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Heavy Hitting Marks Donut Softball Tilts Day's l-M Tilts; No Games Today DUs, Betas, Omegas, Fijis Win Second SPORTS STAFF THIS ISSUE Bernie Hammerbeck A1 Pietschman Dewey Roberts Mary Anne Hansen John Smith Landslide scores by Delta Upsi lon, 19-2, over Sherry Ross, and Beta Theta Pi, 19-3, over Sigma Chi, highlighted the softball games Thursday. In other games, Omega hall walloped Delta Tau Delta, 7-1, and Phi Gamma Delta beat the Sigma Nu boys, 8-4. Outclassed completely by Beta Theta Pi, Sigma Chi pitcher, Silver, was tapped for 23 hits. Munro, winning pitch er, held the Sigma Chi lads to eight hits. Lieder, right fielder, and Ros sum, first baseman for Delta Up silon, each connected for a pair of homers to bolster the 14-hit at tack on Sherry Ross’ club. The losers were held to four hits by chucker Schmieding. Behind good fielding of the Plii Gamma Delt boys, Shu chard, pitcher, gave up nine hits to the Sigma Nu clan to win his game. Bult, losing pitcher, walked four men, and gave nine gathered hits to the victors. Delta Tau Delta played a good game to lose to Omega hall’s pitch er, Browning. The Delts scattered 12 hits, but were unable to score more than once. Eckelman, losing pitcher, lost his game in the first two innings, when the Omegs got seven of their ten-hit total and all of their runs. Most of the players on the field today showed the need of practice. The roundhouse scoring was par tially due to the rough field, and To. the easy pitching encountered. Umpires: Mosby, Carl. There will be no intramural games tomorrow. The next wil be played on Monday. Saturday’s Emerald will carry the schedule for Monday’s games. R H E Delta Upsilon . 19 14 7 Sherry Ross . 2 4 3 Omega Hall . 7 10 3 Delta Tau Delta. 1 12 1 Sigma Chi . 3 8 x Beta Theta Pi . 19 23 x Sigma Nu . 4 9 3 Phi Gamma Delta . 8 9 1 i Sempert Lost to Gridiron Following Elbow Injury Fullback Bob Koch Announces Intentions To Return to UO After Navy Discharge Bill Sempert, 200-pound center from Myrtle Point, became the first serious casualty of the 1946 Webfoot grid season yesterday when his elbow was dislocated during the afternoon’s scrimmage. Full extent of the injury was not immediately determined, and it may be that Sempert also has a bone fracture. The casualty came as a blow to Line Coach Vaughn Corley who has been expressing great hopes for the husky pivotman. Sempert started the spring season virtually unknown, and had worked his way up to a spot on the second team earlier this week. The loss of Sempert was partial ly offset by the return of Clark Stokes, frosh numeral winner in 1941, to the Webfoot grid fold- ear lier this week. Stokes is expected to offer plenty of competition at a guard slot, or perhaps at center now that Sempert has been lost to the squad. Stokes is another of the many men back from John Warren’s crack ’41 frosh team that may play a big part in the 1946 title struggle for the Webfoots. Familiar faces from that squad who are prominent this year are two ends, Pete Tor chia and Phil George, a pair of fast-stepping backs, Bobby Rey nolds and Roy Erickson, big Ray Blatchley who has been working at both tackle and fullback, and Stokes, who had a first string guard position on the pre-war frosh eleven. The fullback situation is im proving every day with Walt Donovan, Glen Wilson, and Bob Oas all performing in great style. Donovan, starter on the 1945 eleven, has not been out with the pigskin crowd this week, but has been spending his time on the track team un der Colonel Bill Hayward. Coach Tex Oliver has been ex perimenting with several other men at the fullback berth this past week, but as yet no definite chang es have been made. Slippery hip ped Bobby Reynolds has been run ning from the fullback slot on the number two Green eleven, but this may not be a permanent assign ment as Reynolds normally per forms from the quarterback or halfback posts. The 1941 fullback Bob Koch is expected back on the Ore gon campus some time next week. Koch was discharged from the Navy Air Corps ear lier this week, .and immediate ly phoned his bosom buddy Jim Newquist, revealing his inten tion of returning to school at Oregon. Koch and Newquist were both sophomores on the 1941 Webfoot eleven, and' saw a considerable Duck Netters Face Idaho Vandals Today