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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 11, 1939)
DUCK TRACKS | ammimuiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiimiiniiiiniminiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiimimniHiin By ELBERT HAWKINS Washington State’s Jaek Friel, a frank and confiding coach if there ever was one, voiced his own theory of “why the basketball rule changes” while in Eugene last W'eekend. He says most of them come from coaches trying to protect the weaknesses of their own teams, coaches who are politicians enough to swing such changes in the rules (a la Pop Warner who managed to do that <or his football teams whil i at Stanford). “I talked to a member of the rules committee about the thirty second rule, and told him what a boon it was to zone defenses," said Coach Friel. That particular rule you’ll remember won’t allow any offensive player in the keyhole for more than three seconds (1939 rules exclude the outer half of the foul circle). Friel maintained that particular rule was engineered by coaches trying to protect their own zone defenses. It might be mentioned that Friel has coached basketball at WSC for 11- years and never de parted from strict use of the man for-man defense. Does he think we’ll get the tip off back—ever? “No!” And the Cougar mentor shares that opinion with Washington’s Coach Hec Ed mundson. Incidentally, the northern divi sion has been a pacemaker for other leagues in one regulation. Just this year it was voted by the national association to make it optional for teams to have the baskets in two or four feet from the end line. The previous rule was two feet . . . and the northern di vision has had it four feet in for around six years! “It gives the players a much bet ter chance,” says Friel, “they used to get shoved out more or were more apt to accidentally step on the end line.” » * » Colonel Bill Hayward, Oregon’s beloved trainer and track coach for one-third of a century, recu perating now from a serious heart attack, can’t keep away from his duties. Almost every day now for several weeks he has been up to the Igloo to see about things . . . and worry about track. xmci uiuimug w ilii ivu o, xxtiy ward he is driving south for a few weeks of rest in sunny Califor nia. “Mrs. Hayward is going to drive,” said Colonel Bill yesterday, “I’m not ready for that yet. We’re going south until we hit the right climate.” Speaking of trips. Says Coach llobson, “If we had lost the sec ond Washington State game be cause the fellows were too tired— which I’m sure they weren’t—the trip could lie. more than justified for Its value to the players and the school. “If favorable publicity is of any value to the University of Oregon, we certainly got plenty of it. Through the medium cf news reels and syndicated stories the team was enabled to get more column . inches in the l’urtland papers for pro-season games than ever be fore.” Incidentally, the team is report ed to have cleared more from that pre-season jaunt to M a d i s o n Square Garden than it netted in some previous complete seasons, j That isn’t, all either. “While it wasn’t our purpose just to see country,” added Hobby, “it cer tainly served as an education for the players and broadened their experience.” Consoling feature of it all is that seven of the traveling squad will be back for one or more seasons. Which Coach Hobby explains means something as they all got the added experience of playing under various types of officiating and against different systems of basketball. Oregon Stale’s Heaver ipiiidei which Oregon faces in Corvallis is the worry right now. \ml Coach llobson says lie’s going to start the lineup that shoos the most in practice tins week whether il he all-coasters, all-northern division, seniors, juniors, or sophomores. “We’re going to play the games one at a time from now on—and Oregon State is next!” That is Coach Hobby’s plan lor the future. Gale, the coast’s high scorer last season, was picked by Stanford's Hank Luisetti as one of the five outstanding players he had op posed in his three years of play. Others were John Ball, UCLA. Chuck Wagner, University of Washington; Shields, Temple, and Mersener, Long Island university. I 667 Per Cent The “Sfepladder Boys” . . . Yes, you guessed it. And exactly two thirds of Hobby's skyscraper combination shown above is back in harness right now preparing for Oregon State’s Beavers. Heading from left to right they are: Dave Silver (r,n the campus but past his college