Webfoots Take Two
Straight; Win 2-1
By FRED BECKWITH
Lean John Bubalo was Mr. Big for the Oregon baseballers
yesterday. Fairly dripping with control, the captain of the
Ducks choked off a last inning death stand by the Washing
ton Huskies, and walked off with a 2-1 victory safely tucked
away in his hip pocket.
The win left Oregon riding high on a one-game victory wave
lead over the balance of the field. The invading Seattle crew
Sigma Chi, Kappa Sig Outfit
Get Wins oa Abbreviated Slate
By BILL DYER
At least half of the scheduled
games were played yesterday in
the intramural softball tourna
ment.
Sigma Chi walloped the Phi
Psi crew, 8 to 2, and Kappa
Sigma barely slipped over an up
ising Campbell club, 4 to 3.
The boys from the Campbell
club gave Warren Taylor, ace
Kappa Sigma liurler, a bad scare
before he finally subdued them
when a last inning rally fell short
by one run and gave Taylor a
well deserved triumph. In fine
form, Taylor kept his record this
season unblemished as he set
down his opponents with three
hits in five frames. However they
did manage to get to him in the
second and last for three runs as
Marlowe, Burchaud, Sievike
wielded big bats for the losers.
Davis Scores Three
Davis, Kappa Sig second sack
or, was the hero of the win as he
personally accounted for three of
the total of four scored. Other
Kappa Sigma players giving Tay
lor fine support were Rapson,
Brown, and Hoffman. With this
win tucked under their belts, the
Kappa club boasts the enviable
record of four wins and no de
feats.
In (he other contest going the
full time Sigma Chi easily han
dled the I’lii l’si group as Jalin
of the winners chucked two-hit
ball and allowed only two
scores.
The two hits went to Berg
strom and Wilcox and both hits
resulted in scores as the boys
laid the hickory on the oval. Af
ter that one outburst. John was
invincible and easily muffled the
I'hi Psi bats.
Going' to work early, the Sig
ma Obis gave Jahn a three-run
margin to work on in the first
inning. Then in the fifth and
sixth frames they added two
more in each to merge victorious.
Morrison, Clialoupka, Dam
S' hen and Baker were the boys
who led the Sigma Chi team to
victory while Lamb. Frisbie and
Ftigen were the scrappy club
bers of the Phi Psis who showed
well even in defeat.
Postponed Tilts
Three other contests were
started after the above two were
finished. A wild and woolly battle
was started between unbeaten
Delta IXpsilon and equally effec
tive SAM in what had promise
of being' the battle royal of the
tourney. When of DU and Puziss
of the Sammies were locked in
o tight pitching duel. The DU
1>oys got to Puziss for four runs
Jn the first frame but he bore
down after that and held them
scoreless while his mates went
DODGER .U’E DON'S NAVY BLUE . . .
. . . Hurry (Cookie) Lavagetto, veteran Brooklyn infielder, is
here joining the Navy with tlie intent of qualifying for the air
lavagetto was one of the main cogs in the “Beautiful Bum’s” in
last year.
shown
corps.
tachine
cowed, o-4 tne previous aay to tne
Hobsonmen and thus actually
suffered three losses out of four
games played in its jaunt through
Oregon, Oregon State having
split a two-game series with the
Huskies.
Yesterday’s affair was perhaps
the best pitching duel that North
ern Division fans will witness dur
ing the 1943 collegiate season.
With Bubalo on the mound for
the Ducks, and talented Doug
Ford doing the pitching honors
for the enemy, it was a scoreless
battle for six and one-half innings.
Northern Division Standings
■Oregon came up in the last of
the lucky seventh, frantically
searching for a way to grab hits
and runs off the fireball twirl
ings of the lanky Ford.
Farrow and Murphy were easy
outs, and with two away, things
looked dismal. But Lefty Cavi
ness smacked out a single and
reposed on the initial sack. Bar
ney Koch who hadn’t gotten him
self a good hit for goodness
knows-how-long, crashed an out
side fast ball pitch into the deep
expanses of center field.
The game was played on the
lower diamond, as Howe Field’s
Number One playing unit wasn't
in good condition. Well, the Koch
Hurling Joust
Oregon .
Oregon State
Washington
W.S.C.
Idaho
W. L. Pet.
7 1 .875
.6 2 .750
4 3 .571
.1 6 .14(3
.0 6 .000
'Hot’ Ducks Face Powerful Soldier
Winging along; on their longest
and fanciest win streak of this
season, Oregon’s rollicking, frol
icking Ducks, currently leading
the northern division by a husky
one-game margin, turn from the
conference channel to challenge
one of the toughest service clubs
on the coast.
