! DUCK TRACKS ! By GEORGE PASERO, Co-Sports Editor, l Oregon Daily Emerald When Tex Oliver called his grid hopefuls together at the start of ttpring practice, he faced a ter rific rebuilding job. Nine of the eleven starter-, on the 1939 ag gregation were gone. So were a other first line reserves such n.s Ellroy Jensen, Bud Nestor, and A rt Winetrout. Tex and his staff spent long Afternoon hours with holdovers, sophomores, and- transfers, and tli 3 results of these hours of fun damental and team drill are be ginning' to show. The Webfoots looked like a pretty fair club a.g ainst the all-stars . . . and Tex •Oliver has a definite line on the fciaterial he’ll be able to count on ■when the firing starts next fall. Position by position, here’s the •way genial Tex rates his ball club. LE—Close between Dick Horne and Hymie Harris, alternates last season. . . . Horne has the edge now because Hy has been confined to the infirm ary the past week. I/l—All-coast Jim Stuart . . . without question. LG—Ray Segale looks the best at present. C—Erling Jacobsen is the best ail-around performer. Val Culweii, sophomore, gets the nod. 1 . . He's big 1 and tough. Pressing Culvvell is Steve Bodner, another sophomore who shows lots of possibilities, according to Tex. . . . Bodner can and has 1 progressed tremendously. . . . He’s young but is maturing fast. Heavies at Right Tackle HIT—About even between Dick Ashooni, sophomore, and Roger Johnson, transfer from San IBernadino jaysee. John son. however, hurt his leg j. two weeks ago, and Asheom lias held down the berth since. (Both of these boys weigh over 220 pounds.! HE—Tossup between Bill Keg ner and Jim Harris, both let termeu. Norm Conaway, Lou Butkovich, and Ted- Jaross showing well. Q —Chet Haliski, letterman, looks best. Roy Ell and George i Peewee t Bujan ,. about a tossup for the post ■ of No. 1 reserve. F Marshall S t e n s t r o m a y. staudout. . . . He’ll have to be counted on to play most of the games next fail, says Tex. Butch Nelson is next in line. EH — Pretty even between Len Is berg and Don Mabee, lettermen, and Cur tis (Curly; Mecham, trans fer. . . . Isberg has the edge in blocking, but Mabee and Mecham have a bit the best of it on running ability. . . . All are good pass receivers. LH —Buck Berry, letterman, is the best all-around ball play er in Tex's notebook. . . . It's close between Frank Boyd, reserve, and Tommy Roblin. transfer from San Mateo, for the No. 2 spot. . . . Boyd is probably the most consistent kicker on the squad. Tackle Samuelson Other gridmen who drew com ments from Oliver are Ed Mo shofsky, ..strong ..right ..tackle; Larry Monroy and Hal Johnson, left halfbacks; Bill Koss, right guard; Morry Jackson and Bob Davis, left guards; Elliott Wilson, Herschel Patton, and Duke Iver son, centers: A1 Samuelson, Tom Terry, and John Bjork, left tack les; and Bob Hendersliot and Jim Shepard, left ends. Wilson, a sophomore center, has been coming fast of late, but injured his shoulder a week ago. Coach Oliver only recently con verted Samuelson from a center to a tackle and is already pleased with Sammy’s work. Duke Iver son was termed a tough line backer by genial Tex. Another player Tex is counting on but couldn't work with this spring is Roy (Tippy) Dyer, right halfback letterman. . . . Tex thinks quite a bit of Dyer, a lad who can play almost any where in the backfield. Oregon's kicking department should rank with the best on the coast next year if the number of good kickers means anything. . . . Tex has four who can really boot the ball. Here's the way Tex rates his punters: Frank Boyd, Curly Mecham, Len Isberg, and Buck Berry. About next year’s showing, ca pable Tex has this to say: “The whole thing may depend on how the reserves and sophomores de velop. I think, however, that the results of this spring's work will be more in evidence next fall than at present.” Coach Tex’s Idea The conference limit of 30 'Eattcne's Ou)n Store* \ | f lissells only at Russell’s can you buy Spalding’s Saddles Ti ‘ > ■ |! i idle i- the true Spring slice. 'Wear it ;. 