DUCK TRACKS
By DON FAIR
Co-Sports Editor
\\ ith spring sports soon to get into full swing, the Oregon
baseball and track aspirants are faced with the task of getting
into trim—but quick. The Duck diamond team onens with a
doubleheader against Willa
mette in Salem, Friday. They
play another twin bill in Port
land the following day against
the Pilots.
The initial hdfne game on the
varsity baseball schedule, to be
played at the Civic stadium, is
against the Salem Senators of
the Western International
league, Monday. Coach Don
Kirscli was bemoaning the poor
weather during spring vaca
tion, explaining that his men
hadn't had a chance for a
“really good workout since
practice started.”
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ART McLARNEY
John warrens tracksters hold a relay meet with Oregon
State on the Hayward oval Saturday. And like the baseballers,
the cindermen have had little chance to limber up and condition
properly for their opener.
High School Tourney Successful
The recent state high school basketball tournament at Mc
Arthur court was another big success, from several angles. At
tendance was again high; so much so that the cry is now
going up that the Igloo isn't spacious enough to accomodate
the crowds desiring admittance. Nevertheless it’s a far cry
from the dismal Willamette gym where the tourney was held
until 1947.
Art Litchman and Bill Stratton, a pair of hard working
men at the Athletic News Bureau, certainly went out of
their way to accommodate the press men down for the
tournament. Before the games, they turned out a dope
booklet, with up-to-date information on each of the 16
teams who participated, which entailed long distance phone
calls to each of the schools.
During the five-day playoffs, Litchman and Stratton kept
and typed up box scores, day-by-day high scorers, and any
other bits of information which would be helpful to the .gentle
men of the press. To top it off, they made up a tidy booklet
“Statistically Speaking”, which contained the complete history
of each team and player for the tournament. Service was the
by-word of the tourney, and it certainly was carried out on
all fronts, not to mention the Eugene Active Club’s fine job.
Washington Win in South Unusual
Art McLarney’s Washington Huskies, by defeating Califor
nia tAvo out of three, are only the second club to Avin a Pacific
Coast playoff on southern courts. In 1934 another Wash
ington basketball team turned the trick in Los Angeles against
Southern California.
Lots of interesting stories and rumors were circulating
around about that Husky-Bear series, most of them about
the rash showing of the Cal students. Some of these fables
were that Washington’s Bill Vandenburgh was clipped in
the back with an orange when shooting a free throw; burnt
out flash bulbs were thrown on the court; and Berkely
students were also accused of throwing a few punches at
the Husky cagers when they went crashing into the specta
tors after a loose ball.
Most of the trouble started the second night of the playoffs
when Chuck Hanger, in attempting a shot, jumped high in the
air, spiraled over Husky Bobby Jorgenson, who was standing
in front of him, and smashed into the bleachers. Hanger, re
putedly California’s best player, wrecked his knee on the col
lision and was forced to the sidelines for the remainder of the
series.
Price Holds Jorgenson Blameless
After that, the Bear students, approximately 5500 of the 7000
spectators, gave Jorgenson a fearful riding. Nibs Price, Cal
coach, said afterwards that Hangar’s injury “Was not the re
sult of deliberate or vicious play by Jorgenson, but was rather
a result of unscientific basketball.” Price claimed that as he saw
it, Jorgenson had no chance of stopping Hanger and instead
of playing the ball, the slight Husky guard played Hangar.
After Washington had captured the Coast title, the riled
Husky student body, some 47 living organizations chipped
in, got together a towel from each house, with little
‘pleasant’ sayings written on them. They tied these to
gether into one long “Crying Towel ’, and mailed the gift
to the student body at California.
Six of those Washington cagers are now cavorting on the
diamond for the McLarney-coached Huskies. Sammy \\ hite,
rated a good professional prospect, is performing at catcher
and first base; Andy Opacich, Bill Taylor, and Bob Bird, in
yfieelders; and Jorgenson and Hal Arnason, pitchers.
ATO Retains !M Lead;
SAM Tops Winter Term
Alpha Tau Omega still held the
lead in intramural sports compet
ition when the winter term totals
were added, but not by the over
whelming margin it had at the
end of fall term. ATO’s big 52S
points topped the list, but Sigma
Nu and Theta Chi, with 505 and
503 respectively, are scorching the
pacemaker’s heels.
Sigma Alpha Mu, whose “A”
and “B” basketball teams as well
as its handball squad went into the
final round of each event, headed
the winter term scoring with a
gross 267. Theta Chi with its “A”
basketball champs was second
with a bulgy 243, and Sigma Nu
took over the third spot with 228
counters.
TEAM Fall VV’ter Tot.
ATO 343 185 528
Sigma Nu 277 228 505
Theta Chi 260 243 503
Sigma Alpha Mu 204 267 471
Phi Delta Theta 316 155 471
Sigma Chi 242 217 459
Delta Tau Delta 245 163 408
Beta Theta Pi 228 178 406
Phi Gamma Delta 262 140 402
Chi Psi 228 178 389
Sigma Phi Epsilon 224 150 374
Kappa Sigma 203 163 366
Delta Upsilon 193 170 363
Campbell Club 149 203 352
Phi Kappa Alpha 193 153 346
Sigma Alpha Ep. 208 125 333
Lambda Chi Alpha 155 159 314
French hall 162 137 299
Minturn hall 174 125 299
Amazon Vets 75 75
Stitzer hall 62 62
Sederstrom 50 50
YMCA 35 35
Diamond Dust
Dickson Hurls No-No
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Mar.
