DUCK TRACKS ■BBBDiinniiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiniiniiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniitniiniiiioni By GEORGE PASERO Gridiron toll—.John Berry, Bill Regner, Jim Harris, Hugh Irwin, |loy Dyer, Harold Johnson, Bill Ilawke, Jim Cadenasso, Doug Ca *en. There you have an “Incom plete” list of Tex Oliver’s spring football casualties to date, with several week of intense practice still remaining. ' A goodly share of the hospital list is right now under care of Bob J'john Day” Officer, the popular Webfoot trainer, who is doing (double duties these days since [Colonel Bill Hayward has been forced by ill health to give up his [training room job. Smiling Tex has considered dispensing with gpring drill until his cripples can recover, but he’s knocking along .with the remaining nucleus of a tince 100 per cent neaitny squau. ’ Strange to say, with all these fcripples to weep crocodile tears over, Tex and his coaching cohorts, |Line Coach Vaughn Corley and Backfield Coach Mike Mikulak, are jn an optimistic mood over results pf this spring’s intensive drill. Tex has ignited a “we're going to beat Southern Cal" idea in the Oregon grid camp and, like the proverbial yaccination, it’s beginning to take. Reason for the football opti mism is the performance of some new men and several Ducklings of last fall. Jim Harris and Hymic Harris have been scintillating at the end posts. Until his recent in jury, Freshman Doug Caven in the backfield was catching the eye of the Oregon coaching staff. Other backs drawing comment have been John Barry, Don Mabee, Harold Johnson, Len Isbcrg, Frank Em mons (who ran a 5.7 second 50 yard dash in football togs several weeks ago) ami others. Vaughn Corley, Oregon's new line coach, inherited the same problem his predecessor Big Bill Cole faced when he came to Eu gene just a year ago to serve un der Tex Oliver. Ycssir, the school still needs some behemoth tackles who can toss ’em around in Del Bjork fashion. The former Mexico state line mentor is pleased, however, with the work of a cou ple of his proteges, Jim Stuart and Merle Peters. Oregon’s much - written - about Phi Bet exponent of the “Oliver Twist" is openly asking Eugene’s football public to turn out and watch his Webfeots in action so maybe there’s something after all to this cry that Tex's Duck lim ited No. 2 of 1939 is “going plac es.’’ # «I‘ *1* What moiT could h«; have done? Jerry McDonald, the speedy Kappa Sit; freshman swimmer, set four intramural records during the sea son just finished, and that's the maximum unless lie could have set 11 four-man relay mark atanc. During the season which closed yesterday, he set marks in the 40 yard free style (bettering the coast mark), 40-yard back stroke, 60 yard individual medley, and 40 yard breast stroke. Here’s a list of Swimmer Jerry's records for the season: 40-yd. free style 18.4 seconds. Formerly held by Lloyd Magill at 20 flat. 40-yd. backstroke 23.2 seconds. Formerly held by Lloyd Magill at 25.4. 60-yd. individual medley 35.1. Formerly held by Freeman Sinclair at 39 flat. 40-yd. breast stroke 25.1. For merly held by Robert Dean at 20 flat. Incidentally, Jerry MacDonald's team, the Kappa Slgs, took ad vantage of his super splashing to Annex the donut championship, in eligibility cut him off this year's frosh squad, but he's expected to give the varsity a boost next winter. There is a good reason wh\ t ni verslty of Idaho's lighting has lieteers failed to win more than one game out of Hi starts in north ern division play and it's more than 1 he matter of luck. You see, For rest Twogood's down-trodden lads lud a free throw tossing record gpiBitiK.ib ■ ■ ■ a ■ jp Eugene £ Mattress & Upholstering Company 1122 Olive l’lione 812 Kappa Sigs Annex Intramural Swimming Honors Sigma Chi Team Beaten, 27 to 22 In Final Match _ Jerry MacDonald Aids Victors With Record Swims By PAUL Me€ARTY Winner and new holder of Uni versity of Oregon’s intramural swimming championship is Kappa Sigma, victorious yesterday in the I swimming finals over Sigma Chi by a 27 to 22 score. Led by Jerry MacDonald, one of the University’s top swimmers, Kappa Sigma, trailing 4 to 5 afte placing second and third in the opening 40-yard free style event, won the following