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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 10, 1939)
DUCK TRACKS ■■■■iiiiniininminiintniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinliiliiniiiiniiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiniinni By ELBERT HAWKINS A big, amiable and easy-man nered Texan is this Tubby Graves who coaches Washington’s base ball team, and he’s not halt as col orful as the northern division's funny man, Buck Bailey. But there’s one thing Tubby goes to bat against, and even swears and gets worked up about. He’s weary of having prospective college base ball players professionalized by big league clubs. Tubby gets so peeved about, it he almost loses his distinct south ern drawl. By actual count, 43 lads (forty three) were lured out of Seattle this spring to play for pin money or enough to almost live on. They signed with such clubs as Seattle, Spokane, and Twin Falls. Those 43 will never play college baseball. Tubby says only about 39 of that group can ever expect to make a decent living out of base ball. He says they might, however, have done something after going through college. He can name you a long string of prospects who signed for only $75 a month, that figure spread out over only four or five months. It’s "an insult," claims Tubby Graves, to even ask a boy to play for that figure although a lot of ’em go pro for such figures to help folks who are down and out. Anyway, the Washington coach works himself into a lather even thinking about it. Said Tubby, “If that’s making ^aoncy, I’m a seven-eylindered preacher.” According to Tubby, approxi mately 13 men arc carried on Western International teams, and their payroll (regulated by the class of league) amounts to around $1600 a month. Such clubs usually have four or five men playing for salaries of around $200. Figure four men collecting half the club's payroll, points out Coach Graves, and you have an idea of how much some of the other play ers are getting paid. Pete Jonas, for instance, signed with Spokane at $250 a month. "Since Freddie Hutchinson went up.” says Tubby, "Seattle high school boys got crazy over signing a contract.” The approximate way it works out is this: One of the prospects comes up to Graves with, "Look, Tubby. I've signed for $200.” "Is that money guaranteed?” "Sure, sure, it's right here in the contract . . . says I'm to get that much.” About two or three weeks later, according to Tubby, the liaseballer who might have played some more ill college comes meekly home with sore arm. "Have you got the mon ey,” fires Coach Graves at him. “No,” says the hoy who the Wash ington coach points out often is dead broke and can’t even use col lege baseball as his meal ticket. * * * Billy Brenner, the Seattle boy who played frosh football for Ore gon last fall, is another who re cently signed the dotted line with Hollywood to play baseball for money. He may be justified though. In the first place, he plans to re turn to school in the off season. Brenner has a bad shoulder ail ment which might result in per manent disability if he stayed with football. His doctor says an opera tion might even make it perma nently stiff. Brenner saw a little action catching for Lewiston but he smacked the ball so long and hard the Stars farmed him up with Bel lingham in the Western Interna tional. The Webfoot is now a first string backstop with the Belling ham club and going strong. * * Vniversity of Oregon’s flasliv in field has tunit'd in II double plays (maybe more) in ifs first eight conference names . . . its average is probably even higher counting pre-season games ... in one stretch of three pre-season tilts the tjninn, Mallory, Mullen, Smith eomhina tion ehulked up seven twin Killings —four in one game aril three in smother . . . Busher Smith's field ing for the first half of the north ern division seasons: Chances, lid. Errors, 0. Did someone sa\ Ore gull’s infield isn't the best in the conference? . . . H may have its sluiky