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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 5, 1938)
DUCK TRACKS By ELBERT HAWKINS 1 w - - Bean K. ..VV. ..Leighton of., the Hfijool of physical .education yes terday verified reports that Swim ming Coach Mike Hoyman was considering a year’s leave of ab He«ce from the University. Dean Leighton and Hoyman re cemtly held an unofficial confer ence, and the dean thinks Mike will probably take his year’s leave very noon—possibly next year. Which will probably break the 'hearts of a lot of top-notch swim mers who came to the University because of Mike Hoyman. The nmnzing record his teams have pilled up in the short span of six years speaks for itself. * * Si: Don’t give up though for this is nit very much off the record. The school would have a problem of furnishing University swimmers with a coach, and might feel in clined to offer Mike something f»i? his fame as a builder of cham pions. Dean Leighton says very definitely that swimming would not be dropped here in Hoyman’s absence. It’s possible but not probable that a boost in salary might keep M<ke from taking his year away, but his field is really in health education, and it’s unlikely that money would make much differ ence when he’s pursuing doctoral wo rk. If Swimming Coach Mike Hoy man decides to take his year’s leave of absence, the University's big problem is to entice him to return. An attractive salary would' probably do that. ■ A.s Dean Leighton says, “It will certainly be tough on swimming 'here if Mike goes.” The swim mers would probably grin and bear it if they knew he would I rei urn in a year. Of course they don’t want him to leave at all. ■Swimming would undoubtedly ftHiiii in Hoyinun’s absence, for what would there be to entice more athletes here. Mike has had mo hard cash to entice swimmers Jiicve in his six-year reign, noth ing but the reputation of turning 'mat champions. Visualize what his lo>i would mean. Where other schools get far less in the way of prowess for their mumming teams, they pay a man fivr coaching it. But at Oregon Mike Hoy man has donated his time to the campus, time be might swore profitably have spent in health education. Dean I.eighton would definitely favor gi\ ing Hoyman a raise. But here’s where the Dean fools you. I He'd make the addition to Mike’s! regular salary, for that is where he rates high with the adminis tration. Swimming would natur ally take care of itself if Hoyman were given a salary his return here. H: «l warranting ; Baseball today between Oregon and Linfield on Howe field. Which at d seems to bo on the subject of swimming. Miracles in Ore gon weather are unusual, and! they might be out there playing at 3:30 in gum boots. Ruth Tustin. only coed to ever pi vy on a freshman golf team at the University, had to overcome several handicaps to play in Sat urday's match against the var- j isity. Ruth first had to got an excuse j from the dean of women, and then found herself bucking a rule for-j bidding women to play on the j course Saturday afternoons. Af ter tills ban was lifted she pro- j ceeded to carve out an 86. not enough to defeat opponent Kirk Aldridge's 78. Clinton Vincent, jLaurelwood |> ofessional and freshman coach, i Ducks Play Linfield—Barring Rain Hamby, Marshal I Assume Co-Coaching Positions in Hobby Hobson’s Absence If it doesn’t rain, and if the field isn’t too wet, Oregon Duck baseballers will battle Linfield’s Wildcats this afternoon on Howe field at 3:30 p.m. However, another day of rain will be nothing new in the life of the Hobson-deserted Ducks. To date they have had only i couple days outside. Accordingly their batting eyes have suffered —? Portland 6, uregon z—ior example. Last year Linfield went down to defeat 13 to 2, but this year the Wildcats have a few teeth included in their aggregation. Have Veterans Most of the Linfield squadmen of last year have returned for an other year of competition and in addition they have Reynold “Ran nie” Cook, hard-hitting third base man, who summered last year with the St. Helens Papermakers. According to Acting Coaches Bill Marshall and Bruce Hamby, three pitchers will probably work during the game. Paul Thune mann, sophomore southpaw, is slated to start, while LeRov Mat tingly and Tom Robertson are al most certain to see service accord ing to the “coaches.” The infield will probably remain the same as in the first Portland game, consisting of Gale “Busher” Smith, first base; Jack Coleman, second base; Jack Gordon, short stop: and Captain Ford Mullen, third base. Outfield Chosen Patrolling the outer gardens for Oregon will be a combination of the groups used in the two Port land games. Masa Kato will start in left field, Matt Pavalunas in center, and Wellington, “Wimpy” Quinn in right. l According to Co-Coach Marshall, football players Bob Smith, Jimmy Nicholson, and John Yerby will probably not be able to play base ball for another week or so at the least. Yesterday the squad continued to practice indoors, with only catch ers and pitchers reporting. In fielders had the day off. unless1 feeling ambitious enough to report for the workout. Yeomen Trip SAE Squad in Close Donut Swim Tilt Phi Delts, Sigma Chi/ SPEs Also Move Up In Splash Meet The Phi Delts, SPEs, Yeomen, and Sigma Chis were victorious in the quarter-finals of the intra mural swimming meet yesterday i afternoon. j Most exciting game of the dayi was the Yeomen-SAE contest, which the Yeomen won by the close score of 25-24. Phi Delt beat DU, 31-18: SPE beat Chi Psi, 30-19; and Sigma Chi beat Beta Theta Pi, 28-21. Undefeated teams remaining in the league are the Phi Delts, SPEs, Yeomen, and Sigma Chis, who will meet in the semi-finals this after noon at 4 o’clock. Finals are to morrow at the same time. thinks Ruth will be consistently in the 70's when warm weather comes. She’s from