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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 6, 1943)
Our impatient horsehiders finally got off to a greatlv delayed practice season start when they tripped the Portland U. mitt men Saturday in the City of Roses. Pitchers Travel Missing from the trip were a trio of outfielders. Acting Coach \\ hitman, realizing that his team was scheduled to play doubleheader, loaded his traveling squad down with pitchers. : Utility man Bob : Caviness was giv : en the go signal ; because besides j being able to flag : the sk)r drives to ; the outer gardens, I he can flip the seed i from the mound i as well as receive ; the infield pegs i to the initial has j sock. As it turn ed out, that extra pitching was not too essential, a s me ljlicks captured both games by big- margins. This Friday the Ducks get their first taste of the 1943 division baseball brew, said portions to be served at the main diamond banquet hall at Corvallis, Oregon, a spot on the map a little to the north of here. Oregon State, if we can believe enemy camp reports, possesses a fairly good defensive unit, relying on chuckers Don Cecil & Co. to pull the club through the rough spots in a championship march. Just how good the Beaver clubbers are, is hard to say at this early writing. Surprise nine of the northwest to date ap pears to lie the Whitman College Missionaries, who have to their credit a record of three wins against one loss, in baseball warfare with the Northern Division clubs. The \\ hitman lads posted two defeats against the Idaho Vandals and grabbed a two game split with the Washington State Cougars. Another Record Austin. Texas, was the scene of the sport event of the week last week. Saturday, April 3, marked the official date for the program of the Texas Relays. A muscle-bulging individual answering to his given name of DeAYitt Coulter and hailing from the Masonic Home in Fort Worth, Texas, put the 16 pound shot some 59 feet. 1 }A inches, to set a new world's inter scholastic record. Whether A.A.U. officials will recognize the new mark remains to be seen. A1 Blozis, Georgetown weight man of the past few years has been the number one shotputter in the country. Coulter, previously unheard of, astounded the sports world with his prodigious heave. We can remember the dSy when a heave of 52 feet, was considered to be top notch. That mark still is a certainty of nabbing first place in most track and field meets today. But just as Cornelius Warmer dam blasted the 15-foot ceiling theory, Mr. Coulter has blasted the 55-foot theory for the shotput. Now the eggsperts will have to hoist their sights out a bit further, let’s say 65 feet. And in a couple f years, some gent in a sweat suit, will fling the little iron ball out close to the 70-foot mark. That’s life. The other outstanding mark of the Texas relays "Saturday was the high jump, where Pete Watkins of Texas A & 51. in winning, cleared the bar at 6 feet, 7)4 inches. To be sure, OREGON’S own Les Steers has gone higher in the event, but this mark is not to be sneezed at. considering that it is an early season performance. So Early Yet Southern California’s Talley, great high jumper of a year back, has only been able to clear 6 feet, 5 inches to date. And that mark is also an early season record. Along about May or the boys may be heading for the stratosphere. ^POur own track and field squad will probably be loaded with a few surprise performers. If little Marvin Lester, pole vault er. gets anywhere near his Beverly Hills high school form, the Ducks will be picking up a few first places in the pole vault this season. Varsity Spanks Portland Twice By FRED TREADGOLD B'.eary-eyed Jupiter Pluvius dried liis orbs Saturday long enough to allow the Oregon Ducks to ramble through a “quickie” double-header at Port land, with the net result, two vic tories for the Oregon gang over the Pilots and the final opening of the much-delayed season. Scores were 13 to 0 and 13 to 3, indicating at first impression a real showing by the Oregon de fending champs. But