Undaunted By Previous Slim Defeat Ducks Prepared for Vandals Invasion University of Idaho’s Vandal team invades the'Webfoot courts here today for dual Northern Division conference matches with the University of Oregon Ducks. The matches, the second this year for the Oregons, will start at 2:30 p.m. Tke Webfoots lost a close 4-3 encounter with the Oregon State college Beavers last Saturday in Corvallis. Kovacs, Perry Win Matches BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., April 25. — (UP) Frank Kovacs and Fred Perry seeded one and two in men’s singles won easy victories today in the $3500 California State Professional Tennis championships. Perry, former English Davis cup contender, defeated John Howard, Beverly Hills, 6-4, 6-4. Kovacs, Oakland star, clipped eGorge Toley, Los Angeles, 6-2, 6-3. Bert Brown registered a mild second round upset win over num ber six seeded Jack Jossi, Oakland, 7-5, 4-6, 6-3, while Carl Earn, Los Angeles, seeded number three, blanked Jerry Hover, Los Angeles, 6-0, 6-0. In men’s doubles top-seeded Per ry and Gene Mako advanced to the semi-finals by besting Bruce Ain ley, Los Angeles, and Byron Da motte, Santa Barbara, 6-3, 6-1. Bill Tilden and Kovacs, third seeded doubles, slammed a 7-5, 9-8 win past Toley and Bob Rogers, | Los Angeles. Perry meets Mako, former U.S. Davis cupper, tomorrow in the fea ture match. amount of action throughout the season. In 1942 they both joined the Naval Air Corps, and that fa'l sported the moleskins for St. Mary’s Pre-flight. All of which adds up to two years of college grid experience for the Webfoot pair, but inasmuch as grid play while in the service is not counted in determining eli gibility, Newquist and Koch still have two years of eligibility re maining in the PCC. A woman is as old as she looks —but a man is old when he stops looking. Saturday at 1:30 p.m. the Ducks will play host to the Washington State Cougars. The Cougars are pe ported as having a very formidable team with the number one my,n being called outstanding. Coach Paul Washke has been stressing minor points of the game to his team this week. Footfaults seem to be the netters' worst trouble. Washke has also been hey* ing his varsity team play with the men lower on the ladder so as ,t© give them a more varied ex perience. Jim Zeiger the No. 1 man of the team played Ed Ugle sich, who is ranked as No. 7. Zeiger defeated Uglesich, but it is giving him experience with all types of players. Anderson the No. 2 man played Wilbur, who gave him quite a battle, Carey No. 5, played Baird. This match also was close with Carey finally defeat ing his man in two hard fought sets. Pliilan the No. 3 man, played Delano. Delano’s game resembles that of the famous Segura in that he hits his backhand holding the racket with both hands. Many of Coach Washke’s men. are freshmen and have three years of tennis competition ahead of them. Notable among them are> Carey and Uglesich. Jim Zeiger, No. 1 man, at one time played No. 10, on the of Stanford’s great tennis teams. Competition is much greater in California, where tennis is regarded as basket ball is in the northwest. Zeiger is a graduating senior. Other games of the Northern Division finds the Oregon State Beavers meeting the Washington State Cougars Friday and the Idaho Vandals Saturday. The University of Washington, rated as having the top team of the Northern Division, has an nounced that their nationally seeded Jim Brink has been dropped from the varsity team as ineligible. Intra-Mura! Plant to Be Most Modern in Northwest By At Pietschman Last week’s noise of steamshov els and dump trucks weaving through traffic and dusty streets can be attributed to the recent re newal of work on Oregon’s long awaited intra-mural and extra ath letic field. In an interview yester day with Dr. Ralph Leighton, dean of physical education, many new and interesting facts were discov ered about the plans of the physi cal education department in regard to the construction of the new field. Originally started by the build ing of a retainer wall in 1939, the completion of the improved facili ties had to be cast aside during the war, but work was again start ed in the summer of 1945 with the intention of finishing'the new area in the fall. However, this plan ran - afoul, and the plant is not expect ed to be ready until the fall