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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1941)
Les Steers to Jump In L.A. Track Meet Les Steers is scheduled to make his highest and longest jump into the stratosphere to date, Thursday. It will not be competition in the high jump pit, but rather an airplane hop from Portland to Los Angeles for Steers who participates Saturday in the first annual Coliseum relays. At 9:40 a.m. the Oregon star will leave Portland, accompanied by his durable coach, the venerable Bill Hayward. Up to now Leapin Les has held no serious opposition, seizing firsts with monotonous regular ity. Saturday should be a differ ent matter. Three nationally known aces will be out to contra dict Steers’ supremacy among the high-jump elite. Picture such an array as Johnny Wilson, Sou thern California flash; Bill Stew art, Southern California Athletic association; H. G. Boydston, Oklahoma A. & M.; and Steers all in one pit. Steers Sets Mark Monday, Hayward's spring ing sophomore provided a lone rosy glow to an otherwise drab picture when Steers set a new northern division record, while Oregon’s team was placing a dis appointing fourth. Washington State, perennial champion, cap tured their ninth consecutive flag on their Pullman lot, with 48 2-5 points. Washington came second with 331-5, Idaho third with 30 2-5, Oregon fourth with 26 1-10, Oregon State fifth with 16 2-5, and Montana sixth with 10U Summary: 220-yard dash -Won by Haley, WSC; second, Qvale, Washing ton; third, Smith, Washington; fourth, Gray, OSC. Time, :21.2. Two-mile run—Won by Dyr gall, Idaho: second, Vaillancourt, OSC: third, Liebowitz, Idaho; fourth, Williams, WSC. Time, 9:28. 220-yard lew hurdles—Won by Haley, WSC; second, Butler, Ore gon; third, McLaughlin, Washing ton; fourth, Perry, WSC. Time, :23.8. Broad jump—Won by Findlay, OSC, 22 feet 7 inches; second, Johns, Washington, 22 feet 1% inches; third, Reber, Oregon, and Yovetich, Montana, tied, 22 feet 1 inch. Discus—Won by Anderson, Ida ho, 144 feet 10% inches; second, Clawson, Montana, 144 feet 4% inches; third, Barr, Washington, 144 feet 34 inch; fourth, Stone, WSC, 138 feet 8% inches. Pole vault — Won by Makela and Kerby, Idaho; Thomas and Hendershott. Oregon, and Pirie, WSC, all tied at 13 feet. Mile relay—Won by WSC (Kei leher, Brown, Lang, and Dale); second, Washington; third, Ore gon; fourth, OSC. Time, 3:17.9. Steers Wins Javelin throw—Won by Steers, Oregon, 205 feet 2% inches; sec ond, Ryan, Idaho, 196 feet 3 inch es; third, Krieger, Montana, 186 feet 458 inches; fourth, Haagen, Washington, 173 feet 3% inches. 120-yard high hurdles — Won by Schade, WSC; second. Butler, Oregon; third, Halloway, OSC; fourth, Parry, W’SC. Time, :15.1. 880-yard run — Won by Dale, WSC; second, Lang, WSC; third, Swanzy, Washington; fourth, Mc Kinney, Oregon. Time, 1:53.9. Shotput — Won by Londos, WSC; 48 feet 8 inches; second, Heaton, Washington, 48 feet 4)4 inches; third, Bell, Idaho, 47 feet 8% inches; fourth, Ullman, Wash ington, 45 feet 10% inches. Oregon Again High jump —Won by Steers, Oregon, 6 feet 8 13-16 inches; second, Gole, Washington; Mc Cain, WSC; Beifuss, Oregon; Findlay and Mandic, OSC, all tied at 6 feet 1 inch. (New northern division meet record. Old mark, 6 feet 6 inches, set by Vander may, Washington, in 1937). Mile run—Won by Liebowitz, Idaho; second, Williams, WSC; third, White, Idaho: fourth, Dwy er, Idaho. Time, 4:20. 440-yard dash—Won by Long-, Washington; second, Fairbanks, Montana; third, Blair, OSC; fourth, Murphy, Montana. Time, :48.5. 100-yard dash—Won by Haley, WSC; second, Qvale, Washing ton; third, Smith, Washington; fourth, Clark, Idaho. Time, :09.S. Softball Play Advances Bill Borcher’s no-hit perform ance against the A TO nine topped the softball card for the last two days. He struck out fourteen men. Summaries, May 19: Kappa Sig. 330 100 1— 8 Belts . 000 100 1— 2 Engelke and Rhea; Skelly and Boekes. Zeta . 110 001 0— 3 Beta . Ill 001 x— 4 Dollarhide and Sandstrom; Pavalunas and Beard. ATO . 011 001— 3 Phi Sig . 200' 002— 4 Whitely and Hay; Schick and Hetchiner. Sigma Nu 102 10— 4 Campbell . 200 00— 2 Mead and Steers; Larson and Thurston. Theta Chi . 020 12— 5 Superchargers . 010 00— 1 Lobacks and Potts; Wright and Culwell. Sig Eps . 