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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 10, 1938)
Theta Chi, Phi Delts, Kappa Sigs, Zeta Hall Win Softball Games McKenzie Pitches No-Hitter as Sigma Chi Loses; Hughes Gives Pi Kaps Five Hits; Sigma Loses; Sherry Ross Swamped By BILL PHELPS Bill McKenzie, Theta Chi pitcher, climbed into the intramural soft ball hall of fame as he pitched his teammates to a no-hit game over Sigma Chi yesterday. The score was 13 to 2. After the first two innings not a man reached first base for the Sweethearts. They scored in the first when the first two men walked, and pulled a double steal and sent one across with the first run. They added another in the second when Tod walked, and advanced while a pair of teammates struck out, scoring on a wild pitch. McKenzie did not allow another walk after that, and fanned eight Sigma Chis. In the meantime the boys from the hillside were climb ing on Dick Peters for a run in the first and second, and splurged with four apiece in the third and fourth. They wound up with three in the fifth. Summary: R H E Theta Chi. 13 15 0 Sigma Chi . 2 0 4 Batteries: McKenzie and Cush ing; Peters and Phelps. Kappa Sigs 1, Pi Kaps 0 In the tightest battle of the year, Kappa Sigma nosed out Pi Kappa Alpha yesterday, 1 to 0. The Kappa Sigs collected seven hits off of Jim Webb, two more than the Pi Kaps got from Oliver Hughes. They scored in the second inning when A1 Carter singled and stole second. He scored when Ray Jewel poled a single to bring him in. Hughes was in trouble only once during the game, the fourth inning. With one out Gassman walked, but was out on a fielder’s choice which left Piestiak on first. Mert Larsen tsingled, and so did Laselle, but Piestiak was out as he tried to score. > Laselle led the Pi Kaps at the plate, getting two of the hits off Hughes. Carter led the Eleventh (Street boys, with two for two. Hughes, the winning pitcher, (Struck out only one man, while Webb fanned seven Kappa Sigs. iSummary: R H E Pi Kappa Alpha . 0 5 1 Kappa Sigma. 17 0 Batteries: Webb and Faunt; Hughes and Mack. Zeta 19, Sherry Ross 0 The Sherry Ross hallmen kept their no-win record clear yester day as they helped Zeta hall to a 19 to 0 win over the south end dwellers. Gene Truby limited the Rossmen to two hits, a single by Biggs, and a pop f.’y, lilt by Hugh Hoffman, that fell just over short. He fanned eight men in the four innings and yielded three Walks. Zeta pounded Alan Kahn, Chuck Green, and Walt Haug for 13 hits, but the Sherrymen helped beau tifully with 10 errors of both the plain and garden variety. Summary: R H E Zeta . 19 13 3 Sherry Ross . 0 2 10 Batteries: Truby and Whitfield, Torrence; Kahn, Green, Haug and Hoffman. Phi Delts 11, Sigma Hall 8 Phi Delta Theta greeted Sigma hall with a seven-run barrage in the first inning yesterday, and the hallmen never got over the blow. The final score was 11 to 8. The tongmen put five hits with three errors and a walk to start the affair with seven counters, but they needed then all before they could leave with the game. The hallmen got to Jackson for a run in the second, then pounded him off the mound with a four-run barrage in the third. They added three more off his successor, Ken Shipley, but the Phi Delts broke the tie with three runs in the last two innings. Summary: R H E Sigma hall . 8 8 6 Phi Delta Theta. 11 14 3 Batteries: Winslow and Engle; Jackson, Shipley and Blanchard. Freshman Net Team Defeats Rooks, 6 to 1 Coach Paul Washke’s yearling net team won its second victory in three starts Saturday at Corvallis when it defeated the Oregon State rooks for the second time this season, 6 to 1. The Ducklings took four out of the five singles matches and swept the doubles contests for the one-sided victory. Although the final score . indicated that the match was an easy ' affair for the Ducklings, most of the matches were stretched to three sets before completion. Dick Phil ippi, frosh No. 2 singles player, was unable to get going on the Corvallis, courts and lost the only match of the day to Strong of the rooks, 6-4, 6-3. The frosh racqueteers will prob