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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 27, 1943)
The elements and mystic powers of fate smiled on Howard Hobson and his Oregon Varsity Ducks over the week-end. Thanks to a two-game split between the Oregon Staters and the Washington Huskies, Hobby’s home guard is safely en trenched in first place in the Northern Division baseball race, the 5-1 record being sufficient to top the other contenders at present. This week’s series against the Huskies will afford the green and-gold men the chance to face their last untested opponent, tor when the two nines clash, it will mark officially a once around-the-circuit jaunt for Oregon. Nick Will Be Ready Little Nick Begleries despite his pitching arm mishap of x the WSC series, will he ready for heavy mound duty. Ever im proving Hal Saltzman, Whitey Lokan and Captain Jawn Bu balo will be ready to sling the pill platewards, too. The horsehide experts maintain that Bubalo will continue to pummel the pill, even opposite the masterful hurling of Doug Ford. Still riding the crests of an above .500-margin of hit ting, John may have his biggest week at the plate. The all vet infield, off to a slower start, than usual this sea son, has gradually rounded into form, and barring unforseen occurrences, will be ready to handcuff any balls knocked in ^^Lur direction for the balance of the season. Always danger ous in the clutch, little Don Kirsch will be attempting to shake a minor batting slump that plagued him last week against the Cougars. The garden men, aided by Lefty Burns, are moulding into a unit. Yearling backstopper Swede Carlson is drinking in expe rience. In a year or two, disregarding the current war picture, he’d be about the best catcher in the loop. That's the baseball picture. A Chance for Revenge Our trackmen didn’t have such a nice time in the Oregon State Relays last Saturday at Corvallis. They dropped the af fair, some six events to two. Browning Allen, colored flash, made the great Beaver Findlay look rather ill, however, ac ^fc-ding to reports floating back to this citadel. Some of the Ducks lost out in really close finishes that might have gone either way. Summed up, Hayward’s men feel that they will do much better in the forthcoming dual meet with the Beavers. Exit Precedent Last weekend, we saw some athletic precedent shattered at Stanford University. You remember back in 1941, Edwin G. Atherton surveyed the athletic talent at The Farm, and declared some 22 kids ineligible to compete for old S. U. Eight of these lads were pigskinners. Four of them quit the Card inal campus to go elsewhere. W e still have one of em walk ing our hallowed hallways, Bob Koch, halfback-fullback, who did a stretch for the Naval Pre-Flight gang at St. Marys, Cal. Anvwav, four of ’em left, and four of ’em stayed on campus at Stanford, realizing of course, that they could never compete for the Palo Alto institution. ^ Friday afternoon of this past week, this quartet of gen tlemen was honored. Headed by Portland s own Jimmy Ellis, and San Francisco’s Bill Joslyn, the group were awarded their Block S by the executive committee of the Stanford student council. It was a nice gesture on the part of the Cardinal student governing bodv. True, the lads never actually earned the var sitv awards, but all of them were potentially capable of hav ing done so. Ellis, for example, was slated for a starting posi tion at left end on the 1941 varsity. He had beaten out the rest of his competitors for the job in Spring practice that year. Joslyn, too, figured to hold down a varsity guard posi tion, having' been moved over to make room for a lad that was supposed to be the greatest center prospects ever to enter Stau frd, Loren LaPrado. The other two kids, Bill Nourse and owarcl Petrich, were outstanding backfield candidates. None of them ever played. But still we have another example of precedent being shattered in a sports world at war. Time staggers on. By FRED TREADGOLD Washington got the hits; Ore gon got the runs. They still pay off in runs, so Hobby's gang of ball busters chalked up another victory yesterday, 5 to 4, in their luscious string which now has been stretched to five tasty triumphs. The win, which was biffed out over the touted Husky clan on the green floor of Howe field, served to further enhance the Ducks’ lead, now at one-half game which looks pretty robust after the tightness of things the past few days. Those clouting Huskies mas saged Chucker Nick Begleries' best Sunday pitch for less than 11 safeties, but Nicholas always managed to extract