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DUCK TRACKS ■nugimnmiiHiiiiiniiiUMiiiiiiiHiliiilHllllllllllllillllHIHIIIlUHlIlllHlIllIIlUHTil1 By ELBERT HAWKINS I • There’s still :t big question mark in the Oregon baseball camp today as the YVebfoots cross bats on Howe field in their second double header of the season against Pa cific university. Hobby's infield quartet of Wim py Quinn, third; Elmer Mallory, short; Ford Mullen, second; and Busher Smith, first, will be one of •the northern division's smoothest and fastest combinations, it packs the hitting power, too, and there’re enough baii players on tap to make a good outfield with veteran Jim my' Nicholson, But the pitching staff? With five experienced flingers in south paws Bob Hardy and Jack Jasper, and righthanders Bob Creighton, A1 Linn, and Pete Igoc, it looks good on paper. By Hobby Hobson’s task right now is more than a mat ter of material, it's the element of time. Contrast this. Ralph Coleman, whose Oregon Staters were co champions last spring in the con ference, has had his hu rlers toss ing the ball around since February. Coach Hobson had a national bas ketball championship to win for Oregon so his Webfoots didn’t get started until this term, two weeks ago. # * * Southpaw Bob Hardy, who'll be a kingpin on th Wcbfoot club this spring, was a basketballer and consequently did his first throw ing only three or four days ago. It'll take him two weeks to get into shape. Assistant (acting) Coach Bill Cole, who handled the Ducks in Hobby’s absence, got the break of some warm baseball weather last week and whipped the squad rapidly into shape, but. only two of the pitchers, Creighton and Linn, were on edge enough to check Pacific Friday they did, 4 to 1. The Badgers waded through Jasper and Igoe and then picked on two of Bill Cole's infielders, Wimp Quinn, and Busher Smith who tried a hand at pitching. With five games in five days slated this week, Hobby’s question mark pitching staff will have a chance to prove itself. There’s the aforementioned pair against Pa cific today and then single games ■on Thursday, Friday, and Satur day. How would you like to face a battery like (bis: Pitcher, I,. It, Gregory and catcher, Honest John Warren. The Oregonian’s leading baseball authority and sports edi tor dropped through Eugene yes terday after a few weeks in Cali fornia with the Portland Beavers, and limbered up his long-inactive souphone on the portly Irosli catch er who offered to warm him up. Joker of it all . . . Honest John couldn't hold him, one of Greg's ‘'dead” balls caught the Duckling skipper on a finger and put him In the place of all has-ltccn catch ers. Pitcher Gregory then stepped out on Howe field and fed his of ferings to the varsity Wchfoots who came away from the plate ad mitting "he still has that hook." Cheerful notes on the Oregon camp . . . Gale Smith, the free Wheeling first baseman, who was all-conference as a sophomore, is starting his stiekwork right where he left off last season , Pitcher Bob Hardy socked the ball over the long right field fence on Howe field during ins first batting prac tice of the year (distance of over 300 feet) ... it went over on the fly contrary to what his "jealous" mates told him . . . they said it went over on the hop ... a day or two later the portable pitcher and batter did it again, the ball landing in tlie middle of 18th street last night he hit the bank with one. George Varoffs pole vault of 1 I ieet at the Hill meet l-'riday night was his best performance m com petition this season . . . he had topped that mark several times m pre-season jumps inside the new gym . . . Bernard Brewer, the lad tvlio so successfully pulled Sun day's second Portland-,Sueramento game out of the fire with a hone 3un and some beautiful shutout twirling' on the mound, is an ex University of Oregon and lingerie boy. Here's Hie count on lev Oliver's turnout of varsilv footballers: r,7 pirn—18 lettermen, (i reserves. III ltunsfcrs, and *>3 sophomores, rim tVcbloot coach, exponent or Urn “Oliver Twist", predicts Ids Ore £onians will drfeat Soutliern < *li i or ilia’s Kom* Howl (liampiors m JJtc luot tpiuc on uc.