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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 8, 1949)
Last of Cotton Bowl Regulars I.ITTLE EDDIE CHKOBOT, all 5 ft., 8 in. of him, r -mains as the last reminder of the starting lineup for last year’s championship Duck eleven. The scrappy guard from South Bend, a two-year letter man now holding forth in spring drills, figures to he a key man in Oregon plans for the coming season. Beavers Heavy Choice 9h Saturday Track Meet Coach Bill Bowerman’s track and field brigade will unveil their 1949 offerings when they meet Grant (Doc) Swan’s Beavers in the Oregon State Relays in Corvallis Saturday. Right from here, using a lit tle rapid-fire calculation, the Ore gon Staters rate a heavy favorite over the Oregon thinclacis, but our tentative dope sheet indicates that the meet will go right down to the final few events. Another thing that could influ ence the outcome is the fact that tee Webfoots will be out to avenge their 8-to-0 shellacking of 1948 in the meet. The Ducks will field their strong est teams in the short events where Edwerman has Davey Henthorne, At'Bullier, A1 Brainerd, and Wood ley Lewis slated to run in both the 4*0 and 880 relays, HKNTHOllNK and Bullier have b on strutting excellent form for this early in the season with both being clocked at 7.5 seconds for the aubreviated 100-yard dash. Facing Henthorne and mates will p obably be Jerry Cole, three year letterman, Dick Edmondson, a two year man, and possibly John Cara gozian and O. B, Hughes. Caragozian is a transfer from Lindsey, California junior college while Hughes has been Swan’s top distance man for the past three years. Cn tlie mile event. Jack Country man. fast-developing distance man. will lead teammates Dennis Sulli van, Bill Hunter, and Dick Yates. None of the Duck entries has had any previous Varsity experience, but has shown considerable prom ise in practice runs. WALT McCLURE is Bowerman’s first line of defense in the two mile with A1 Kraxberger, Curt Butter field, and Bob Hiller rounding out the rear eselielon. McClure turned in a brilliant race during the Wednesday’s timings as he chased Jack Hutchins to a photo finish for 660 yards. Pete Muiulle, two year letterman will be the Ducks’ strong man in the four mile. He will be assisted by A1 Pietschman, reserve distance man for the last three years. Bill Hanna and Hugh Stapleton, prom ising, unexperienced newcomers. In the final track contest, Jack Doyle with two years Varsity ex perience and Pete Murer, brilliant sophomore, combine their talents with Bob Coughling and Bob Moca bee to give Bowerman a strong hur dle quartet. THE DUCKS face rough compe tition in this match since Swan has plenty of depth with Jerry Cole and Earl Turner leading the pack from the 1948 squad. The high jump and shot put, only two field events of the meet, look like bright point grabbing spots for the Oregon team. Bob Kehrli, Dan Cudahy, Dave Kolden, and George Rasmussen make up the Duck squad and have been clipping close to six feet in practice. Lesser Pushes Varsity Netters For ET C Opener Aided by favorable weather, the Oregon Varsity tennis players have continued their workouts this week in preparation for their initial match of the season tomorrow, when they are scheduled to meet the powerful Eugene Tennis Club on the Emerald street courts. The Tennis Club netmen are fa vored to win, having on their squad men who were top players at such colleges as Dartmouth, Washington State, Harvard, Oregon, and Lin field. BOB CAREY and Dave Van Zandt are the only remaining un beaten members of the Duck team, and are due to play the number one and two positions respectively. Player-coach Saal Lesser will be in the number three slot, followed by Warren Fleming, an OSC trans fer, and Bill Williams. Tentative doubles combinations are Carey Lesser and Van Zandt-Williams. Carey, a two-year letterman, has displayed good form thus far in the eliminations. Hooper, Mensor, Wysong, Carpenter, and Corrigan are expected