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Pago Six THE EUGENE GUARD Saturday Evening, February "g, j. T University of Oregon will open Km , 3025-track season April 11 iiRainst .Stanford itt la!o Alio. Cmu-h liny-1 word mi id that if Oregon takes three, first places against the Ordinals, It ; will make a better ibowiug than ex-! pected. The. Oreyon team, which won the 11)21 oltumpiuunbiu, in rounding slow lv into itbuve, uud uccoiding to May-1 wurd. will uut be at its be hi until Muy. Wutritmil, however, bus bud fine nun Hi wtaiuer since pructice blurted tit tJiat Kt'liuul two mouths uko, and tlie uilileLiti, by tbeir showing in prac tice meets, seem to be in top form. riix 1H-4 lettermen are eligible for tbe varsity. They are Kinney and Ager in the 410-yard ddh; Kelaey i:i i iie broad jump, Juga jump, pole vault and hurdles; Cleuver in the hurdle; Koy in the high jump, brood jump una discus; and Captain Rosenberg in the broad jump, pole vault and juv-J-in. Oregon' will have no experienced men in the sprints. Four li4-freoli-men are showing up best in the dash es, Westerman, Holt, Ktonebraker, and Extra, Bynder and Scbroader of the seconn team, also are out f"l the sprints. In the 440-jard dash Hat ward hus Kinney, Ager, Ilermauce, l'rict, Caih, Wilbur and Graham, llermance and iirabam are members of last year's vecond team; while Cash and Wilbur are from the 1024-freshmau squad. In the half-mile are Mauney, Law rence, Uerke, Jeffries, Boice and G urn en. There are no lettermen. Jef fries and Boice are sophomores and the others are from the second team. In the mile and two mile events arc: Keating, Tetz, Barnes, Nelson, Kimball, Swank, Stephenson and Kelson. Here also Hay ward baa no point-winners. Barnes, Kimball, Kwank and Kelson were on last year's freshman team. K else j and Cleaver, lettermen, Ha'l and Staler, sophomores, and Tuck and Carruthera are candidates fur the hurdles. Eby and Kersey, lettermen, Flan nagan and Wilson, aophomores, and Price are the best bets for tha high jump. In the broad jump Captain Itosen berg, Kelsey and Eby, lettermen; Flannagan, sopliombre, and Tuck nre( making the best showing. HaywaTd will miss Jtalph Spearow, intercollegiate pole- vault champion, who has graduated. Rosenberg, Kel vey, Richmond and Flannagan will at tempt to annex points in tJiat event. Bob Mauti, Johnson,. Hemming", Moore, Btockwell, Beatty and Dash ney are the sbot-upt candidates. .All except Btockwell and Matits are aop ' ltomores. Heffimlngs, Johnson, Moore, Eby. Btockwell and Iaabey have been touring the discos. The javelin hurlera are Rsscr.ber, Bttfttty Tuck, Moore, Htockwcll and Johnson. Oregon's schedule follows: April 11- Stanford nt Palo Alto. May 2 Seattle Relays at Seattle. May 0 Pacific university at Ku-aene. May 10 University of Washington at Seattle. May 23 Oregon Aggies at Corval lis. May 20-80 Const conference meet at Cormllls. Lightweight Situation Is On Rocks No Real Contenders For Leonard's Crown By JOB WILUAM8 TEW YORK, Feb. 28, For the first time alnca ITeetor wan an anemic, undernourished pup, the light weight situation finds Itself positively and pathetically on the rocks. Benny Leonard, having grown too weighty to scale In at the renin red r miming for a championship fight and plainly Indicating an aversion to a welterweight pout with the cham pion of that division, Mickey Walker, may be accepted to-wtt and as fol lows; That he is definitely through with the prise, ring. Now, who will replace Leonard? Tha New York boxing commission announced plans for an elimination tournament featuring a dosen or so outstanding contenders for the title, the winner to meet the best of the European aet for the world title. Tbts sounded simple enough. But then three of the principal contend- era Johnny Dundee, Sammy Mandril and Bid Terrla-withdrew for various res sons. Suppose the commission Insists on holding the elimination tournament without a complete quota of challen gers? Would the winner be accepted as the champion? lie would not. And If the better-known battlers decline to participate in any sort of elimina tions, who is there to make them? Retirement Hurts Sport This gives you an idea of the com plexities toward which the division Is now headed. It may be yearn bo fore the situation is satlxfactorily straightened