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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 3, 1938)
DUCK TRACKS By ELBERT HAWKINS Give Colonel Bill Hayward an other four-event sensation like Muck Robinson and you’d probably be handing Oregon its first north er® division track championship in tf'everal seasons. 'The mythical Mack Robinson wouldn’t be needed in the 100 and 220-yard sprints where Jim Buck proved himself a capable runner up Saturday, or in the broad jump where Bob Fitehard got second place points against Washington, though. Where Oregon needed winners Saturday—gosh yes, even second places—was in the high jump, shot put, mile, 440, and high hurdles. Hee Edmundson’s athletes gave (Oregon just four points in those file events. $ * Subtract Dusky Mack from Sat urday’s electrifying meet. Oregon wouldn’t have lost his full 20 points, because Buck would then have taken the sprints and Fitch ard the broad jump, but figure even 15 off Oregon’s score and it would be Oregon 52, Washington 79—almost as bad as last year. Comparison of Robinson's four winning marks in Saturday’s meet against the best turned in by Ore gon Stale, Washington State, and Idaho (only other conference teams) during the weekend re veals some interesting facts. 100-yard dash: Mack:9.6; oppon ent :9.8. 220-yd. dash: Mack. 21.2; oppon ent, :20.7. Low hurdles: Mack. :23.5; op ponent, :24.5. “ Broad jump: Mack. 24 feet 21-. inches; opponent. 23 feet 112 inch es. Only northern division track man to best Robinson’s marks Sat urday was Washington State’s Ci rt Ledford, who churned the 220-yard dash in 20.7 seconds. However, the other Cougar sprint ers, Orr and Pettichord, were east competing in the Drake relays. They both placed in the 440-yard invitational event back there, too. After today’s second Idaho game and two here with Washing ton on Friday and Saturday, we’ll probably know whether the jig is up with Hobby Hobson’s Oregon baseball team. Oregon will be at the half-way mark, eight games down and * eight to go. fit’ll I»«» one of three possible conclusions. Either we’ll still have « -hanee at the title, or we’ll be oiiit of it. No one, absolutely no one, will arrive at the third con clusion and say Oregon has the championship cinched. Yesterday’s hard luck defeat made it four conference set-backs , tf'or Oregon. If the basketball tra dition (no team wins a title with more than four losses) holds true an the Id-game baseball schedule, IHobhy's outfit might still finish on top by w inning the rest. i * * * Leave it to the Register-Guard’s IKok Strite to come to ball games prepared. Yesterday he not only brought a bumbershoot—and used it too but also had enough pa pers (his own) for scribes to sit on. after a shower had deuched everything. Si * Si Officially the spring football ig.enc between Tex Oliver’s varsity ••ml the Oregon “All-Stars” has THE MAN’S SHOP BYROM & KNEELAND 32 E. 10th St. Sophomore-Sparked Webfoots Turn Back Husky Cinder Aces Colonel Bill Hayward Misses Prediction by One Point; Robinson Paces Ducks in Win Over Favored Washingtonians By GEORGE PASERO As the sophomores go, so go the University of Oregon track and field fortunes. Colonel Bill Hayward, Oregon’s veteran coach, made this prediction on the eve of his 35th season as Webfoot. track mentor, and Saturday on Hayward field his sophomores proved him right as they powered the Lemon and Green cinder force to a last-ditch 67 to 64 victory over the favored University of Washington track team. Hayward missed calling the exact score in a pre-meet prognos tication by only one point, and if Bill Rach, sophomore discus throw er, had been able to compete, Colonel Bill might have hit the final outcome “right on the nose.” Colonel Bill predicted that if his first-year performers came through, the score would favor Oregon, 68-63. Robinson Sets Pace Oregon’s sophomores, paced by Mack Robinson who raced and jumped to four sensational tri7 umphs, dominated the meet, win ning seven of the nine first places the Ducks captured. The other two first places were recorded by Cap tain Len Holland, who won the dis cus, and George Varoff, who took the pole vault. Washington’s mile relay quartet of Vince Egbert, Ben Adams, Jack Flagg, and Dick Montgomery bet tered both the field and meet rec ords, racing over the distance in 3:19.7. The former dual meet rec ord was 3:21.5, set by the Huskies in 1936, while the field record was 3:21.1, made by Oregon in the Ore gon State relays three weeks ago. Ties Record Robinson, the colored cyclone, tied the 100-dash mark of 9.6 sec onds made by Bud Shoemake of Oregon in 1935, by driving down the “grandstand stretch” to win by two yards from Jim Buck, also of Oregon. While Robinson held the crowd’s attention with his amazing per formances in the 100 and 220-yard dashes, the low hurdles, and the broadjump, it was Don Barker, sophomore distance man, who turned the tide of battle near the end. 