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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 17, 1938)
DUCK TRACKS By ELBERT HAWKINS Moaning Grant Swan, Oregon State’s perpetually broken-hearted ♦rack coach, falls to even threaten Colonel Bill Hayward’s reputation us a track meet prognosticator. an fact he doesn’t even come close. Saturday against Oregon in Corvallis Swan’s Orangemen more than doubled the pessimistic men tor’s hopeful prediction of 27 points (for his team. The Beavers got 57 »/2 to Oregon 73>/2. (Swan can say “I wuz robbed” too because canny Colonel Bill didn’t let his boys runs their hearts and legs ragged for a victory they w«re virtually conceded by every one. {So moaning Grant Swan goes down in history as the northern division’s worst track coach “prog giie” just because Bill Hayward got generous and didn't field his team at full strength. * * # Roaring Mack Robinson, Ore gon's sprint start, who thinks noth ing of winning three events a meet, set the only dual meet record iSaturday by running a :09.7 hun dred yard dash. But compare Mack’s :09.7 sec onds, his best of the year, with the unusual :09.6 stepped off by Washington State’s Lee Orr against Washington Saturday.. Coach Hayward is worried about the unknown Montana track squad which is reputed to have a :09.6 sprinter. Oregon and Mack Robin son will tackle boys and more too in the coming conference meet. The much-advertised Orr-Robin sor. century duel never developed in Eugene, as you’ll remember, be cause Robinson disqualified. Orr ra: the 100 in :09.8 that day. & tU Oregon State cut in for two places out of three in the high .jump where Beaver Coach Grant JSwan, “felt sure" they had a chance but unceremoniously scored u nine-point sweep of all three places in the 440, Oregon’s sore spot. •Jim Sehriver, Colonel Bill’s 440 specialist, “made hay” again in the longer 880-yard run by tailing pow ertul Kerman Storli across the finish line fro a second place. w * Honest John Warren, guider of fresh baseball destinies, is begin ning to slip into his moody ways <jf last year. ,His Ducklings scored their sec ond win of the season over Bud Forrester’s Oregon State rooks Saturday, 14 to 7. A week ago it was 9 to 1. But Honest John turned up with hi- reply which would have been more appropriate a year ago than (now, "we didn’t win that game, they lost it—just naturally handed it to us." Which is very much un like the Honest John Warren of J938. * * * \pologies to columnist (From Where 1 Sit) Clare lgoe and her stooge ( ?) John Yerhy. The sports •staff, It seems, terribly neglected Air. Yerby, who reads Emeralds in Mvmdi of his name until the print melts. iSo Writer lgoe, not the sports Huff, came through last week and wrote a column about John Yerby. Apologies again. It takes open minded women to take care of sup )»i\‘ssed Yerbys. THE MAN’S SHOP BYROM & KNEELAND 82 E. 10th St. Hobby’s Men Tip WSC; Gain Second Five HitsGivenWSC By LeRoy Mattingly, Burly Bob Creighton Jack Gordon Paces 14-Hit Attack With Two Homers, Triple, Single; Linde Homes, and Triples; Mullen Also Triples PULLMAN, May 16—(Special to The Emerald)—Jack Gor don, whose brother Joe plays with the New York Yankees, paced Oregon to a 14-hit 12 to 0 victory over WSG’s Cougars here today with two home runs, a triple, and a single. The victory, the sixth straight for Coach Howard Hobson’s traveling Ducks, and the third of the present road trip, puts the Ducks in second place, dropping the Cougars into third spot in the standings. Oregon State’s Beavers are in first place. Varsity Netmen Win From Bearcats, 7-0 Ducks Post Second Victory of Season Over Salem Lads .. Oregon’s varsity netmen made a clean sweep of their annual series with Willamette university Satur day when they defeated the greatly improved