Callison Drills Gridders for Tough Battle Saturday
DUCK
TRACKS
By ELBERT HAWKINS
Remember those frightful dis
putes involving roast conference
teams which fogged the atmos
phere in California last season,
centering especially upon a game
Washington State played in the
South ?
Little controversies, similar to
that, hinging upon decisions of con
ference arbitrators, have been ap
parently relegated to the hazy
past. Most of these differences of
opinion started because of the an
noying silence of officials on some
important play, such as clipping.
Scrilics made matters worse last
season by misquoting Washing
ton’s Coach Phelan. This caused
a coast-wide bombardment of in
jurious comment.
Conference Commissioner Herb
Dana disclosed last month, that
henceforth, officials will be per
mitted to answer any and ail ques
tions immediately following games,
or disputed or close decisons which
demand explanation. Mr. Dana is
evidently a very understanding
man. When refereeing games him
self a few years past he used to
spice, the ether waves with "in
side” comments on what happened
in big games.
* * *
Jay Graybeal’.s little stunt of
playing against Stanford for three
quarters with a deep leg wound,
which necessitated four stitches,
brings to mind some courageous
playing by fleet Mark Temple, for
mer Webfoot ace, against Wash
ington one season.
Temple received a gaping wound
over one eye early in the game,
and was forced from action. He
wasn't through though. Mark
stretched out on terra firma by the
Oregon bench while Bill Hayward
took about nine stiches to close
the wound. When the final whistle
blew, Temple was out there, fight
ing the game of his career, with
blood streaming over one eye, and
a bandage on the other.
Captain Tony Amato has a dif
ferent type of injury. “Push ’em
over" Tony, veteran Duck right
guard, received a kick with such
force in the UCLA fray that his
eye is mutilated both above and
below. He won’t be in against Gon
zaga this Saturday, and maybe not
a week later when Oregon departs
to Los Angeles to face Southern
California.
* * #
The grim reaper stopped an un
cannily accurate flow of football
predictions from the late Harvey
Woodruff, Chicago Tribune writer,
but another “proggie” par excell
ence to step forth this season is
Paul B. Williamson, who carries
a syndicate feature in the Ore
gonian.
He rates all of the country’s ma
jor college teams on a percentage
basis each week, and has a pre
diction percentage of over 90. This
covers a period of at least two
years. Williamson hit 89 last week.
It’s a cinch that the Oregon-Stan
ford, and the Oregon State-Idaho
games didn’t help his average any.
This column couldn't pick 90 per
rent—maybe not half—but all of
the country’s collegiate sports
scribes are trying it, and have been,
so you may have to tolerate it too,
who knows.
* # +
Sport shorts—Tom Blackman,
Webfoot triple threat of 193(1, is
playing with Eastern Oregon nor
mal . . . Oregon went to the Rose
Bowl in 1916 . . . Montana never
became a coast championship con
tender . . . Portland university and
Willamette resume relations this
season . . . Salem is applying for
a franchise in the Western inter
(1'lt asc him hi poyi' three)
Gonzaga Line
Expected to
TopWebfoots
Mike Pecarovich Has
Big Forward Wall;
George Karamatic
Backfield Star
Spurred on by Head Scout Gene
Shield’s report that Gonzaga's
line would probably outweigh the
Webfoot forward wall, and that
George “Automatic” Karamatic
was every bit as good as reported,
Coach Prink Callison sent his
charges through a three - hour
workout yesterday with most of
the time being spent on blocking
assignments.
A cheering note in the Duck
camp was the return of both Den
nis Donovan and Captain Tony
Amato to work. Donovan, scrap
py blocking quarterback from Ben
son Tech in Portland, has been on
the injured list with a bad knee
since fall practice began. He has
been exercising the injured member
for a week or so, but last night
was the first time that he has done
any real moving around.
Captain Amato is still definitely
off the active list, although yester
day afternoon was the first time
that he has really done anything
since someone stepped in his face
in the UCLA game.
Two of Coach Callison’s backs,
Dale Lasselle, leading ground gain
er in the Stanford game, and Ar
leigh Bentley, quarterback, failed
to report to practice, having bad
polds. Lasselle was released from
the infirmary yesterday, while
Bentley is also expected to be
ready tomorrow.
While Gonzaga’s Bulldogs have
yet to score, they have yet to be
beaten. The Bulldogs tied both
Washington State and St. Mary’s.
According to reports, St. Mary’s
assigned several men to Karamatic,
and in doing so managed to hold
George down. Dan Melinkovich and
Henry “Scooter” Haug are a pair
of Coach Mike Pecarovich's speedy
standbys. Weighing less than 170
founds, both are very fast, and
exceedingly good pass receivers.
Another Gonzaga back to remem
bgf is 211-pound Fred Kennedy,
who formerly was on tho football
.squad here at Oregon.