a closer analysis of the picture tells the real story. It was the tale of a heavy-hit ting, strong, all-around club (Oregon) stepping down into slower circles to bop over a de cidedly inferior outfit (Portland! with the ease Joe Louis would measure a knock-out blow against some carnival fighter. The tilt was definitely not a test of Oregon's true strength. Ducks Look Good But lest pessimism gather 'round, some figures will reveal that the Ducks looked' really good for so early in the year—their opener, in fact, don't forget. Captain John Bubalo, the Ducks’ versatile guy, was the big pace-setter for the afternoor . All “Boob” did was to slam out six blows in nine jaunts to the bat ter’s box plus work several rounds on the hill in the abbre viated seven inning aftermath. Hitting on the Duck side was terrific, tearing the cover off the horsehide for 24 safeties during the 16 innings. Biggest clouting spree that Oregon indulged in came in the fourth round on the second game. The Ducks connected and con nected again, shoving across eight (8) counters before the weary Portlanders finally got the third out. Collapse afield by the pitiful Pilots made Oregon’s lot much easier. During the first tilt the Portland U defense ripped apart at the seams, nine balls going for errors. In the second they pulled the shreds together a little bet ter, still kicking through with three bobbles. Meanwhile, the Pilot clouters —sadly lacking any semblance of the hitting power that they showed last year when they dumped the Ducks, 6 to 4, were able to strain out just nine bin gles during the day. Little Nick Begleries, who opened the initial tilt, showed the same stuff that made him the best chucker in the ND loop last year. His curving was snapping in over the platter despite a cold, whipping wind which was any thing but donducive to good pitching The real surprise—and a pleas ant one—came when Acting-Men tor Dick Whitman signaled for Hal Saltzman, freshman rookie, to relieve Begleries after the lit tle one. had toiled much of the first game. Salzman fired the seed across like a real vet and may be the answer to the Duck pitching- prayer, now that Big John Day, promising Portlander, has cheeked out of school, army bound. During the second clash three other chuckers toiled, including one hitherto outfielder, Art Mur phy. Whitey Lokan, soph right hander, started out, was relieved by Murphy, who performed ably in his debut, and then withdrew while Bubalo finished up. UO Squad (Continued from piu/e four) to the big conference opener with Oregon State Friday and Satur day. The first lilt is at Corvallis, while Saturday’s beef is slated for a Eugene showing. Oregon State's bubbling follow ers are letting it be known that the Beavers have a “classy.” bunch of ball players trotting around on the greensward of the Corvallis diamond. Don Cecil, pitching brother of ex-Portland Beaver chucker Rex Cecil, is just about the hottest thing that has blown into the Bevo camp in many a moon. Then, of course, there’s Donnie Durdan, Mr. Nemesis to Oregon’s sports. Durdan is Coach Ralph Coleman’s unrivaled choice for left field. Other State baseball notables who might cause some little trouble to the Webfoot wil lowers are Bill McCluskey, crack shortstop, and Vic Brown, hard slugging center fielder. A GREAT ATHLETE t Tl-£r ' ..OF THE LATE ISOO’s MEMBER OF WORLD'S LACROSSE CHAMPS, HOCKEY PLAYER, OARSMAN, AND GYMNAST. -fRNCK AND fVeLD MAN Sst 1903 1940 100 YD DASH CARSON SHOEMAKE 9.5 1935 220 YD. DASH PAUL STARR 20. Q 1933 440 YD. DASH HOWARD PATTERSON 49.4 1935 880 YD. RUN GEORGE SCHARPF 1:54-8 1935 MILE RUN RALPH HILL 4: 12,.2 1930 TWO^ILERUN ROBERT WAGNER 9:38.2 1933 120 YO HIGH HURDLES MASON McCOY 14.9 1934 ri/.Luw nunyicj MACK ROBINSON 23.5" 1938 HIGH JUMP JIM HARRIS 6-FT. Ain. 1940 BROAD JUMP MACK ROBINSON -24Ft 10 s/a IN. 1930 POLE VAULT GEORGE VAROFF I4FT 7IN. 1937 DISCUS EDWARD MOfLLER 160 FT. 7.7IN. 1929 JAVELIN BOVP BROWN 234 FT. 1940 SHOT PUT WILLIAM FOSKETT 49FT II IN. 1937 OLYMPIC TRACK AMD * FIELD COACH ^4^ UNIV.OF OREGON yTRACK AND FIELD COACH