30—(UP)—Dinky Murray Dickson
of the St. Louis. Cardinals turned
in a spring training no-hit, no-run
game, doing it the hard way by
double-blanking the mighty world
champion New York Yankees 7-0.
The only other pitcher to go all
the way for a training camp no
hitter was tlie late Cy Blanton of
the. Pittsburgh Pirates, who blank
ed the Cleveland Indians 6-0,
Gill Leaving Ags?
CORVALLIS, Ore.—(UP) A. T.
(Slats) Gill, Oregon State basket
ball coach for 21 years, announced
he has been approached on poss
ibilities of becoming bask'etball
mentor at either the University of
California at Los Angeles or the
University of Minnesota.
Gill said he was not in a pos
ition to discuss the negotiatiins
with UCLA or Minnesota.
“I’m considering one of the
offers, though,” he said.
Worst disadvantage of world
leadership is that it deprives a
country of the priceless privilege of
minding its own business.
.—==i
April 9, 1939 at New Orleans.
Never a fast ball specialist, Dic
kson appeared to be working at
half-speed most of the way, and
whenever he got behind on the hit
ters came up with sharp breaking
curves, his bent pitch.
Pacific Coast League
OAKLAND, Cal., March 30—(UP)
—Veteran Lefty Roy Helser put
on a one-man show here tonight,
driving in two runs and shutting
the Oakland acorns out, as the
Portland Beaveers spoiled the
Oaks’ hometown Pacific coast
league opener with a 3-0 victory
before an overflow crowd of 13,
802.
The only other run of the game
was little Mayo Smith’s round-trip
clout in the fifth inning.
Portland 000 100 101 3 7 1
Oakland 000 000 000 0 7 2
Helser and Ballinger; W. Hafey
and' B. Raimondi.
San Francisco 300 201 010 7 16 1
Sacramento 003 000 100 4 9 1
Brewer and Howell; Salveson,
Tost (6), Ripple (9) and Lombardi.
Los Angeles 000 000 141 7 14 3
San Diego 200 011 000 4 7 3
Lynn and Malone; Seats and
Rice.
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Drab winter term is over . . .
and everyone determined the
spring term is going to be the one
—to have fun . . . students amazed
at their grades, either higher than
expected, or lower, but never sat
isfied, throwing away the ponies
andteststhey workedso hard to get
during exam week . . , noting that
the local coffee and beer abodes
have an unusual smell—clean air1
. . . polishing up the golf clubs, re
stringing tennis rackets and get
ting picnic paraphernalia ready for
action. Winter is-gone, spring term
is here, very evident. Everyone is
looking forward to the famous
“Gay” spring terms of Oregon
fame.
Lads and lassies recuperated dur
ing the spring vacation. Phyllis
Kohlmeier headed for Timberline
lodge and even though she can't ski
says she enjoyed herself “just
looking at the pretty scenery.”
Many Ducks fought the elements
on the mountains for several days
then gave up, but those who held
out reported wonderful skiing last
Friday.
Canada was a popular place for
some. One of those getting through
the customs office was Theta Sally
Waller. Two who didn’t get through
the border were Barry Boldermart
and Ralph (I’m fob fat for me)
Caughell.
Helen Sherman was seen scurry
ing up Fifth avenue on her way to
an Easter job. Says her Reed col
lege friend burned his hand and
that’s why he was carrying a towel.
Kappa Grace Hoffmann was host
to sorority twin-sisters, the Mc
Clintocks, one day and showed
them around Portland.
Several weddings headlined the
romance department. Beta George
Alexander “I do’d” with Gamma
Phi Helen Shephard. Also starry
eyed after a California wedding are
Alpha PhiPatty Newton and Delt
Harry Nyland.
It looks as if there are going ta
be a lot of weddings this summer
and the problems of getting gifts
can be solved at Carl Greve, Jewel
ers, in Portland, Broadway and
Morrison.
Rog Wiley, John Warren and Jim
Aiken put on a big performance for
Bremerton when the two coaches
journeyed that way for a meeting.
If anyone in the Northwest doesn’t
know about Aiken or hasn’t met
him yet, it isn’t his fault.
The roster for spring football is
staggering. There Is a weight
check-in chart next to the scales in
the locker room and it isn’t inches
long, but several feet long.
Rumor has it that Mrs. Volts has
a secret spy, “SREGGIP” working
for her. And it is the first time an
ad has been placed by a comic
strip. What is “SREGGIP” ?
Spring sports begin this weekend
and coaches Don Kirsch and John
Warren are skeptical. Kirsch hasn’t
had time to get a team completely
organized, and Warren is wonder
ing about the shape of his men af
ter a week's spring vacation layoff.
Down at Southern California the
baseball team has already played
28 games. They have won 20 and
lost 8.
Michigan is setting some kind of
a collegiate record this year. Be
sides having the top grid club, they
won the big nine basketball title,
won the national swim test, and the
national hockey playoffs.
Engaged over the vacation were
Pi Phi Jean Boquist and ATO Pete
Dunn. Pete is in school this term
but Jean isn’t—road to Portland
will be kept busy you can bet.