moments Imt we’ll still pick <(uirut, Mallory, Mullen, and Smith as the flashiest, the speediest, and the hardest hitting ipiartet in I lie conference . . . they’re all hatting around .100—or over—and hit No. 1, '£, :t, t on C'oaeli Llobhv Hobson's butting list. Zeiss Cameras, Agfa Filin JUOIfcO.VS ASUO Honors These National Basketball Champions at Today's All-School Assembly JOHN DICK, Forward LADDIE GALE, Forward BOB .WET, Guard HOWARD HOBSON, Coach WALLY JOHANSEN, Guard SLIM WINTERMUTE, Center Awaiting Oregon’s national champions are blankets, presents of the ASUO, inscribed with the deeds of their ail-conquering 1939 basketball campaign. They’ll get their reward from the school today. Bob Creighton Shuts Out Washington, 3 to 0 Righthander Yields Only Three Safe Hits Oregon Team Goes Into First Place Tie With Oregon State and Idaho; Hobson's Club to Leave Soon on Road Trip By ELBERT HAWKINS Oregon’s big righthander from Tiburon, California, Bob Creighton, pitched the Webfoots right into a three-way tie foi first place in the northern division yesterday on Howe field by shutting out Washington, 3 to 0. Burly Bob did it with a flashy three-hit performance, one ol the smoothest pitching jobs the conference has seen this year Eight of Tubby Graves’ Husky batters whiffed before the BOX SCOKK Summary: Washington B R H O A E Spencer, 2 .4 0 1 8 2 1 Dobson, r. 3 0 0 2 0 0 Pripp, 3 . 4 0 1 0 2 1 Ziegenfuss, 1.3 0 0 7 1 0 Pyfer, s . 3 0 115 0 Milliken, m ...... 3 0 0 0 0 0 Peltola, If. 3 0 0 2 0 0 Jorgenson, c .... 3 0 0 4 0 0 Johnson, p 2 0 0 0 2 0 Total . . Oregon Mallory, s Mullen, 2 Smith, 1 . Quinn, 2 Nicholson, ('reightun, Walden, c White, If Shimshak, r 28 0 B K . 4 0 4 1 4 0 4 0 m 2 0 P . 4 1 3 0 3 0 2 1 3 24 12 2 H O A E 12 4 0 3 2 5 0 18 2 0 0 2 10 12 0 0 1 2 1 0 2 8 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total 30 3 0 27 13 0 Washington 000 000 000 0 Oregon 000 021 OOx 3 Huns responsible for, Johnson 2. Struck out, Johnson 4, Creighton 8. Bases on balls, Johnson 2, Creighton 2. Stolen base, Shim shak. 3-basc hit. Mullen, Creighton. Runs batted in, Mullen, Smith. Double play, Mullen to Mallory to Smith 2, Spencer (unassisted). Hit by pitcher by, Johnson 1. Passed ball, Jorgenson 1. Umpire, Spec Burke. Time, 1.36. I_ Freshmen Eye Rook Contest Hank Nilsen Acts as Coach in Absence Of John Warren Hunk Nilsen was in charge of i freshman baseball practice yester day due tn John Warren s absence. I Warren is still in Walla Walla ! where his mother is seriously ill. The Oregon Slate rooks are the next opponents to face the slug ging Duckling nine Led by pitcher (iene Elliot, who has an impressive | hurling record, the rooks present a formidable combination Nilsen | stated that there was a possibility of a warm-up tilt this week with j one of the strong valley nines Bill Musselmann n a r r o w 1 y | missed the pitcher s paradise last ; Friday against Milwaukie a no run, no-hit game. He set the Mi j rooms down without a hit but hi . own error prevented his entering the hall of fame. Musselmann and i Elliot are two of the lies! pitehei ■ ; in the state and if these two lad.. | tangle, a real pitcher., duel will be I m the offmg. Guaranteed I iiiishing DOItUS’S, 1UJ1U oUUF i .slants of Creighton. Chet Johnson, Washington southpaw, was touched for nine hits by Oregon batters but he really made it a tight mound duel by keeping them well scattered. Creighton’s First It was tlie first conference vic tory for Oregon’s ace of last yesr anil just a hard luck pitcher until yesterday, and the fifth Webfoot triumph against three defeats. The Ducks start their annual six games in seven days road trip in Seattle Friday and Saturday afternoons in a tie for the top niche with Oregon State and Idaho. wmy uve Washington batters reached first ba.se against Burly Bob and just one of them got to second. The Webfoot pitcher forced him to second in the sixth inning by walking Rightfielder Dave Dob son after Homer Spencer had singled to center field