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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 5, 1949)
Ducks Tighten Up Defense OregonWEmerau SPORTS Yanks, BrooksSet For Series Starter Today; DiMag OK NEW YORK—(UP) — Certain tb at the unforgettable pennant races will produce the same kind of a memorable World Series, the "big town took down its sophisti cated hair-do tonight and prepared to watch the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees slug it out in the opening game today. The Yankees were favored at 7 to 5 to get off to a flying start tomorrow behind their big right bander, Allie Reynolds, a sulky Creek Indian from Bethany, Okla., who made Joe Page famous as a relief hurler. As usual, Curt Burt Shotton, the Dodger manager, refused to reveal who would be his starting pitcher, but figured to be the brainy vet eran of his staff, 30-year-old Preacher Roe. Shotton made it a policy in the 1947 World Series against the Yankees not to name lii.s pitcher until just before game time “Because it might make him. nervous,” but pure logic was be hind the choice of Roe. Roe, a skinny fellow who needs plenty of rest, also is the most de pendable man on his staff with 15 wins and 6 losses. And if he is to work more than one game in the series, he would almost have to start the opener. There was a possibility that the first game might have to be post poned because the forecast was for cloudy weather with some rain. However, the forecaster said he could not predict, either whether the rain would be heavy enough to cause postponement or whether it would even rain at all during the game, which is scheduled to start at 1 p.m. EST. An assured sellout of 70,000 per sons was expected for the opener in mammoth Yankee Stadium — rain or shine and Baseball Commis sioner A. B. Chandler, volunteered an optimistic note about the wea ther. “I hear showers are forecast,” he said, knocking on wood. “But in 27 World Series games since I have been commissioner, we have never had a postponement. I hope our luck holds out.” Chandler has been commissioner since 1945, but it has been-more than 10 years since a World Series game was rained out. In adition to the betting partiali ty for the Yankees in the opening game, they remained' stout favor ites to win the series. The most frequently quoted odds favored them at 8 to 5, levelling off slightly from yesterday when in some quarters they were up to 2 to 1. The Dodgers announced that Star Right Fielder Carl Furillo would be in their starting lineup, but the guy who has the best throw ing arm in baseball and who bat ted .424 over the last six weks of the race, wasn’t so sure. He is suf fering from a groin injury and he said “boy I don’t feel so good,” after the Dodgers worked out today in Yankee Stadium for two hours. “Today, I just can’t stride, I can’t bend—in fact I just can’t play this way,” he said. Trainer Harold Wendler said he realized Furillo was not in good shape but perhaps he could relieve the pain by taping up his injury so that he would be able to start. How ever, Furillo isn’t likely to be in peak form and that means the big gest bat in the Dodge lineup of late becomes a liability. The Yankees also worked out and were in high spirits as their big man, Joltin’ Joe DiMaggio, appear ed to have recovered his health completely. • lacom Sanders Third In Rushing LOS ANGELES — (UP) — Bob Oambold, Washington State's able quarterback, led the Pacific Coast Conference in total offense, foot JbsH statistics showed tonight. The Cougar player had a total of 428 yards gained. He was fol lowed by Ken Carpenter of Ore gon State with 88f> yards, Ernie Johnson of UCLA with 880 and Boh Celeri of California with 828 yards. The bulk of Gambold’s yardage was on passing with only 10 yards from rushing. Carpenter, however, made 217 yards from rushing and Johnson 194. Tommy Kingsford of Montana completed nine passes last week to maintain his position as the leading posser in the conference with a rec ord of 24 completions. Washing to 's Don O'Leary followed with 18 completions while Gambold was third with 17 and Earl Stelle of Oregon was fourth with 15. In rushing California’s Charley Server gained 229 yards for an average of 8.8 yards in 2G times lie earned the ball. John Brogan of Idaho was second with 22“ yards and Bob Sanders of Oregon was tied with Carpenter of Ore gon State with 217 yards. Sarver also led in scoring' with 36 points, followed by Sanders and Cliff Schroeder of UCLA with 30 points each. Stanford’s Bill McColl led in pass receiving with ten catches, follow ed by Bob Wilkinson of UCLA and Fritz Apking of Washington each with nine catches. Sports Staff Sam Fidman Jim Schwarz Ron Johnson Scribes Say Irish Play OK CHICAGO — (UP) — Chicago football writers viewed a movie of the Notre Dame — Washington game