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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 7, 1943)
Pass the aspirin, please, we Meed it. Those unruly Cougars of Washington State put another big crimp in the championship ..hopes of Oregon’s dauntless Jlucks when they eked out a 13 to 12 win by the narrowest of margins. For the regulation nine innings the two teams battled on even terms and at the end of that time the score was tied 12 to 12. The Cougars were behind in the ninth Imt wild, chance taking base run ning by the Washington State second baseman, George David son, resulted in the score that tied up the tilt and sent the game into extra innings. And so with the chips down, the Cougars and not the Ducks came through to score the winning tally. A substitute ball player by the name of Bob Ranniek came off the Cougar bench to prove him self the hero or villain, however you look at it and slammed out a biugle to bring in the winning marker and send the Webfoots out of Pullman a sadder and wis er ball club. And so the Ducks are now shoved farther down on the league standings. With a record of seven games won and now three lost, it is of the utmost im portance that the “Hobby” coached crew whip out of the jinx that has been riding them and start on the winning trail again. On to Moscow is the battle cry now as our Dariing Ducks move to the Russian namesake city to face tlifi cellar dwelling Idaho Vandals. In the opening series with the Idaho club, the local boys had little trouble in coming cut on top in the two tilts. However the Vandals will have the advantage of being on the home field and will be a fresh, well-rested ball club while the Ducks undoubtedly will be travel weary from the long trip. Washington State looked like a different ball club than the group that lost two in a row here some weeks ago. Showing a fight ing spirit that has been lacking in former games, the Cougars met the Ducks at their own game—slugging -and came out on top. For the two game series the Jack Friel coached fly-chas ers have scored a grand total of 27 runs, while the Oregonians managed but 17. Webfoot Trackstars To Gun for Cougars By GEORGF. SKORNEY In sifting through the facts concerning both of the track teams of Oregon and Washington State the concensus of opin ion seems to be that tomorrow’s dual meet will be a close one with either team capable of winning. To collaborate this statement comes Colonel Bill Hayward with one of his own. The Webfoot coach agrees that since j)oUi teams are oi tne same met tle one or the other could very easily win. He further adds that lioth teams are very weak in .strength as are all of the schools *n the conference. Colonel Bill will have three men entered in the pole vault Saturday. Homer Thomas, of course, will lead the parade. Behind him will he ltiay Dick son and Boh Mueller. Dickson pole vaulted during' his fresh man year and was told by Hay ward that he could be the first man to .jump 15 feet if he would apply himself. Both Jim Porter and Wes Car penter will pitch the javelin to morrow. This is the Cougars' weakest event. Against Idaho they flunked out and a Vandal trickster took the event with a puny heave of 155 feet. Porter the number one man for the Webfoots threw 101 feet in high school and against the Huskies he was. good for 165 feet. Colonel Bill states that the stocky tliinelad is showing rap’d improvement. Carpenter is way ■below his form of last season. Klliott, Foster, and Campbell will take over the weights for the Ducks. Veteran Fred Foster threw the iron pellet 41 feet 9 inches with Chuck Klliott close behind with 44 lPet. Campbell will only enter in the discus. In the mile relay Coach Hay ward will have Ray, Beckner, Al len, and either Simpson ini' Wis dom. Against the University of Washington the relay, squad with Wisdom in place of Bob Simp son ran the event in 13:27.0. The Cougais in the Vandal meet ran il in 3:28.7. Oregon will have a tough combination in the 440-yard dash. “Beck" will lead the trio a id will be followed by Stan 11 iv, who he has outperformed (Id*, season, and Boh Simpson. F>-ckner's time in the quarter mile is :.>0.8. Washington Slate will start Bowers, Briekert, ai d Hunt. Curt Bowers is the only veteran among the three. But so is ltay the only veteran for the Ducks. Browning Allen and Skiles Hoffman will run one-two in the spl ints for the \\ ebfoots with Beckner lending assistance in the 220-yard dash. The Pullman run ners will be in the main A1 Aikins and Pat Haley, both very fast and versatile. The big event the mile is uncertain as far as Colonel Bill is concerned. Wilson, Hayward tliinelad, was just released from the infirmary. The big point iJ pwTnnvnriwvwwvvwwwwKWOQawBOOnannBWBWWWMf MAI) RUSSIAN MAI) . . . . . . Lou Novikoff ol the Chicago Cubs, says lie won’t play unless more money is offered. can Wilcon recuperate enough in one day in order to be ready for tomorrow. The dual meet is scheduled to