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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 8, 1943)
Softball Saga Attracts Nation-wide Attention Big Softball Bombshell Loosed On Poor Campus Newsmen Loom As Top Team In Tiff Stupendous! Colossal! Terrific! Tremendous! — well damn good — I theenk! That’s just a starter in describing this unprecedented battle of the century when those behemothic sluggers, those terrific clouters of this or any other city, the Sigma Delta Chi shflballers grapple with the pttriy, emaciated, weak, despondent Alpha Delta Sigma team (?) Tuesday, 4 p.m. Bulletin! Oregon crushed Idaho, 23-1, in a Northern Division baseball game yesterday. The Ducks gar nered 17 hits, were issued 11 walks, and the Vandals commit ted nine errors. Pitchers Saltz man and Caviness held the losers to three bingles. It marked Ore gon’s initial win on her current Inland Empire tour. The walk away affair was staged at Mos cow. and the two teams play again today. Nelson Twirls For Flashy SDX Club Sell the family cow! Pawn your jewels! Trot out the tin lizzy with the “A" sticker on it. Come to Eugene Tuesday and if you can find room in the huge crowd that will watch it, see for yourself the 1943 revival of the Sigma Delta Chi-Alpha Delta Sigma softball fued, the current edition being show cased on Howe Field diamond number one at 4 p.m. Tickets are selling' raster man. the proverbial buck-wheats (as vvho’d want to eat buck-wheats at this time?). Unless you don't mind looking' over the guy’s ear just in front of you, you’d better grab off a ticket right this very second and get a seat early. Price ? Come to think of it, this, damn thing's free! Publicity Sports-writing clientele fro m Timbuktu to Vergis, Oregon, have gone whole-hog in extolling the potentialities of this “grudge" beef, which more than rivals any thing that tin* Ur • ■’•’yn Dodgers and N. Y. Giants could whip up in a fit of rage. These Underwood pounders have thoroughly and impartially folded through the respective teams and have come up with this purely objective, unbiased report: (Quote) "SDX is composed of ten supermen, princely Aliases with builds like Hernarr McKadden (before exercise) and brains to match. ADS is a sorrowful lot, sorry we can't say -any more for them.” (Unquote.) .... and so it goes. Reports from all over the vivid, alive, just bubbling with good things about the powerful SDX juggernaut whereas the poor little ADS con tingent hardly-stands a look-in. Nelson Hurls Probably all SDX star ehueker, 1 toy Paul Nelson, who used to burn ’em over for Jane Addams prep in Portland, will have lo do is throw his glow on the mound to beat the ADS group. Hut that's tin- way life is, you know! Twirler H. P. N’., obviously in “high spirits,” said "Thish’ll be easily . . . . " and then the law of gravity pulled him to its bosom. V>y th<- way, \\ In did they ever pass that confounded law? Wan en C. Price, SDX softball train-truster, said with utmost confidence, "You can quote me as saying that our boys will mak - them look positively silly. It's about like J. Louis scrapping with Coorge Turnbull . . . someone has n't a chance!” t Wonder who?) Dame Rumor (that flighty lit tle lady who keeps putting the skids under unsuspecting guys) is spreading it around that either the ADS boys are going to call up some of Eisenhower’s crack troops or toss the hat in the ring. Dose guys must really be scared. Cheez! TO LEAD YEL jS TUESDAY . . . . . . A. Hitler, erstwhile sauerkraut salesman before he was canned for non-payment of dues, has vol unteered to lead yells for Alpha Delia Sigma Tuesday when they brush up against the big, powerful, Sl)\ machine. \. 11. is shown here brushing up 0:1 the split-si\, one of his favorites, l>efore a “small sprinkling" of fans at a previous ADS-SDX brawl. Celebrities Comment On Classic War Just what does Mr. and Mrs. Amelina think of this SDX-ADS "Man - eat - dog," "brothei-stab brcther" brawl which is boiling on the fire for next Tues. at 4 p.m. ? The wandering. wondering SDX "teg-man" lias liit many celebrities throughout the coun try, gleaning this precious in formation. comes up with the following glowing dope: Hal Iickes, dept, of interior boogey-man—” of course SDX any time for a statement . . . just saw a girl walk down the street . . . I'm free again, so can't waste time here . . . Sure, SDX will take it in stride . . , Goodbye! Hey, Babe!” George Herman iBabei Ruth, who was coralled by yours truly, sipping a Martini at breakfast instead of shoveling down Wheat ies as 1 always had read in ad vertisements, said - “Undoubted ly the greatest gang of sluggers since our great Murders’ Row cavorted back in '27. YVhattan outfit! Whattan outfit! (brack!)” will win. I've inspected the ‘in terior’ of both teams, and ADS doesn't stand a chance.” Henry Morgenthau, secretary of the nation’s bullion—“SDX can’t miss. I'm backing that team to the last cent of the U.S. treasury!” Bob Hope, Hollywood clown— ‘‘Buy Pepsodent! . . . SDX will twin . . . buy Pepsodent! ... in a landslide . . . buy Pepsodent!” Tommy Manville, oft-married, oft-divorced playboy—“Haven't It would be a sellout if tickera were being sold. Actually the ball game is the biggest charity ride since Rockefeller used the eye dropper method to relieve himself of a couple of millions. Come one, come all. Classic The game ? It's the classic of the century. Bolstered by a vet eran crew of horsehiders, the Sig ma Delta Chi lads will parade an ending line of talent on the green grass of Howe field. Against the overwhelming odds, the ADS lads can only hope to score, much less get within sniffing distance of the flying writers. Roy Paul Nelson has drawn the starting pitching assignment for the penmen-turned-atliletes and his slants will be handled ijm backstop .Joseph Miller of goss^> column fame. The starting bat tery for the ad men will be Jim Harrison pitcher and Warren Roper, catcher. Familiar names dot the line-ups of both squads. That dilly from The Dalles, Red - Stuff Hudson will be covering the deep expanses of center field. He promises a field day at the plate. Burly Stan Weber will snare any flies hit in his direction in right field, and Keith “Curly” Jandrall will back up the left field pastures. Comment Captain Ted “I'd - take - my - grandmother - for-a-one-way-rids for - a -passing-grade-in-math-10'' Goodwin states that his SDX boys are in tip-top condition. The probable starting line-ups' C Sigma Delta Chi: Texas Goodwin, lb (C). Fred Beckwith, 2b. Fred Treadgold, 3b. King Klam Kuhl, ss. Mark Howard, ss. Stan Weber, rf. Tarheel Hudson, cf. Curly Jandrall, If. Guiseppe Miller, c. Roy Paul Nelson, p. Alpha Delta Sigma: Max Miller, lb. Pat Cloud, 2b (C). Don Kay, 3b. Bud Vandeneynde, ss. Dave Stone, rss. Dwayne Heathman, rf. Tim Thayer, cf. ^ Duane Weiden, If. Warren Roper, c. Jim Harrison, p. Local gambling odds have es (Pli'asc turn to page five)