himself be fore too much damage was done. Manywhile the heavy‘Oregon siege batteries were strangely on the silent side as Washington El bower Jack Crockett rationed out just six blows. But, much to the chagrin of Hurler Crockett and UW Mentor Tubby Graves, those hits always seemed to bog up when “Ducks” were on the pond. Again Today These two high-powered out fits, Washington trying to regain her footing after a flashy start and a wobbly road trip showing, and the Oregon’s intent on past ing another win in their scrap book, grapple again today at 3 p.m. Pitching lovies, Washing ton’s Doug Ford, and Oregon’s Hal Saltzman, seem certain to wheel the ball in today for their favorite club. The Seattle diamonders sport ed a well-knit infield, green as it was with only one letterman. Duck hitting met with stiff re sistance from this unit, especial ly by Third-sacker Len Tran, who also whacked the seed to the tune of 3-for-4. Johnny Bubalo, Hobson’s sul tan of swattery, laid his scarred war-club on the apple squarely just once for a vicious double to left in the fourth. Boob’s other two official times up met with negative results, and so the old soaring average “nosedives” to a more comprehensible number, .571. Two Off Nick Begleries coughed up two bin gles in the second, which in con junction with a Bill Hamel error gave the visitors first blood. Favorable circumstances got it back in Oregon’s half of the round as Bob Farrow was safe after a UW bobble, got to sec ond on Art Murphy’s sharp first pitch single to right, advanced to third on Koch’s outfield fly, and strolled him when unnerved Thrower Crockett balked. Not surrendering their rights to this game by any means after this tiny uprising, Boob’s pre viously mentioned double, and outfield fly and a brilliantly exe cuted, precisioned squeeze bunt by Farrow, put the locals aheau 2 and 1 by the fourth. In the six panel Don Kirsch doubled and Bubalo walked, with both making the circuit thanks to a walk, and a couple of outs. The men of T. Graves sneaked over two scores in the error r OUR BOVS j WITHTm£Ot£RSj Northern Division Standings W. L. Pet. Oregon .6 1 .857 Oregon State .6 2 .750 Washington .4 2 .667 Idaho .0 5 .000 W.S.C.0 6 .000 pock seventh, to make the count 4-3, Oregon. Shortstop Farrow had a fielding lapse which set things for the Husky group. Blows by Tran and Gissberg provided another UW score in the eighth stanza, but our kids boomed back in the bottom half of the inning to deliver the vic tory, signed, sealed and paid for into Hobson’s waiting hands. Begleries walked, Hamel beat out a bunt to push Nick on. Dick Burns’ sacrifice blow established Begleries’ residence temporarily at third from where he breezed in easily on Kirsch’s looping fly to left. That was the run which broke Washington’s back. Box score: Washington— Tran, 3b . Taylor, ss . Gissberg, lb . Warren, cf . Schonning, rf Wenke, 2b . Young, If . Anderson, c ... Crockett, p ... ABR H PO 1 1 15 3 2 0 2 0 0 Totals .. Oregon Hamel, 3b . Burns, cf ...1. Kirsch, 2b . Bubalc, lb . Carlson, c . Farrow, ss . Murphy, If . Koch, rf . *Caviness, rf Begleries, p . ....38 4 11 24 13 AB R H PO A .2 0 12 4 .3 0 0 1 0 ......4 1113 .3 2 1 11 0 .3 0 13 0 ......2 10 3 2 .4 0 1 2 0' .3 0 0 2 0 .0 0 0 0 0 .3 1113 Totals .27 5 6 27 12 * Batted for Koch in 9 th. Washington .010 000 210 -4 Oregon ..010 102 lOx—5 Errors, Farrow 2, Hamel, Wen ke. Runns batted in, Farrow 2, Murphy, Kirsch, Tran, Gissberg. Two base hits, Bubalo, Kirsch. Sacrifices, Farrow 2, Hamel, Burns, Gissberg, Anderson. Left on bases, Washington 12, Oregon 7. Double play, Hamel to Bubalo. Passed ball, Anderson. Struck out by, Begleries 3. Bases on balls off, Begleries 3, Crockett 4. Balk, Crockett. Umpire, Spec Burke. Time, 1:50. IM Slate (Continued from page four) (new field); DU vs. SAM (old field 2). Wednesday, April 28 4:00—Beta vs. Phi Psi (new field); SPE vs. Kirkwood (old field 2); Pi Kap vs. Kappa Sig (old field 3). 5:00—Alpha-Sigma vs. Can ard (new field); Chi Psi vs. Phi Psi (old field 2); Fiji vs. Omega Gamma (old field 3). Thursday, April 29 4:00—Sigma Nu vs. Sherry Ross (new field): DU vs. Sigma Chi (old field 2); ATO vs. Can ard (old field 3). 5:00—SAE vs. Campbell (new field); Alpha-Sigma vs. Theta Chi (old field 2); Chi Psi vs. SAM (old field 3). Friday, April 30 4:00—Alpha-Sigma vs. ATO (new field); Chi Psi-vs. Beta (old field 2); Fiji vs. Phi Delt (old field 3). 5:00 -Theta Chi vs. Sherry Ross (new field). BACK ON TOP .... Howard Hobson, head of the rampaging- Webfoots, is settled again on the top of the Northern Division race, lolling in the first chair.