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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 16, 1963)
*Duc& 7*^ By I.ARRY GRAVES Emerald Sports Editor ™“ The following was printed on the sports page of Oregon State's Barometer on Jan. 12. It was written by Rich Good who is a member of the Barometer's Editorial Board. — Rich Good — Our fine feathered friends from the south have changed from Ducks into green-eyed monsters due to all the wonderful publicity Terry Baker has earned for OSU. In fact, with a childish display of envy and the stamping of their little webbed feet, our neighbors from the Emerald (rough cut at best) Empire have de manded that Mel Renfro receive equal time on tele vision. It sounds like they’re running a political cam paign to see who can corral the most students for next fall’s registration. The amazing part of the story is that they have succeeded in conning a Portland station (to the disgust of rivals) into doing a half-hour sketch on Renfro using the same format as the Baker documentary. Show Comes Too Early We are not arguing the validity of Marvelous Mel (his nickname sounds more like a soap commercial all the time) as a great athlete for he obviously is one of the finest in Oregon sports history. We do. however, feel strongly against this program for two reasons. (1) The program, set for Jan. 25th. is coming a year too early. If Mr. Renfro wins even half the honors that Terry Baker received we say go ahead, he deserves the show—next year! But up to now he has yet to receive anywhere near the amount of honors warranting a program similar to Baker’s. What if Mel should flop next year (and these things do happen in sport) for some unfore seen reason? (2) Coming at this time all the show can do is cheapen itself and the honor such a documentary gave to Terry Baker. After witnessing Renfro compete last June in the NCAA track meet at Eugene and witnessing him giving Oregon State fits on the gridiron we are convinced he is not only a great athlete but a great competitor. As a great competitor we are sure .Mel is a proud man and therefore believe he would feel somewhat uncomfort able knowing he is receiving this honor while riding the crest of a wave of publicity started by another great athlete. Rebuttal We can’t let an attack like this one go unnoticed. Mel Renfro, as well as Terry Baker, belongs to an exclusive group of men called “super athletes”. Renfro, as well as Baker, not only does many things, he does them exception ally well. Renfro, as well as Baker, has already been proven a fine athlete. Mr. Good's two main points for showing why Renfro should not be given a documentary are that he hasn’t re ceived the honors that Baker has and that it would cheapen the honor that the original show gave to Baker. Since the second point is not rational but merely based on the fact that Good is a school mate of Baker’s and has a certain loyalty for him based on that fact, it is hardly worth discussing. However, the first argument needs a little redoing. First, it is impossible for Renfro to receive all the honors Terry Baker collected. The politics involved in making post-season awards would never allow many of Baker’s honors to be bestowed on Renfro. The Heisman and Max well Trophies would never be given to the state of Oregon two years in succession. Sports Illustrated would never make its Sportsman of the Year award to college football twice in a row. Thus no matter what Renfro does next year these awards will be denied him. Second, the “clean sweep” of this year’s honors by Baker was not the result merely of his fine play but also a fantas tic publicity campaign by OSU publicity man John Eggers. We look back in our mail drawer and find something on Baker arrived every other day. It makes us wonder how much copy some of the major newspapers and influential writers and coaches received. Oregon has no setup like this on Renfro. Certainly the Webfoot P R. men, Art Litchman and Hal Childs, sing his praises to the newspapers but they don’t carry on an All-American publicity effort to build him into an All-American. Finally, why didn’t the T.V. station wait until Baker had a year in pro-football to run a documentary on him or even better yet why didn't they wait until he was dead so there would be no chance of failure. Sound stupid? It is. but it’s the same type of logic Mr. Good wants us to accept. Webfoots Meet Cougars In Clash of Dismal Records The Oregon Ducks reach the halfway mark of the current bas ketball season when they travel to the land of the Cougars to en gage Washington State in a two game series. BELKO’S WEB FOOTS will hope to improve their dismal 4-7 record against Coach Marv Ilarsh man’s hapless Cougars The WSU squad boasts only one win in their last ten attempts. The two teams met earlier this season and the Ducks managed their only win of the Far West Classic. 67 57 Last season they split four games with Washington State, eacli team winning on their home courts. The high scorers for the Cou gars are the two backcourt men, Byron Vadset and Jim Walton. Vadset, a dangerous outside shooter, scored 31 points in a recent win over Montana State. HARSHMAN has been missing a productive front line. However, he is looking for increased scor ing from forwards Dale Ford and BOB YATES . . . starting berth? Alien Thompson and center Ted Werner in the weekend tilts. The situation is the opposite in the Oregon camp. The long-1 range scorers have suffered a drought while the strong forward line of forwards Steve Jones. Jim Johnson and center Glenn Moore have fared well. All three have countered well over a hundred points. Jones presently is hitting 46 per cent of his shots and averaging 15.5 points a game. This veteran trio will start for Belko on Friday night at WSU. Elliott Gleason, a 6-2 sophomore, j will probably start at guard. The other backcourt starter may be Bob Yates, John Mack