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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1950)
DUCKTRACKS By SAM FIDMAN Emerald Sports Editor The 1949 A\ orld Series is just starting to make an indelible impression on the lumpy record hooks that go to make baseball history. The 1950 race for the tri-cornered bunting is in a state of insecure speculation, except for the fact that weare certain that there will be a race. Shortstop Phil Rizzuto has practically guar cimccu iib mai nit ^\e\\ i oik Yankees are shoo-ins for the American League flag. Eu gene’s own Joe Gordon is ex periencing contract difficulties with the Cleveland Indians, but judging from the attitude of Gordon, combined with the plight of the Cleveland club, odds are good that Joe will be back in Indian livery in time for the grapefruit league. Spring training now harbors a mutually agreed cancer that has expanded to such propor tions that several major loop clubs have devised methods of getting around the ugly grow JOHN WARREN til. 1\UI 3U VVIICil 111C1C \\ cl” pleasure cippilCU Ull LUC U1^ leagues to unionize, the club owners, in their successful effort to fight off the outside control factor, agreed that spring training would not begin prior to March 1. In living up to that contract, the club owners find that their athletes have only six or seven weeks to round into full shape. Why Can't Oregon Win? That doesn’t pose too big a problem to most ball players. A good majority of the top drawer diamond dusters keep them selves fit during the off-season by hunting, and other condition ing activities, as well as workouts. The big obstacle arises when the teams have to pare down to 25. That means that in less than two months, the upper crust of the club has to pick between one rookie and another, or between a leg-weary vet and a fresh, red faced kid. Sometimes a coach can distinguish the men from the boys in the allotted time—but there is a big margin left for error. A fence busting, smooth-fielding athlete might be sent back down for more seasoning—and chances are good that in one more week he would have come around. Why Can't Oregon Win? In an effort to get around the time crush, several clubs have started what might locally be termed the P. E. 190 of baseball. The Chicago Cubs will be tearing up the turf at Catalina well before the March 1 starting point. However, they will do no more than “talk” baseball, and go on hikes and other physical conditioning stints. The Cub moguls like to call it a “paid vaca tion” for their boys. The Washington Senators are running a “school” in Florida. However, any regulars who need special at tention are sent down as instructors. The Yanks- are supposed to be up with a similar set-up; anyway, spring training starts March 1. Operatives of the ever-raging hot-stove league are tabbing the Boston Red Sox as favorites for the A.L. pennant this year, in spite of what Rizzuto had to, say for New York. They figure Joe Page is only human.‘The Dodgers who are hibernating in Flatbush are favorites with sports scribes to take the National League championship. However, no one is selling the Boston Braves short. Since they dipped into the Giant locker for what is practically an all new club, Beantowners have been visioning an intramural World Series for Boston. Why Can't Oregon Win? Down basketball alley—Claire Bee, whose Long Island Uni versity Blackbirds defeated the University of Oregon twice last season, has issued a challenge to the other top teams in the met ropolitan New York area. In so doing, he pretty well killed a controversy over whether LTU was “chicken” to play the other Gotham quintets, or vice versa. As it stands, the Blackbirds, annually one of the nation’s top cage outfits, does not meet with CUNY, NYU, or St. John’s. The reason?—an ECAA rule calling for participating schools to own real estate—LIU leases. The New York clubs do not back that rule against other Eastern Collegiate quints. At lease, LIU is paid up. Makeshift Props Stretch Imagination; Visitor Baffled at Theater Rehearsal* An actor’s imagination must be immense. But the imaginations of casual visitors on a set during a play's rehearsal has to be tremen dous. Without a tremendous imagina tion, it’s impossible to realize that the varied and sundry boxes, jugs, boards, and stark staircases are supposed to represent actual things. More than thaT:, they repre sent specific things. When a play, like the University Theater’s ‘‘Thunder Rock,” is in rehearsal, the cast must use what ever is available to represent props that stage crews and scene design ers are still building or hunting for. Bov Deceives So when