724 01—14 Sigma . 000 20— 2 Andrews and Shackleford; Browning and Richardson. Fiji . 003 10— 4 SAE . 105 3x— 9 Conlin and Pilip; Hartzell and Hayes. May 20: Phi Delt. 000 010 4— 5 Sigma Chi . 020 000 0— 2 Jackson and Arbuckle; Lock wood and John. Fiji . 000 000 1— 1 Beta . 023 020 x— 7 Conlin and Pilip; Pavalunas and Beard. DU . 000 001 2— 3 ATO . 000 000 0— 0 Borcher and Grabb; Whitely and Hay. Pi Kapa..«. 9 Zeta . 5 McKee and Formosa; Dollar hide, Reynolds and Sandstrom. Sherry Ross . 4 Sammies . 3 Netmen Tip Linfield, 6-1; TinpantsWin Oregon dropped the Xo. 1 doubles match, but then swept all five singles duels and copped the No. 2 doubles after three drawn-out sets to trounce Lin field college at Linfield yester day 6 matches to 1. On the University courts the day before, Coach Paul Wash ke’s Duckling tennis tea. m smashed Eugene high school, 7 matches to 0, keeping unsplotched its ledger for this season, which shows an earlier 4 to 3 win over Oregon State’s rooks. Leave for Seattle At 7 o'clock Thursday morn ing the top four Wcbfoot net sters leave from in front' of the College Side for Seattle and the northern division playoffs, which get underway Friday. Washington, Washington State, Oregon State, and Idaho are entered. Webfoots making the trip are Len Clark, Baker, Smith, and Johnny Williams. After breezing through their singles matches, Frank Baker and Norm Wiener ran afoul when they teamed in the No. 1 doubles against the wildcats, losing 6-4, 2-6, 6-4, to E. Lieu and W. As planalp. Kerm Smith and Byron Van Metre couldn’t hang on in the first set, dropping it 6-4 to 0-0. Johnson and B. Hendrickson of Linfield. A sparked-up game gave the Oregon duo the second set, 6-1, and it managed to make less errors than its opponents to fin ally wind up on top of a 9-7 tee ter-totter set. Varsity summary: -Singles— Smith, O, beat Lieu, L, 6-1, 6-2; F. Baker, O, beat Asplanalp, L, 6-1, 6-1; Wiener, O, beat J. Ba ker, L, 6-1, 6-0; Van Metre, O, beat Johnson, L, 6-1, 6-0; Ka hananui, O, beat B. Hendrickson, L, 7-5, 6-3. Doubles—Asplanalp and Lieu, L, beat Baker and Wiener, O, 6-4, 2-6, 6-4; Smith and Van Metre, O, beat Johnson and Hendrickson, L, 4-6, 6-1, 9-7. Frosh summary: Singles — This Social Splash Well Clean in a Flash! “Eugene’s Finest Laundry Service’’ Phone 825 NEW SERVICE LAUNDRY ‘Service Our Motto’ 839 High St. Tall Wally Borrevik Hurt in Auto Crash By WALLY Hl’NTER Elongated Wally Borrevik, the tallest of Oregon’s tall fir ba-net ball team, was seriously injured in an automobile accident Saturday night at 7 o’clock, at Rcedsport, Oregon. Sophomore Borrevik was thrown front his ear when it was strriK k as he pulled away from a stop street. He suffered a fractured skull!, a brain concussion, and blood vessels were ruptured in the right < til© or his head, when he struck against large boulders that were part of the fill at the side of the road. Don Baldridge, a fellow Sigma Chi, was in Marshfield at Borre vik's hospital last Sunday, and re ported that nbthing could be de cided about his chances of re covery. Ho wasn't yet in good enough condition to be x-rayed, but doctors were sure of their diagnosis of his injuries. Condition Unsettled Further official word is ex Rooney, O, boat F. Howard, E, 6-2, 6-0; Ricksecker, O, beat Reed, E, 9-7, 6-1; Kramer, O, beat Sprecker, E, 6-1, 6-3: W. Far rell. O. beat Quick, E, 6-3, 6-1; Yardum, O, beat Wirt, E., 6-0, 6-0. Doubles Rooney and Rick secker, O, beat Howard and Reed, E, 6-2, 6-1; Yardum and Farrell, O, beat Sprecker and Quick, E, 6-0, 6-1. pected on Borrcvik's conditon by Baldridge sometime this morn og. Said Baldridge. "It wasn't until late Sunday that they gave ■ u/i a chance.” Baldridge also re vealed that Borrevik’s condition would improve and then he would suffer relapses, so that things are in the uncertain stages. Lanky Wally was one of tho outstanding sophomore play .a last season. He made the cirn it east to play the bright f»ght teams there but failed to make the Hawaiian islands trip when the ineligibility axe clipped timi just before the jaunt. UNIVERSITY BUSINESS COLLEGE SHORT JIA \ D—TY PE WRIT Kl COMPLETE BUSINESS COURSES Edward L. 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