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DUCK TRACKS By ELBEItT HAWKINS Editor’s note: Mr. Winchester, former sports editor of the New York Telegraph, and feature writ er, coneludeg his guest column on George Varoff, Wehfoot pole-vault er par excellence, today. Part one of the story appeared in Tuesday’s Emerald. * * * By JAMES WINCHESTER New York Sports Writer and Radio Commentator But, wait! At the far end of the runway there was poised a slim, blonde headed youth with the letter "O” upon his chest. He began to trot and his stride lengthened as he jammed his pole into the vaulting box. Up and over he went. George Varoff was still in the running. When the bar went to fourteen feet, he was still in the competition along with Oye, Ganslen, and Mea dows. At fourteen-three, Ganslen and Oye were among those missing. Varoff and Meadows! The outdoor champion and the Olympic victor. Real drama as the bar was raised to 14’ 4%”. A world's record in the offing. * * * The huge crowd of 10,000, al ready thrilled at seeing !>on Lash flash across the boards to a new world mark in the two miles, were quiet as the try at the new record was announced. Meadows was first. He missed. Varoff, his limp already noticeable to the crowd, then had his chance. An incautious arm knocked the bar off as he came down. Attain it was Meadows, and attain he missed. Once attain Varoff, bis shoulders tired and his face twisted by pain, walked to the end of the wooden runway, grasped his tape-covered polo firmly and began his sprint. His stride lengthened und his speed increased as he neared the take-off. His pole hit the vaulting box with a sound audible to the last row of the Garden. His strong shoulders hunched as they pulled his weight from the floor. Up. Up. Up. Up into the full glare of the ceiling lights as his slim body twisted, his legs shot Into the air, and with a final jerk of the should ers ho released his pole und shot out and over the bar into space. Before his feet touched the saw dust, the crowd to a man had risen with the greatest ovation ever accorded any athlete in the colorful history of the Boston Gar den. Beaten a week before in New York, hampered by the feeling of being an underdog and his speed retarded by a pulled ligament in his right leg. George Varoff rose from the sawdust pit, admist the roars of th crowd and the flashing of camera lights, as the new cham pion of the world, indoors and out. Only a few officials and one or two sports writers realized how truly magnificent his victory really was. In his hotel room, later that night, we sat on the edge of his bed as he treated his leg. From the knee halfway up the thigh, there was a hard knot, as big as a doubl ed fist. How a man could walk with such a leg, much less run and jump, was then and still is a mys tery to this writer. * « * The next morning we stood at the Boston airport as George step ped into an American airliner to begin his trip back across the coun try. Miss Gene Miller, the steward ess, had to help him up the steps into the plane. That’s how badly his leg was injured. Vs the huge silver plane roared out over Boston Bay, hanked and headed south toward Newark, we began to realize the iron courage and raw guts displayed by the Ha waiian born lad the night before. More than any ever displayed by a headlined grid hero, lie always lias ten other men to help him along. A pole vaulter is alone. All of which is about thirty for Us and thanks to Sports I'.ditor Id belt Hawkins for the space. Send the Emerald home to Pad every morning. He will like to read the University happenings. i SCHOOL Si ri'LIKS SC N OKIES Fountain Lunch W I 1)1.1,1 \ I It LEMON-0 i'harmaey | Cor. 18th A \lder, I’ll. U7I7 Nicholson May Start in Cougar Game Saturday; Bill Rach Shows Up Well W i n g m a n Speetzen Returns for Game From Injuries By BILL NORENE Jimmy Nicholson practically cinched a starting berth in Sat urday’s Cougar game, while Bill Rach, chunky reserve fullback, bet tered his chances of participating in the WSC battle with brilliant performances yesterday in the sec ond frosh-varsity scrimmage of the week. Jimmy’s work this week has been reminiscent of his flashy showing in the early part of the Oregon State game. Although he only packs 167 pounds in his not huge frame, Nicholson has been carry ing the brunt of the varsity attack in both Monday’s and yesterday’s scrimmages. In addition to this, Nich has been throwing many of the passes attempted by the var sity. Kiieli Shows Well Bill Rach, recently recovered from an ankle injury suffered bc j fore the season started, went "great guns" in yesterday’s scrim I mage. It was partly due to Rach that Jimmy was able to make such successful gains during practice. I It was Bill’s drives through the , center of the line that pulled the . frosh defense in, enabling Nich to circle the ends with such devastat ing effect. Rod Speetzen, end, and one of the squad’s better pass catchers, showed up for practice for the first time since his ankle was in jured in the USC game. LumncUc Kcturns Dale Lasselle was in uniform yesterday, getting his leg back in shape. It has been in a cast since the Oregon State game. He is one day behind Captain Amato, who likewise was injured in the Bea ver game, but Amato was out yes terday. Ted Gebhardt, billed to start with Nicholson at halfback, turned up at practice yesterday in street clothes as the result of