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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1942)
Oh, well, we were warned that there would be days like these when we started this racket. One week and Oregon lost two head football coaches and we thought there was a shortage of coaches. Now get this. The athletic board that met last night considered the ap plications of four prospects other than Warren, who had their coffeetivc eyes peeled on the Duck football post. The names might, be familiar to you: Tiny Thornhill, Jim Thorpe, Chuck McGuinness and Hal Chapman. Yeah, of course they’re fa miliar. The Unforgettable Jim Thorpe I lioi'pe all sports fans remember that name. They can recall when as a member of the Carlisle Indian football team lie and his mates amazed the football world. Yes. and they will remember reading of his exploits in the 1912 Olympic'meet when be took the decathlon and pentathlon crowns in track. He is now coaching- a small pro football team in New Jersey. His application asked for the head football job and also as an assistant coach post on the track team. What he and Colonel Hayward could do in the way of track! And Thornhill Too The name Thornhill holds fond memories for football fans, too. Anyone who has followed football on the coast well re members his “Vow Boys at Stanford, and the three coast championships he tacked down with them, and his two New Years' Pasadena dates. The other two gents are well known in Oregon football circles. Chuck McGuinness is a University of Washington graduate and now holds down a football job at The Dalles. Chapman is the Woodburn mentor. While this column is written before the athletic meeting has appointed the new coach, it can guess, and with little fear of being Avrong, that John Warren will be the new football coach at Oregon. The column likes the choice. It likes John. John Has a Tough Job But “Honest John-’ steps into a tough job. There ha\re been rumors floating around the Igloo, and the locker room, that Oregon has a Avinner in football this year. Warren takes over at a bad time. There remain tAvo more days of spring prac tice and the entire practice to date has been aimed at drilling some “Oliver Twist” into the boys. Warren isn’t exactly a student of that type of play. Of cofirse, lie’s been closely connected with it in his seven-year stay here, but he has devoted more time teaching fundament als to his freshman charges and stuffing them with the sys tems of other teams so they might serve as scrimmage fod der for the varsity. John Avill do all right, though. And Avhat is more, lie’ll give some of the boys Avho didn’t get a chance under the other coaches an opportunity to sIioaa- their football Avares. lie only gets one assistant, Avliich Avill make it tough. Anse Cornell, Avho hasn’t done much football coaching since his days in Idaho, takes over the frosh activities. Hobby Hobson Avill eA’en get in a few licks at football coaching, too. it seems. Belated Opener with 'Bailey Men' Oregon’s baseball team will play a belated home opener against Washington State on Howe field tomorrow at 3. The opener will have all the festive garb of the bonafide opener that was scheduled with Oregon State last Friday, ex cept for the presence of the dignitaries. But it will have something that the opener with Oregon State couldn’t give — Buck Baily. And that three-ring coaching circus is worth the price of admission himself. About the only other thing the WSC boys will have to offer is a good pitcher named Bill Sewell, better known for his antics on the football field. G-man Atherton is on the campus. The last time he was here he cost Oregon seven likely looking freshman athletes, lie is on his annual Northern division tour of interviewing athletes. He stays here for week and then moves on to Cor vallis. He will cover the campuses of Montana, WSC, Wash ington, and Idaho, too. I wish Don Durdan would hurry up and graduate so Oregon could win an athletic event from OSC. It was his line single in the ninth that beat Oregon Saturday. Mead Hurls No-No Win; Favorites Triumph SR,DUs,Fijis Yeomen, KS, S.Nus Victors By JOE MILLER Sherry Ross smashed into the thick of the IM softball fight by battering the Theta Chis, 8 to 0, as Wait Reynolds gave the Rat tlers a lone single. The Rossmen broke up a scoreless pitching battle in the fourth by scoring five runs to put the fray in their hip pockets. Bill Davis suffered a fit of wildness, walking Blair and Dodson. “Trigger” Trask pumped a double to right scoring both runners. Reynolds and Warren walked and Miller slammed a long fly to deep center to score two more for the Ross club. The last run came on a walk by Bob Rey nolds and a single by Oly Rigo. Sherry Ross .000 503 0—8 8 0 Theta Chis ....000 000 0—0 1 1 Reynolds and Blair; Davis, Newland and Potts. Mead Hurls No-No as Nils Romp Johnny Mead hurled a no-hit ter over Canard club as the Sig ma Nus romped away with the game, 13 to 0. The Steers twins and Russ Nowling supplied most of the Nu slugging power, while the rest of their runs were counted' on walks and errors. Mead fanned 12 men in the six innings he hurled, while Can nard’s Nelson was getting slamed for 11 blows. Canard club ... 