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Oregon Tips UW, 2-1, in Mound Duel Calvert’s Triple Decides Contest Pitcher Sam Baker of Washington Whiffs Ten and Allows Only Five Hits But Mates Waste Nine Base Blows By ELBERT HAWKINS Co-Sports Editor, Oregon Emerald Lefty Sam Baker of Washington pitched himself a very neat five hitter against Oregon yesterday, whiffing ten Web foot batters in a tight mound duel with Pete Igoe, but he lost the ball game, 2 to 1. Hobby Hobson’s Oregons just didn’t play the part of a perfect host. They made every hit count and helped pull Righthander Pete out of several bad holes. Slugging hero of the ball game was Bill Calvert, Webfoot shortstop and lead-off hitter, who smashed a line triple into deep right and center field with one out in the last half of the ninth inning to send Igoe across with the winning run. Northern Division Standings W L Pet. OSC.5 1 .883 Oregon .5 3 .625 Washington .3 2 .600 WSC .......2 5 .285 Idaho . .....2 6 .250 Yesterday’s results: At Eu gene, Oregon 2, Washington 1; at Pullman, Washington State 6, Idaho 1. Baker mixed a fast ball with a slow ball and curve to almost completely tame Oregon’s big bats which had barked for 50 hits in the last three conference games. In fact, he had a no-hitter until Catcher Cece “Ox” Walden of the Ducks smacked a triple in to left center field in the sixth inning with two men out. Runs, Come Late While Baker was setting the Webfoot sluggers down one, two, three through the early innings, Igoe was scattering harmless Washington singles and pulling himself out of bad holes with men on base. Consequently it was a scoreless tie—in one of the best warm-weather games Howe field has seen in years—until the first of the seventh inning when the Huskies put a single and a double together for their only run of the tight ball game. The victory was especially sweet for Oregon as it gave Hob son’s ball club a two-game sweep of their home series with Wash ington and lifted them into second place in the northern division. In Second Now Oregon now trails the league leading Oregon Staters by only one full game, both teams having five wins but the Webfoots hold ing three defeats to one for the Beavers. Yesterday’s game ended a very sad Eugene stay for the Huskies as Coach Tubby Graves brought them down here Monday with three victories and no de feats and in undisputed leader ship of the northern division. It seems that all pitchers named Sam are in line to draw the monicker of “Sad Sam” if things go bad for ’em and Wash ington s Pitcher Baker qualifies perfectly as a joint heir to the title held by the Coast league’s Sad Sam Gibson. Baker, as mentioned before struck out ten men and yielded only five hits, yet lost. And his mates almost completely wasted their nine hits off Igoe. They even got five walks but didn't take ad vantage of them. Fete Bears Down Igoe deserves credit for bear ing down in the clutches and he was so effective in this that no less than 13 Washington runners Washington B Frost, m .5 Stephens, 2.5 Larson, if ..5 Millroy, 1 .3 Dobson, 3 .4 Peltola, r.4 Thompson, s.2 Watson, c.4 Baker, p .1 Total ..-...33 Oregon B Calvert, s .5 Shimshak, 2 ....4 Whitman-, m ....2 Carney, m .3 Berry, 3 .4 Walden, c .4 White, r .3 Hamer, 1 .4 Igoe, p..4 *Ager .1 zCox .0 Austin, r.0 R H O A E 0 110 0 1 2 3 2 1 0 0 10 0 0 2 7 1 1 0 3 13 2 0 0 10 0 0 0 12 1 0 1 10 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 9 25 10 5 R H O A E 0 2 3 1 0 0 0 3 5 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 0 14 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 9 1 0 110 3 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total .34 2 5 27 13 1 *Batted for White in 8th. zRan for White in 8th. Washington .000 000 100—1 Oregon .000 000 011—2 Runs responsible for, Baker 1, Igoe 1. Struck out, Baker 10, Igoe 3. Bases on balls, Baker 2, Igoe 5. 3 Base hits, Walden, Calvert. 2 Base hit, Millroy, Dobson. Sac rifice, Millroy, Thompson, Baker. Runs batted in, Dobson, Ager, Calvert. Double play, White to Shimshak to Walden. Hit by pitcher, Baker (Whitman). Um pire, Spec Burke. Time, 2:00. were left stranded on the bases. Pete got the Huskies out in one three inning stretch* from the fourth through the sixth with eight men left on base. Washington threatened in the second inning when First Base man Millroy led off with a hard double past third base into left field. Dave Dobson, third base man, then lashed a single into right field and the Huskies moved their runners to second and third on the throw in. It looked like a run for Washington when Walt Peltola then hit a high fly into right field but Millroy was slow in touching up at third base and he was thrown out at the plate— Whizzer White to Jack Shim shak to Walden. Washington filled the bases in the fourth with two men out but Igoe got the third man on a fly to shortstop. In the sixth they had the bases loaded again only to have “Courageous Pete,’’ the Oregon pitcher, whiff Lead-off Man Jack Frost. Score in Seventh The Huskies finally got their lone run in the seventh inning with two men out. Stephens, sec ond baseman, led off with a hard hit single through the box and moved to second on a sacrifice by Millroy. Third. Baseman Dave Oregon's All-American (Courtesy the Eugene Register-Guard) Dick Whitman, sometimes called “Bird-Dog,” is one of the most potent sluggers of the northern division. He patrols centerfield for Coach Howard Hobson’s.Duck nine which holds down second spot in the conference standings. Whitman was selected as a semi-pro all American last summer at the national tourney at Wichita, Kansas. Frosh Nine Faces OSC Rooks Friday It’s the Rooks at Howe field on Saturday! And Coach John Warren and some 20-odd members of his unde feated yearling baseball squad are keying up for the local opening of the all-important four-game series against the Oregon State first year men. The Frosh tangle with the Beaver Babes at Corvallis Friday Dobson drove him across the plate with a ringing double into left field. It was Dobson’s third hit in three official trips to the plate. He had drawn a base orr balls, too, one inning earlier. Came the last of the eigh'li with Washington leading 1 to 0 and Oregon’s wrecking crew of Whitman, Carney, Berry, and Walden coming to bat, and the Oregon bleacherites started clam oring for a run. They got it. Whit man walked, advanced to second on a boot at second base after Carney had struck out. Baker whiffed Walden for the second out but he couldn’t stop Arba Ager who pinch hit successfully the second time in two days Arba tapped a blooper single just out of reach over first baseman’s head in right field and drove Whitman home. Then in the ninth Pitcher Igoe (Please turn to page seven) afternoon. Not since the days of 1938 and Pete Igoe, Jack Shimshak, and a goodly part of the present var sity lineup, have the frosh whipped the rooks. Last year, it was bespectacled Chuck Elliot, currently tying con ference batters in knots, who led his teammates to four straight wins over the Ducklings. Heavy Hitters When the freshmen roll into the Beaver nest on Friday they will be shooting for their eighth straight win of the season. Warren will have a quartet of .300 batters to throw against the Rook pitchers, with Don Kirsch’s blazing .484 leading the array. Bud Forrester’s first year out fit is paced at the plate by Doug Pederson, speedy outfielder. Ped erson has hit a .382 clip in games played to date. Stew Fredricks will probably be Phi Delts, ATOs Cop 'A' League Volleyball Titles Kappa Sig Squad - And Sigma Chis Win by Defaults By LEE FLATBERG After the smoke had cleared away on the torrid games in “A’* volleyball yesterday the checkup showed that the ATOs, and Phi Delts, by virtue of their wins, had entered the sacred ring of th© finals. The ATOs downed the Theta, Chis, 15 to 4, 15 to 10, to win, their fifth game, and the leagu# II title. Led by the stellar play of Herschel Scott, the ATOs had little trouble in taking the first; gamfe: They continued their smooth play in the second game, and behind the hard kill shots of Eldon Wyman and Fred Farriop they took a 14 to 4 lead. At this point the Theta Chi boys held, and behind the sparkling play of Mike Rariotis brought the score up to 14 to 10 before dropping the match. Phi Delts Win Easily The Phi Delts, defending cham pions, took their fifth straight and with the victory entered the final play-off as the league I rep resentative. They had little trou ble in downing the DUs 15 to 6, 15 to 7 with the trio of Slim Win termute, Ray Dickson, and Don Galbreaith continuing their as sault. The DUs put up a good fight with Bill Borcher, Nichlas and Wally White leading the offense, but the play of Wintermute, es pecially his blocking of their kill shots stopped all their threats. Galbreaith kept the DUs on their toes with his long placement shots. Kappa Sigs and Sigma Chi won as result of defaults by Kirkwood Co-op and Omega hall. Today’s games (all “A”)— 4:00—Sigma Nu vs. Alpha hall, Delts vs. Yeomen; 4:40—Sig Eps vs. Phi Gamma Delta, Zeta hall vs. Sigma hall. Cougars Top Vandals, 6-1 Washington State bounced back from an overnight rest in the cellar of the northern divi sion yesterday, with a 6 to 1 vic tory over Idaho’s battered Van dals. The Valdals, who displaced the Cougars in fourth place yes terday with a victory in the first game of the twin series, dropped back into last place. Bill Sewell limited Idaho to just three hits, while his mates were coupling four Vandal errors with seven hits off two Idaho hurlers. The Cougars blasted Dick Snyder, starting Idaho hurler off the mound with a four-run bar rage in the third, and finished up on Merle Lloyd. Summary: R H E Idaho.1 3 4 WSC .6 7 1 Batteries: Idaho — Snyder, Lloyd and Price; Washington State—Sewell and Cranston. Warren’s choice to try to break the rook victory streak in the opener Friday.