Duck
Tracks
By KEN CHRISTIANSON, Co-Editor of Sports
Folks will say Dr. Albert Einstein is a leader in the
field of mathematics, all of which is true. Assistant Pro
fessor Mike Hoyman, Oregon swimming- coach, is also a
leader, but in an entirely different field. Hoyman—with a
few of his choice athletes—has experimented with differ
ent ideas which would cut down a sprinter’s and breast
siroker’s time immeasureably.
Coach Hoyman, Jack Dallas, Gerald Huestis. and Cub Callis
have been working with three thoughts in mind:
1. To develop a faster turn for sprinters in the 50 and
100-yard freestyle races.
2. To master a new type breathing method for breast
strokers with an eye to breaking the national AAU next
year via the Dallas medium.
2. To perfect a different coordination between the
breast stroker’s arm pull and leg kick, with the object of
obtaining a longer glide.
Attempt to Further Swimming
“We are always trying to add to the knowledge of the
sport,” said Coach Hoyman,. while one of his sprinters was
demonstrating the new sprint turn,
Huestis, in the absence of Bob Irvin and Cub Callis,
was showing off the new technique, As Huestis approached
the turn, he simply did a duck dive, flipped over under
water, and shoved off from the edge of the pool. In con
trast to the old-style flip turn, Hoyman's new-type turn
setnns smoother and may clip off one or two tenths of
a second on each turn. Naturally, this turn consumes much
of a swimmer’s energy, so it will be used only in the shorter
races.
Coach Ed Mann of Michigan, producer of the consistently
best swimming teams in the nation, has a special turn for the
sprints. No one around the pool knows what it is, though.
It Ls probably similar, however, to Coach Hoyman’s brain
child.
Ne w Breathing in Breast Stroke
/Since precious energy is expounded and time is lost
in the butterfly stroke when the swimmer must raise his
head way above water for air, Coach Hoyman has labored
to instill a new type breathing for Dallas, Huestis, and
B'.ck Smith. The new method would simply be to keep the
head down in the water and suck air into the lungs as a
sprinter would do,
li i> simply using crawl breathing with the butterfly stroke.
Thru' keeps the head down in the water and the swimmer can
take advantage of the glide better in this way. There is nothing
in i e rule book, according to Coach Hoyman, to forbid the
its ' of crawl breathing. The only stipulation is that the should
ers of the .swimmer remain parallel with the water—that there
is o.o rolling.
In sprinting the last couple of laps, Dallas will be able
i to take a breath every other stroke. This keeps the head
j isv.il better in the position to glide, but the breathing is
hard on the swimmer and the method cannot be kept up
for any great length of time,
Simultaneous Action
Dallas, being a very unusual man in that lie holds the na
tio ; il intercollegiate 300-yard individual medley record, is
also unusual in that his timing of arm pull and leg kiek is
mtieli different from other users of the butterfly stroke. It
would be hard to say that Dallas' use of the timing is a new
vr kl ■ to an old form of swimming, for the butterfly is a
vcy new stroke in itself.
It remains, however, that Dallas comes through with his
awn pull and leg kick at the same time. Whether this
simultaneous action on Dallas' part is peculiar to him
alone is not known. But if it should be that Huestis and
Smith can adapt themselves to this different timing, the
advantages of it are great and at the same time obvious.
Combining the new type breathing with the simultaneous
arm pull and leg kick would give the swinuner one single
powerful effort coupled with a perfect form for gliding,
O.lur users of the butterfly lise the leg kick to boost them
on' of the water to gasp their break of air and at the same
time to thrust their arms forward, beginning the arm pull. It
is ;; tting the anus forw ard which is hard on the breast stroker.
rl’i c pull does not sap a man’s energy nearly so much.
No other breast stroker in the United States, or in the
V- id, uses the type of breast stroke breathing or the
: s uultaneous arm and leg action which Coach Hoyman and
i fS dent Dallas are now propounding. It is something en
: t ely new in the realm of swimming. It is a product of
• art a tribute to the inventive genius of Coach Hoyman
I !' • I the learning capacity of Dallas.
OSC, UO Race Today
Hayward Warns Orange
Miscues May Be Costly
Les Steers Will Try for New Record
As Oregon Thinclads Yearn for Revenge
Jake Liecht Threatens Old Sprint Mark
Oregon’s impatient tracksters who have been looking forward to
this day for a long while, get a yearned-for crack at Grant Swan’s
Oregon State cinder juggernaut at 2 o’clock today on Hayward field.