\t lull’* frctytU* Webfoot Baseball Team Opens Home Season Today , No Titles Now But He's Still Good (Courtesy of the Oregonian) George Varoff . . . University of Oregon’s great pole vaulter has lost his indoor and outdoor world records Init he vaulted 14 feet into space at Friday’s annual Hill meet in Portland to prove himself a worthy contender for new honors. Webfoot Cindermen Place at Hill Relays Storli Stumbles as Idaho Takes Mile Relay Events; Meadows Breaks Varoff's Pole Vault Record; Hansen Is Third The Ducks ushered in the 1939 track season Friday night by placing in two out of the three events entered in the annual Hill Military relays held at Portland. Oregon’s Kirman Storli, running anchor man in the mile relay, stepped on the inside rail of the track and lost his stride rhaking it possible for Young, the Idaho sprinter, to widen his lead which Storli couldn’t overtake. Jim Buck, varsity sprint ace, fought off a last-minute drive by Bob Leslie, Oregon State runner, to keep the lead in the first quar ter of the relay, but the strong Idaho runner finally breezed past both Oregon and Oregon State to win. Varol'f (hies I I Feet George Varol'f, former world’s indoor pole vault record holder, lost to Earl Meadows, Southern California’s present co-holder of the world’s outdoor record with George Sefton of Southern Cali fornia, by a fraction of an inch when Varol'f barely brushed the bar off at H feet I inches. Mea dows made the leap to better Varuffs' record of 11 feet 3 inches made last year. Kodney Hansen, Varoffs pole vaulting male, put a feather in his cap by clearing Hi feet (> inches. Hansen missed II feet after three tries. It was the highest Hansen has gone this year. Colonel Bill Hayward was quite pleased with the showing made by both vuult ers. Mitchell Trails lion Mtteholl, Haywards mile runner, against u surplus of com petition trailed four other runners to the tape in the mile event. (Heim Cunningham, world's record holder in the distance. Don hash, one of the outstanding runners in the world, John Boriean. holder of the world's 1,000 yard record, and Don Yailloncourt of Oregon State, led the field in the mile run. With their first meet behind, Hayward s cinder pounders yester day turned to practicing for the Oregon State relays to be held April id at Corvallis. Hayward gave indication last night that the team would get down to real practice within the next two weeks in order to cop the affair from the Beavers, hast year, the Ducks took all but about two of the events. Thus year's team is handicapped by lack of high jumpers and shot put men. All the weight events are at low ebb with only one or two men turning out for these events.! tile . . . Vauglm Corley, the new hue coach, is pleased too with Ids forward prospects . . . |>ut lie's worried about the two taekle po sitions , . . all alternoon scrim mages are seheduled for the team every Saturday during spring tool tall . , . vitl'-orif are weftcujc. Chi Omega Ten Tips Hendricks Softballers, 8-6 Winners Lead Early In Five-Inning Engagement B,v \KIOT VOl'N'G Chi Omega stole the lead, 4-1, during the initial inning of their coed intramural baseball feud with Hendricks hall yesterday and held il throughout the game which stood at 8 to 0. Chi O. after five hard-fought inni n g s in below freezing weather. Lucille lCnglish, Chi O inirler, looked pretty good on the mound. Six dorm girls struck out before her, while Lucille walked three. An all-around player, Lucille worked well with her hard-hitting catcher, Jean Foster. \\ illiams rUelu's U i'll Tossing for Hendricks, Barbara Williams show oil u very fast ball, which fanned five, and a slight need for control, even though no one walked. Seven of Chi O’s eight scores accumulated during the first two frames, hut then Hendricks clamped down, and third inning chows only one hit. Lueile Knglish came through in the fourth to set the scoreboard, -S to 5. In the fourth round, Hendricks tried to rally Four hits and a walk netted three tallies Again in the last half of the fifth they tried, but Flea nor Teeter's score was the only result. Tiny Again today l'lspa Snyder, acting baseball manager in Is uise Parsley's ab-; seme announced these games for tod.jy tit a on Gerlinger field: Theta vs. AOPi. Kappa v Score by innings; n h k Chi o t;;o it) s 12 2 Hendricks 101 HI 0 10 2 Batteries: Knglish, Nelson and Foster Williams and Dixon. Oregon's baseball team finished a close second in the conference la.t icasoa. I Pacific University Nine Invader for Twin Bill Bob Creighton Is Hobson's Starting Mound Choice; Teams Break Even in Previous Doubleheader By GEORGE PASERO “Play ball" that familiar bark of the baseball umpire will echo on Howe field this afternoon at 2 o'clock, ushering in the 1939 collegiate varsity season in Eugene. Oregon’s Duck “Bombers” and Pacific university's Badgers will share the honor for bringing King Baseball back into his own on the Duck campus. Coach Howard Hobson’s batters and pitchers have two games already under their belts, but both of these were played at Forest Grove. So Eugene fans have still to see this year's varsity in action. A Twin Bill A double header is on the bill for this afternoon. The two clubs split at Forest Grove last Friday, the Ducks winning the opener by a 4 to 1 score, dropping the second, 15 to 13. The first game today looms