Baseball Time Here;
UO Turnout Today
It’s baseball time again.
The old familiar crack of hickory meeting horsehide, the thud of
ball into glove, the continual chant of the shortstop or fiery catcher,
the loud and raucous “Play ball,” they're all with us. For today, Ore- :
gon’s 1939 diamond hopefuls begin their own “spring training.”
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breadth of the old USA, the base
ball fever has been, smouldering,
and growing in spite of the fact
that basketball, hockey, et al, have
kept the spotlight.
Hits Oregon Now
And now it grips Oregon and
the other northern division col
leges as spring term gets under
way.
The order has gone out for all
Webfoot aspirants to report to
Bill Cole, football line coach, at 3
o'clock today. Cole, who has had
considerable experience with base
ball in California, will pinch hit for
Coach Howard Hobson while the
Duck coach is guiding his basket
ball team along the national title
trail.
Frosh heavers and stickers are
also to turn out. They are to report
to the headman of frosh athletics,
Honest John Warren, at the same
time.
Ten lettermen will form the nu
cleus for this year's contender, but
only seven will be on hand for
opening workouts. The seven are:
Bob Creighton, pitcher; GalC|
(Busher) Smith, first baseman;
Wellington (Wimpy) Quinn, third
baseman; and Jimmy Nicholson,
Bob Smith, Tommy Cox, and John
Yerby, outfielders.
Regulars Back
The Other three lettermen—
Pitcher Bob Hardy, Infielder Ford
Mullen, and Infielder Matt Pava
lunas—are members of the bas
ketball team and will join the
squad next week.
Oregon’s chances of regaining
the northern division crown were
hit earlier this spring when two
lettermen quit college for the pro
fessional ranks. John Linde, south
paw moundsman, signed with Se
attle of the Pacific coast league,
and Jack Gordon, brother of the
Yankee’s Joe, penned a Wenatchee
(Western International league)
contract.
Prize prospect up from last
year’s frosh squad is Elmer Mal
lory. The diminutive shortstop is
expected to step into Jack Gor
don's shoes.
Jack Jaspar, big southpaw from
the San Francisco bay region, is I
counted on to plug the gap in the I
pitching department left by the
“signing" of Linde.
Reserves with a good chance of;
copping first string berths are
Mike Kelly, catcher; Cece WaldenJ
■catcher; Lloyd Beggs, infieilder. ;
Sophomore “rookies” who will be
on hand are Jack Shimshak, in- ■
fielder; Jim Rathbun, catcher;
Herb Hamer, first baseman; and i
Tini Smith, infielder.
Washke Speaks on
Crime Prevention
“Organized Recreation and the
Prevention of Crime” was the title
of a speech presented by Paul R.
Washke, professor of physical edu
cation, before^ the recreation sec
tion of the Oregon Commonwealth
convention held on the Oregon [
campus last week.
Professor Washke stressed the
need for supervised recreation as a
method of crime prevention. He
insisted that it is necessary to
have a more complete recreation
program due to the increase in
leisure time caused by modern in
dustrial methods.
Operators of the Oregon State
college telephone exchange say
“number please” on an average of
2,045 times a day from 8 a.m. to
6 p.m.
Congratulations
to a winning team and
Welcome to returning students
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Oregon’s basketball champions of the northern division and the coast
conference may not have an official No. 1 follower but Paul Jackson,
student of last year, probably worked hardest of any to get a peek at
the Webfoots last week against California. He traveled by bicycle the
BOO miles from Oakland, California, in eight days to watch Oregon
defeat the Golden Bears. The return trip? That by bicycle, too!.
Oregon Mermen
Defeat Staters
[n Twin Affair
Varsity Avenges
Previous Defeat;
Fresh Gain Tie
University of Oregon’s varsity
and frosh swimming teams re
leased some pent up fury in the
form of an amazing upset March
4 in the campus pool against the
Oregon State college mermen. Ned
Johns’ varsity Webfoots avenged a
previous 33 to 37 defeat with a
startling 54 to 21 rout of Jack
Hewitt’s Orangemen.
Oregon’s frosh paddlers emulat
ed their bigger brothers by tieing
^t 37 to 37 with an Oregon State
yearling team that had previously
easily defeated them in Corvallis,
In its flashy upset of the statei
varsity, the Oregon team won six
and tied another out of nine events.
