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Ducks Load Artillery
For Bearcat Today
By FRED TREADGOLD
With nothing more than just a quick glimpse at his Duck
baseball goliaths since he returned to Eugene Monday, How
ard Hobson, veteran Oregon coach, will send the undefeated
Webfoct clouters against Willamette U today at 3 o'clock on
the grassy levels of Howe field. It will be the home opener
after a long series of postponements due to inclement weather
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May 7 is the date that has
been set for the annual state
high school track meet to be con
ducted in Eugene this year, spon
sored by the University, it was
announced by Tom Piggotl, sec
retary of the Oregon State High
School Activities association.
Streamlinizatiou of tiie meet is
expected for 1913 because of the
wartime conditions. Only win
ners in the eight districts will
qualify in order to run the meet
off in a single day, as only eight
lanes can be set up in the Hay
ward field oval.
Campus fraternities have
agreed to furnish housing for
(tie proppers while they are in
Eugene, il was announced, but
the boys will have to provide
their own meals because of ra
tioning restrictions.
District meets are expected to
be completed by Saturday, May
1, and a list of the qualifying1
athletes must be in tlie hands of
A use Cornell, Oregon graduate
manager, on the following Tues
day.
Portland schools will not par
ticipate in the meet as they are
not members of the state asso
ciation.
The annual Hayward Relays
were cancelled by University of
ficials because of the war, it was
declared.
Sports Staff:
Fred Treadgohl,
Fred Beckwith.
Co-Sports Kditors
Rollie Gabel
Don Louie
Bill Dyer
George Skorney
Phyllis Lloyd
LITTLE GIANT OF THE DI CK INFIELD . . .
. . . Don Kirscli, booming little second sucker, is one of the strong
points of the verj powerful Oregon infield. Besides being a remark
able fielder (no errors last season!) Donnie can crack the ball with
the best of ’em.
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last week.
The Devastating Ducks, who
captured their second consecutive
ND pennant last year, cashed in
with victories in their only two
previous starts, spanking the
Portland Pilots in a twin bill last
Saturday, 13 to 0, and 13 to 3.
Their hitting punch is still
there," or so the 24 blows during
the two tilts seem to indicate. But
the Duck baseball machine isn’t
fashioned solely around the ruth
less, lethal swatting attack of
the Oregon seige guns. Coach
Hobby has kicking around a hand
ful of good—real good—clinch
ers, who know how to handcuff
the opponents while their team
mates swing out their own heavy
artillery.
Willamette’s strength is un
known in the Duck camp, hut
the local pilot said that he im
agined the Bearcats from Salem
possessed a “good” club.
There is a chance that the 'Cats
will field a professional battery as
they have been granted permis
sion to use the twosome. If Wil
lamette Boss Roy S. (“Spec”)
Keene does so, campus fans will
see Duke Hanuska, ex-Willamette
hurler since turned pro with
Brooklyn Dodger connections,
toeing the rubber, while Clint
Cameron, a Salem and Spokane
“play-for-pay” boy, donning the
big mitt and nabbing Hanuska’s
offerings.
Whether the visitors will use a
third pro athlete, Earl Toolson, is
not known. Toolson, a big per
former with the Bearcats a year
back, can be used either at first or
on the hillock.
With the exception of pitcher,
Hobson has pretty well in niind
just who will fill each of the
eight other positions this after
noon, ’
The sparkling, “Million Dollar
Track Talk about . . . Homer Thomas
By <ii:OK(ii; SROHXEV
The Duck eindermen have a
captain now. With this simple
statement. Colonel Bill lla.vwanl
released the good news that Ho
mer Thomas, senior and star pole
vaulter, was tin* choice of the
hoys themselves.
The stocky Thomas has mixed
sweat with the sod of Hayward
field for three seasons now
once as a track freshman,'and
the other two times as a regular
on the varsity. Thomas hails
from Madras, Oregon, where
track is unheard of and where
baseball, football, and basketball
are the only spcrts played.
