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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 22, 1943)
They weren’t rated too high in the pre-season calculations, those Oregon State Beavers. But today they have carefully carved out an almost unblemished record of five wins and one loss in the 1943 Northern Division baseball scramble. Besides handing a neat reversal to our own horsehiders, the Corvallis kids have placed the skids under Idaho twice and have handed the Washington State Cougars a pair of lacings. Despite the feet that the University of Washington Huskies temporarily ®cupy the driver’s seat in the race, (thanks to a 3-0 season record) the basefall-farmer boys probably hold down a more advantageous position at this writing. Our own Ducks currently engaged in a double-potion of baseball medicine dished up the visiting warriors from Pull man way. were faced with the task of biffing these winless WSC lads on both occasions to stay in the flag chasing race. Three Clubs Even at this early vantage point, it would appear that the ND battle-royal will be strictly a three-team affair, the afore mentioned Beavers, the league-leading Huskies and our own Ducks. Statistics show that the Hobsonmen have committed, prior to yesterday, 15 bobbles, two over their total for last year’s entire season. The club is not hitting at its full capacities. Although olive skinned John Bubalo is romping away with the league batting honors, his green-and-gold diamond mates are not matching his efforts as a whole. The pitching has been good. It will take a combination of competent chucking plus a steady tattoo of ^Lsehits to produce another championship for Oregon this year. Politico! Ruckus There has been so much political propaganda flying around campus lately that the sports world has almost been eclipsed. “We demand recognition!" cry the Coalitionists. “The biggest outrage since Pearl Harbor!" maintain Greek bloc representatives. But the campus athletes, many of them, continue with their sports activities, little heeding the varied assortment of brickbats cascading around them. Most of the athletes realize it is their last term in school, and consequently they care little for the political hash that is being served up aplenty lately. In some-instances, however, they are directly affected by impending results. Some have criticized the situa tion. “We’ll be gone next fall. Can't the women wait?” “I'd rather not vote at all than vote in this election!” “Politics? Phooey! Let’s go to the ball game!” So much for the word-slinging issue that has grabbed ^off the attention of the student body paraders. Portland Beavers lived up to the kind words sprayed about them previously by publicity dispensers, by clipping the defend ing Coast League champs, the Sacramento Senators in the first two games of their current series. After reclining in the barren bottom division cellar of the Pacific loop last year, the Rose City mittmen are blossoming forth with new resolutions and grim determination. Or so it would appear at this early date. Cards Flop Stanford University has produced some great track and held squads in the past ten years, but certainly the Farm has not turned out anything outstanding in the past three years. The siuation might be summed up this way: When Lyman "Dink” Templeton was the head coach, everything was rolling on all fours. Such great Cardinal athletes as Ben Eastman, Johnny Mottram, Here LaBorde, Bob Alexander, Chuck Nim t. A1 Blackman, Bing Miller, Johnny Lyman, Hec Dyer, Gus ier and Sammy Klopstock, (to name a few) were piling up the points for the Indians in national competition. Well, the board of athletic control down athhat Palo Alto institution fin ally gave Dink his ouster papers, and Assistant Mentor Bill Ellington took over. Old Bill came up with Clyde Jeffrey (who was snatched out of the hands of USC alumni) Jack Weir hauser, Ray Mallott, Bill McCurdy and a few others. The In dians were still the number two team in the country. (Hello, Dean Cromwell, I can see your chest swelling!) And then the one-year Ellington contract folded, and the board of athletic control looked around quickly and then flagged out Pitch John son from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. Pitch and the Stanford boys didn't get along so well. His first season at Stanford, half of the returning veterans, headed by sprinter Battaglia, walked out on him. Since the