out. Instead of helping the game, as many ventured, because of his ac cepted Invincibility, Leonard, in re tiring, has hurt it seriously. Boxing champions are made In the ring and championship should come to the challenger directly from the title-bolder. Any situation that de stroys the sequential transference of titles is hsd for the sport. The lightweight division has been singularly fre of problems such as It now face. In modern times, at least, the division has always had a champion who stood out (indisputably. The present generation goe back to Kid I,avi:ne, Je (inns, Battling Nelson, Ad WolgaM, Willie liitihie, Freddie Welsh and lastly to Leonard, who has stepped down after seven years. Real Contenders Nona It is not going to he easy to ac custom the eye or mind to reading daily accounts wherein Battling (joof- tis of Flaxseed, Nev., through the vocal eloquence of his manager, Mr. (Mia V. Sapp, claims the lightweight Championship for no reason whatever. And what makes the situation all the piore depressing - is (he fact that bone of the present, 133-poundcrs SHAG HORAN, COMEDIAN, COMING Lot Angeles Outfielder Can 8mack Pallet and Keep Fans Diverted All 'the Time Besides Illinois Sprinter Holds Records ' ' y TMHJM -me Ji i' 'tjrif -7 By PHILIP J. BINNOTT (NIC A Service "Writer) T OS ANGKLES, Cel., Feb. 28. Precentric Walter Mails has gone up to the majors again and "Ping" Bodie, prldo of Cow Hollow, ia ca vorting in the Western league but there will still be color in the Pa cific Coast league. "Shag" Horen comes to play In the I OS Angeles, outfield! Ho ran can bit. When he left the International league in July, he had an average of .HH4. The previous year ho led the Western league with .411. Horan can hit he tells tha whole cockeyed world he can. And he comes to the Const league as confi dent of making fans forget Ellison, Lewia and O'Doul as he was of dim ming Bubo Ruth's glory In the ma jor. "I'll mnko them New York news papers forget Babe Ruth a week after I join the Yankees," waa his modest chirp lost summer. v ''If Babe hits them a mile, 111 hit 'em two miles." "That guy Ruth only hits 'em out of the ball park. I make the pill travel from town -to town when I connect." Horan did crowd the New' York pnperH when ho broke, in. But he's left the majors without unaenthig the Bambino, Billy Evans, famous American league umpire, describes Horan's major league debut: "I wbb umpiring nt the Yankee stadium. A big crowd turned out to sea the man who bit them 'from town to town.' "And Horan certainly hnd a prop er setting. With 1",MH) watching him In batting practice, he made murderous drives (he first three times he nvung liia bat. "He was sent in nn a pinch hitter fn the eighth. The fans expected big things. Horan Hwunc at the iirnt ball pitched. It wan a long drive to deep left field and looked like a home run. "Ken Williams, playing left field for the Browns, backed up' against the bleachers, leaned over the low wall, and with liin gloved hund caught the ball. "If ever a butter was robbed of a home run. Horan was the victim. ' 'Shag pulled up ut second, dis gusted. Walking toward lefi field, he shook liiB finis at William a while the crowd roared. w Like many colorful plnyern, Horan is eccentric. Any difference with a club management brings a threat to jump to the outlaws. "Horan is a right handed hitter. Ho doesn't get the distance that Ituth does, hut he hits the ball as hard, If not harder," Kvans explains. "A majority of his drives go through the. pitcher's box. t "Yes, Hosan can bit, and ho loves, to do that very thing. He is one bull player you could pay off in base hitH." So dont bo surprised if one of Horftn's drives in the Vernon bull park knocks the tower off the L. C. Smith building In Seattle. "I just hit 'em from town to town," ho modestly boasts. Yesterday was a busy diiy for ban ketball in Lugeiio. A total of six Kan iff, wub piayed during tbu day, art ting u new ho up record in th city. . I uivei-tfity of Oregon tresliiuen w u a liRtJfio game witii U regain high HcbtHii m the nien'a gyuuiaHiuiu durni iuk afternoon, -d tu 11. Couurg jiigu hcJiooI defeated I'leai unt Hill, -o to 2K in an eimun uiou tourney for tne cuumy .ji.iiiili.oimtup at l up .". j. t. A. y fail him .y t-.iii.o,. J.oi.tiie tieleJUtl iriiUlHtou tit u .atf g fine, t I ; itt. i.ugeue iiigu school ended its sche dule with a victory over Aloany JngJi, 'Zi t'i ti, Jeiiving r.Uajene high one of toe man coiitt'lidera lor lut distrtci high mil oo j cfiampioi)hip,' The L'niveritily icgii vs. Cpttiue (iiove lugh game ou ttie meu's gyui uuium floor wu a hot c utt-Ht, eintiiM .'i to H for I ijivern.1) Jiigli. The loml playeiH meet hpiiiiKiiHd higii here W ednendny night. . Junior lligu ttcnooi kf cited 'til lage (finve junior higii m-iotd on tn 'nivei-K.ty hiuii Miiool tiu r In.i nigiit, lu to S. SiiiuinarieK of the giiiif are an fol low: Frosh vs. Gresham. Frosh IU tiri'Kliani 1 1 Beeney '5 ....... K ien;iu 1 Joy 8 I'.... WmuMWorth 1 Tucrhart S 1 Nhih n 'A Power.- 2 ii . , . . .S. Ioutt J HutcniiiHou 1 ...O Sti'Viia-jn Vtlker .S J. Doum'U I ( rewd-ou - S Prieitu 8 Wesif.ill S iieicjlein S Kef tree, Nike Leslie. Cojurj vs. Pleasant Hill. Coburg o Pietihiiui Mid L'U I, Beeson i:i....F Wueeler 11 I-'letcher ft K...... ALiihewa l H. Beckon -I t'J Liudiey 1 .loluia ( Ulneo 4 Harrington ....-.! Bed -II I : I nrna uc Thitr'slnn Tim rs ton 10 LorJne 4 1 Harbert 4 V K. King Kndicoti '2 F Addis-ii S Ohm Ml .r Mhohell :rj Taliaferro i. 1 Miilhews " ' " t : GI?Arl6E GAVE WlM HIS SWPT JJ BUT? I I aeents to posoees nny unusual amount of ability. Mandril Is Dot a hitter.' "Perris ia too light. (He weighed less than 1S1 1 pounds tor Ills recent iigin in jiiaai son Snunro Onrden). Dundee is too old. Ho Is Chaney. Jock Zlvlc would be tills writer's pick of the lot If he wera euro Zivlo could do the weighf. But the ritts burner Is a Jnnior welterweight aud it remnlus to be seen if he con prune down. IT557 "V TT THT Sacker J Billy Evans Says J By BILLY KVANS VHO la the foateot runner in the major leagues? naki a baseball enthuKiaat, who elgna hlniNcIf "Vet eran Kan." There nro a half doien players In the two majors of nearly equal speed. The only way the question could be correctly answered would bo a race in which tha flceteat players from the majora were entered. Such a race would prove the ques tion of straightaway speed only. Often players who are fleet of foot stepping down to first base are un able to make much use of their speed after reaching the initial sack. Phahlo to get the break with the pitcher, and Inability to round the base at full speed, robs such play ers of murb of their fireworks. Bert Rhotton, now gsslatlnc Branch lltckcy In handling the St. Isolds t'ardinals, sure could step from the plate to flrnt but was jiiKt so-so the rent of the way. Whitey Witt of the Yankees Is in much the samo boat, i In nil probability Maurice Arch deacon of the. Chicago White Sox is the faitct baHeninner in the American league. Archdeacon break 4 fast, and aside from getting to first in record time, is mighty elrndve the rent of the way. Of the National league players I have seen fh action. Frank Frisch of the New York tlinnta Impresses me as the faxtest. Frisch runs with more ease than Archdeacon. The latter Is small of stature and takes mincing steps com pared with Frinch, who has a long stride. To me Frisch looks every bit as fast as Archdeacon. However, A competitive test would be the only way to properly determine the ques tion. Frisch might beat Archdeacon In a straightaway dah of Bl yards, while Archdeacon might get the ver dict In a circuit of the banes, or vice versa. - lb Y JOE "WILLIAMS By JOK WILLIAMS JENNY BASS, the Philadelphia fighter, has no defense for n left hand ... In other words, be is n fish for a left hand. Tho champion walker of Italy Is now in this country and, probably will be matched with the champion walker of America, who is, as you know, Mr. Babe ltuth. American runners competing against. Nurml can now appreciate how Kpinard felt finishing second all tho time. The Cleveland gent who wants to have baseball governed by three hon est men is at least an optimist. It Is bard to understand whv John ny Pumlee refused to fight the champion lightweight of France , . Maybe Johnny has a heart, Illinois is leading the .Bis Ten thing about this is that Bed Grange thing about this is htat Bed Grange 18 not a haskethaller. Big Munn. the wrestler, stavtel out t be a doctor. . , . Strangler Lewis will tell you he almost suc ceeded in being nn undertaker. It develops that Mr. Nurml Is a very strange person; be ests tee cream and cake. ... It Is also sus-' pected ho drinks water. Tt Is encouraging to learn we are gradually drifting back to the old romantic days of the pHie ring. . . Tiger Flowers thinks Pelaney hit him with an iron slug. t Ty Cobh insists he will plav In only 100 games this year. , , , That will be ion too many for most of the pitchers; Headline nvi "Nurml laps ahead of nil American runners." . . . We don't know whether this refers to guriling or petting. t The name of Bill Tilden's first movie In "Haunted Hands. . . Op. ponents a!ways thought there was something spooky about him. Hooliltle (i.,... Summon 1 Zeglem S " Buy Miirrny r.