Duck
Tracks
By TOMMY WRIGHT
At least once a year, about the time winter buds start
blossoming into spring, organized baseball gets raked over
the proverbial “coals” for robbing the cradle of collegiate
athletics of their pride and joy “stars.”
1 his time it is Johnny Leovich, Oregon St at e eollege's 1941
All-American football prospects. And the flagrant violator of
an athletic director s dream is the Philadelphia Athletics. Leo
vich still has one year of football, and two more years of base
ball eligibility up at Beaverburg, and when he dropped out of
school last week and signed a pro-contract, OSC’s Director
of Athletics, Peter Locey, “hit the ceiling” in damning the
cradle snatchers.
They Make Baseball a Career
Not saying that Director Locey doesn't have a “beef” coming,
but what of Leovich's ideas. Financially, things arc not so good
with Johnny; he has always leaned towards baseball in pref
erence to the gridiron; and he has fostered the idea of playing
big league ball for some time. In all the controversy, these
facts haven’t been taken into consideration by the institution.
The same is true of Joe Gordon, Yankee second baseman,
“Whimpy” Quinn, Elmer Mallory, Bill Sayles, and John
Linde. All five quit Oregon to play the cash game. And
more than one still eligible for collegiate competition at Ore
gon are seriously considering postponing an education to
make a career of playing baseball.
Joe Gordon took a couple of years to make the big league
grade, and the immensity of his contract surely doesn’t encour
age any qualms about giving up his amateur standing. And the
same goes for Bill Sayles, big right handed hurler, who gets
another try with the Boston lied Sox. “Whimpy” Quinn, and
Elmer Mallory, both property of the Los Angeles Angels, arc
really proving themselves anything but washouts.
Leovich First Beaver to Join Ranks
Johnny Linde, another youngster who is following the horse
hide call, will be playing for Tacoma’s Western International
League Tigers this year, after a 1940 term with the Salem
Senators.
Howard “Hobby” Hobson, of course, was not a little
peeved when his boys moved into organized baseball, but
he has lost five players during his coaching career here,
while Oregon State's Leovich is the first Beaver to make the
shift.
Baseball of the intercollegiate variety, isn't as popular as
football and basketball, hence the athletic department is unable
to aid players in that sport as much as the others. Then why
should they go overboard when an athlete signs that all-im
portant contract?
Dallas Out for Swim Record
Swimming: fans should find plenty of excitement Friday af
ternoon in the men's pool, when-the Oregon mermen meet the
Idaho Vandals.
It is one event which will he the big attraction. It will be
Jack Dallas, ace breaststroke, as lie goes into the pool with one
thought in mind—to break the National Intercollegiate record
for the dOO-yard individual medley relay. .Jack whisked through
the water in a practice run yesterday, and ended the event in
d :4ti.S, just .2.2 seconds over the record. And Friday afternoon
with Klierm Whet more as pacer, lie will threaten if not break
the time set by Jim Iiced in 1‘Jdli.
Road Trip Cuts Hoop Wins
Road trips have been the Waterloo for Northwest Division
Pacific Coast conference basketball teams this year, with only
four games being won on the invaded courts.
Washington State, still leading the conference, has won
three of these encounters on foreign courts. Oregon’s win
over Oregon State college is the other. If this trend, con
tinues through the season, the teams will probably end up
something like this:
• Won Lost Pet.
Washington State
Oregon .
Idaho .
Oregon State
Washington .
.12
. 8
. 7
. 7
. 6
4
8
9
9
10
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Ducks Gunning For Idaho!
Vandals Two Up
On Oregon Five
Marshik, Borrevik, Borcher Groomed
To Smother Hilton; Anderson Sees Action
In Practice; Fuhrman, Kirsch Show Well
Bv JOHNNY KAHANANUI
Idaho's Vandals barge Into town, appetites whetted for a Duck din
ner tomorrow night, but grinning Oregon hoopmen relaxed under
steaming showers yesterday evening after C’oaeh Howard Hobson
halted the longest and most thorougli workout the YVebfoots have
bounded through this week.
