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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 19, 1946)
]iwijuiniiiin:iii|inriiiiiiiiiiinmmiiiiiinmmimiiiiiiaiiiiiinni: A Tout’s Report - By LARRY LAU Fin i"iu:'i ii i iiiim miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii-iiii.il.in..... i!..iii!iniMiiiiiiiniiiiiiii!nmiif!iiiiiiiniiiiimiiii:iiii!m;ii:i!iiiimii,fl First Fiddle, the “Grey Ghost” of racing, long jinxed on the Pa cific coast, made up for lost time Saturday at Santa Anita by cap turing the $50,000 mile and one eighth San Antonio Handicap in the slick time of 1:50 flat. Veteran Johnny Longden was in the saddle as the Grey Ghost romped home, rewarding the more faithful with $12.80. First Fiddle is perhaps the greatest grey that has ever raced and this latest prize boosts his total earnings well over the half-million dollar mark. Autocrat, who was never conceded more than an outside chance by the experts, was hustled along by Scotty Craigmyle and breezed in for place money paying $23.30. — Top Field Paperboy, who was mentioned here about a week ago, got show honor’s. This is a remarkable feat, considering that the field was made up of such outstanding chal lengers as Be Faithful, Bull Reigh, Snow Boots, Texas Sandman, and Jhalf a dozen others equally as reat. Evidence of the tremendous interest shown was the mutuels’ recording of $661,674 bet on the single race. The $25,000 Widener Handicap at Hialeah was not the cut and dried affair that many people thought it was to be. Concordian upset the applecart, beating the top-heavy favorite Armed by a neck. Bob Mann, also mentioned here lately, took show money. Sensational Jeep Maybe seven furlongs is too short a course for the sensational Jeep, or perhaps it’s a good thing that the race wasn’t any longer. At any rate, Ted Atkinson rode War Allies into the winners’ circle in the featured sixth at S.A. while the fast-closing Jeep could do no better than second. Best horse of the bunch from this angle was Man O Glory, who started slowly, swung- wide entering the stretch, but in the final eighth made up enough ground to win the show money. Had the race been a mile, Jeeps’ backers would have really had something to moan about! Galla Damion has been tak en out of training and will not enter either the Derby or the S.A. Handicap, both of which are worth 100 G’s to the win ner. His trainer stated that he will be gradually rounded into __Sjhajie with the idea of point ing him at the Kentucky Der by. Galla Damion suffered a severe hock injury which ex plains a lot of things about his dismal showing ten days ago. Honeymoon, one of the fleetest in L. B. Mayers’ barn of young meteorites, is recovering rapidly from the quarter-crack she suf fered, is working well and will def initely start in the $100,000 Der by. Oliver Calls Gridders For Confab Tonight Rolling and tumbling footballs bounce into the spotlight tonight in 207 Chapman Hall, as Head Coach Tex Oliver calls for all veteran pigskin proteges and neophyte carriers of the leather to confe to the meeting at 7 p.m. for information on the spring prac tice sessions slated to start at the beginning of spring term. At~7:45 a motion picture of the football tussle between the highly vaunted Chicago Bears and the Philadelphia Eagles will be shown. The public is invited. SPRING BRINGS SPORTS THAW Coach Howard Hobson, soon to drift out of the basketball spotlight, and Tex Oliver, head football coach at the Univer sity, are pictured here in front of their McArthur court head quarters. Oliver is rapidly completing plans for spring football practice, while Hobby will initiate the diamond crews’ 1946 season. Coed &p.ositli<f,liti. . . Telegraphic Mermaid Sets Slated for Gerlinqer Pool By Mary Anne Hansen Climaxing the winter term’s swimming events, the intercollegi ate telegraphic swimming cham pionships will be held on Febru ary 20 and 27 in the Gerlinger pool. Coeds competing for the Univer sity are Joan Smith, Joyce Strick land, Mary Anne Hansen, Betty Crabb, Harriot Minot, Sally John son, Pat Mounts, Roslinn Enns, Berdella Ball, Betsy Moffitt, Joyce (Continued from page four) of the scribes is a tilt scheduled' for Saturday morning in McArth ur court with Oregon State Bar ometer writers. Ambulance serv ice has been set up for the fray, and both teams promise that highly toned muscles wili be in full prime for the fight. Summary: Sports Scribes (66) fg ft pf Hume, f . 