' DUCK TRACKS
By FAST-CHICAGO FRAZIER
The sports pages of the Oregon Daily Emerald are written
with an eye to posterity. In that respect the Emerald resembles
the Xew York Times. Emerald sports editors write everything.
All statistics are-detailed completely
in the columns of the Emerald
sports page. In years to come sports
historians will find ample guff for
their chronicles of University of
Oregon sports, both conference and
intra mural.
The other outstanding character
istic of the sports pages of the T.m
*** erald is the cooperation between the
. sports staff and the men and wom
en's physical education department.
'I'he p.e. school advocates sports in
which everybody plays. They tol
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erate jUUU students sitting1 in the rain to watch 22 men beat
the pants off one another, but their hearts are reallv warmed
by the sight of the 22 men. Get it? The p.e. school likes action
en masse.
To keep the record straight and complete, and also to foster
the mass-sport kick, the ‘Emerald today tells all about jacks.
lm future years, when jacks as a sport is as.passe as keggling
(an early American sport still indulged in sometimes on pic
nics),- posterity can still know all about it. Just read the old
Copies of the Emerald.
Jacks, as played in the Pacific Coast conference, is a game
in which only a limited number of persons can play at one time
—two per team, if we are to be specific. They play with 12
jacks, in a 10-game series. The important feature of the coast
conference rides, though/is the regulation on the pinkev.
Must n't Muff Pinkey
A pinkey muffed is a turn missed." Edmund Anethma,
late commissioner of the conference, used to sav with a gav
laugh.
^ 1 ten-game series must be played in the following' order:
1. First game
2. .Cherries-in-the-basket
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3. _, Skrvv-C hie ago
4. Forewards-and-backwards
5. Left-handsies I
6. Fast-Chicago
7. Falling-Stars
8. Falliiig-Stars-Fast-Chicago
, 9.. IJpuble-Cherries-in-the-Basket
10. Leftrhandsies IT
All this will no doubt be clear to posterity, save perhaps the
subtle difference in Games 3 and 6. The difference there is one
of tempo.
Since the economic aspects of athletics are all too often
ignored in the hum-druln of big league ball games, it might
be well to set down some of the practical problems that are
facing the jacks enthusiasts this year.
War Hits Jax Biz
Most serious during the war was the critical shortage of
jacks. Most jacks had been made in Japan, and about 1940 the
Jap jack interests took to manufacturing beach mines. Nat
urally that was a blow to the American sport. The matter was
further complicated when American manufacturers, just be
ginning to re-tool for the lucrati\*e jack trade, had to re-tool
. -«#£-ain and start making beach mines themselves.
Jacks, mostly of American manufacture, are hack on the
market now, however. Jacks are back, hut not galvanized jacks.
The equipment currently being used, even in the bigger leagues
is highly susceptible to rust, and a rusted jack is no joke.
Up in the p.e. school only last week, Dean Leighton was
heard to order an investigation into the fate of the galvanized
jack.
Even more serious than the jack shortage, was the ball
shortage, brought about also by the war. The high-grade balls
to which players were accustomed before the war, gave wav to
cheaper imitations, often moulded from reclaimed inner-tubes,
pipe stems, and pool table cushions. These balls tended To
bounce off to one side, instead of bouncing straight in the air.
Thus it became necessary to keep one eye on the ball, some
thing unheard of in pre-war days.
Dissention on the Surface
Onlv last rear a lively debate ran through the women’s
dorms, regarding the proper surface for the game. There was
a group who preferred a highly-polished floor, believing that
the slippers' floor imposed a tricky handicap, thus making the
% ^game even more difficult.
Debate winners, though, were the girls with the long mem
ories. who held out for a strip of sidewalk, with a high curb.
The semi-smooth concrete surface has since been adopted
by the conference as the official field of play.
Snide Retains
Chess Crown;
Crowd Cheers
By ROOK HOLCOMB
Snarling, snappy Sammy Snide
won his seventh consecutive game
at the Igloo last night to retain
the Northwest onferenec ' chess
championship for the eleventh
year in a row. As usual, he played
blindfolded.
Snide’s opponent was the
masked marvel from Moscow,
‘‘Gambiteer” Morphy, who was
checkmated in 17 moves. Snide
threw his hapless queen, a bold
bishop and both his knights into
the conniving hands of the masked
Morphy, but managed to finish
with an astounding victory.
While the crowd, estimated at
7639, paled' and gasped at Snide’s
audacity as he slashed through the
masked man’s defense with a dar
ing number of nfcui en prise at all
times, Snide strutted about the
floor with his two seeing-eye dogs
and barked out his moves. On his
fifteenth, when he sent his bishop
to Q2, taking a rook and' checking
Morphy’s king for the first time,
several of the closest spectators,
who were able to follow the game
without benefit of the loudspeaker,
began to cheer.
At that point one of the athletic
supporters threw a beer bottle at
Snide. Using tear gas, the police
quickly quelled the small riot that
followed.
Only seven casualties were re
ported, one being Snide's left see
ing-eye dog.
A few minutes later when Snide
called out, “R-Q8 mate,” the
crowd, estimated at 7632, jumped
to its feet en masse and cheered.
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All graduates of the school of
business administration make $5000
a year.
THE GUY with the racket is Wally Bostick whose picture appeared
on Page 1 Saturday. This morning it appears on the sports page
where it belongs.
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