.. .No pushover outfit Forrest Twogood will herd into the Igloo for
the final two games with Oregon
this season, despite its boarding
in the cellar of the circuit. Twice
already the Vandals have humbled
Oregon. “Twogies” present mach
ine is a more streamlined unit than
the jalopy that got banged up four
times straight by the Ducks last
year.
However, far from gloomy are
Hobby’s warriors as they grind
their axes for the Vandal quintet.
Against the frosh earlier this week
and in intra squad scrimmage the
varsity flashed play that lay dor
mant in the OSC game because of
the Beavers’ snails pace.
Ducks Gun for Hilton
Rehearsal yesterday saw Hob
son grooming three big Ducks,
Archie Marshik, Wally Borre
vik, and Bill Borcher, for the all
essential job of smothering Ida
ho’s Otis “Rook” Hilton, tower
ing center. Hilton has been the
“Bad Humor Man” to all Van
dal opponents thus far this year.
Key man in Idaho’s attack and
a bulky cog in its defense, he is a
demon on snagging rebounds. In
cidentally, the “Rook” has piled
up the best point-per-game aver
age in the northern division, 77 in
7 tilts.
From our vantage point (in the
gallery) it appears that Marshik
may get the starting nod over
Borrevik and Borcher. Archie
“The Cockroach” scurried around
in the last half of the recent OSC
game with much gusto and has
been making his 6-feet-7-inch
physique rather efficacious in prac
tice.
Oregon will be much tougher
than it was when the Vandals
pushed the Ducks off the road
on the Iatters’ inland empire in
vasion. Hank Anderson’s
wrenched knee benched him
then, and Rolph Fuhrman had
n’t broken into the starting line
up. Fuhrman started grabbing
glory in the Washington series,
and has held up well thus far.
Anderson hobbled off the bench
in the waning minutes of the
last two Oregon games to snatch
both out of very deep holes.
“The Needle" has worked out
quite a lot in the past few days,
and should see more than the brief
spells of action he did against
Washington and Oregon State.
Don Kirsch, sophomore guard, is
opening up in rehearsals with some
deceptive floor work. His stellar
performance in the recent OSC
game and practice form may win
for him a starting berth against
Idaho tomorrow.
Oregon Alum Wins
Boeing Schlorship
Don E. Hershiser, UO alumnus,
recently won a- $5000 United Air
lines scholarship to the Boeing
School of Aeronautics in Tracy,
California. Upon completion of a
five-months training course in va
rious phases of commercial avia
tion, he will work for the air com
pany, probably as co-pilot.
Hershiser was a member of the
University’s original civilian pilot
training class, and took the ad
vanced training in Portland last
summer. He was chosen on the. ba
£is of physical condition and per
sonality from 15 west coast can
didates who were sent to Chicago
to compete.
Blind flying, navigation, and ad
vanced radio training will be in
cluded in the five-months course.
The Link trainer will be extensive
ly used, and all flying will be done
in heavy transport ships.
Business Manager
Picks Five Admen
Five now appointments to the
Oregon Daily Emerald business de
partment were announced recent
ly by Business Manager Jim Frost.
They are Marilyn Marshall and
Marilyn Miller, Saturday day ad
vertising staff; Bob Rudolph, Tues
day day advertising staff; Roberta
Buckingham, Wednesday day ad*
verUiisg stoil m-j jjary Jane
Dunn, office staff.
Dallas Out for
Medley Record
Oregon Mermen
Splash Against
Vandals Friday
Jack Dallas, ace breast stroke of
the Oregon varsity swimming
team, came within two seconds of
breaking the National Intercol
legiate 300-yard individual med
ley record after only a week's
training for the event, in time
trials held yesterday afternoon in
the men’s pool.
The National Intercollegiate rec
ord for this event is now resting in
the hands of a former Oregon mer
man, Jim Reed, who set the record
of 3:44.6 in April, 1936 in Gerlin
ger pool. Dallas after only a week's
training swam the event in the
fast time 3:46.8. The 300-yard in
dividual medley consists of swim
ming 100-yards breaststroke, 100
WEBFOOT
Archie “The Cockroach” Mar
shik, whom Hobby is grooming to
halt Idaho's Hilton in tomorrow
night's Vandal clash.
yards backstroke, and the remain
ing 100-yards in free-style.