start at it pan. The reason for such a late start is that the Washington Staters will not arrive in Eugene until 12 noon. Coach Hayward will field 22 men of which seven are letter men. The Cougars under '‘Babe" Hollingbery will have eight vet erans. Each team has won a dual meet so far and both are very weak as track teams go. OUR 80VS WITH THE COiSRS .. Sports Staff: Fred Treadgold Fred Beckwith Rollie Gabel Bill Dyer Doug Donahue George Skomey Phyllis Lloyd MASTER AND STUDENT . . . . . . Foxy Dean Cromwell, head coach cf ESC, shows promising young Johnny McCarty the finer points of running. ATO Trips Sigma Nu by 3-2 Score; Sig Eps Gain 5-3 Win From Kappa Sig By BILL DYER Playing brilliant, hustling ball, the Sigma Phi Epsilon and Al pha Tau Omega softball crews advanced to the finals yesterday with Delta Upsilon by virtue of their wins ever Kappa Sigma and Sigma Nu respectively in tight, hair-raising games. Apparently beaten in the last inning, the SPE club surged hack in tIre final frame to overcome a one run lead by Kappa Sigma by scoring three runs and win 5 to 8. It was an interesting contest to sec as Taylor of Kappa Sig and Borthick of SPEs locked horns in a great pitchers’ battle. Borthick Shows Form Borthick allowed' only 6 hits in seven innings but one was a mighty home run by Davis, Kap pa Sig second sacker who col lected his blow in the fourth to bring in Rapson ahead of him and give his squad a one-run lead that lasted till the final frame. Proudy, the first man to face Borthick in the first inning managed a bingle and a put-out and two field’s choices brought him around. This and Davis’s ef fort concluded the Kappa Sig scoring' efforts of the day. Kay Gets Timely Hits Meanwhile Taylor was hurling steady ball and allowed only one run in the second and third inn ings each. Christensen whacked a triple in the second and came in on a single by Kay. In the third singles by Harms and Han nam plus a couple of put-cuts gave the Sig Eps another tally. The final frame was the pay off. Valyocgraph scratched a single. Borthick worked Taylor for a walk and then Christensen came through for the second time with a lone double to bring in two runs. Kay up, and he too got to Taylor for a double to score Christensen and produce the win ning margin. ATO had to fight tooth and nail all the way to gain the nod over a tough Sigma Nil outfit. The Sigma Nus were out to pre serve their title but they had to reckon with Ken Hume and Mr. Hume said no. Ken let the de fenders down with six hits and two runs and Roger Diek of Sig ma Nu was almost as potent giv ing up only 7 hits and 3 runs. Sigma Nu scored in the second and sixth frames as the Dick Boys, Ed and Rog, each crosse 7a. the plate to avert a shutout. E?# got his in the second on a triple and' an outfield fly. Rog pushed his tally on a triple, too. Outside of these blows, Hume had things well under control. Lester Hero In a series of one run in three different innings, the ATO squad won out by one run margin. Les ter was the hero of the win as he raced from second on an in field out to catch the Sigma Nus napping and slide into home for the winning run. Besides hurling airtight ball Hume helped his own cause by knocking two long trip les and scoring one run. This win puts ATO in a semi-final tilt with Delta Upsilon tomorrow in what promises to be a wild and woolly tiff.' ,j:> - SDX-ADS Slate Tiff Softball as it should be played, exemplified by the ex perts will be unveiled come Sun day morn in a titanic struggle that will decide absolutely noth ing, but should produce aching arms for those who participate. Sigma Delta Chi, national journalism fraternity, and one of the leading honoraries on the campus, has challenged a rath er nondescript collection of “ad men," who cavort under the lu dicrous monicker of Alpha Delta Sigma. The SDX challenge for a 4 o’clock showing today was thrown like a hot potato into the laps of the unprepared Alpha Delta Sigs, who up to the nth hour were reported feverishly combing the countryside for some semblance of softball tal ent. Though their feet haven't trad den the practice field eyen once this year, the vaunted news-writ ing crew has been described by such sports scribbling tycoons as Grant Rice, John Lardner, etc., as a “symphony of finesse, beau ty, and precision—an unbeatable combination!” The nation’s bookies have staked out such terrifically high odds on the SDXers that abso lutely no one has dared lay a sol itary sheckel on the line for the poor ADS contingent. Hitting punch is something' about which the crafty newswrit ers don’t have to worry. The en tire lineup, from catcher's cran ny back of home plate to the far reaches of the right field, the SDX machine is just bursting' with batting power, a la Joseph DiMaggia & B. Ruth. Warren C. Price, who teaches journalism as a sideline, but who has assumed the guiding reins of the SDX juggernaut for Satur day's “'Little World Series” (Please turn to page serai)