as a pitchers’ battle with Lefty Walt Reiss of the Badgers hooking up with Bob Creighton of the Ducks. Coach Howard Hobson has four pitchers ready to go, and will prob ably use ail four before the after noon is over. Burly Bob Creighton has been ahead of the other hurl ers in workouts to date and should get the starting nod from Coach Hobson. Creighton pitched four innings against the Badgers Fri day, giving up five hits and only one run. A1 Linn, fireball right hander, finished up for the Ducks and was touched for only three hits in his three innings on the hil lock. Still Undecided The Duck mentor last night was undecided as to the starting bat tery. Monday night was Coach Hobby’s first official workout with his team since returning from the basketball wars, and he fully ex pects to test his boys under fire before forming any opinions. The other two pitchers who will "fire" are Jack Jasper and Pete Igoe. Jasper, transfer from Marin, is a southpaw. Coach Pete Miller of the Badg ers plans to start his two mound aces, Reiss and Francis Dierick. Reiss, southpaw veteran, will hurl the first game with "Cooney" Anderson, freshman backstop, be hind the plate. Dierick will pitch to Dave Petrasso in the second contest. In line for relief duty for the j Badgers are Len Gillman, fireball sophomore, Harlan McCrudy, and Ray Sperling, a freshman. At Full Strength Monday night, for the first time this year, Oregon’s ball squad was : at full strength. Coach Hobby was' back, directing practice, and four \ basketball-baseball players were! again in the fold. Captain Ford Mullen, Pitcher Bob Hardy, and: Outfielders Red McNeeley, and Matt Pavalunas are the newest1 additions to the Duck squad. Captain Ford Mullen, all-confer ence third baseman in his sopho more year and catcher last year. will start the season at second base, Coach Hobby announced last night. Mullen has had consider able experience at the keystone position in semi-pro ball. Bob (Ollie) Hardy, rated by scouts as a sure-fire prospect, Sat urday hit one of the longest blows ever seen on Howe field. Hardy’s wallop cleared the right field fence on the fly. Pavvy Is Experienced Pavalunas, an experienced out fielder, will strengthen the situa tion in the "outer gardens,” and will probably start one game to day. John Yerby, letterman two years ago, is back with the squad, fighting for an outfield post. With Mullen on second, the catching for today will be divided between two varsity reserves, Cece Walden and Maury Kelly; a transfer, Dwight Moore; and a sophomore, Jim Rathbun. Coach Hobby’s starting infield will consist of Gale (Busher) Smith at first, Captain Ford Mul len at second, Elmer Mallory at short; and J. Wellington (Wimpy) Quinn at third. A second infield consists of Home Run Herb Ham er at first, Jack Shimshak at sec ond, Tini Smith at short, and Jack Yoshitomi at third. Jimmy Nicholson, the speedy grid star, and Tommy Cox are cinches for outfield positions. The right field job is wide open, how ever, with Pavalunas the best bet. Other outfielders who may see ac tion are Frank Lukowski, Whizzer White, Bill Feasley, and McNeeley. Varsity Gridsters ShowWell inDrill Saturday’s public scrimmage session saw Oliver's sophomore and junior college transfers hold the eyes of onlookers as they showed good prospects for the 1939 starting eleven. Oliver is very jubilant over the showing made thus far by his gridsters. He has-been emphasiz ing running plays and defensive work. Eugene’s own Doug Caven made his appearance in regular varsity fashion by his good running and passing. John Berry, transfer, also showed his prowess as a ball car rier and will be a definite obstacle John Warren's Duckling Nine Engages Eugene Game Is Today; Jefferson Wins Saturday, 7 to 2 John Warren's Duckling nine lost their opening game to Jeffer son. high of Portland, 7 to 2, at Howe field Saturday afternoon. In their next appearance, the frosh will meet Eugene high at 2 p.m. this afternoon. Warren in dicated he intends to start Walter Gale from Walla Walla on the mound, with Leland Dragoo and Eill Musselman ready to step in at any moment and take over the hurling duties. The Jeffmen garnered eight hits off Dragoo and Musselman, while the frosh were held to four scat tered blows off Fenter, Richards, and Warner. The three Jefferson hurlers fanned 12 frosh while 9 Democrats went down swinging. Jeffmen Score Early Jefferson scored in the initial inning when Rennick singled, ad vanced to second on Goodhew’s error, and scored on Clifford’s hit. In the third frame the Ducklings evened the score as Gene Fenter, Jeff southpaw twirler grew wild, walking three men, allowing Dragoo to score. From the third inning up until the first half of the eighth there were no runs scored by either team. Richards opened the eighth inning with a W'alk, Clifford sacri ficed, sending him to second, and Weimer sent him scampering home with a. long triple. Harry Amacher singled to right field, scoring Weimer to end the scoring for the inning. This rally seemed to put hew life in the Democrats and they sent four more runs across the plate in the final inning. Zannos Homes Nick Zannos opened the Duck ling half of the ninth frame auspiciously hitting a long home! run. The next three batters, how ever, were easy victims and Jeffer son went back to Portland with the large end of the score. Score: R H E Jefferson .... 