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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 8, 1942)
Webfoots Nip Pacific, 9-8 Trackmen Lap Into Last Trials By BILL STRATTON Final time trials before the Portland University dual meet Sat urday will he staged today. All the running events will he full dis tance for the first time this season—when the frosli will run with the varsity. A bit of sarcasm was noted on Hayward’s bulletin board an nouncement in the basement of the Igloo, Tuesday. His notice read: “T i m c trials Wednesday. All events full distance, including the shot put.” Could this be a threat to weight men Chuck El liot, Jim Shepard, Fred Foster, and Elmer Olson ? Full Distance In the two previous time trials, all running events were run in abbreviated form. The trials to day will be full distance, includ ing the 100-yard dash, 220, 410, 880, mile, two-mile, and the high liurdles. A nippy wave of cold spread over Hayward field Tuesday, that caused the workout to be sis snappy as the weather. Ho mer Thomas, letterman pole vaulter, attempted only a few jumps before be took bis laps sind went to the showers. High jumper Bob Newland 1 riecl only a few leaps before he was driven to the dressing room. The javelin aspirants, six of i hem, held out until the order was given to turn in. Snappy Workout All the sprinters had a short workout, but it was snappy. The jniddle distance and distance men did likewise. They ran their events and some of them were clocked. The time trials today will be the first time this season that anyone on the squad has run their event as scheduled. Formerly, the events were shortened be cause it was so early in the sea son. Weight Men's Form The weight men are still em phasizing form. Their distance has been fair Fred Foster heav ing the shot 43 feet and Jim Shepard slinging the discus 123 feet in the trials Saturday but Colonel Ball still seems to think they should improve on their form and gain more distance. Results of the time trials will decide the participants for the Portland meet and who will get the new track shoes just received. Ralph Kramer, potential hurd ler and splinter, is still on the chelf because of a bad leg, and it is not known when he will be able to turn out. From a Van Meter, Iowa farm to the big leagues is a big jump . . . but in 193(1 husky Bob Feller, then only 10, hit the win column for Cleveland immediately. Bob's u boatswain’s mate for Uncle Bam this season. Oregon H Emerald Sports Staff Fred Treadg'oM Si Sidesittger Erling Erlandson Tommy Mayes Nancy Lewis Bill Stratton Virginia Wells June Hitchcock Jean Frideger Harry Gliekmar. Joe Miller The Order of the O will meet (his noon at the Sigma Nu house. Duckling Ball Opens Today; Athletics On By HARKV GUCKMAX John Warren’s University of Oregon freshman baseball team makes its season’s bow this aft ernoon at 3 p.m. at Howe field when it meets the strong Eugene Athletics nine. Two more tilts are on tap for the Ducklings this week. Friday at 4 p.m. they play host to Frank lin high of Portland, and Satur day at 10 a.m. cross bats with Albany high. Frosh Blast In an effort to get his team in top form for the three contests, Warren matched his team against the varsity reserves yesterday, with the Frosh notching an 8-5 victory. Bob Signer and Hal Locke divided pitching chores for the Frosh, and held the varsity hitters in tow through most of the contest. Probable starting lineup for the Frosh includes Bryce Side singer, first base; John Gitzen, second base; Art Murphy, short stop; and Bass Dyer, third base. Aubry Cromwell will do the catching and the outfield in cludes Jim Prior, left: Merle Aden, center; and Bob Aiken, right. Lokan on Mound “Whitey” Lokan will probably get the starting assignment on the mound for the Frosh. Walt Mellenthing, pitching prospect, is on the sidelines with a badly sprained ankle and won’t be able to see action for some time. The Frosh looked particularly good on defense in yesterday's game. Following the contest War ren sent his squad through a grueling infield practice and said lie was satisfied With the per formance. “TEX” OLIVER . . . . . . has (lie iob of getting the Webfoot football team ready for