No Buck Bailey (sob! sob!) this year when the Washing
ton State Cougar baseball boys roll into Eugene today. Good
old uproarious Buck provided more amusement and entertain
ment for the spectator-folk of the northwest every baseball
season than a Barnum & Bailey-Ringling Bros, show rolled
into one—and got a big boot out of doing it, too!
Aithur C. (or so he was baptized, but you can bet Buck
_didn 1 allow any such sissy monicker to last long-) has*moved
B-along, like so many of the nation's coaches, into jobs with
L ncle Sam 1. Buck, after concentrated training in North Caro
lina as an instructor, is now sending puffing cadets through
vigorous training routines at St. Mary’s Pre-Flight school. It's
a big assignment, but don t think for a second that the hilari
ous Buck can t more than fill the job with his 230-odd pounds,
backed by years of knowledge.
Friel Takes Over
Jack Friel, Cougar basketball practitioner for so many
years, supplants Bailey as baseball mentor during the Bucko’s
absence. \ou can bet that Friel will have a hard time getting
his boys to work any harder than Bailey did, as the fellows all
loved jovial old Buck like a daddy.
No sir, it just won t seem like the same outfit now that
Bailey won t be here to bait Ump ''Spec” Burke, boot a few
water pails, smash a bat every now and then, and keep up a
continual whistle barrage at his straying outfielders.
|Bubalo and His Hits
This sensational hitting streak of Johnny Bubalo’s is about
the most fantastic thing to swoop down out of the northwest
baseball circles since grandpappy swapped his buttoned shoes
for a ballbat. When you eye those figures——twelve hits in 16
attempts and a .750 average—you just wonder how Boob can
keep up such a clatter of base blows.
Even Joseph Lowell Gordon, Oregon’s great gift to the
New York Yankees, in his rosiest days couldn’t approach any
thing like that. In fact, Joe, to our knowledge never swatted
over .400 in his undergraduate days at the U.
The dark-skinned Bubalo, first baseman - pitcher - out -
fielder par excellence, has hit northern division pitching at
an even faster clip than in non-league games. For the prac
tice contests Johnny has better than .500 to his credit, while
his over-all seasonal average towers somewhere around
.600.
When you consider that in some of these games Bubalo
was handling the hurling chore as well as hitting clean-up, this
^average is even bettered.
Alumni Roll Call
A bit of a round-up on Oregon alumni now plying their
baseball courses along a paying vein:
From Los Angeles, Wellington “Wimpy” Ouinn, another
ball slapping back turned pro, seems to have been able to
alight at a position after all these years of wandering. In col
lege “Wimpy” held down third base most of the time, although
because of his exceptionally powerful arm, Hobby considered
him seriously as a pitching prospect.
Then Ouinn went out for bigger baseball game—money—
and the Chicago Cubs envisioned the big youngster a£ the
pitcher of their dreams. Despite Quinn’s distaste for hurling,
he listened to his elders and worked several years in th lower
loops, trying to perfect a twirling style.
First Given Try
| After these years of experimentation, the Cubs finally bc
?came convinced that big “Wimpy” could do much better as a
first sacker (his old love) where his hitting punch could be
brought into play daily instead of just sporadically if he were
pitching.
Quinn was farmed out to Los Angeles where he ran
into some tough competition from Bob Latsham, a first
class infielder. No chance to crack in there so Manager
Bill Sweeney of the Angels shifted the big “Wimp” to right
field, where he has been working regularly ever since—and
biffing the agate hard.
Joe Bats Clean-up
Back to Brother Gordon, who is one of the reasons major
league big boys are picking the Yanks to cop the American
crown again this year. Joe is now batting in the old fourth
|inlace clean-up spot, something new for the former Duck in
-field rampager.
Latest word on Bob Hardy, another ex-Oregonite, now
with Portland, is that his ailing arm hasn’t responded to treat
ment as yet. If it doesn’t heal soon, Bob’s hurling days are past,
his medico says.
PC •
A SCORE FROM YESTERYEAR . . .
. . . Cleveland’s Indians, again touted as potential American league
championship timber, are shown in an action shot from last season.
Ken Kellner, ace third sacker, is shown chalking up a score and be
ing welcomed at the plate by Jeff Heath, outfield slugger.
Bu balo's Big StickRings Out;
Beats Out Fantastic .750
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L/O Strive
For4th Win
In today's Washington State
Oregon get-together on the foot
paths of Howe field, the home
town Ducks will be probing' fop.
their fourth consecutive win over'
the Pullman guests.
The win streak dates back to
last season when the Webfoots
powdered the Cougar clansmen
in the final three meetings of the
year, and by robust margins.
Oregon muffed the Eugene
opener, 2 to 0 as Lefty Chambers,
talented WSC moundsman,
heaved exceptional shutout ball.
Take One Themselves
But the guys under the green
and yellow banner were una
bashed. They charged back into
the thick of things and buffeted
Washington State, 6 to 1, to even
up the count.
Then just for good measure
later in the year on the hostile
grounds of the Pullman school of
learning our gang tidily annexed
two more contests, 13 to 1 and
the aftermath, 8 to 5.
Number four-in-a-row is the
objective today.
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Sports Staff:
Fred Treadgold,
Fred Beckwith,
Co-Sports Editors |
Rollie Gabel
Don Lonie
Bill Dyer ' |
George Skorney
Phyllis Lloyd
Evidently only the sky s the
limit so far as John Bubalo, Ore
gon’s stellar first sacker, is con
cerned. To date, after four con
ference clashes, the clouting
Duck infielder-pitcher has hit the
rafters with his lofty .750 bat
ting average, and shows no signs
of letting up.
Bubalo has maced out an even
dozen bingles in 16 strides to the
plate to set the pace for his Dusk
teammates who have aggregated
a respectable team average of
.302 themselves.
Koch Hits Too
Trailing “Boob” by several fur
longs, but with still a healthy
percentage, trots along Barney
Koch in second place with .429.
Bob Caviness with .333 and Roy
Carlson having .303 are the only
other Ducks to wallop the seed
for a plus .300 mark.
Conference averages,
cial:
unoffi
Bubalo ....
Koch .
Caviness
Carlson ..
Burns ....
Saltzman
Kirsch ....
Farrow ..
Murphy ..
Begleries
Hamel ....
Santee ....
Tiken .
Oxman ...
Gitzen ....
.16 12
.14 6
. 3
.13
.15
. 4
.17
.16
.16
. 9
.14
. 1
. 1
. 1
. 0
Totals
.750
.429
.333
.303
.267
.250
.235
.188
.125
.111
.071
.000
.000
.000
.000
.218 66 .302
Bii! Concerned
(Continued from fiaijc four)
er, Bill Shinn, and Bill Water
man; sophomore, Stu Norene;
and freshmen, Art Hobart, mile
sensation from Portland.
Sure men in the hurdles will be
reserves Bob Phelps and Bill Gib
son. High jumping is an over
crowded department with Jack
Dudrey, Findlay, Gordon Alexan
der, and Bob Graf all competing
against each other for the right of
wearing the Beaver Orange and
Black.
. . . Diek Whitman, ex-Oregon hitter, now in the army.