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By GEORGE PASERO
Co-Sports Editor
Oregon Daily Emerald
This Ford Mullen is no ordinary
guy. Not by a long way. He has a
personality all his own.
A star second baseman on last
year's Oregon northwest cham
pionship baseball team and now a
fine big league prospect in the De
troit Tiger farm chain, Ford is not
what you could call a truly color
ful player. Rather, he's steady,
heady, and brilliant in the Charley
Gehringer style. A ball player you
can depend on when the going is
the toughest.
What’s more he's so modest that
if he were to swat 50 home runs
he'd tell you all the pitchers in
the league had broken pay arms.
He loves to talk about baseball,
but always he’ll talk of and laud
other ball players, with only one
or two words about himself. And
yet, if you were to ask any of
Ford's baseball contemporaries
about him, they'd tell you that
Ford is a boy who will go a long
way in the professional game.
Teammates always hold Ford in
the deepest respect, and this, in
itself, is a fine tribute.
One of Hobby's Boys
One of Coach Hobson’s favorite
proteges (and Coach Hobson has
sent quite a few boys to the pro
ranks), Mullen is one ball player
who is, as he will tell you himself,
“nuts” about everything in base
ball.
He loves to play the game, and
the more games he plays the bet
ter.
Last year Ford was a regular
on the Jacksonville club of the
East Texas league, hitting at a
.320 clip in about £00 trips with
the hickory.
This fall he is back at Oregon
completing h i s undergraduate
work. He will have earned his de
gree in PE at the end of this term,
but he intends taking graduate
work winter term before shoving
off for spring training in Texas.
At present he is helping Coach
Ray Hendrickson, coach at Uni
high.
Mullen came to Oregon after
starring in three sports football,
baseball, and basketball at Olym
pia. Washington, high school. Sure
he played football. And, what's
more, he was an all-southwest
Washington all-star choice.
First Love—Baseball
At Oregon he gave up football
and concentrated on basketball
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and baseball. In basketball, he
was fated to be a reserve only be
cause such boys as Wally Johan
sen and Bobby Anet were on the
team. Nevertheless, he played a
prominent role in the rise of the
Webfoots to national champion
ship glory.
Held out of competition his
sophomore year, Ford had one
more year of basketball left, but
he gave it up to start on his base
ball career. (How Hobby Hobsori
could use him now as a running
mate for Pavalunas!)
Baseball, however, was always
Ford's first love. He was a fine
semi-pro star, and at Oregon in
his sophomore year, he was chos
en all conference third baseman.
Always a willing boy, he be
came a catcher in his second year
1 in order to bolster a weak posi
tion on the 1938 Oregon varsity.
He never did quite take to the
backstopping duties, however, in
spite of the fact that he filled in
capably, and last year he jumped
at the chance to move out to the
infield, to second base, his favor
ite post.
Busher There, Too
Incidentally, that’s the position
he is playing in the professional
game.
Also on the Jacksonville club,
as regular first base sacker, was
Gale (Busher) Smith, first base
man of last year's Oregon team.
He also hit around .320 in his first
season.
Ford, Smith, and Bob (Ollie)
Hardy, pitcher, all signed with De
troit last spring at the close of
their collegiate (liamond careers.
Hardy was given $1,000 for sign
ing, and Smith and Mullen $750
each.
Hardy was immediately shipped
off to Beamont of the Texas
league, a class A circuit, Smith
was sent to Lake Charles in Lou
isiana, and Mullen to Alexandria,
also in the Huey Long state.
Both Lake Charles and Alexan
dria already were ‘‘set,’’ so Smith
and Mullen caught a train to
Jacksonville.
Here, both boys clicked from the
first, and their next year’s orders
are to report to Beaumont along
with Hardy. At Beaumont, they’ll
have a real chance to show, and
■ if they stick, the road to the big
leagues won't be quite so hard to
locate. To Ford, it's just “swell”
that all three will be back togeth
er again, their careers overlap
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Oh! Oh! Free for All
According to Ford, Kushcr
Smith was one of the most popu
lar hoys in the league, his antics
gaining favor with the fans.
“Once,” reports Ford, “liush hit a
home run, rounded second, and
raised his hands over his head in
the prize fighter manner. The fans
got quite a kick out of the ges
ture.”
Ford, too, recalls a free-for-all
in which his club tangled with Ty
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Anet Opposes Hobson
On Court Tomorrow
Webfoot Varsity Makes Last Home
Stand Against Rubensteins Before
Eastern Invasion With 14 Men
By HEX CHRISTIANSON
Oregon students and Eugene'
townspeople will have their last
chance to see Oregon's national
defending basketball titlists to-1
morrow night before they leave on
the eastern trip Thursday at 9:10
p.m. Old teammates will vie.
