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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1947)
Washington Track Outlook Looks Bright for Uncle Hec I’v Associated Press Spring rains have left the landscape spotty and the Uni versitv of Washington track outlook appears about the same at this early stage of the season—but some of the spots are 1111 t Krio'li t Consider Roger 'I'uson, high w as more fitting for overcoats soared over the bar at 6 feet ]/\ mundson will say about this trans fer from Pepperdine college is: ‘‘He can do better.” Freshmen Good Then take a peek at Jack Hen sey, a freshman who specialized in the 440 in high school. The trained eye of the veteran coach spotted something in Hensey’s stride that prompted him to switch the young ster to the half-mile—and Hensey stepped the longer route in 1:57.1; the best in history for a Washing ton freshman. Hensey, says the coach who has been guiding the Husky cin dermen for 27 years and can dock a man by eye, can do 1:54 right now, weather or no. Three northern division cham pions are back in the fold, with Don Wold and Bill Steed topping the list of distance men and Bob McLaughlin handling the broad jump assignment. Wold took sec ond in the National Collegiate Athletic Association mile last year and his best time for the year was 4:16. McLaughlin’s best effort in 1946 was 23 feet 8 inches. Point Getter Hurdler Lyle Clark, who scoots over the highs in 14.5 and did the lows in 24 flat last year, is an other certain point getter for the Huskies and he has competition right at home in the high sticks from Freshman Jack Burke. Elsewhere the news is less than sensational, although promising in most cases. Carl Fennema, reserve football center, drops over from spring grid practice for an occas ional flip of the javelin and one of his tosses travelled 194 feet. Let terman Martin Smith and War Vet Dave Dalby are hitting 145 feet in the discus and Smith is reaching 45 feet in his early work with the shot. Two elc-hurdlers are showing the way in the sprints, with Phil Brewer best in the 100-yard dash and Earl Robinson leading in the 220 and 440. The clock has caught Brewer in 10.1 for the century. Robinson in 22.8 for the furlong and 49.1 for the quarter-mile. Track Team Gets Practice Two sections of the track team went through different workouts yesterday. Five of the cindermcn participated in the Southern Ore gon high school track meet while the rest of the men practiced on the local track. Only one more day of practice is slated before the team packs for their first away-from-home conference meet. A 22 man squad will leave Eugene Friday morning for Seattle and the Oregon-Wasli ington dual meet. Colonel Hayward sent his men through regular practice yester day in preparation for the big event. Time runs were held for some of the men and special time was devoted to coaching the field men. Hayward hasn't announced his traveling squad yet as revisions are expected to be made depend- ' ing on the early week perform ances of several men. Final practice for all men will lie at 3:00 p.m. according to Hayward when they will be given final in- i struetions for the trip. jumper. On a recent clay that lie shed his warmup togs and inch. All that Coach Hec Kd * . SOLD . . . Johnny Beaitley, tall right-hander, lias been palmed off to the Boston Braves for $20,000 by his former club the St. Louis Car dinals. Duck Racketmen To Meet Beavers After a week's respite from a stinging 7-0 defeat at the hands of Washington, the varsity tennis squad will seek their first confer ence victory or the current sea son when they exchange volleys with the OSC clan at Corvallis Saturday. These matches will wind up the home-and-home series be tween the two rivals. Coach Paul Washke said that a five-man squad will make the Corn Valley trek. Jim Zieger, Leland Anderson, Joe Rooney and Bob Carey have virtually clinched posi: tions on the roster, while number five spot is still a wide-open battle between Sol Lesser, Fred Howard, and Nick Reed. Zieger again became top man on tile squad this week by virtue of his clean-cut win over Ander son, who filled that coveted spot during the meet against the potent Huskies. Nick Reed also advanced a notch 011 the ladder by downing Sol Lesser, erstwhile number five man. r”-1-™1 ..