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We pushed open tin- swinging door and walked into tin*
training room at MeArtlittr court. Inside, all by himself, wa>
Hob I ivn-j'lin" < tfficcr, the Oregon trainer. Said lie wasn’t
doing much of anything, since it was Thursday, “Come Satur ,
day, and the track meet, though, it'll he a different story," he
opined.
Looking around the room, we saw a number of shiny, sci
entific looking devices, and asked what they were. “Over there,”'
he said, "is a whirlpool bath, of which v/e have two.”
And then he pointed out the short wave diathermy machine,
even gave a personal demonstration of how it works to produce!
deep heat for an athlete's injured limbs. Jle showed u> the four
BOH OFFICER
< tun.i !c<l lumps and the force hath,
all new and efficient looking. Hut
then he pointed at a less modern;
In!/ like arrangement and there;
\va- real pride in his voice.
I'his," lie said, “is an old-tvpc
whirlpool hath. It was put in hy
Virgil Karl, athletic director in;
ll,2d 'l'he first one we ever had.I
We keep it around so the old
athletes will have* something to re
I member. Same way with that heat
I lamp over there. We call it Hill
Hayward'- lamp, and we still use
it a lot.”
'He Practically Raised Me'
Had Ik- known Hill Hayward well?
“Yes, ! knew him, thank Hud. He practically raised me. 1
worked for him when I was in school (Officer graduated in
1927), and later hired me in 193! a a--Plant trainer.’’
Officer said Hayward used to have great fun telling his
younger athletes all about the former - prodigous feats in a
track suit.
“And I never ran track at all in college,” Bob admitted. “I
was just a sub on the football team. But Bill had these kids
so they would introduce me to their fathers and tell them how
I had won the Northern Division meet singlehanded."
Working as assistant trainer from P'.U to 1937, Officer then
served as head trainer until he joined the Navy in 1942 and
became a PI? instructor. He returned to < )regon for a year, then
left to become coach at Pleasant Hill high. In July 1950, he
returned to his old job. Memories ju t seem to accumulate
when you stay on a job for several year-. It doesn’t seem long
ago, wasn't really, when Bob was working over injuries of Hill
Powerman, a hustling young quarter-miler, or Don Kirsch and
Hill Borcher, basketball players.
“They were pretty tough, though,” he recalled, “they didn’t
get hurt very often.”
Wintermute, John Day Finn—And a Swede
' We said we guessed a man in a trainer’s job would get to
know the athletes really well.
“Yes," he replied, “you do. I think that was true even more
before the war. Until my wife died last spring, we used to have
a breakfast every year for the graduating seniors in all four
sports. We'd bring them over for a real good feed. It got so
they had to eat in shifts, there were so many of them.”
In those pre-war days, there were other boys. Slim Winter
mute, for instance, the tallest of the 1939 “Tall Firs,” NCAA
basketball titleists under Howard Hobson. Slim literally left
his mark in the training room. On a wall near Bob’s desk, is
a height scale.
Wintermute is represented by a penciled “Slim” at the 6’ 7*/>"
mark. Roger Wiley is at the 6’ 8" position, and the tallest hoops*
ter Hob has ever had, Wally Borovitch, is at 6’ 10”. At the 7'
mark is the name John Day Finn, a mythical titan from the
wilds of F.astern Oregon whom Bob has always dreamed of
getting to matriculate locally.
Hut wouldn't you know it, and maybe this is symbolic of
something or other—John Day Finn has to settle for second
place. The guy above him is one Suede Halbrt)ok, who is 7’ J'J”
And still growing. He is just sort of a guest star, however.
Where he will seek higher education, and stardom, is some
thing of a question.
Something of An Institution
Then Hob showed us his injury chart which he keeps day by
day. He showed us the time clocks on his lamps which prevent
overexposure—said to mention these; they are important safety
precautions.
It was obvious that the gentleman likes his job. And also that
he is good at it. Besides that, he is becoming-something of an
institution around Oregon. Nothing spectacular, you under
stand, But just ask the athletes about Bob Officer.
Webfoofs Surprise Orange Nine;
Win by Lopsided 12-5 Score
(Continued from pm/c four)
both runners. When the dust had
Hcari'd, the wore stood Oregon 6,
Oregon State 0.
The men of Italph Coleman'8
vaunted Beaver nine made an at
tempt to get back into the contest.
Frisk singled, Shritchff reached
first on AveriU's error, Jim Bug
gies hit a one-bagger, and Bud
Boub smashed a double to the
left field to score two runs for
the Orange.
Setteease Double
In the third inning for Oregon,
Capt. Phil Setteease dumped a
double into right field and scored
a few moments later for the only
Webfoot score of the frame. The
Beavers were unable to score in
their half of the third.
The fourth stanza saw. another
four run spiee by coach Don
Kitsch's nine. For the third time
in a row, freshman outfielder
George Shaw hit a one-base blow.
He was caught stealing second,
however. A base on balls, two
errors, two singles, and a two
bagger by Phil Setteease followed
in close order to yield the four
counters and viitually cinch the
contest for the Ducks.
In the second half of the fourth
frame the host nine picked up one
run to make the score Oregon II,
Oregon State 3. The only hit was
Huskies, Oregon
(Continued from I'ctf/c four)
be the 880. Hutchins will have a
chance for revenge against the
Washington half mile ace, Ken
Morgan. Last year's meet saw
Morgan come out the victor.
