■ Trackmen Prepare for Relays
b "Pretty strong In the running
events, missing Home lettermeq in
i the field event*, und larking depth
all over." Thl« pretty well sums up
i Coach Bill Bowerman'a 1054 track
team.
Bowerman'a squad has been
practicing from .'1 to 5 p, m. every
afternoon thin week, getting in
shape for lta first engagement of
the aeason: the Willamette relays
this Saturday in Salem.
Knllre Team .Makes Trip
'1 he whole team will travel to
Mixed-Doubles
Action to Start
L/m Bellisimo, head of the Stu
dent Union bowling lanes, an
nounced recently that the students'
mixed-doubles competition will gel
underway Tuesday, with If} teams
taking part In each league.
Bellisimo said that there in still
room for a few more entries in
each league and he asked that all
those people Interested in partici
pating sign up for league play in
the very near future.
Play will be carried on the same
as last year with one red pin being
among the ten standing at the end
of each line. Anyone yrho falls to
knock the red pin down with his
two shots will lie compelled to pay
a five cent fine. Ail fines will be
collected in one pot and at the
end of the seven weeks of play ail
the money in the pot will be used
to pay for a special picnic for all
those taking part in mixed-doubles
action.
Bellisimo p.»so said that the fac
u 11 y mixed-doubles tournament
will start Thursday afternoon,
April 1, and that there is still some
room for more entries in this event.
Sports Staff
Desk Editor: Sam Vaiiey
Staff: Bob Robinson
'he Capital City to engage; in the
j college division of the relay*. Last
i year the Webfoot* participated in
j the games and came homo with
| more than their share of blue rib
bon*. Although no team score was
kept, they clearly outpointed all
opponents, Including Oregon St&te.
This year the outlook is not as
bright. Hay Packwood, Pacific
Coast conference pole vault champ
last year, and a strong contender
in the hurdles events, did not re
turn to school this year,
Oregon’s hopes for a successful
day will rewt a great deal on the
running crew, which has outstand
ing prospects in every event,
instance Men
In the distance divisions, Ken
Reiser, junior, and A1 Martin, sen
| ior, will be counted on for victories.
: Long Clement, two year letterman,
was Oregon top 440 man last sea
IM Office Makes
Changes in Rules
Karl Ferguson, assistant intra
mural director, announced Tuesday
that there have been a couple of
i changes in IM softbull rules for
j the coming season.
Instead of the hour time limit on
games, as was in effect last year,
a new rule haae been Installed that
will allow that ail games will last
for five innings with one excep
tion. If one team can garner a
seven run lead by the completion of
four innings they will be declared
the winner without a fifth frame.
The other rule change states
that only freshmen eligible to play
for fraternity teams will be those
who are living in the respective
houses.
Interesting sidelight on Swede
Halbrook, Oregon States ail
No: them Division center, is that
he is pinned to a University of
Oregon girl.
Halbrook. a Lambda Chi at
DSC. gave his house pin to Bar
bara Kamm, Carson three, re
; cently. Miss Kamm is a transfer
i from the Beaver school.
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Bruce Springbett, and Ted An
derson, 100 and 220 yard dash men,
respectively last year, are top con
tenders for Oregon in the sprint
events.
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Ti;i> ANDERSON’, senior letterman, breaks the tape in his special
ty, the 220 yard dash. Anderson will lead Oregon’s sprint men
when they take the oval this Saturday at the Willamette delays.
Finley Resigns
As Idaho Coach
Chuck Finley, Idaho's jovial bas
kctball coach of the past seven
years, handed in his resignation to
the Idaho school Monday after
I noon.
Finley, who has had sever.il
moderately successful seasons with
the Vandals, announced that he hast
no definite plans for the future but
that he hopes to move to a coach
ing job in a new area.
There have been many rumors
floating around lately concerning
the possibility of Finleys accept
ing the head basketball coaching
job at Mississippi Southern Uni
versity but Finley declined to dis
cuss the matter at the present
time.
The rotund Idaho mentor said
that salary played no part in him
decision to leave Idaho and that
relationships between himself and
Vandal school officials were pc»
fectly harmonious. Finley claimed
that the main reason .for his resig
nation was that he wants a change
t of scenery.
Finley s Idaho teams rolled ,p
13S victories ar.d were defeated on
120 occasions during "Cheerful
Chuck's" reign as coach. His ttemu
have played before more than 40,
000 fans a year in the seven sea
sons that Finley has been at the
Vandal institution.
There has been no annoanceme.it
as to who will succeed Finley as
head man for Idaho.
A CAMPUS-TO-CAREER CASE HISTORY
Emmett Smith, E. E„ ’50, never
heard of telephone traffic work, hut
what he saw of the job intrigued him.
He explains how it worked out.
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t
Emmett Smith supenises operation cf this trainin
switchboard, which he originally helped to desigi
~ 4
r (fc
“Communications have always been one
of my main interests —in the Navy and
at the University of Michigan. So I
was very happy when the Michigan Bell
Telephone Company invited me to visit
their headquarters to talk about a job.
‘'In Detroit I had a chance to look
at a number of departments, including
one I’d never heard of before, the Traffic
Department. I found that, in addition to
the engineering of switchboards, its
work involved the supervision and the
actual handling of customer calls. It
struck me like a wonderful opportunity
to combine staff engineering and field
management.
“My first impression was right, too,
* because my work covered both. First. I
had on-the-job training assignments in
several different kinds of offices —local,
Long Distance, dial and manual. Then
I worked in engineering, translating esti
mates of future growth into the actual
number of circuits and switchboard
positions required.
Now I ra supervising the operation
of one of the boards I helped engineer.
Briefly, my job is to see that my district
gets the kind of equipment it needs and
that what we have is functioning prop
erly. W orking with people is another
major part of my job, too. because I
serve in an advisory capacity to the super
visors of the Long Distance operators.
‘'Needless to say, I’m happy with my
job. A job I didn t even know existed.”
• • •
Emmett Smith’s job is with a Bell Tele
phone Company. There arc similar op
portunities for college people with Bell
Telephone Laboratories, Western Electric
and Sandia Corporation.
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