7 3 5 McClennan, f . 0 0 1 Pond, c . 2 11 Taylor, g . 14 0 5 Yoder, g . 10 1 Turnbull, s . 0 0 0 Beckwith, s . 10 0 Lau, s . 0 0 1 Reed, s . 10 0 Dennison, s . 4 14 Cluff, s . 0 0 0 Totals . 23 2 18 Law School (34) fg ft pf Anderson, f . 10 0 Conklin, f .. 10 0 Sahlstrom, c . 3 10 Wood, g . 0 0 0 Walker, g . 0 10 Bocci, s . 5 4 1 Bolt, s . 0 0 0 Kabler, s . 10 0 Griswold, s . 10 0 James, s .,.... 2 0 0 Totals . 14 6 1 tp 17 0 5 28 2 0 2 0 2 9 0 66 tp 2 2 7 » 0 1 14 0 2 2 4! Officials: Roy Seeborg and Stan Williamson. Armstrong, Ada Anderson, and Sylvia Sachter. Tentative events include: 40 yard free-style, back-stroke, and breast stroke; 60 yard individual medley; and 80 yard free-style relay. The remainder of the events will be held the following Wednesday in addition to a few re-runs of races held in this first meet. Additional practices will be held throughout this week and next for all girls in preparation for the tourney. Hoopsters Finish Basketballers are nearing the finish of their season with Susan Campbell, defending champions, leading league 2 with four wins; Tri Delt tops league 1 with three wins and one loss; Independents and Alpha Gams are fighting it cut for first place in league 3, and Sigma Kappa is upholding league 4 with three wins and no losses. In today’s basketball fracases, Delta Gamma, upset Judson House in a close, well fought game 17 14; and the Tri-Delts, sparked by Lucille Bellinger and Betty Inge britson, defeated Hendricks Hall with a 26-10 count. Once again all WAA members are reminded of the coming elec tions on February 21, Thurs day, and of tiie fact that in order to vote, each member must show her respective membership card. The voting will take place in Ger linger gym from 11-1 in connection with the AWS and YWCA elec tions. SPORTS STAFF THIS ISSUE Co-sports editors; Leonard Turnbull Fred Beckwith Staff Writers: ' Duke Dennison Larry Lau Tommy Wright Lynn Smith Jordis Benke Don Turner Mary Anne Hansen A. Webfoot. OFFICIAL TRIBUTE FOR HOOP CALLER Now that the “loop and sphere” season is nearing a close, we should give a cheer of apprecia tion to one of the most colorful characters in Oregon. More stu dents know him than know F. M. Hunter. Who is this whistle toting, be mustached gent with the low cen ter of gravity? Emil Piluso. He adds a great deal of color to the game, in fact, I’ve heard many people say that they came to the games just to watch him. He can bawl those big bruisers out who are five times his height, and make them feel like naughty lit tle boys. He is so meticulous about placing his toe on the key hole line that the grunt and one point swish go almost unnoticed. Emil has been doing a bang-up job of refereeing longer than any of us can remember. In spite of all the fist shaking and blue air when he calls a foul committed by Oregon, I’ll bet 99 and 44/100 percent of the Oregon student body will want him back each year even if they have to give him a scooter bike to keep up with' the Oregon five. A W’ebfoot. Eugene Armory Slates Boxing Tilts By Duke Dennison There is evidence in certain circles of other circles. Now, if I can remember correctly, there is going to be some boxing going on in Eugene within a matter of days and there is no reason in the world why the University shouldn’t have a smattering of manpower en tered. As boxing is only held to be of secondary importance at school, it appears to me that there are a lot of the boys with ring savvy in the fold, and who would like to get into this Lane county A.A.U. boxing tournament. And, I am thinking that they could walk off with the majority of the laurels. The tournament is being sponsored by the local chamber of commerce and is to be staged Friday night at the Eugene armory. Closing time for entries is Wednesday eve ning and weighing in will be held before the fights. Strictly G. I. While we are on the subject of boxing, there are plans in the mak ing for having an all