having bruised his foot in scrimmage Monday. From Goat to Hero Is Experience of Beard the Bearcat WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY, Salem, Nov. 2. (Special)—From “goat" to "hero” was the exper ience for liilly Beard, sensational Bearcat sophomore halfback, in a recent intersectional tilt with Whit tier college. Beard virtually handed Whittier its touchdown, fumbling twice chances on which the Poets couldn’t cash in and finally kick ing out of bounds deep in his own territory. Pass interference called against him was the final straw, and Whittier scored. But the rest of the game Beard was the whole show for Willam ette. He gained 10!) yards, an av erage of better than six per play; punted brilliantly, and intercepted a Whittier pass to set the stage for the winning touchdown. Two plays later he scored, to conclude one of his best gridiron performances at Willamette, despite the early-game difficulties. Frosh Point Guns Toward Eons Fracas Yearlings Tussle With Oregon Varsity to Prepare for Game Friday Night By BOB JORDAN Polishing the boys for the EONS game, “Honest John" Warren sent his yearlings into their second suc cessive scrimmage with the Oregon varsity last night. Burning the midnight oil again, the Ducklings battled long into dusk against the Lemon warriors. The frosh also scrapped with the Ducks Monday night. With the frosh squad on the de fensive side of the argument most of the time, Warren burned into the lads on blocking and tackling. The yearlings were so bad on these points against the Babes at Port land last week that they were complaining about it on the other side of the Willamette river. Warren Drills Frosh Hard “Sunny John" has been drilling his future Ducks so hard the last two days that they are still trying to catch up with their shadows. The frosh will have to absorb plen ty of this if they expect to regain their old form and take the EONS into camp next Friday night. According to "Squeak” Lloyd, frosh trainer, injuries are well in hand with Chet Haliski, first-string quarterback; Jim Stuart, right tackle; Worthy Blaisdell, left guard, rapidly recovering. All these regulars will be in shape to don grid togs Friday night. All appearances point toward a tough mixup, with the boys in the know giving Oregon a slight edge. The EONS turned in an impres sive total over Whitworth college of Spokane, Washington last week. Have Three Victories The Ducklings have a string of three wins, one loss, and one split behind them. They have chalked up a total of 66 markers against 51 for their competitors. The Washington Babes tallied 26 points over them in one fracas, more than their other opponents scored in four starts. Although the frosh backs couldn’t get near the scrimmage line in the Washington battle, they have shown outstanding brilliance dur- I ing the rest of the season. Haliski, George Andrews, Del Dungey, Duke Hankinson, Bill Hawke, Leonard Isberg, Don Mabee, Gene Shultz, and Marshall Stenstrom have all scored. Hankinson, with 16, leads the pack. Byron Nelson's first job as a professional was at the Texarkana country club and they still tell about his deuce on the par five, 560 yard sixteenth hole. In an ex hibition match there Babe Didrik son was within five yards of the green with two strokes. VwfZ k'tOO <UD 6CP4 \ \ ASS'S^G- JOCK. ^tS\V' l\ew CCACM CACaJ&sie -ttcM SOfMCSlANlD AS COACM At ntr t=v£T-«? SivATt Mi? okJAPUM"'^ Ftso.w that school- i\> '9 J.7 At ] A Scoreless Deadlock in the Making Slunforil players were caught napping on this play Saturday at Palo Alto when Quarterback Dunean (5ft) of Oregon State intercepted a pass near midfield. Fay (34), of Stanford is running Duncan out .'if bounds. The teams fought to a 0 to 0 tie in a steady drizzle. A Rambling Golden Bear Vic Bottari, University of California’s great halfback and driving cog in the Bear offense, scoots across UCLA’s goal-line for the second touchdown of a 27 to 11 thriller last Saturday at Los Angeles. Smoky Whitfield Will Lead Oregon Mitters In Coming Season Dates for Opening Match Hang Fire Until Oregon Staters Definitely Accept; May Face Eugene Elks Also Oregon's Blown Bomber, Smoky Whitfield, the man of many ac complishments, will lead the newly-organized University Mitt and Matt club into their first match of the season the last part of November against either the Elks club of Eugene or the Oregon State College Beavers. The match with the Elk mitt wielders will not be definitely ac cepted until word is received from the Staters relative to the pending OSC-Oregon tangle. In case the tourney with Jim Dixon’s Beavers is not set lor tins month, the Uni versity Mitt and Mat team will schedule the Elks club for its initial test. Whitfield Leads 'Em On Whitfield, dusky glove tosser. will be pinned hopes for many an Oregon victory in the 160-pound .