first game as the Rooks came from behind to tie the score in the eighth and pushed over another run in the ninth to win. In the eighth, Arnell, Rook first baseman, doubled to left, went to third when' A1 Schulmer'icft v$is safe on Tom Cox's error, and scored when Bailey got his third hit of the game, a single to right. Earlier in the game he bit a home run. .. -Jj Sims, Rook outfielder, singled through short to start the ninth inning, and stole second a few sec onds later. He then scored on Bob Bonncy’s single to right. Quinn Hits Homer Wimpy Quinn homed for the frosh in the first with Jimmy Jones aboard. Jones had just doubled to drive in two runs. The fiosh also scored two runs in the second along with single runs in the third and fourth inn ings. The Rooks scored four runs in the second and three in the fourth to stay close to the frosh. It was a different story in the second game as the Rooks were ahead all the way, while Earl Mc Kinney was holding the frosh in cheek although he was lifted in the fifth inning for Semler because of wildness. Wimpy Quinn pitched a little more than six innings, when a three run rally was staged by the Rooks, and he was replaced by Paul Thunemann, who pitched the rest of the game. Summary: First game: R. H. E. Frosh .8 8 3 Rooks .9 13 3 Batteries Linde and Kelly; Schulmerich anti Baker, Kelly. Second game: R. H. E. Rooks .9 10 .1 Frosh .C 5 5 Batteries McKinne/, Semler, Schwab and Kelly; Quinn, Thune mann and Kelly. Picture Framing, Oriental Art Shop I I 9 I RULES < i mi's flic limn bci' ol Im'ii ns in tie jiir displayed at flic Co-op. Write your name and amount in' your yuess on a ' ’ SK K11 * " Ink carton top and leave in con tainer. Tlio guess coming clos est to t lie act ual number in t lie jar wins the bike. The winner will be announced Friday. WIN A BIKE’ Contest Ends Tlnirs Division Meet Next on Duck Track Sched Hayward’s Men Nose Out Orange 69-52 in Bitter Struggle; Five Meet Records Smashed Showing increased confidence af ter their 60 to 62 dual meet vic tory over Oregon State on Satur day, Oregon's varsity track squad yesterday began preparations for clearing their big hurdle this Sat urday afternoon at Seattle, the northern division championships. Squads are limited to 18 men in the annual affair but it is doubt ful that Colonel Bill Hayward will take more than 12 or 14 men to Seattle as Webfoot chances in sev eral events are nil judging from performances this season. Bucks Drop Beavers Saturday’s Duck - Beaver duel was one of the most bitterly fought contests in the 31 years of competition. Oregon trailed dur ing the meet until the next to last event, the discus, when a win and a third place put them ahead 64 1 to 62. The Webfoot mile relay team clinched the meet with a brilliant win over a fast stepping Orange aggregation in the final event. Five new records, one a northern division mark were hung up and one meet record tied dur ing the afternoon. Oregon was re sponsible for four and the Orange men one. Varoff Sets Record George Varoff, Oregon’s ace pole vaulter, thrilled the crowd with a 14-foot leap in his specialty, to set a new meet and northwest mark. He put the bar up to 14 feet 6 inches but failed in three attempts, bruphjug cjw^s-piece off with his leg going up on the last at tempt. Bill Foskett bettered the mark of 49 feet 2 1-2 inches he set last year by pushing the ball 3-8 of an inch farther. Dutch Holland smashed the 6-year-old mark of 150 feet 6 inches in the discus with I a heave of 153 feet. Fitchard New Champ . Bob Fitchard, Webfoot sopho more, added one inch to the broad | jump mark by sailing 23 feet 7 inches. The old mark of 23 feet 6 inches was set by Arne Lindgren j in 193,5. Hal Higgins, sophomore Beaver football player, tied the mark of ■09.8 in the century which was j set in 1913. | Summary of the meet is as fol 1 lows : 100-yard dash-Won by Higgins, j Leslie, OSC, second; Lloyd, ; Oregon, third. Time, :09.8. (Ties dual meet record set by Baker, OSC, in 1913). Mile run Won by McGaughcy, Oregon; Shepard, OSC, second; Davidson, Oregon, third. Time 4:32.5. 440-yard dash — Won by Teats, OSC; Woodman, OSC, second; Schrivcr, Oregon, third. Time :50.5. Pole vault Won by Varoff, Ore gon, 14 feet; Beamer, OSC,’ sec ond, 12 feet; Boehi, OSC, third, 10 leet 6 inches. (Winning height new northern division and dual meet record. Old mark 13 feet 4 1.. inches by Robinson, Oregon, in 1931.) High jump Won by Ackerson, OSC, 6 feet 3 inches; Beamer and Hessig, both OSC, tied for second, six feet. Winning height new dual meet record; old mark, 0 feet 2% inches, set by Waite, OSC, in 1920.) 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