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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 13, 1938)
Oregon Netmen Win Over Bearcats ,7 toO Team Hangs Up Third Consecutive Sweep Victory; Larry Crane Drubs Two-Time Champ in Northwest Conference By CHUCK VAN SCOYOC For the third consecutive time this season, Oregon’s varsity tennis team turned in a 7 to 0 victory for the record books, by sweeping to a whitewash victory over Willamette university Bearcats here yester day afternoon. A small but enthusiastic gallery watched the Duck team exhibit their best tennis form since the surprising upset of the University of Washington team here last year. The invaders from Salem con tributed the hottest competition of any of the teams played this sea son, but the Webfoot racqueteers were not to be denied. , Crane Is Superb Larry Crane, captain of the Duck squad and No. 1 singles play er, turned in a spectacular brand of tennis when he defeated Talbot Bennett, Willamette star, 6-1, 6-3. Bennett seemed to be clearly off his, game in the first set, but the second canto proved to be the thriller of the day, marked by net rallies, hard smashes, and excel lent placements. As Bennett seemed to improve, Crane matched his shots with some of the best tennis seen on the University courts in many a day. Both men played an offensive game, with Crane coming out with the neces sary counters. A gangly freshman player from Willamette named Bud Gilmore nearly upset Oregon’s chance for a clean sweep when he forced Les Werschkul, sophomore No. 2 singles player, to three sets and held the match-point advantage over Werschkul four times before he was overwhelmed in the third set, 8-6. The scores on the first two sets were 6-2 and 4-6. Ellis Wins Easily In the No. 3 singles match, Ells worth (Vines) Ellis settled down to serious play to completely out class his opopnent, George Gude kunst, 6-1, 6-2. Ellis played a good, steady game, and at no time was in danger of being overtaken. Bill Zimmerman played one of the best matches of his career on the Duck team when he defeated Bud Estes of the Bearcats, 6-1, 6-2. Zimmerman played a steady and careful game, letting Estes j make the errors. The Webfoot i veteran’s recovery shots left his' his opponent baffled throughput. the match, and his shots for place-! ment were much too tough for Estes to touch. Karl Mann turned in a good match in beating Warren Bertie-; son, 6-2, 6-4 in the No. 5 singles contest, although he ran into trouble in the second set. Mann, who plays a “human backboard” type of game, succeeded in wearing down Bertleson in both sets. Opponents Err In the doubles competition, Ellis and Jack Crawford opened the battles by soundly beating Estes and Gudekunst, 6-3, 6-3. Crawford had some trouble in controlling his shots, but the Duck combination succeeded in forcing their oppo nents to err enough times to gain the winning margin. In the feature doubles attrac tion of the afternoon, Crane and Zimmerman trounced Bennett and Gilmore 6-4, 6-1 in a blistering match that had the gallery loudly applauding both duets. Bill Zim merman turned in a spectacular game, smashing lobs and placing shots that completely fooled Gil more and Bennet. THE MAN’S SHOP RYROM & KNEELAND 32 E. 10th St. Oscar Tells Johnny Manager Oscar Vitt, new Cleveland manager, up from the Coast league, confers with Pitcher Johnny Allen. Headman Oliver To Choose First Team Next Week Veterans, Yearlings Work Separately; 20 Lettermen Out Weather permitting, Coach Tex Oliver predicts a hard scrimmage sometime this week, probably Thursday. Oliver expects to pick his first team sometime next week. Gridiron aspirants will be given their chance at open field compe tition. Coach Oliver will need the rest of spring practice to drill his first eleven since the opening game next season is with Washington State just two weeks after fall practice begins. 