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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 18, 1940)
Duckling Tracks I * By BERNIE ENGEL, Frosh Edition Sports Editor, i Oregon Daily Emerald Off for the big Northern Division carnival at Seattle today, Ore gon’s varsity trackmen are conceded at least an outside chance to win for the first time in any of this season's meets. Why, when they have lost all three dual conference meets? Be «cau3e Bill Hayward’s crews, though short on men because of reduced finances, always contain at leat a few first placers, and it doesn’t take so many points to win a meet in which the scoring is split tiix. ways. To register a victory, the Webfoot runners are going to have to COme through with a bang. Reber in the broad jump, Brown with the javelin, Buck in one or another of his events, Storli, Hansen, Mitchell -they and all the rest are primed for Oregon’s first win in the present generation of Duck cindermen. Captain Kirni Storli is up against a rival who has always managed to edge him out in previous races—Bill Dale of Washington State. Kach is in condition to break 1:55 in his specialty, the 880, and each '.#* dead set on finishing first. Kirm, incidentally, broke 50 seconds 4ti the 440 in last week's OSC meet after being boxed for the first 200 yards. You Have to Be Quick This term “boxed in’’ means misery to a lot of good runners. When star such as Storli enters a race, the other school’s men are naturally gunning for him. and if they can’t whip him outright, will often try to outmaneuver him. To do so, they have their best man Aprint out ahead at first and have a weaker runner flank the star. The boxed one, unable to move to the front or out to the side, tries to drop back and then pass -the others; good tactics calls for a man to be in back so the victim can’t escape that way either. Perfectly legal, it is practised by all trackmen but universally cursed. The only hope for a man who gets trapped is that he can outlast the others—which is what Storli did in the Beaver meet. The 'OSC ruHners just couldn't keep up. More tactics than one realizes are involved in the ordinary spec tacle of half a dozen men trottiug around a track. In a mile or any distance run, there are two commqn types of runners—the sprinter And the endurance flash. They’re Strategists A man with a good finish sprint will try to hold the pace down *io that he can use his finish kick to whip men who are perhaps better then he when it comes to endurance. The runner with a lot of wind find little kick will try to set a fast tempo all he way and wear down the speed merchants or get so far ahead they can't catch him at the finish. Besides an expert knowledge of pacing, a good distance runner -must plug away at his training all year, for there is no sport requir mg more conditioning than the long track grinds, the aim of which might be stated as "to see who can exhaust himself the most sci entifically." Anyway, cakes aud cokes won’t stay down after the three-quarter mark when the pressure is really on. Which brings us to this business of. reorganizing the letter requirements to give equal awards for all sports. With all due respect for the men who spend patient hours on the links or courts, their sports don't require the year-around exhausting labor of track or football, the time-taking practice necessary.in bas ketball—and that’s no physical snap either—and are not faced with the professional competition encountered in baseball. Sports which emphasize skill alone and require no physical effort shouldn't have the same awards as the present major sports. It’s a Puzzle Of course, even the major sports have their inequalities. The field events in track take little out of a man but the competition is much more fierce than that encountered in the minor sports. Also a sprinter, who can enter several events, can make a letter much more .easily than a distance runner, who is physically limited to one or at tlie most two races. Letters are a puzzle but Oregon has a good setup at present and we really can't see much reason for a change. Those who advocate major letters in the minor sports to draw a bigger turnout—let them reflect that the “O” represents in exhausting labor when it is earned ml one of the present big four. With their suits filed in the check room for the summer vacation, Oregon's'frosh trackmen can look back upon a successful season in F.pite of having absorbed a drubbing by Medford high's speedy prep contingent. Biggest goal of all frosh teams is a victory over the Oregon State rooks, and the Ducklings came through in a big way »u the annual ‘‘little civil war.” The 07-do final score could have been swelled on the Oregon side but Coach Ned Johns scratched his better entrants in the final events to give everyone a chance to place and score the point necessary to earn the coveted numerals. They Do Have It At first regarded as being without any varsity prospects, the frosh displayed quite a little talent when the "big " meet of the season rolled around. Captain Bob McKinney loafed to win the 440 in :51.9 the look second at Medford with a :50.5> and then scampered the half mile in two minutes flat only a fifth of a second over the all-time frosh-rook record. Bdl Beifuss, a well-rounded fellow looking like anything but the usual lanky high jumper, cleared six feet consistently and set a frosh rook record by going over at six feet, two and three-eighths inches. JLloyd LeClair. Russ Soper, Ross Gearhart — all look like varsity comers. The squad was short on sprint and distance men but several of Ike yearlings weren't in condition and never even reached their high school peaks, jprobably because of the short six-week season and tha fate completion of the Hayward field track. OSC Falls To Ducks1 Netmen Brother Beaver up north has slapped his Duck kin in nearly every branch of varsity athletics during 1939-40, sad but true— football, basketball, track, baj"» ball. However, in tennis the Web foots make a