New York’s Yankee stadium will be jammed replete by a
frenzied mob of humanity today, as Brooklyn’s beloved
“bums” haul their hickory bats and irrepressible morale
across the East river to their first nickel world series in base
ball history . . . with Joe Mc
Carthy’s Yankee bombers. And
from California’s Golden Gate
to the slap-happy Brooklyn
borough, the ears of millions
of Americans will be pulled
via radio to the scene of that
historic struggle.
After 21 years of vacil
lating between the mud
and the upper layer of
putrid air lying dormant
in the National league’s
cellar, after having been
made butts of outlandish
jokes, “Lippy” Leo Du
rocher’s lads have gained
the highest pinacle in the
senior circuit.
Yankees Favorites
JOE GORDON
However, against the New York Yankees the Dodgers will
probably stumble (George Kirksey, United Press columnist,
tabs the'Yanks to do it in six games). Brooklyn’s dogged race
down the stretch with Billy Southworth’s salary-hungry St.
Louis Cardinals has undoubtedly sapped the formers’ energy
reserve, making them more susceptible to the poison doled out
by Yankee bats.
Both New York and Brooklyn have played 154 games
during the season, the Yanks having won 101, one more than
their opponents. However, the Bronx Bombers won going
away ... by 17 full games, whereas Brooklyn wound up a
torrid chase with a mere two and one half game lead over
St. Louis. This exhumes that omnipresent controversy—
whether the Yanks have too much class or whether Na
tional league competition is a darned sight tougher. You
get riled up about it; I’m tired.
Movies Scheduled
Thursday night Oregon’s student body will catch a sneak
preview of its 1941 football team, even before the Webfoots
strut under the Kleigs in Hayward stadium against Idaho,
fortified this year by Francis Schmidt, one of the country’s
outstanding grid coaches, a proponent of hocus pocus play.
Movies of the wild Oregon-Stanford game in Palo Alto last
Saturday will be displayed in room 207 Chapman, with Head
Coach Gerald “Tex” Oliver commenting on some of the more
spectacular phases of the tangle as they unravel upon the
screen.
This is an innovation that has staying possibilities. Last
year, when Oliver found an Emerald sports staff waxing
irascible over continued secret practices, he issued a ...
promise, of which this was a prominent feature. Herein
lies a marvelous opportunity for students to snag a glimpse
of the intricacies of one of the most fascinating sports, a
sport upon which huge sums of money, time, and effort
are expended, a sport that constructively affects the lives
of e T°iry individual in the University. So without reserve,
go oat and see them . . . room 207 Chapman hall, 8 p.m.
Thursday. Incidentally, a great deal of the credit for
inaugurating these movies should veer in the direction of
Les Anderson and his rally committee, sponsors.
You Guess
Every Joe and Jane waltzing about the campus is busy
wondering what would have happened had the final gun not
intervened while the Webfoots were brewing a last, desperate
play to toss against Stanford. With five seconds remaining and
the ball in Oregon’s possession, a substitution halted the clock.
However, while huddled, the gun popped finis. And hereby
lies the sad tale. It seems a new ruling states that if during
the final two minutes of play a substitution is made, the clock
will be stopped but will resume ticking immediately upon
completion of that substitution.
What Oregon would have done had they the opportunity
of running that last play is purely a matter of conjecture.
Such might have been harmless or potent, witness U.S.O.
breaking a 7 to 7 deadlock with Oregon State in the final
13 seconds of play farther south that same day. One can
let his imagination run berserk on this kind of speculation.
Hoop Practice Starts
Six Lettermen
Form Nucleus
Of 1942 Squad
Six lettermen led the small
squad of fourteen in the initial
workout of the 1942 bosketball
team. Coach Hobby Hobson will
stress fundamentals in the early
stages of the practice.
All-conference guard Porky
Andrews, Jitterbug Paul Jackson,
Archie Marshik, Rolph Fuhrman,
Don Kirsch, and Warren Taylor
are the lettermen returning from
«last year’s third place team.
Cliff Anet, brother of the great
guard of the 1939 Alleycats re
turns from last year’s squad to
bolster the guard position.
Walt Reynolds, 1941 reserve
guard has decided to drop bas
ketball in favor of his pre-med
studies. Quentin Sidesinger, an
other of last year’s squad, has de
cided against playing this year.
Wally Borrevik will be unable to
play this season because of in
juries suffered in an automobile
accident last spring.
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Bronx Bomber
Slugger and fielder supreme,
Joe DiMaggio trots into the
Yankee stadium today ag'^inst
“Ldppy” Leo Durocher’s Dodgers.
—Photo courtesy Eugene News.
Frosh Hoop Stars
Report to Hobson
A galaxy of prep stars reported
to Coach Hobby Hobson at the
initial frosh basketball practice
yesterday. Sam Crowell, Roy See
borg, and Ed Salstrom from the
all-state team and Leonard and
A1 Popick and Paul Folquet ot
the Portland all-star squad fe<?
the, “big name” prepsters. Forty
seven men, one of the largest
turnouts in the history of the
University, started the practice
session with the usual calesthen
ics. The next three weeks will be
spent working on fundamentals
and conditioning.
John Warren, regular frosh
coach, wilP assume the coaching
duties at the end of the frosh
football season.
The complete turnout follows:
Bill Bloomquist, Jefferson,
Portland: Sam Crowell, North
Bend; Royal Denton, Roseburg;
Paul Folquet, Washington, Port
land; Art Joatinen, Molalla; Du
ane Marshall, Eugene; Nile Pauli,
Gardner; Leonard Popick, Lin
coln, Portland; A1 Popick, Lin
coln, Portland; Roy Seeborg, As
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JOHNNY PRESENTS THE
Philip Morris
score Cast
For 1941
DO THIS
Write your forecasts of the 3 scheduled
games on Philip Morris wrappers or fac
similes and drop in any ballot box.
Eenter as many as you wish—but each
must be on a separate Philip Morris
wrapper.
Ballots will be collected before the games
and winners announced here or with your
favorite dealer. List your name, address
and affiliation on each ballot entered.
WIN THESE
1000 Philip Morris Cigarettes free to ev
ery person exactly forecasting the scores
of the three scheduled games.
200 Philip Morris Cigarettes free to every *
person exactly forecasting the score of
any two scheduled games.
50 Philip Morriss Cigarettes to every per
son exactly forecasting the score of any
one scheduled game.
A modern Pliilco Personal
Radio will be awarded to
the man and woman enter
ing the largest number of
ballots for the duration of
the 1941 scorecast. Num
ber your entries serially...
Three additional modern Phileo Radios will be award
ed. One each to the fraternity, sorority and living
group entering the largest total number of ballots for
the duration of the scorecast. The members must note
their affiliations in the upper left corner of all
entries.
See these radio prizes at:
University Co-op
Claypool-Van Atta Pharmacy
— College Side Inn
University Pharmacy —
Lemon 'O'
The Falcon
They also have full details on the scorecast for 1941
SCORECAST NOW ON
Varsity vs. Idaho (nite) — USC vs. Ohio State — UC vs. WSC
(Ballot boxes closed Friday 6 p.m.)