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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 9, 1941)
Duck ! Tracks B.v KEN CHRISTIANSON, Co-Editor of Sports Pick the outstanding graduating Oregon athlete. Who is it? For the first time in the history of the school, such an honor will be bestowed upon a Webfoot this year. Never before has another school on the coast other than Southern California selected its top athlete of the year. E. A. Babb of Babb’s Hardware of Eugene is donating a large and expensive plaque which will be kept in the Oregon trophy case in the Igloo. The name of the out standing Oregon graduating athlete will be engraved oh this plaque—on Oregon's all-time honor roll. Invitations are being sent to Orlando J. Hollis, Dean of Mon Virgil D. Earl, President Donald M. Erb, Lair H. Gregory, George Bertz, Dick Strite, Dave Sanderson, Bruce Hamby, Gerald A. Oliver, Hobby Hobson, Bill Hayward, Mike Iloy man, A use Cornell, and George Turnbull to serve on the com mittee to select the graduating athlete. The Emerald sports editors, Bob Flavelle and Ken Christianson will also serve. Students Will Cast Votes These committeemen will make their selection from a group of five or six finalists'" which will be selected by the University students at large. Student Body President Tiger Payne has given his permission to use the executive committee ballot early in May for this selection by the students at the time they vote for executive committee members. This device may be used, or the Emerald sports page may carry on a poll of its own to determine the finalists. In selecting the winner each year, the committeemen will con sider these points in making a choice. He must: 1. Be within one term, of graduation. 2. Have been an inspiration to his teammates. 3. Have excelled athletically in his sports field or fields. 4. Have a cumulative grade point average of a 2. or a C average. Any grade point superiority among the candi dates will be ignored, 5. Have self-reliance. If a player has earned his way through school, he shall be considered above another can didate of otherwise equal ability. Athletes of all .sports, major and minor, shall he eligible for consideration. A football, basketball, baseball, tennis, or golf player may win it. Trackmen, .swimmers, boxers, and wrestlers will also be considered The only requirements for election to the Babb Memorial Plaque are the five points listed above. Possible Plaque Winners Considering that the candidate must be near graduation, some of last year’,-. Oregon athletes would be eligible. Jay dray heal, Boyd Brown, Kirin Storli, or John Dick might he chosen. Oregon seniors who finished their competition this year and who would he eligible for election pending gradua tion are: Football—Marsh Stenstrom, Chet Haliski, Len Isberg, Don Mabee, Buck Berry, Jim Stuart, Jim Harris, Erling Jacobsen, and Dick Horne; basketball—Vic Townsend, Evert McNeeley, Hank Anderson, and Bill Borcher; wrest ling—Hal Kaschko; swimming—Jack Dallas, Sherm Wet more, A1 Sandner, and Jim Mamie; baseball—Pete Igoe, Bill Calvert, Buck Berry, and Jack Sliimshak; track— Ehle Reber, Bob Keen, and Bob Hendershott; tennis—Len Clark; golf — Bob Engelke, Shelby Golden, and Chet Keller. A list of those nea>'ug graduation will be compiled aiul pre pored for tl e students. Ballots will be collected and the com mit mm* \\;!1 pick the out.st aiding athlete a week or two follow ing -Junior Weekend. It is unfortunate that this could not be done so that the pr 'sent it ion of the plaque could be a part of the program of the Order of the ‘ O’’ at its annual dance Saturday night. The letiennen have other attractions, however, in tin finals of the interfraternity sing and the Order of the “O’ chorus. Short Shots N ‘Ws from here a- t the’1e-—St enstrom walks up the aisle »>■ Seattle Saturday April IT Tin- lucky girl—Viola llabielson. ’i t \ ve known each nth xr sine-' way hack in high school. f 1 ippy 1 (y- r ts NOT -mt of the Oregon football pic ture with an unsucv xss*T.l hr • operation, lie’s enrolled in school now and wd! ready for Oliver next fall, barring r slight limp. Oy-w will no' engage in spring practice. He will, bowever. plug up the tight halfback position or the full l> <ck spot. Frosh Trip Lebanon Warren’s Ball Club Wins Close Tilt, 7-6 By DOC HENRY Making their 1941 debut, the University of Oregon frosh baseball squad took a win from Lebanon high school at Lebanon yesterday, by the close margin of 7 to 6. The frosh had a four-run lead in the first inning and held the Strawberry Pickers scoreless for six innings, until Lebanon sluggers