ably wind up the 1938 season next Thursday when they travel to Mon mouth to engage the Oregon Nor mal school netters. Although the ONS team lost a 7 to 0 decision to the Duck varsity earlier this sea son, they will probably offer plenty of competition to the yearling net men. Summary of Saturday’s match: singles: Clark, frosh, defeated Presley, rooks, 3-6, 6-4, 11-9. Strong-, rooks, defeated Philippi, frosh, 6-4, 6-3. Williams, frosh, defeated Cope, ,rooks, 7-9, 6-3, 6-3. Engelke, frosh, defeated Vander vort, rooks, 6-4, 2-6, 6-4. Rennolds, frosh, defeated Turner, rooks, 8-6, 6-0. Doubles: Clark and Philippi, frosh, defeat ed Presley and Strong, rooks, 4-6, 6-4, 6-2. Williams and Engelke, frosh, de feated Vandervort and Turner, rooks, 6-4, 6-4. COED SOFTBALL SLATE Coed softball games scheduled for today are Delta Delta Delta vs. Pi Beta Phi at 4 o’clock; Al pha Phi vs. Alpha Chi Omega, Hendricks hall vs. Alpha Delta Pi, and Kappa Kappa Gamma vs. Susan Campbell at 5 o’clock. Passes, Laterals Feature Oliver’s Football Preview Duck Eleven Flashes Varied Offenses in 24 to 13 Win Coach Tex Oliver’s flashing grid men opened up long enough In the first half of their game with the All-Stars Saturday to score four touchdowns and then rest on their laurels to win easily by a 24-13 score. Razzle-dazzle passes and later als were everywhere in evidence, but Oliver only usqd a few primary formations and gave little inkling of what trick plays he has up his sleeve. But the Webfoots displayed a smoothness and brilliance which promises for a more than average team next fall. Mabee Scores First Shortly after the game began, Duke Hankinson returned a punt 10 yards from the 50 and then un furled a long pass to Don Mabee, converted end, who went over for the first score. Later in the quar ter, Rod Speetzen took the ball on an end-around and ran 20 yards to the All-Star 14. Dave Gammon then stepped' back and heaved a pass to Anderson who lateralled it to A1 Samuelson, Duck center. From the 6-yard line Samuelson crossed over for a sec ond score. In the second canto, Dave Gam mon threw a long pass, this time to Bob Blenkinsop. With the ball on the 3-yard line, Gammon speared a bullet pass from Ander son and added a third tally for the varsity. Jay Graybeal cut through tackle for 12 yards later in the second quarter to make a fourth and final touchdown. There were no conver sions by the varsity. Pass Interceptions Both All-Star scores were the result of pass interceptions. Chan Berry caught one of Isberg’s pass on his own five and raced to the other goal line for the All-Stars’ first score. Huston kicked the conversion. In the last few min utes of play, Maury Van Vliet snatched one of Graybeal’s passes and sprinted 65 yards to score. There was no conversion. Although a constant stream of varsity players—42 strong—went into the game, the scrimmage dicT show promise for next year. Most important was that the line held up against a strong, heavy oppo sition. Spring practice was not formal ly ended with this game, but will probably continue for a week or so more. Coach Oliver has indi cated that he may keep punters and certain linemen out longer. All-Stars Oregon Varsity Riordan .LE.Hawke Bjork ..LT.Stuart Amato .LG.Passolt Moore .C.Cadenasso Carter .RG.Giovanini Bracher .RT..Inskeep Morse .RE.Mabee Huston .Q.Nilsen Van Vliet .LH.Hankinson dePittard .RH.Isberg Donnell .F.Stenstrom Burton Wood, Oregon graduate of several years ago, has secured a position as salesman for the Oregon Mutual Life Insurance company. Duck Hits Comeback Trail; Huskies Drop Saturday Game 10 to 6 Oregon Stages Six-Run Splurge in Eighth To Take Game; Hardy Weatherrs Rally to Win Second Conference Start By BILL NORENE Oregon baseball stock took a decided jump over the weekend as the varsity baseballers pounded out their second win in as many games over the University of Washington’s Huskies. Coming from behind with a six-run rally in the eighth inning, the Ducks overcame a two-run lead held by the Huskies since the inning before, to win 10 to 6. The victory was the team’s fourth, moving them up to the .500 mark for the first time