Bearcat squad, 4 to 2, on the Salem courts. Two freshman members of the Bearcat team gained credit for the Salem club’s points when they posted wins in the singles matches. Bud Gilmore turned in a surpris ingly one-sided victory over Les Werschkul, Duck No. 2 singles man by 6-1, 6-2 scores, and George Gutenkurst, No. 5 singles man for the Bearcats defeated Jack Craw ford of the Ducks, 6-3, 8-6. Summary: Summary, singles: Crane, Oregon, beat Benneb, Wil lamette, 6-2, 6-3. scrapj .nbepo^t- Singles :Mof the. Gilmore, Willamette, beat Wer schkul, Oregon, 6-1, 6-2. Ellis, Oregon, beat Clemes, Wil lamette, 6-2, 0-6, 6-2. Zimmerman, Oregon, beat Estes, Willamette, 6-1, 2-6, 6-3. Gutekunst, Willamette, beat Crawford, Oregon, 6-3, 8-6. Doubles: Crane and Zimmerman, Oregon, beat Bennett and Gilmore, Willam ette, 6-4, 6-4. Estes and Clemes, Willamette, tied with Werschkul and Ellis, Ore gon, 2-6, 14-12. winning tomorrow win give tne Ducks a chance to divide the four game series with the Cougars. Linde Contributes Gordon’s long distance clouting was supplemented with Outfielder Pitcher John Linde’s four-ply wal lop with triples by Linde and Cat cher Ford Mullen. Two WSC pitchers, A1 Branfors and Roy Anderson, couldn’t stop the Oregon onslaught. The Ducks opened with five runs in the first inning, three men scoring on Gor don’s first homer. Two scored in the third on Linde’s circuit clout— his second of the present road trip. Captain Mullen’s triple in the sixth accounted for three more runs. Another scored in the sev enth, and the last one came in the eighth on Gordon’s second home run. Anderson Triples Bob Creighton allowed three hits in the six innings he worked. Le Jtoy Mattingly gave up two hits in the last three cantos. Relief Pit cher Anderson tripled in the fifth to lead the Cougars’ only serious scoring threat. Anderson died on third. Summary: R H E Oregon . 12 14 0 WSC . 0 5 0 Creighton, Mattingly and Mul len; Branfors, Anderson and East man. ' SICK LIST SMALLER The infirmary list is gettting smaller and smaller now that school is almost over. The list in cludes Edna Smith, Patsey Smith, John Lockridge, Joseph McCoal, Bill Cardinal, Bob Black, Bob Duncan. Medley Swim Champions lin* senior national medley swim championship changed hands recently in Los Angeles when this trio of Los Angeles A. C. mermaids outsprinted the Washington Athletic clui) in the fast time of 8 minutes and 37.5 seconds. Left to right: Virginia Hopkins, Iris Cummings, and Billie Steitz. Hendricks, Co-op Meet in Donut Tilt As Semi-Finalists The Women’s co-op will attempt to make it their fourth straight ' win when they met Hendricks hall at 4 o’clock tomorrow afternoon on ,Gerlinger field for the semifinal game in coed softball. Although neither team has been defeated so far the Women’s co-op has a more experienced team than .Hendricks and has Margaret Mac donald, one of Oregon’s best coed pitchers. Rusty Tomlinson, star of Hen dricks hall, will take the mound against the co-op. The game pro ,mises to be one of the best games played this year. Frosh Defeat Rooks Second Time, 14-7 Igoe Gives Up 4 Hits; Hurlers Shaw and Miles Allow 12 The Oregon Duckling nine made it two straight over the rooks on Howe field Saturday, winning a 14 to 7 decision. Pete Igoe hurled four-hit ball in seven innings, but five errors and three walks gave the rooks seven runs. While the rooks were collect ing their runs the frosh sluggers pounded out 12 hits off two rook pitchers. The Orange pitchers also gave up five walks and the rook squad committed four errors. The Ducklings gave Igoe a 5 to 1 lead by the end of the second inn ing, but the rooks went out into the lead in the third 6 to 5, aided by three of Oregon Babes’ five errors, two walks, and a triple. The Ducklings soon took com mand of the