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! DUCK TRACKS By ELBERT HAWKINS I. ' While lithe Mack Robinson, Ore goa’s dynamo sprinter, is consid ©ned practically a one-man show in these parts, University of Idaho fooasts a carnival attraction. ‘This one-man track team is Don ►ToTmson, who is considered the Jbe;st all-around weight man in the United States, according to his couch, Mike Ryan. Colonel Bill Huy ward will say the same about JUis Mack Robinson as a sprinter. Idaho’s Johnson does at least five events well enough to take points in any meet on the coast, fomfc thanks to conference rules he’ll only be able to demonstrate in four sit the northern division meet in Seattle on Saturday. The four he'll compete in will probably be the javelin, discus, high jump, and shot put. Versatile jttr. Johnson also broad jumps a paltry 23 feet, enough to worry attack Robinson, the northern divi sion’s “Jumping Frog of Calaveras County’’ — Mark Twain’s famous myth. Johnson holds all-time records for the University of Idaho in the javelin and discus. He has tossed the spear 207 feet and the platter over 145. He has pushed the 16-pound jshot out exactly 47 feet 11 inches ati'l high jumped an even six feet. It's a good thing Colonel Bill Hay ward and his Ducks will be con sented with only one Don John tioa tomorrow. The Orr’s, Led ford's. and Emigh’s are an over dose themselves. sj: * tHohnson’s discus mark of 145 feet, and Pacific Coast Champion JLeonard Holland’s toss of 142 •which beat Oregon State Saturday jaire both dwarfed by a recent prac tice heave of 167 by Stanford’s liusky Pete Zagar. Big Pete is an aill-coast tackle in football. The northern division’s best mil «ers don’t compare too favorably with another Californian, Louis Xwtnperini, who has wheeled the distance in 4 minutes and 16 sec onds. Zamperini runs for the Uni versity of Southern California. But when you start considering ■sprinters the, northern division’s *»t>ck booms 100 per cent. Satur day’s 100-yard dash with three rO'e.O runners entered should, he flbHit the nation’s toughest of all jraees. Anything can happen with tluit trio and three others capable :00.8’s all figuring. Call the goose cooked — brown ;ut 1 tender—for Coach Hobson and Si'i defending baseball champs in the 193$ pennant chase. They’re all tout mathematically out of it. Tuesday and Wednesday defeats a" the hands of Washington State A.u l Washington raised the Oregon «i- eat total to six. And in basket Ivi 1 no team ever won a cham P'onship over the 16-game route M ' th more than four defeats. From »o v until the season's end it looks ?ike a heat between Oregon State *’tid Washington State, with the la.is from Cougarville desperately yielding a sweep against the Bea vers in their Friday and Saturday jgu nes. * * # The stage is set! When red-tluitehed Bill Van Du tees off at Laurelwood today THE MAN’S SHOP BYROM & KNEELAND 82 E. 10th St. Duck Gridders End Spring Football; Tex Pleased With Result Oliver Picks Cadenasso, Passolt, Giovanini, Peters, Jensen, Hankinson, Lance, Nilsen, Reginato, Gebhardt, Rowe, Best '11' By DOUG PARKER With regular spring practice ended except for a few short kicking drills, Coach Tex Oliver and his staff can sit back with a sigh of relief until September 10 when faJJ. practice begins. prospects for a strong team ttkve greatly improved since the wiry coach from Arizona took over the grid reins this spring. Nine weeks of drill have revealed that Oregon, for the first time in years, will have two or three capable reserves backing up every position. Only the tackle spots show a weakness in reserves and Coach Oliver believes that even here prospects are not disheartening. “If we’re to judge from the strides our tackles have made,” Coach Oliver said, “the tackle po sitions will not be weak next fall.” 1938 Schedule Sept. 24 WSC at Pullman. Oct. 1—UCLA at Eugene. Oct. 15—Stanford at Palo Alto. Oct. 22—Fordham at New York. jOct. 29—USC at Portland. Nov. 5—Idaho at Eugene. Nov. 12—California at Berkeley. Nov. 19—Washington at Port land. ' ! Nov. 26—OSC at Portland. Oregon will need a wealth of reserves next fall, for the Ducks have but one breather during the whole schedule, that being the Saturday following the UCLA game. Oregon will play in one of the big intersectional games of the year when it meets Fordham in New York on October 22. The squad will leave Palo Alto direct ly after the game with Stanford on October 15 and journey across the continent. Only Fourteen Days Only 14 days are allowed for fall training before the first con ference game, and, consequently, Coach Oliver has picked a tenta tive first string already. The first eleven includes Jim Cadenasso at center, Mel Passolt and Nello Gio vanini at guards, Merle Peters afid Ellroy Jensen at tackles, Har ry Lance and Vic Reginato at ends. Hank Nilsen at quarter, Duke Hankinson in the left half position, Ted Gebhardt at the oth er half, and Paul Rowe at full. Passolt Big Surprise t Mel Passolt, a reserve last year, was the surprise of spring prac tice, developing into the best all around guard. Nello Giovanini, a two-year veteran, was also out standing. The guard positions ai’e well backed by reserves. Ron Husk and Cece Walden, both lettermen, will be fighting for a first string post next fall. Husk was out with a leg injury and Walden turned to