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By TOMMY WRIGHT CO-SPORTS EDITOR Out on the University of Oregon tennis courts everyday of the week, the Webfoot netmen strive for perfection. Right now the handful of men who represent the University of Ore gon on the courts, are aiming at an upset over the favored Oregon State college Beavers. The Duck racquetmen lost a dose decision 4-3 to the OSC squad, and are going all out in practice sessions to avenge that defeat Saturday on the local courts. Paul Washke, Duck net mentor, took a look around for lettermen when the 1946 season opened. But, he didn t find any. What he did find though couldn’t have made him too unhappy with the prospects for the year. First and playing number one is well built Jim Zeiger. This curly-haired, dark-tanned Southern California netster. has lots of experience behind him, and he adds a lot more every day playing with Roland Stanford Anderson, Oregon’s number two man. Zeiger is married and has a son 18 months old. who papa Jim is going to make into a courtman in a few years. A senior. 25 years old Zeiger was born in Southern California. He went to South Pasadena high school, where he was a tennis letter man for three rears. He went to Stanford university and 1 asa dena junior college, the latter which he attended at the same time as lightning Jake Leicht now running for Colonel Bill llavward and playing football for Tex Oliver. EXPERIENCE—CIVILIAN AND SERVICE The draft board was breathing down my neck, so I went into the navv just before Pearl Harbor,” was the way Zeiger accounted for his war service. He couldn't remember the exact year, but we’ll compromise on 1940 as the year Zeiger won the Long Beach, Alhambra and South Pasadena tennis champion ships. In the navy he was transferred to Ottumwa, Iowa, where he and his doubles partner won the Dubuque-Cedar Rapids championship in 1942. The same year they won the . Iowa state championship at Des Moines and then proceeded to walk off with the Missouri-Iowa-Illinois Tri-State doubles title. One rather interesting coincident concerning Zeiger and Anderson, who is his present doubles partner, . was that they both played the same court while at Espirito • Santos in the New Hebrides. Espirito Santos was a navy redistribution base for the South Pacific. At the other half of Oregon’s first doubles team, is a modest wavv haired 23 year old named Leland Stanford Anderson. Born in Portland, Oregon, Anderson went down under to the continent of Australia at the age of six and for the next 12 years div ided his time between there and the United States. LEARNED GAME UNDER G. P. LANE Ilf learned to play U-unis in Australia under the tutelage of ('i. I'. Lane, famous former Davis cup team coach for that countrv. Lane was grooming Anderson for a spot on the Davis cup squad, but the war threw a few punches at his tennis play ing. So now he says with a slight British or should we say Australian accent. "1 plav for fun." Hut he plays a mean game fur fun, and tests Zeiger constantly for his number one posi tion. A junior at the University, Anderson attended school at^ Menlo high, and Menlo junior college, where he held down the number one spot. Hal Philan, another Portlander—He attended Lincoln high in Portland, winning his letter three years. The tall netman, who ranks next to the Zeiger-Anderson combina tion, lettered at Linfield. and attended the University of Portland. So far in his first year of competition at Oregon, Philan has lost no singles matches and one doubles match in intercollegiate play. He is 24 years old. l>elo\\ Philan. a couple of stocky racquctmen continue to fight it our for the four spot. \ inccnt Mcllride, oldest member of the Webfoot team —next to Coach Washke—that is. is also from Portland. Married, the 29 year old University of Oregon freshman, is the father of a boy and a girl. McBride lettered two rears at Jefferson high school. The other half of the fight for the number four position is carried on bv Hob Carey. Me don’t have any vital statistics on Hob, but understood that he is from Portland too, as is Dave Van Zandt, number six. hive of the squad are from Portland and Jim Zeiger is the lone “furriner.” Undefeated Ducks Leave Today At Noon On Inland Empire Jaunt Vandals First In Six-Game 'Crucial’ Trip Oregon's undefeated Northern Division baseball club leaves this noon bound north for the crucial six-game invasion of the Inland Empire and Seattle. The Ducks open tomorrow at Moscow for a pair of games with Idaho, move to Pullman for the Washington State series on Mon day, and then make an overnight hop to Seattle to finish the trip with two tussles with Washington. Coach Howard Hobson is taking 15 of the squad, all con ference rules allow, on the jaunt. The roster includes Dick Kodiger, catcher; Hal' Saltz man, I,yle Pettyjohn, Homer Bropst, Dick Lehl and Bill Long, pitchers; Spike John son, Walt Kirsch, Rannie Smith, Jim Norvel and A1 Cohen, infielders; and Bob Santee, Walt Lozoski, Tony Crish and Don Dibble, out fielders. Saltzman is slated to open the first game with Idaho, followed on the second day by either Petty john or Bropst. If all the pitchers go full games it will bring Saltz man back on the following Wed nesday to face Washington in the first game there. The Huskies are the newest threat to Oregon’s spot on top of the heap, having swept the series with Oregon State earlier this week. * Yesterday Hobson ran the members of the traveling team through a stiff batting and infield practice. Both Santee and Lozoski worked in the in field and Crish tried out his talients back of the plate as Hobson made preparations for any mishaps that might make a switch necessary. While the varsity is on the road, Barney Koch’s JVs will play five games against Oregon colleges. On Monday the team travels to Forest Grove for two games with Pacific university. Tuesday, Linfield in vatdes Howe Field and Thursday the club plays a return