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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 30, 1941)
Buck Bailey Circus Hits Town Today Webfoots, WSC Mix In Opener Cougars Dwell Near Cellar; Igoe May Start for UO W L Pet. Washington .4 0 1.000 Oregon .3 1 .750 Oregon State .4 2 .667 Washington State ....1 3 .250 Idaho .0 6 .000 Games yesterday: Washington State 9, at Oregon State 2; at Washington 4, Idaho 3. By TOMMY WRIGHT Buck Bailey, a show in himself, and his Washing ton State Cougar baseball team roll out onto Howe field this afternoon at 3 o’ clock for the first of the two-game series. Boasted as.a strong contender for the conference championship after a great pre-season record, the Cougars come to Eugene aft er completing two-thirds of a disastrous road trip which saw them drop two games to the Uni versity of Washington. They split on the two-game series with Ore gon State college by taking the second encounter 9 to 2 Tues day. Igoe Slated Webfoot Coach Hobby Hobson would not name his starting hurler for the Cougar encounter, but hinted that it might be Pete Igoe, who has two conference vic tories to his credit already in the young season. The starting assignment at shortstop position will prob ably not be known until game time, with either Tini Smith or Bill Hamel getting the nod. Cougar Mentor Bailey, long known locally for his tempera ment-inspired antics on the dia mond, will probably start Bill Sewell against the hard-hitting Ducks. Heavy Hitters Line Up Oregon’s “murderers’ row” will probably line up on the diamond with Billy Calvert do ing the catching; Chuck Clif ford at first base; Don Kirsch at second, Buck Berry at third, Hamel or Smith at short, and Dick Whitman, Bill Carney, and Johnny Bubalo at the out field posts. The two teams meet again to morrow, with the game being called for 1:30, to allow the traveling Cougars time to catch the train. wsc.uw Grab Tilts Oregon State’s title drive for the northern division baseball crown was slowed to a walk yesterday when the big bats of the Washington State Cougars slammed four Orange pitchers, for a 9 to 2 victory. ShawT, Olm stead, Farthing and Rankin all suffered under the Cougars’ hitting onslaught. Van Slyke was the winning pitcher. Idaho’s luckless Vandals were eased into the loser’s column, 4 to 3, by Washington’s Huskies. Bushman, Husky twirler, best ed Bectol of Idaho in a pitch ers’ duel. TAKES A HEALTHY CUT Dick Whitman, Oregon baseball captain, will lead his “heaviest slugging” mates today against Washington State’s highly regarded nine. Whitman is batting .381 at present. Washington State took two blows on the chin from Washington last week. Silverton Dings Frosh; UO Nine Faces Eugene The Oregon freshman base ball team booted one away at Silverton Tuesday as the in field turned butter-fingers on seven tries to give the Silver ton nine a score of unearned runs and a 7 to 4 victory. The Oregon freshman baseball team meets the Eugene Athletic ball club at civic stadium tonight at 8 o'clock. The yearling pitchers had lit tle trouble muffling the bats of the home town boys as Aaron Jones set the batters down with three hits in his three innings and Bill Gissberg kept the Sil ton batters swinging wildly as he limited them to two hits in the last six innings. Infield Collapses It was the sudden cave-in of the infield in the early innings that carved out the defeat for the yearlings. After Gissberg took over the fourth, the infield stopped making their errors in crucial places and the gangling first baseman set the opposing batters down with but two runs for the rest of the game. The Ducklings threatened in the eighth on a double by Dick Burns followed by a single by Bob Ballard, and then another double by Gissburg but the threat died out with but one run. They added their final two in the ninth on two walks, an error and a single. Gissberg Gets Dongle Bob Ballard and Gissberg paced the frosh hitters with two hits each in four tries. Gissberg col lected a double for one of his two hits. Summary: R H E Frosh.010 000 012—4 8 8 Silverton ..420 100 00*—7 5 2 Jones, Gissberg and- Oswald; Hildagedor and Burr. Churchman to Talk On Science May 1 University students and towns people are invited to hear Dr. Hendrik J. de Lange, member of the Christian Science board of lectureship of Boston, Mass., speak Thursday, May 1, in Roosevelt junior high school at 8 p.m. Dr. de Lange will speak on “Christian Science: The Science of Existence.” He is sponsored by the