Prizes for 'Firsts’
Offered in Duck-OSC
N.D. Home Opener
By KEN CHRISTIANSON, Co-Sports Editor
Mayor Elisha Large may fling the first baseball Saturday when
Oregon has its official northern division baseball opening against
Oregon State. Under Chairman Joe Gurley’s direction, plans are pro
gressing to proclaim Saturday, Baseball day. The Oregon student
body, the Order of the “O,” and many Eugeneans will turn out to
help usher in the king of spring sports
The men of the Order of the
"O” will attend the opening in
a body to kiss the “blarney stone’’
in time-worn tradition. Lettermen
initiates are required to dust their
lips in this fashion as a part of
initiation.
Awards to Be Given
Prizes secured by the Order of
the “O” will be given to the play
er excelling or blundering in cer
tain “firsts.” The prizes will be
furnished by downtown mer
chants. The “firsts” are: home
run, triple, double, first hit, error,
double play (two awarded),
assist, put out, strike out, score,
run batted in, walk, and stolen
base.
Invitations have been sent to
Governor Charles A. Sprague,
Secretary of State Earl Snell,
Mayor Large, President Donald
M. Erb, Chancellor Frederick
Hunter, Oregon State’s Percy
Locey, L. H. Gregory, Dick Strite,
George Bertz, and Dave Sander
son.
RETURNING
Coach Hobby Hobson returns
tomorrow from Hawaii in time
to lead the Oregon nine against
OSC Friday.
‘Bird Dog’ Whitman
Club’s Strong ‘Point’
Bv DOC HENRY
Dick Whitman, centerfiekler and captain of the 1941 varsity dia
mond crew, is one of those rarities in baseball which are few and far
between, an all-American.
Dick, who is commonly referred to as "Bird-dog” because of the
resemblance of his sound organs to those of the gaming dog, was
given all-American semi-pro rating in the summer of 1939 at the
[Wichita, Kansas tournament,
[along with four other members of
[the Silverton, Oregon, club which
,rent to the finals.
“Bird-dog,” despite the fact
that he has been handicapped all
JTear by bad health—first an op
eration and then an infected
land, has been working out regu
larly and seems to have gotten
11s batting eye back. He will be
[n top form for the tough 1941
varsity schedule.
All-Star Player
Hitting .371 for the conference
ist year and never failing to hit
ander a .300 average for any
baseball season, Whitman is ex
pected to make the northern di
lision all-star team for the second
[uccessive year, being selected
Unanimously by players and
loaches from conference schools
ist year, along with Bill Car
sy and John “Buck” Berry of
le 1940 varsity.
“Our toughest ball club this
spring will probably be Wash
ington State, with Vern Butts,
huck Dosky, and “rig”
CO-OP ANNUAL
MEETING
The annual meeting of
the members of the Uni
versity of Oregon Co-op
erative store will be held
in room 105, Commerce
building, on Wednesda}’,
April 16, at 4:00 o’clock
p.m. All students are in
vited.
Lloyd Sullivan,
President
Gentry playing; the role of
heavy hitters. I understand
that they have a southpaw pit
cher that has a fire ball com
parable to that of Glenn Elliott
of OSC,” said Whitman.
“WSC also has Max Strai and
Bill Sewell, pitchers, that caused
us so much trouble last year. OSC
still has their ace southpaw
Glenn Elliott and fight hander
Clayton Shaw, but with John
Leovich signing with the Ath
letics they have lost most of their
ball club. He was their spark plug
and the brains of their ball club,”
he continued. "But with eight
members of our ball club who hit
.300 and over regularly, I don’t
think that any of those pitchers
will give us much trouble this
year."
Awaits Draft
Dick is eligible for the draft
in November, but is waiting to
see the outcome of this prob
lem before signing with a profes
sional ball club. He recently re
jected an offer from a major
league club which topped any re
ceived by an Oregon player in the
last few years. However, Dick
will not sign up until his colle
giate career is complete and we
will be able to see him in action
many more times before he hits
the ranks of the professionals.
Greatest differences between
expenditures of men and women
was in percentage of the budget
spent for recreation, amusement,
and clothing, a survey at the
^University of Indiana revealed.
