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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 25, 1946)
Webfoot Trackmen Make Title Bid Huskies, WSQOSC Rated Even; Ducks Darkhorse By AL PIETSCHMAN SEATTLE, University of Washington (Special to the Emerald) It’s a merry mixup around these parts as to who is going to win the first prost-war Northern conference track and field meet scheduled for the University of Washington’s lake side oval. 93 top trackmen are slated for action this afternoon and bo iar no scribe here has picked the , same team as winner; the track- and -field newsmen of the Seattle Times and Star are fight ing among themselves—the Times writer picking OSC by three points on the basis of the best times posted by all track and field men in the coftference, and the Star’s reporter choosing the Washington State team "as winners. The Cougars upset a powerful Husky track team at Pullman last Satur day and are rated favorites by some followers. After a long seige of hunting, Montana’s times and distances in past meets have been found, and they are not to be counted as lightly as they were previously. The Grizzlies have a 10 flat 100 yard dash man and a 21.7 220 man. Their other power is in the high hurdles, :14.9; low hurdles, :24.4; pole vault, 12’7/"; discus, 144T1”; shot put, 46'3”; and javelin, 188’5”. The Grizzlies are going to knock over the hopes of one teams that arrived here last night—they have a potential 24^ points chalked to their credit, and deprive every other team in the meet of several valuable points. Coach Bill Hayward’s 13-man —te^rm arrived in town late Friday night and are still wondering if they are going to have prelimi naries or not—the decision will be decided this morning in a meeting of the coaches at 9:00 a.m. Sprint ers and hurdlers are expected to have trials. aeatue s top rngnt prep stars tore up the oval Thursday with a three-way triangular meet and at tendents have been trying to get the chopped track in condition for the heavy use billed for today. Weather up here so far has been ideal. Officials in the prep meet Thursday contended that there was too much of a wind to give credit for several record breaking times— a wind capable of just bending a blade of grass. Several of the Montana runners pulled into town early yesterday and started limbering up on the picturesque track. The Ducks are v -noi^scheduled for any workouts except the possible pre-lims this morning unless muscles are cramp ed from the yesterday’s car trip. Predicting this meet is a question ■—if there was a Washington tax token to flip, that might be the best way. One thing is'sure, a fluke in any one race by an expected winner can change-the entire setup of the probable outcome of the classic event. In this corner of the University of Washington’s athletic depart ment, the forecast is for Oregon S2y, points, OSC, 32! One half point, and hang on to your hats. It looks like this: 100 yard dash: Oregon 5 Washington y2, WSC 3, Montana 2. 220 yard dash: Oregon 6, WSC 3, Montana 2. 440 yard dash: Oregon 2, Wash ington 1, OSC 3, Idaho 5. 880 yard run: Oregon 4, Wash ington 5, WSC 2. Mile: YVashington 3, WSC 5, OSC 1, Idaho 2. Two mile: Washington 1, WSC 2, Q&C 5, Idaho 3. High hurdles: Washington 5, OSC 1, Idaho 2, Montana 3. Low hurdles: Washington 3, OSC 2, Idaho 1, Montana 3. Gridders Get Call From Coaches All members of the 1945 football squad and all participants in the 1946 spring workouts just com pleted should contact either Tex Oliver, Vaughn Corley or Mike Mikulak at McArthur court to day. High jump: Oregon 6, WSC 2, OSC 3. Broad jump: Oregon 1, Washing ton 5, OSC 2, Montana 3. Pole vault: Washington 3, WSC 5, Idaho 11/2, Montana li/2. Shot put: OSC 6, WSC 3, Idaho 2. Discus: OSC 5, WSC 1, Mon tana 5. Javelin: Oregon 8, WSC 1, Mon tana 2. Mile relay: OSC 5. Total: Oregon 32i/2, OSC 32, Wash. 281/2, WSC 28, Montana 21 y2, Idaho 161/2 • Biggest events of the day will be the battle between Oregon’s Jake Leicht and Washington State’s Louie Christensen in the sprints. Christensen has hit a :9.8 100 dash to Jake’s 10 flat. The quarter-mile is expected to be a grand slam battle with Idaho’s Anderson, :49.6 man, and OSC’s :49.6 O. B. Hughes, fighting it out all the way. Hughes has a beautiful stride and a terrific lunge at the end of his race and might pull a win over the Idaho speedster. Locals have sold Walt McClure and Johnny Joachims short in the half mile. They give Oregon a pos sible two points, figuring Walt’s best time as 2:01.4. Well, Walt is going to surprise someone. Going down the list of events finds a close race in every one. Fractions of seconds seperate the leading contenders in the track events and only a few inches in the field participation. Exciting races, tight wins, flukes and all, we’re sticking with Ore gon and contend that they can win the meet—which will be to every one’s surprise around here! EUGENE GLEEMEN (Continued from