since the start of the season. It was also the second for Bob Hardy, who went the route, weathering a four run Washington rally in the sev enth. Three Runs in Second Oregon got three runs in the sec ond inning and another in the fifth to hold a 4 to 1 lead going into the seventh when errors afield put men on base who scored on four hits. Bud Pripp hit a double and George Zeigenfuss banged out a triple to pace the four-run rally. The Hus kies added another in the eighth, but were checked successfully after the big Oregon rally. Hits by Wimpy Quinn, Bob Beard, Bob Hardy, and Matt Pava lunas, and walks to Captain Ford Mullen and Jimmy Nicholson scored .three of Oregon’s runs and Gale Smith accounted for three of the others when he tripled to left cen ter field to finish the eighth inning scoring. Oregon batters fattened their averages considerably against the University of Washington hurlers, but Bob Hardy still leads the team sluggers with 9 hits in 19 trips to the plate for a .474 average. Gale Smith, first baseman, col lected five hits during the Wash ington series to gain second spot in the averages with 13 hits in 32 trips for a .406 average. Mullen Hits 14 Bob Beard and Ford Mullen are tied for third place. Mullen has 14 hits in 35 trips, while Beard has 8 hits in 20 trips. Wimpy Quinn and Jimmy Nicholson are the only others to have batting averages over .300. Varsity Batting, Fielding Averages AB H Pet. PO A E Pet Hai’dy . 19 9 .474 2 17 1 .950 G- Smith . 32 13 .406 101 4 0 1.000 Mullen . 35 14 .400 42 6 3 .941 Beard .— -. 20 8 .400 6 2 2 .800 Quinn . 32 12 .375 7 21 5 .848 Nicholson . 33 11 .333 15 0 1 .938 Battleson . 4 1 .250 3 0 2 .400 Cox . 8 2 .250 3 0 1 .750 Pavalunas . 11 2 .182 9 14 2 .920 B- Smith . 6 1 .167 2 0 0 1.000 Gordon . 30 4 .133 9 21 5 .857 Coleman.. 11 l .091 5 8 4 .765 Yerby . 13 1 .075 5 0 1 .833 Creighton . 16 1 .063 2 4 0 1.000 Linde . 7 0 .000 5 0 1 .833 277 80 .289 213 98 27 .914 Varsity Tennis Outlook Brighter Alter OSC Victory Washington Huskies At Top of Division Tennis Ladder Oregon’s chances to retain the northern division conference tennis title this year were considerably brightened Saturday afternoon when Coach Paul Washke’s netmen repulsed the Oregon State Beavers, 4 to 3, in a conference match held in Corvallis. The win gave the Ducks an even break in the annual two-match series between the two net squads. Coach Washke held little hopes for his team to win on the slick Corvallis courts, but unexpected wins by Les Werschkul in the singles matches and Bill Zimmer man and Larry Crane in doubles gave the Webfoot racqueteers their win. In Tie Now The loss for the Beavers throws them into a tie for second place honors with the Ducks, while the undefeated Washington Huskies stand alone at the top of the con ference ladder. The Webfoots are scheduled to meet the Washington club on Saturday, May 21 in Se attle. The match Saturday in Corvallis was hard and well played through out the seven contests, with Ore gon gaining a 3 to 2 advantage in singles and cinching the win with a timely victory in the first doubles match. Sophomores Les Werschkul and Ellsworth Ellis and Senior Bill Zimmerman posted wins for the Ducks in the singles matches Sat urday, and Veterans Larry Crane and Zimmerman climaxed the vic tory with a two-set win over Hock ley and McDougall of the Beaver squad. Next weekend the Webfoots journey to Salem to meet the Bear cats of Willamette University in the final non-conference match of the season. The Ducks at present hold a 7 to 0 win over the Salem lads. Summary of Saturay’s match: Singles: Hockley, QSC, defeated Crane, Oregon, 6-1, 6-3. Werschkul, Oregon, defeated Trouten, Oregon, 2-6, 10-8, 6-4. Ellis, Oregon, defeated McComb, OSC, 6-2, 6-4. Zimmerman, Oregon, defeated Goddard, OSC, 7-5, 6-1. Dietrich, OSC, defeated Craw ford, Oregon, 1-6, 6-4, 8-6. Doubles: Crane and Zimmerman, Oregon, defeated Hockley and McDougall OSC, 6-4, 7-5. t McComb and Trouten, OSC, de feated Ellis and Werschkul, Ore gon, 3-6, 9-7, 6-4. Augustana college faculty mem bers sponsored a Recuperation , party for students who had just * finished examinations.