Drizzle
Stymies
Netmen
Rain poured down on , the
University tennis courts yes
terday, driving Coach Paul
Washke's varsity netmcn to
cover and hindering practice
for warm-up tournaments
Thursday and Friday after
noons with Linfield college and
the Leader Tennis club of Port
land respectively.
In the two practice rounds
held to date the Webfoots have
emerged on top, smashing South
ern Oregon College of Education
6 to 0 and toppling the Irvington
club of Portland, 4 to 3. A pro
posed match with the Multno
mah club of Portland was washed
out earlier in the season.
Recent lousy weather has been
no boon for the Ducks, for one
week from today they hit the in
land empire college circuit, tak
ing on Washington in Seattle,
Washington State in Pullen an,
and the University of Idaho in
Moscow. What these northern di
vision schools have is not fully
known, although hearsay has it
that the Huskies boast a potent
outfit.
Duck Mainstays
Oregon’s hopes this season rest
chiefly with Len Clark, Pacific
coast northern division titlehold
er; Frank Baker, No. 1 on the
frosh squad last year who boomed
up the varsity ladder to perch
light behind Clark; and Kerm
Smith, a gangly youth who was
ineligible last year and at pres
ent roosts No. 3 on the Webfoot
net team.
Clark and Smith have won
their pre-conference matches
thus far, against SOC-E and Ir
vington, while Baker clubbed
his SOCE foe but petered out
against his Irvington opponent.
Lanky John Williams, a Mon
mouth transfer, appears to have
his racquet well-glued to the No.
4 spot on the team, while Byron
Van Metre’s No. 5 nest will prob
ably take a lot of bombarding
from Norm Weiner, Jack Boone,
and Johnny Kahananui before the
Ducks trek inlancf.
Spring Is Here
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while on pleasure trips.
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Webfoot Cindermen
In Role of Underdog
By FRED TREADGOLD
David once pulled an upset act on an extremely big; fellow, GoJia: \
a good many years ago, much to everyone’s astonishment and to
Goliath's chagrin. From that time on every now and then the under
dog slips over a fast one to send the favorite sprawling from Ms
pedestal.
Oregon fans are pulling for such a quirk of fate this Saturday at
v orviuiiN. jusi inrce nays ironi
now the fourteenth annual Ore
gon State relays are slated to be
staged.
Although no world-beaters, the
Beavers are classed as a pretty
powerful lot, while the Webfoots
have been lusterless to date.
Beat Bearcats
The Staters, in a three-cornered
meet last week, romped to an
easy victory over Willamette and
the OSC frosh, counting up 97 ^
points to 32 \±> for the next clos
est competitor. Twelve firsts
were nailed down by the Beavers
while a substantial backing in
seconds and thirds indicated that
it is a well-rounded squad that
Grant Swan has under his wing
40 miles north.
Nine let ter men plus a good
ly number of newcomers fur
ther augment the Beaver ehane
Oregon Grad Sent
To Island of Aruba
Mrs. Emily Madeleine Christ
ianson, daughter of Dean J. H.
Gilbert of the college of social
science, and her husband, Dr.
Christianson, will leave Friday on
the Grace liner from New York
city for Aruba, a Dutch posses
sion off the coast of Venezuela.
Dr. Christianson has a two
year appointment for a position
as medical doctor on the staff of
the Standard Oil company hos
pital on the island. He is now
medical doctor at the Marine hos
pital in Cleveland.
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es, while Oregon's returning1
veterans can he counted on one
hand. Don Yaillancourt a.ud
Willard Nelson, two experienced
milers provide Coach Grant
Swan with speed to burn in ; ho
distance events. Other distance
runners for the Orange are Tern
Blair and Russ Niblock, 440
yard men; Bill Smith and Jack'
Graves, sprinters; Jim Holto
vvay, hurdler; Russ Graff, SiiO
yard veteran; and Bill Findlay,
high jumper.
With all this man power and
the impetus of a 5 to 3 win J.act
year- it is apparent that Oregon
State will be a difficult banotful
for Oregon this Saturday.
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