Ducks Trounce Bearcat Nine ^ '■ -i ; • Bubalo Stars Again As Team Wins 6-4 By FRED TREADGOLD Tall, wiry Johnny Bubalo and small, chunky Donnie Kirsch teamed together yesterday with some good old-fashioned coun try-style hitting, to give Oregon's varsity Ducks a 6 to 4 vic tory over a stubborn Willamette Bearcat club in the belated home opener. llanausko Tough laoi'i'.s i't)K a usiiis.xr k . . . . . . Cliff Melton, former Giant liurlcr, is hoping' for a comeback this year witli another club. Mel ton's arm has kept him on the sidelines for two seasons. Old Lady Fortune is smiling broader and broader on the Port land Bevos for the first time in many a season. Yesterday, Rape Thompson, hard hitting fielder, pulled into camp to complete the outfield combination. This gives Manager Marv Shea a veteran outfield aggregation of Thompson, Gill, and a newcomer, Ted Gallic from Milwaukee. Gal lic came to the Portland through the Ted Norbert deal. Norbert, incidentally, refuses to leave the coast to play ball, so it seems that the Beaver head office re ceived the large end of the trade. Next training game will be played with the San Jose college nine. The first contest with a lo cal semi-pro club showed that, the present Beavers are far in front of the club of last year. Several young ball players have been showing exceptional ability, including Portland boys Tom Bn twist le and Dick Sinpvich. Mel Nunes, a rookie second sacker. has the makings of a brilliant pi ospect. The Beavers play their first game with a coast league club when they face the Sacramento Solons a week from Sunday. Sac ramento won the title last year and are favorites to repeat. <§ET THE URGE TO HELP PURGE Hli LtK; J/A ' It was a narrow squeak for the Webfoot sluggers who found out why Bill Ilanauska was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers. “Pro man Bill” fired his fast one past the majority of the Ducks most of the time, hut ran afoul of some tough luck whenever “Booh” or “C'asaba” would stride to. the platter. Meanwhile on the Duck hurl ing side, Coach Hobby Hob sin held back his first three chuekers Nick Begleries, Hal Sultzman, and Bubalo for the anticipated struggle with Oregon State litis Friday and Saturday. He. started Whitey Lokan, youth ful righthander, who toiled on tile hillock for three rounds, giv ing up just one blow. Hobby then beckoned to South paw Bob Caviness, who had dif ficulty in keeping the apple bending over the plate. He passed six Bearcats during' his three inning stint, and was lifted in the sixth when the Willamette outfit pushed across three scores. Sutherland Good Then Arvis (Suds) Sutherland, varsity luisketballer, look over and was the “find” of the day. cracking down on the slugging Saleniites with just one bingle during the remainder of the tilt. The Ducks started things out in the second round with a single score when Big Roy Carlson, frosh catcher, banged out a clean single to right, advanced to sec ond on Bob Farrow’s sacrifice, reached third when Art Murphy meat out an infield blow, and then came in when Third Baseman Hilton hobbled a Bar ney Koch drive. Once more going on a little run-rally, the Webfoots slammed across three additional runs in tlie third on a trio of bingles. Dick Burns got life on an infield hooper when Pitcher Hanauska and Catcher Clint Cameron pulled an ‘‘Alphonse and Gaston you take-it-no-you act. “Booh” Smacks Triple Gillie Kirseti with the big bat, then whacked the horseliide to left to shove Burns to second and set the stage for .John Bubalo’s big blow. "Boob" squarely caught hold of one of Hauauska’s offer ings and sent it screaming to left center, while the Bearcat fly hawks ran wildly after it. When tlie> finally r e t ri e v e d the squashed pellet, “Johnny the Booh" was lolling pleasantly on third base, watching Burns and Kirsch dash to the plate. Catcher Carlson whiffed the other, but Farrow grounded out to pitcher while Bubalo tallied on the play. The visitors got one back in the fourth after Caviness dished up three Anney-Oklies. Three more runs across in the sixth and the game was knotted tightly at 4-all. The