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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 3, 1948)
Webfoots Face UBC Tonight Stan Musial Given NL '48 Award NEW YORK, Dec. 3—Stan Mu sial, the pitchers’ nightmare, was the most valuable player in the Na tional league in 1948. The voting of the baseball writ ers wasn’t close, as the lean St. Louis Cardinal outfielder piled up an impressive margin. If the pitchers voted, instead of the writers, it probably would have been unanimous, for Musial was a terror at the plate all season. He won as many races as Citation, leading with a .376 average, 135 runs, 230 hits, 131 runs-batted-in, 46 doubles and 18 triples. Ralph Kiner of Pittsburgh and Johnny Mize of New York tied for home run laurel9 with 40, but Mu sial was right behind with 39. Ed Burns of the Chicago Tri bune, retiring president of the writers, announced that Musial re ceived 18 first place votes from his 24-man committee. Five went to the Boston Braves’ ace pitcher, Johnny Sain, and one to Alvin Dark, the Braves’ sensa tional rookie shortstop. In the American league, Cleveland’s Lou Boudreau took 22 of the 24 firsts. Musial’s election, his third in six full seasons as a major leaguer, carried with it baseball’s official annual Kenesaw Mountain Landis plaque. It cannot mean any more salary for Stan, because he already has signed for 1949 and 1950 at a reported $50,000 per. He also won in 1943 and 1946 and, at 28, has many years to go. Points actually decide the award on the basis of 14 for a first place vote, 9 for second and so on down to 1 for a tenth place for a ballot. On this basis, Musial rolled up 303 to 223 for Sain and 174 for Dark. ’Football Kidnaped from Players/ Claims U. of Delaware President PHILADELPHIA., Dee. 3—(AP) —A university president kicked yesterday about what has happened Vo college football. The game has been kidnaped from the players, he said, and made sacrifice to victory and box of fice success. Dr. William S. Carlson empha sized he was not delivering a ha rangue on the purity of intercolle giate athletics, pro or con. He just feels that America’s colleges are going to hnve to live a long time with their gigantic offspring football. “And if the offspring is at times a Frankenstein's monster which threatens to obliterate the aims of the college itself.” said the Univer sity of Delaware head, “at least it in a monster of the colleges’ own making.” Dr. Carlson told the Middle At lantic States Collegiate Athletic conference that any respected col lege has a reputation and a tradi tion of disinterested service which must apply even to the entertain ment which they retail in the form of football. Intercollegiate football, he said, is aping tlie professional game in increasing degree, as evidenced by the unlimited substitution rule. Citing the “battery of coaches and other experts" called into use for a college grid tussle, the Dela ware president demanded: “What kind of a game is that ' Must we mobilize such huge forces before we can permit a couple of dozen supposedly health and intel ligent youths to play a game?" BIGGEST MAN on the floor— Roger Wiley, 6-foot, 8-inch cen ter on John Warren’s Oregon basketball team will be after bas kets and rebounds this weekend, when the Webfoots face the UBC Thunderbirds in a two-game pre season series at Vancouver, B. C. Rog will be a UO mainstay in Northern Division play. it Wonder what you're going to give for Christmas presents? Go to CHASE'S and look at odd pieces of rare China and Copper ALSO OREGON GIFT PACKAGES AT Chase Flowers AND GIFTS 58 K. Broadway Phone 4240 Ducks Battle Thunderbirds In Two Weekend Games Oregon’s cagers will attempt to bounce back from Wednes day’s surprise upset at the hands of W illamette tonight and Saturday at Vancouver, B. C., against Don Wilson’s Thunder- - birds from the University of British Columbia. Wilson, a former star miler at Oregon, is in his first season . as head man of the Thunderbirds, moving there from Molalla 1 • 1 i i_ _ ivintprinl T-Tp Iihq V> liv.1 L, HV. JVUI '-’UI. -- the same situation at UBC, most of the stars from previous quints having graduated. The Webfoots will be favor ed to cop both games this week end. though the run-happy Ca nadians will be gunning for an upset. Big Roger Wiley, bottled up by Willamette Wednesday, will be for and away the biggest man on the court and should gave a good weekend. Duck Sparkplug Sparkplug for the Ducks will be little Bob Lavey, two-year letter man, who will be at one of the guard spots. Lavey paced the Webfoot scorers against the Bearcats with 13 points followed by Wiley with 10. Oregon starters against UBC are expected to be 6-foot, 8-inch Bob Amacher and transfer Paul Sow ers at the forwards, and either Ken Seeborg or Dick Unis joining Lav ey in backcourt. Unis turned in a good game in Salem and Coach John Warren is hopeful he’ll come through again tonight. Still Experimenting Though the above men are slated PE Club Schedules Open House at 7:30 All men and women physical education majors and minors have been urged to attend a PE club open house, scheduled tonight at 7:30 in the men’s PE Building. Volleyball, basketball, badmin ton, and other games will be played, and refreshments will be served. to open the game, there will be fre quent changes, in an attempt to find the best unit possible. That might be the reason for the Willam ette loss, Warren’s only comment on it being "I put in the reserves too early and couldn’t get back into the - game.” Making the trip to Vancouver are Amacher, Sowers, Paul Cooper, Lynn Hamilton, and Will Urban for wards ; Wiley and Bob Don, centers; .. and Lavey, Seeborg, Unis, Johnny Neeley and Don Peterson, guards. The team left for Vancouver by - train last night at 5:50. BOWL for your Holiday pleasure AT Dorseys U-BOWL 1 OF JEWELRY FOR HER No other jewelry has the natural luxuriant luster of \ ariscite, a natural stone of emerald green and yel low. The combination of Variscite earrings and a ring will give that added touch to her costume, or a pin of \ ariscite gives a distinctive charm to her frocks that is noticed by all. Give the woman your heart jewelry of Variscite this Christmas. This stone has been cut, polished, and manufactured into fashionable jewelry especially for us. "U of O Co-op” The Student’s Store