20 Lettermen So far Oliver has been drilling his veterans and yearlings separ ately. Oliver has 20 lettermen on two of his three squads. The most outstanding team on the field is a veteran aggregation including Ted Gebhardt, Hank Nilsen, Paul Rowe, and Steve Anderson, backs; Rod Speetzen, John Yerby, Len Robertson, Merle Peters, Ellroy Jensen, Nello Giovaninini, Cece Walden, and Jim Cadenasso, line men. All but Cadenasso are lettermen, and Cadenasso is the most exper ienced center prospect on the foot ball roster. Last Friday’s practice told Oli ver little of what to expect from his players. “We did discover five or six men who knew the signals,” he admitted, “but outside of that it was just another scrimmage.” Deadline Set for Seniors to Order Announcements Four more days until the dead line for seniors to get in their cap, gown and announcement or ders and only 100 out of some five hundred seniors have their orders in, reported Manager Marion McClain of the Univer sity Co-op, today. Orders abso lutely must be in by next Satur day. Orders have been put in for about one thousand announce ments, individual orders ranging from one to 50. Calendar Wednesday—Frosh and Jeffer son high baseball on Howe field at 2 o’clock. Thursday—Frosh and Jefferson high . . . ditto. Friday—Oregon and Willamette baseball, 3:30 o’clock on Howe field. Varsity Baseballers Tip Oregon Normal At Monmouth, 7to4 Beard, Coleman/ and Mullen Lead Batting Assault on Three Pitchers; Ducks Come From Behind; Hardy Gets Win With Bob Hardy holding Oregon Normal school’s Wolves hitless for the last three innings, Oregon’s Ducks came from behind to score two runs and overcome a 3 to 4 deficit, and then score two more runs in the ninth frame to put the game on ice. LeRoy Mattingly chucked the first six innings for the Ducks, and he allowed the Normalites all of their five hits and four runs. Bob Hardy, veteran southpaw holdover from last year’s champs, took over in the seventh inning and held the Wolves hitless, while the Ducks were manufacturing four runs to win the game and give Hardy credit for the win. Bob Beard paced the hitters with three hits in four times up. Wolves Start Early The Wolves started in the second inning, getting two runs off Matt ingly. Brandon, left fielder, singled and advanced to second on Syed luk’s walk. Both scored on Cody’s triple, the longest hit of the game. The Wolves collected another tally in the third inning when Parks, shortstop, got life on Quinn’s error, went to second on a Oregon at Monmouth Oregon AB R Mullen, c .. 5 2 Coleman, 2 . 5 0 Gordon, s. 3 1 Quinn, 3.4 0 Smith, 1 . 3 0 Linde, m . 4 0 Beard, r. 4 2 Battleson, 1 . 3 2 Mattingly, p . 2 0 Hardy, p . 2 0 H E 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 Totals . 35 7 ONS AB R McGarre, 3 . 2 0 Seyverson, 3 . 0 0 Parks, s . 5 1 Ellingsworth, r . 5 0 Eyestone, 1 . 4 0 Brandon, 1 ..4 1 Syedler, m . 4 2 Piert, m . 0 0 Cody, 2. 4 0 Lewis, c . 3 0 Morris, c . 1 0 Erikson, p. 1 0 Mohler, p.2 0 Miller, p.0 0 9 1 H E 0 0 0 0 1 o| 0 1! 0 o 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Totals. 35 4 5 3 Score by innings: Oregon . 00003002 2—7 ONS . 02100100 0—4 Triples, Morris and Brandon. Doubles, Beard. Winning pitcher, Hardy. Losing pitcher, Mohler. Strikeouts, by Mattingly 3, by Hardy 5, Erickson 1, Mohler 1. Walks, by Mattingly 4, Hardy 3, Mohler 3. Hits off Mattingly 5, Erikson 2, Mohler 5, Miller 2. 'Chuck' Tripp, Ex-Grant Star, Tops Toppers Charles “Chuck” Tripp, for mer Grant high trackster, is chief aspirant for a low hurdle berth on the frosh cinder squad. He is 5 feet 10 inches tall, and weighs 157 pounds. Chuck made his letter his last two years in high school compet ing against such high school stars as Bob Diez and Bob Keen in the Portland league. Last year Chuck ran on the half mile relay team and also the 110-yard dash. His best time for the century is 10.3 seconds. This year he has changed to the mile relay team and is now also working on the low hurdles. At present he is practicing hard to be in top condition for the relays with the rooks May 7. 1 passed ball, and to third on a fielder’s choice. He stayed on third for 25 min l utes—the game was called that long because of excessive precipi tation*— and then scored on the first pitched ball after the inter lude. It was a long fly hoisted to center field by Eyestone. Start Slowly The Ducks started slowly on the other hand, and finished with a rush. In a fifth inning three-run splurge they tied the score at three all. John Linde, heavy-hit ting pitcher, sojourning in center field for the day, reached first on an error, and went to second on a passed ball. Ken Battleson walked, and both runners advanced on Mattingly’s infield out. then scored oh Captain Ford Mullen’s single over shortstop. “Fliv” stole second, reached third on a wild throw, and scored on a passed ball. Mullen’s was the only hit of the eighth inning when the Ducks scored twice to go into the lead for the frist time. In the ninth, hits by Bob Beard and Bob Hardy were mainly responsible for Ore gon’s two tallies. Dress Up for Easter SUITS from $20 to $50 ERIC MERRELL’S The University Men’s Store