playing days), Laddie Gale, Slim Wintermute, and Coach Howard Hobson himself, Donut Basketball Swings Into Action Today With Three *A’ League Games Intramural basketball will swing into action this afternoon with Alpha Tau Omega, defending champions of both "A” and "B” leagues, taking on Sigma Nu in the first game of a triple-header. Theta Chi tangles witli the Yeomen in the second game, and Omega hall and Sigma Alpha Mu complete the first day’s schedule. Today and Thursday will be devoted entirely to “A” league games. The first "B” league game is scheduled for Friday afternoon between Alpha Tau Omega anil Sigma Al pha Epsilon. Sigma Nil, which lost to Alpha Tau Omega in the play-offs last year, will get its chance to avenge this defeat in the first game this afternoon. Both are expected to have strong teams again this year, ('ailed the “Fizzeds” The physical education club, with Bob Boyd at the reins, has decided to enter a team in this year’s competition. The club has chosen “Fizzeds” as the named for their team. Each athletic manager is ex pected to have a scorer and time keeper at (he games played by his teams, it was said by the intra mural department. Handball will vie with basketball for intramural importance starting January 16. Phi Delta Theta, last year’s champions, meet Delta Up silon in the first match. The basketball schedule for the next three days: Wednesday, January 11: ■1:00 Alpha Tau Omega vs. Sigma. Nu. •1:10 Theta Chi vs. Yeomen. 5:20 Omega hall vs. Sigma Al pha Mu. Thursday: •1:00 Phi Delta Theta vs. Big- ’ ma Phi Epsilon; Phi Gamma Delta vs. Sigma hall. 1:10 Sigma Alpha Epsilon vs. Zeta hall: Beta Theta Pi vs. Kappa Sigma. 5:20 Gamma hall vs. Fizzeds: l’i Kappa Alpha vs. Phi Sigma Kappa. Friday: 1:00 Phi Kappa l’si vs. Canard club; Sigma Chi vs. Alpha hall. 1:10 Delta Upsilon vs. Sherry Boss hall; Alpha Tau Omega "B" I vs. Sigma Phi Epsilon ”B." 5:20 Campbell coop “B" vs. { Delta Upsilon "B"; Chi Psi "B" vs. | Zeta hall "B." Handball schedule for the first week: January 16 -Phi Delta Theta i Delta Upsilon. January 17 Chi Psi vs. K ipps Sigma. January 16 --Sigma Nu vs. tiig. ma Alpha Mu. January 10- Beta Theta Pi v... Phi Sigma Kappa. ,,. ’r ** — Gunnell college has opined a dating bureau. Oregon Boxing, Wrestling Group To Travel East Wisconsin Will Be Goal.of Five or Six Webfoot Battlers Oregon sports teams continue to go afield! Not only the football and basketball squads are ventur ing into the eastern climes, but the boxing and wrestling teams will be sending members. Yes, the little publicized minor sports athletes are going to take a jaunt to Madison, Wisconsin for the intercollegiate national match es on March 30-April 1, according to Herb Colwell, mentor. The trip will be paid for out ol' the boxing wrestling budget. The three outstanding boxers and two or three wrestlers will go to carry the Lemon and Green col ors to battle. They will engage the best leather-pushers and bone crushers in American colleges. Have Mutch Saturday lo get in shape the boxers and wrestlers tangle with the local l-'lk.- club and an aggregation Tom Central \ oi Portland, Saturday evening in McArthur court in a double-header feature. Hob "Smokoy" Whitfield, at 157 pounds, will take on all that1 Wayne Dillingham, Klks AAU champion, has to offer. Dilling ham Ueeisioned Gale Kerris in an earlier fight last year. Whitfield will be out to avenge Kerris' de li at. Kerris, colorful Mitt and Mat! | elub proxy was torced to resign j his post this term. ■Ink fruit, Oregon 175-pounder, I j tackle. Benny Hall's new find, 11 "Slim'' Isnogal, Klks battler. Pale Peterson. 175-pounder, and j t ill Lauuerback. 13,>, are expect- j c l to bear the brunt of the Port- I land attack in the grappling por- j tion of the event. other boxers sure of a spot are { ■ Km Greene, 118; Wayne Towne. I 135, liger fucherson, 158; HU- I Shakeup Threatened In Duck Hoop Camp; Oregon State Eyed Reserves Ford Mullen, Matt Pavalunas, John Dick and Ted Sarpola All See Action on Starting Five in Practice Session; Webfoots Meet Beavers at Corvallis Friday Night By GEORGE PASERO Fast-corning Webfoot reserves may be elevated to the starting lineup for Friday’s “civil-war” basket ball battle with Oregon State’s aspiring Orangemen, Coach Howard Hobson of the Duck cage crew an nounced yesterday. “I’m not interested in whether Saturday’s poor showing was a case of tiredness, senioritis, or all-' coastitis,” Hobby said. “What I am interested in n results. If certain players can’t produce, I’ll