to strengthen the line-up when they hit their top form. On the whole, the squad is green, but it will have more depth than usual. IN THE SHOT, which the Ducks should capture, Bowerman has four stalwarts in Lou Robinson, Bob Anderson, Ray Heidenrich, and Pete Porter. All have been pushing the iron ball well over 40 feet while the Beavers are considered to be lacking depth here. COTTON SKIRTS by Cole of California and Bell of California White Stag Sizes 10-20 $5.95—$10.95 Budget Terms 187 East Broadway Ducks Defeated By Wildcats, 9-4; Face Salem Today Linfield College’s Wildcats lost all their tameness yesterday as they turned on Don Kirsch’s Webfoots and hammered out a 9-4 triumph to even the spring series. This afternoon the Ducks will host the Salem Senators of the Western International League in a game on lower Howe Field at 3 o’clock. Mel Krause will toe the mound against the O. B. boys. The Wildcats, having lost a previous 16-3 mix with the Lem on-and-Green, were out to even the score, and they wasted little time in getting around to the task. IN THE OPENING inning Bob Martyn drilled out a long fly which Ray Stratton let go for a round tripper when he lost it in the sun. There was one man on base at the time. The blow came off Jerry Lake, who started for the Oregon nine. He twirled commendable ball and would have come off better had the field ing support behind him been less shaky. LAKE TIRED and got a little wild in the fifth, at which juncture Earl Jeans came rushing into quell the ‘Cats’ four-run uprising. Trailing 8-0, Oregon finally man aged to break into the scoring in the sixth via an error. They collected one more marker in the seventh on A1 Cohen’s triple and two more in the eighth when they pieced together four singles. The game was called at the end of the eighth because of a time limit. The box: Oregon . 000 001 12-4-10-5 Linfield . 200 241 Ox—9-10-3 Lake, Jeans (5) and Warberg, Sims (7); Blum and Burr. Call Issued For Football Managers All freshmen or sophomores in terested in becoming assistant foot ball managers next fall should see Manager Stan Corning in the equip ment room of McArthur Court any afternoon fr0m 3 to 5 p. m. Tall Firs Recalled By Hobson PORTLAND, April 7 — <AP) — Howard Hobson, who knows both coasts of it, says that eastern bas ketball teams play a tighter game than westerners. THE FORMER University of Oregon hoop coach, who has finish ed his second season at the helm of Yale’s basketball forces, said east ern quintets still employ more set plays and use more two-handed set shots than western squads. Speaking to Yale alumni here yesterday, Hobson said basketball is still a comparative baby at Yale university. Though the game was first play ed on that campus, it remained classed as a “minor sport” for 40 years. How does “Bobby” like his job? "Fine,” he said, as he departed for the east last night. But he’d cer tainly like to see some of Oregon’s ‘tall firs.’ ,|r Sammies Cop First Place Sigma Alpha Mu copped first place in the third annual ping pong tourney at the YMCA, with Sigma Phi Epsilon and Phi Gamma Delta taking runner-up and third respec tively. Chuck Corgan, Phi Gamma Del ta, won the individual honors by de feating Erwin Horenstein, SAM. J. Paul Sheedy* Switched to Wildroot Cream-Oil Because He Flunked The Finger-Nail Test POOR old Sheedy had a hang dog look before he tried the Finger-Nail Test and switched to Wildroot Cream-Oil. Today—he’s a blue ribbon winner. Regular use of Wildroot Cream-Oil now gives him a snappy, well-groomed look. No longer is he bothered by dryness and loose, ugly dandruff. He’s out of the dog house for good with his girl friends. Why not dog trot down to your nearest drug store for a bottle or tube of non-alcoholic Wildroot Cream-Oil right now I And ask your barber for professional applications. You’ll find that once you start using Wildroot Cream-Oil containing Lanolin, you’re a gay dog in even the best society. * of 327 Burroughs Dr., Snyder, N. Y. Wildroot Company, Inc., Buffalo 11, N. Y. I