I wanta World Series. A nice little series all of my own in anybody’s back yard that will bold about 68,540 people. Then I want said number of people to shell out money to see my ^series. Don’t say I’m nuts—take a look at the gate receipts jfor the opening game of the 1941 baseball elassie. $265,396 is Approximately the amount that the baseball fans poured into ,44ie tills to see the first game. Yep Brother, over two hundred «md fifty thousand pieces of iron to see some eighteen men nock, throw, and kick a little white ball around. -What About It? Go ahead, give it some serious consideration. Of course that $265,396 only begins to tell the very first installment , of the financial story. I could sell radio rights—that would i mean a lot of shekels. Think of all the nickels I could rake in from peanut venders. And the movie rights—the news reel companies are loaded with tin. I could give with : a lot more monetary angles but my brain is spinning already. Some High Lights As every series opener, the 1941 edition had its thrills, hc-roes, and high points. Far out in front of the pack for high honors was Charles “Red” Ruffing, the Yankee number one liurler. Big Red was right at his peak in the Wednesday elassie. The big righthander pitched for some five innings before giving up a bit, and was untouchable in the pinches. Undoubtedly, the surprise package of the series was little “Peewee” Reese, Brooklyn shortstop. A weak sticker through the season, Reese came through with three straight safeties to take first day batting laurels. Another surprise was the quieting of some of the big guns on both teams. .Joe DiMaggio, heavy clouter for the Yanks, Was stifled in the hit column with four trips to the plate, as was also Dolph Camilli of the “Bums.” Next Friday Most writers promise a three ring aerial circus this Friday night when Oregon plays host to Idaho on Hayward field. Francis Schmidt, frankly states that his Vandal squad is a razzle-dazzle type. Plenty of laterals, passes, and wide open ,|d.iy. With Schmidt, he has little other choice, llis team is just not the hone crushing type. Manny Vezie, after seeing the Idaho-Utah game in which the Utes took the Vandals scalps to the tune of a 26 to 7 score, cautions not to take the score as indicative of the Idaho strength. The Idaho offense has got a punch, he ' pointed out, and during the Utah game it worked well on the mid-field stripes but bogged down when the goal posts were in view. The T in Common The Ducks and Vandals have one very sad experience in »l*ommon. They took it on the chin from the T last week, and what’s more, both teyms that employed the T bore the name .of Redskins. For the Webfoots, as you’ll sadly recall, it was at the hands of Shauglmessy’s T while for the Vandals.it was the T of Ike Armstrong’s Fte.s. Some More T 1 hate to keep bringing up the subject bht it just seems to