DUCK TRACKS
GEORGE PASERO, Co-Sports Editor,
Oregon Daily Emerald
Old man weather, the capricious
fellow who delights in playing
pranks with collegiate baseball,
tried his best yesterday to put the
skids under Oregon’s diamond
"T ?ner with Linfield at Howe field,
but for once he came out second
best.
Disdaining mud, cold, and rain,
the Oregons and Wildcats, evi
dently believers of the old saying,
‘•We’re gonna have weather whe
ther or not,” did play a ball game
. . . and what’s more, turned in a
pretty fair performance.
In summary, then, Oregon won,
12 to 6 . . . Coach Hobby got a
slant on his 1940 material in ac
tion . . . the Webfoots collected
a few hits ... a few hardy fans
saw a bit of baseball and a bit
that wasn’t . . . and this corre
spondent got cold feet and a few
opinions . . . these we present to
you here (the opinions, not the
feet).
Slugger Dick
Dick Whitman, Duck center-field
er, looms as the slugger of the
team ... he collected a single and
a terrific home run in four offi
cial times at bat ... he went down
swinging once, a la Ed Coleman,
however ... as a unit, Hobby’s
outfield looks mighty good with
speedy W'hitfiy Austin in left,
Slugger Dick in center, and Bill
(Kiki) Carney, another hard hit
ter, in right.
starting pitcher fete Igoe hurled
four innings and was in command
the whole route, blanking Linfield
. . . Igoe looked fast and was giv
ing opposing batters nothing too
good . , . Bob Rieder, ex-frosh
chucker and a slender six-foot,
five-inch lad, was batted hard for
a couple innings while finding
himself and then settled down and
pitched nice ball.
Arba Ager, Wimpy Quinn's suc
cessor at third base, looked every
inch the veteran he is, playing his
position well and slamming out
two blows . . . Billy Calvert, short
stop transfer, teamed with Jack
Shimshak in the keystone posi
tions . . . and Lloyd Beggs, a hus
ky reserve from last year’s team,
opened at first . . . Beggs smacked
a nice double.
Cox Shows Fire
The play of little Tommy Cox
at second in the late inning also
impressed spectators . . . Whiff
Whiff looked smooth on a fast dou
ble play . . . Cece Walden was de
pendable as ever behind the plate
. . . but the backstopping perform
ance of Maury Kelly was the sur
prise of the gam© . . . and, oh yes,
the infield seemed to pep up when
the always fiery Cox trotted to
second.
What the new Oregons lack in
size they make up in speed . . .
especially on the base paths . . .
in fact, they virtually stole the
Linfield catcher blind, turning in
four double steals . . . almost a
record.
Three more games this week . . .
Portland here today, weather per
mitting . . . and Jack Jasper the
possible mound choice.
News about Oregon’s graduates
to the pro baseball ranks is scarce,
but we’ve managed to keep some
kind of a lone on the boys. Ford
Mullen is going great at Beaumont
and has a great chance of becom
ing regular second baseman for
the Detroit Tiger Ace farm . . .
in Beaumont’s first three pre-sea
son contests he hit 4 for 5, 2 for 3,
and 1 for 3 .. . not bad.
Hardy Sure to Stick
Busher ..Smith, ..unfortunately,
suffered from illness during the
opening games and didn't play . . .
however, he’s on the road to re
covery now . . . Lefty Bob (Ollie)
Hardy, pitcher who won five and
lost three-for Beaumont last year,
had a sore arm, but he’s sure to
be a Beaumont regular . . . he’s
big, loose, and fast, and the Ti
gers like him.
Down at L. A., Elmer Mallory,
Duck shortstop who was “grabbed"
by Cub scouts, played a few inn
ings in every pre-season game ex
cept one—with the Chicago Cubs
... he was to have been farmed
out last week, but definite news
has not been received on the cam
pus . . . Big Wimp Quinn, the oth
er Oregon boy with the Angels, is
still with the club . . . according
to Jim Rathbun. Duck catcher,
Quinn wrote that he was to go
back to Vancouver, the club for
which he played last year, but re
ceived orders from the Angel
front office to stay with L. A. at
least a few more weeks.
As for Yankee Joe Gordon, he’s
been a hitting sensation in spring
training, blasting out a number
of home runs . . . Bill Sayles, fast
ball pitcher, was with the Boston
Red Sox . . . John Linde and Bob
Baer go to Salem this year . . .
j and Gene Spiker, a Webfoot for
I about a half term, is with the Yan
I kee's farm, Newark.
Miami for Macdonald
Jerry Macdonald, Oregon swim
mer who entered the nationals,
will not be baek this term . . . he’s
headed for Palm Beach, Miami
Beach, and waypoints . . . Wet
more and Dallas will be back,
however.
Congrats to Hank Evans for re
ceiving an invitation to enter the
Far Best Kandahar (ski meet, to
you) at Mount Hood . . . only the
top men of the west receive bids
to this, so it’s quite an honor.
Stew Fredericks, frosh pitcher,
won seven games for Silverton,
; last summer . . . yes, and he wasn’t
beaten once . . . too bad he can’t
hurl for Hobby's varsity . . . he’ll
start against Grant high here Fri
day.
Gridders Brave
Mud, Showers
The Ducks waddled in the mud
last night on the Oliver mud flats,
when a momentary lapse in the
rain brought the football squad
out from the covered practice
field to the damp turf.