1 { ... ially during .Junior Weekend \ . vour Pinafore dress. Official Junior \\ eekend Pinafore Dresses order now at Russell's Store 64-66 E. Broadway Phone 1101 jiiunMWHWBnwimmiiMinniE annn NOTICE! Rollie Dickie, intramural head, requests that all softball teams be on the field by 6 p.m. sharp, in order to start games on time. Frosh Pacers Defeat Eugene, University High Ned John's Boys Sweep All Five Relay Events Sweeping all five events. Ore gon's frosh track team defeated the Eugene and University high squads yesterday in a practice re lay meet. Dick Ralston. Bob Rudolph, and Ross Gearhart of the frosh 440 team gave Anchor-man Lloyd Le Clair a five-yard lead and Lloyd stretched it to eight in fighting off the bid of Eugene high’s Northam. LeClair turned out for the first time yesterday, having ust finished spring football. “Iron Man” McKinney . Stan Watt, high-striding fresh man from.. Tillamook, anchored the mile team in safely in spite of having run an 880 previously. “Iron-man" of the day was Bob McKinney, the Idaho comet, who pulled the team ahead in the third section of the mile and built up a sizeable lead in his part of the medley. Besides these two races, Bob found time to run a practice 660. Coach Ned Johns has not made definite selections for the Oregon State relays here Saturday. Fol lowing is a list of those compet ing yesterday for the frosh: 3-mile — Watt, Maher, Nicha chos, Lyon. 440—Ralston, Rudolph, Gear hart, LeClair. Mile—Maher, Oley, McKinney, Watt. 880—LeClair, Rudolph, Gear hart, Mallory. Medley—LeClair, Gearhart, Mc Kinney, Engel. spring practice sessions has not been reached yet... in fact, there are six days left. Oliver, however, is excusing his lettermen in order that fellows like Dick Horne, Bill Regner, Bob Hendershot, and Jim Harris can aid Bill Hayward’s track efforts. Some of you fans who saw the all-star game might have uron dered about the rubber construc tion on the back of Curly Me cham's helmet. . . . Well, Tex ex plained it yesterday as one of his ideas to prevent injuries to the base of the skull. You see, often when the ball carrier is hit by a husky tackle and thrown to the ground, his head tends to snap back and hit the hard turf. In order to prevent this jarring contact of head and ground. Tex experimented with a rubber sponge affair which he fastened to the headgear. The sponge, as Tex rigged it up, is small, light, and could be fastened to any hel met. The Los Angeles Angels and Elmer Mallory were through town Tuesday night, en route to Seat tle. . . Tini Smith talked to El mer at the station. ... It seems that Elmer will be carried as first utility infielder . . . the num ber of infielders on the Angel club has been cut to five, and Mallory is still in there. . . . In cidentally. the Oregon players plan to form a cheering section for Elmer when the Angels open in Portland. .Campus life at University of Kansas is portrayed in a motion picture now being filmed. Webfoots Meet OSC, Glenn Elliott Friday Oregon’s light-hitting baseball club—so far—faces the toughest, opposition yet, and probably the toughest they will face this season when Oregon State tunes up on Howe field in Fridays opener. Oie gon will be out there defending its 1939 pennant, but the Beavets aie conceded a good chance for this year’s flag by railbirds. According to Pete Miller, Pacific’s baseball coach, who has led his team against both the Ducks and Beavers, the teams are about on a par. Miller gives an edge to OSC on the pitching anility of this Glenn Elliott. Smith Hurt “Elliott is the best pitcher we've faced yet,’’ stated Miller. Whitey Austin in the Duck out field has traded with Bill Carney. Austin is in right field and Car ney in left. Austin seems to have a shade better arm from the right pasture. Coach Hobby Hobson’s other change—that of Bill Cal vert to catcher—leaves Jack Shimshak with second base as his own private hunting ground. Yesterday the varsity played the frosh for the first time this year, and the game was a costly one for Coach Hobby’s club. Tini Smith, regular shortstop injured his ankle sliding to base and may be out for a few days. Tulane University engineering students hav-e constructed a working model of the spillway of the $12,000,000 Conchas dam. For Your Spring Picnics . . . 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