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) . .
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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'