The Golds went at it against
the Greens in the gooey going, and
the Reds slid about w'ith the
Whites. Den Isberg and Buck Ber
ry did most of the passing for the
Golds, and Curly Mecham and
Tommy Roblin did the throwing
for the Reds.
Coaches Vaughn Corley and
Mike Mikulak are in charge of the
Green and White teams, composed
mostly of sophomores and trans
fers and newcomers to the squad
of 65. Listed as ends on the Green
team are Bob Hendershott and
Ted Jaross, but they step up to
the Reds whenever the Regner,
Harris, and Horne trio are out for
track.
Len Surles and Ed Moshofsky,
holdovers, are tackles, Bob Davis,
Bill Ross, and Morrie Jackson,
transfers, are the guards. Fresh
man Duke Iverson and transfer
Hersh Patton are the alternate
centers on the Greens.
Roy Ell, freshman, and Duane
Anderson, reserve, hold down the
quarter post, and Larry Monroy,
transfer, is left half. Don Mabee,
letterman, is right half, and Jim
Shepard, frosh, is the fullback.
On the Whites are Dick Stan
ton, Norm Conway, and Gene
Brown, ends, and Del Bjork and
George Van Pelt, tackles. Bob
Beckner, Vem Greedy, Hal Kasch-j
ko, Bob Bradshaw, and Buck Buch
Frosh Mentor
“Honest” John Warren, whose
yearling baseball team opens its
season with Grant high Friday.
Grant Hi Will Open
Season For Frosh
The frosh baseballers and the
Pleasant Hill high team lost a
sticky decision to General Mud last
Tuesday when the game they were
scheduled to play was canceled.
This means that the frosh will
open against Grant high of Port
land this Friday.
“Grant always turns out a good
team and it is going to be a tough
one to open with,” said John War
ren, frosh coach, yesterday. War
ren held a light workout last night
with the accent on fielding, the
frosh weak point.
Warren picked the men to play
against Grant last night as he
looked them over in the practice
session. Bob Rehberg and A1 Sor
enson will be the battery. Chuck
Clifford will occupy first, Don
Kirsch, second, and John Bubalo
will hold down the hot spot. John
Tunle will play short.
Outfield prospects were a little
doubtful at the first of the week
but Warren named Hank Burns,
Dean Van Lydegraf, and Warren
Taylor to patrol the tall grass.
Stan Robinson is another hope in
the outfield.
Honest John has had to postpone
his first two opening games due to
adverse weather conditions and the
strain is beginning to tell on the j
portly frosh coach. “We’ll play this :
one whether school keeps or not,”
said Warren.
wach are the guards. Don O’Neil
is the center.
The White backfield has George
Olson and Bill MacGibbon quar
ters; Hal Johnson and Buzz Baker,
left halves. Ron Alpaugh and Roy
Sample, Lloyd LeClaire, right
halves, and Steve Fowler, full
back.
Additions to the Gold team pub
lished yesterday are George “Pe
wee” Bujan, alternating at quarter
with Chet Haliski, and Frank
Boyd, California transfer, at left
half with Len Isberg, A1 Samuel
son also changes off with “Jake”
Jacobsen at center. Transfer Bob
Taylor is the other fullback on the
Red team along with Bill Rach.
Stuart Nelson, freshman quar-;
ter last fall, moved up from full
on the White squad to the Golds,
and showed a lot of promise.
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Track Team Named
For Portland Meet
Coach Bill Hayward named his
traveling- track squad yesterday
after viewing the results of the
time trials that were run off de
spite the damp, cold weather. The
Ducks will meet the Portland uni
versity track team Saturday at 2
p.m. on the Pilot oval.
Heading the list of entries will
be Ray Dickson, sophomore flash,
who has been entered in five
events. Dickson will participate in 1
the high and low hurdles, broad
jump, high jump, and pole vault.
Bob Mitchell breezed home ahead
of the milers in a trial run of three
laps around the cinders. John Lo
back ran second to Mitchell.
Bill Ross ran a close second to
Rea Kleinfeldt in the mile and a
half trial run to win a place on
the Duck team. Both men are
sophomore two milers.
Trials for the field events were
postponed because of bad weather
conditions and will be run off this
afternoon.
The men selected to run Satur- j
day are: mile—Mitchell and Lo
back; two-mile — Kleinfeldt and 1
Ross; 880—Kirman Storli and Ed'
WAA REPRESENTATIVES
Entries for intramural tennis
tournaments must be on the
WAA desk by Friday noon.
Three tournaments—interhouse
singles, interhouse doubles, and
all-campus singles — are being
held this year. To keep the com
petition equalized it is suggested
that only more advanced players
enter the all-campus singles.
For information, contact
Phyllis Sanders, 2340, and Miss
Garrison, campus 305.
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WAA NOTICE
Entrance sheets for intra
mural baseball are clue not later
than Friday noon. Turn them in
at the WAA desk or to Zo Anne
Shook.
Please sign up immediately
for baseball practices. The sheet
is on the bulletin board in the
gym.
Storli; 440—Ed Reiner and Merle
Hanscom; sprints Bob Dietz £md
“Dutch” Schultz; hurdles—R#y
Dickson and Jim Buck; high jugtp
—Dickson and Jim Harris; broad
jump—Ehle Reber and Dickson;
pole vault—Ray Dickson.
The team will travel to Portland
by auto sometime Friday and Sat
urday.
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