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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 25, 1963)
Ducks Lose Renfro Mel Renfro's collegiate grid car eer ended Friday night in his home when he accidentally cut his wrist on a mirror. Renfro was gesturing for em phasis while talking to his wife, Patsy. His arm struck the mirror and it shattered, cutting his right arm just above the wrist. A physician at Sacred Heart Hospital said that the median nerve, which goes to the thumb, middle and index fingers, was cut about two thirds of the way through but not completely sev ered. In Cast A Month Surgeons repaired the injury in an operation early Saturday morn ing. A physician said that they were satisfied with the results of the operation and that Renfro had a good chance for a complete recovery. They said he would probably be released from the hospital in a few days, but that he would have to wear the cast for at least a month. This was the second serious in jury that has occurred to the Web MEL RENFRO Out for Oregon State foot senior this season. Late in October at the Washington game he suffered fractured ribs when he was tackled running back a Huskie kick-off. Oregon Head Coach Len Casa nova said that Renfro felt very bad about not being able to play in next weekend's game with Ore gon State. “He’s really down," said Casanova. Also in doubt is his status in regard to the East-West Shrine game on December 28. and the Hula Bowl. Sophomore Dennis Keller will replace Renfro against Oregon State. Any student who wants a re fund on his ticket for the Ore gon-Oregon State game will get back $2.50 by turning it in to the Athletic Department ticket office at Mac Court. Refunds will start at 9 a.m. Monday and will continue until 5 p.m. Wed nesday. SU Bowling Record Broken Eric Johnson, a senior at Ore gon, set a new live-game bowling record for the SU, when he racked up a scries of 1239 in open play last Wednesday. Johnson, who has been a mem ber of the men’s varsity for the past four years, rolled 41 strikes out of a possible 60 in recording games of 233. 276, 228, 214 and 288. The righthander erased the old SU mark of 1228 on alley five of the SU lanes (AMF side). In his 278 game, Johnson shot nine strikes in a row, but in the tenth frame he left the 24 5, which he converted. After rolling ten in a row in his final game, he 1 left the 5-8 on a pocket hit and then picked it up for a 288 score. In addition, Johnson is the only student ever to bowl a 300 game on the SU lanes, a feat which he ' accomplished in his freshman year. li'irnmnnnrifniiiiHtiini «aiiuuuiHi<iituuiutuiiiitittiituuiiiiiiiutuaut!iiuiiiiiituiuuuuMttiiuai Oregon Shirts First Season Hni Popularity of Gymnastics Increasing on West Coast By PHIL SEMAS Emerald Sports Writer Ask Dick Smith what the fast est growing sport on the West Coast is, and you’ll get a quick, one-word reply: “Gymnastics! The fact that Smith is a gym nast and, more particularly, the gymnastics coach at Oregon, may affect his opinion, but there are a lot of facts to back him. For example, last year, for the first time, a West Coast team, USC won the NCAA gymnastics championship. In the past few years several major western col leges have made the sport a part of their regular athletic pro grams. The latest college to add the sport is Oregon. Last year Athletic Director Leo Harris and Arthur Esslinger, Dean of the School of Physical Education, decided that gymnas tics would be a good addition to the programs of both depart ments. Smith Said ‘Yes’ They asked Smith, then coach at North Eugene, to head the pro gram. He said ‘>es” to their offer and started a hunt for young gym nasts to form his team. He found a few boys, but most of them lacked experience. Con sequently, last year the team did not compete on the college lev el. Their season consisted of a few meets with high school teams from the Eugene area. This year with a group of fresh men Smith calls a “real good group” and six second year men, Oregon will make its debut on the collegiate gymnastics circuit. The Ducks will compete in the Northwest Gymnastics League. The loop includes Washington— the team Smith rates as the toughest in the Northwest—plus Washington State, Eastern Washington College of Education, and the University of British Co lumbia. Compete In Seven Meets The Webfoots will have seven meets plus the Northwest and possibly Western Collegiate cham pionships. To all this the uninitiated fan may say: “That’s fine, but just ■what is gymnastics.” Gymnastics is like track: it’s a lot of things. In particular, there are six events which are used in the Olympics: sidehorse, long horse, parallel bars, horizontal bar, still rings and floor exercise. Like most colleges, Oregon com petes in these six plus tumbling and trampoline. But to the average sports fan, the difference between sidehorse and longhorse may seem shrouded in mystery, and he may won der why bars can’t be both para llel and horizontal. Sidehorse, Longhorse Similar The fact is that sidehorse and longhorse are similar except a sidehorse has two handles, which the performer holds onto dnrinc his routine. In both events only the hands touch the apparatus but the moves are different. The gymnast balances on the side horse and executes various moves in the position. On the longhorse he does handsprings and similar exercises. The parallel bars and hori zontal -bars are more familiar to average sports fans. The para llel bars are used in the physi cal fitness tests given to all fresh men entering the University. There is one misleading thing about gymnastics. The still rings aren’t really still. They’re wood en rings suspended from the ceil ing by long ropes. It’s the ath lete’s job to keep them still. Thirteen Men Out The main difference between floor exercise and tumbling is that tumbling is done on mats while floor exercise is not. Those are the events that Smith’s 13 young men have been practicing once a day for about six weeks. And the coach thinks he has some pretty good gymnasts in that group. About his six-man varsity he says: “We have some pretty good individuals, but we won’t be strong as a team.” The man he lists as the top performer on his squad is an all-around ace from North Eu gene named Chuck Harkins. Har kins competes in every event ex cept trampoline and figures to be of the outstanding individuals on the West Coast. Two Others Outstanding The other varsity man who draws special praise from Smith is Larry Haines, a second-yeai man from Canyonville. The coach lists Haines as second only tc Harkins as an all-around per former. John Knapp, a fine tram polinist, may be the best spe cialist on the squad. He lists seven freshmen anc includes among them four all around performers and special ists in the trampoline, still sings tumbling and trampoline. The best of those all-around perfor formers is J i m Hustin, one ol Smith’s proteges from North Eu gene. A1 West, from South Eu gene, is the No. 2 all-around man “Couple Of Years” Smith would like to win a few meets in his squad’s first yeai | of collegiate competition. But he i is really looking ahead two years when those freshmen, who now , form the nucleus of the Duck j squad, are juniors and seniors. i —^ IM managers of both A and B teams who won their league championships are asked to meet in the intramural office at three o’clock Tuesday, Novem ber 26, to determine pairings for the playoffs. “Give us a couple of years,” he says, "and we’ll be a lot bet ter. He vividly remembers when he was coach at Idaho and his Vandals trounced Washington, then just beginning a gymnastics team. The Huskies are now t h e power of the Northwest. 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