with one man out. Washington's chance to score then was cut short when Bud Pripp, third baseman, hit into a double play via Ford Mullen to Elmer Mallory to Busher Smith. One I-ate Hit The Huskies touched Creighton for only one single during the last seven innings. That was Spencer's in the sixth. Pripp gut a single in the first inning and Pyfer layed one out in the second only to be wiped out with a fast double play by tlie Mullen to Mallory to Smith combination. Those were the only Washington hits. I he \\ ebfoots beat Washington, lti to 0. Monday which makes it IS innings of shutout ball for Hob by Hobson's club against the Huskies. II or four and a half innings it went with neither team scoring. Up to then the Webfoots had touched Pitcher Johnson for only three scattered singles which failed to push over a run. Mullen Triples in tlio lust of the fifth it hap pened. .lark Sliimshak. loading off, ‘how a hast- on balls Klmer Mill lory then whiffod, but Kuril Mill ion, \\ obfoot soooml baseman, slopped to the plate and smaoked a long lut into left eontei field for a triple to drive Sliimshak in for what proved to be the winning run. Unlo Smith, whose big bat was silenced to a whisper by the Wash ington portsider, then beat out his only hit of the game, a little roller between pitcher and third. Mullen scored Oregon's second and final run of the inning on the play. t'enterfieider Jimmy Nicholson opened Oregon’s half of the sixth inning by rolling out, second to tir.-t. bat Pitcher "I'm a hitter" ‘ reightotl sin.n ked a liner over first base which trickled into the right field stands lor a triple. He -cored when Batter Cove Waldcu Three Clubs Tied Northern Division Standings W L Pet. Oregon . 5 3 .625 Idaho . 5 3 .625 Oregon State . 5 3 .625 Washington State . 3 5 .375 Washington . 2 6 .250 Yesterday’s Game At Oregon, 3, Washington 0. ATOs Head Year’s Donut Point Chase Betas, Phi Delts, Trail; Softball Is Still Unfinished Alpha Tau Omega still leads all year intramural standings with 764 points, up to May 8, Roland Dickie announced yesterday. Betas are right on the heels of the leaders with 750 points to their credit. Phi Delta Theta stands in third place with 717 points. Kappa Sig ma is fourth with 642 and Sigma Alpha Epsilon is fifth with 635 points. The Sigma Delta Psi track carnival last Thursday brought up the totals. Although the Betas won with 338 points, they only garnered 75 in all-year score totals for win ning first place. Soft hull Left Still left on the sports calendar is intramural softball, with 150 points to be given to the winner. The ATOs are among those favored to cop this event also. They lead their league with four straight wins. First ten teams follow: 1. ATOs. 764 2. Betas . 750 3. Phi Delts . 717 4. Kappa Sigs.642 5. SAEs .635 6. Sigma Chi . 634 "• Fijis . 575 8. Phi Kappa Psi . 563 9. Theta Chi .545 10. Pi Kappa Alpha . 542 ATO, Beta, SAE, and Zeta Hall Softball Teams Win Intramural Clashes By HAY FOSTER Zeta hall's softball team came back strong after their defeat last week scored by the league-leading ATOs, when they trouced the for mer champion DUs 7 to 2 in a 4 o'clock game last night. The hall has now won three and lost one game. Joe Amato chucked for Zeta, allowing five hits and two runs in seven innings. Regular pitcher Gene Truby played first so that he could save himself for the twi light league later in the evening. Wally White was nicked for 11 hits as the DU moundsman. Second Baseman Paul Collins was the big gun for the hall, mak ing three hits, including a double, in three trips to the plate. Pitcher Amato had two for two, and Wil lie Torrence two for three. Amato struck out six DU bats men, and walked one. White whiffed three, and walked none. Summary: R H E Zeta hall 000 331 x— 1 11 3 DUs . 