or Fat Loy. YATES, A 5-11 sophomore, is a deadly marksman from the out side. Last season, with the Duck-1 lings, he averaged nine points a game and showed excellent quali- j ties of leadership. Loy, another sophomore, played j his high school ball with North Salem. Rated one ot the steadiest of last year's frosh, he scored I seven points a game and was one of the squad’s best playmakers. Mack, a 6-3 senior, is a top de-j fensive player but he is not much of an offensive threat. He was a starter last year and snagged 136: rebounds. While the varsity is playing in, the north, the Ducklings will put I IM Schedule Basketball Wednesday, January 16 3:50 Court 40—Omega B vs. Dy ment B 4:35 Court 40—Delta Chi B vs. Phi Kappa Sigma B 5:15 Court 40—Chi Psi B vs. Del ta Tau Delta B Handball Kappa Sigma vs. Collier ADPi Victorious Adpha Delta Pi won the j woman's intramural volleyball i championship recently in a play-off with Alpha Omicron Pi. The ADPi’s won on a best two out of three play off series. their four game undefeated rec ord on the line against two inde pendent teams. l'KIDAY, COACII Don Kirsch's boys tackle Truax Oil of Corvallis at Camp Adair. Saturday they journey to Milwaukie high school to face highly rated Claudia’s of Portland in a benefit game. Kirsch may be without starter Hick Potter. The six foot guard from San Diego is ofi the court with a knee injury. In four games this year he has averaged eight points a night. Potter’s starting spot will be taken by Dave Kafoury, of Port land's Cleveland high school. Ka foury has scored 31 points this year Twenty of them came in the game with Priestly Oil of Port land Saturday night The other guard for the week end's games will be the brilliant Jim Barnett, who is averaging 23 points an outing The rest of the starting quint are 6 8 center Gene Brockmeyer, 6-5 Bill Jennings, who is netting 11.5 points a game, and 6-5 John Franz. JOntempw A™ (Author of “l H'n* a Trrn-age Dwarf’, "The Many LovtH of Dohie (hills", elr.) 4 INFERIORITY CAN BE FUN The second gravest problem confronting college student- to day is inferiority feeling-. (Tin* lir-t gravest problem i- of course, the recent outbreak of moult among sorority Imu-e canaries.) Let us today took into the causes of inferiority feelings and their possible cures. Psychologists divide inferiority feelings into three ptincipal categories: 1. Physical inferiority. 2. Mental inferiority. 2. Financial inferiority. (A few say there is also a fourth category: ichthyological inferiority—a feeling that other |>coplc have prettier fi-h - but I liciieve this is common only along the coasts and in the Great lakes area.) Let us -tart with the feeling of phy-ical inferiority, perhup* the ea-iest to understand. Naturally wo are inclined to fi*el inferior to the brawny football captain or the lienutiful home coming f|U"en. Hut we should not. Gxik at all the people, neither brawny nor Ix-autiful, who have made their mark in the world. Ixsjk at Najioleuu. i-ook at Socratc-. Look at Caesar. Look at lassie. r.‘■ ■ ■<'cv.'& Vz fte Mined fa (eel inferior What I mean is that you can't always tell what's inside a package by looking at the outside. (Sometimes, of course, you can. Take Marlltoro Cigarettes, for example. Just one glance at tliat jolly red-and-white imckage—ho bright and js-rt — ho neat but not gaudy—ho jserfectly in place whether you are at a formal dinner or a beach picnic—so invariably correct for any time, clime, or condition—one look, I Hay, at this paragon of packs and you know it has to contain cigarettes of absolute ]K*rfeetion. And you are right! That purr white Marlboro filter, that fine, flavorful blend of Marlboro tobaccos, will give you a smoke to make the welkin ring, whatever that is. So those of you who have just been sitting and admiring vour Marlboro packs since the beginning of the semester, why don't you ojkjii a pack and light one? Light a cigarette, I mean — not the package. Then you can settle back and smoke your Marlboro and, at the same time, continue to gaze rapturously at the pack. Thus you will be twice ns happy as you are if tliat is fsjssible.) Hut I digress. I>et us turn now to the second category mental inferiority. A lot of people think they arc dumber than other people. This is not so. It must l>e remembensl that there are different kinds of intelligence. Take, for instance, the clas sic case of the Sigafoos brothers, Claude and Sturbridge, stu dents at Wake Forest. It was always assumed that Claude was the more intelligent just because he know more than .Stur bridge about the arts, the sciences, the social sciences, the hu manities, and like that. Sturbridge, on the other hand, was ten times smarter than Claude when it came to tying granny knots. But no matter; everybody looked down on “Stupid Sturbridge," as they called him and looked up at “Clever Claude,” as they called him. But who do you think turned out to be the smart one when their granny almost got loose and ran away? You guessed it—good old Stupid Sturbridge. We arrive now at the final category, financial inferiority. One way to deal with this condition is to increase your income. You can, for example, become a fence. Or you can pose for a life class, if your college is well heated. But a better w'ay to handle financial inferiority is to accept it philosophically. Look on the bright side of poverty. True, others may have more money than you have, but look at all the things you have that they don’t—debts, for instance, and hunger cramps. And what about friendship? You don’t need money to have friends, and let me toll you something, good people: the older you get the more you will realize that nothing is so precious as friendship, and ‘he richest man in the world is the one with the most money. © ivoa m..shuimao * * * ltidi '-r poor, //on con alt afford the pleasure of Marlboro, available at popular prices in alt 50 states of the Union.
