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DUCK TRACKS | By ELBERT HAWKINS j "Good Old California!” That re toaxk from pudgy Bill Cole, Ore new line coach and first as Biuttant to Tex Oliver, as he stood Bb vering in a thundershower last It’s not football that’s suffering ’n,s much as baseball, tennis, and track, though. *‘\Ve should have a strong baseball team this spring ♦—>'1 it quits raining,” smiled Coach Hobby Hobson yesterday. Hobby’s Webfoot baseballists are Bfated to open a 26-game schedule Kcounting 16 conference tilts) Thursday afternoon (they were previously set for Friday and Sat urday) on the home Jot against #»o<-tland University’s a J w a y s - tetrong Pilots. sj! * Because he has to be in Port laud at 6:30 p.m. Friday to depart for the East, the head man was tei.ated to miss both Friday and Saturday Pilot games, and also g-ame number three at McMinn fcriUe next Wednesday against Lin fixed. He’ll be the Northwest’s sole ^representative at the National fVoaches’ association meeting in Chicago on April 4 and 5. Coach Hobson late yesterday ne gotiated with Portland officials to move the games up a day. With the Eugene game switched to .Thursday he’ll be able to super vise that contest. Friday’s second coolest in Portland, and still catch the 6:30 streamliner to the East. If Eugene gets a few days of (goini “drying” weather this week lAfhletie Manager Anse Cornell ifiKiv’s ills? Ducks may still open their pwson on Howe field. Otherwise Sfr'l.l he down on the old diamond, formerly called Reinhart field. The rub is this. While Howe field fnas an efficient drainage system *yl: ich should take care of the in-1 lix‘ui in short order, the outfield is iu. poor shape. There’s a big turf less section out in. center field,, that greensward Snow adorning the I'niversity’s new ly coated Hayward gridiron. And iu • therm ore, Manager Anse Cor ine 1 says the baseball field proba *i.rwon’t get new turf this season. <Mi>bby’s idea which will probably lie followed—is to dump a couple o': truckloads of saml on the un til ted portion of Howe field, and then run a steam roller over it. ) lowever^it’ll have to quit rain ing. * * * Coach Tex Oliver is slated to m ike his first Portland appearance tu1 head football coach Wednesday. He'll be guest of honor at a stag luncheon given by the Portland al umni association. Also attending •will be Line Coach Bill Cole and toe rest of Oregon’s coaching staff. Colonel Bill Hayward will re main in Portland until Friday’s Hill Military meet and bring his seven competing athletes home im mediately afterward. Incidentally. Oregon’s track Lopes for 1938 seem to be growing In i.ghter by the day. Leonard “Dutch” Holland, red-haired dis cus linger arrived on the campus ©p.nday after wintering in Califor* nia, He took first in the Pacific coast championships last spring. Dutch predicts a great season £o Mack Robinson. Oregon’s dusky star of 1936 Olympic fame. Says he should hit 26 feet in the broad tjump. Mack was around 25 feet 8 inches last year. COMMERCIAL PRINTING . . ALLENBAUGH' PRINTING CO. Phone '16366 East lJrominuy Near, Cline Lead Duck Golfers in Qualifying Test; Oregon’s golfing machine showed. chances of whipping into a better | squad than ever before when quali- I fying round totals were computed j Sunday night, from which were named six who will compose the Webfoot varsity golf team this spring. It was Dwight “Doc” Near, Eu gene sophomore, who led the way to medal qualifying honors by four strokes over his nearest rival in the field of 17, who entered the 72-hole qualifying test. Near scored a 294, six over par, to lead veteran Walt Cline, coach-captain, over the rain-soaked Eugene Country club course. Cline carded a 298. Two other sophomores followed close behind Cline in the week’s play to grab third and fourth posi tions. They were Ben Hughes with 303 and Shelby Golden with 306. Golden’s score squeezed Bill Wat son, only other veteran, into fifth place by one stroke. Kirk Eldridge scored one stroke behind Watson with SOS to take sixth place. Four reserves, expected to have a chance to make the regular team by challenges, are Lou Cook, Hank Moretty, Bob Speer, and Rich Werschkul. Qualifying scores: Player Scores Total Near . 73 77 72 72 294 Cline . 77 77 74 70 29S Hughes . 78 74 75 76 303 Golden . 80 74 76 76 306 Watson. 77 81 75 74 307 Eldridge . 78 79 75 76 308 Cook . 82 75 76 78 311 Moretty . 78 75 80 81 314 Spear . 82 76 83 78 319 Werschkul .. 79 81 81 81 322 Quinlin . 82 82 82 77 323 Phipps . 