situation. In the fourth a four run rally put the frosh in a lead that was never again challenged. Shimshak led the individual hon (Please turn to page five) Duck Divoteers Tip Oregon State In Home Match Kirk Eldridge Blasts Sub-Par Round to Lead Webfoots Shooting some of their best golf of the season, the Oregon varsity golf squad got off to an early morning lead over Oregon State Saturday on the Eugene Country club course to swamp the Beavers, 221/a to 41/2. Phenomenal scoring by Kirk El dridge, Oregon’s dark horse No, 3 player, gave him a 69, three un der par, for the morning best-ball foursomes and a 73 in the after noon singles. The other five Ore gon golfers followed closely behind Eldridge in the morning matches to give Oregon an 8 y2 to!£ lead at lunch time. Three Shutouts Although a still breeze in the af ternoon sent all scores higher, the Webfoots were still hot enough to score three 3-point shutouts in the six matches. The Webfoots wind up their match play season next Saturday when they meet Oregon State in a return match at Corvallis. On May 29, the Saturday following, the Webfoots go to Moscow to de fend their northwest conference championship against the field in a four-man, 36-hole medal play round: Saturday's results: Oregon 22 y2, Oregon State 4 Cline iy2, Stafford l1/”. Near 3, Blasen 0. Eldridge 3, Much 0. Watson 3, Hampson 0. Golden 2, Sires 1. Speer iy2, Skibinski 1 y2. Best-ball foursomes: Cline-Eldridge 3, Stafford-Bla sen 0; Near- Watson 3, Hampson Sires 0; Golden-Speer 2y>, Murch Skibinski y2. McBride's Netmen Meet Varsity Today By CHUCK VAN SCOYOC The greatest gradue tennis match in the history of the University of Oregon will be hashed out on the local battlefields this afternoon when Paul “P.U.” McBride’s mighty aggregation of has-beens inc. will attempt to annihilate Coach Paul R. Washke’s varsity racqueteers. The slaughter is slated to start at 2 p.m. school time. McBride’s mob, who have been itching to take a crack at the varsity all season, are all prepared to give the varsity “dubs” (according to the “mob” members) the drubbing of their career. Betting odds at the College Side last night favored the challengers by 10 to 1 odds with Charlie “Bilge” Eaton doing all the betting. McBride Leads Leading the super-varsity squad will be the coach, manager, and president, Paul R. McBride of Port land University fame who is sched uled to oppose Larry Crane, Paul R. Washke’s great captain and No. 1 singles player. Due to the fact that Crane has an engagement selling shoes today, that affair has been postponed until Thursday. Playing No. 2 for the “mob” will be Chuck Eaton, Newt’s best cus tomer, who will hash it out with Les Werschkul, varsity No. 2 man. Eaton has been on the outside look ing on this season, and a chance to ,play a varsity man is an answer to his prayers. No. 3 on McBride’s side will be Rexford “Applebox” Applegate, No. 8 on the varsity this year, who is scheduled to crack racquets with Ellsworth “Hill Billy” Ellis, varsity (No. 3 singles man. i As a No. 4 singles player, Coach McBride has enlisted the services of Ex-letterman Norman “was once” Winslow to play ball with Bill Zimmerman, varsity No. 4: man. In the No. 5 singles scrap Bob Vaughn will play for the super-varsity against Karl Mann (Or Jack Crawford. Washke will toss a coin to decide who will draw the assignment. Just to give all of his men a chance,- Washke has requested a No. 6 singles contest, so McBride consented by calling on Maury Bin ford’s melodious Bob Horning to do (the honors. The doubles matches will con sist of the McBride and Eaton com bination in the No. 1 spot, with Norman Winslow and Bob Vaughn completing the roster. The average coed spends more on refreshments and entertainment than she does for cosmetics and beauty treatments.