DUCK TRACKS
By ELBERT HAWKINS, Co-Sports Editor
Oregon Daily Emerald
*The age of miracles is gone,
tfiStys Colonel Bill Hayward. He
%neans the age of track miracles
f fjjwmjmmm at Oregon when
this school can
get winning
winning squads
with only medio
cre material . . .
for he says pros
pects for next
year are less than
poor. Putting it
quite bluntly the
other day, the
Elbert ..veteran tracit
Hawkins mentor said,
"This is Oregon’s last good track
16am.”
•Shrewd Colonel Bill seems to
about right in his calculations
—he usually is. The very heart
<>t this year’s varsity cinder squad
<75 built around first place win
%ihrs. Few' points have come from
The second and, third spots. And
■when next spring rolls around
<riost of these top notchers will
he gone. There won’t be any Boyd
thrown to w'in javelin firsts. Cap
tain Kirm Storli, the crack half
Under, will be gone. Pole Vaulter
ftod- Hansen goes and Jim Buck,
the sprinter and hurdler par ex
cellence, finishes his eligibility.
-In all, more than a half dozen of
Colonel Bill Hayward’s best var
sity trackmen will be absent.
A few' days ago we heard Bill
r.lyly tell Anse Cornell, the ath
letic manager, he could coach
iiext year’s team. But the canny
Hayward has never been known
to pass up a tough battle before
mui it’s pretty safe to predict
lie’ll be on hand next spring pass
ing out tips to prospective Web
tfoot cindermen if he’s still hale
and hearty—and if any cinder
men are in school.
Bill's Budgets Shrink
Oregon used to have track bud
gets over three times as large as
at present and Colonel Bill turned
out some great teams then. But
even after his budget was pared
to the bone, the track skipper
continued to turn out prize win
ders. Most of his materia! since
April 18, 1904 when lie officially
started coaching here has been
tcmly average but BiU’n record
during: that time has been decid
edly superior. He has that knack
of producing winners and long
has been successful in outwitting
Oregon State cinder heads. And
it’s the truth that he'd rather de
feat a Beaver squad than any
other school in the world.
Probably Colonel Bill’s strong
est Oregon track ci-eation of re
cent years was the 1931 squad
composed of such stars as Ralph
Hill, miler; Bobby Robinson, pole
vaulter; Ed Moeller, discuss; Ty
rell Lower, sprinter; Clarence
Hill, two-miler, and Clare Mc
Kennon, quarter-miler. Those
names are still discussed around
the Webfoot training quarters.
Miler Ralph Hill is perhaps the
best remembered as he broke the
national intercollegiate record in
’31. Ralph sped the distance in
4:12.4. in a dual meet on Hayward
field against Washington. Bade
in 1924 the Oregon cindermen
won a Coast conference champion
ship for Bill Hayward. His win
ning influence took hold, how
ever, at almost the very begin
ning. Bill’s 1906 team swept
through the season undefeated
and won the Northwest title.
Saturday is possibly Colonel
Bill Hayward’s last chance to
turn in a track and field victory
over Oregon State and you can
bet he has heart and soul set to
do it. The Webfoots hold an ap
parent edge in firsts but Hay
ward is dubious about whether
he’ll be able to sneak out with
enough seconds and thirds to
swing it. Oregon can be expected
to win as many as nine of the 15
possible firsts—figuring it on
paper.
It Should Be Close
On comparative scores the Bea
vers and the Webfoots rate al
most a dead heat. Oregon State
was beaten in Seattle Saturday by
Hec Edmundson’s Washington
Huskies, 79 to 51. But Oregon lost
to the same squad in Eugene a
week lMjfore, 77 to 54. So let’s
just cross our fingers for Colonel
Bill Hayward and hope his Web
foot cindermen can present the
grand old veteran of 36 seasons
with a sweet victory over Oregon
State. They swamped the Beavers
■- ■ *~»
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Zetas Continue
Winning March
On League Title
Alpha, Delt, SAE
Teams Post Wins
In 'A' Volleyball
By LEE FLATBERG
The Zeta Kail boys continued
their march on the “A” volleyball
title yesterday as they registered
their fourth win. Other games
saw the Alpha hall, Delts, and
SAEs post victories.