have lu i evince uieni wiLii orners wno can, if we can find them.” And with this warning hanging over their heads, Oregon’s Ducks returned to the practice court yes terday after two days of refreshing rest. Drive, drive, drive was the by word of yesterday’s practice as the Oregon mentor put his men through a long session. Reserves Get Chance Four players, burly John Dick, the big boy from The Dalles; Matt Pavalunas, sharp-shoqting guard; Ted Sarpola, the Astoria “whirling dervish”; and Ford Mullen, stocky and speedy guard -were given a chance of cracking the starting five by Coach Hobson. Of these four, Dick seems to have an inside track on a first team berth. The big boy hit his stride on the Ducks’ transconti nental tour and turned in fine per formances against the Cougars. Dick alternates at center and forward, but Coach Hobson may use him chiefly at a forward-berth in case Laddie Gale, Oregon’s scor ing phenomenon of last year, fails to hit his stride and Southpaw Bob Hardy needs relief. Hobby Warns Team Coach Hobson also warned his players of the Orange threat. The Beavers, piloted by an ol<| maestro of the casaba courts, Slats Gill,' are big and tough, and have a habit of making things very hot for a Duck team, especially when the two squads are playing on the Oregon State “cheese-box” court. It will be remembered that the only game last year’s champion ship Webfoot team dropped to the Beavers was played on the OSCi maple. This year, for the first time in years, Oregon State has used a1 man-to-man style of defense on , occasions and abandoned her fam- i ous zope. Such a shift cost the - Beavers their opener with Wash ington State college, but never- , theless it still constitutes a puzzle! for Coacli Hobson to worry out. Following the Oregon State game Friday night, the Webfoots will return to Eugene and embark on a journey to the Inland Em- j pire where they will meet Wash- j ington State's Cougars in a very crucial series next Tuesday and Wednesday nights at Pullman, j From Pullman, the Ducks travel tlie nine miles to Moscow. Idaho, to engage the Vandals Friday and i Saturday nights. win Harding, 115; and Cam Col lier, 110. Other wrestlers include Jim Mountain, 130; A1 Long, 138; Burt Lake, 112; and Mort Myers, 100. Case School of Applied Science has a new luO,000-volt »radio graphic machine for the detection of flaws in metals. More than 60.000 students in 3S U. S. colleges and universities are members of the Independent Men’s association. .arai^aarhnnnnnnnnnnni Colonel Bill Hayward Meets Track Turnout Over 50 veteran varsity trackmen, frosh and prospectives, respond ed to Coach Bill Hayward's initial track call of the 1939 season yes terday. The meeting was called by Hayward for three purposes: to start spring track, to meet with his team before leaving for a vacation in California, and to install George Stovel, ex-College of Idaho track mentor, as assistant coach in chargre of the Duck team until Hav Donut Sports Program Shows Large Increase 1112 Men Take Part In 1937-38 Show; 17 Per Cent More Intramural sports attracted 1,112 participants during the 1937 38 season. This was an increase of 161 or 17 per cent over the preced ing year: Prospects for this year point for an even larger participation than the 54 per cent of the men students who took part last year. Softball had the highest number >f participants with 432, next came 'B” basketball with 280, and fol owing closely in third place was ‘B” volleyball with 273. Cross country had the fewest number of intrants, 65. Ping pong with 94 led the all :ampus sports while archery with >nly 7 entrants was at the bottom >f the list. The following list shows the par .icipation in both intramural and ill-campus sports for 1937-38. Softball . 432 Basketball “B” .280 Volleyball "B’' . 273 Volleyball “A" . 261 Tennis . 237 Basketball “A” .214 Sigma Delta Psi . 161 Handball . 154 Water polo . 153 Swimming. 138 Golf . 137 Ping pong . 94 GWrestling . 91 j Cross-country. 65 ! Badminton . 29 Archery . 