! 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.”
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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.
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