Pago Six
THE EUGENE GUARD
Saturday Evening, February "g, j.
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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
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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.
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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.
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