Johnson regime, the Cards have never enjoyed one-tenth of their former success. And here’s the funny part. Drake University, with Bill Easton at the helm, now has her greatest track squad in the past five years. So it goes, as ole A1 Rauss used to say. IllillllllllllllllllllllliiUlllllllllli: Advertisers Face Writing Crew Sluggers In Headline Scramble Cougar Gets (Please tarn to page five) ston skied out to Murphy in left. Box score: Wash. State Rennick, 2b .... Bergman, ss .. Akins, cf .. Branigan, 3b ABR HPO A Aries, lb . Kramer, p ... Dau, If . Davison, rf . Cranston, c . Totals . Oregon Hamel, 3b . Burns, cf . Kirseh, 2b ... Bubalo, lb ... Carlson, c ... Koch, rf . Farrow, ss ... Murphy, If ... Begleries, p ..4 ..4 ..4 .4 .3 ..4 .3 .4 ..4 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 1 3 1 2 2 6 0 2 4 4 .4 ..4 ..5 ..4 ..4 ..4 .2 .3 .34 5 8 24 7 ABR HPO A ...5 3 2 0 2 0 12 12 3 1 2 10 0 0 3 0 0 1 1 3 1 1 2 Totals .37 10 11 27 14 WSC . 011 200 001 5 Oregon .031 310 02x 10 Errors, Rennick, Branigan, Kramer. Runs batted in, Hamel 5, Davison 3, Bubalo, Farrow, Kramer. Home runs, Hamel, Kra mer, Davison. Three base hit, Ar ies. Two base hit, Akins. Sacrific es, Burns, Carlson, Murphy. Stol en base, Kirseh. Strikeouts, Beg leries 4, Kramer 3. Bases on balls off, Begleries 2, Kramer 3. Balk, Kramer. Passed ball, Cranston. Left on bases, Oregon 7. WSC 4. Umpire, Spec Burke. Time, 1:53. Alpha Delta Sigma, national' advertising honorary has accept ed the challenge to a softball game proffered to them by Sig ma Delta Chi, national journal ism fraternity. Exact date for the historic clash has not as yet been re vealed, but representatives from both organizations indicate that the contest will probably be played some time within the next two weeks. The advertising group is head ed by such well known campus figures as Patrick Cloud and Rod Vandeneynde. Just who will hurl for the ad group is not, at this writing, a certainty. Sigma Delta Chi will pitch Kuhl on the mound. Roy Paul Nelson (how did that name get on the sport page ?) will be around to relieve him. Local Odds Early downtown Eugene gam bling quotations have hoisted the writers to an advantageous po sition over the ad men. The idea of running the contest for char ity was proposed, but then ig nored. Both factions agreed that there should be no professional or commercial taint associateed with the affair. Theodore Goodwin, newly elect ed proxy of the journalists an nounced late last night in a spe cial press conference that his athletes were already working out bi-monthly. Cloud and Vandeneynde have already nixed offers from the Philadelphia Athletics. “We couldn’t save old Connie's “What's the trouble, mister— Indian Underwear?” If you’re a victim of underwear that creeps up on you, get next to some well-behaved Arrow shorts with the specially constructed seamless crotch. They’re full cut from durable fabrics. Sanforized labeled for permanent fit (fabric shrinkage less than 1%). Whites and fancy, 75c up. Tops, 60c up. Your Arrow dealer to the rescue! ARROW SHIRTS • TIES • HANKDERCHIEFS • UNDERWEAR • SPORT SHIRTS ★ BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS * Eugene's ARROW SHIRT Headquarters BYROM & KNEELAND 'The Man's Shop' 32 East 10th Ave. outfit from last place anyway,” laughed The Cloud. “Salary quotations were ab surd,” sneered The Ro-d. There has been a definite fear on the part of the regular cam pus intramural league softball ists that the approaching adver tising - journalism clash will eclipse the intramural program. Gripes A sheaf of protests has been piles to the top of the janitor's closet in the Igloo. Lee Flatberg, who will perform for the pencil-pushers, has cut out caviar in his new down-to the-bone training diet. And when sought for a candid statement regarding the game, Jeff Kitchen tersely remarked: “Regarding the campus political situation, I would like to say (Censored) The sports staff regrets that all Mr. Kitchen’s remarks cannot be printed here, but space does not permit. < UNITED STATES WAR BONDS STAMPS 'THUNDERING TRAILS' * Bob Steele * Tom Taylor * Jimmy Dodd 'Sherlock Holmes And the Secreat Weapon’ grrutmii 'LUCKY JORDAN' Starring1 ALLAN LADD “THE MYSTERIOUS DOCTOR” with John Loder r 1 ak‘«l ! / ‘ : f. 'CASABLANCA' • Humphrey Bogart • Ingrid Bergman - PLUS - 'Apache Trail' Lloyd Nolan 'SIN TOWN' Constance Bennett Brod Crawford 'Tahiti Honey' with The Andrews Sisters