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l.:i 1 weekend on the Oregon campus were a number of
voimj^ men who were part of the group of visiting hiJ411 scliool
senior here for Duck Preview.
Most of them were taller, heavier, better coordinated than
their classmates. They were the high school athletes. Many
of them have grown used to seeing their pictures in the papers,
their names in headlines.
Now they are in the process of deciding where to attend
college. 1’iit unlike their non athletic classmates, they are not
unknown on college campuses. A lot of pressure is put on them,
put on each one in direct proportion tb his potentialities.
If Things Come Too Easily . . .
I here are different forms which this pressure takes. One
i the offer of cold, hard cash in large amounts. The 1 Diver
sity ot Oregon does not use this method. There are ideali tic
reasons why it does not. For one thing, it does not believe edu
cation as an aim is compatible with money which come too
easily.
College takes up four years of a lifetime. During that time
a good college athlete has things pretty much his own way. If
he is talented enough, he becomes a sort of minor deity and it is
easy for his desire for adulation to grow, always keeping ahead
of the amount he gets. It becomes a habit. If money is given
him freely, if he is not required to attain the same scholastic
standards as others, this thing is almost certain to happen.
lie may begin to think the world owes him a living. He will
not have formed habits which will carrv him through the next
forty years in the same tyanner w hich his reflexes took him the
last forty yards in the Pig Came. He will find out he cannot
eat fame.
Easier to Rationalize
Another consideration, also idealistic if you will, is the re
current rearing of the ugly head of corruption and bribery in
sport. J01|course it is basic’that college sports are not amateur
ar.y more in the strictest sense of the word.
It is go longer considered wrong to give modest aid to
athletes, such as paying their tuition, providing them with
hoard and room jobs. If all colleges stopped there, our problem
would not exist.
But when young men do not have to work for what they get,
either scholastically or physically other than in their line of
athletics, it makes easier the job of rationalizing themselves
into taking bribes from people who want games to turn out in
a certain way.
Easier, because if an athlete is already operating by the
guiding principle of “What's in it for me?”, the academic ques
tion of right and wrong does not bother him.
Selling the University
" Those are among the reasons why the University of Oregon
has rrpolicy of “selling the University, not buying the athlete."
A policy of stressing the things a boy can learn at Eugene,
not \$diat he can earn at Eugene.
Of pourse, one mundane, practical reason also is a factor pre
venting extensive local bidding for athletes with cash. Suffi
cient cash is just not present.
At any rate, we think the policy is a good one. And that it
can bv successful. It will, however, need a lot of salesmanship.
More salesmanship than the less imaginative “buy ’em" plan.
This i> natural because it is much harder to sell an ideal, than
to give away a convertible.
It is a selling job which should not be monopolized by the
coaching staff, or by the alumni.
They form • the .spearhead of .the sales force, but they can
never speak to prep athletes as equals. Oregon students, Ore
gon athletes, can do this.
Many come from the same high schools as the prep stand
outs. They can, and should do much toward getting them to
enroll.
Home-state Boys Wanted
Another point—the University of Oregon wants to build its
future teams as much as possible from the material of this
state. There is plenty of homegrown talent. If all of it stayed
ji.l home, went to school in the Oregon institution best suited
academically, there would be some big years ahead.
Years like 1939, when five Oregon natives fought their way
to a NCAA basketball championship. Their jerseys, retired
now, are in J:he McArthur court trophy case.
Jayvees Lose Game
To Orange Juniors
■Urn Neirman, Oregon State jun
ior varsity pitcher, whiffed 13 Ore
gon Ducklings a a the Orange JV's
romped tb a 14-2 decision over
('oach John Londahl's team at
Howe field Saturday,
7'he win was the second straight
for the Oregon Staters over the
Ducks. The Beavers socked out 14
hits off three Oregon pitchers, and
garnered three runs In the first
inning to get off to a flying start.
Friday, the Ducklings found
high school opposition more to
their liking as they topped Med
ford high school, 7-0.
Saturday score:
It II E
OSC JV 310 130 231 11 14 1
Ore. JV 100 001 000 2 6 4
Ncirman and Smith; Blodgett,
Delaney (6), Lewis (8), and Green
ley, Marlett (7i.
Trackmen Top
(Continued from page four)
role vault—Mart Indale, i; Pack
wood, O; Manncx, O. Height, 13
feet 4 inches.
880-yard run Jack Loftis, O;
May, I; Thornton, X. No time,
i Hutchins of Oregon, the winner,
| was disqualified on a turn and
; Meukow of Idaho, second, was dis
: qualfied on a straightaway.)
220-yard dash—Fell, O; Mock,
O; Newton, I. Time, :22.£».
Two-mile run—Gourley, I; Rei
. ser, O; Weinmann, I. Time, 9:49.6.
’ High jump — Martindale, I;
Smith, O: and Barnes, O, tied for
fust. Height, 6 feet 2 inches.
Ducks Win Relay
Broad jump Sweeney, I; New
! ton, I: Smith, O.-Distance, 22 feet
| 1'2 inches.
| 2280-yard low hurdles—Sweeney,
Discus—Cogswell, N; Noe, O;
Nelson, I. Distance 134 feet 11
i inches.
11; Blunt, O; Martindale, I. Time
:25.9.
Mile relay — Oregon (Turner,
Loftis, Clement, and Hutchins I.
; Time, 3:30.1.
Ducks Drop Portland
(Continued from f>agc four)
Stan Bozich and %te Lulich to
clinch the win for Oregon.
The Pilots boasted a 3-1 lead
entering the sixth frame, but
Norm Forbes, pitcher turned
! pinchhitter, slugged a homer with
Shortstop Pete Williams on base
to knot the contest.
Phillips boosted Livesay home
in the seventh to bring the score
to 4-3, Oregon leading. Stan Boz
ich and Pete Lulich retaliated with
singles for the Pilots, and these
plus a Webfoot cutoff play at
tempt which failed, gave Portland
tying counter.
The next two batters were in
I tentionally walked by Mays to load
j the bases. Mays then calmly pro
i ceded to eliminate the next three
t batsmen on a pop-out, a force play
1 at the plate, and a fly to left.
R H E
Oregon . 003 203 0 8 8 2
Portland . 100 001 0 2 6 2
B. Bottler, Mays (6), and R.
Bottler; Penny and Highburger.
K II E
Oregon . 000 102 11 5 10 1
Portland . 000 210 10 4 8 4
Pyle, Aune (5), Mays (6) and
Ritchey; Marshall and Poell.
It takes 92,000 motor buses to
transport traveling and commut
ing Americans each year.
Especially named for honey
mooners is a guest house in sub
urban Sydney, in Australia. It’s
the Cooinoo, on Kissing Point
Road, Turramurra.
Managers7 Group Officers Fined
Paul Surprenant, president of
the House Managers association,
was arrested by county officers
Wednesday night and fined $50 on
a charge of drunk on a public high
way.
Lowell Schuck, vice-president of
the association, was also arrested
and fined $150 on the charge of
driving under the influence of al- j
cohol. His driver’s license was sus
pended for 90 days.
Both men spent the night in the
county jail. When arrested they
were returning from a House Man
ager association picnic near Fern
Kidge lake.
Surprenant is a sophomore in lib
eral arts. Schuck is a junior in
business.
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