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Duck Grid Squad Defeats All-Stars DUCK TRACKS By ELBERT HAWKINS, Co-Sports Editor Oregon Daily Emerald Announcing! Wayne Sabin, leading national amateur tennis nee of a couple of seasons ago, •t, a virtual certainty to play an (inhibition match on the campus either Friday afternoon or early »*e\t week. It's the biggest tennis news which has hit Eugene in years and ought to really pack 'em in. ftabin is slated to appear with the Leader Tennis shop team of Port land and in all probability will face Oregon’s California netter, Larry Key. Sabin was profes sionalized by the national lawn tefuiis association last summer but his proposed visit to Eugene »!. purely an exhibition, hence it won’t hurt the simon pure status <>(’ Oregon’s netters. And you can just bet that who ever faces Mr. Sabin on Oregon’s behalf will be gunning for a vic tory over him. It would indeed be a feather in the cap of Mr. Web foot to out-bat the great Wayne Sabin, the Portlander who made good on the national amateur tournament trail. Any way you figure it this boy flick Whitman who outfields for tne Oregon varsity is A-l in effi ciency. Out of a total of 55 trips to the plate since the season ,st u ted he has arrived at or passed first base on 42 occasions. By percentage it figures th it Hick has got to first .762 per cent of the time. Bits Average—Sky High! The way batting' averages are figured officially. Whitman has been charged with 41 times ufc tout . . . the balance being walks mid a fielder’s choice. Counting two for three at bat in yester day's game against the Oregon College of Education (formerly Oregon normal), Dick has '27 hits tii 41 times at hat or a pre-sea #K>n average of .659. The varsity baseball team Is £Oing into this season's northern division chase Friday with a bunch of sadly low hitting ave - rtffes. Of the regulars, only Whit jniti ami Catcher Cece Walden are above .300 now. . . . Jack fihimsliak slipped below yester day with no hits in five times at bat Walden has 7 for 22 or .318. Colonel Bill Hayward t watch ing his Webfoot pole vaulter. Rod Hansen, practicingi: "How's your ieg Rod ... be careful now—■ don’t go over 15 feet!" That little chide of Hayward's happens to be especially signifi cant now because of the 15-foot •vault Cornelius Warmerdam. Olympic club star, made in San Francisco Saturday. Warmerdam w is the first human being- to top the bar at 15 feet, a feat which the veteran Oregon coach has )i> 'dieted for years. JOepends on the Pole However, when Kill was asked this week it he expected anyone to go higher than 15 feet, he Mhook his head: ‘’Over 13 feet depends too much on the pole." Warmerdam accomplished his feat with a bamboo pole, and It's Delightfully Different | LEM-OLA I TAYLOR’S Colonel Bill thinks any future record breaking in the vault will have to be with some type of wood stick'. He says there isn’t enough spring in the aluminum poles as they are manufactured now. But he also believes the present bamboo poles have just about reached their limit. Did Colonel Bill think Warmer dam would be the first athlete to clear 15 feet? “Any one of five men down there could have done it,” he says. “Get men like Sefton and Meadows together—tough com petition—and they’ll do it.” The following is for wrestlers, would-be wrestlers, and those in terested in the grappling sport . . . it’s a tip from a man who knows all about bone twisting and has ideas about what type of men he likes to work with in coach ing it. ingredients oi a Wrestler It Eric Waldorf, varsity coach, had his choice of all material in school he’d look for two main tilings: 1. A good lanky runner. 2. A fellow who registers high in grip tests. Eric would pick the lanky run ner because of his reflexes . . . those boys are usually well co ordinated. And if said lanky run ner also showed strength in his grip, Coach Waldorf would con sider him a wrestling find ... he would probably be a strong man. too. For your information . . . Coach Eric grappled for Washington State back around 1924 when wrestling in the northwest was an emphasized sport. Robin Reed, the Olympic champion, was com peting in four different weight divisions for Oregon State in each meet and winning ’em all. And college mat teams were traveling around by train ... a far cry from present conditions at Ore gon when the boys don’t get very far . . . and travel by car when they do. Note for Rollie Dickie, Univer sity of Oregon's intramural head: football players are not allowed to compete in softball at Wash ington State college. Jack Friel, basketball coach and director of donut competition, ruled 'em out there several years ago. The rea son? Well, it seems that a bunch of these footballers got together on one team and won the school's softball championship. That was too much . . . Friel figured they might dominate it in years t) come and ruled the gridmen out of competition. Lewis Tops Coed Golf Qualifiers Eleven out of 20 girls qualified for the intramural golf matches, it was revealed yesterday. These girls ad their scores are: Nancy Lewis, 89: Kay Thompson, 91; Fran Roth, 96; Bernice Vadnais, 97: Mary Thatcher, 98; Jean Foster, 99; Carol Nelson, 99; Mary E. Swearingen, 99; Doris Klein, 104; Marilyn Wilbur, 110; and Mary McAdams, 119. The first 9-liole matches will be concluded Monday of next week. The following matches are scheduled: Nancy Lewis- Mary McAdams; Fran Roth-Carol Nel son : Bernice Vadnais - Mary Thatcher; Jean Foster - Mary Swearingen; Marilyn Wilbur Kay Thompson; Doris Klein, bye. COED SPORTS The first set of tennis matches must be played off or defaulted by Thursday at 6 p.m. No later matches will count. Girls are asked to post scores at tennis courts on the chart in the booth. ATOs, Betas, DUs Win Donut Softball Games Lopsided Scores Feature Openers; Pavalunas Stars By DON GIBONS Everything but prizes for vari ous firsts featured the opening evening of intramural softball. Outside the