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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 29, 1938)
DUCK TRACKS By ELBERT HAWKINS Maybe it was because his Cou gars had just won a ball game, mrayway vociferous Buck Bailey wr*s as quiet as the next guy after yesterday’s ball game, and even spoke with a feeling of pity about Hobby Hobson’s Ducks. "I picked Oregon for the cham pionship before we came down I*eve,” said Buck in the dressing room. “No, I can’t pick Oregon now— I can't after today,” was the Wash ington State skipper’s meek reply aw to his present northern divi sion title-choice. He thinks Ralph Coleman’s Oregon Staters are the team to beat now. * * <■ “Washington State? My boys jare too new—but we’ll be in there swinging from now on.” was Buck's cagy reply about his own Cougar sophomore nine which sub dued Oregon’s defending champs twice in twcTdays. Bailey almost brought out a cry dog towel when he mentioned Wed nesday's game which Oregon drop ped, 6 to 5, after passing up sev eral good opportunities to win. He figured that errors, both mental aud on the field, did it. ‘ Poor devils, they gave us runs, ami we gave them runs yesterday,” summarized the colorful 225 pounder. He hasn’t seen any other nor thern division clubs, but said Cole xii rn’s experienced pitching staff w is one reason why lie named Oregon State as the team to beat tins spring. Buck was rather evasive about ftro team Tubhy Graces will field (i.f Washington. He figures they’ll lie tough to beat though, despite timing a lineup riddled t>y gradua tiio'rt. What about Idaho? “By golly toey've got a good team, vastly improved over last year,” said Book. . He’s worried about the two gunie series whieh Washington State opens at Corvallis today against the Beavers. According to Buck lie used the best hurlers he had agamst Oregon this week, figuring Hobby’s crew more dan gerous as a pennant contender , than Oregon State. doe Slenko, ace of the Cougar mound staff, was used against , Oregon in Wednesday’s game, and Ht-.mls little ehanee to do much work against Oregon State except in, the relief capacity. * $ * John Warren and University baseball fans owe Bill Greene, manager of the Eugene Drakes, st i te league team, a vote of thanks fo changing one of the mediocre if rush hitters into a fence-buster. Bill “Whizzer” White, third base irx m-outfielder, who wasn’t setting the world afire with his hitting, went out to have a little practice W'i'h the Drakes Sunday. White had been swinging a little fa d. and under the balls, so Man ager Greene had him change to the ‘>'y Cobb grip—with his hands a Mile apart. The effect was to slow M' swing a little, and raise its are, “Whizzer" immediately became ; “slugging fool," getting a home Jim in the Drake practice, Tues day he poked out a double, and got another long blow which fell THE MAN’S SHOP BYROM & KNEELAND 82 E. 10th St. Cougars Spill Oregon Again, 5 to 4 Oregon Team Loses In Ninth Frame as Steal Causes Error Buck Bailey's Team Outhits Webfoots, 12-11; Six Oregon Bools Aid in Second Defeat at Hands of Visiting Nine By ELBERT HAWKINS Oregon’s uncertain baseball team had colorful Buck Bailey and his Washington Staters pretty well squelched after eight tight innings on Howe field yesterday, but came the ninth and the Ducks tossed another game to the winds. The Cougars won it, 5 to 4, and departed for Corvallis, and a crucial two-game series with Oregon State, in first place in the northern division. Washington State outhit Hobby Hobson’s defending champs only 12 to ll, but made good use of six Oregon errors, two of them coming in the fatal ninth. Trail 4 to 3 Buck Bailey’s sophomores went into the ninth inning, trailing 4 to 3, and were apparently on the trail to defeat, with Southpaw Bob Hardy, who went the route for Oregon, bearing down. But Bailey’s merry gang touched Hardy for two hits, and got their winning two runs with the aid of two errors by Jack Gordon. It all happened with one out and men on first and third. An at temped cut-off play by Oregon's infield went awry when Runner Joe Angelo, who had just singled to right, attempted to steal second. No Cut-off Mullen’s throw to Jack Gordon, who came in behind pitcher’s box to cut it down, got by him, and Lou Hall scored from third to tie the score. Angelo, who clubbed out four hits in five trips up the day before, got around to third on the bobble. He scored Washington State's fifth run when Corky Carlson rolled out, Coleman to Gale Smith. Hobby Hobson’s down - hearted Ducks had a chance to tie it in the last of the ninth when Ford Mullen rapped a hard ball which Pitcher A1 Branfors dropped with one (away. Mullen stole second, but died there when Nicholson struck out and Smith rolled out via short stop. Lead at Start ' Oregon started out in a convinc ing manner, rushing over three runs in the last of the third to take a 3 to 1 lead. The Ducks massed four safe hits in a row after two men were out. Ford Mullen beat out an infield single, stole second, and scored on Jimmie Nicholson’s blooper into right field. Gale Smith then drove him in with a hefty double to center, and he scored on Oregon’s fourth con secutive hit of the inning, a single past second base by Wimpy Quinn. Nicholson scored Oregon’s last run in the fifth when he doubled to left, took third on a fielder’s choice, and raced home on Gor don’s infield out. Washington State got another run in the sixth when Angelo tripled to left field. He scored when Gordon dropped the throw-in, but would have made it anyway as the Cougars reached Hardy for two more hits before they were retired. Ford MuUen and Jimmie Nichol son were the big gams in Oregon’s flitting attack, each getting three hits in five times at bat. Smith and Quinn each collected two for four. Four of Bailey’s top five hitters did the damage to Hardy, each get ting two hits in five tunes at bat. Hobby's Headache WSC B R H O A E Hall, s.5 Angelo, m . 