Webfoot varsity will be pitted
against ex-Duck with no baskets
barred. Bob Anet, all-American
guard, will lead his Rubenstein
Oregonians against Coach Hobby
Hobson’s 1939-40 repeater pros
pects Thursday night.
After the Rube-Oregon game
which starts at 7:15 the 11 fa
vored players, Lloyd Robbins, stu
dent manager. Bob Officer, train
er, and Hobson board the Southern
Pacific Cascade for New Orleans.
Anet’s gang is composed of
Laddie Gale, all-American, Wally
Johansen, all-coast, Dave Silver, 1
all-coast, and Ford Danner, ex-j
freshman star, all of Oregon. Jack
Butterworth, clever center from
George Washington university,
Dick and Gordon Wright complete
the Anet lineup.
John Dick, all-Western NCAA;
forward, is the big gun of Hob- j
son's boys. Ted Sarpola will prob
ably start at the other forward
post. With Archie Marshik out of
the lineup for a week Hank An
derson will probably open at the
pivot spot. Both are six foot seven
boys. Marshik had his tonsils re
moved. Matt Pavalunas and Vic
Townsend will probably open at
guards.
After the game, a rally will
form and students will trek to the
S. P. depot. The train pulls out at
9:10 p.m. Tentative workouts arc
set for Glendale, California; El
Paso, Texas; and Houston, Texas.
Oregon plays New Orleans Gay
lords. southern AAU champions,!
December 12. On December 16,
Oregon opens the basketball sea
son in Madison Square Garden in :
New York against Long Island
university's Blackbirds. NYU won
the New York sportswriters' tour- j
ney last year.
Temple is the next opponent for
the high-flying Ducks in Philadel
phia on December 18. The next day
Hobson’s players meet the Univer
sity of Baltimore in Baltimore. On
December 21 Oregon plays Wayne,
in Detroit.
Purdue is the other team on the
floor in Lafayette, Indiana on De
cember 23. December 25 finds Ore
gon vs. De Paul at the Chicago
coliseum. Oregon plays Western
Illinois State Teachers in Macomb,
Illinois, the next day. Augustana
draws the slip against the Web
foots on December 27 in Rock Is
land, Illinois.
Oregon continues their feudal
relations with Anet’s gang in Port
ler, a rival. “Black eyes were nu
merous,’' says Ford.
The East Texas league, accord
ing to Mullen, still used the dead
ball, and as a result, only 21 home
] runs were hit by the league lcad
I er in that department. This is one
' less than Wimpy Quinn hit at Van
| couver, where the lively ball is
used.
The East Texas league, incident
ally, is about as fast as the West
ern International, says Ford.
Last year Hardy, Mullen, and
Smith all played for tail end clubs.
Next year they hope to bring
I Beaumont, ace Tiger farm, out of
the depths of the second division.
Wouldn't the Oregon fans like to
lane! December 30 in the Jefferson
high school gymnasium. And so
they come to Eugene for another
game with the Rubes on January
4.
The fourteen making the trip
are—Coach Hobson, Officer, Rob
bins, Dick, Sarpola, Marshik, An
derson, Pavalunas, Townsend,
George Andrews, Toivo Piippo,
Evert McNeeley, Bill Borcher, and
Paul Jackson.
BOXERS AND WRESTLERS
Mitt and Mat club meets to
night at 7:30 in the new mens'
gymnasium, Eric Waldorf, var
sity wrestling coach, announced.
All old members and others in
terested in either boxing or
wrestling are asked to come.
Susan Campbell hall volleyed to
a sweeping victory over Delta
Gamma in the semi-final intra
mural volleyball championship yes
terday with a score of 45 to 12.
The fair coeds started out with
a bang as the Susan Campbellites
placed the score at 24 to 6 in the
first half. The DGs tried hard to
overcome their opponents, but it
just wasn't in the cards.
Today's winners will play the
winning team between Kappa and
Orides at a later date.
Varsity Aquaducks Meet
Frosh Stars Saturday;
Dallas, Wetmore Listed
By HAY FOSTER
Swimming enters the public eye early this year, as Coach Russ
Cutler announces an interclass aquatic meet between the varsity and
freshman Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock in the men’s pool.
The friendly fracas will give the school's water fans the first
chance this fall to see such stars as Jack Dallas, breaststroke artist;
Sherm Wetmore, backstroke record holder; Jerry McDonald, the ex
frosh flash; and others in action against the best the freshmen have
to oner, it will oe tree to an.