Women's Greatest
Volleyball Turnout
Intramural Sports
Tournament Starts
Next Monday
The largest turnout in years in
women’s interamural sports took
place October 4, when 68 girls turn
ed out for volleyball and 25 for
hockey.
The coed intramural sports pro
gram this year promises to be the
tbest one ever put over on the Ore
gon campus. All girls are urged to
turn out regardless of previous
^ability to play.
It is essential that each girl
.Wishing to play in the tournament
be signed up for at least two prac
tices. However, only three more of
these will be held before the tour
nament starts on October It, so all
t h o s e intending to participate
should turn out without delay.
Remaining volleyball practices
will be held Wednesday, Thursday,
and Friday afternoon from 5 to 6
o’clock.
HENDERSHOTT
CLASS PRESIDENT
EQUAL REPRESENTATION FOR
ALL POLITICAL APPOINTMENTS
BARBARA BENHAM, Vice President
ANN WAI1A, Secretary
LLOYD SULLIVAN, Treasurer
BOB O'DONNELL, Sergcaut-at-aruis
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Amato (BH)—Before Hayward
The above scene shows bewhiskered Tony Amato, Duck captain before Colonel Bill and his mates got
busy. Whiskerless Tony is out of the Oregon lineup new with an eye injury.
By GEORGE PASERO
The 1937 football season up to
date certainly hasn't been a very
happy one for Captain Tony (Hair
less Tony) Amato.
Elected to the captaincy of the
squad by his football buddies last
year, he reported for practice with
high hopes of making this year a
big one on the gridiron for himself
and for Oregon, and possessing a
long, dark growth of whiskers.
Therein lies the start of Captain
Tony's tale of woe. Yes, right
there Lady Luck began conspir
ing against Tony, for he had no
sooner decided (as a means of
quieting the continuous jibing of
his effervescent teammates) to
wear his crop of black hay
throughout the season than Bill
Hayward led a surprise assault
upon the prided foliage.
Even if Tony, who weighs a
mere 197'_. pounds, had tried to
protect his most prized possession,
his cause would have been hope
less, for hack of canny Bill Hay
ward came the rest of the squad.
Hayward pulled out a pair of
shears and started to work, but let
Tony tell it: “Bill cut half of it
off and then told me that he didn't
care in the least if I wanted to
wear the other half. Well I de
cided I didn't look very handsome
m that condition. You know the
rest.”
All Bill and the boys did when
they spoiled Amato’s crop of priclt
lers was to minimize the stocky
guard's chances for all-coast and
all-American selection. Those
whiskers would have undoubtedly
brought his play to the attention
of the all-star pickers but now poor
Tony has to play just that much
harder for recognition.
Amato's string of bad luck did
not end there. The fingers of ad
versity reached up again in the
Webfoots' opener against UCLA in
Los Angeles two weeks ago when
a flying cleat ripped Amato's eye
open after the 21-year-old lad had
played only three minutes.
"The doctor said the cut took
nine stitches, but 1 don't know,
there might have been more.” Tony
reflected.
And now he won't be able to play
uutil the Southern Cal game which
is two weeks off. thus missing two
games. St inford ind Gonzaga
"The boys looked all right )
against Stanford.” the Duck lead
er commented “They need lot.- of
work yet, but I believe they will
improve with every game."
This makes eight years of foot
ball for the stocky guard who
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Donut Golf, Tennis
Matches Open Today
This afternoon at 4 o'clock on
the Laurelwood golf course, and
the campus tennis courts, the
1937-38 intramural sports pro
gram will officially get under way.
First round of golf matches in
clude Campbell Co-op vs. Chi Psi
lodge, Phi Gamma Delta vs. Delta
Upsilon, Kappa Sigma vs. Alpha
hall, Sigma Nu vs. Gamma hall,
Phi Kappa Psi vsl. Sigma hall,
Sigma Alpha Mu vs. Phi Sigma
Kappa, Delta Tan Delta vs. Sigma
Chi, Sigma Alpha Epsilon vs. Zeta
nan, aim ineia i^ni vs. snerry koss
hall.
On the tennis courts Phi Delta
Theta, last year's intramural
champions meet the new organiza
tion from Sherry Ross hall, and
in the 4 o'clock match Sigma Nu
will play the racqueteers from Pi
Kappa Alpha. Only two matches
a day will be played until the first
round matches are completed.
Today is the deadline for team
lists. Intramural managers must
submit their lists to the intra
mural office by noon to insure eli
Yearlings Prepare
For Rook Contest
Warren Is Smoothing
Offense in Hopes
Of First Victory
In preparation for the Rook con
test Friday night in Portland, John
Warren’s Ducklings contin
ued tough intensive drill yes
terday afternoon. The squad still
has many rough edges, and it will
take plenty of sand-papering to
gain smoothness for the green
Ducklings.