successful “last ditch" stand. Yesterday Duck netters wopped Oregon State 7-0 on the Beavers’ slick concrete courts, a performance topping a 6-1 squelching administered the Cor vallis lads in a tiff earlier this week on Oregon’s home court. Clark Shows Well "Len Clark, No. 1 on the Ore gon varsity, sm ashed right through Strong of the Staters, 6-1, in the first set of their match, but took three additional games in the second to clinch his second straight win over the Bea ver top man. Never in serious trouble, Clark displayed the same hard back-court play and flawless net game that has established him as one of the best players in northern division competition. Final count was 6-1, 6-4. Still smarting from an extra set defeat handed him earlier this week, Les Werschkul of the Ducks came back to belt Cope of OSC off the courts, 7-5, 6-0, waltzing through the second set after a see-saw start. Larry Key, in the No. 3 spot for the Ducks, has yet to drop a singles match in varsity com petition. Key doused Hedberg of the Beavers, 6-2, 6-2. He was the sole Webfoot winner on their Washington invasion, when the Huskies and their slow asphalt courts beat Oregon 6-1. Horning Wins Bob Horning of the Ducks banged away against Velarde of Oregon State. He won against the Beaver in three sets, 3-6, 7-5, 6-2. Horning, now in No. *4 for Ore gon, has dropped only one singles match in varsity competition. Bob Potwin, Oregon, outstead ied Sherwood of OSC to cop the fifth singles match of the day, 6-3, 6-4. Doubles play saw Werschkul and Clark of the Ducks team up and wax Strong and Cope, OSC, 6-2, 6-3 in the No. 1 match. Key and Dick Williams dittoed that with a 6-2, 6-0 triumph over Sherwood and Hedberg of the Beavers. Next opponents of the Ducks will be WSC at Pullman and Ida ho at Moscow. Lawson Honored Richard H. Lawson, sophomore in arts and letters, will receive a copy of YVieland's “Oberon” for his outstanding work in Gorman. This book is being given by Delta Phi Alpha. German honor society. Robert A. Clostermann, Ger man consul in Portland, Oregon, is presenting several volumes of German literature to three other outstanding students in German. They are as follows: Mary Krafsic, sophomore in arts and letters: Aida Brun, junior in Eng lish,: and Nannette Schmuki. jun ior in sociology. These four students have all done exceptional work in their classes and deserve the awards, declared Mrs. Astrid Williams, assistant professor of German. In the last ten years Washing ton university has awarded schol arships totaling more than $1,000,000, Cornell university has a special faculty counselor for foreign stu dents. Frosh Edge Rooks Tony Crish’s triple in the third inning with two men on, and the third baseman's kick of Chuck Clifford’s ground ball gave the Uni versity of Oregon frosh enough runs to edge out a 3 to 2 win over the Oregon State rooks in Corvallis yesterday. Thirteenth Straight It was the Ducklings’ thirteenth straight victory in as many starts this season. Mel Olmstead pitched the entire game for the rooks, giving up only eight hits. The big third was the only inning the yearlings could get more than one hit. He struck out 13. On the mound for Warren's crew was Stew Fredricks, who. stopped the OSC yearlings with six hits and nary a run until the eighth inning, when the rooks pushed in a run on a pair of singles and a stolen base. They tallied again in the ninth on a double to left ad a single to second. With one run in, the tying run on second and the winning run on first, Fredricks struck the next man out to end the game. Johnny Bubalo furnished the big bat in the Duckling attack, hit ting a pair of doubles and a single in four trips to the platter. Don Kirsch hit a pair of singles and Big Tony Crish hit a triple. Robinson, Pederson, two hits apiece. Frosh „ AB R Burns, m .,4 0 Kirsch, 2 .4 1 Bubalo, 3 ..4 1 Crish, r .4 1 Clifford, 1 .4 0 Taylor, If .3 0 Fredricks, p .4 0 Selleck, s .4 0 Sorenson, c .4 0 Van Lydegraf. m....l 0 Harvey and Hainonen of H PO A Rooks 0 2 0 Harvey, 1 .... 2 3 3 Robinson, If .. 3 2 3 Heinonen, s .. 110 Pederson, m 16 1 Setala, r . 0 2 0 Conrad, 3. 0 3 1 Sherwood, 2 12 2 Byerlein, c .. 0 6 1 Olmstead, p 0 0 0 - Totals. the rooks collected AB R H PO A .5 0 2 7 1 .5 12 0 0 .5 0 2 1 0 .5 0 2 1 0 .2 0 12 0 .3 0 0 1 3 .4 0 0 1 3 .4 1 1 14 0 .4 0 10 1 .37 2 11 27 8 Totals .36 3 8 27 11 Errors, Burns, Bubalo, Sherwood, Byerlein. Two-base hits, Bu balo 2, Setala, Byerlein, Olmstead. 3-base hits, Crish. Strikeouts, by Fredricks 6. by Olmstead 13. Bases on balls, by Fredricks 1, by Olmstead 1. Hit batsman, by Fredricks (Setala 2). Stolen bases, Tay lor, Selleck, Robinson. Runs batted in, Crish 2, Pederson, Heinonen. Don Kirsch-—Slugger By TOMMY WRIGHT “Kirsch—Don Kirsch—second baseman.” When you hear that name bellowed out over the loudspeaker, and a stocky chap comes np to the plate with a big yellow bat on his shoulders, you can lean over and tell the doubting fan in front of you that there is a 50-50 chance that he can chalk up a hit on his score card, before the winged footed keystoner leaves the batter’s box. Yes-sir, that’s the odds! For the former Jefferson high star has rapped out 25 hits in 56 times up for a near one for two average at the plate for Oregon’s undefeated Ducklings this year. His team mates call him “Duck”; and Coach John Warren calls him the greatest second baseman he has had around in a long, long while. Don hails from Portland’s “City of Roses” where he has made quite a name for himself in the diamond wars. He took his early lessons in the national pastime from Carl Mays and Jefferson high’s Lindsey Campbell. He played three seasons as a regular for the Jeffs. In 1936 he played with Carl Mays state champion American Legion team. Last year he helped put Silverton’s semi-pro outfit into the playoffs in Wichita, where the Red Sox placed third. Right in There Above is Bill Sayles, ex-T7niversity of Oregon chucker. He was farmed to Little Rock by the Boston Red Sox at last reports.