Cutler ways that the entire squad !
looks good for so early in the sea
son. He picks out Dallas, Wet
more, and McDonald, Jerry Hues
tis, and Ralph Lafferty, back;
stroke; Dick Smith, free style; and
Diver Ralph Gaffney as the stand
outs in the varsity so far this fall.
Records Not Printed
For the freshmen, Albert Allen,
free style splasher; Warren Finke,
backstroke, the younger Huestis,
Ralph, breaststroke; and Earl
Walrath, a promising frosh diver.
Then J3en McCarty, free style
swimmer who performed so well
in the early fall, but left because
of illness, will bolster the first
year men next term.
Both Dallas and Wetmore offi
cially broke the Pacific coast rec
ord in their respective events, but
the results are not listed in the'
record book because of a failure
on the part of the western repre
sentative of the intercollegiate as
sociation to send in the records in
time for printing.
Dallas’ record made' last year, is
2:26.6 in the 220-yard breast
stroke, and Wetmore cracked the
backstroke mark by setting a new
one of 1:39.8 for 150 yards. Cutler
expects both to improve these
marks this season with constant
improvement.
No Times Taken
No times have been taken so
far this fall, but the results of the
meet Saturday will be watched
with great interest to those who
have seen such swimmers as Jerry
McDonald, who broke almost ev
ery kind of pool record last year
while ineligible as a freshman.
And the distant ace, Dick Smith,
up from the frosh, will bear watch
ing.
The regular swimming events,
from the 300 medley to the 440
team relay will be included Satur
day. Also on tap arc the 40 free
style, fancy diving, 100 back
stroke, and 440 free style.
see them do it! You bet!
Mullen will tell anyone ho
Lhings Smith and Hardy arc good
enough to play in the coast league,
And as for himself, he just laughs
Even blushes a bit. For he's a re
markable fellow, in more way;
than one.
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Fifty Win
in Donut
Wrestling
The intramural wrestling tour
nament continued its fast pace
yesterday as fifty more matches
were completed in four divisions.
Out of a total of fifty winners,
37 won by falls, 3 by decision and
10 won when their opponents de
faulted. Eleven grapplcrs ad
vanced into the second round by
drawing byes.
t Jim Stearns, Gamma hall, win
ner of the 135-pound crown last
year, got off to a good start in
this year’s title chase by throw
ing Bob Merryman, Sigma Nu, in
2:41 seconds with a body press.
Grctybeal, Stuart
On UP All-Coast
Jackrabbit Jay Gray Deal, half
back. and Big Jim Stuart, tackle,
were named on the United Press
All Coast team this week, to be
the first Webfoots to make the
number one team since Del Bjork
in 1937.
Smith, Anet
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Show Class
Bujan May Play;
Fundamentals
Stressed
Bobby Anet and Bob “Lofty"
Smith are out to help the froah
basketball team.
The ex-all-American and the
pitching halfback yesterday put
the yearlings through a stiff drill.
The two boys really put on a pass
ing show, and if their pupils
learned anything of their style, it
should really be a great help to
them in their coming season.
Anet raced up and dovux the
court in his unmistakable style and
Smith seemed to bo even more ac
curate with a basketball than he is
with a football. ‘'Bullet" Bobby
took great delight in working out
with the freshmen, and from the
continual smile on his face you
would think it was the first time
he had ever donned a basketball
uniform.
An All-State
It was learned last night that '
George “Pee Wee" Bujan was plan
ning to turn out for the team.;
Bujan is known for his football
prowess, but he was also a three
year all-state man in basketball at.
Christopher, Illinois. Bujan's ap
pearance may mean that Jim Shop
hard, his running mate in football
may also don a uniform and give
his all to the yearling basketball
team.
The team continued to drill en
tirely on fundamentals, and, al
though high hopes are held for
the success of the squad, their first
tests won’t be encountered until
the middle of January, when they
meet several Portland high schools.
Shiplets Win
Coed Hockey
Bain or shine, those 35 coed
hockey 'enthusiasts can be found
on Gerlinger field practicing indi
vidual skills or team tactics. Yes
terday the third in a series of six
intraclub play-offs resulted in a
4 to " victory for the Shiplets.
Before Tuesday’s game the Ship
lets and Shinny Sharks, the two
competing teams, were tied up one
game each. Three more games are
scheduled for this Thursday and
Tuesday and Thursday of next
week.
Marilyn Christlieb starred for
the winners yesterday with three
of their four goals.
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