Only one meet record looks to
be jeopardy. This is the 216’ 1”
javelin mark set by Boyd Brown
of Oregon in 1939. Missfeldt may
have to go all-out to take Wash
ington’s Bill Kerry and has better
ed the record mark more than
once, though not this year.
Following are then tentative en
tries:
100 yard (lash—Bill Fell, Jerry
Mock and Bruce Springbett.
220 yard dash—Fell, Mock and
Ted Anderson.
440 yard dash—Anderson, Doug
Clement, Merlyn Samples.
880 yard run—Jack Hutchins, A1
Martin, Bill Hail, and Jack Loftis.
Mile run — Fred Turner, Art
Backlund, Roy Bradetich.
Two mile run—Wayne Reiser,
Ben Johnson and Gerry Garrett.
120 yard high hurdles—Larry
Blunt, Tom Swalm, Ralph Risley
and Dick Zimmerman.
220 yard low hurdles—Jack
Smith, Emery Barnes, Walt Ba
dorek and Charles Phillips.
Broad jump—Don McClure, A1
Oppliger and Tommy Eduards.
Polo vault — Packwood, Russ
Mannex and Ed Robison.
Javelin—Chuck Missfeldt, Chet
Noe and Brian Weddell.
Discuss—Ben Lloyd, Walt Ba
dorek and Don Long.
Shot put—Noe, IJoyd, Bob Craig
or Jim Jones.
Don’t miss the annual Commun
ity Easter Sunrise Service at 6:3C|
a.m. Sunday in McArthur court.
“with suits with expression”
Saturday
FENNELL'S
can
SUIT
you
, a single l»y right fielder Bud Shlrt
I cliff.
OSC garnered another counter
! in their half of the seventh on a
i Mingle by catcher John Thomas and
a two-bagger by center fielder
Withrow, but the situation was
looking more and more hopeless
for the home nine as the game
| progressed.
One More
In the eighth frame, both squads
picked up one more run to set the
! final score at 12-5. Oregon's tally
came on a triple by the hard-hit
! ting Nelson and Sugura's single.
The Beaver counter was the prod
uct of one-base blows by Shirt
cliff, Houck and second baseman j
Danny Johnston.
Neither team threatened in the
ninth and final stanza.
Coach'Don Kirsch of the Web-1
foots spread the pitching chores 1
among Mays, freshman Norm
Forbes, and veteran Stan Aune,
while the losers used two hurlers,
Brem and Goldhard.
Mays was the winning pitcher,
while Bailey Brem of the home
team was credited with the loss.
ChairmenNamed
For 'Kistie' Sale
| Chairmen for the Phi Theta
| "Kistie Sale” have been selected.
1 All chairmen will meet today at
1 p.m. in the Student Union.
Filling the chairmenships are:
General co-chairmen—Nan Nim
naugh, Pat Bingham; publicity—
Laura Sturges; promotion—Ann
Hopkins; distribution — Bettye
Millsap, Dorothy Kopp; booth sales
Jackie Steuart. Tricia Lawrence;
house sales—Jean Piercy, Jackie
Jensen; collections—Bcbette Gil
more, Sylvia Wingard; decorations
—lone Scott, Maralyn Dyer.
Chairmen for the sales are all
Yeshmen women. Members of the
Phi Theta honorary will act as
advisors to the freshmen chair
men. Advisors are Gretchen Grefe.
Sarah Turnbull, Mary Ellen Bur
rell, Elaine Hartung, Mary Alice
Baker, Denise Thum, Fran Neel,
and Pat Choat.
The ‘‘Kistie Sale” is an annual
event sponsored by Phi Theta Up
silon, junior women's honorary, to
raise money for scholarships.
SPORTS STAFF
Desk Editor: Larry Lavelle.
Staff: Bill Gurney, John Whitty,
Rick Tarr, Bill Brandsness and
Bob Summers.
Students Collect
Pencils for Indim
Get the lead out!
That's the motto for the Uni
versity's campaign to collect pen
cils for students in India and Pak
istan.
The campaign started Wednes
day at the suggestion of Norman
Cousins, editor of the Saturday Re
view, who pointed out the need of
international friendship at the
journalism banquet Tuesday night.
Recently returned from the Far
East, Cousins urged individuals to
make an immediate effort to con
vince the people of India and Pak
istan that we want their friend
ship. Otherwise, he said, there is
great danger that they wiil turn
to communism.
At his suggestion, members of
Sigma Delta Chi, men’s journal
istic fraternity, began collecting
pencils the following day.
So far, the group has gone to
14 living organizations, collecting
a total of S82 pencils, more than
60 at every house. The aim of SDX
is to get at least one pencil for
every student in the University.
Jayvee Nine Wins
(Continued from page four")
comer of his throw to second waa
wide, but Paul Byhre grabbed the
ball on the basepaths and .tagged
out the runner between first anti
second.
Chuck Hoeflein led the Eugene
club coached by Jack Smith of
Sigma Chi with two hits in three
attempts.
Each team committed three er
rors.
Score: It H E
Oregon .8 If 3
Eugene . 3 5 3
Oregon: Albright, Blodgett (5j
and Hedgepeth, Greenley (4).
Eugene: Stott, Henkle (4), and
Ahre.
Don’t miss the annual Commun
ity Easter Sunrise Service at 6:30
a.m. Sunday in McArthur court.
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