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Ducks, Beavers Even on Records Heldfor All-Time In Annual Relay Classic It’ll be “horse and horse” as I far as records are concerned when the cinder aces of Oregon and Ore gon State meet on the Hayward oval Saturday afternoon in the 11th annual Webfoot-Beaver relay classic. Oregon holds all-time marks in the mile, shot put, two mile, and 440-yard relays, while Oregon State is the possessor of records in the 880-yard, four mile, high jump, and shuttle relays. Classy Field in ’36 On a spring day in 1936, the classiest field of performers ever to compete in the colorful relay carnival raced over the Hayward cinder paths. Four records were broken that day, and every mark set still stands. Two of them were broken bj* the Beavers and two were pushed into the “ex”classification by runners wearing the Lemon and Green. Oregon’s great quartet of half milers of that year—Sam Mc Gaughey, Ken Miller, Alvin Kropp, and Captain George Scharf—hung' up a mark that may stand for a long time to come, touring the two- j mile distance in 7:52.8. Oregon State had its inning a | little later as Grant Swan’s crack ! distance men set a new mark of; ,18.19 minutes in the four-mile re |lay. Running on this team were Norman Rands, Dave Shepard, Ernie Guggisberg, and Matt Clas per. | Sprinters Powerful Colonel Bill Hayward’s powerful array of versatile cinder stars! chalked up another record-break ing assault that day when Bill Mc Donald, Short Freeman, Barney Hall, and Howard Patterson won the coveted mile relay crown with a time of 3:23.4 Ending a brilliant day, Oregon I State’s Ecktnan, Hessig, Ackerson, i The Season of Golf Tennis Fishing is here and we are supplied to equip you. House Managers Attention! Is your LAWN MOWER SHARPENED? and ready for use! 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Inn ings pitched by Bradley, 6 1-3. Hits off Bradley, 6. Runs off Bradley, 6. Hit by pitcher Rei der (Bradley), Yoshitomi (Da vis), Earl (Davis), Burns( Rei der). Double plays—Mallory to Shimshak to Hamer, Smith to Shimshak to Hamer. and Kidder established a meet rec ord in the newly-created high jump relay. The combined height was 23 feet, 8 inches. Two meet records were set last year, one by Oregon State and one by Oregonl Bill Foskett, Chan Berry, Len Holland and Jim Smith combined forces to throw the shot put a total distance of 183 feet, 2 inches. The Orange sprint team of Bob Leslie, Grant Teats, Aaron Funk, and Bill Hoyer wrote a time of 1:28.2 into the books. Two Marks Old Only two records have had rela tively long lives. Oldest record is Oregon State’s 1:01.6 in the shut tle relay set by Martin, Dunkin, Prentiss, and Dufresne. In 1932, an Oregon sprint team led by one of Oregon’s track im mortals, Paul Starr, and including Hamilton, Holman, and Bales clipped off 42.6 in the 440-yard re lay, and this mark has yet to be eclipsed. Duckling Divoteers Get First Opposition Freshman golfers will get their first taste of competition this af ternoon when they play in an 18 hole, four-way, four-man match with Albany, University and Eu gene high schools. The match will i be played at Laurelwood at 1:30. | Cliff Smith will take the top I position on the frosh team as he (Please turn to page seven) Portlanders Down Frosh Netters; 4-3 By CHUCK VAN SCOYOC Two state champion tennis play ers on one team proved too much for Oregon’s frosh netmen to swallow yesterday, as the star studded Grant high school edged out a 4 to 3 victory over Washke’s yearlings in the opening tiff of the season. Emory Neale, state interscho lastic singles champion, and Leon ard Clark, frosh No. 1 singles man, battled for nearly two hours, in the feature singles match, the Grant captain coming out on top, 2-6, 6-2, 9-7. Clark got off to a flying start in the first set, slipped in the sec ond, and in the deciding round, both men battled on even terms, the set going to sixteen games be fore Clark faulted into the net to give the match to Neale. Phillipi Wins In the No. 2 singles match, the Yearling’s Dick Phillipi turned on the heat to drop Ned Jungck, state boys champ, 6-4, 6-3, in another thrilling exhibition of racquet play. Phillipi’s hard serves and smashes proved too much for the diminu tive prep star to handle. i Dick Williams playing in the No. 3 singles spot smashed and lobbed his way to a hard earned win over Jack McCliment of the Generals, 7-5, 6-3. Williams’ con tinued lobbing proved plenty trou blesome to the Grant lad who in exasperation, frequently drove tiis smashes for errors. Bob Engelke lost’ two heart breaking matches to Kermit Smith General No. 4 man, 8-6, 8-6, in a contest that featured everything in the book. The players were very evenly matched, Smith gaining his margin for the win on errors by Engelke. 1 Shaw Over Rennolds Paul Shaw, a carrot-topped lad from Grant, gave the Generals the edge in the singles contest, by drubbing Lee Rennolds of the frosh, 6-3, 6-2. Shaw had entirely too much on the ball for Rennolds to handle, although the diminutive yearling put up a good battle throughout the match. In the doubles matches, Jungck and Shaw put the afternoon’s fes Women's Hockey Exhibition Given This Afternoon An opportunity to see trained women hockey players in action will be given sports enthusiasts this afternoon at 4 o’clock in Ger linger field when a team from the Los Angeles Field Hockey asso ciation will give a demonstration. In order to show how their whole team functions, the- team from Los Angeles will play against a team made up of girls from dif ferent schools of Oregon. In the second half, both teams will be mixed so that their players who have had more training in the game will be able to help those who are less experienced. Schools invited to come are Oregon State college, Willamette university, Pacific university, Lin field college, Reed college, Corval lis and Eugene high schools. There is no admission charge. There will be an officials’ meet ing at 5 o’clock in the women’s gym. Send the Emerald home. Your folks will enjoy reading it. Another Chapter for Colonel Bill's Book By GEORGE PASERO If and when Colonel Bill Hay ward writes his memoirs (and in cidentally he has said he is work ing on them), he will, in all prob ability, devote a chapter of his bo6k to what he considers the best vantage point from which to view a track meet. For around 60 years, Colonel Bill has watched track meets or competed in them, and this spring marks his 35th year as Oregon’s tivities on ice for the Generals, when they capitalized on the some what wild playing of yearlins Wil liams and Engelke, to win easily, 6-3, 6-2. Weak net play and bad ly placed drives, cost the Duck lings the match. After losing the first doubles match, 6-3, the ace frosh duet of Clark and Phillipi rose from the depths to lace the visiting com bination of McCliment and Neale, 1 6-4, 6-2, in the next two sessions. Clark’s stellar net play, combined with the too numerous errors of Grantonian McCliment, was large ly responsible for the Duckling victory. track coach. During this time he’s watched spectators gather around the fin-^ ish, sit in remote sections of the stands, clutter up the infield (and incidentally more than once suf fered injury while others narrow ly escaped), and crowd the track. If Bill Watched If Bill, himself, were watching a meet in the role of an ordinary spectator (if that could be imag ined), he wouldn't sit near the finish line, at least not on Hay w-ard field. He would seek a seat in the stands upposite the 220 straightaway from where he could see the entire track, the finish and everything that happened during the race. Bill realizes that the spectators like to come into near hand-to hand' with the athletes, but he does feel that it is dangerous for spec tators to be on the infield, and that, so long as spectators are not allowed on the infield at any other track, it is not too much to ask the Oregon students to sit in the stands Saturday when the Beavers and Ducks meet in the 11th annual relays. 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