G. I. boxing tournament in the very near future to be held in New York (logical place, isn’t it). To place in this all-out tournament to determine service champions in all divisions | there will have to be held sectional tournaments in the different serv ice commands of participating G. I s and ex-G. I.s, with the pro ceeds of these bouts going to various service charity funds. That’s one of the best deals that I have heard of to date to come cut of the service to help along in sports. It will also aid toward determining quite a few of the future big names in the ring, and will give the game a fine boost. I just hope they don’t play around with this idea any more than can be helped, and put it into opera tion as soon as possible, which I won’t be any too soon. Frosh Face Rooks Today in Corvallis Minus the services of two play ers from his starting five, Coach John Warren leads his effervescent Ducklings into Corvallis tonight for the third of the four game series with the Rooks. The game sched uled for the Men’s Gym will start at 8:15. DeWayne Johnson, high scoring forward for the Frosh, went to the sidelines last week with a bad cold, and John Neeley, dependable Around The Clock With Duke By Duke Dennison Geez, I really went over the top yesterday, when I men tioned that Navy was the only unbeaten basketball team of National eonsequence, ’cause they met a major foe in the University of North Carolina the other night at Annapolis and really let old Teeumseh down. That’s the way it goes with sports. I find it that way with women, too. As it is now, there are a lot of teams car rying the load down the stretch and I would give my share of oats to sit in on the Inter-collegiate tournament, but I gotta study. Says so right here. Bis Skiing Everybody’s skiing. I don’t get it. Of course, I’ve never skied. You never saw any snow in or around Miami. Even the cakes are devoid of icing. Must be an edict by the local Chamber of Congress. Which, brings us back to skiing. Some sport, eh sport ? So, every week the UO skiers trek on off to some place called Mount Hood, and wal low around in the snow. Can’t be much else going on, on account of it reads by the papers that some thing like 14 foot of snow is hang ing around there waiting for nothing else to do but get people in a frenzy over nothing, and making them like it. That’s no fun. But should you range back east (there goes Duke with that east again), drop in at Hanover, N.H., you would fall into some lovely skiing, with hot and cold running tobag goning. Some of the finest ski ers in the world spent the past couple of weeks there to' set tle an annual dispute as to what club could outperform the other, and by this time it is a settled issue. McGill’s Men There is a small college from out of nowhere in this U.S. that goes under the name of McGill Univer sity, and which boasts of skiers from way back. So, these same skiers came from way back and took home the bacon to their alma mama, and you know bacon is hard to get. Of course, they got expenses also. In fact, they got enough from this tournament to manage a jaunt through Canada with a similar objective in mind, and if they win again and often enough there won’t be much studying going on at dear old Mc Gill, but who wants to study? I don’t. I’d rather fly. Skiing and flying have and bring similar re actions. Three-point landings, take offs, turns, spins and what have you? I’ll stick to flying. I can do a loop there with a twist of the wrist, but when I ski I get out wristed. . . guard, has been called to Portland for his pre-induction physical for the army. Johnson, though he was able to make practice Monday, is expected to see little or no action in the game tonight. The Oregon Freshmen have two wins over the Frank Mandic tutor ed Rooks, but the OSC first year men gave them quite a scare in the second encounter. Art Milne’s desperate and good midfloor heave clicked in the dying seconds of the game to give the Ducklings a 57 55 edge. Probable starting lineup for the Frosh will be Milne at forward, Mold at the center spot and Hug gins at guard with McClure and Allbright filling in the positions vacated by the missing Johnson and Neeley.