002 000 0— 2 5 4 Batteries: J. Amato and S. Whit field; W. White and A. Warren. Umpire, Boroughs. SAEs 15, Omega 3 SAEs won a ball game last night from Omega hall, 15-3, and at that they gave up their final batter in the fifth inning for an easy putout so they could go home. Ten runs had come in and it was 6 o'clock, with only two out. Omega got off to a two-run lead, when they scored in the first on a pair of hits. SAE made one in the second, then got four more in the third. The fifth was a night mare for the hall, ten runs crossed the plate, when they decided to call it quits. Eddie Hearn banged out three hard hits in three times up for the SAEs. Shearer got two for two for the same team, Hockley pitched for SAE, allowing but four hits. (Please turn to puye tnree) CALLING ’EM QUICK liv GEOKtii; I'ASEKO Thanks to the great three-hit pitching exhibition by Burley Bob Creighton, Oregon's smiling veteran from Tiburon, and some heads up play both by the infield and outfield, Oregon’s tossers find them selves in a tie for first place as they prepare to head north for Seattle this weekend. ^ os, the two shutout wins over Washington's Huskies, brought the total ot W'ebfoot triumphs in conference ball this spring to five. The defeat column totals three. This record is matched by both Oregon State and Idaho. Idaho, however, has a rather decided strategic advantage, for the .Husrawiii's navi' compteieu meir roail trip. Kxcept for two games which will be played at Pullman (a jaunt of only nine milost, Coach Forest Twogood'a club is through traveling, and can sit home and knock off the challeng ers one by one as they come into the Inland Kmpire ... at least, the Vandals hope they can. Oregon, on the other hand, must park her wareltibs Thursday, and head for Seattle, where the Ducks meet Washington Friday and Sat urday. From Seattle, the Ducks head for Pullman and Moscow in the heart of the Inland Kmpire. Here they play Monday and Tuos d..' v.’. .j1 . . Tiiuj.da And if Coach Hobby's Ducks mop up on the trip, they may come back to Eugene with a half ; hitch on the northern division title which they haven't won since Bill Sayles fireballed them into the championship two years ago. Incidentally. Mr. Creighton was due fpr a win. One of the leading chukkers in the league last year, the Burly One has been the tough luck kid of the Oregon team this year. Apologies to A1 Linn ... it seems there was no squeeze play on. after all Monday. | By ARNIE MILSTEIN Keeping in line with the Web foot scoring spree in the past two days, two Greek letter organiza tions outscored the varsity nine in the intramural softball play. A grand total of thirty-seven runs dented the home platter in two softball frays. Alpha Tau Omega and Beta Theta Pi were the two victors beating the Canard club and Gamma hall, respectively. ATO 21, Canard 5 Piling up twenty hits and aided with four errors, Alpha Tau Omega garnered 21 runs to down a game opponent, namely the Canard club. The losers drew first blood in the third when they pushed over five tallies, one of which was a home run by Charles Baker. This, how ever, was the only time the de feated could score having enough difficulty in holding a slugging ATO ten. | Things really exploded in the last of the fourth when the hotel men shot nine runs across the plate after pushing one over in the third. The final three innings saw 11 j more runs scored for the ATOs to j bring the total up to 21. Leading the bombardment for the frater nity boys were Stan Buck, with two round-trippers, and Hal Sar kella and Bud Rousseau, each slamming out one. Canard club .. 005 000 0— 5 7 4 A TO . 