game at McMinnville. On Saturday, Port land university will be here for the final game of the week. Baseball Results AMERICAN Cleveland 010 002 000 3 4 1 New York 103 020 OOx 6 9 1 Reynolds, Klieman (5) Podgajny (6) Black (8) and Hayes; Ruffing and Dickey; Detroit 100 000 000 1 4 3 Boston 431 001 22x 13 12 2 Benton, White (2) Gentry (7) and Tebbets, Stvift (7) Ferriss and Wagner. St. Louis 100 010 000 2 10 1 Philadelphia 000 010 011 3 6 1 Potter and Sears; Fowler, Flores (9) and Rosar. NATIONAL New York at St. Louis post poned, wet grounds. Philadelphia 012 203 000 8 11 1 Pittsburgh 000 000 000 0 5 0 Pearson and Hemsley, Seminick (7) Albosta, Gerhauser (41 Bahr (8) and Salkeld. Brooklyn 012 100'100 5 15 1 Chicago 000 000 010 1 6 2 Gregg and Sandlock. Fleming. Erickson (41, Bithorn (4) Hanyzewski (91, and McCul lough. Schffing (81. Campbell Rally Tops Theta Chis’ l-M Team By Dewey Roberts A seventh inning rally by Camp bell Club, which netted three runs, beat Theta Chi by a score of 6-3, and ATO out-tapped Zeta hall, 7-4, in Wednesday's softball clas SCORE CARDS Men in intra-mural tennis and golf are requested to pick up their score sheets at the physical education office prior to their match. The score sheets should be filled in dur ing the match or immediately afterward and then returned to the P.E. office. sics. The Bums overran an inferior Chi Psi lodge team, 9-1, while Sig ma Phi Epsilon nosed out the Pi Kappa Alphans, 11-10, in other games. Theta Chi’s Tommy Wright pitched a tie game until the sev enth inning, when Moseby, short stop for the Campbell clubbers, connected for a single to start the flurry which ended the inning with three hits and three runs to win the game. Haskell, pitching for the clubbers, gave up nine hits, while Wright allowed 12 hits. An early lead of 5 to 0 in the fourth was finally broken when Smith, centerfielder for the Zeta club, was scored by leftfielder Brown’s single. Three more runs were all the Zetans could get, howdver, and ATO went on to win. Mueller, winning pitcher, was reached for eight hits, while the Omegs found Pitcher Perkusch for 11 taps. Stoinoff, second sack er for ATO, was the hero of the day, getting four in as many tries at the plate. The Bums lived up to their name as they leisurely stumbled over the Chi Psi lads, 9-1. “Senator” Dennison, rolling the donot for the Bums, gave up but two hits while strinking out five of the Chi Psis. The first and fourth innings looked like a Fifth avenue parade as Reim, losing pitcher, walked four men in each stanza, giving up but four hits to the Bums. A tight game marked the ending of the day as Sigma Phi Epsilon’s Christensen was walked home to beat the Pi Kappa Alphans. Win ning pitcher, Deller, held the Pi Kapps to six hits while his team mates gathered eight hits from Belknap, pitching for the losers. Softball Schedule for Thursday Field 2—Sigma Alpha Mu 4:00 Field 1—Sigma hall vs. Sig ma Alpha Epsilon. Field 2—Sigma Alpha Mu Phi Delta Theta. 5:00 Field 1—Sigma Nu-Delta Tau Delta. Field 2—Omega hall-Yeomen. Portland May Get New Sports Arena PORTLAND, Ore., May 1.— (UP)—Construction here of a h u g e, auditorium - type indoor sports arena as a war memorial was recommended to Mayor Earl Riley of Portland today by the city council’s living war memorial committee. The building, large enough to hold 12,000 to 15,000 persons for sports events and conventions, was estimated at a cost of $1,000, 000 to $4,000,000 and would be fi nanced by bond issue, according to the committee's recommenda tions. Order of O Plans Luncheon for Friday The Order of the O will hold a luncheon tomorrow at the Phi Delt house to formulate plans for the 1946 Junior Weekend, Barney Koch, paresident, announced yes terday. All members and those letter men who have-not yet been initiat ed are requested to attend. UO Netters Plan Upset For Staters Still smarting from the narrow setback suffered at the hands of the Oregon State Beavers two weeks ago at Corvallis, the Oregon Ducks netters are eagerly await ing their second encounter with the Beavers this Saturday on the Duck’s courts. The Oregon racquetmen, with two wins against one loss, are now holding down second place in the Northern Division race. The Wash ington State Cougars and the Ida ho Vandals were the Ducks’ tims. The tennis ladder is now fairly well established, with Jim Zeiger playing the No. 1 man; Stan An derson, No. 2; Harold Philan, No. 3; Vince McBride, No. 4; and Bob Carey, No. 5. The No. 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 positions are somewhat indefinite. The first doubles team of eZiger and Anderson, who always delight the gallery with their sparkling playing, have looked better so far than any of the other teams of the Northern Division. Zeiger is a very steady player and intensely accurate. His plac ing of an overhead smash is al most uncannily accurate, with the opposing team seldom even being near the ball. Anderson has a beautiful serve, but his best form seems to be while playing the net. Hal Philan, who has considerable reknown as a table tennis exptfrt, is an exponent of the chop shot. It is difficult for anyone playing against Philan to determine just what the ball will do. It appears that it will go one way, but actual ly it will go the other. Vince McBride’s ability lies in his all-around fast, hard game and all of his shots are good. Bob Carey, the No. 5 man, too, is an all-around player, it being hard to determine which is his best shot. Carey’s form and compara tive ease in stroking is much ad mired. Other matches scheduled for the coming weekend find Washington playing Washington State on Fri day and Idaho Saturday. Washington opens its season this Friday with a team reported to be outstanding even though los ing their No. 1 man, Jim Brink, through ineligibility. Match time for the Ducks and Beavers this Saturday on the Ore gon courts is 1:30 p.m. STAFF THIS ISSUE Bernie Hammerbeck John Smith Larry Lau