backstroke event and took a lead that was never relinquished, although tied at 17-all after Sigma Chi won the 120-yard medley. Steady Winner With a swim in the 40-yard breast stroke of 25.4 seconds to better the former record of 26 sec onds, Jerry MacDonald established a new all-time intramural feat by smashing four records this year in intramural swimming. MacDonald holds new records in the 40-yard free style, in which he broke the coast record, 40-yard backstroke anil breast stroke, and GO-yard in dividual medley. Although the definite winner of the intramural title was not de cided until the last event was fin ished, a Kappa Sig victory loomed inevitable after the second event, the backstroke, which the new ' champions won in an upset, as MacDonald had not yet paddled in any race. Almost assured of two MacDonald victories for Kappa Sig, the "mill race” boys went on to win the title and four out of the six events. Winner Named Swimming for Kappa Sigma were Jerry MacDonald, Johnny Lansing, Howard Jenks, and Ken Stevenson. Sigma Chi’s runner-up squad in cluded Winston Bradshaw, who beat Lansing in the 40-yard free style in the last 10 feet of the race, lamer Hanson, and Art Hannifin. Results of yesterday’s champion ship meet were as follows: Kappa Sigma 27, Sigma Chi 22. 40-yard free style Bradshaw (Sigma Chi) first; Lansing and Jenks (Kappa Sig) second and third. 40-yard backstroke Lansing (Kappa Sigi first; Bradshaw ( Sig ma Chi) second; Stevenson (Kappa Sig) third. 40-yard breast stroke Mac Donald (Kappa Sig) first; Hanson and Hannifin (Sigma Chi) second and third. 120-yard medley Won by Sigma Chi (Hanson, Hannifin, and I Bradshaw). GO-yard individual medley Mac Donald (Kappa Sig) first; Hanni fin ( Sigma Chi) second. 120-yard free style relay Won by Kappa Sigma (MacDonald, Jenks, and Lansing). Budgets Won't Check Rodney, Bill's Vaulter University of Oregon's track budget didn’t include sending Colonel Bill Hayward's team to the University of Washington in door relays in Seattle Saturday, but that failed to check his No. 2 pole vaulter Rodney Hansen. The uark-skinned Wchfoot fi nanced himself, the only Oregon athlete to make the trip, and had o track meet of his own in Seattle. Rod won the event with a leap of IS feet 6 inches, and in doing so lied the pavilion record set by Ed numds of Stanford in 1929. Colo nel Bill’s No. 2 pole vaulter has been consistently hitting around the 13-foot 6-inch mark this season and has been pressing Oregon’< No. 1. George Varoff. that would shame e\eti a high school team. Contrast the nightly practice ree< ids of Coach Hobson s champs throughout the winter which al ways read approximately 10 out of 00 per man, with Idaho's .066 for the season. The Vandals were giv en 219 gift chances and made good only 111 while missing lots. They lost one game in Seattle to Wash ington. 32 to 2k. for instance, by 1 missing exactly 12 out of I t tries A record of 75 per cent is con- j sidcred plenty for the average j hoopmen. but Coach Hobby had his world champs consistently bettef- . I ii'—t „ 9 ' ■* 1 Xv < It I V lit, Warner at San Jose Glen S. (Fop) Warner, one-time coach at Stanford, Temple, Pittsburgh, and Carlisle, is giving grid iron hints at San Jose State. Duck Trackmen Show Talent in Time Trials By DOfJG PARKER Individual stars on Colonel Bill Hayward's small cinder team came through with flying colors in the first big intersquad try-outs held on Hayward field Saturday. Winners of places in the trials will form the nucleus of relay teams which will compete with Oregon State college in the coming relays to be held in Corvallis this Saturday. Oustanding performances were turned in by Kirman Storli, Duck Gammas, Zetas Capture Dorm Softball Games Sherry Ross, Sigma Dropped m Dorm Competition Dorm Softball League Zeta.I 0 1.000 Gamma 3 1 .750 Omega .3 1 .750 Alpha 1 3 .250 Sherry Rosa.1 3 .250 Sigma . 