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DUCK TRACKS By ELBERT HAWKINS, Co-Sports Editor Oregon Daily Emerald Ever hear of the backwards double play? It's just one of those fkaseball rarities you’ll be lucky f,o see happen once in a hundred t»all games. University of Vvash ♦ntgon's infield clicked one off the nvb foots wera on their trip north and did If with such smoothness it actually ap peared to have been worked out beforehand. The situation . . . Oregon at bat __ with runners on Elbert ..first and second Hawkins. bases and the logical spot for one of those sec ond baseman to first baseman twin killings. The YVebfoot bat ter slapped a grounder to short stop and he scooped tiie ball over to second base where the Hus kies got out No. 1 on a force play. But here’s where the double play went backwards. The second basepaan didn't cast so much as a glance to first where you’d ex pect him to throw it he fired that ball to the third .-.acker who caught Hobby Hobson's surprised runner, Mr. Bill Carney, off the base. Carney, it seems, went from second to third on the hit and rounded the base carelessly, ex pecting ’em to finish their dou ble killing at first. Was he sur prised? Teammates say the Web loot outfielder was paralyzed with astonishment. Actually, the shortstop to sec ond to third backwards double pi ly doesn’t seem so unusual but Coach Hobby Hobson declares the Washingtou-Oregon example was the first time he recalls ever having seen it happen in northern division play. Some of the Web foots saw it for the first time , . . and they weren't happy about being victimized on this particu lar occasion for it was costly. Stranger E'hle Reber Ehle Keber of Oregon’s varsity track team happened to lie the ii o r t 2i e r u division’s defending broad jump champion before last SLICE or HOOK You will onjov Just ;i short way from the campus 2700 Columbia week's annual meet in Seattle. And quite obviously you’d think the host city’s sports writers would he aware of Ehle’s identity or at least have printed dope sheets listing- his accomplish ments. To the amusement of Colonel Bill Hayward and some of his cindermen they apparently didn’t. For on the day of the meet one of the Seattle daily’s sports pages came out with a feature story which predicted the final results of the meet place by place. Part of the jump summary ran like this . . . supposedly listing the best mark of each man: “Second place, Ehle of Ore gon, 22 foot 8. Third place, Reber of Oregon, 22 foot 7.” That brought a lot of chuckles from Oregon’s veteran track coach. He likes to dope out meets beforehand and in this cq.se was hoping Reber could pick off five points for Oregon with a first place. Colonel Bill’s remark on that blunder: “Well Ehle, you won’t have to win to get those five points.” It may seem downright queer that a man could pitch a com plete no-hit, no-run baseball game and not be aware of his accom plishment. Such was the case with Nick Begleries, frosh pitch ing ace, who twirled his no-no performance against Greshman high last Saturday. The former Grant high boy was surprised after the game when Mate John ny Bubalo told him what he’d done. A Baseball Custom Baseballers don’t regard Beg leries’ apparent lack of informa tion as anything but normal for there’s an old tradition in the diamond sport to completely shush any mention of the pos sibility of such a no-no game to a pitcher until it's all over. Yell ing “Hey Nick, get the next nine men out and you have a no-hit ter!” would be putting the Indian sign and a curse on the pitcher. Hence the painful silence. Some times the hurler knows he’s doing it and sometimes not . . . they don’t tell him. Tex Oliver's opinion para phrased . . . the spring practice performance of Oregon’s varsity footballers was none.too impres sive . . in fact quite ordinary . . . but wait until next fall when the boys come back to open in tensive training for their big sea son . . . within a week or so the solid ground work of spring foot ball will have made itself evident . . . the boys will improve by leaps and bounds. On Howe field this afternoon Honest John Warren’s unbeaten frosh baseball team will make its final debut against the rooks . . . outside of football it has been a great year for Honest John and more power to him. As for vat sity sports . . . let’s look back to the 1939-40 season. . . . It's Curtains And now for the final wind-up of Duck Tracks . . . the swan song . . . it’s going to be a bitter dose to take . . . you can’t write one column for over three years without becoming attached to ii. 1 have enjoyed making the rounds of the Oregon athletic depart ment for chats with coaches and athletes . . . where could a person find any better friends than that gang? And it has In'en genuine fun covering ball games. As for the sports page . . , it’ll be in truly capable hands next year with Ken Christianson and Bob Flavelle at the helm and good luck to them . . . shucks, good luck to everybody! New White Hope • ., ..'... This is the famous start of Stanford’s Clyde Jeffrey, new “world’s fastest human,’’ who has twice tied the world’s record in the 100 at :09.4 this year. Clyde will compete in the Pacific coast champion ships at Los Angeles this Saturday. Jim Buck of Oregon will furnish part of the competition. Coast Track Meet To Begin Today Jim Buck, Kirm SiorlL Rea Kleinfeldt And Boyd Brown to Represent Oregon In Championships at Los Angeles With the regular noi’thern division season a thing of the past, the University of Oregon four man track squad of Boyd Brown, Jim Buck, Kirm Storli, and Rea Kleinfeldt, competes today and tomor row in the final meet of the year—the Pacific coast championships, held at Los Angeles. Brown will be a heavy favorite to take the javelin event, having consistently heaved the spear 220 feet or better this season. Buck Meets Orr Another man of whom much is expected is Buck, entered in the 100-yard dash and low hurdles. In the hurdles, his best event, Buck is given a 50-50 chance of victory. His toughest competition will be from Lee Orr of Wash ington State. In the northern di vision meet Buck led' Orr into the final hurdle but lost stride when he hit the bar, losing the event by an eyelash. Storli is entered in the half mile event and Rea Kleinfeldt, sophomore speedster, will run in the two miles. Coach Bill Hayward, handi capped in the early season by bad weather and a torn-up cinder track, brought his men along slowly, each week showing an im proved team. Oregon State liter ally ran away with the annual relay games, Apr il 20, winning by a 5 to 3 score in the first bit of northwest competition for the Ducks. Huskies Next The following week, the Web foots matched first places with the University of Washington but could not find the necessary sec ond and thirds, losing 77 to 54. Washington State came next on the Duck schedule. As was the case in every dual meet, Oregon equaled their opponents in firsts but lost out 73-58 on valuable place points. Against Oregon State, Hay ward's men took nine first places to six for the Beavers but lost 70 to 61 in a meet that was de cided by the final event, the mile relay. Buck of Oregon had a field day, winning three first places and running a brilliant quarter mile in the relay, the first time he ever covered the distance. Two Champions Last week at Seattle, Oregon men walked off with two titles in the northern division champion ships. Boyd Brown was an easy victor in the javeline throw and Rod Hansen took the pole vault crown. Thank You for Your Patronage Swimmers’ Delight TRACK NOTICE Bill Hayward wants all var sity and freshman trackmen and anyone else interested to report to Hayward field Tues day at 3:30 p.m. to discuss plans for next season. DANCING The HOLLAND Saturday Night May 25 Extra Special— • 2 Floor Shows • Dance till 1 :00 a.m. — ARM1DA — Popular movie star, singer and dancer. with Eud Glen, M. C. 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