Bearcat pay off blow was a four-bagger to the left center off the bat of Left Fielder Sehaad. But the heavy Duck artillery manned by Bubalo and Kirsch soon swung into action again to clinch things for the Ducks and present Hobson with his third win of the year. With one down, Hamel drew AW AITS OPENER . . . . . . “Rip” Sewell, Pittsburgh Pi rate standby, is rounding into condition as league competition nears. niiiiiiiiiiiii!iiniiiiijfnniiiii:iiiiiitniii;ii!iiiiiiiiiii!iiiiiiiiiiiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!ii:iiiii!iii;;iiii;: Sports Staff: Fred Treadgold, Fred Beckwith, Co-Sports Editors Rollie Gabel Don Lonie Bill Dyer George Skorney Phyllis Lloyd itiiinuirntiHiimmiimiiiii KED PILOT . . . . . . Bill McKechnie, Cincy boss, has his fingers crossed for his fast but weak hitting crew. Weight Department Proves Problem for Colonel Bill • By GEORGE SKORNEY With the program for Saturday undecided as yet, Oregon’s Ducks, and well they might be called that, took the usual stiff workout Wednesday. A problem is presenting itself to Colonel Bill Hayward. Weightmen are as scarce as the sun’s rays at this period of the year. To begin with Coach Hayward can really only list one a walk. Burns popped to Hanaus ka and the Ducks were two-thirds down. But Kirseh injected new Blood when he smacked a double to right to put Hamel over with the winning run. Then Bubalo added another for good meas ure when he larruped a single to left. Kirseh dancing home with run No. G. Box score: Willamette— •Badnick, cf . Baird, 2b . Larson, ss . Hilton, 3b . Cameron, c . Schaad, if . Kunke, rf . Saxton, lb . Hanauska, p .... Totals . Oregon Hamel, 3b . Burns, cf .. Kirseh, 2b . Bubalo, lb . Ca risen, c . Farrow, ss . Murphy, If . Koch, rf . Lokan, p . Caviness, p . Sutherland, p . Totals . Willamette Oregon . .. AB R H PO A .3 0 0 2 0 .31002 .30011 .40121 .31162 .4 110 0 .41120 .4 0 2 9 1 .3002 3 31 4 6 24 10 AB R H PO A 3 10 0 2 .31130 4 2 2 3 2 .41271 .4 117 0 3 0 12 3 .4 0 2 0 0 3 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 32 6 9 27 9 R H E 5 1 9 0 000 103 000—4 013 000 20x 6 The University of Moscow, bombed in August, 1941 by the Nazis, is reopening for a new scholastic year with four new de partments—geology, philosophy, law and philology. muscle man on the squad at this late date—Fred Foster, letterman, who performs well in the shotput and discus events. Foster so far has been working out with a lad named Campbell. A little conso lation is forthcoming in that Chuck Elliott, a holdover from last year, has stated that he will turn out. Hurdles seem to be a popular event with lettermen, Kay Dick son and Ralph Kramer, and frosli Boh Mueller doing the jumping. Another possibility is Bob New land whose specialty is high jump ing. Mueller has the making of. a versatile trackster so his coaches say. So far this season, he has tried his hand at pole vaulting, hurdles, and a spot in Hayward’s inter-squad relays. Wes Carpenter, who day after day has faithfully paced out his steps in the javeline, is a “white hope” for Colonal Bill. Javelin men are few and far between and this seems to be no exceptional season for it. If hard-working Wes clinches in the pinches all will be fine and dandy for Hay ward, if not, well. Pre-season dope has brightened somewhat since the outbreak of the season. Baggy-britches, Don Wilson is on hand to give Coach Hayward a break in the distant events. Old Reliable Homer Thom as is repaying Hayward for the tutelage he received by looming out as one of the conference’s threats in vaulting. With such promising first year varsity men as Chuck Beekner, Browning Al len, Skiles Hoffman, and Bob Mueller the venerable gentleman can threaten or drown out any hopes favored by his conference foes. BOLD PIRATE . . . . . . Is Ren Heintzeman, Pitts burgh’s standby hurler. Always consistent, Ren is back to add more power to Frankie Frisch’s mound corps. Nearly 200 former law stj) dents at the University of Texas are in the armed forces. ► ► ► w4 EUGENE HOTEL presents Art Holman and his Orchestra 75c Per Person Dancing'9’til 12 Every Sat. Nite ^ i