Don Van Boskirk ges tures casually to a battered card board box sitting on a few boards unsteadily nailed together, the cast (and everyone else) is supposed to realize that the box is a radio and the boards are a table. The wierd object that Louise Clouston waves and points with is not a stick draped with cloth. It's an umbrella. And the jug? It could be most anything, but because it’s sitting right in the center of a table, it’s probably some sort of lamp, may be a candle-lamp. Cigarette Hangover? If Ken Neal actually made use of a cigarette in the scenes Direc tor Ottilie T. Seybolt indicates that he should, by opening night he’d have either nicotine-stained fingers, or smoker’s hack. He might even get a few burns. Con sidering the number of times the scene may have to be played over, that two-inch long cigarette is going to burn itself down pretty short. But such is the atmosphere of rehearsals. At this stage in pro duction, the “Thunder Rock’’ cast is most interested in lines and actions. There’ll be time enough to get used to a real radio and a real lamp and real chairs and a real lighthouse stairway. Korean Report Features Slides “Post war Korea” will be the sub ject of a talk to be given by Dr. Ewart M. Baldwin, professor of Geology, Thursday evening at 7:30 in 207 Chapman hall. Dr. Baldwin has just returned from Korea where he was doing geological field work for the Eco nomic Cooperation Administration. His work was part of the agency’s vast program in planning Korea’s post war economy. The lecture, sponsored by the In ternational Relations Club, will be supplemented by a number of col ored slides taken while the speaker was in the Far East. Dr. Baldwin spent approximately five months in the Orient and is fa miliar with many of the latest de velopments in Korea. A question period will be held after the talk. All students are invited to attend. Scholarship List Offered Students Now available at the Office of Student Affairs in Emerald Hall is the pamphlet “Scholarships Of fered by the University of Ore gon,’’ which was released last week. Included in the list are all schol arships available to University students, requirements for receiv ing them, and directions for apply ing for them. Other means of gain ing financial aid and jobs at Oregon are given in the pamphlet also. Thirty different groups and in dividuals award scholarships to the U. of O. Among these are the Standard Oil Company of Cali f o r n i a, which gives four $500 awards to a student from each class on the basis of scholarship and leadership. Another $500 scholarship comes from the Joseph P. and Eva Zim merman scholarship for worthy senior and graduate students. Various organization and state fee scholarships are also given. The pamphlet, available to all Oregon students, will be sent to high schools in the state. Pictures Set Today For Oregana, Guide Oregana and Piggers' Guide staff members will pose for Oregana pic tures this afternoon. Indiivdual pic tures will be taken beginning at 2 p.m. by appointment. Group pictures include Oregana late sales staff, 3:30; special as sistants, 3:35; art staff, 3:45; Pig gers’ Guide associate editors, ex ecutive editors, and information, editors, 4; Oregana sports staff, 4:05; night editors, 4:10; assistant editors, 4:15; layout staff, 4:20; and advertising staff, 4:25. Oregana Slates Cartoon Contest Staff members of the 1950 Ore gana are sponsoring a cartoon contest, open to any Univer sity student. The contest will end at 5 p.m., Feb. 1. At that time, staff members will select the six best cartoons to appear in the Oregana. Each contestant may turn in any number of entries. However, the central theme of all the cartoons must be collegiate. Suggested sub jects are fraternity or dormitory life, classes, dances, and campus activities. The cartoons must be pen-and ink drawings, eight inches wide by six and one-half inches tall, printed on smooth-surface white card board. If a caption is to accompany the cartoon, it must be printed on the back of the cartoon or on an attached slip of paper rather than on the drawing itself. Entries may be turned in at the Oregana office at any time prior to Feb. 1. Social Science Man To Speak on Campus An executive associate of the Social Science Research Councif, Washington, D.C., will be on the campus Friday, to meet with Uni versity officials. Elbridge Sibley is touring sev eral western universities in search of future fellows of the research council. The council awards re search grants to university pro fessors who qualify. This fall, why don’t we just call it the foot bowl season. 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