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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 27, 1944)
Intramural sports at Oregon again loom as a dim reality, as the University, with its manpower shortage, both in students and instructors, faces difficult problems. Even though the men students on the campus are striving for activities along this line, the outcome is still indefinite, so we must turn to other fields for our sports at the present time. Buy Your Furs Now • Reasonable Prices ■J Matthew’s FUR SHOP 111 W. 7th Phone 3567 Prior to the real beginning of the football season, the foremost thing in the minds of most sports fans is the tight American league pennant race featuring Detroit, St. Louis, and New York. Mondays action brought in new complications as the race became even tighter. Aided by Philadel phia, who turned back Detroit, the St. Louis Browns, with their aim for an all St. Louis world series, vented their desires on the Boston Red Sox by sending Nelson Potter to the mound to bring back a two hit, 3 to 0, victory and a tie for first place. With no other team able to do the trick, it took seventh place Philadelphia Athletic to tighten the progress as they rallied for an eighth inning counter to take the Detroit Tigers into camp, 2 to 1, breaking the Tigers’ four-game winning streak and handing them their second setback in eleven days. With Detroit slowed down, the New York Yankees, considered vir tually out of the running, added more interest to the pennant dash by cutting the Tigers’ lead over them by ope and a half games, as they stopped Chicago twice in a double bill to pull to but three games from first place. It took the Yankees twelve inn ings to salt away the first game, but flashes of power in the twelfth gave them a 3 to 1 victory. Two home runs by Herschel Mar tin, which accounted for all five of the Yankee runs in the finale, gave For That FALL OUTDOOR LOOK See our Coats • Box • Fitted • Toppers KAILES'. APPAREL 1044 Willamette the Bronx Bombers a 5 to 4 win, and left them still in line for the pennant. With the world series only a week away, the showdown in the American league is slated to come with the final series between New York and St. Louis. Campus Calendar The YWCA cabinet will meet Wednesday evening at 6:30 at the home of Martha Thorsland for dinner. Amphibians will meet tonight at 7:30 in Gerlinger pooh Oregon ^Emerald W ednesday Advertising Staff: Dottie Maddox, day manager Ann Stewart Geneva Stuart Joy Howard Celeste Olson Brest, France, Battle Claims Ralph Russell Lt. Ralph Leland Russell, a 1938 graduate of the University school of journalism, was killed at Brest, France, on September 8 while serv ing with company M, 38th infantry, his parents have been notified. It was not long before his death that he received the bronze star for meritorious action in France. Lt. Russell, a native of Rose burg, was a member of Sigma WANTED ... DELIVERY BOY and MAILING CLERK Apply Journalism 5 or Contact Roseann Leckie Delta Chi, journalism honorary, while here. Shortly after gradua tion he became associate sports editor of the Eugene Register Guard. Prior to his enlistment in the army he was sports editor of the Boise Idaho Statesman. Make Your Room Attractive with furnishings from Johnson's. Priced to fit the college budget yet expertly made to last after you are out of school. Attractive book cases for your room — a handy place to store your books after class. To reflect the lightness of your room you will want mirrors. We have all types and just what you will want to see you throughout the coming year. Good looking chairs will help to dress up any room. See our many types with flowered or plain up holstery and maple. We invite all of you to come in soon and see our selection of college furnishings for your room. JOHNSON FURNITURE COMPANY 649 Willamette Phone 2693