However, this roughness is prin
cipally due to lack of practice
which will be largely remedied in
the next few weeks. The raw ma
terial itself shows great promise of
being a worthy successor to last
year’s Northwest champions.
Some of the frosh have shown
occasional gridiron brilliancy, but
this comes in spurts. Such play
ers as Connaway, Hendershott, and
Stenstrom have been particularly
outstanding. Tough, steady drill
ing should turn these boys into de
pendable gridmen.
To win the Rook fracas the
Ducklings have to use everything
in the books, for the Beaver frosh
are no pushover in any man’s lan
guage. This game gives all prom
ise of being a tough, wide open
contest.
By WES JOHNSON
LEONARD ISBERG
The pride of Portland, Leonard
“Issy” Isberg, hails from the larg
est boys’ school in the state, Ben
son Tech. For two years he starred '.
on the varsity squad for the ‘‘me-1:
chanics.” Last year he was cho-;:
sen on the All-Star eleven along!.
with such backfield stars as Jake '
Hergert and Chet Haliski. He is
a mainstay in the frosh backfieldj.
this fall at the right halfback post.
This Friday evening against the.1
Rooks, Isberg will do part of the :'
ballpacking and passing. He was
dubbed last year by opposing '
would-be tacklers as “snake hips,” !
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gibility for the matches.
All-campus fall term sports
which include golf, tennis (singles
and doubles), handball (singles and
doubles), and ping pong (singles
and doubles), may be entered by
anyone who is not a letter or in
tramural winner. Registration for
these sports will remain open un
til noon today. Registration slips
will be found in the locker room of
the men's gym.
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Olympic Cinder Star,
Matthew Robinson,
To Aid ColonelBill
Pasadena Junior College Transfer Holds
Many Sprint Marks for Brief Career in
United States and Abroad
By VERN GATES
The winged feet of a modern
Mercury, fashioned from the pages
if Greek mythology to carry the
icnors for the United States Olym
pic team in the eleventh Olympiad
it Berlin, and possessed exclusive
ly by "Mack” Robinson, sensa
tional negro track and field star,
today trod the walks of Oregon's
tampus to share the spotlight of
'ame heretofored centered on
3eorge Varoff, whose forte is
tloud-climbing via the pole vault
•oute.
Those flying spikes that have
tarried Robinson to new records
n every track from Los Angeles to
Europe, are probably the most
'amous on any college campus to
lay.
Seven Records
Robinson, who probably will be
mother of Oregon’s contributions
to national fame, hails from Pasa
iena junior college where he be
>;an a long collection of track and
'ield records that he has accumu
ated in a comparatively short
time. Seven collegiate records,
trom the 200 meters to the broad
lump, as well as innumerable high
school marks, have been shattered
iy the lanky colored star, in his
dashing conquests down the cin
ier paths of the world.
Foremost versatile sprint star
if the United States, with the one
:xcusable exception of Jesse
Dwens, contemporary Negro flash,
Mack Robinson’s records reach all
the way around the globe, from
Pasadena high school, where he
jot his start.
Likes Colonel Bill
Asked why he chose Oregon for
lis schooling, Robinson said he had
ong contemplated attending this
Jniversity because of the fame of
3ill Hayward and the reputation of
lis track teams.
“Competition,’’ he said, "that's
vhat I want; and I want to com
>ete against the best the Pacific
toast conference can offer.” That,
n short, is his main reason for
thoosing a coast conference school
in preference to some smaller
schools that would give their eye
teeth to obtain the formidable
trackster. A
Likes Oregon
Robinson declared that his stay
at the University thus far has been
“very enjoyable,” and that the
"Fellows are swell.” Unassuming
and pleasantly smiling, the col
ored follower of Olympus, spoke
hesitantly about his capabilities
and triumphs. He went to great
length in praising the talents of
his high school coach, A. W. Wal
ton, prominent high school trainer
in southern California.
When asked what events he
would concentrate on for the com
ing season, Robinson was ready
with an answer. “The two sprints
—100 yards and 220 yards—the
low hurdles, the broad jump and
possibly the relay. I’m used to
these events and I know how to
train for them and run them.” The
last sentence was to explain the
puzzling inquiry if that wasn't
quite a "load.” Apparently Rob
inson has never heard of the other
lesser events or he would be enter- ^
ing those and Bill Hayward would
n’t have to worry about a track
team at all.
Volleyball Games
To Start Next Week
Rebecca Overstreet, general
manager for inter-sorority volley
ball games, wants to remind all
girls interested in being on house
teams that they have three nights
left in whch to practice before the
competitions starts.
Games will start next week and
two nights of preliminary prac
tice are required for participation
in the games.
. . . You probably never heard of
Santa Barbara State, but they will
have the heaviest line on the coast,
averaging 207 pounds from tip to
tip. . . . Willamette is rumored to
have one of the heaviest backfields.
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