term of this year. Dr. Leighton was pessimistic about the amount of use the field "toll be able to stand at that time as the seeding of the area in Aug ust will prevent any rough usage of the young turf. The PE staff is anxious that the turf get a good start before any continuous activi ties are planned, so the field will probably not be ready until the end of fall. In the past two weeks workmen have filled in the new oval with dirt. Large roots and other for eign matter were segregated by workmen at the field, and the area now shows the results of the- ex tensive laboring of the past weeks. Dr. Leighton pointed out that the intra-mural area covers just the area involved in the oval and doesn’t include the field leveled, plowed, and rolled this week. Some intra-mural activities are held on that dusty area now, but accord ing to Dr. Leighton, that area is under control of the athletic de partment. All athletic events sponsored by the physical education department will be held on its own field when it is ready for use. This area, cov ering some two and a quarter acres is designed to accommodate two full-size softball fields, one foot ball gridiron, and all the events re lated to track and field. The track itself deviates from the usual run-of-the-mill oval as it varies in width on the curves and on the straightaways. Starting at 24 feet in width at the straight away and backstretch, the track narrows down to 18 feet on the curves. The 18-foot curve will al low only six lanes as compared to eight lanes afforded by the Hay ward field oval. Beset with the same problem that faced Colonel Bill Hayward, Ore gon’s track mentor, Dr. Leighton has been unable to find cinders for his track. As it lies now', the track isn’t even worthy of a picture. Bough rocks and gravel act as the base and cry loudly for their cinder covering. Dr. Leighton fears they will be wailing for some time. Completion of the intra-mural field will give Oregon the newest and one of the best in the north west. University of Washington boasts one of the largest, but does not have the modern features that are incorporated’ in the construc tion of Oregon’s new field. One of the hopes of Dr. Leighton is that this field will afford veter ans a better opportunity to par take in outdoor athletic activities. He noted that many of the veter ans returning to the campus have neglected the physical aspect of their university training and in this line stated, “The veteran on the campus has been used to activ ity in the service and upon enter ing school again forgets that phy sical activity can’t be dropped im mediately—in fact proper exercise leads to better studying.” Desirous of a speedy completion of the track, Dr. Leighton also re marked that the training and ex perience gained from running singles out track as one of the most beneficial sports offered to stu dents in college. Citing Oregon’s Dr. Warren Smith, head of the ge tology and geography department, as a leading proponent of this be lief, Dr. Leighton informed us that Dr. Smith, a former star two-mil er, is still one of the most active men on the campus, and attributes this spryness to his training and experience received as a runner. One of the new innovations re cently added to the physical edu cation classes was the testing ma chines, according to Dr. Leighton. The purpose of these tests, which show the student’s ability in vari ous phases such as rope pulling and leg drive, is to record the amount of improvement made in a given time. Tests are taken at the beginning of a term, and again at the com pletion of the course. One of the machines, the leg drive computer* was developed at Oregon. Design ed by an under-grad, this machine was originally used as a testing device for the power of charging in football, but is now converted to a classroom experiment. Stu dents bounce off the machine* striving to jump as high as pos sible, thus allowing accurate check ing of the leg drive. In the line with colleges throughout the coun try, such tests are being made s permanent part of the curriculum at Oregon. The veterans on the campus ar« reminded that they are free to use any of the physical education de partment’s facilities. Included in this are: handball, basketball, bad minton, tumbling, apparatus work,: volleyball, baseball, softball, bolt ing, wrestling, and swimming.