DUCK TRACKS
By Tom King
Emerald Sports Editor
It's a long time between seasons for the average college sport,
but then maybe football isn't exactly average. Perhaps it de
serves a special little place of its own, set off from its common,
run-of-the-mine brethern sports.
In any event, it pretty much violates the “long time between
seasons” rule, and to be convinced one need only take a squint
at the lower practice field where Oregon’s Webfoots are present
ly engaged in dismembering one another in grand style, one limb
at a time.
One may recall that exactly three months ago they were en
gaged in the same blood-curdling occupation.
The boys started out by cracking skulls the very first after
noon. and this will pretty much set the pattern for the remainder
of the 30-day slam-session.
Law of Diminishing Returns
All told there were 124 boys who checked out suits for the
opening day, and this constitutes the largest turnout in the
school’s history. However, the number will diminish daily until
the squad finally reaches a more workable size.
This carload of football flesh seems pretty impressive nu
merically speaking, and it actually tops the trunout of some
southern schools, notably UCLA.
However, it is, to be brutally frank, meaningless. Last spring
California had over 300 show up. but Lyn Waldorf will tell you
that he didn't uncover any hidden jewel whose worth wasn't pre
viously known.
• The gilt-edged reputations carried by several of the IS trans
fers are equally misleading.
Gaulden Makes Good Impression
The Ducks can expect some help from this quarter, but a few
of them liaye already demonstrated that what they were able to
do in the junior college ranks isn’t going to go in big time college
football.
One rugged individual, Dick Gaulden, a little fellow as cen
ters and guards go (he plays both positions), has caused a bit of
eye-brow lifting among sideliners, however. Of the lot, he looks
like the best bet at this early date.
Big Buster McClure, who put in a lot of‘football with the Bos
ton Yanks last Fall, came up with some interesting observations
about the play-for-pay game.
Here to coach the ends and tackles during spring drills, Mc
Clure said that there was a vast difference between college and
pro football.
Baugh, Van Buren,Trippi, Davis, etc.
"It takes about three years for a kid out of college to really
get himself adjusted to pro ball. The major difference is the way
the big boys fake; linemen in the big time use their head plenty
—both physically and mentally. The plays are much more com
plicated and there are more of them.”
McClure said that as far as he was concerned, Washington’s
Sammy Baugh was the peer of the National league’s passers.
Baugh’s ability to pitch accurately with linemen draped all over
him earns him the nod over Sid Luckman of the Bears.
“As for the running backs, it’s Steve Van Buren and Charley
Trippi. Van Buren runs awfully hard and dips his shoulder into
you just as you’re set to pin him. Trippi is plenty fast, and he’s
tricky too.”
Asked about Bill Dudley, McClure said that the old Virginia
whiz was a mite too slow to rate up there with the best of 'em.
Charley Conerly Looks Like Comer
"Among the linemen—and this is generally agreed around
the league—Fred Davis of the Bears is really the greatest. There
are some other tough chaps around the league like Mai Kutner
of the Cards, but that Davis is tops.”
This statement comes as somewhat of a shock, to put it mildly.
Davis rated All-Pro a couple of years ago, but such gentlemen
as “Bulldog Turner and A1 Wistert are ranked better if you take
popular public and newspaper consensus as your barometer.
Of the newcomers, McClure was enthusiastic over the Giants’
Charlev Conerly, who established a flock of passing records at
Ole Miss, and Tackle Dewitt Coulter, former Army great. “Con
erlv.” he said, “throws better than John Lujack. In a word he
looks like the coming Baugh.”
And considering what McClure had told,us about Samuel
Adrian, we took it to mean Charley Conerly is quite a football
player.
Mills Twirls Webfcots To Victory
(Continued front page four)
many days, the Ducks will trek to
McMinnville this afternoon to play
Unfield.
Friday and Saturday, Oregon re
turns to its home base to meet the
Salem Senators.
John Jones, Oregon outfielder,
was added to the injured list in yes
terday's game when he twisted'his
knee running out an infield blow.
Double No-Hitter Marks IM
Sanford, Sowers
In Duel as Delts
Nudge Theta Chis
By John Barton
Intramural softball rolled in
to its third day of action yester
day afternoon and produced the
best game of the current sea
son, a double-no hitter. Delta
Tau Delta beat Theta Chi by a
1-0 count, as both pitchers turn
ed in no-hit performances.
Ed Sanford for the Delts and Faul
Sowers for Theta Chi went the bet
ter part of five innings without be
ing touched on the mound.
IN THE OTHER games of the
lay, Phi Kappa Psi beat Sigma Al
pha Epsilon 4-1, Campbell club roll
ed over Sederstrom hall 9-1, Pi Kap
pa Alpha pulled a rally and beat out
McChesney hall 7-3, Sherry Ross
hall won over Phi Kappa Sigma,
3-6, and Sigma hall dropped a close
one to the Yeomen by a 12-11 score.
In the Delt-Theta Chi contest,
statistics just about tell the story
for the two teams. Delt pitcher San
ford allowed no walks, and struck
out 11. There was one Delt error.
ON THE losers’ side, pitcher
Sowers walked four and fanned six.
Theta Chi committed two errors.
DELTA TAU DELTA got its one
winning run in the last of the fifth
inning, after which the game was
called because of time.
Delt right-fielder Bob Adair was
walked by Sowers and right-fielder
Jerry Hunter came to bat and slug
ged one to short-s top. Adair had ad
vanced to second and led off to third
on the pitch.
The Theta Chi first baseman fail
ed to catch the peg from short and
Adair went home to score.
PITCHER GEORGE VVTRTGES
proved the margin of win in the Phi
Kappa Psi’s 4-1 victory over SAE.
Both teams committed some costly
errors in the field.
Sederstrom hall’s weakness with
the hickory proved to be the reason
for defeat at the hands of the Camp
bell clubbers.
Club pitcher Ken Wallenweber
baffled the Sederstrom hitters with
ms speed.
McCHESNEY HALL dropped a
heart-breaker to Pi Kappa Alpha,
leading for five innings.
Jim Huttin banged out a home
run in the third inning of the Sherry
Ross-Phi Kappa Sigma game, to
drive in four Phi Kap runs and spell
victory for his mates by a final
score of 8-6.
The Yoemen came through in the
final inning of their game with Sig
ma hall to win by a 6-3 count, de
spite three Sigma doubles in the
game.
Women Swim Team Cops Meet
Top honors for the fourth
straight year were awarded the
University of Oregon women’s
swimming team when they won
over ten other colleges in the
Region Telegraphic meet.
Second place went to Washing
ton State with 45 points, and close
ly following in third place was
UCLA with 44.5.
Oregon took five of the six first
places with the following times:
100-yd. crawl — Pat Honl, 1:10.63
100-yd. breast stroke—Joan Skor«
dahl, 1:33.2; 60-yd. medley relay—
Birdella Ball, Honl, Harriet Minot,
40.1; 80-yd. freestyle relay—Ball,
Joan Carr, Catherine Vilas, Honl*
45.7; 60-yd. ind. med.—Honl.
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