001 923 6—21 20 1 Baker and Blankinship; Ander son and Swanson. Betas 16, Gammas 0 Led by the one-hit pitching- of Matt Pavaiunas, Beta Theta Pi took Gamma hall into camp to the tune of 16-0. If it weren’t for Har old Chung-Hoon who sent a hot drive down to Beta Evert Mc Neeley at third for the only hit, Matt would have entered the intra j mural hall of fame with a no 1 hitter. i The game turned into a rout in the fourth inning when the Betas banged across twelve scores on three hits. The remaining four runs were scored in the second when one was pushed over and in the fifth when the final three were tallied. Pavaiunas scored the first run in the second on a passed ball, and four straight walks in the fourth sent the second run across. A fly ball, a double by Hal Johnson ar.d {I'leasc turn to page jour) Ho Hum! Another Duck Sets a Record George F. Warner, a gangling freshman, became the ninth Uni versity of Oregon athlete to hold a national record in Sigma Del ta Psi, national athletic honor ary, when he skirted up the 20 foot rope climb in :05.4 seconds Monday before Intramural In structor Russ Cutler. The record was one and one tenth seconds under the former mark made by Fort of Davidson college last year. Warner's mark was no fluke, as he had succes sive times of 06.2, 06.,0 05:7, and finally :05.4. Cutler thinks he may even better this time later in the year. Oregon athletes made six na tional records last year, and two the year before. Only records left are the two held by Springfield college athletes in the high jump and baseball throw, and the one held by three Davidson men in the fence vault. ! Men Of'42 By KEN CHKISTIANSON When a quartet of high school athletes shatter all records for the distance medley for high schools, that is news. And when four sec onds were slashed off the record even when the star miler stopped in the middle of his race, that is more news. Now when three of that four is enrolled in Oregon, that is even more news. Last year in the annual invita tional Hill relay meet Walt Lid strom, Ray Dickson. Willie Nelson, and Ray Kleinfeldt from Bend high school clipped four seconds off the existing world high school record. Lidstrom, star end on the fresh man football team, ran the 220; Dickson, the subject of those lit tle ramblings, ran the 440; Nelson j state half-mile champion for two 1 years, ran his specialty; and Klein feldt, state mile king for three years, finished the relay with the mile. Kleinfeldt stopped his race when he thought he and bystand ers were being ordered off the track. Nelson enrolled at Oregon State Junior Weekend Needs White Coats $495 Can’t Bust ’Em Cords Sophomore Pants “THE MAN S SHOP’’ BYROM&KNEELAND 32 E. I Oth St. Phone. 364 T ryouts Are Billed for Trackmen Coach Hayward Grooms Squad for Conference Meet Final tryouts for positions on the Webfoot cinder team which will ! represent Oregon in the northern division track meet at Pullman Saturday will be held this after noon. Coach Bill Hayward is not limit ing his squad to a certain number and will not know how many men he is taking until he checks the results of this afternoon. Questionable members of the squad are all varsity football play ers who have been “loaned” out by Football Coach Tex Oliver. Col onel Bill Hayward doesn’t know yet whether these men will be used in the all-star game here Saturday or be allowed to compete in track. Frank Emmons and A1 Samuel son, mainstays or Hayward’s weight entries, are the main wor ries. Hayward had also hoped to use Jim Harris, transfer end on Oliver’s squad, who has high jumped over six feet, The traveling squad will be chosen from the following: Jim Buck, Bob Diez, sprinters; Ehle Reber, Bob Keen, Jay Graybeal, broad jumpers; Kirman Storli, Jim Schriver, Frank Van Vliet, Ward Wilson, middle distance men; Bob Mitchell, Don Barker, Galen Mo rey, Phil Gambee, distance men; Lloyd Dod, Harry Weston, Kernie Buhler, hurdlers; Fred Hyde, jave lin; and the aforementioned “ques tionables.” George Varoff, Rod Hansen, and Boyd Brown are cer tain to make the trip to Pullman. and pulled a muscle. He will be in shape for next year. Dickson carried away second meet last year with 13 points, high honors from the state track Schultz of Forest Grove was first. Dickson won the broad jump, placed second in both the 220 low hurdles and in the 120 high sticks. In the low hurdles, both Dickson and the winner were clocked in Ford Mullen, the boy the rest j of the players on the team think is underrated, had his bad days at the plate at the start of the sea (Plcasc turn to page three)