Two tank marks and a coast rec
ord fell before the happy-go-lucky
Lemon-Yellow mermen. Sherman
Wetmore, speedy sophomore from
Long Beach, California, paced the
Webfoots with firsts in the back
stroke, and the 440-yard free-style,
Jack Dallas, Oregon’s othei
Long Beach sophomore sensation,
bettered the coast record in the
200-yard breast stroke for the
fourth time this year with a 2:27.3
race. The previous mark was
2:36.7.
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Don't Worry
There was never any doubt about
the outcome of the playoffs. Not
in Mr. Arthur Johansen’s mind, at
any rate.
Why? Because Mr. Charles Anet
was on hand. And Mr. Anet never
has seen Oregon lose a game. In
the past, whenever Anet Sr. has
come to see son Bobby, captain
of the Oregon coast champions,
play, Oregon has won.
Mr. Johansen Sr., father of Wal
ly, places much stock in this “near
tradition.” Talking to Coach Hob
by and Mrs. Hobby, and Mr. and
Mrs. Anet, after the final game
and the crowning .ceremonies were
over, he laughed and said, “I
wasn’t even skeptical.”
He’s Proud, Too
Mr. Charles Anet is proud of
his record, too. “I didn’t see War
ren's frosh lose when Bobby played
football, either. I came down for
j one game, and they won tljat one.”
| “Hmm,” said Coach Hobson, “I
| think we’d better take both Mr.
and Mrs. Anet along with us to
Frisco.”
But Charles Anet, who incident
ally saw only two Oregon foot
ball games last fall, two which
Oregon won, the UCLA and the
Idaho tilts, was thinking more of
the game than his record.
No Foolin’
“Boy, talk about a ball player,”
he said. "Did you see John Dick to
night?”
“And Wintermute, too,” chimed
in Arthur Johansen. “What a ball
club.”
But the big laugh came at men
tion of Wally Jo’s howitzer shot
which hit the basket, bounced high
into the air, and then dropped
through the hoop.
Said Wally, in the dressing
' room after the game. “That
t proves I’ve been living right.”
Said Johansen Sr., who has that
same geniality as son Wally, “Boy,
it had horseshoes, all right."
During the past season, the
Duck hoopers have spent the regu
lar vacations playing ball, so Mr.
Anet was anxious to talk to Bob.
"I see very little of him,” he ex
plained.
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Ducks Pack ’em in
For 1938-39 Season
Team Plays Before Top Crowd of
16,300 at Madison Square Garden;
Basketball Popular in Northwest
Spent fans are still sport fans—they love to see a winner.
Oregon’s Duck hoop five, as the University's athletic manage’’,
Anse Cornell, can well testify, stands as a classic monument to this
old sports adage.
Champions of the north, champions of the coast, and prospective
all-west and national titlists of 1939 casaba play, the tall fir Oregon’s
have “packed ’em in’’ all year. And as the fans flocked to see these
great Webfoot cagers perform, the
Oregon basketball coffers have
been rapidly filling, and the old
"mortgage” on the Igloo has been
falling away.
Seek New Conquests
In addition to playing a full
northern division schedule and tak
ing part in the two coast playoff
games, the Ducks have barn
stormed across the continent to
New York City and back, stopping
in. nine different cities for tilts.
Each time they were received by
“fair-to-middlin' ” crowds.
All in all, Coach Howard Hob
son’s Webfoots have played before
better than 140,000 fans this sea
son, and will cavort before thous
ands more at Treasure Island, San
Francisco, tonight and tomorrow
nights. If they win at the fair,
they will hit the trail for Evans
ton, Illinois, for a playoff with the
eastern champion for the national
title.
They Cheer and Hoot
With the completion of the cur
rent court season, four Oregon
seniors—Laddie Gale, Slim Winter
mute, Wally Johansen, and Bobby
Anet—will have played before an
estimated 350,000 people (and that
is a conservative estimate).
Imagine 350,000 pairs of eyes
watching every move you make,
picking out faults, noticing the
way you part your hair, and the
mole on your shoulder. Imagine
350,000 voices hooting and cheer
ing you, calling you by name, and
you have a conception of what
Gale, Wintermute, Anet, and Jo
hansen have gone through in the
past three years. What price a bas
ketball player’s glory?