The match between the Delts
and Yeomen set some sort of rec
ord for lengthiness, as they
played a three-game match with
the Delts pulling out a 17 to 15,
7 to 15, and 11 to 2 victory.
The SAE trio of Harold Hart
zell, Vic Townsend, and Jim Mar
nie was too much for the Fijis
as SAEs posted their fourth vic
tory with an easy two-game win,
15 to 1, 15 to 4.
The Zeta haliers took a step
nearer the play-off position as
they easily downed the Sigma
hall boys, 15 to 3. 15 to 1. The
Zeta hall team has four wins
against no blemishes, and needs
only a win over the Super Charg
ers to cinch the title.
Alpha hall took its third win
with a default by the Sigma Nu.
Today's games (all “A”).
4:00—Chi Psi vs. Supercharg
ers, Phi Sigs vs. Gamma hall, Be
tas vs. Canard Club, Pi Kaps vs.
Sherry Ross hall.
on Hayward field last spring in
a meet which was figured by
dopesters to be about a toss up.
Oregon State got partial revenge
this spring by trimming Colonel
Bill’s varsity relay team, 5 to 3.
Everyone in the Oregon base
ball camp has his fingers crossed
this week because it looks like
the two Monday and Tuesday
wins put the Webfoots right back
in the middle of championship
contention, especially so if Wash
ington can leave Beaverville with
no worse than a split with Ralph
Coleman’s league leaders.
One reason for the new opti
mism is the slugging of Hobby’s
regulars. Up until the very day
of the opener with Oregon State,
they rated on the whole as puny
hitters. A team batting average
of .298 ... 87 for 291 .. . is
nothing to sneeze at. Leaders are
Buck Berry at .480, Bill Calvert
at .455, Bill Carney at .406, Dick
Whitman at .344, and Jack Shim
shak at .300.
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In Third Round Play
With two lopsiders and one
close contest, three more games
were run off in twilight intra
mural ball last night. The Pan
thers pulled through with a close
3 to 2 win over the Fighting
Finns, the Sluggers ran rough
shod over the Super-Scribes by
22 to 6, and the Betas walked
away with a 12 to 3 win over
Sigma Chi. f
In the tightest game of the
evening the Panthers shoved
across a run in the first, fifth,
and sixth innings, and put down
a last inning rally by the Finns
to pull out with their close win.
Batteries: Panthers—H. Jones
and B. Jones, Nichols; Fighting
Finns—Shepard and Sorensen.
Betas Slug
The Betas ran six runs across
the platter in the opening inning
of their encounter with Sigma Chi
to practically sew the game up.
They continued their scoring
rampage in the second to bring
in two more runs and wound it
up with four more runs in the
fourth.
The Sigma Chis made one run
each in the second, fifth and sev
enth for their scores.
Batteries: Betas — Pavalunas
and Beard; Sigma Chis — Seder
strom and Hughes.
Sluggers Win
In the third contest of the eve
ning the Sluggers pounded the
ball all over the lot to complete
ly outclass the Super-Scribes, 22
to 6.
They ran eight runs across in
the first, nine in the second, three
in the third, and wound it up with
two more in the fourth.
Batteries: Sluggers — Johnson
and Caldwell; Super-Scribes—
Phelps and Duleney.
Beavers Tip
Huskies, 2-1
Northern Division Standings
W L Pet.
Oregon State ..6 1 .857
Oregon.5 3 .625
Washington .3 3 .500
WSC . 2 5 .285
Idaho .2 6 .250
Yesterday’s Game
At Oregon State 2, Washing
ton 1.
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