page one) Guion; “Tramp, Tramp, Tramp” from “Naughty Marietta,” by Vic tor Herbert; “Chorus of Bacchan tes,” by Gounod; and “The Long Day Closes,” by Sullivan. Guest Soloist Guest artist with the Gleemen will be Albert Dunn, baritone, a freshman in the school of music. He will sing “Prologue” from Pag liacci, by Leoncavallo, “Come to The Fair,” by Martin, and "The Song of Songs,” by Moya. Allton Solo A note of humor wilt be intro duced with the “Drunken Sailor” song, which includes some piano gymnastics by accompanist Donald W. Allton. The Gleemen, an organization of Eugene men who sing “just for the fun of it,” are presenting this con cert under .the sponsorship of all the Eugene veterans’ organizations, with the proceeds going to the Veterans’ Memorial building fund. ONE OF THE VICTORS, Ranny Smith held down the third sack yesterday afternoon as the Oregon Ducks won the Northern Division pennant by defeating the Oregon State Beavers, 5 to 3. Husky Golfers Odds-on Favorites Today in ND The University of Washington Huskies loom as topheavy favor-1 ites when golf teams from five northwest schools tee off today for the 1946 Northern Division golf championships at the Eugene country club. The Huskies, undefeated in con ference play this spring, boast the 1942 National Collegiate runner-up in Harold (Toss)) Gjolme, and are favored to win the individual title as well as team championship. Gjolme may be pushed by a pair of teammates, Joe Greene, and Jack Hazlett, for the individual crown but is the definite pre-tour ney favorite. Top Webfoot golfer, George Kikes, has been playing con sistent golf the past month and may also give Gjolme a good run for top honors. In cluded in his practice rounds the past week have been sever al' par rounds. The Oregon team as a unit of Kikes, Bill Barash, Ralph Heustis, and Ossie Seida also rates very high and with the advantge of plying the home course may give the favored Huskies a stiff battle. The Oregon State team also in cluded a pair of top-flight individ ual performers in Ken Roberts and Ralph Dichter and could easily edge into a top position. All five teams were in town yes terday for a practice round over the country club links and several par-equalling scores were record ed. Play starts at 8:30 a.m. to day when the first threesome tees off for the morning 18 hole round with other three somes following at five-minute intervals. The afternoon 18 will start at 12:30 p.m. Considerable interest is antici pated in Toss Gjolme, Kikes, and Dichter trio which tees off at 8:35 a.m. The University of Washington, athletic director earlier in the week announced that the Husky link j team would definitely be entered in the National Intercollegiate at Princeton, N. H., June 27-29 and their performance in today’s tour ney may well show up the Husky possibilities in the east coast event. Personnel of the five teams as released by tourney director Anse Cornell and club pro Wendell Wood are as follows: Washington — Harold Gjolme, Joe Greene, Jack Hazlett, Vernon Burks. Oregon State — Ken Roberts, Ralph Dichter, Bill Johnston, and Sterling McGovern. Washington State,—Bob Lyone, Jack Daniel, Mickey Dukich, and Lewis Williams. Idaho—Fank McGinnis, Bill Mor ley, Walt Kelm, and Jacic Ogsbury. Oregon — Bill Barash, George Kikes, Ralph Heustis, and Oscar Seida. Coed Softball Title Copped By Rebec Team WAA will hold initiation an® presentation of awards in an all* member meeting next Tuesday, May 28, at 7 p.m. in the WAA so cial room. t Honor and activity awards will be given to those who have earned their respective points in compe tition. Virginia Scholl, president, will preside at the short meeting. Directing the affair is Betty In gebritson. In charge of invitations is Pearl Peterson; refreshments, Corrine Harrison; finance, Thelma Chaney. Kebec house came through the softball field to win the In tramural tourney from Grides in a lop-sided fracas, II-O, Thursday under the tutelage of their captain, Janice Neely. Pitching shut-out ball was twin Jean Neely who found little difficulty in holding the Orides squad in tow. Also prominent in the finals game was Bev Wadsworth, who, with two on base, hit a home run. Jackie Bogan was the losing pitch er. In the semi-finals game Monday, Rebec surpassed the defending champions, Susan Campbell, with, a 5-2 count. The other semi-finals game gave Orides the edge over Highland, 4-3. All-stars will compete Monday in a green versus yellow affair pitt ing top-notch players from all com peting teams against one another, which promises to be a stiff game. SATURDAY AD STAFF Day Manager: Bobbe Fullmer Solicitors: Bonny Chappell Dedee Givnan Layouts: Betty Clark Bev Moses Nancy Fitzhugh Lura Givnan Office Staff: Beryl Howard, office mgr. Shirley Minea Betty Clark Mary Joy Ham Alice Reitan Served as You Like Them Also STEAKS and CHICKEN Private Banquet Rooms Available GEORGE’S GROTTO OPEN 11 a.m. TO 9 p.m. Ph. 4527 764 Willamette