I DUCK TRACKS
By GEOROE PASERO, Co-Sports Editor,
. Oregon Daily Emerald
N ;te to northern division
»»i .)vr.d artists in general and Mr.
•Glenn Elliott and Clayton Shaw
of Oregon State
in partioular:
Take care, gentle
nen the next
time you face
Oregon's r e -
vair.p^ii lia.sebail
nine. . . . Yes, be
very careful or
start (lucking.
It '3 no more
than fair, it
seem3 to us, that
<*e»rge Pasero we should issue
the warning at this time for a l e
ukable change has taken.place
i»i the Duck camp . . . and credit
.<oV the turn for the better can
only go to one gentleman a guy
toy the name of Buck Berry.
Before Beiry turned out for
'toaseball. Oregon's defending
champs were rapidly gaining a
: reputation for being mill-man
•lered at bat. But Berry changed
all this. In the iast Idaho game,
the Duck bats fairly smoked as
■they poked out base hit after base
dut. Even the Yankees or, oh yes,
t) e Brooklyn Dodgers, seldom
rgive a more convincing demon
stration of hitting power. Three
Jioir.e runs, four doubles, and one
triple were included in the 19-hit
toUtzkreig attack.
Berry at Third
Berry, of course, is the Biff
i-B'Ttha of tiie new Webfoot po
tency. He’s liit nearly everything'
♦lie pitchers have tossed up to
him and after three games rides
ot >ng w itli an even .<>00 average
(nine hits for 15 times up). Sure,
l%>e"> made errors afield, hut bro
ther, that extra ]w«\‘r at tlie
dilate makes up and more for a
low bobbles. As far as we're con
eci-ned, he could play on our ball
c) ..b any time. In this we echo
ti '* Register Guard’s Dick Strite’s
.setiments wholeheartedly. What's
»%)■) >re, we are of the opinion that
iff. Berry will find himself at
Abort or anywhere else in that
infield. Yep, he has the actions of
a. hall player.
So far, Berry has been playing
at shortstop, hut he may be shift
ed. to third base. Last night, he
■played at the hot corner in a
game with the frosh, while Billy
Calvert, a good hitter, roamed
Si e short patch.
•cripples iiome uacK
•John Berry is definitely riding'
Itiigih, but he isn't the only Web
-foot « ho is tough at that plate
these days. Bill Carney, a great
fielder who didn’t hit the weight
ol a paper sack in pre-season
.gtuiies, evidently has found his
oy*. Dick Whitman, a slugger
first and last, is out of his slight
►sMiiup, and Ceee Walden lias
1^0 ut.s of power. Add to this the
that Arba Ager and Billy
Calves t. two capable stickers, are
a) uost fully recovered from in
juries and about ready to aid the
cl ib*
Also we can't forget the aver
i(,(‘s , Jack Shimshak and Bill
V, lute, who seems to have taken
<i\ " permanently the light field
job Both are hitting over the
.300 mark.
We don’t exactly know how
C* tch Hobson will utilize his ex
ii > power. now that Calvert and
Ag- are almost ready to play.
M lybe last night’s practice was
•?*» in iication. with Berry at third
Calvert at short. Of ourse.
tl >aves Cox on the sidelines.
«j f ' Pepper” is a valuable mar.
have anywhere And also
tii ?re a the Question of iiuw best
to use Ager. But of course this is
wi to Coach Hobson, and he
hi jus what all his boys can do
be st.
F‘ ■ Hoopmen
l idcr-taiul. we're not saying
that the Ducks will sweep
through the rest of their games
or that Berry can possibly keep
up his present j>aee. We do be
lieve, however, that if the pitch
ing continues to hold up and the
fielding tightens a bit, Hobby’s
tossers will make it tough for
opponents the rest of the way.
Five basketball players, virtu
ally Coach Forrest Twogood's
regulars, on Idaho's baseball team
—this attests to the versatility of
athletes of the Inland Empire.
The five are Otis (Suitcase) Hil
ton, first base; Chuck Atkinson,
second base; Whitey Price, catch
er; Roy Ramey, third base; and
Ron Harris, outfielder. All are
pretty fair country ball players,
too.
What's more, all but Hilton are
also members of Ted Bank’s foot
ball team. Coach Twogood, in a
rather despondent mood after a
second defeat by Oregon, ex
plained this rare sports situation
this way: “We’ve got to use
someone, and they do all right.”
mree-sport many
At present, Oregon has no
three-sport man. Bill Boreher,
rugged Oregonian from Saora
menton jaysee, is threatening to
become one. Big Bill has already
won one letter in basketball. Also
lie’s quite a football end and may
take a whirl at the grid sport be
fore his three-year varsity career
is completed. He turned in a
sparkling game at end for
the all-stars against Tex Oliver’s
1940 varsity. Football and bas
ketball aren’t the only sports in
which Bill excels, however. Yes
terday he tried his hand at pitch
ing in baseball practice. In soft
ball he is a recognized star who
has pitched a no-no game this
year in donut play.
Speaking of Boreher and soft
ball recalls that Oregon’s four
athletes from down Medford way
-—Calvert. Virg Haynes. Ager.
and Boreher are all softball play
ers of note. They played n the
fast Medford league. Haynes
was Borcher's catcher, while Cal
vert and Ager played in the in
field. Calvert's team won the
Medford championship and then
drafted the Borcher-Haynes bat
tery for district play. Incidental
ly, Boreher will tell you that
Haynes is some backstop man.
Go West, Young1 Man
Haynes, Calvert and Ager all
played softball while performing
for the Medford baseball team
of the southern Oregon league.
Haynes' so Borcher says, pitched
Medford to the championship.
