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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 29, 1938)
OSC Takes Loop Swim Title Webfoot Mermen Finish Third After Long Reign In Championship Class Oregon’s regime as northern di vision swim champions ended last Saturday when a well-balanced i Oregon State team swept to vic tory in the annual conference meet. After three straight years of con ference titles, the Ducks settled to third place in the big meet of the 1938 season. Team scores were: Oregon State, 57; Washington, 54; Oregon, 44; Idaho, 10; Washington State, 8. Although slightly outclassed by the two veteran teams, Oregon State and Washington, the sopho more Aqua-Ducks showed improve ment over early season competi tion. Sophomore members came through with 31 1-2 points to their credit, while lettermen members garnered but 12 1-2. Lafferty Triumphs Ralph Lafferty, first year mem ber of the tank team, copped the only first for Oregon as he nosed out Johnson of Washington for top honors in the breast stroke event. In doing so, Lafferty set a new tank record for the long pool at Corvallis. Tom Starbuck, an other sophomore, was high point man for Oregon. Starbuck took third in the 50-yard' dash' and then ; came from behind in the 100-ya^d event to snatch second place. Pierce Mallory, third outstand ing sophomore, gave George Per sonette a tough battle in the 50 yard sprint and conceded first place honors to the veteran Wash ington ace only by a few feet. Johnny Stewart, another first-year man, took fourth in the breast stroke event after a gruelling med-. ley relay race. Jack Levy, letterman of one year, took second in the 440-yard distance grind and fifth in the 220 event. Bert Myers, another vet eran, took third in diving to place highest in that contest for his team. Both Oregon relay teams finished third with the medley team experiencing difficulty as all teams ended in a neck-and-neck finish. It was the first Hoyman-coached Duck team to place lower than sec ond in conference meets. 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Tennis courts will be reserved from 4 to 5 every day for the tournament. Archery practice will start April 4, and will be held Monday and Wednesday at 4 o’clock. Baseball will be interhouse. Practice starts today and will be held each day from 5 to 6 o’clock in Gerlinger field. In any sport two practices must be checked in before partici pating in the tournament. Signup sheets will be sent to all living organizations and must be returned to the managers by April 1. Any girl wishing to play, wheth er she belongs to an organization or not, may do so by signing up with Miss Eastburn or Louise Wat son. If the demand is great enough, a golf tournament will also be of fered. Send the Emerald to your par ents and let them read UO news. Oregon Nine Faces Pilots On Thursday Hob's on Announces First Squad Slash For Wednesday; Weather Hurts Coach Howard Hobson an nounced the first cut of his varsity baseball squad for Wednesday, and spent the rest of the afternoon working with his six hurlers in preparation for the University of Portland series which has been moved up one day. The game here will be played at 3:30 with the second game at Port land on Friday. The games were moved up so that Coach Hobson could see the team in action before leaving for the Basketball Coach es* convention in Chicago the fourth and fifth of April. Six Hurlers Work Bob Creighton, junior colleg/ transfer, LeRoy Mattingly, relief hurler last year, and Tom Robert son, member of last year’s frosh squad, right-handers, and Bob Hardy, letterman, and John Linde and Paul Thunneman, members of last year’s frosh team, left-hand ers, were the pitchers working out under “Hobby’s” watchful eye. The first inter-squad game was held Saturday afternoon, and Coach Hobson indicated that the per formance was satisfactory in view of the fact that the squad had only been out a week, and had only ven tured from the confines of the Ig loo once before the game. All members of the pitching staff participated in the fracas, working three innings apiece. Practically all members of the squad saw ac Eleven Monograms Are Awarded Duck Hoopmen by Hobson Officially closing Oregon’s most successful varsity basketball sea son since 1927, Coach Howard Hob son presented letter awards to 11 of his players last Thursday. Dave Silver, all-conference for ward in 1936, was the only hoop ster receiving his third award, a white sweater. Bobby Anet, Wally Johansen, Slim Wintermute, Lad i die Gale and Ray Jewel were given two-stripe sweaters and Bob Hardy, Ted Sarpola, Matt Pava lunas, Ford Mullen and John Dick won their first letters. Silver and Jewel are the only graduating seniors on the list of award winners. Hobson’s court-burning, colorful five won the northern division title for this winter the first time in 11 years. In the playoff series for the coast championship with Stan ford’s great Redskins, the Web 1 foots were beaten 52-39 at San , Francisco and 59-51 at Palo Alto mainly through the efforts of one Angelo Henry “Hank” Luisetti, commonly called the “Signor of Swish.” Oregon’s record for the season was 25 victories and eight defeats. High scorers all through the sea son, the towering Ducks chalked up a total of 1652 points to their1 opponents 1226—-an average of 50.1 points per game against 37.1. In regular conference competi tion, Hobby’s Ducks counted 945 points to 772 for the opposition. Laddie Gale, Oakridge sharp tion. No workout was officially sched uled for Monday because of weath er, except for pitchers and catch | ers Frosh Baseballists Begin Spring Grind Precipitation stole a march on the frosh baseball squad last week with the result that most practic ing was limited to pitchers and catchers and was held under the protecting roof of McArthur court. Several players are coming along in good form, Coach Warren indi cated. Elmer Mallory, hard-hitting Junction City shortstop is one of the leading candidates. Pete Igoe, right-handed pitcher from Eugene high, and Jack Shim shak, infielder from Grant high of Portland are other frosh players likely to se much action in the baseball wars. Bill Marshall, varsty pitcher of last year, is acting as frosh coach in the absence of John Warren. shooter, established a new northern division scoring record swishing a high of 249 points in the 20-game season. Counting pre-season games he scored a total of 408 points over the winter’s cage campaign. 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