0 4 .000 Games Today Sherry Ross vs. Sigma. Gamma vs. Omega. Games Thursday Zeta vs. Alpha. Gamma hall overpowered Sigma hall last Saturday in a batters’ heaven, 15 to 0. There was no inning in which one team did not score, but the heaviest scoring came in the fourth when Gamma’s hard-hitting team succeeded in filling the bases on three consecutive hits, and Bib Wilson, short field, drove a home run over the left fielder’s head-, Chung-Hoon led' the batting for Gamma with two hits for three times at bat, while Itaffetto led the Sigma hall getting two hits in two times at the plate. Sigma hall Runs 004 110 3 Hits 203 1 to 3 Gamma hall Runs 121 till Hits 130 (ill * Batteries: Moshofsky and Loof fler for Gamma and Ray and Rich ardson for Sigma. 0 10 15 11 AWU I, SMUTiy • Zeta succeeded in defeating the surprisingly powerful team of Sherry Ross last Saturday by a score of 7 to 1. In the first inning Sherry Ross scored four runs off four hits to gain an early lead, but in the sec ond part of the same inning Zeta succeeded in duplicating the score. There was no scoring in the next inning, but in the last part of the third, Zeta drove in three runs off four hits to gain tlie lead. From tln'ii on there was no further scor ing. Credit goes to Pitcher Joe Amu- I to, who last week pitched a shut out game against Omega and in this game succeeded m striking out . K» batters. The leading bitters for Zeta were l.andeen and Stanton, each getting two hits for three times at bit. Sherry Ross Runs 100 000 0 l Hits 400 010 0 -5 Zeta Runs -UKt 000 ■ 71 Hits 304 100 8 Batteries Amato and Dalrym ple for Zeta, and Mnnatowa aud Ptypoa top uni, iwit. middle distance man, who cap tured firsts in the 440 and S80, and Boyd Brown, veteran javelin hind er, who uncorked a 209 foot 5 inch toss. Hansen Wins And in Seattle, Hod Hansen, un attached pole vaulter who is Hay ward's number two pole vaulter, did his best to .make the spring; showing; impressive by winning first place in the speet sponsored by the University of Washington. Hansen reached 13 feef, 6 inches. Storli clipped off the 440 in 51.9 seconds and followed shortly after ward with a 1:59.4 in the 880. Brown's toss was the best he ntis ever done. In the FCAA at Berke ly last spring, he got off a throw (Please turn to puyc tnrcc) Hendricks, Tri Delts Win Softball Games ADPis Lose to Hall By 7-5 Count; Other Battle Is 12 to 4 1-1 endricks hall defeated the ADPis, 7 to 5, yesterday in a close hurling duel whil Tri Delt licked the very shorts off Sigma Kappa, 12 to 4, in the other coed softball battle. Barbara Williams, tossing for Hendricks showed some improve ment over her last game. She (Please turn to fayc three) Netmen Meet Leader Shop This Afternoon Oregon Varsity Plays Portlanders On Home Courts The Oregon varsity tennis team opens its season of competition this afternoon at 3 o’clock against the Leader Tennis shop of Port land. The matches will be played on the University courts. Coach Paul Washke stated yes terday that although he didn't know who would represent the Leader squad, they always brought good men with them. The Webfoot squad will find tough going against the Portland experts, he said. Mr. Washke just recently re turned from San Francisco, where he attended a physical education convention. Team Named The Oregon men who will form the opposition to the Leader at tack will be Les Werschkul, Leon ard Clark, Dick Phillippi, Rex Ap ple g a t e , and Dick Williams. Werschkul, Clark, Phillippi, and Applegate will play in the two doubles matches. Five singles matches will be played. The greatest progress in the bat tle for top positions on the varsity ladder has been made by Dick Williams. Williams started from tenth position and by last Friday was up to seventh. Saturday he challenged John Sherman for fifth position and won, 6-4 and 6-2. Coach Washke drilled his dou bles teams Werschkul and Clark and Applegate and Phillippi—on net play and smashes. Bad news came to both the frosh 8nd varsity netsters yesterday when ineligibility dropped Don Mc Eachern and Bob Potwin from the Duckling squad. Freshman Baseball Club Swamps Eugene, 29 to 8 Tho Oregon frosh oaseball club made it two straight over the Kugeno high Axemen Saturday afternoon defeating them decisively, 29 to S, on Howe field. Paced by Dick Whitman, hard-hitting outfielder, who clouted two home runs, a triple, and two singles, the frosh had little difficulty m disposing of the Axemen. Hill Musselmann, strong armed hurler from Great Falls, Montana, was noi [Hessen in me least io ehnlk up his initial victory. Four Eugene pitchers were thrown into the contest in a vain