After last year’s 70 to 61 defeat in dual competition and a 5 to 3
rebuff in the relays earlier this year, the Webfoots hold no love for
the Orangemen.
More confidence was expressed by Oregon’s Bill Hayward over
4-1-V- ~
time before.
“Oregon State had better make
no mistakes,” warned the Web
foot mentor, “because if they do,
we have a chance for an upset,
if there is an upset it will be a
bad one,” he added.
Records Endangered
Three records appear endan
gered and several others are
likely to go by the boards when
the athletes start assailing
them today.
The old high jump mark of
6 feet 4 inches is almost a
“cinch” to be supplanted by a
better height when Champion
Ees Steers begins to function.
Hayward’s scintillating sopho
more has a “celling” height of
€ feet 10 2o-82 inches to shoot
at today. Les is also scheduled
to enter in the discus, javelin,
and shot put dividing his time
up among the four events.
Don Findlay, ace Oregon
State broadjumper, who has
travelled some 24 feet distance
in the broad jump pit, should
be able to crack the old field
mark of 23 feet 8% inches, set
by Ehle Reber, Duck captain.
Pushing Findlay in this event
will be the surprising Ray
Dickson, Zenos Butler, and
Reber.
Beaver thiuclads have a recog
nized advantage in the distance
events. They are led by Captain
Don Vaillancourt and backed up
well by Graff, "Waterman, and
Nelson. Vaillancourt may be due
to eclipse the existing two mile
record of 9:33.2.
Oregon’s hope in the 100
yard dash will lie with Jake
Leicht, Kenny Oliphant, and
Bob Keen, while Oregon State
will depend on Gray, Graves,
and Smith. The meet record is
:09.7, set by dusky Mack Rob
inson in 1938, which Leicht
equalled in placing second
against Washington State last
week.
After the sterling showing of
the Webfoot mile relay crew’
against the Cougars they are con
sidered to have an excellent
chance to put over a fast one on
the Staters.
Frosh vs. Rooks
A once plucked Oregon Duck
ling will hit the Hayward field
cinders, aioug with their varsity
brothers, today in hopes of
dunking a rather confident Ore
gon State Baby Beaver.
The long arm of Ed Atherton
late last night depleted the ranks
of the frosh dash men when he
declared Inky Boe ineligible for
athletics at Oregon.
Coach Ned Johns had this to
say about Atherton's finding, *T
figured the meet to be 69 to 53,
and this is just a few points, and
this might be the difference.” He
also said that further conferences
with Orlaudo Hollis will be the
final word on whether Boe wdll
compete tomorrow.
With an eye ou their mothers,
aad wins from several top-flight
WSC Blanked
By OSC, 4-0
Spectacled Glenn Elliott pitched
Oregon State’s Beaver baseball
nine to within one-half game of
the league leading Webfoots,
when he set down the Washing
ton State Cougars with only one
hit, in a game played in Pullman
Friday.
Tom Brannigan’s double in the
third inning was the only hit the
Cougars could muster off the left
handed Beaver star.
Capka led the Orangeman 10
hit attack on Hank Bushman, col
lecting a triple and three singles,
lecting a triple and a single.
Score: R H E
WSC.000 000 000—0 1 4
OSC .120 000 100—1 10 1
Batteries: Bushman and Sluke;
Elliott and Capka.
squads to bolster them, the frosh
will be out to crush the Beavers.
A 26-man Beaver squad was re
leased to Frosh Coach Ned Johns
which contains the names of some
of the state’s finest trackmen.
The University of Oregon
freshman baseball team will
meet the rooks on Howe field
this morning at 10 o’clock.
Oregon,UW
Clash 2 p.m.
In Net Tilt
With a promise of a preview
of what can be expected in the
championship playoffs later
this month, Oregon’s varsity
racquet wielders will swing into
action with the invading Wash
ington tennis squad this after
noon at 2 o’clock on the Univer
sity tennis courts.
The Husky squad is rated the
top aggregation in northwest col
lege tennis circles but can expect
some torrid competition this af
ternoon before they make any
pretense of wrapping up a win
in today’s matches.
Clark No. 1
Len Clark will hold the No. 1
spot for the team match with
Kerm Smith, Frank Baker,
John Williams, and Norm Wie
ner taking over the other as
signments to back up the left
handed netster.
The Duck netmen have two vic
tories against one setback in
match play this year. They split
on their Inland Empire trip,
dropping Idaho 4 to 3, and then
losing one to Washington State
by the same score. Last week
they drubbed the Oregon State
squad by a 6 to 1 count.
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