Hobby's grand little gang of
competitors travel to Albany
Thursday to grapple with the
Camp Adair Timber Wolves in
what should be a crackerjack of
a ball game.
The Timber Wolves claim a tal
to work oil Wren for two runs in
the third.
When this game is complet
ed it might well decide the
champion of that particular
league.
In the other abbreviated con
tests Sigma Nil and Theta Old
were locked in a scoreless tie at
tiie end of two innings. Dick of
Sigma Nu and Davis of Theta
Chi, botli fine hurlers were in top
condition and were letting down
the opponens. Sherr Ross hall had
a commanding lead over Canard
club hitting tiie opposing hurler
for eight runs.
University of Texas food en
gineers are working on plans for
cooking and drying carrots, ac
cording to similar processes fol
lowed for sweet potatoes.
ented group, including several ex
professional stars. Jack Knott,
a former Philadelphia Athletic
chucker, will probably be used
on the mound to try and quell
the swashbuckling, bat-brandish
ing Oregons, who stand as odds
on favorites to cop their third
straight ND championship.
While with the A’s Knott
racked up an impressive win
loss average, and that with a
cellar-groveling outfit.
Providing much of the batting
punch for the Corvallis khaki
clad diamondeers will be Beau
Bell, a St. Louis Brown hitting
star before being sucked into the
service by the draft. Bell, while
in the American loop, batted con
sistently around the .300 mark.
One Game Postponed
This will be the second at
tempted game between these two
clubs, an earlier tilt being washed
away by an Oregon cloudburst.
To round out an otherwise al
ready full week of activity, Hob
r
son's Webfootmen will go to the
starting post again on Friday
and Saturday.
The first game will be con
ducted on the Howe field grass
against the 383rd infantry team
of Camp Adair, a team which
twice before felt the wrath of
Oregon’s hitting fury.
Saturday’s tiff, scheduled as
part of the Junior weekend fes
tivities, pits the sky-soaring
Duck stickers against the Port
land University Pilots, also
booked for showing on the home
lot. In the first series of the year,
the wearers of the green and yel
low pounded out a pair of im
pressive wins.
The tilts this weekend will be
the last appearance of the Ducks
locally until the 1943 finale with
Oregon State May 16. Between
now and then, however, Oregon
will trod a stony path which
takes them to Washington State,
Idaho, and Washington for six
important games.
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Washing-ton
Tran, 3b .
Taylor, ss ....
Gissberg, lb
Warren, (ef
Zech, If .
Noyes, rf ....
Ford, p .
Wenke, 2b ..
Anderson, c
Totals .
Oregon
Hamel, 3b .
Burns, lb ....
Kirsch, 2b ..
Bubai'o, p ....
Carlson, c ....
Farrow, s ..
Murphy, If ..
Caviness, rf
Koch, cf ....
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.29 8 2 1
. Winning pitcher: Bubalo. Los
ing pitcher, Ford. Base on balls
off Ford, 4, Bubalo, 0. Struck out
by Ford, 2, by Bubalo, 6. Runs
batted in, Hamel, 2, Warren, 1,
Errors, Taylor, 1, Kirsch, 1. Two
base hits, Gissberg, 2, Koch, 1.
Passed ball, Carlson. Double
plays: Washington (Wenke to
Taylor to Gissberg), Oregon
(Hamel to Farrow to Burns).
Time, 1:24.
drive rolled out through
shrubbery, and both Caviness af
Koch scampered home.
Apparently Barney had knock
ed out a home run. But the um
pire said no, “He gets a two-bag
ger on ground rules,” and Cavi
ness was forced to pull up at third.
Tex Warren, the Husky center
fielder didn’t have a prayer of
relaying that pill into the plate
to nip either runner, but the de
cision went the other way.
“Score'’ Again
And so the Oregon cheers that
went up died out like a losing po
litical party. But the groans were
shortlived. For red-headed Bill
Hamel poled out a drive for the
wife and Oregon, and when the
dust had cleared, the two green
and-gold base runners were across
the platter with the margin of
victory, and Doctor Hamel
safe on first wit'll a grin as bfg
as that of the perennial Cheshire.
Burns, the next man, followed
up with the fourth hit of the in
ning off the rapidly faltering
Ford, but Kirsch was retired for
the third out. The damage, how
ever, had been done. Oregon had
her margin of victory.
Bubalo took the hill to blot
out the Huskies from then on
in, yielding; a ninth inning; tally
thanks to a passed ball by Carl
son, a bingle by Bill Gissberg
and an eentual fielder's choice.
All in all, Washington came
up with only five hits. Three of
these safeties were accomplished
by the aforementioned Gissberg
who had a big day at the bat, col
lecting three hits for four trips
to the dish. ^
John Bubalo did not walk a siiP
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