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Former Webfoot Tries One-handed Push-up SDX SPORTS Disco verEligibility Left For Basketball Coach Detectives Uncover Drugging of Ducks Before Contests Tlic true reason for the recent upset in the University Ath k tic I k'parlnieut was learned yesterday when it was disclosed by the Uederton detective Agency that several Oregon athletes have been druirsred before contests. The doping lias apparently been going on this winter and spring, ac cording to the agency. Wise heads on the campus have s ispected such a thing for some time. This then, is the true reason for the athletic department shake i id. They wanted to get rid of those people and not say anything about the whole, dirty mess. There are several laws against d >ping race horses, but any statute about hopping-up athletes to in crease their performance has yet to be written specifically. Recent Meet Suspected The main reason for the blow-up yesterday is a recent track meet. I i this meet, with McKenzie Den t d Tech, Webfoot trackman Harr y Fountain set new world records in t ie 100-yard dash, the mile run, the two-mile run, the 220-yard dash, the discus, the shot-put, the javelin, and then collapsed while trying for 22 feet in the pole vault. Fountain’s performance Was creditable. He ran the mile in 3 min utes and the 100-yard dash in 7 seconds. Fountain, you will remember, u.dn't make a letter last year, and previously in the current season had not gone farther than 10 feet with the shot-put, his specialty. Kederton detectives hinted that the drug, a secret formula derived f -om duck feathers, may have had something to do with Oregon’s sen sational peiformances in football last fall. The nnd-season spurt, they said, whs probably caused by the sudden use of this drug. When the Ducks heat John Day School of Medicine Ut3 to 6, this drug was no doubt used, one detective stated. This was the game, you will re ■ ember, in which an Oregon full back, since deceased because of a heart attack, ran tH> yards dragging lao entire John Day team with him for a touchdown. The Rederton Agency, which has is) affiliation with the Pinkerton Detective Agency, also investigated c rcumstances behind the recent no l t, no-run, no-walk performance of a certain Oiegon pitcher. This is the particular pitcher who i .id won no games until he turned i his amazing performance against t lenwood Teachers College last onth. In that game, he threw only St pitches, every one of them a . . l ike. He ruined three catchers' r its during the game. I’he pitcher, incidently, has been tent away up the valley. Varsity Crew Newest Sport In Duck Fold Plans to add another varsity sport to Oregon’s list of Pacific Coast Conference athletics were being laid yesterday by officials in McArthur Court. Varsity crew practice will begin next fall, according to athletic de partment sources. Oregon will en ter two shells in PCC competition next year, a varsity crew and a jun ior varsity boat. Officials say that Oregon would have entered the rowing field years ago except that the boatmen would have had no water on which to practice. This problem has been somewhat solved by the refilling of the mill race. Two problems are presented by milliace practices, however. One is that the race isn't wide enough to permit use of official-lepgth oars. Another problem on the millrace is that members of Alpha Phi and Gamma Phi Beta would be contin ually upsetting the shells in order to get dates with husky crew mem bers. That, the officials say, is speculation, but it might happen. New Lake Discovered The perfect practice place has been discovered, however. The site for the new science building on lower University St. it to be aban doned. Plans for completion have been given up because the entire budget has been shot on mainten ance of steamshovels. This, therefore, leaves a huge hole to be filled. Next winter’s rains will fill the hole with water. Come March, there will be a good sized lake in which to practice. * The lake, of course, will not be long enough to get a race going in, but officials say they have already solved this problem. Practice shells will be constructed in a cresent shape, so that, when propelled, they will merely go around in circles. All crew meets will necessarily be away from the campus. If all the students in Professor Howard Dean’s class were laid end to end, they could sleep much more comfortably. Conference Records Disclose John Schmarren Can Still Play By BART JOHNS SDX Sports Editor Oregon’s 1950-1951 basketball hopes were given a tremen dous uplift Saturday when it was announced by the office of the Pacific Beach Conference that John Schmarren, former Duck hoop coach, has another year of college egibility left. The statement was made after a thorough search through PBC eligibility ■records. Schmarren played for Oregon in 1900, and won two letters. Now the PBC says he didn’t play his third year in school, due to something about being in the Eugene drunk tank most of that season. According to past editions of the Emerald SDX edition, Schmarren was a red hot forward, guard, and center. Early in his sophomore year, before he became a regular, he developed his high degree of bench-squirming' technique, which has been so evident during his re cent reign as basketball mentor. Asked for a statement yesterday, Schmarren said that he first knew of his remaining year of eligibility in 1939, but was a little shy about boosting Slim Wintermute off the 1939 squad, so said nothing about it at that time. Now He’ll Play "Since then,” he sobbed delight fully, "I just haven’t been able to bring myself to moving any of the fellows of the first team, just so I could play. Naturally, I realize I will probably set a new conference scoring record, but if the students demand it, I will play, despite the disappointment to someone on that first team.” The campus was buzzing with speculation yesterday as to the pos sibility of Oregon not withdrawing from the PBC, as has been planned since last year's disastrous basket-. ball season. Rumors had it that the Ducks would affiliate with the Big Six high school league, of which | Eugene and University High Schools are members. But. with the addition of John ; Schmarren to the squad, Oregon will have no trouble staying in the PBC, and is figured by the ex perts to win th^ conference hands down next season. For the 573rd consecutive lec ture. Prof. Waldo Schumacher yes terday said nothing. Are exam woes fac ing you? 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