baseball. Ernie Robertson, Gor don Olson, Milford Smith, and Gene Shultz will all vie for action a guard. Jim Cadenasso and Erling Ja cobsen have fought on even basis (for 7 strokes on the first hole if he can hit the hall) Eugene’s an nual sports writers’ golf tourney will ho under way. Eglhteen holes this weekend with a handicap picked from that, and eighteen more next weekend is the test. “News Bureau" Hamby, “Pet Parade” St rite, “Scoop” Frizzell, “Queen Black George I * of the Green Goose” Pasero, and Eino typer “Hole in One” Evans are prominent entries. Hatch your pa pers. Tiger Cub Frank Crouclier . . . Detroit rookie who is well liked by Mana ger Mickey Cochrane. throughout spring practice for a center post. Either may be a starter next year. A1 Samuelson is another center candidate. iCoach Oliver gives big Merle j Peters a slight superiority over j other tackle prospects, but re-1 gards Russ Inskeep as a “comer.”: Ellroy Jensen, at the other tackle; berth, is hard-pressed by Jim Stu art and Art Winetrout, both rug ged tackles on the frosh squad last fall. Jim Eacutt showed pos sibilities of developing into a de penable reserve. Lance Outstanding Larry Lance, who broke his shoulder bone last year before the season had ended, is nominated as i the outstanding end on the squad j by Coach Oliver. Reginato has beaten Len Robertson out of the! other wing post. Rod Speetzen and i Don Mabee have been backing up Lance, while Bill Hawke and Norm Conaway are behind the other end. | Coach Oliver rates Duke Han- j kinson and Leonard Isberg as top performers at left half, but ex-! pects the veterans, Graybeal, An derson, and Nicholson to make a hot battle for starting assign ments. Steve Anderson's triple threat abilities may be overshad owed next fall by the two sopho mores-to-be who can pass and kick as well as run. Gebhardt All-Around Ted Gebhardt ranks as the all around backfield man. It is the consensus of the coaching staff that Gebhardt could handle anyj Ducklings Meet Rooks in Third Game of Series Pete Igoe Will Start On Mound; Frosh Travel North Tomorrow at 2:30 on Bell field, j Corvallis, the frosh baseball team tangles with the rooks in the third game of the “little civil war” series. The frosh won the first game of the series 9 to 1. The game was marked by many errors on both sides. The second game was taken 14 to 7. Accoring to John Warren, frosh 1 mentor, tomorrow’s game with the rooks will be the toughest of the season. Pete Igoe, star hurler, will start for the Ducklings with Jim Rath bun catching. “Buzz” Renick, who was injured in the Silverton game, will probably be replaced by “Tini” Smith at the third sack position.; Herb Hamer, slugging first sack er, will play his regular position with Mallory, Shimshak, and Smith making up the rest of the infield. If the boys win the game to morrow they will have the series cinched having won the first two encounters. of the four backfield assignments. Dave Gammon, Bob Smith, and Ron Alpaugh will be held' in re serve next fall at the right half spot behind Gebhardt. For a while it appeared that Denny Donovan’s fight and spark would put him in the first string quarterback position, but Hank Nilsen turned in such consistent performance that he will likely start at blocking back. Chet Ha liski, a vicious blocker and tack ier, and Bill Rach are reserves at quarter. Emmons Injured Up until the time that Frank Emmons was injured, it appeared' a toss-up between he, Paul Rowe, and Marshall Stenstrom. Rowe’s only superiority over Stenstrom was his blocking. 4 Ducks Lose Second Tilt to Huskies, 5-3 Beavers Win Streak Halted by Vandals; Gregory Hurls Six Hitter; Wins 5-2 W L Pet Oregon State .8 2 .800 Washington State .6 3 .667 Oregon . 7 7 .500 Washington .3 7 .300 Idaho .3 8 .272 Oregon’s Webfoots finished up their road trip with an even .500* per cent as they lost their third straight game, this one to Wash ington’s Huskies, 5 to 3. The Ducks went into the lead in the first half of the second inning when they scored two runs, but the Huskies came back and evened the count with two runs in their half of the inning. Bob Creighton, Oregon’s moundsman for the day, was in effective after the second inning when he was hit on the leg by a vicious line drive. The Duckls played errorless ball,, contrasting Wednesday’s game when they committed five miscues. Washington’s two errors were the only ones chalked up in the two' league games. Summary: R H E Oregon .3 7 O Washington .5 10 2 ' Creighton and Mullen; Baker, Sierer and Parker. Oregon State’s Beavers’ winning streak was snapped at eight straight yesterday when Idaho’s Vandals, behind the six-hit pitch ing of Earl Gregory defeated the Corvallis lads, 5 to 2. Arnie Fenger hurled for the Beavers, but the Vandals bunched their nine hits to produce runs in the fourth, sixth, and seventh inn ings, while his mates were only garnering two, when Arland Schwab, second baseman, tripled in the sixth. Summary: R H E OSC .2 6 0 Idaho .5 9 0 Fenger and Orell; Gregory and Price. . . FIVE PLEDGE FEATS Five pledges to fraternities were announced yesterday by the dean of men’s office. They are: Paul Smouse and Samuel L. Stevens III, Phi Sigma Kappa; Mason McQuis ton, Theta Chi; Hugh O. Hoffman, Sigma Phi Epsilon; and James Bennett, Phi Kappa Psi. 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