found Dick Rathbun’s fireball and pounded out five hits scoring four I-M Swim Nears End They’re clearing the runways for water polo on the intramu ral schedule. Following the finale of the swimming, which is Thursday, the rugged men who indulge in water polo will get the spot light. Intramural swimming went to the semi-finals yesterday, as the Sigma Nus whipped the Kappa Sign, 27 to 14, the Phi Delts clipped Campbell co-op, 37 to 10, the Sigma Chis beat the Sig Eps, 25 to 32, and the Phi Sigs dropped by the way side under the onslaughts of Delta Tau Delta, 16 to 31. Two meets will be held today and the finals are scheduled for Thursday. Elmer Olson, of the intramural sports office announced that rules for water polo are to be posted in the men's gym, and at the men’s pool tomorrow'. Net Team Books Tiffs It’s heavy duty for the men who swing the tennis racquets for the University of Oregon Friday and Saturday. Friday, on the University courts, the Oregon men play host to the Oregon College of Educa tion tennis men at 2:30. Then Saturday at 2:30 the Irvington club from Portland will cross serves on the Oregon court. The Oregon Ducks were forced to cancel their first en gagement with the Multnomah athletic club of Portland be cause of rain last Saturday. The first six men of the Ore gon team have been picked and this list will stand until challen gers are able to best them. As it now' stands the team is: Len Clark, captain, Kerm Smith, Frank Baker, John Williams, and Norm Weiner. Johnny Kahananui is the sixth ranking man. ADPi, Hen Hall Bounce I-M Coeds With Beverly Goetz sending balls over the plate hot and fast, Hendricks downed the Tri Delt softball team, 20 to 2, at the Gerlinger field yesterday. Victory sent the Hendricks’ team toward bigger competition in the intramurals. If they defeat Alpha Phi when the teams meet April 17 they will promise stiff competition to other opponents. Crippled by the loss of their best pitchers, the Tri Delts were at Hendricks’ mercy. ADPi won its game from AOPi, 22 to 2. William E. Jackson, son of the attorney general, recently won a $100 award at Yale university for ‘superiority in English compo sition and declamation." runs. Bill Gissberg, Duckling first sacker, took over the mound duties and ran into trouble in the eighth. With three men on, he w alked in a Lebanon score and scored Rures Picker, outfielder, on a wild pitch. The Ducklings found themselves only one run in the lead and tightened up their defense. With Gissberg’s fireball working, he struck out two batters retiring the side. Bill Gissberg, relief pitcher and first sacker, took slugging hon ors with four bingles in five trips to the plate. Ace Crane, frosh third sacker, playing a wonderful fielding and slugging game, wal lopped out two triples, one single in four times at bat. Thomas and Simpson, Leb anon battery mates, led the Pickers with two hits apiece. H K E Frosh .15 7 0 Lebanon .12 6 1 Oregon — Rathburn, Gissberg and Peterson; Lebanon—Thomas and Simpson. Women students at Wayne uni versity are just a bit more con servative than men students, ac cording to recent tests. An agriculture college fresh man at the University of Ne braska is getting by on a budget of $1 a week. Ducklings DrillHaid Coach Ned Johns continued to drill his frosh track outfit on fundamentals in an attempt to clear up weaknesses prior to the Oregon State relays at Corvallis April 19. No increase in turnout left the yearlings greatly short-handed as some events have only two or three aspirants. The Duckling mentor concen trated yesterday on potential weight men who can fling the discuss and shotput. Morris Ri back, Bill Deller, and Phil Jack son all took a try at twirling the platter with the former showing up quite well. Riback is also ex pected to shoulder the majority of the burden in the shotput. Three top-flight milers can be fielded by the Baby Webfoots, all of whom looked good in action Friday. This crack long-distance trio is composed of Don Wilson, Marion Hufford, and Stan Skilli :orn. Jim Briggs, who appears to have clinched the starting call in the 880-yard run, will find a capable opponent in Wilson, who is also going to enter the half-mile competition in addi tion to his regular mile. High jump aspirants have nar rowed down to two—Bob New land and Phil Jackson. Six-foot seven-inch Lloyd Jackson, of frosh basketball fame, recently forsook track—and a probable high jump berth—for yearling baseball. University of New' Mexico stu dent employment director recent ly sent out a call for an experi enced egg candler. 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