000 000 - 0 0 4 Sigma Nus .270 22*—13 11 2 Nelson and Kruger; Mead and Steers, Skillicorn. The DUs continued on their winning path by blasting the Chi Psis, 12 to 0. Bob Wren continued to lead the league in strikeouts fanning 13 Lodge men. He pounded out four-for four off Bud Fenton including two circuit smashes to help win his own ball game. The Chi Psis* were at the mercy of Mr. Wren, “Black Sam” Houston touching him for their lone hit. Delta Us 302 122 2—12 16 1 Chi Psis 000 000 0— 0 1 3 Wren and Dugan; Fenton and Houston. Phi Sigs Smash Yeomen The Phi Sigs looked like the N.Y. Yankees in the second frame blasting out 15 runs on nine hits in that inning to sub merge a leaky Yeomen outfit, 16 to 3. The Phi Sigs snapped back and looked like a powerhouse club against the opposition. Slim Jim Parsons gave up only two blows, while Yeomen throwers, Jackobsen and Herman gave up 10 and walked 14 men. Barrows and Spence Weills homered for the Phi Sigs. Yeomen .100 101 0— 3 2 4 Phi Sigs 015 001 0—16 10 2 Jackobsen, Herman and Smith; Parsons and Smith. The Kappa Sigs came back with an amazing 2 to 1 win over a disorganized Omega hall ten. Bill Jameson bested Sherm Olts on the hillock, giv ing up five hits to the three Olts allowed. The Star boys counted their winning run on a single by Scotty Deeds and a long fly ball by Jack Lansing. Kappa Sigs . 001 001 0—2 3 2 Omega hall ... 000 100 0—1 5 3 Jameson and Rhea; Olts and Roper. Phi Gamma Delta also won by forfeit, when Sigma hall failed to show. MASTER SHOWMAN . . . . . . Buck Bailey, brings Cougars to Eugene Wednesday. TUESDAYS CO-ED TENNIS SCHEDULE Interhouse Singles: Maxine Mann vs. Lois Bald win. D. Engle vs. Martha Jane Switzer. All-Campus Singles: Beverly Valleau vs. A. Friz zel. Highland 7o’ Drubs Chi Os Highland House scored an im pressive victory over the Chi Omega softball team Monday afternoon, 16-2, maintaining their undefeated standing i n “A” league competition. Hard hitting and fair defensive play by the Highland ten gave them an early lead which they steadily in creased throughout the game. The outstanding hit of the game came when Gertrude Kay slugged one of Nancy Lewis’s pitches into right center field for one of the longest hits of the sea son. She also gathered a triple and double, while Audrey Holi day netted four hits out of four times at bat. Lucille Voegelein pitched good ball for the Highlanders, holding her opponents to a few hits, while Mary Alderson hurled a fast hook ball for two innings to really baffle the Chi Os. June Hitchcock and Doone Eccles scored Chi Omega’s two runs. Robin Nelson, Nancy Lewis and June Hitchcock played good ball for the los ers. In “B” league play, Hilyard House won from Alpha Chi Ome ga, even though they were with out their star pitcher, Mildred Thomas, in the infirmary with measles. The game was close throughout until the last inning, when Hilyard scored seven runs while holding the Alpha Chi Os scoreless. This afternoon Susan Camp bell plays Alpha Delta Pi in “A” league play, while Alpha Omicron Pi meets Pi Beta Phi ten in “B” competition. mimuj MICKEY’S LOOSE! 'COURTSHIP OF ANDY HARDY' with Mickey Rooney Also 'NAZI AGENT' with Conrad Veidt Buck Bailey, WSC Face Ducks Twice Old Buck Bailey, ringleader of the rollicking Washington State Cougars and showman unsur passed, blows into town with his baseball crew Wednesday for the first of a two-game series with the Ducks. A second game will be held on Howe field Thursday. Both games will be at 3 o'clock. The Ducks almost broke the old Buck's heart last year by beating the Cougars four straight and had the WSC giant roaring like a bull moose. Bill Hamel broke up a tight ball game in the opener last season by smashing a homer to left with two men on to give the Ducks a 13 to 12 win. The following day Tony Crish, in a pinch-hitting role, golfed a single to score Don Kirsch in the tenth for a 5 to 4 triumph. On the invasion trip to Pull man Pete Igoe blanked WSC with four hits, winning 9 to 0. Things were topped off when Dick Whit man larruped out a four-bagger to score two men ahead of him for an 8 to 5 victory and a grand slam for the series. OSC Grabs (Continued from pane four) second on Pederson’s sacrifice. Don Durdan, basketball-baseball football and-what-have-you star, then iced the game for Pitcher Elliott by caressing the apple to center field. Dick Whitman made a beau tiful play of the ball, throwing a strike home to Catcher Pilip. The ball and the storming Mr. Peters, with the speed of an express train, came to the plate as one. Result: Catcher Pilip on his ear, the ball on the ground, ond Mr. Peters safe. Both teams gave brilliant sup port afield, a snappy double play for OSC—Elliott to Catcher Am acher to First Baseman Strode— in the fourth, cooling a Duck up rising. Duck Golfers (Please turn to page seven) Duden (76) .;..2% Bergstrom (77) . 2 Barash (72) . 3 OSC (7) Weston (75) . Smith (78) . . Weiman (80) . Woods (78) . Boone (78) . Strong (75) . . -IV2 . 0 . 0 - Vz . l . 0 Doubles Hanen-Cawley (68) .2V2 Duden-Barash (73) . Bergstrom-Maier (72) . 2 Weston-Smith (72) . 14 Wood-Strong (70) .2% Weiman-Boon (74) . 1 A WESTERN EPIC TEXAS' with Edgar‘Buck’ Buchanan Also Robert Young Ruth Hussey 'Married Bachelor'