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DUCK TRACKS By ELBERT HAWKINS, Sports Editor Men’s Edition, Oregon Emerald Sports feature of the gala Jun ior Weekend program . . . it'll be Oregon's undefeated and widely mmmrnmm heralded frosh baseball team against the Ore gon State rooks f r o m Corvallis today ... all the coeds, eds, and moms and pops on the campus ought to step out to Howe field this afternoon and watch John Hawkins Warren’s Duck lings in action at 2:30. Since last fall when his frosh football team went to seed Coach Honest John has lost only one game in two sports— basketball And baseball. The Duckling hoop ers had their best season in years by winning 16 out of 17, including four in a row over the rival Ore gon State babes. With yester day’s tilt in Corvallis against the Beaver rooks, Oregon’s talented frosh nine holds eight victories and no defeats. Besides that are four victories and a tie in six games against the varsity slug gers who left for the Inland Em pire this weekend firmly en trenched in second place in the northern division. And Skipper Honest John still moans! Colonel Bill Hayward is facing <wie of the toughest meets in his life of track coaching when the tWebfoots face Oregon State in Corvallis today. Generally he'll flit down with the boys who write sports and plot out a complete meet beforehand, offering a fair ly accurate list of firsts, seconds, and thirds for each event. You’ll have to call it accurate because he has been known to hit ’em right on the nose in his predic tions. But this Oregon State meet seems to be a different af fair for Colonel Bill—he won't predict it or dope it out. “I'll just let it take care of itself,'’ he says. Used Only a Dozen BUI used to win northern disu nion meets with only 12 men, v hioh anyone familiar with track competition in the Northwest will admit is an accomplishment. Hayward was asked the other day just how many northern di vision championships he has won for Oregon. “I don't live in the past,” he retorted. Then forcing m. gleam of anticipation to his eyes he said, “Just wait until **evt year . . .” and laughingly ttdded, “I won’t have anything.” An outstanding candidate for honors as Oregon’s No. L money athlete seems to be Bennie Hughes of the varsity golf team. In actual ladder ranking on the team he has been as low as No. ... — .—1 Elbert MR. ind MRS. NEWT 6. Bennie just can’t seem to take matches against his fellow mates very seriously. But comes the weekend match against another college team and he’s a bearcat. Captain-coach Doc Near is smart enough to disregard Bennie's practice scores and put him at No. 2 on the team, and it pays dividends. In most of Oregon’s team matches against other schools, in fact, the diminutive Webfoot div oteer has turned up with medal ist honors. To non-golfers we’ll merely say that means he turns in the best score of the day. Ex amples this year: Against the University of British Columbia here early in the season Bennie Hughes took medalist honors with a par 72; later, against Oregon State he did it with a one under, 71; And last weekend in Moscow against the Idaho Vandals he was medalist with a 70. Bennie was a money player last year, too. He had the lowest round in several matches and was individual northern division champ as a re sult of taking medalist honors in the conference meet held in Eu gene. * Twogie Advises Em Coach Forrest Twogood of Ida ho makes a definite stand on the proposition of college athletes quitting school prematurely to go into college baseball: “It’s so foolish, the major leaguers—and that’s the only place with income —have to do so many things well . , . that means throw, run, and bat—and I mean bat—that does n’t mean hitting once in a while . . . you’ve got to be able to bat in a couple of runs.” The baseball future looks none too bright for Gale (Busher) Smith and Ford Mullen of last year’s varsity team as long as they stay with Henderson of the East Texas league. At the start of the season they were with Beaumont, of the Detroit Tiger system, in the Texas league. That league is class A-l, just below the majors, but Busher and Ford were crowded down to Class C ball which is one step below the Western International. Baseball men who have watched the pair agree they're of at least Western International league caliber —• probably better—but what if Beaumont is so crowded the for mer Webfoots can't get back up ? Being in the Detroit Tiger sys tem it might be tough for them. Hardy Seems Secure Twogood, and Carl King', North west scout for the Tigers who lives in Cottage Grove, seem to agree that Mullen has the bright est