Jack will attempt to break the
existing record in the Idaho meet
Friday afternoon in the men’s
pool. Sherm Wetmore backstroke
champion of the Ducks, will pace
Dallas in his record-breaking at
tempt.
Duck Matmen Face
Idaho Vandals Next
The University of Oregon
Duck, not a bit discouraged over
his two defeats by the Oregon
State wrestling team, is this
week working diligently in prep
aration for an invasion of the.
..Idaho Vandal, at 2:30, Friday.
Tilings are looking up in the
Webfoots’ wrestling camp. Both
ADPis Grab
Donut Win
Speeding down the floor came
ADPis to score another win by
deefating Alpha Phi, 24 to 12, in
Gerlinger's indoor gym yesterday.
At the end of the first cpiarter
the ADPis, due to the excellent
team work of Mildred McCarthy,
Ruth Hartley, and Janet Ross, were
leading, 11-2. A one-armed push
shot by Ross was the brilliant play
of the game.
Showing possibilities of a good
forward player was Jean Sales of
Alpha Phi, also Shirley Sullivan
scored eight points for the Phi
team.
Alpha Gammas defaulted to the
Kappas.
Summary:
Alpha Phi (12) ADI*i (24)
Shown, 4.F.8, McCarthy
Sullivan, 8 F 6, Hartley
Sales.F. .10, Ross
Welsh. .. G.Ralph
Fenkins G. . Herman
Tennant.G . . Brady
Henderson Speaks
Against Military Aid
For Warring Lands
I A program of strengthening do
I mocracy at home, promoting it.;
growth abroad, and ceasing to give
military aid to belligerents is rec
ommended for this country by the
“Youth Committee Against War,"
Lawrence Henderson, delegate to
the committee’s national confer
ence, told members of the Fellow
ship of Reconciliation at the Y hut
Sunday.
"Democracy is not a frail insti
tution which must be abandoned
whenever a crisis comes along,
j he declared. The committee feels
that armament economics weak'n
rather than strengthen democracy.
One New Alpha Gam
Bet ty Phillips of Pot Hand has
recently pledged Alpha Gamma
Delta sorority, according to a Pan- j
hellemc announcement.
The University of California
tension division has inaugurated a
courss in taler, liion production -
acting.
Don Holst and Hal Kasrhko have
tossed off their biggest opponent
yet this year, the measles, and
have reported for regular work
outs. Hal Schluter, he of the in
jured ribs, has also been working
out and will be ready for the Van
dals.
Only two sour notes have been
struck this week in an other
wise, cheery refrain issuing from
Duck coaches. Masao Hayashi,
who was rapidly developing into
a smooth 145-pounder, was re
leased from the VVebfoots’ wres
tling team with a weak heart.
The other casualty is diminutive
Joe Wong, 121-pounder, who has
failed to show up for workouts,
and has thus been marked off
the Duck roster.
“No, I'm not discouraged,” said
Coach Lloyd Koehler. “I’m past
that point.”
Koehler said that the Oregon
boys are in for some tough sled
ding when they run into the Ida
ho men. Idaho plastered the Wash
ington grappling men 7 matches to
1, and the Washington team neat
ly butchered Oregon State's Bea
vers who have two wins chalked
up against the Oregon team.
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Frosh Stock
Drops With
Two Men Out
Newland, Gissberg
Go via Cold and
Charley Horse
By LEE FLATBERG
Freshman basketball stock
tumbled Wednesday when Coach
John Warren's guard combina
tion of Bob Newland and Bill
Gissberg was forced to the side
lines by injury and sickness.
Newland was prostrate with a
cold which had kept him on the
sidelines earlier in the season, and
Gissberg was shipped off to the
infirmary with a Charley horse.
With but two days remaining
before the second battle of the
“Civil War" with the rooks, it
is doubtful whether the pair will
play. Warren is burdened with
rustling up a new back court
pair to use. in the frosh-rook
game.
New Comho Found
Warren seems to have this
combination in Ken Simonsen
and Warren Christensen, a pair
of towering six-foot res. Simon
sen has seen plenty of action at
guard this season and it is noth
ing new to him. However, it is
something new for Christensen
who has been showing his talents
at: forward.
