Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 19, 1950)
DUCK TRACKS By JOHN BARTON ' Emerald Sports Editor Looks as if Oregon’s big sport this spring is track. In base ball, Coach Don Kirsch is building, and a team which is building can't be counted on to be the best in the league. The Ducks won't, how e\ ei, finish in the cellar. 1 hat s our guess going" into the Ore gon State series. The tennis team, while looking better than it has in past years, nevertheless isn’t going to shatter any records. In a way, Coach Robeson Bailey is also building. Look for Bailey to turn out some good net squads in years to come . . . that is, if he stays on as tennis coach. T hat leaves golf. In this sport, the Webfoots haven't gone through the Northern Division season undefeated. They enter the Division matches On the Corvallis course today. Coach Sid Milligan has some g'ood material on his team this year. Good Years to Come That he has good material is evidenced by the fact that a few golfers who have in past seasons been regulars are now playing on the lower ladder .. . that is, they aren’t on the regular ND competition squad. One of the better clubbers on the regular squad is Ron Clark. He’s only a sophomore. That’s a partial ineli m cation that the golf team may be strong for the next two seasons. Back to the track team. Bill Bowerman's boys are figured to win the ND crown tomorrow in Seattle. If the Ducks do this, they will be the first Oregon team since 1934 to take the ND track crown, according to the records. That’s quite some time, considering the long list of individual champions who have performed for Oregon since that time. . - writ For instance, in 1941 there was Les Steers, who still holds the world's record in the high jump, although he has long since with drawn from active competition. Then there was George Varoff, whose name you have no doubt seen on several track meet pro grams this spring. Some Old Marks Varoff was the world champion pole vaulter for a time, and held just about every ND dual meet record until George Rasmus sen, present Duck vaulter, came along. Varoff was Pacific Coast Champion in 1938. Back in 1924, there was a chap by the name of Ralph Spearow whom we certainly would have liked to seen in action. Spearow held the high jump and pole vault titles in 1923 and 1924. His highest vault in the ND meet was 12 feet, 9 inches. His high jump mark was 5 feet, 10 inches. Incidentally, this shows, if nothing else, that track has come a long way since then. Rasmussen has been clearing 14 feet regularly this season, but, of course, Ras is an unusually talent ed vaulter. Varoff, the Coast champ in 1938, had a best mark in the PCC meet of 14 feet, period. In 1920, a Webfoot named Hank Foster won the ND 100-yard sprint crown with a time of 10.2 seconds. You must remember, •of course, that track was not the intense sport then that it is now. What a coach like Bowerman could do with that 1920 material is a question that, while it can't be answered, is nevertheless inter esting to think about. That’s just like asking who was the best boxer. Joe Lewis or Jack Dempsey. Who knows (and at this point, some kind observer will say “Who cares”) ? Castle Jazz Band To Play Campus The Castle Jazz Band will be in Eugene for its first campus appear ance — Mortar Board Ball—next Friday. Monte Ballou and his band made their debut in Southern California in 1949. Since then they have ap peared in Eugene three times by popular demand. Highlights of their appearances were the Charle ston contests, the winners of which received a radio-phonograph and Castle Jazz records. Favorite records of the Castle Jazz Band, attracting favorable comment and reviews, are “Tiger," “Loveless Love,” “Sweet Georgia Brown,” and “No Bop Hop Scop Blues.” Entertaining University of Ore gon women and the dates of their choice at the Mortar Board Ball will be Monte Ballou and his ban jo, Bob Short with his cornet, Bob Gilbert's clarinet, George Phillips and his trombone, Frank Webster with his tuba, Fred Crews on the piano, and Homer Welch on the drums. Finals, Semifinals Set in Intramurals Semi-final games of the intra mural softball race will be played today, after a vacation for teams yesterday. The schedule follows: 4 p.m. South field Phi Delts vs Campbell Club 4 p.m. North field Lambda Chi vs Betas Saturday will see Theta Chi play Sigma Nu for the championship of intramural