today and a dozen of them agreed that the Irish, despite their usual brutal blocking, were no more guilty of illegal play than any other midwest team on an av erage weekend. The film was shown and ex plained by Athletic Director Ed “Moose” Krause of Notre Dame. “We use a shoulder block that is used by every team in the country with the elbow extend ed,” Krause said. “Frank teaches the boys to hold their shirts on this block, and we were accused of holding.” Coach Frank Leahy of Notre Dame had complained about the officiating after the Irish were penalized 11 times, most of them for major offenses, for a total of 135 yards. Washington was pen alized four times for 20 yards. “The field judge called the first holding penalty when he was 35 yards away,” Krause said. “Then the umpire called a holding pen alty and next the linesman.” In the first quarter Notre Dame was penalized theree times for holding and once for clipping. The film showed that on the clip ping infraction, the Notre Dame blocker hit the Washington player above the waist, but rolled into his opponent’s knees. But the holding penalties, the film showed, were called on shoul der blocks and no holding was ap parent in the move, the writers agreed. Krause also explained that Leahy taught Notre Dame line backers to hit and slow the oppos ing ends near the line on possible pass plays. He said that in the second half captain and end Leon Hart of Notre Dame twice was hit and slowed by a Washington line backer and although Hart got away, he was called for holding. Krause said the relations be tween the players of both teams were very friendly throughout and after the game. “There’s no reason I know of why future Washington—Notre Dame games couldn’t be played,” he said. “We have no reason to stop playing them.” An unidentified regent of Wash ington had announced earlier that Washington would not play the Irish again because of their “dirty” tactics. Officials of the game admitted they bad seen movies of the 1948 Notre Dame—Washington con test before Saturday’s clash. The film of this year’s game showed that the umpire twice was nearly trampled by players be cause he was playing so close to the line. On some plays he was on a line with the backers-up and rarely was he more than five yards behind the line of scrimmage. Usually an umpire remains in the defensive secondary. World Series Listening to the World's Series today on local radio station KOKE starting at 9:45 a.m. (PST). Missfeldt To Starting Lineup Against WSC; McKay Captain Jim Aiken finished off the pads for this week with a rugged two hour scrimmage Tuesday at the varsity practice lot. The defensive line has shaped up remarkably well, and Aiken was pleased at their showing against the hard-running Oregon hacks. A new face has been added to the starting defensive lineup, with 200-pound Chuck Missfeldt named to take over the left end JOHNNY McKAY, elusive left halfbaek who led the Webfoots in scoring last year. McKay has been named game captain for the Washington State tussle due to his showing against UCLA. slot against Washington State Sat urday. Missfeldt’s showing during the past several days was responsi ble for his promotion. Coach Aiken is anything but ov erconfident about his tea m’s chances against the Cougars. He explained that the WSC squad is gifted with breakaway backs, re calling the 65-yard touchdown jaunt of Don Paul against the Web foots last year. Also, even some “experts” have thrown their weight in with the Cougars; the fact that the game is at Pullman is being heavily reckoned with. Aiken announced that Johnny McKay wbuld be the game cap tain for the WSC tilt, with Earl Stelle* carrying the brunt of the signal-calling chores. McKay’s choice as game captain serves as sort of a pat on the back for the kind of football he played against the UCLA Bruins last Friday. The Webfoots were chagrined after their loss to UCLA, but have built up a “hard work” attitude for Washington State, according to Aiken. This plus the improved per formance of the defensive line were mainly responsible for Aiken’s lone comment on the Cougar encounter —“we’ll give ’em a rough game.” As usual, the Ducks came through the UCLA scrap, and two days of bone-crushing scrim mage without an injury, and ap pear to be in top shape for WSC. Meanwhile, Coach Phil Sarboe drilled his Washington State Coug ars on both offense and defense, and worked on fundamentals on a rain-soaked turf Tuesday. Backficld ace Don Paul will be ready for action Saturday, it was announced, after he suffered fib in juries and bruises against Southern California last weekend. One good way to forget the cost of living is to live so that it’s well worth it. '‘It Pays" to loin the "Co-op" • • • Get Your Membership TODAY Save your Cash Register Receipts U of O Co-op Store Chapman Hall