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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 29, 1940)
DUCK TRACKS By ELBERT HAWKINS, Co-Sports Editor Oregon Daily Emerald Bob Officer, the popular Web foot athletic trainer is good for a lot of kidding during his daily routine at the Igloo patching up Oregon athletes and keeping them in good trim. In fact that’s one reason why he is a good trainer ... a technique picked up from assistant duty under the venerable Colonel Bill Hayward who stands aces high with the boys. Bob ought to be on somebody's chamber of commerce in the bar ren ana bleak (or am I unfair) John Day country in central or eastern Oregon for he's a No. 1 promoter of that section. The ath letes took to calling him Bob “John Day” Officer because he got to claiming tha,t when he competed with them in touch football or golf or something it would have to be with the “John Day conference rules.” as ornery a set of regula tions as the sports world even tasted. Latest triumph for Mr. Officer came late in basketball season when they started calling Honest John Warren’s frosh hoop reserves a CAMPUS SHOE SHOP We suggest you have heel plates put ou your wooden shoes now and save money. Guaranteed Repairs Across From Sigma Chi sbuiuihe Roar with Blustering- Beery as “The Man From Dakota’’ Starring Wallace Beery, John Howard — plus — “Miracle on Main Street” with Margo - Walter Able “Dodge City” with ERROL FLYNN. OLIVIA DeHAVILLAND — plus — the JONES FAMILY in “Too Busy to Work” “The Marshal of Mesa City” with GEORGE O’BRIEN VIRGINIA BALES — plus — “Jeepers Creepers” with ROY ROGERS the “John Day Rangers.” Hank Anderson's little brother Dick be came captain of that outfit and Trainer Bob took personal pride in what the Rangers did in the two minutes they played at the end of the late season Duckling games. Tuesday night tile Rangers played the Junior Rubensteins at the Igloo as part of the Finnish Re lief drive but it was an unhappy affair because Bob “John Day” Officer wasn’t there. He is in the Paiouse hills with Oregon’s varsity hoop team. Nevertheless Bob saw fit to wire his boys a message be fore the game. Bob Instructs ’Em It read: JOHN DAY FINNS GET AHEAD AND STAY AHEAD. But the Rangers lost their game 1 so Publicity Man Bruce Hamby ' wired an answer right back to Moscow after the final whistle. JOHN DAY RANGERS SKUNKED 37 to 34. COME HOME AT ONCE. ALL IS OVER. Coach Russ Cutler has some thing when he says swimmers like Jack Dallas and Sherm Wetmore j are in a sport you can’t learn or do great wonders in within a short time. He brought up this point as further proof that Oregon's “Big Three" (Dallas. Wetmore, and Jerry Macdonald) have put enough time into swimming to be worthy of any help the school can give ’em toward a trip east to the nationals. A Strum oi Kecords This column last week listed a ions; string of coast, northern di vision, and meet records held by these boys sine? they entered the University. Further scrutiny re veals prep days which u'ere even more full of accomplishments. Take Breast Stroker Jack Dal las, for instance In his first high school year back in 1935 as a lightweight he held the Coast league and Southern California record for the 50-yard distance in :33.3. That was only a beginning. In his second year in the varsity division he held 100-yard marks for Southern Cal., the 200-meter Southern Cal. A.A.U. title, and the Southern Cal. 100-yd. individ ual medley record (T:05), BE SIDES being rated third national ly in the 100-yard breast stroke at the time of 1:08.3. As a senior in 1937, the Long i Beach ace rated tops in the na tional prep breast stroke and was one of three BEST ALL AROUND , mermen in the country. His rec (Please turn to f>ac/c eleven) Known for Value ■ Tht' value of the good food we serve goes beyond its moderate eost. It is wonderfully satisfying. DINNER 25c and 50c Grand Cafe 125 E. 11th Water Carnival Slated tor April Bp Amphibians Shipwreck Theme For Stunt Drills; Varsity to Swim The annual Amphibian water carnival dates are April 15, 16, and 17 as announced yesterday by Mar tha McClung, chairman of the carnival. The theme of the water show is a shipwreck, and the passengers of the wreck are to be marooned on a tropical island. The formation and stunt swimming, life saving and fancy and competitive diving will develop from this theme. The men’s varsity swimming team are swim ming in the stunts with the Am phibian girls club. For Delegates The first evening of the pageant will be held exclusively for the delegates of the AWS regional conference which will be in session during the week. On the 16th and 17th of April the pageant will open its gates to the students. Admis sion is 25 cents. (Please turn ta page eleven) Slacks FOR SPRING in your color and size Come up town tonight ami view our window of ready made and tailored suits. Quality for Less Robertson’s MEN’S WEAR 832 Willamette Intramural Program Proves Popular Intramural sports are headed for a record-breaking season if the present trend continues. Or so predicts Elmer Olson, intramural sta tistics-compiler. “Ole" already has some S00 participants catalogued for last fall and expects about 200 more names to be added «when donut basketball records for the season are checked. Complete point-totals for the various teams cannot be issued yet, due to ping-pong playoffs continuing to the end of this week. Leading in points won this term. Theta Chi has earned 244 markers. Next in line is Alpha Tau Omega with 238 counters tallied this term. Both teams are in the playoff table tennis matches. Small but fast, Theta Chi’s “A" basketball team won the intramural championship by tipping Alpha Tau Omega, 31 to 26. “A” playoff action saw ATO drop the Duds 31 to 24 and Phi Sigma Kappa defeat the Finns 17 to 10, in first-round matches. Theta Chi eliminated the Phi Sigs with a crushing 32 to 14 vic tory, thus gaining the finals. ATO edged Sigma Chi 19 to 18. after trailing 13-12 at the half, to earn its chance at the pennant. Phi Delts Triumph Phi Delta Theta trimmed Beta Theta Pi in the “B” finals, mak ing the Phi Delts’ second cham pionship of the school year. (The white-house grapplers walked off with the wrestling- championship.) First in intramural handball was the Zeta hall crew, which beat out Beta Theta Pi. Zeta was the first dorm team of the year to win a donut athletic pennant. Leading at the end of fall term, Phi Delta Theta had piled up 408 points to the second-place Beta’s 355. Kappa Sigma and SAE were tied for third with 343 points apiece. Sigma Nil won 13 to 0 over | Kappa Sigma to annex the touch ' football title. Reinstated after a three-year vacation, the gridiron, sport caught on sufficiently for Intramural-Director Rollie Dickie to decide to keep it permanently, although probably in some differ ent form, such as six-man. Sigma Alpha Epsilon won two pennants, bringing home cups for tennis and water polo. Alpha Tau Omega's splashers took first place in donut swimming. Hot Cross Buns for 1 LENT Lenten Pastries that will really satisfy your taste. Serve them for each meal. Pies, cakes, cookies, dough nuts. and many other delicious tasty bakery products from the cleanest ot‘ bakeries. During lent, serve them all. PETE’S BAKERY 1 622 Olive St. Phone 1 1 94 —Eddie’s Flowers Have You Heard • • • • all about the grand, leap year Spring opening in Eugene? Well, don't forget to stop by Eddie's and see his Spring display! All-Eugene Spring Opening Tonight 7:30 “Beau-Catchers’ ’ We’ll show you our floral ideas on the subject, espe cially since it’s leap year . . . choose your favorite from our display of “Beau Catch ers”!