This fellow Haynes is an Illi
nois hoy who four years ago
came west to live in Oregon . . .
he drove out in a battered car.
and lucky for the Webfoots that
he did. for he’s chalked up two
wins already this year. The black
haired pitcher landed in North
Bend after traveling all the way
from Abe Lincoln's home state,
and he still calls the coast city
his home, though he spent two
years at Sacramento jaysee be
fore coming to Oregon. No, he
definitely did not go to Southern
Oregon normal. Borcher, inciden
tally, was Haynes teammate at
Sacramento.
Oregon track fans are expect
ing a great race at Pullman Sat
urday when Captain Kirm Storli
of the Ducks renews his duel
with Washington State’s amaz
ing junior half-miler. Bill Dale.
Fastest Webfoot
While a sophomore Dale de
feated Storli twice last year by
less than a stride in both the
coast and northwest meets.
This year, Dale turned in a
1 :o,"> half at Berkeley against the
San Francisco Olympic club and
California. Last week, he repeat
Slinging Boyd
(
Red-haired Boyd Brown is about to unleash r
the bamboo spear for a mighty heave out on
the turf. Boyd will lie out to get the stick
over the 220-foot mark this Saturday in Pull- |
man. He was national AAU champion last 1
year.
Hayward Takes 14
Trackmen to Pullman
TENNIS NOTICE
All doubles matches must be
played off by Friday night.
Interhouse scores must be in
and written on the chart by
the cage in Gerlinger by
Thursday noon, or the matches
will be defaulted.
All-campus matches must be
played off by next Tuesday.
Betas, Gammas
Post Fourth
Straight Wins
Winners Sure of
Tie for 1st Place
In Volley League
The Betas and Gamma haliers
each hung; up their fourth win of
the season as “B" volleyball nears
the final round of play.
The Gamma hall boys assured
themselves of not lower than a
tie for first in their league as
they downed the DUs 15 to 6,
12 to 15. and 15 to 8. The DUs
missed the play of Fred Foster in
the first game and gave the hali
ers little competition, but came
back in the second under the pep
pery play of Bob Schott and ev
ened the games up.
Betas Win, 15 to 3, 15 to 1
The Betas had little trouble in
gaining their fourth decision of
the season with an overwhelming
15 to 3, 15 to 1 win over Canard
club.
The SAEs had a hard time in
downing a determined Sigma hall
team, and were extended to three
games. They took the first game
easily, 15 to 4. but the Sigma
haliers rallied in the second game
and took a 15 to 12 decision. The
SAEs settled down in the third
ed his 1:3a performance in a meet
in the Inland empire.
The Ducks' powerful captain
hasn't broken two-minutes yet
this year, but he’s confident of
beating Washington State's pride.
Storli has run the fastest 880
ever turned in by an Oregon man.
and this includes George Scharpf.
star of Hayward's 1935 team.
Scharpf's fastest time was
1:54.3. while Storli was clocked
in 1:51.9 in the national AAU
meet last year. He placed third,
which is mighty okay.
By BOB FLAVELLE
The University of Oregon's 14-man track team will board the
train at 4:40 this afternoon bound for Pullman, Washington, where
they meet the strong Washington State Cougar squad Saturday after
noon in the second northern division dual meet of the season.
Hayward was faced with a difficult problem when the time came
for him to pick the travelling squad. If he took a full twenty man
■Liiiemuca
avauautc
would not be enough to cover ex
penses of an extra day of travel.
However, the second string run
ners answered the question for
him and voted to send the small
14-man crew, enabling them to
leave Thursday and have a good
night's sleep on Friday.
Hayward Won’t Predict
It was impossible to coax a
pre-meet prediction out of the
cautious Duck coach. He stated,
however, that every man making
the northern trip is a potential
point winner, and several first
places are probable.
Captain Kirm Storli has point
ed for this weekend meet, as it
will give him the opportunity to
erase the blemish of two defeats
administered last year by Bill
Dale, Washington State half
miler. Storli says he is in good
shape and determined to take
this one.
Oregon will be the underdog in
practically every one of the
track events, but is expected to
score heavily in the field.
Deiz Stays Home
Bob Deiz, dusky sprint flash,
will be left behind this week with
a pulled muscle in his leg suf
encounter and took the final
game 15 to 12.
The Delts received their fourth
win as a result of a default by
the Fijis.
Today's games (all “B"): Sig
ma Nu vs. Theta Chi; Chi Psi vs.
Alpha hall; Phi Delts vs. Kirk
wood co-op; Sigma Chi vs. Sher
ry Ross co-op.
Thetas, ADPis Win
In Coed Softball
In a five-inning game yester
day afternoon at 4 o'clock, on the
Gerlinger field, the Thetas tri
umphed over the Gamma Phis’
softball team with an overwhelm
ing score of 16 to 1.
Theta's outstanding players,
Kerr, Latourette, and Miner, each
hit a home run for their team.
Later in the afternoon, at Ger
linger, the ADPis played Susan
Campbell hall in the fastest and
hardest-fought girls' softball
game of the season, with the
ADPis scoreing over the Susies.
9 to 2.
fered a few days before the
Washington meet last Saturday.
His loss was the second blow to
hit the sprint department. Ear
lier in the season Dutch Schultz
was ruled ineligible and automat
ically out of further competition.
Jim Buck, senior sprint man, will
be the lone Oregon entrant in the
100.
Those making the trip are: Jim
Buck, Ray Dickson, Bob Mitchell,
Kirm Storli, Rea Kleinfeldt,
Frank Emmons, Bill Regner, Jim
Harris, Harve McKee, Boyd
Brown, Ehle Reber, Rod Hansen,
and Bob Hendershott. Bill Hay
ward, coach, and Bob Officer,
trainer, complete the party.
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