lack of prizes the only other highlight was the lop sided scores in all three games. The ATOs ran up the highest score of all with an easy 10 to 0 win over the Chi Psis. Showing plenty of power at the plate the ATOs scored runs in every inning. At the same time Whiteley com pletely handcuffed the Chi Psis with two-hit pitching and strik ing out six men. Slugging Starts The winners completed the cir cuit in both the first and second innings to take a two-run lead. Climbing on the merry-go-round in the third they batted all the way around. D. Hay opened with a triple and scored on a single by Whitely. Fugit drew a bye and another triple, this one by Eaton scored the two men. Graybeal drew a walk and came in on Col lins' triple to bring in the fifth tally of the inning. Three more runs crossed the platter in the fifth and last inn ing. which was highlighted by J. Hay's homer with Graybeal on. Big guns for the ATO sluggers were Graybeal with a double and two singles in four trips, a home run and a triple by J. Hay in two trips, and D. Hay with a triple and two singles in thre trips to the plate. Sullivan and Mansfield were the only ones able to find the of ferings of Whitely, Sullivan with a double and Mansfield with a single. Batteries: ATOs—Whitely and Zanasky; Chi Psis—Hicks and Sullivan. Umpire, Metcalf. Beta-Alpha Hall Behind the three-hit pitching of Matt Pavalunas the Betas rolled into an easy 9 to 0 win over the Alpha haliers. The Betas opened up with a six-run spree in the first frame to practically salt the old ball game away and from there on relied on the fire ball pitching of Pavalunas. They hit around in the opener, and in the second two more runs came around the horn, sewing it up in the fourth with another run. Three scattered singles were the extent of the blows the hali ers were able to connect with, be ing collected by Parks, Voss, and Stendall. Powerhouses of the Beta attack were MacMahon with a homer, triple and a single in three at tempts, Chrish with a homer, and Beard with a double and single. Batteries: Betas—Pavalunas and Beard; Alpha hall—-Lebenght, Stendall, and Kunz. Umpire—Scott. DU and Delts In the closest encounter of the day the DUs came in with a sixth inning rally to score four runs to sew up the contest, winning 4 to Last Half Drive Nets 22 to 6 Win By KAY FOSTER Too many fresh YVebfoot gridders coming into the game probably cost Hal Pangle, Jerry Donnell and company of all-stars at least a tie in a spring football game against the Olivermen yesterday, and the varsity went on to win 22 to 6, after being held to a 6 to 6 tie in the first half. One Johnny “Buck” Berry was all over the field for the winners, 1. It was a pitchers' battle from start to finish with Weber show ing mid-season form to set the Delts back with 14 strikeouts. The Delts opened the scoring in the fourth as Weber took a wild streak to pass two men and a double by Atkinson brought their lone tally across the plate. Skel ley held things well in hand until the wind-up inning and a homer by Doern with two on the ice for the DUs, Nickles doubled to bring in the other score. Pacing the winners batting were Anderson with two for two, Doern with his winning homer and Nickles’ timely double. Batteries: DU — Weber and Anderson; Delts—Skelley and L. Roches. Umpire: Carlson. Donut Tennis, Golf Schedules Posted With spring definitely on its way, Rollie Dickie, intramural head, announced that tennis and golf play will get under way im mediately. Schedules for both sports are posted on the PE build ing bulletin board. First round matches must be played by April 24 in the two fields, this includes both the sin gle and double competition. All participants are asked to get in touch with their oppon ents, to set the date of play, and also in case of forfeit the oppon ent should be notified. If matches are not played by April 24 the contestant on the top half of the bracket automati cally moves into the second round of play with a win to their credit. Fifty-five per cent of men and 44 per cent of women at the Uni versity of Michigan would like more dates, a survey show3. scoring two touchdowns and un leashing the longest run from scrimmage of the day, a 45-yard gallop from pass formation late in the first quarter. He scored a3 the second period got under way, after Bull Stenstrom's two-line smash failed. The All-stars came back in the same quarter to even the count on a 50-yard touchdown run by Ted Gebharcft after he had snagged a low pass from Pangle. Big Bill Borcher eased the way for Gebhardt by blocking out the last Gold jerseyed left in the way. From that point on till the middle of the third quarter the varsity was pushed all over the place by the slashing defensive play of Donnell and Ross Carter at the guards and Camara, a stock Hawaiian, by way of Sacra mento jaysee, who was a line backer. Pangle kept the defense scattered with his rifle passes, and Gebhardt's running made the outnumbered team a formid a Die tnreat. Don Mabee made a spectacular catch of a pass thrown by Hal Johnson and dodged three tackles to score the third touchdown for the Ducks. Then Butch Nelson stood on the 25-yard line and booted a perfect field goal for the final three points late in the fourth quarter. The six-foot-five Borcher made some of the varsity ends sit up with his better than 50 per cent average on pass snagging. Bill is known as a basketball player up here, but he was an all-con ference end in his own Sacra menton jaysee backyard. The first line of Oliver’s held the All-stars at bay from the scrimmage line but it was the Pangle-Borcher combination that made the backfield look surprised at times. Jim Stuart and Dick Ashcom were outstanding for the Gold line. Jim Shepard and Dick to end this week, caught his share of passes. KNOW YOUR ALMA MATER READ Henry D» Slieldron’s “HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON” INTERESTING FACTUAL AUTHENTIC PRICE $2.50 POSTPAID ANYWHERE IN U.S.A. University eCO=OP?