fall ami the 1942 season. Football Training Hits Defense Drill By si sidesingeh With an eye to defensive play, Tex Oliver and the varsity foot ball squad rolled into its seven teenth night of spring practice on the lower turf field. After last week's three-day layoff Tex put his charges through a stiff tackling practice following the traditional calis thenics. Although the squad has been doing fairly well at de fensive work, there are yet some finishing touches to be gone over and Oregon's wily mentor is not one to slight details. MKI. OTT AM) mix TKKUY . . . . . . talk over tho coming National League season at the Giants’ spring training camp at Clearwater, Florida. The line and backfield separ ated lor individual workouts with line coach Vaughn Corley taking his men aside for practice in breaking through opposing lines. Charging low and coming up hard were stressed especially. Also taking a major share of the defensive time was the use of the hands in breaking through oppo nents’ front walls of defense. Under Tex Oliver the backfield went through a workout of sec ondary defense. Tackling and get ting by would-be blockers was the main text of Oliver’s lesson. Scrimmage Finish Scrimmage, as is customary, closed the afternoon’s activities. The experienced White team took defense for a majority of the session. The Green and Gold teams took turns on offense, run ning power plays interspersed with a passing attack. For the first time this season the Gold team ran offensive plays against both of the other groups. Because of the weather, last Saturday's scrimmage was post poned and will he taken up full force this coming weekend. The Saturday contests are full re views of practices held under game conditions. Here Coach Oliver has the opportunity to take note of the progress made by individual players. Bubalo Bats, Pitches Win In Long Game The University of Oregon’s slugging ..Webfoots ..won their sixth straight game of the year yesterday at Forest Grove, but it took them fourteen innings to down the battling Badgers from Pacific, 9-8. Johnny Bubalo, third Oregon hurler, won his own ball game in the first of the fourteenth with a slashing double, driving in Bill Hamel, Duck third' sacker. Tight Game The game, the hardest of the season for Oregon, was featured by close play and hard hittiag. Sandgren opened on the mound for Oregon, but gave way to Rieder who in turn was relieved by Bubalo. Red-haired and south paw Bill Lee and barrel-chested Roger Feathers did the pitching for Pete Miller’s Pacific crew. OSC \\ ins Elsewhere on the baseball front, Warren Simas, in his college de but, pitched Oregon State to a 6-5 win over Willamette. The Oregon-Pacific game: R H E Oregon .9 17 2 Pacific .8 18 5 Batteries: Sandgren, Rieder, Bubalo, and Pilip; Lee, Feathers^^ and Risk. Sherry Ross Rips Gamma; Leads Loop Sherry Ross crammed over an unearned run in the eighth inn^ ing to edge Gamma hall, 4 to 3, yesterday afternoon, and go into the leadership fo the interdorm league by a half-game over Alpha hall. Today Alpha meets Sigma in an attempt to go into a first place deadlock with the Rossmen and Gamma and Omega meet in a twilight battle. Gamma’s shortstop, Ray Couch, made an unfortunate two-base error on Doc Dodson's easy roll er in the first extra-inning, and Oly Rigo dashed into the plate with the winning^Ross run. Walt Reynolds went the route for Sherry Ross, who were without the leadership of their manager and star shortstop, Jolting Joe ^ Miller, but Franklin Quinn took over the leadership admirably. “Nothing Ball" Jordan started on the mound for the Gams and had the Rossmen rolling into the dirt and popping up for the five innings that he was on the hill, but when Bob “Wild Man" Ru ben came in, Quinn’s boys found his slants easier to hit, and they scored two in the sixth and one in the seventh to tie up the game. Reynolds and Herb Lawrence drove home the runs. Third Sacker Jim Linse of Gamma tagged three-for'three, and Big John Azevedo and Art Davis grabbed the rest of the Gamma bingles off of Brother Reynolds. . . . Gamma .010 020 00—3 8 4 ^ Sherry Ross 000 002 11—4 6 1 Jordan, Ruben and Amstutz; Reynolds and Blair, Jensen. Umpire: Miles (MJO> May field.