Biggest Crowd
The largest crowd the Ducks
have played before gathered in
spacious Madison Square Garden
to see the Ducks meet City College
of New York, and Northwestern
tangle with St. Johns. Official
count was 16,300.
At Chicago, the Webfoots were
greeted by the smallest turnout of
their cross-country tour. Only 1000
were on hand to watch the Ducks
whip the Western Illinois Teach
ers’ college.
The turnstiles clicked slowly at
San Francisco also when Oregon
played Stanford, only 2000 attend
ing.
Sport Is Popular
While not nearly as populated as
some of the eastern sectors, the
Pacific northwest is fast becoming
one of the “hotbeds” of the cage
sport. Crowds at the Oregon games
throughout the circuit have ranged
from 2500 (Idaho at Eugene) to
10,000 (Oregon at Seattle).
At Seattle, in the first game of
the “championship” Washington
series, 10,000 jammed the pavilion
and about 2000 more casaba fol
lowers milled around outside the
gates, unable to obtain entrance
as the sold out sign went up early
in the evening.
The Ducks, so far this season,
have appeared in 14 cities. They
have played before sell-out houses
16 times, counting houses of 6,000
at Eugene capacity. Crowds of
6500 attended the coast title series
of last weekend at Eugene.
Opponent
Portland university .........
Multnomah club .
Signal Oil (Portland) ....
Pacific Packards (Port.)
City College of New York
St. Josephs .
Miami university .
Canisius college.
Wayne university .
Bradley Tech .
Western 111. Teach. Col.
Drake university.
Stanford .
Washington State.
Washington State.
Oregon State .
Washington State.
Washington State.
Idaho .
Idaho .
Oregon State .
Washington .
Washington .
Idaho .
Idaho .
Oregon State .
Oregon State .
Washington .
Washington .
California .
California .
Attendance
. 2000
. 1600
. 1500
1100 (sellout)
Where played
Eugene .
Eugene .
Eugene .
Portland .
Madison Square Garden, N. Y. C.16,300
Convention hall, Philadelphia . 5400
Cleveland, Ohio . 4500
Buffalo, New York . 4000
Detroit, Michigan . 4500 (capacity)
Peoria, Illinois . 5000 (capacity)
Chicago, Illinois . iq00
Des Moines, Iowa. 4500 (capacity)
San Francisco.,. 2000
EuSene . 4000
EuSene . 4500
Corvallis .
Pullman.
Pullman .
Moscow .
Moscow .
Eugene .
Eugene .
Eugene .
Eugene .
. 4000 (capacity)
. 5000 (capacity)
. 5000 (capacity)
. 3500 (capacity)
. 3500 (capacity)
.. 5500
. 6000 (capacity)
. 6300 (capacity)
. 3500
Eugene . 2500
Corvallis . 4000 (capacity)
Eugene. 6000 (capacity)
Seattle .10,000 (capacity)
Seattle . 6000
Eugene . 6,500 (capacity)
Eugene . 6,500 (capacity)
Webfoots Slate
(Continued fron. paqe two)
Varsity Baseball
April 21—Oregon State at Cor
vallis.
April 22—Oregon State at Eu
gene.
April 28—Idaho at Eugene.
April 29—Idaho at Eugene.
May 1 — Washington State at
Eugene.
May 2 — Washington State at
Eugene.
May 8—Washington at Eugene.
May 9—Washington at Eugene.
May 12—Washington at Seattle.
May 13—Washington at Seattle.
May 15—Idaho at Moscow.
May 15—Idaho at Moscow.
May 17 — Washington State at
Pullman.
May 18 — Washington State at
Pullman.
May 26—Oregon State at Eu
gene.
May 27—Oregon State at Cor
vallis.
When recording brain waves for
study, University of Southern
California’s Dr. L. E. Travis am
plifies them 300,000 times.
Congratulations
to the
PACIFIC COAST CHAMPIONS
Let’s make it three Championships
this week.
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fornia, Sherman Wetmore (left) and Jack Dallas aided in the astound •
i'ng conquest of Oregon State earlier this month.
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