79 79 85 84 327 Rifle Squad Wins First Round Meet Washington Places Second; UCLA Is Third in Area The Oregon rifle team took the first round in the defense of its national championship recently by winning the first elimination com petition in the ninth corps area. The Oregon team placed high above the other schools to take first place. Washington State rifle men placed second with UCLA in third. The ninth corps area is composed of college teams in all of the nine western states. The top 30 per cent of each corps will be chosen to compete sometime in the future for the national championship. The top ten men of the fifteen man team were awarded medals for their excellent shooting in winning the meet. The men who received medals were: William Gieseke, Stanley Warren, Donald Boyd. Jack Lew. Galen Robbins, Verlin Wolfe. Tom Taylor. Wvburd Far rell, Lawrence Lew and Joseph Salle. Oregon Cindermen Point for Hill Relays Robinson and Varoff To Lead Hayward's Squad Into Annual Portland Meet Mack Robinson, Colonel Bill Hayward’s Olympic sprint ace, will don the lemon and green of the University of Oregon for the first time Friday night when he leads an eight-man Webfoot track squad against some of the nation’s best athletes in the seventh annual Hill Military academy indoor relay car nival in Portland. The meet will be held in the huge Pacific International livestock arena. The lanky Robinson, winner of second place in the 200-meter run of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, will be entered in the broad jump, and will be a favorite to win. In the first trials of the year Saturday the rubber-legged negro hit the sawdust of the pit 24 feet and 7% inches from the takeoff mark, a near record effort. Versatile Robinson In addition to his broad jump performance, Robinson will run an chor man on the Oregon mile relay team. Time trials in the 440 this after noon will determine Robinson’s teammates in this event. Jim Schriver, dark-haired junior, Jim Buck, Bill Harrow, Dean Ellis and Kermit Storli will battle it out over the furlong route for the three remaining places on the relay team. Robinson walked away with the 300-yard trial Saturday, beating Buck by better than 10 yards in 32 seconds flat. Schriver and Ellis finished third and fourth. Varoff to Defend Oregon’s own George Varoff will be the second nationally-known | Webfoot to feature the Hill car nival. He will defend the George Varoff pole vault from the heigh ceiling twists of Earle Meadows, world outdoor co-record holder, and Cornelius Warmerdam, Olym pic club ace. Meadow’s outdoor record is 14 feet 11 inches. The classic feature of the meet, the Glenn Cunningham mile, Will bring together the foremost milers ,of the nation. Cunningham, who set a new world's record about a month ago, will head the trek of distance men into Portland. Chuck Fenska, Michigan *-gtar; Don Lash, champion two-iniler; and Norman Bright, last gear’s winner, will be on hand to* give Cunningham competition. A crack field of Pacific boast collegians will also enter tl^p race. Canny Bill Hayward will pin his hopes on two sophomore sensa tions, Don Barker and Bob Mit chell. Barker is a veteran pacer with a 4:25 mile to his credit while Mitchell is a sure-fire comer. Spruce up for the Senior Ball. Headquarters for Men and Women OREGON BARBER SHOP Co-op Bldg. 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Fred Davis had 306, George Smith, 325, Kneeland Stone, 328, Ruth Tustin, 336, Pete Klosterman, 336. Members of the team will chal lenge each other to keep their posi tion on the team. Matches are scheduled with the varsity, Ore gon State Rooks, and University high. At a meeting in the College Side Tuesday at 7 o’clock the team will decide on future matches and team positions. banjoUke —Elaborate professional model for sale or will trade for camera similar to Spread Graphic 3Ux 45i- Phone 891 at 201 Osburn Apts. Bobby Anet, stocky, hard-driving guard from Astoria, was elected honorary captain of the 1938 Ore gon varsity basketball squad by his teammates at the annual dinner given the team by Coach and Mrs. Hobson. Spearhead of the Oregon attack for the past two seasons, Anet acted as floor captain for the sea son just completed. His drive and generalship under fire were big factors in Oregon’s belated drive to the northern division pennant. Captain Bobby has one more year of basketball competition left in his collegiate career. The Duck cagers also picked their northern division all-oppo nents team, honoring three Wash ington State Cougars. No all-star was selected by unanimous vote. The balloting was close for every position with a number of others figuring strongly in the voting. The Webfoot all-opponent team follows: Steve Belko, Idaho, and Bill Chase, WSC, forwards; John Kosich, WSC, center; and A1 Hoop er, WSC, and George Ziegenfuss, Washington, guards. Narrowly missing all-star berths were Brendan 'Barrett and Bill Kramer, Idaho; Roy Pflugrad, Mai Harris and Nello Vanelli, Oregon State; Jimmy Seyler, Montana, and Roy Williamson, Washington. Send the Emerald to your par ents and let them read UO news. Shorthand - Typewriting Complete Business Course University Business College Edward L. Ryan, B.S., LL.B., Mgr. I.O.O.F. 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