100 000 024—7 8 3 Frosh . 000 100 001—2 4 3 Fenter, Richards, Warner and Amacher, Weimer; Dragoo, Mus selman and Adrian, Zannos. Um pire, Stan Summers. to any aspirant for the right half, back berth. Oliver has two good prospects for the left end berth in Hymie Harris, sophomore pass scooper, and Jim Harris, transfer. Bill Reg ner also showed promising talent at an end position. 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Scoring was as follows: Betas 20, Gamma Hall 18 40-yd. free style—Chung-Hoon (Gamma) first; Fortmiller and Wolcott (Beta) second and third. 40-yd. backstroke — Fortmiller (Beta) first; Niklas (Gamma) sec ond; Hague (Beta) third. 40-yd. breast stroke-Chung Hoon (Gamma) first; Craig and Atkinson (Beta) second and third. 120-yard medley—Beta won by default. 60-yd. individual medley—Craig (Beta) first; Niklas (Gamma) sec ond. 120-yd. free style relay—Won by Beta (Wolcott, Fortmiller, and craig). ATO 30, DU 17 40-yd. free style — Corley (DU) first; Crosby (DU) second; Boone (ATO) third. 40-yd. backstroke — Steele and Hochuli (ATO first and second; Crosby (DU) third. 40-yd. breast stroke—Weston and Sears (ATO) first and second; Fischer (DU) third. 120-yd. medley—Won by ATO (Boone, Weston, and Hochuli). 60-yd. individual medley—Corby (DU) first; Steele (ATO) second. 120-yd. free style relay—ATO won by default. Kappa Sigs 25, Phi Delta 24 40-yd. free style — McDonald (Kappa Sig) first; Lewman (Phi Frosh Netters Face Grant High Here Today Northwest Amateur Due to Appear For Generals There’s a little tennis on the menu for this afternoon when the University of Oregon freshmen meet the brilliant net squad from Grant high school at the Univer sity tennis courts. Led by Emory Neil, Pacific northwest amateur champ, and Ned Jungk, the Gen erals from Portland wall again at tempt to take the scalp of the Ducklings. The Portlanders gave last year’s freshmen their only de feat. Frosh racket slingers will in clude Don McEachern, Don Gal breaith, Bob Potwin, John McCli ment, La Verne Van Marter, Bill Browne, and Eldon Platt. Platt, a Eugene boy, is a newcomer to the squad and will be used as an alter nate. tourney Over At the end of the elimination tournament to determine position holders on the varsity net squad, Coach Paul Washke has these men: Les Werschkul, Leonard Clark. Dick Phillippi, Rex Apple gate, John Sherman, Carl Robbins, Norm W iener. Bob Horning, and Don Good. The freshmen fell with a thud before the varsity last Friday " hen the two squads engaged in an intersquad practice contest. The veterans overcame the youngsters 7 to 2. ’ Eleven matches have been billed for the tentative schedule of the varsity. April 11-Leader tennis shop here. ' Api il 15 Linfield, here. April 18 Willamette, here April 22—Willamette, Salem. April 25-Linfield, McMinnville April 28 Idaho, Moscow April 29 WSC, Pullman. May 5 -OSC, Corvallis. May (3 —OSC, here. May 13—Washington, here. May 27—Northern division ton nament, Pullman. After competition for berths ■ the freshman squad, these m. ended up with berths on the ton nament ladder: Don McEacher bob Potwiq. Don Galbreaith, Jol .Uchment. La Verne Van Mark b,M Brownc' BiU Moxley. Bill Em. eou. Fred Konschot. Maurice Go] FI -M Delti second; Stevenson (Kappa Sig) third. 40-yd. backstroke—Holmes (Phi Delt) first; Andros (Kappa Sig) second; Corbett (Phi Delt) third. 120-yd. medley — Won by Phi Delta Theta (Hickson, Holmes, and Lewman). 60-yd. individual medley — Mac Donald (Kappa Sig) first; Holmes (Phi Delt) second. 120-yd. free style relay — Won by Kappa Sigma (MacDonald, Jenks, and Lansing). Fijis 25, SAE 24 40-yd. free style—Bladine (Fiji) Cirst; Petrie (SAE) second; McGill (Fiji) third. 40-yd. backstroke — Farnham (Fiji) first; Hockley (SAE) sec ond; Swink (Fiji) third. 40-yd. breast stroke—Meek and Shearer (SAE) first and second; Griffiths (Fiji) third. 120-yard medley—Won by Sigma Alpha Epsilon (Hockley, Meek, and Petrie). 60-yd. individual medley—Farn ham (Fiji) first; Meek (SAE) second'. 120-yard free style relay—Won by Phi Gamma Delta (McGill, Bla dine, and Bergan). 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