—— At 'Ijeate £n&... ^ Colonel Bill To Hang-Up Spikes By AL PIETSCHMAN From this year on it will be Colo nel Bill Hayward, track coach emer itus. After 44 years with Oregon as track coach Bill is finally slated to step aside. However, even though the title would theoretically re move him from the track scene, he will still be the coach. A recent rul ing by the state legislature man dated that Hayward accept the emeritus role since there is a new law limiting the teaching age of professors. Hayward won’t be on the teach ing side of the faculty and will be able to devote all his time to track work; that is, if you can consider working out complicated devices for injured athletes of the foot ball, basketball and baseball squads not interfering with track training and coaching. Some may question those 44 years here at Oregon. It’s the truth stated in simple black and white. In fact, just for the books, Bill has been Duck Jayvees Puff in Practice Looking a little out of shape after a four-day layoff, the Ore gon JV baseball squad sweated and puffed through a heavy workout yesterday afternoon as Coach Bar ney Koch prepared for Friday and Saturday’s road trips to Corvallis and 'Portland against the Oregon State jayvees and Vanport college respectively. Koch was well pleased with his team’s hustle in its 20-1 trouncing of the Beavers last Friday. Starting off yesterday’s work out session with a bunting prac tice, Koch soon split his squad into two groups, sending one, the out fielders, out to the lower diamond with orders for each man to take five cuts in a batting practice. The second group, consisting of infielders, was drilled by Koch in a lively workout. Displaying plenty of hustle, the infielders were, rough around the edges, probably due to the layoff since the last game. Throwing was oc casionally wild with form and tim ing still not as it should be. In his infield drill Koch had Dick DeBernardi and Bob Walker al ternating at first base, red-haired Don Dibble at second, Jack Nash and husky Don Kimball, the Duck ling basketball player, at the short stop position, and Kay Stratton and hustling Fred Wilson working out at third. After an intensive practice Koch clocked bis Infielders as each man circled the bases once from a batting position. Dibble turned in the best time with a :15.25 run. Drop in this afternoon to pick up an after-hours snack to munch on while studying for your midterms. ft at UNIVERSITY GROCERY » 790 11th Phone 1597 I coaching sports for 53 years. He began in California five years be fore transferring to Oregon. Hayward Here in 1904 In 1904 Colonel Bill came to Ore gon as trainer and head track coach and has remained here ever since to become the dean of American track and field coaches. A recent i issue of the coaches' bulletin devot ed an entire page to Bill and his role as dean of all track coaches. Hayward has a long line of cham-. pions behind him—men he coached that turned in world-shattering per formances. He was selected as a member of the 1908 American Olympic coaching staff for the Olympic games at London. He act ed in the same capacity in 1912 at Stockholm, 1920 in Antwerp, 1924 in Paris, 1928 in Amsterdam and 1932 in Los Angeles. List of Champions His stars at Oregon? Paul Starr and Carson Shoemake, sprinters who hit 9.5 early in the '30’s; Ralph Hill, the national mile champion in 1930 and a top performer in the 1932 Olympic games; George Var off and Rod Hansen, 14 foot pole vaulters, Mack Robinson, hurdler deluxe and a member of the 1936 Olympic team. The list goes on and on. Hayward has developed cham pions for Oregon and if his desires are granted, he will continue to do so. In liis honor, Oregon’s pictur esque track and field setup were named. The Hayward relays, prepdom’s goal of top achieve ment in Oregon, are a result of liis state-wide track and field pro motional program. His desk is covered with letters from all parts of the world. You can _ill:_ find them from England, France, and on the other side too. Many of his proteges communicated with him regularly while in the service and hardly a week goes by with some former star dropping in to see how Bill is doing and to review old times. Once, back in the days of short marathons of 26 miles, Bill trained an Indian and coached this athlete to immortal fame in a special run from San Francisco to Grants Pass. Hayward had his man so well trained that race officials urged him to slow the runner down as he neared Grants Pass'. There were » too many miles between him and the second place man. Fabulous stories could be found in a scrapbook of Hayward. He is Oregon in track—think of track and his name is quickly linked with it. As a fitting tribute to the famous mentor, the school recently placed a large picture of him in the trophy case in McArthur court. All that is needed now is his inscription that usually appears with autographed pictures of himself. It reads: “I expect to pass through this world but once. If therefore, there be any kindness that I can show, or any good thing that I can do to any fellow human being, let me do it now. 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