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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1947)
• DUCK TRACKS By WALLY HUNTER Assistant Sports Editor \\ ord that is being passed on Oregon’s freshman basket ball Coach Ted Schopf says that he is headed for a spot on the coaching staff at Southern Oregon college. According to the rumor Schopf will take over as head man in both basketball and baseball. If the SOCE people are looking for a winner they won’t be making a mistake in grabbing the frosh mentor. The season record his Duckling cage squad made is one of the high spots in Oregon athletics this season. They managed to win 24 games and lose only two—which is considered a pretty fair aver age in some circles. The pair they dropped —4ivere to the Ashley Chevrolet team at Klam ath Falls and Washington high school. SLATS GILL The Duckling-Ashley game can be chalked off as a rather bad bit of scheduling. The Frosh stepped a notch or two out of their class in that one, and paid for it the hard way. The Washington high fiasco was an anti-climax sort of thing that found the Colonials hotter than a two-dollar pistol and the Frosh booting the ball around like a hopped up gang of Hottentots. Nevertheless it was a highly suc cessful season for the first-year men and Schopf was in the driver’s seat. Both Teams Played on the Same Floor Though it’s over and done with and the game is nothing more than a line or two of statistics, we still get a laugh out of the way the defenders of the Orange and Black moan over the loss to Oklahoma in the NCAA playoffs. The average Aggie rooter claims that the floor, whose base is concrete and built to support circus elephants, caused their downfall. That’s a good argument but it fails to include the information that the Oklahoma five had to trundle up and down on the same boards. Yes, but the fella says, Oklahoma played on that floor several times this season and they were used to it. That would be a logical answer if any team could ever get used to that kind of a floor. But it seems that the more one runs on a rock-hard court, like this one is supposed to be, the worse the old legs get. Of course, no man in his right mind would argue that it was a good floor, or that it wouldn’t do a lot to spoil some otherwise good basketball. But that most certainly isn’t the reason for the defeat. The Beavers either under-estimated the Sooners, or merely choked. Either is deadly in championship circles. However, it is too bad that Slats Gill and his lads didn’t go further. Even wild-eyed University of Oregon fans'can recognize a first-class ball club when they see one—and the Beavers were just that. Chances are it will be a long, dry spell before five other guys get together than can make such phenomenal shooting averages as did the, ’47 Orangemen. They were the class of the league and far-and-away the best on the coast. Never having seen the title-winning Holy Cross team in action, most people have such confidence in the Staters that they figure the Beavers are a stronger, better ball club, and would welcome a playoff game to prove it. "Fix" Bill Signed ^ Legislation recently passed by the Oregon legislative as semblies and signed by Governor Earl Snell that makes it a felony to accept or offer a bribe to “fix” or “throw” an athletic contest follows a similar tack being taken by many states recently. The Oregon law makes it a $5000 fine or a mini mum of five years imprisonment for a “fix” attempt. The measure was introduced by Senator Jack Lynch of Portland and-was largely a result of agitation by Sportscasters Johnny Carpenter and Rudy Lockenmier, also of Portland. TRAVEL IN STYLE!! WITH LUGGAGE from ■f Preston & Hales 857 Willamette Phone 665 No Vacation for Cindermen As Hayward Points for OSC Bevo Dual Relays On Tap Saturday By AL PIETSCHMAN Oregon’s 1947 track and field team gets its first test of the sea son against Grant Swan’s Oregon State Beavers Saturday afternoon at Corvallis in the renewal of the annual Oregon-OSC relays. Last year the Beavers swept six of the relay events while the Ducks cap tured only two. Spring vacation has meant loll ing in the sun or zipping down fast ski trails for many students, but nOt so for Colonel Bill Hay ward’s trackmen. Before leaving school they were toldto take their equipment home and work out. Hayward was intent on having his men in shape for the first meet and gave each runner specific in structions as to the type of events and training program he had sched uled for them. McCoy Takes Charge Webfoot runners living in or near Portland congregated at Roosevelt and Grant high school for their daily training programs. Hurdlers worked at Roosevelt under Mason McCoy’s able eye. McCoy, a former Hayward pupil, is track coach at Roosevelt, and volunteered to head the vacation training program for Oregon hurdlers. Middle-distance and distance men met on Grant high school’s oval for long hauls and speed Dr. Noble Accepts (Continued from page one) Korea and spent several years trav eling in the prewar Orient. He stud ied in Japan and China for four years under a Rockefeller Founda tion fellowship. Last year he was awarded an additional fellowship for further study. A major in the marine reserve, he served also with the army and navy on temporary duty while his marine unit was not in combat. He received the navy commendation ribbon for action at Bougainville. In addition to his Post articles, one of which will appear late in April on the possibility of commu nism in Japanese schools. Dr. Noble has had one book published and is a member of the board of editors of the Pacific Historical Review and a contributing editor to the Far East ern Quarterly. His book, “What It Takes to Rule Japan,” appeared in 1946. Some of his Post articles have been reprint ed in England, France, Belgium, Australia, Argentina, Japan, Korea, and China. =====_ Next Sunday is Remember your F a in i 1 y a n cl F r i e n cl s with Greeting Cards From .... VALLEY STATIONERY CO 76 West Broadway workouts. Colonel Hayward had stressed accurate pacing to his distance runners before they left the campus and had them stop watch laps for correct times. Some of the Duck cindermen stayed in the Eugene area and con tinued their programs under Colo nel Hayward’s guidance. When not coaching the University high school trackmen, Jake Leicht was busy warming up his legs for his first test on the cinders since the 1946 northern division meet in Seattle where he took firsts in both the 100 and 220. Webfoots Well-Balanced Another veteran from the Seattle meet, Bill Beifuss, high jumper, worked out in the local pits. Beifuss has been clearing the bar easily at the six-foot mark thus far this sea son, but has not tried for higher leaps. Most of his time has been spent on form in preparation for the battle he will have with Oregon State’s Bob Barber. This year’s relay team will be one of the best balanced that Ore gon has fielded for some time with plenty of depth in nearly all events. On the basis of trials held during final exam week, Hayward has a good idea of who he will send to the starting blocks. A wealth of talent fought for places on the sprint relay teams, and the starters will probably be Jake Leicht, Dave Henthorne, Cart Maxey and Wally Stilt. Henthorne, a freshman from Klamath Falla, showed impressive speed in the cen tury trials and came back later in the quarter-mile to beat the pack to the finish by a good 15 yards. Shelton Dost The mile relay team will requir® shuffling as the result of Dick Shel ton’s loss via the ineligibility route. In the trials the top four runners were Henthorne, Chuck Beckner, Wally Hunter and Shelton. Hayward has several alternate# with which to replace Shelton, among them the versatile Cart Maxey. Maxey is already slated for a place on the sprint team, a possi ble entrant with the high jump quartet, and may be switched to the mile relay squad if Hayward fig ures it advisable. Oregon’s two-mile team should be good with Bill Purcell, A1 White, Johnny Joachims and Wally Hun ter probable half-milers. Purcell, White, and Joachims aFe sure to get the nod, but Hayward hasn't announced whether Hunter will run on the mile team or the two-mile team since the freshman runner placed fourth in both events during the time trials. DANCE EVERY SATURDAY 1 For table Reservations Call Springfield 8861 9:30 - 12:30 Wayne Ryan and His Band SWIMMER’S DELIGHT 3 Miles east of Goshen. 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