California, and a former pupil of such teachers as Olin Dutra. Ex-Webfoots, Varsity Slate Football Fray Tony Amato, Mates Scheduled to Meet Ducks After Spring Football Practice When Tony Amato and his lum bering- squad of ex-Webfoot foot ball stars meet at the College Side j Wednesday afternoon at 4 o’clock it will be for the definite purpose of organizing practice for a big varsity-all-star football game, to be held at the end of regular spring practice. Amato and his cohorts, includ ing big Del Bjork, who starred for ! the Ducks three years before he, burned up professional leagues as a tackle on the Chicago Bears, will start working out for the “big game" immediately, it was learned. Plans for the contest were first begun two weeks ago. Coach Gerald “Tex” Oliver, head man of Oregon grid destinies, put his of ficial “okeh” on the project last week, and Amato and Stan Rior dan. his. chief co-conspirator, im mediately started diagraming plays in preparation to starting practice this week. Renew Rivalry The “all-star” contest will be the first played here in several years. In 1933 and 1934, led by Mike Mikulak, present backfield coach, “all-star” teams decisively defeat ed the best varsity teams. The 1938 "old-timers” have vowed to uphold this gallant record. Among those who have agreed to take a last whirl at the grid sport are Vein Moore, Amato, Riordan, Don Kennedy, Chan Berry, Bjork, Ross Carter, Dale Laselle, Chuck Bracher, Jerry Donnell, Pete Bar bur, who starred at UCLA as a tackle before coming to Oregon this spring, Romey DePittard, Joe Huston, and Ned Simpson. Irving Schulz, who captained the Web foots in 1931, was also rumored as being a candidate for the team. “Coach" Amato stated Monday afternoon that he will welcome any other gridmen who are not included in the above list and who hanker for another game. All are urged to attend the Wednesday afternoon j meeting. Anthropology Grad Gets Scholarships Fred W. Voget, graduate in anthropology, has just received two scholarships for research as sistant in anthropology, one at Yale and the other at Chicago. Mr. Voget has not yet decided which to accept. Send the Emerald to your par-i ents and let them read UO news. Varsity Golfers Spill Frosh Team, 20 to 7 Accurate, steady golf gave Ore gon’s varsity team, defenders of ,the northern division conference, a (20-7 win over the hapless frosh Saturday in a 36-hole pre-season match over the Laurelwood and Eugene Country club courses. t Deadly putting by Cliff Smith, iNo. 1 of the frosh, in the afternoon singles matches at the country club earned him a 3-0 shutout over varsitys’ Dwight “Doc” Near, for the only upset of the day. The frosh scored well at the country club despites their loss. Although the tricky course was new to them, most of their scores ranged in the seventies. Hughes Hits Par Only par round was shot by Ben Hughes, sophomore, No. 4 on the varsity team. His 72 at the coun try club bettered Walt Cline, No. 2 varsiteer, by a stroke. Ruth Tustin, ex-pupil of Pro Champion Olin Dutra, earned the distinction of being the first girl j golfer to play for an Oregon squad when she served in frosh No. 6 place Saturday. Saturday’s match was a tune-up for the varsity in preparation for next Friday’s season opener with the tough University of Washing ton crew. The 36-hole match will be played at Eugene Country club. Saturday’s scores: Varsity Frosh Near, 0. 3, Smith Cline, 3 ..0, Hickey Golden, 2% . %, Keller Hughes, 2 y2 . y2, Stone Eldridge, 3 . 0, Tustin Watson, 1V2 . I1!’. Klostermann Coeds Turnout for Spring Softball Tilts One hundred fifty-six coed soft ball enthusiasts have signed up^or the spring intramural tournament scheduled to start next week. Practice is being held every day from 5 to 6 o’clock. Girls may check out equipment for practice at this time. Anyone wishing to officiate at the games may sign up with Mil dred Snyder, official chairman. t Nine Games on Tentative Frosh Baseball Sched By LYLE NELSON A tentative schedule of the frosh baseball games was released last night by the Duckling coach, John, Warren. The schedule will include four games with the OSC rooks on each of the weekends in May. First game is set for April 12 when the frosh will meet the Lincoln high team here. In the meantime Coach Warren has been drilling the players daily in preparation for the opener. A series of inter-squad games have occupied the major part of the practices and have given the Ore gon coach a chance to look the prospects over. Four Hurlers Four prospective pitchers have been working for the starting; assignment, with the main battle between Pete Igoe of Eugene high,! and Orlando Allegretto from Port land. Other pitchers who are likely; to see service are Alvin Anderson and Bob Reider. In the infield at first base, the most likely starter is Herbert Ha mer, while at second the fight is between Jack Shimshak and Tom ^Taylor. Four players are almost equal at third base. These are Bill White, Tini Smith, Franklyn Ren ick, and Jack Yoshitomi. Elmer Mallory of Junction City* .appears to have the starting spot at short stop cinched as does Quen tin Earl in the outfield, i The tentative schedule of the games is as follows: April 12, Lincoln, here. Either April 14, 15 or 16 (uncer* tain) Jefferson, here. May 7, OSC rooks, here. May 14, OSC rooks, in Corvallis. May 21, OSC rooks, here. May 28, OSC rooks, in Corval lis. Woodburn and Siiverton are also on the frosh slate, but no date has een set as yet. GOCPV WAS ALMOSY caught> OPP BASE YWICE IM yhay Big 6 rn inIMINGJ Zzz* A 'i SOME! IS •THE FlRSYMAVJ EVER lb SEY -TWO BASES ON BALLS IN ONE SERIES INNING. \ [LEFTY Gomez PircWED HIS FlRSf SERIES OPEMER WO/V /T—MET HUBBELL FOR a The first Time- ^ 8 SAY HIM— L§ AND SCORED THE YANKS' FIRST RON t AMD LEFTV WAS ROBBED OP HIS FIRST SERIES HIT By RIPPLE'S QfM INNING CIRCUS QATCHl