professional baseball future. King thinks the quiet-mannered second baseman will be back in Class A-l ball with Beaumont be fore the season is over. Lefty Bob Hardy, the lanky boy who pitched Oregon to its conference title List spring, is still with Beaumont and apparently making good. He has lost most of his league starts but King explains that “in Har dy’s case he’s better than his rec ord indicates and they know it back there." Clown-coach Buck Bailey, who does his moaning from Washing ton State's bench, says infielders have their toughest time when a pitcher has two balls and no strikes on a batter or a count of 3 and 2 . . . that’s when the next ball usually comes over the plate. And Mr. Batter being' able to an ticipate it can slap it anywhere ... if he can hit it. Counts of 2 and 0 and 3 and 2 keep the iu fielders on their toes and drive Buck Bailey mad. It seems that his super-fine pitching staff— which has been a fizzle up to date—has been getting in that kind of a hole all season. In Varsity and Yearling Cindermen Meet OSC Rooks Favored in Corvallis Over Ned Johns' Boys By BERN1E ENGEL Oregon’s frosh track squad leaves from the Anchorage this morning for the annual frosh rook dual track meet, slated for Bell field in Corvallis this year at 1:15, starting simultaneously with the varsity meet. The Ducklings lost all events in the annual relay meet and have also dropped a decision to Medford high. The rooks, al though having no timed compe tion in regular meets, can field a host of ex-Portland prep stars. Depending mostly on the field events, the Ducklings are expect ed to lost both sprint events and the mile on the track. The relay, with Oregon entering several 53-second men, is picked as the closest race of the day. McKinney Rates Doped as the only sure frosh win is the 880, with slender Bob McKinney picked to cover the dis tance in under two minutes if he is pressed. Quarter-milers are as thick as flies on the frosh team; OSC’s 440 potentialities are un known but a victory for the Eu gene men is predicted. Jesse Truax and Ralph Oxen rider of the rooks will be matched against Oregon’s Ross Gearhart and Dick Ralston in the sprints, while Gene Lockhart and Ed Saunders will travel the mile for the Beavers. The Webfoot strength in the hurdles is as yet unknown; Russ Soper will race Gordon Hammer, an ex-Lincoln high of Portland flash, in the lows and Ralph Fuhrman is slated to lead the Duck contingent in the high bar riers. Frosh in the Shot? The Duck trio of Elliott, Fos ter, and LeClair is expected to make a clean sweep of the shot, with all three good for 50 feet or better. A tight squeeze may come in the javelin, with both Nelson of Oregon and Berry of the Staters well over the 160 foot mark. Both men placed in last year’s state prep meet. Don Francis of the rooks has bettered, and Homer Thomas of the frosh, is expected to better, the 11-foot line in the pole vault. Bill Beifus of the frosh is conced ed the edge in the high jump with his high school mark of 6 feet 2 inches, but Don Findlay of the rooks may trod on his heels with his own six-foot leaps. Findlay and Oregon’s Gearhart, both ex-Grant high runners, are facing each other in the broad jump, and both can hit the 21 foot mark if pressed. Coach Ned Johns is concealing his definite choices for each event. Following is a list of the proba ble traveling squad: Gearhart, Maher, McKinney, Watt, Nicka chos, Engel, Rucker, Mallory, Fuhrman, Soper, Ferrall, Thomas, Beifuss, Ralston, Foster, Dam skey, Elliott, LeClair, Nelson. -“Springtime in Vienna” Frosh Hurler Loves Base Hits—Gets 'em By GEORGE PASERO Pitchers aren't expected to be hitters. Their job is to set opposing batsmen down in more or less one-two-three order while the husky outfielders, the rangy first basemen, the stocky third baseman, and other willow-wielders drive in the runs. Nevertheless, a hurler who can slug as well as pitch is a godsend to any team, even the New York Yanks, who, at one time, paid Red Ruffing an extra thousand a year for his pinch-hitting ability. Oregon's Stew Fredricks is one of these rare baseball phenoms who is effective both on the found and at the plate. “Fireball Fredricks,” as his frosh team mates call him, is a pitcher first and last. At present, he shapes up as the best frosh chueker of the past few years. He’s a Slugger But still, if you ask Mr. Fred ricks to name his greatest thrill he won't mention any pitching feat. Instead, he’ll inform you that he led the Oregon state league in hitting last year. It’s a fact. too. Young Stew, a 19-year old boy from Portland’s Lincoln high, played for Silverton’s Red Sox, won seven