5 1 2 2 3 5 2 2 0 Carlson, lb . 5 0 1 14 C Hooper, 1 . 5 0 2 Eastman, c . 5 0 2 Emerson, 2 . 4 0 0 Mahnkey, 3 .4 11 Holsclaw, r . 3 0 1 Barnfors, p . 4 11 McCollum* . 1 Totals . 41 Oregon B Mullen, c . 5 Nicholson, m .5 G. Smith, lb . 4 Quinn, 3 . 4 Gordon, s . 4 Hardy, p . 4 Beard, r. 1 I Yerby, 1 . 3 i Coleman, 2 . 3 | Linde, r . 3 j Creighton** . 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 5 7 0 3 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Sienko, r . 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 12 27 17 R H O A 13 4 2-3 2 1 2 16 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 4 2 E °l 0 Oj 1 3! o' 1 1 0 0 0 Totals . 37 4 11 27 14 6 *Batted for Holsclaw in 8th. **Batted for Coleman in 9th. ! ocore oy innings: Washington State 001 001 102— 5 Hits . 002 113 212—12 Oregon. 003 010 000— 4 Hits. 124 020 101—11 Three-base hit, Angelo. Two J base hits, Hooper 2, Branfors, G. Smith, Nicholson. Runs batted in, Hall 2, Carlson, Nicholson, G. Smith, Quinn, Gordon. Left on bases, Washington 9, Oregon 9. Double play, Hall to Emerson to Carlson. Struck out, by Hardy 4, Branfors 1. Bases on balls, off Branfors 2. Umpire, Spec Burke. Time of game, 1:46. Warren and Cutler Defeat Challengers1 - Corey and Koch Fall Before Champs in Straight Games Oregon’s supreme handball pair, Russ Cutler and Honest John Warren, reigned supreme today af-i! ter slaughtering their challenging foes. George Corey and Karl Koch, yesterday in the men’s gymnasium, j They won in two straight games,! 21-6, 21-6. Warren and Cutler, self-styled as the greatest pair of handball I artists ever assembled at one col lege, successfully defended their crown from the all-campus champs, and won going away. Spectators commented especially upon the graceful style of sylph like Warren, while Cutler’s effec tive kills proved to be the undoing i of the campus team. Grade Schoolers Will Use Softball Fields Saturday _ Student softball players who have been using the physical edu cation field next to the ROTC building will have to seek a new field Saturday. The PE diamonds will be in use all day for the annual Lane coun ty grade school softball tourna ment, Miss Margaret Phy, secre tary of the PE department, an nounced yesterday. Oregon All-Stars Polish Attack for Coining Grid Tilt Butch Morse to Play In Junior Weekend Exhibition Fray With Coach Tex Oliver’s Web foots itching for a chance to show the campus and Eugene fans what they can do with a football, and with the “Webfoot All-Stars” primed to throw everything in the books to uphold the honor of the “alums,” the coming varsity-al umni football game is expected to be a wide-open affair. The game will give Oregon foot ball followers their first chance to see Coach Oliver’s system under actual game competition, and a big crowd of “downtown quarter backs” is expected to turn out. The tilt has been tentatively slated for Saturday afternoon, May 7. Morse to Play The “All-Star” aggregation, un der Co-Coaches Del Bjork, Stan Riordan, and Tony Amato, was (Please turn to page seven) Frosh Defeat Eugene High By 12-2 Count Anderson, Allegretto Allow Seven Blows; 39 Players Feature Contest In a game featured by the per formance of 39 players, one of the largest numbers ever to play in a -freshman baseball game, the Ore* gon Duckling squad yesterday pounded the offerings of four Eu gene high pitchers for a 12 to 2 victory. Because of the large number playing in the game, Burke Austin and Ronnie McIntyre, of the Axe men, were the only ones to collect two blows each. Get Eight Hits The yearling squad combined eight hits with six Eugene errors to amass the total of 12 runs. The Axemen collected one less hit than did the frosh, but were unable to connect in the pinches. Alvin Anderson, yearling curve ball artist, started on the mound and allowed only two hits in four innings. In the fourth he was re placed by Orlando Allegretto who gave up five safeties in the re mainmg six innings. The frosh started the game off with a two-run outburst in the first, followed by*two more in the third. In the fourth they added four more to their score, cinching’ the game with a four-run rally in the eighth. The Duckling hurlers held Eu gene scoreless until the sixth inn (Please turn to page seven) BLEND YOUR TOBACCO WITH THE HONEY^ HONEY IN THE BOWLj (Yellow) $! Honey in Yello-Bole improves all tobaccos. You spend at least $20 for tobacco in a year — $1 spent on Yello-Bole makes that $20 worth of tobacco taste twice as good! Get yours. YELLO-BOLE ICC. U. S. IA1. OFF. ■r A VINTAGES that you can get at Bell’s Basket Grocery ...... A large VARIETY to choose from: • Wines • Champagnes • Mixers • Beers • Ales © Luncheon Specialties QUICK Delivery Phone 770 BELL’S 34 East 10th BASKET GROCERY V. H