-fereetl both gnne. Eugene vs. Albany. Kugene -1 Albany 0 KmmoiiN IJ... ...K Amain t olem.in I K Butts - Schraeder 4 C Houston :; Bjlly ' (i : Vtx Mdiigan 1 (i. HuyneH I Olson 3 S.... . (ioodman Ueferee. Kddie L'diunds. Unlvers.ty vs. Cottage Grove. V. II. S. t nt. Grove 11 Hempey 7 V Vllstat I M.ir till I V Swans m Hull 1 1' Mct arg. r' ti Hayes 7 (i -Miller : Stearin G B.illi w 1 KidiugH 7 .S Burtela , S. , , . Adttm Nelson Ueferee. Have Kvnns. Junior Hlnh vs. Cottago Grove, Junior High 10 C. G. J. II. H Kellers 2 F Brockmun 2 Jefferies F Ward Sehmitx 2 (' Wilson J Biiird tt.... (i Goff Hendcraon G Garroutte lenney S Whi:e Ueferee, Kip"m. The Kugene Country club's fir1 tournament will be held Saturday and Sunday. April 4T. This was nnnoum ed today by George McGill, cwiirmnn nf the tournament and handicap com mittee, in charge of the .Ti tourna ments which have been tentatively ar ranged for the club members. This first tournament will be an IS hole medal event play, the .loweM scorn for the two days winning the event. The tournament will be open 1 1 nil men members, and will be run off without handicaps. "We will delay holding anv tour nament until the firt psrt of April" vaid Mr. McGill, "because the per manent greena will not be ready fr play until tint time. By then the turf should be In fine shape." The warm weather has cuised a de dded .increase in the number of play res at the Hub, nttendance throughout the week averaging around .'to player. The warmer temperatures have stim ulated Uie growth of the grass on thn fairways and greens, with the resuU that a force of workers is kept busy wilh lawnmovers. This growth has re sulted in an Improvement In the tem porary greens, making brtter scores possible than was the case a fe.v weeks ago. Haskclball -. n x . n . ; . . Th' Veteran Te.1 Kid" Lewis, one .1,111 nits a wees to thnusands of tin- , n, fr,nk, t,P rhl. em...ren nen, tm,m, oinciats have ,,,,, ihf thM h been nn.We for four month, to find ,,, T,n , ,,,i( rv , , man who would leke a Joh at porter I ,,,,, f, ,tm taking them ou over lu a ststum at 30 sliillius a week. u u olj Questions 1. - Is hufgitiv the ball r!n.ed s. a foul? 2. If for some reason s foul I. i-slled during the Intermission be tween quarters and halves, when is the free throw attempted? X Una a guard the right to put his hands on the body of an oppon out? Aniwers 1. It Is not a foul but if the plnjer is I'lu.el.T guarded it is ruled a held ball ami is put in play by the referee to.sing it up. 2. It 1. attempted during the in terini.sion and whether made or inied the bnll is dead. .1. lie does not hsve such a right. A personal foul should be railed for blocking or holding. Saska Skin Shoes SYItNKY, Austrslis. Feb. IS. Snske skin shoes in sll shades snd colors are the latest fsd here. The custom, however. Is unite primitive, as tho natives on Cape ltsrren island, who preserve iu diluted frm the blood of now eitim-t aborigines, of Tasmania, often wear (outwear made 1 from Miako skius. Sent in as relief pitcher, "Smoky !Joe" struck out three pinch-hitters iu succestiou iu the ninth inning. This unu.ua! feut permitted Bos to to win, A to 4. The Sox plsyers who fell before the offerings of the speedy Wood were, 1'at Dougherty, batting for Itoy Corhan; Freddie l'ayne, hntting for Hilly Sullivan, aud Jiiiimy Hlock, batting for Frank Oliu-stead. What "Red" Grange is to llllnola football, "Bud" Evans Is to track at that Institution. Last year Evans set a new world record for the 200-metei. and 220 yard dash on a one-turn track. In the annual llllnola relay games, scheduled for today at Urbana, III., Evans was .