effort to stop John Warren's heavy hitting crew. Ten Errors Help Ten Eugene errors contributed to their downfall while the Ducklings were also connecting solidly for 19 hits. Twelve Ducklings came up to bat m the first inning in which nine runs were scored. The big lead built up by the fresh proved too much for the Axemen to over come and seemed to dishearten them. Twenty-nine runs in one game constitutes some kind of high scor ing record in flush baseball. This has been the largest score a fresh man team has scored in many a season. A lull slate awaits John War- ! ten's Ducklings this weekend. Kn ! day they will travel to I'ortland in j an attempt to avenge their 7 to o clvfv.wt *- - -Id J *»- — high school. On the following day the frosh will meet the state peni tentiary Greys at Salem. Score: R H E Eugene 200 000 000 — 8 10 10 Frosh 921 039 23 29 19 3 Hathaway, Jones, Elliott. Walk er and Fabion, Robertson: Mussel mann, and Adrian, Zannos. Water Polo Teams Open Season Today All intramural water polo match es scheduled for Monday. April 10, will be held today, with the first match starting at 4 p.m. Four games will be played today and will be run off in the follow ing order: | I’hi Delta Theta vs. Phi Kappa 1 Psi, Delta Tau Delta vs. Zeta hall. Alpha Tau Omega vs. Gamma hall. i •« ! ■ ' 1 • • > 4 > 1 ’ \ t ’ >VP 1 k* ’ • 11 fcl Backfield Talent Discovered in Spring Practice Don Mabee Flashes For Scores in Saturday's Show -- Another p o t e n t i al backfield starter for 1939 stepped out of Coach Tex Oliver’s reserve lists during Saturday’s scrimmage—the fourth of the current spring foot- ( ball practice. His name is Don Mabee, and he i gave a sprinkling of fans a dem-1 onstration of how a star halfback should perform. Shifted to a back-1 field post only this spring, the swivel-hipped, fleet - footed Mc Minnville boy galloped to two touchdowns and set up one more as his side, the “Greens,” downed the “Whites” by a 26 to 7 score, j Mabee Shows Well Last year Mabee’s shifty play at end in the final games of the sea-1 son caused Oliver to wonder if Ma bee’s natural position wasn’t at halfback, a post where he had played in high school. Oliver took a chance, shifted Mabee to right j half, and now the Duck mentor finds himself with three good right halves. Veteran Bob Smith and chunky Johnny Berry are the oth er two. Saturday, Coach Oliver gave his j regulars a vacation, and only scrimmaged his reserves. Out standing performances were turned in by Jim Harris and Dick Horn, transfer ends; Chet Haliski, full back; Willie Reynolds, end; A1 Samuelson, center; and Steve An derson, halfback. W'hites Score First The “Whites” scored first when Ron Alpaugh dashed over from the 10-yard line. Anderson kicked the extra point. A few minutes later A1 Samuel son intercepted a pass and scam pered over 50 yards for the first “Green” touchdown. Frank Boyd kicked the extra point. Right there Mabee took com mand, dashed to one score, and in tercepted a pass and galloped to still a second, after Chet Haliski had also counted one on a four yard buck through the line. Saturday's scrimmage proved costly, however, as both Frank Boyd and Jifn Harris received an kle injuries. Initial Coed Tennis Play is Scheduled Interhouse Teams To End First Round By Friday Night First matches in coed interhouse singles must be played by Friday night, April 14, according to Bev erly Steel. WAA tennis manager. 1 The following girls should get in touch with their opponents and j schedule their game for sometime before Friday dinner. Helen Howard vs. Louise Hodge, Eleanor Sederstrom vs. Anna Wa ha, Amie Thyng vs. Betty Cleator, and Robin Nelson vs. Caroline Kamm. After a match the scores should be phoned to Margaret Van Ma tre at 1307. So that the tourna ment will not drag along and then be interrupted by final exams, Bev erly asked that all the games be played Within the scheduled time or be defaulted. Special courts have been dele gated to the PE department for the coed intramural play; so if reservations will be made for these courts only, the entire tennis set up will move more swiftly and smoothly. Three extra days have been granted the secondary bracket in the interhouse singles. Scores for the following games are not due until Monday