Working together for the first,
time as a pair yesterday, the new
combination looked good. In a
scrimmage session, working with
Lloyd Jackson at center and Bob
Wren, Bob Sheridan, and Rog Dick
alternating at the forward slots,
Simonsen and Christensen cvlicked
'fairly well.
Both boys will add height to the
'.yearling team. Simonsen measures
an inch above the six foot mark
find Christensen is six feet thiee.
Frosh Mermen
Meet Salem T
Oregon's freshman swimming
Quintet is getting in shape for
their third meet of the season
Friday night against Salem YMCA.
Although the Frosh are favored
to win Friday, each and every
member of the squad is endeavor
Sigma Chis, PhiDelts
Chalk Up Hoop Wins
HANGS BY TEETH
'Yhen other major league stars
get hauled In by the draft, Morrie
Arnovieh, Giant outfielder, will
still he shouldering a bat, MN
teeth exempt him from Uncle
Sam’s hooks.
Susies Lead
Donut Swim
Coed splashers await the open
ing gun in the second intramural
swimming meet tonight at 8 in
Gerlinger tank.
Susan Campbell leads the field
at the halfway mark with 41
points, and the co-op's trail in sec
ond place with 22 points. Margaret
Lesher and Mary Jane Ford are
tied for individual high point
honors.
Events in this evening’s compe
tition are: 20 and 40-yard freestyle,
backstroke, and breast stroke; div
ing; and exhibition 100-yard free
style, backstroke, and breaststroke
races.
ing to reduce his time in case the
Salemites prove tougher than ex
pected.
The Frosh will attempt to gath
er their first win of the season
from the varsity swimming team
Saturday, in the two squads fourth
meeting. The freshmen claim that
they will give the varsity much
more competition than in the oth
er three meets, although the ex
ceptionally fast Frosh relay team
has been the only freshman group
to successfully click against the
varsity men this year.
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Backers and fans of the Sigma
Chi “A” league quintet, which so
far this season has remained un
defeated, are celebrating the 33
to 12 victory over Kirkwood co-op
in Wednesday's hoop events. Led
by James Shepard, forward, who
scored 12 points, Sigma Chi played
at a terrific pace which, although
they fought valiantly, Kirkwood
was unable to match.
SAEs Win
Although they were behind,
12 to (5, at the half, and 17 to 15
at the end of the third quarter,
Sigma Alpha Epsilon staged a
startling comeback in the last
quarter of their “A” league game
to defeat Pi Kappa Alpha, 28 to
24. The score with only 68 sec
onds left to play was tied at 24
when “Doc” Walker of Sigma
Alpha Epsilon tossed the shot
which put them two points in the
lead. Two foul shots were also
made at this point. Tommy Rob
lin. Pi Kap, was high point man
with 18 points to his credit.
Phi Delta Theta cagers defeated
the Zeta hall “A” league team, 33
to 22, in one of the fastest games
witnessed in this year's intramural
hoop tourney. Stevenson, Phi Delt,
high point man with 11 points.
Sigma Chi, 33 12, Kirkwood
Shepard, 12.F. 4, Hoover
Back.F. 1, Adams
Gianelli, 9.C. 5, Samples
Burns, 6.G. Bray ton
Maynard, 6.G. 2, Hillway
Substitutions: Kirkwood —■ Yoa
kum, Hillway.
Sig Ep, 28 24, Pi Kap
Saloman, 10.F. 18, Roblin
Williamson, 5... F. McFadgen
Shackleford, 3..C. 3, McKee
Walker, 8.G. Cherney
Lowe, 2.G. Harrisson
Substitutes: Pi Kaps—Herndon,
3.
Phi Delta Theta, 33 22, Zeta Hall
Igoe, 4.„....F. 6, Apa
Bailey, 4.F. 4, Dollarhide
Stevenson, 11....C. 2, Keller
Galbreath, 6.G. 2, Golden
Burns, 2.G.8, Martini
Substitutions : Phi Delts
—Holmes 2, Dickson 4.
Students to Apply
For YW Camp Jobs
Mrs. Gertrude Aiken, general
secretary of the YWCA in Port
land, and Miss Alway, head of the
YW summer camps, will be on
the campus today to interview
women students interested in coun
selor work at the YW camps.
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