University group of the Chris tian Science organization, which meets every Tuesday evening in Gerlinger hall. Sig Ep Hurler Flings One-Hitter inIM Ball By ART LITCHMAN Porky Andrews tossed a one-hitter yesterday to contribute another pitching gem to the intramural softball records. Andrews led the Sig Eps to an easy, 4 to 0, victory over Omega hall. The Sig Eps scored one run in the third and two in the fourth e» a combination of hits, walks, and a pair of errors in the outfield. Two hits in the fifth brought home the last tally for the winners. .L-aie inning rallies Dy the Can ard club failed to overcome an early Delt lead and the Delts won their second straight ball game of the season, 7 to 5. One run in the first gave* the Delts an early lead that was increased by a three-run outburst in the fourth. Canard broke into the scoring column in the fifth with two runs. Sherry Ross banged out a 7 to 4 victory over the Phi Psis in an abbreviated contest. The hallmen roared into an early lead with four runs in the first frame. Don Richardson and Barney Franks led the attack. Phi Delts staged a comeback in the last three innings to overtake the Alder club and then went on to win, 5 to 3. The clubmen ran up a three-run lead by banging the offerings of Paul Jackson hard and of ten. One run in each of the last two frames cinched the game for the Phi Delts. The hapless Sammies took an other drubbing, this time from the Sigma Chis, 12 to 2. Sigma Chi sluggers kept the Sammie outfielders chasing the ball in every inning. DU batters outlasted the Phi Sigs in a slugfest, 9 to 7. Five runs in the first gave the DUs a lead that was never seriously threatened. Scores: Omega .0 0 0 0 0—0 Sig Eps.0 0 12 1—4 Andrews and Walker; Nor moyle and McMullin. Delts .:...l 0 0 3 0 3 0—7 Canard .0 0 0 0 2 2 1—5 Atkinson and Bockes; Herndon and Holcomb. Sherry Ross .4 2 0 1—7 Phi Psi .1 1 0 2—4 Church and Blair; Rohwer and Kennedy. Alder .0 1 2 0 0 0—3 Phi Relts .0 0 0 3 - 1 1—5 May bee and Fitz; Jackson and Arbuckle. Sammies .0 10 10 0— 2 Sigma Chi .1 3 0 3 0 5—12 Bardie and Sanders; Lockwood and Pederson. DU.5 2 0 2—9 Phi Sig .0 1 4 2—7 Niklas and Grabb; Schick and Helterline. 16Thinclads Off to Salem Ned Johns and his frosh cin der shock troops leave for the front lines for a skirmish with Vern Gilmore’s Salem Vikings on the Salem battle field at 1:30. The frosh will be gunning for their second win of the current season, and from information gleaned from dispatches from the Salem sector, the frosh will have a busy time. The Vikings’ latest achievement is the defense of their No-Nam track title. Strongest events of the preppers are the hurdles, broad jump, and sprints. “We expect to do pretty good —in fact we’re going up there to win,” were Frosh Coach Johns’ last words—before the battle. Men who are to make the trip Few Grid Days Left With four days of practice loft in the spring session, Couch Tex Oliver yesterday divided his men into two strongly ba! anced squads to do battle id the big annual scrimmage marking the end of spring' training next Saturday after noon. The first team in green jeo* seys form the nucleus of ona squad with Hymie Harris as tbciir captain, and big Elliot WiJsiont leads the opposing faction of blue shirts. The two captains c.b.080 men from the third team to serva as reserves. A serious blow to the groom strength occurred in yesterday7** scrimmage when Tommy Rofc lin came out with an injerod shoulder. Track and baseball together with injuries have reduced the* squad to a little over 40 met*. The latter part of the practice session has been devoted to tho perfection of a quick-striking’ “T” formation assault similar to the Stanford offense, which will receive its test under fire in thej Saturday battle. With a lay-off this afternoon* one practice day will be ca,r.rfe& over into next week when a news reel photographer will arrive Ut take some shots of the Oregon! team in spring training. as released by Coach Johns are* “'Happy'’ Day, Don Wilson, Wryl Alexander, Stan Ray, John Glea son, Stan Denniston, Jim Briggs Dick Shelton, Ken Sawyer, Bill Deller, Rod Munro. Phil Jackson* Morrie Riback, Bob Newiand* Carpenter, and Beckstrom. -- ‘ |J Illustrator Coming Miss Clarice Ashworth, state* system illustrator, will be on the University campus Wednesday; afternoon. Faculty members who wish to consult her may make ap pointments by calling the Uni ver sity editor’s office (campus 319). r ft Before traveling come in and see our luggage PRESTON & HALES