night. April 17. Florence Kinney vs. Phyllis Sanders, Pat Wethered vs. Peggy Snow, Doris De Young vs. Betty Plankinton. Mary Moore vs. Har riet Scott, Pat Lynch vs. I. Berg, Mary Louise Shephard vs. Margery Erstad, Angie Adlesich vs. Betty Murray. Marge Churchill vs. Vera* jean Kolstad, Jean Foster vs. Gen evieve Treadgold, Marjorie Islcr vs. Harriet Sarazin. Ann McCrea vs. Janet Morris, Ruth Ketchum vs. Eleanor Nelson, and Beverly Steel vs. Barbara Neu. hour seeded players from last year’s crop of bests will see action again in this year’s tournament, both interhouse and all campus. Will some freshman oi iuexpcri-I Varsity Tossers Lick Pilots, ONS on Road Ford Mullen Becomes Coach While Hobby Hobson Goes on Speaking Tour; Webfoot Club Hits Ball Hard BY GEORGE PASERO Oregon’s varsity tossers came back to the home diamond yester day after winning from Oregon normal and Portland university in a two-game road trip up the Willamette valley to Portland, but some where en route they iost Headman Howard Hobson. Not permanently, however, just for a few days. The Webfoot skipper piloted his boys through their two contests, and then bid goodbye to them with words that may have sounded like this: "Really, fellows, I'm not your coach, I'm just a public speaker. Have a good season, boys. Many Speeches I Since his Webfoot basketball players captured the national title, Coach Hobson has found his lot as \ nation’s No. 1 coach no easy one.' It’s been a continual round of speeches and dinners. But in the next few day's business comes first, then a few more speeches. Three days of “sitting in on” the northern division conference at Portland, an appearance at Asto-1 ria, a few more banquets in Port land, and then Coach Hobson can come back to Eugene Thursday in time to direct his baseballers against Oregon normal Thursday and Willamette university Friday and Saturday. Saturday, the Ducks will play a double-header with the Bearcats. All games will be on Howe field. But in the meantime, Oregon’s Ducks have some intensive “work ing out” to do, so Coach Hobson appointed Captain Ford Mullen, stellar second baseman, as' acting chief of staff. Manager Ford Quiet, soft-spoken Ford wasted no time in his first night at the helm of the Ducks. A long batting practice, followed by a few inn ings with the frosh kept the Web foot throwers and stickers hopping, and it kept Captain Ford hopping too. For he was playing a lot of ball while discharging his “mana gerial” duties. Score of the Oregon normal game was 10 to 8, and final count on the Portland game was 11 to 1. In the Oregon normal contest, Curly A1 Linn, big righthander, was tagged for eight hits and sev en runs in the first inning, but weathered the storm and pitched four-hit ball the rest of the way. A two-run rally in the ninth frame won for the Ducks. Burly Bob Pitcher Coach Hobson started his ace, “Husky Bob” Creighton against the Pilots and the big boy had a picnic out on the mound. He al lowed only one Portland runner to shadows to dump one or all of these aces—Doris De Young, Bev erly Steel, Betty Lou Kurtz, or Jean Foster? All campus singles, for the skilled racketeers, and interhouse doubles are being arranged, Bev erly said, and games will be an nounced this week. Auto Wreck Kills Idaho Basketeer A 200-foot plunge over an em bankment near Grangeville, Idaho, brought death to Brenden Barrett, Idaho’s varsity basketball center for two years, Easter evening as he was on his trip back to Moscow to resume study after the spring vacation. Barrett's home was in Gary, In diana. Two other students riding with him escaped with only minor injuries. Barrett, a senior at the Univer sity of Idaho, became known throughout the coast as one of Idaho’s main cogs in their gallant fighting basketball team of last winter. cross the plate in his seven innings. All told, the Pilots tagged Creigh ton and Igoe, who chucked the final two frames, for only four hits. Cece Walden and Wimpy Quinn, with three hits apiece, were the hitting stars of the normal game. Jim Nicholson, Bush Smith, and “Flivver” Mullen each got two bingles. Smith, whose hitting has feat ured the Duck pre-conference games’, collected three doubles in the Portland tilt. 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