7 Four Oregon players are playing their fourth season together this ( ,vinter. They are Laddie Gale, Slim 1 Wintermute, Wally Johansen and Sob Anet. In their three seasons of play Oregon has won 73 games ind lost only 18. As freshmen they won 24. lost one: as sophomores they won 22, lost nine, and last ■season won 25, lost eight. EHSCS EJEJ CHJCy tHJ DU CHJ! Neglected. Shoes make a person look shabby. Our speedy, expert re pairs are inexpen sive — keep you smart! Campus Shoe Shop 3 . Across from Siirma Chi ward’s return. But before its end, Hayward's Duck veterans turned the meeting into an informal “so-long” sendoff for the Duck mentor who leaves at 9 o’clock tomorrow for Oakland, Santa Barbara, and way points south. Track prospects took a turn for the better at the beginning of the term with the return to school of Captain George Varoff, Oregon’s globe-trotting pole-vaulter. Varoff, the lanky San Francisco Russian, and six vaulting poles reached the University at nearly the same time, and both may have a distinct bearing on Oregon’s track fortunes this year. Other members of last year’s1 dual-meet champions of the north west who are back this year are j Kirman Storli, brilliant half-miler; ! Don Barker, veteran two-miler; ! Boyd Brown, javelin thrower; Jim Schriver, half-miler; Jimmy Buck, j Mack Robinson’s protege and a 9.6-second sprintman; Bob Mit-! chell, junior miler; Hal Weston, hurdler; Ken Shipley, high jumper. All of Oregon’s eight defeats j during the past season came on! long road trips. The Webfoots won 24 home games. Their longest win ning streak was 14 at the start of the season. Varoff Returns Day School Night Classes 1 EUGENE 1 BUSINESS I COLLEGE 1 - Ask about it 1 Phone (i(i(j Miner Bldg. ! ii!!ni Mill L •£«&!!»' For infor»T»at;on o* to tores ond other detoiis inquire of vour tocol oge^t. UNION PACIFIC Considering Tex Oliver . . Oregon's smiling football mentor, who introduced the “Oliver Twist” to Eugeneans last * fall, ponders an offer to re turn to the University of Arizona as head footfall coach . . . while University friends and students await anxiously and hopefully his decision to stay here. Super-Varsitq, Frosh Swimmers Tangle Saturday Freshmen Undergo Time Trials Today To Settle Squad While speeding preparations for the oncoming season, Oregon’s super-varsity swimmers will take time out to meet the frosh in an intersquad meet Saturday after noon, January 21, Ned Johns, swimming coach, announced yes terday. It will be the second inter-squad encounter. The frosh fell victim to the faster varsity in the first meet. Led by a record - smashing duo composed of Jack Dallas and Sher-. man Wetmore, the streamlined Ducks are headed to a big season, their first match being here with Washington State January 28. It will be the survival of the fit test tonight at 6 o’clock when Coaches Johns and Jim Reed hold time trials for the freshmen. Those who are unable to make a required speed will be cut from the squad, Mr. Johns said. Four or five men will probably be cut. Five freshmen who have devel --—~~~ • " Freshman Team Bolstered by New Recruits Honest John Sends Squad Through Stiff Practice Sessions Back to intense practice after their double win over Commerce high school of Portland, John War ren’s freshman basketball squad went through fundamental drills and shooting last night in prepara tion for their encounter with the Astoria town team this Saturday at Astoria. Warrert’s squad was bolstered this week with the return of Hal Sarkela, former Roosevelt high school star of Portland. Sarkela is a good floor worker and is ex pected to help the squad a great deal. Another addition to the team is Alvin Stitt, brother of Oregon State's Don Stitt, who is out for practice. Stitt not only plays bas ketball, but is an accomplished frack man having as his specialty the broadjump. Play Astoria Townies Honest John’s crew leaves Sat urday morning for Astoria where they will encounter the always tough Astoria town team, which the famous All-American Wally Palmberg played for last year. At the present, Warren is try ing to get a game in Portland on If his way north, but as yet, none has been arranged. Those expected to make the trip are: Les Thompson, Elliott Wilson, centers; Leonard Gard, Burke Austin, Ross Kilborn, forwards; Doug Caven, Don Galbreaith, Dick Whitman, guards. Reserves who may makfe the trip are: Pat Smith, Bob Deverall, Gene Brqwn, Laver en Van Marter, Bob Hayes, and Jack Winslow. The “little civil war’’ hoop se ries will start January 20, at Mc Arthur court. It will be the first of a four-game series which will finally end cn February 25 at Cor vallis. oped into promising swimmers are Jerry Macdonald, sprints; Gerald Heustis, backstroke; Bob Range, diver; Dick Smith, distance; and Bob McAuliffe, breaststroke. WE STILL PAY MOST FOR OLD GOLD BRISTOW’S 620 WILLAMETTE phone . the ^0TtuS" sev , tpat «**£*****• v.cea^-t ave £ \ both oi „,u the t°l \ portal % vapahy ^ sea*°n %vvn pa> — ^investigate the voU to lU way ^eve V RL'IU NEW SERVICE LAUNDRY