-fitted aoainst such well-known sprinters as Hubbard and Wittman of Michigan and McAndrews of Wisconsin. (Copyright, 1925. N'EA Service, Inc.) Sport Talk ! but five, a record iu the majors that I ! still stands. I Wood was also considered a strike Joe. Wood, iu the 'heyday of his I out artist, bin "smoke" boll being career, was a great pitcher. Ah a ! especially tough. to hit. In a game member of the ItoKton Ked Sox in ' played on June i". lilll, against the lJUU, Wood won :t4 games and lost White Sox, Wood was nt Iris best. t SPORTLAFFS Ity BILLY EVANS iTX at tho expense of the recruit it ia one of t ie ways to while away time at the spring training camps of the big league cluba. Annually certain rookies furnish plenty of laughs for the veterans by their eccentricities or in oilier words tbeir lack of knowledge of big league ways. Hundreds of stories are told at the expense of the recruits. One of the heKt I ever heard feat tired a young pitcher by the name of Peters, who was with the Chicago White Sox hack in the days of Jimmy Calla han's reign as mnnugcr. The first visit to each town is nn event to the new players, particular ly tho New York opening. foing Broadway and tnking in the shows, provided passes ore supplied, keeps the rookies busy. This story starts in Itoston. (Jeorge Cohan was playing the lead j in one of his shows being featured; in that city. Heing a good friend pf Jimmy Callahan, he invited the en-, tire Chicago team to the show, re-1 serving the box. sets for them. To show their appreciation, Calla han told his players, not to forget to give Mr. Cohan a big reception when he made his first appearance. For some reason Callahan was about the only occupant of the boxes to applaud. Possibly the fact that few of the rookies had ever seen so famous nn actor as (leorge M. Cohan explains their failure to applaud at the right spot. Needless to say. Callahan was peeved. He took his athletes to task after the show for their lack of ap preciation. The next stop was New York. Meeting some of the other players in the lobby. Peters asked them if any- i thing was on for the evening.- At 1 that time the show "Bought and Paid For" was one of the big bits. "Sure, Callahan has the tickets. Bought and Paid For," replied one of the veterans. "That's good news. Tin glad we're not going in on passes. If we fail to applaud nt the right spot we won't get boiled out the next day by Callahan." OREGON'S BIGGEST GAME WILL BE AT SEATTLE TONIGHT Coast Conference. Oregou Aggies Oregon Wasiiiugtuu . . . Idaho U'ushineton Nrt ""T. Montana " "., MoDtsnn-s games do ni the standings. s; i U .W, II ill couut t Oregon's chnn.jo to i; n Aggies for the l'aific cn, t, ,'" pend ou its showing g,liu; " imrton nt Nnntilo ,,.:..i.. . for the Webfooiers v.ill tis'thlH'"" the lend with the Con.ili, defeat will nut Oregon ,,! w ' ton into a tie for tKoui i,lc. ' "I will give the A,,. ... chaminonsliiu of il: n-jrtiera imi nf the eonst conference. The Webfooters aire,,,!, better than Kneeled. Tliey on w! of tbeir coast onferenee rund raoJ eating Washington Sut, j, man. r. to 111, Ti.es.lay iKbt ,i Idaho, 'tl to Thursday nightl Washington reeoverrd frum i-. trnnce Thursday night Bnii ', nil over Uie invading Southern t'ai. fornia team nt Senttle. If ne nu kies do ns well against Oregon us t did against the Trojans, the WeKoi' ers will have a hard iime iinC thein. The Kugene boys will lane Mt vnntnge, ihey will he fitting fot jlt championship. With Washington, bm. ever, it will he n ease of nwhiuj ) lose aud nothing to win. The Referee i The Eiffel tower in Pnris is now receiving its fifth coat of paint since its completion fn SS0 It requires "0 tons of point. Who won tho-marathon in the lfej Olympic games at AutwerpMt, I'. K. Hannea Kolehniainen of Fin land won the event, setting new Olympic record of two hours, o2 minutes, 304-5 scco&Ji How old was Hobby Jones when he won the national opeu gnlf cham pionship at In wood in 1123'; U, ii. C. Jones was '21 years of age at that time. TIow long did Mary K. Brmvne hold the women's national tennii crown? G. O. Ci. Miss Browne, held the honors for three seasons, 11H2-13-11 Plain facts are eloquent. ' Quick Starting Shell Gasoline Starts Quick. SHELL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA QuickJStarting Quality originated by SKJEILIL mamtained by SMELL sold everywhere by gfrflELL 1