games against no defeats, and hit .445. “All of my hits were good solid blows,” Stew laughs as he points out that Dick Whitman, John Bubalo, and Don Kirsch couldn't match his average. Fredricks and Whitman have quite a time "ribbing” each other, but Stew has a lot of respect for stead of being in a battle with Oregon State for the title as ex pected before the sason startd, the Washington Staters now hold only two league wins in seven games and are in a scrap with Idaho for the cellar. -“Springtilin’ in Vienna'' Telephone technicians report Brown university has the best 'college communications system in the country. All-American Dick. “He’s the best young all-around outfielder I’ve seen.’’ says Fredricks. The curly-haired, likeable pitcher also terms Kirsch “a real second baseman.” Like a number of the other frosh stars of this year, Fred ricks began his baseball career in American Legion play. He ptiched for Postoffice Pharmacy of Portland, a club coached by Wade Williams of Lincoln high, to a northwest championship in 1937. Postoffice and Fredricks were beaten in the first game of the national tourney at Okema, Oklahoma, by Tucson, Arizona, in 11 innings, 5 to 4, however. The ace frosh slab artist smiles when he recalls those of early baseball days in Portland. “I remember,” he relates, “when John Bubalo and I had just one bat, and were we proud of it! We carried it around all the time.” Fredricks was a football and basketball star at Lincoln, but there’ll be no football for .him at Oregon. “I broke my right col lar bone, left wrist, and three ribs just in high school . . . that’s enough," he grimaces. College may be a strain for Fredricks, but the future is no problem. Stew knows just what he wants and doesn’t mind telling others. “I’m going to finish school, go into professional ball . . . and get married,” he says. Of course, a Portland interest may be a reason for part of this an nouncement. Bill Hayward's Ducks Rate Even Chance to Win By BOB FLAVELLE Today is the day, and from all indications there will be a torrid track meet at 1:15 this afternoon in Corvallis when Coaches Bill Hayward of Oregon and Grant Swan of Oregon State start pull ing strings to push over a meet victory in this chapter of Duck Beaver sports rivalry. Hayward, in his usual matter of-fact manner, told his runners yesterday that if each man won the points that he thought they were capable of winning, Oregon would come out on top. It was emphasized, however, that this meet will be a close one and the loss of just one third place may spell defeat. Sprints and Hurdles A great performance is expect ed from Jim Buck, veteran Web foot sprinter and hurdler who ha3 come through brilliantly in every meet so far this season. Buck will be a heavy favorite in the 100 yard dash and low hurdle events, and will also place high in the 220. Perhaps the most interesting races, as far as thrills and ex citement go, will be the mile and two mile events which will pit Bob Mitchell and Rea Kleinfeldt for Oregon against Don Vaillan court of the Beavers. Captain Kirm Storli will double up in this important meet and run in the 440-yard dash as well as the 880, his specialty. A pre meet favorite in the half mile, Storli will be pressed to take a first place from Oregon State’3 Bill Hampton in the quarter. Five Event Man Workhorse of the meet will be Sophomore Ray Dickson, -who is entered in five events. He can be expected to score valuable point3 for Oregon in the 220 dash, low and high hurdles, pole vault, and broad jump. Ehle Reber, undefeated this year in the broad jump, is favored to lead his teammates to a clean sweep in that event. A closely contested battle i3 anticipated in the shot and discus competition which will find Ore gon’s Frank Emmons and Bill Regner opposing Bill Blackledge and Eberle Shultz of the Orange team. The team will leave the campus by special bus at 10:30 this morning. Probable entries: 100—Buck, Reider, Keene; 220 -—Buck, Dickson, Reider; 440— Clever, Storli, Bryant; 880—Stor li, Clever; low hurdles — Buck, Dickson, Scroggins high hurdles —Dickson, Buhler, Luther; mile — Mitchell, Kleinfeldt, Loback; two - mile — Mitchell, Kleinfeldt, Ross; broad jump—Reber, Dick son, Graybeal; high jump—Har ris, McKee, Hansen; pole vault—■ Hansen, Hendershott, Dickson; discus—Emmons. Regner, Olsen; javelin—Brown, Andrews; mile relay—no entry. -“Springtime in Vienna" University of New Hampshire students may now rent reproduc tions of fine pictures to decorate their rooms. UNIVERSITY BUSINESS COLLEGE SHORTHAND—TYPEWRITING COMPLETE BUSINESS COURSES Edward L. Ryan, B.S., LL.B., Mgr. 860 Will. Ph. 2973-J Eugene