■lass. He was finalist in the Golden Gloves tourney in Chicago a cou ple of years ago. It will be remem bered that it was in one of these iame Golden Glove championships that Joe Louis got his start. However, Whitfield will not be done in the 160-pound division, for lie will have as a partner Gale Ter ris, a slugging sophomore from Marshfield. The heavyweights will be well J tepresented with Bob Crcager fill ing the number one position. Crea tor, tackle on the frosh football team, weighs 21o pounds and hails from Seattle. Washington, where he chalked up IT wins in 18 fights. Inskeop as Prospect Kuss Inskeop, a 200-pounder, who is a former Big Nine champ at Portland for two years, is an ither heavy .prospect. At t7f< pound-. Jim Dimit ap pears tops m his class. Tins rugged light-heavy entered the squared circle in the pre-Olympic tourna ment in Portland in 1932, and bat tled his way into the finals. Francis Nickerson, tough little 145-pounder, will carry the bur ton of his class into the resine i ring. He is a transfer from OSC where he wa • a finalist in intra mural competition. The Montana Kid. Kay Logan. .. another experienced junior-wel terweight. He has had several aghts in the Kooky mountain state A former YMCA boy, of Port land Del Van Hackle, ar.d Bill j lawkc toot call star from Seattle are other 175-pound scrappers. The lightweight division has a standout in Paul "Dynamite” Jack son. who last year fought Dave Perkins, OSC champion, and one of the coast's best, to a standstill but lost a hairline decision. Other boxing prospects are Pete Thorne, 135; Bob Krossin, 145; Will Hughes, 135: Bill Duke, 155; Shelby Golden, 147; Jim Timmons, 150; and Ed Stackhouse, 175. are the thing' i'or campus wear for the off day—be tween the sun and rain. Wool and leather combi nations . . . corduroy and wool. Merrell1 s ‘•The l imersitv Mail's Store" a s Eric Lodgers, Comets, DU, Win in Volley Sammies, Fijis, Zeta Hall Take Beatings In Only Games Teachers’ Institute held the vol leyball schedule down to three games again last night, as they once more occupied one ' of the courts during game time. Delta Upsilon, the Comets, and Chi Psi, were the winning teams with the DU sextet winning from the Sigma Alpha Mus, Chi Psi win ning from Zeta hall, and the Com ets taking the measure of the Fi jis. Sammies Show Well The Sammies, who last week whipped Zeta hall, 15-2, 15-4, with only four men, started out in a big way last night when they won the first game from Delta Upsilon by a 15 to 9 count. From there on in it was a different story with the revived DU team, led by Bill Jones, and Willard Mclnturff winning the next two encounters, 15-12, and 16-14. An up and coming Comet team pulled the same stunt to win the second two games of their three game match with the Fijis. Lodgers Beat Zeta Chi Psi lodge, with their regular team on the floor for the first time, coasted to an easy 15-6, 15-2 vic tory over Zeta hall. The A teams will continue to dominate the schedule tomorrow night, with Beta Theta Pi meeting Pi Kappa Alpha, and Gamma hall playing Phi Psi at 4 o’clock. At 4:40 the schedule finds Sigma Chi meeting the Canard club, and Sherry Ross hall facing the Theta Chis, with the SPEs playing the ATOs, and SAE encountering Ome ga hall at 5:20. VARSITY SERVICE STATION 13th & Hilyard Favorites Advance In Tennis Tourney, Four Transfers Are in Second Round of All-Campus Tilts By CHUCK VAN SCOYOC Four transfers have this week developed into the leading contend ers for the all-campus tennis crown as the second round of the annual tournament got under way Mon day. Favored by reasons of his past record at San Mateo junior col lege and in Southern California tournaments to capture the crown is Ellsworth “Vines” Ellis, who has waded through his opponents with comparatively little effort. Have Two Pilots Two Portland University trans fers who are expected to make a strong bid for the championship are Paul McBride and Bill Walker. McBride proved himself outstand ing in Portland tennis circles last year, and has a year’s experience on the Pilot tennis squad to his credit. Bill Walker, also of the Pilot net team transferred to the University last year, and only the fact that he was ineligible for conference competition kept him from a berth on the varsity squad. Dick Williams, Los Angeles jun ior college product moved into the spotlight last week by defeating Ed Robbins, who placed high in the tournament last year, and advanc ed into the quarter final round. VV'ashke Helps Paul Washke, varsity tennis coach, is taking considerable inter est in the tourney this year, look ing for material which could be developed into varsity class. With fair weather again in pros pect, entrants are asked to play their matches as soon as possible. Second round matches should be completed at least by November 11. The intramural department is soli citing the cooperation of the play ers in making a note of their matches on the intramural board with their scores included. Helen Hicks, former woman’s national champion and one of America’s handful of women golf professionals does not think it pos sible for a woman to compete on even terms, at golf, with a man. Chi O's, Alpha Gams Win Coed Matches Pi Phis Tipped 29 to 17; Alpha Xi Delta Is Loser, 39 to 31 Clii Omega defeated Pi Phi by a score of 29-17 in women's in tramural volleyball yesterday af ternoon. The Chi Omegas showed superior teamwork. Alpha Gamma Delta defeated Alpha Xi Delta by a score of 39-» 21. Alpha Xi Delta showed up bet ter in the last half, but was out played throughout the game. Lineup for Chi Omega: McCar thy, Foster, English, Palmer, Hut cheons, Nichols, Young, Jenness, Strang. Pi Phi: Weston, Pierce, McCord, B. Riesch, Vandenyne, White, J. Riesch, Hunt, Robinson. Alpha Gamma Delta: Fiksdal, Bayliss, Clevenger, Brewster, El liot, Gadwa, Parker. Alpha Xi Delta: England, Dan nals, Frahn, Elkington, Nordling, Essex, Withers, Bereovich. 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