As Colonel Bill puts it, Thom
as, who never saw a track meet
when in high school, came as
close to pole vaulting when he
handled a pitchfork. Homer
claims that, although he didn’t
have any experience when he en
tered the University he had an
inkling' that he could pole vault.
His first year here in frosh
track under Ned Johns, he vault
ed 11 feet 6 inches in a dual meet
with the Rooks of Oregon State
without any previous trial. In his
initial start on the varsity, Tho
mas was an understudy for Bob
Hendershott. This was the year
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Ho Hum! Durdan Sick Again, OSC Scribes Moan
Ever hear the one about the
boy who cried. ‘‘Wolf! Wolf!"?
Oregon's baseball Ducks have loo.
so they aren't taking much stock
in the barrage of propaganda be
ing laid down by ambitious Ore
gon State press correspondents.
From the Corvallis baseball
ritadel comes word that Don
(Rose Bowl! Durdan, great tri
sportman, has contracted a case
of bronchial pneumonia a n d
will be out of the Orange lineup
for an indefinite period of time.
Mr. Durdan is confined to a clean
white cot in the infirmary, so the
press releases say, and so won't
be in left field when the OSCers
face Oregon Friday in Corvallis.
An almost identical situation
existed last basketball season.
fans will remember. Brother Dur
dan, spark-plug- of the Beaver
hoop five, was declared to be flat
on his back with a case of chicken
pox and would not see action for
over a month.
But what happened ? The Beav
ers came to town and firmly en
sconced in the lineup was none
other than the ailing Durdan, far
from in a sickly condition. And
he played most of the game.
So, flecking- the latest woeful
words coming- from Corvallis
about fragile Don off their shoul
ders like a speck of dust, the Duck
varsity horsehiders fully expect
Mr. Durdan to again rise from his
bed. and be shagging flies all over
the lot when game time comes
Friday.
CAIID CATCHER . . .
. . . Walker Cooper, one-half of
St. Louis’ famed brother battery,
will again be handling the Car
dinal pitchers’ hot ones this sea
son.
Infield” combination of John Bu
balo at first, Don Kirsch at sec
ond, Bob Farrow at shortstop, and
Bill Hamel at third, is a foursome
Hobson will probably do business
with all season long. This unit^( 1
tops in the northwest circuit, un
touchable on defense and unhal
terable at bat.
Four Outfielders Even
Things are not quite as clean
cut in the outfield. Nevertheless
the picture is comparatively sim
ple. Four men race neck and neck
for the starting spots, with the
three lucky ones not being known
till game time. Among Dick
Burns, Bob Caviness, Art Murphy
and Barney Koch the choice
must lie.
Even with the return of Bill
Peterson, last year’s reserve
backstop, to the fold, Freshman
Roy Carlson seems to hold the
jump as starting catcher. Carl
son was one of the prize pack
ages which came Qregon-ward
from Portland prep schools.
Opening pitching assignmei^
was not dealt out to any individ
ual, and Hobby figured that he
would give all the chuckers a few
brief rounds on the hill, being
careful not to overwork anyone.
Then too, with the Oregon State
conference opener just around the
corner—two days away—no par
ticular benefit would come from
trying to work any single man
too long.
From this list of twirlers Hob
by can name his selection: Nick
Begleries, diminutive curve bail
er; John Bubalo, reliable first
sacker with the knuckler mysti
fier; Hal Saltzman, stellar frosh
prospect; Bob Caviness, outfield
regular, who can be pulled in to
throw left hooks; Whitey Lokan,
second-year man from Astoria;
Art Murphy, another versat'.-C
outfielder, and Arvis (Suds) Sutfl^
erland, basketball man.
Today’s brawl will serve as a
testing pot for the Ducks before
the regular league action com
mences and will also give absent
Coach Hobson a chance to ap
praise his charges and draw con
clusions.
<§ET THE URGE
v TO HELP PURGE
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