golf. Tuesday, Phi Gamma Delta meets Sigma Alpha Mu in an in tramural tennis match to decide which squad will play Stan Ray Hall for the championship. House Pairings Told for Picnic Pairings for Saturday’s all-cam pus picnic sponsored by the sopho more class were released again Thursday by transportation chair man Dick Lee. The groups are asked to contact their paired groups to arrange rides out to Swimmers' Delight. Groupings are as follows: Kappa Kappa Gamma, Beta Theta Pi; Carson No. 4, Pi Kappa l Phi; Gamma Phi Beta, Barrister Inn, Lambda Chi Alpha; Alpha Delta Pi, Sigma; Delta Gamma, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Sederstrom; Alpha Gamma Delta, Stan Hay; Kappa Alpha Theta, Delta Tau Delta, Cherney. Hendricks, Delta Upsijpn, Al pha; Sigma Kappa, Sigma Nu, Minturn; Zetg. Tau Alpha, Kappa Sigma; Carson No. 5, Chi Psi, Omega; Alpha Omicron Pi, Phi Kappa Psi; Alpha Xi Delta, Stit zer; Rebec House, Pi Kappa Alpha; Delta Delta Delta, McChesney, Tau , Kappa Epsilon. Carson No. 2, Hunter, Phi Kap pa Sigma; Alpha Phi, Gamma, Sherry Ross; Highland House, Sig ma Alpha Epsilon; Alpha Chi Omega, Sigma Chi, Sigma Alpha Mu; Delta Zeta, Phi Gamma Delta; Ann Judson, Phi Delta Theta; Uni versity House, Campbell Club; Chi Omega, Theta Chi; Pi Beta Phi, Alpha Tau Omega, Merrick; Car son No. 3, Nestor, Phi Sigma Kap pa. Outside of house rides, no other transportation is planned. Football Clinic Starts Today Football coaches from through out Oregon will meet on the cam pus today and tomorrow for the annual spring football coaches' clinic. The clinic will officially get un derway at 11 a.m. today with reg istration of coaches at McArthur Court. Luncheon will be held at John Straub Hall at noon. This afternoon, coaches will gather in P. E. Building classrooms for lectures on offensive and defen sive tactics in line and backfield play. Speakers will be Oregon coaches and assistants. Movies of Oregon football will also be shown during the after noon. Coaches will adjourn to the practice fields at 3 p.m. to watch demonstrations by Head Coach Jim Aiken and his squad. The high school mentors will be shown var ious running, tackling, and block ing points. Buffet Dinner Tonight Today’s activities will be topped off by a buffet dinner at the Eu gene Hotel at 6:30 p.m. Tomorrow’s session will start at 9:30 a.m. when the mentors will be shown a movie on highlights of Oregon’s past football season. An other luncheon will be held at John Straub Hall at noon. The biggest show of the clinic will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow when the annual spring intrasquad game will be held. Regular Pacific Coast Conference officials will run the game, and bands are expected to be in the stands. Aiken will watch the game from the press box, while his assistants run the two teams. A job shortage always changes some lazy loafers into unfortu nate victims. A lot of jack went to the various ball parks on the opening days— including Jack Frost. The husband who has no secrets from his wife has cither confessed j or been found out. \ DIXIE LAND JAZZ BAND Plavs last night SWIMMER'S DELIGHT BATTLE OF THE BAND DIXIE LAND JAZZ SWING May 20. 1950 Phone 4-4402 for reservations 11 a.m.— "CHRIST'S PRAYER FOR YOU" Broadcast over KASH 9:45 a.m. University Class 6:20 p.m. Fellowship MASONSWISS BELLlRINGERS Novel musical program including the Victor theremin which has no keys, no strings and __no fife. SUNDAY at 7:30 p.m.' FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH^-’ Bdwy at High_Dr. \ ance H. Webster, Pastor THE BEST IN FOODS ARE SERVED ALWAYS ™. ANCHORAGE W*HERE EAST 11th MEETS FRANKLIN BLVD. Ttehe RUSTIC ROOM OVERLOOKING THE OLD MILL RACE YOUR PLEASURE IS OUR EARNEST DESIRE FOR BANQUET OR PARTY RESERVATIONS F. A. BELTZ CANDIDATE FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER University of Washington Graduate University of Oregon Dad REPUBLICAN PRIMARIES May 19 th, 1950 Paid Advertisement t Many styles ... many prices .. • but only one quality the finest! 1'ity... I i That’s why Artcarved wed ding rings are worn by more brides than any other. See our collection of modern and tra ditional designs, every one hand-carved in precious metal, for brides and grooms. Groom’s ring, $22.50 Bride’s ring, $14.75 Prices include Federal lax. • Trade Mark Reg. HOFFMAN’S ... Jewelers ... Broadway and Willamette EUGENE, ORE. AUTHORIZED ARTCARVED JEWELER