'After finishing a dismal fourth in the mile run, the determined Barker and his pal, Bob Mitchell, entered the two-mile. Barker won it. Lyle gallantly fought off the Huskie’s little Sam Coleman to garner the needed second-place points. The eight points won in this event tied the score at 54-all, and Robinson and Bob Fitchard cinched the meet by taking one-two in the broad jump. Kirman Storli, powerful Oregon half-miler, gave fans a demonstra tion of his finishing kick as he strode away from John Swan and Ben Adams of the Huskies to win his specialty in 1:58.6. Storli took the lead at the outset and kept it all the way, answering the chal lenge of Adams in the backstretch of the last lap with a burst of speed that left the Washingtonian floundering in the rear. Lithe Jim” Buck, Robinson’s sprint mate, gave Webfoot fans something to cheer about when he! relegated Marion Hay, touted Hus- i ky sprint champion, to the third: places in the dashes. ---I been scheduled for 4 pan. Satur day. But they’re really thinking of making it a night game because there’s also a baseball game in the afternoon which would con flict. Lights were taken off Hayward field after football season, so it all hinges upon whether they figure i it’s worth it to p|it them back. Saturday's Prize Summary: Javelin — Won by Brown, Ore gon; Adams, Oregon, second; Thompson, Washington, third. Dis tance—190 feet 5 inches, s Shot put — Won by Buckley, Washington; Bechtol, Washington, second; Holland, Oregon, third. Distance—47 feet 7*4 inches. Mile—Won by Swan, Washing ton; Courtwright, Washington, sec ond; Mitchell, Oregon, third. Time —4:25. High jump — Won by Vander may, Washington; Suver, Wash ington, second; Pan ton, Washing ton, third. Height—5 feet 10 in j ches. 440-yard dash—Won by Mont gomery, Washington ; Flagg, i Washington, second; Schriver, Ore ! gon, third. Time—:49.6. j Pole vault—Won by Varoff, Ore I gon; Hanson, Oregon, second; j Wright, Washington, third. Height i —1.3 feet 6 inches. New meet rec | ord. Old mark made by Robinson, Oregon, 13 feet 4% inches, 1931. 100-yard dash—Won by Robin son, Oregon; Buck, Oregon, sec ond; Hay, Washington, third. Time—09.6. Ties meet record made by Shoemalce, Oregon, 1935. :• 120-yard high hurdles—Won by Morgan, Washington; Stutfield, Washington, second; Weston, Ore gon, third. Time—14.9. 880-yard run-—Won by Storli, Oregon; Swan, Washington, sec ond; Adams, Washington, third. Time—1:58.6. Discus—Won by Holland, Ore gon; Bjorkland, Washington, sec ond; Buckley, Washington, third. (Please turn to page seven) WSC Trims Huskies In Close Seattle Tilt Northern Division Standings W L. Pet. Oregon State.3 1 .750 Idaho.2 1 .666 Washington State . 3 2 .600 Washington . 1 2 .333 Oregon . 1 4 .250 While Oregon’s hapless defend ing champions were being edged out, 2 to 1, in Eugene by Idaho, Buck Bailey’s traveling Washing ton State Cougars yesterday edged out Washington by the same score at Seattle. Washington evened a two-game series with Idaho at Seattle, Satur day afternoon, taking it, 8 to 0. Tubby Graves’ Huskies dropped the Friday game, 11 to 16. Ralph Coleman’s league-leading Oregon State Beavers made it two straight over Washington State at Corvallis in a Saturday game, 10 to 2, behind the effective pitching of Earl McKinney, fastball right hander. The Orangemen won, 7 to 1, on Friday. Summary of yesterday’s Seattle game. R H E Washington State . 2 8 3 Washington.16 0 Batteries: Branfors and East man; Johnson and Parker. YearlingTennis Players Defeat OSC Rooks, 7-0 Washke's Freshmen Take Initial Match Of Annual Series Seeking to redeem tnemseives after losing a 4 to 3 match to Grant high school in their first ap pearance of the season, Coach Paul Washke’s Duckling netmen blasted out a 7 to 0 win over the Oregon State rooks Saturday morning. The match was the first of the annual home and home series between the frosh and the rooks. The Ducklings swept through in great fashion, and in all but the (Please turn to page seven) Sigma Delta Fsi Will Take Place Thursday at 3:30 Campus Tracksters Will Also Shoot for National Meet Thursday at 3:30, campus track hopefuls will go to the post in the intramural track meet staged by Sigma Delta Psi, athletic honorary, at Hayward field, and will at the same time make Oregon’s bid for the national championship which they won last year. The intramural met t will be scored on a decathalon system, that is, contestants will be work ing against a stated mark, and not against each other. Each event will have 10 point levels, ranging from 10 to 1. Contestants who equal or exceed the highest level will get 10 points, the next level will get nine, and so on. Team Play, Too For intramural competition, the team that garners the most points in the track meet will win, and will get 75 points in intramural standings. Every team that en ters three men in three events apiece will get 30 points, and the rest of the points will be spread over the other teams. Sigma Alpha Epsilon won the meet last year. Marks made at this meet will be sent to the national meet for the national championships which Oregon swept last year. National all-around champions will be awarded medals — the winners, gold medals, the second place men, silver ones, and bronze medals for third place winners. Contestants must furnish their own track shoes for the meet. Each house may enter as many men as they wish, but not more than five in one event, and at least three in three events. Likewise, a man may enter as many events as he wishes^. Contestants must post at least six workouts, or their equivalent in intramural events at Hayward field by Wednesday, May 4, the day be fore the meet. The meet will start promptly at 3:30 Thursday, May’5, at Hayward field. 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