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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 9, 1946)
Webfoots Wallop Washington, 8 to 3 Van Loo, Luck Added To Grid Injury List Halfback Aubrey Van Loo and Tackle Herb Luck, latest additions to the grid injury list, may not see action in Friday afternoon’s intra squad tilt, it was revealed yester day. Van Loo and Lucjt were both injured during a scrimmage earlier in. the week. The loss of Van Loo puts another crimp into the already shaky right half spot. Corky, as he is usually known on the field, has been im proving steadily, and might pos sibly have edged into the number one lineup had the injury not oc curred. An exact diagnosis has not been made, but it is believed he has a pulled muscle in his back. Luck, 205 pound tackle from last year’s squad, had been troubled all spring with a bad knee and Mon day afternoon had the opposite leg injured. It is believed he has a torn ligament. He gave a good per formance in the last intra-squad tilt from his tackle berth and con tributed two points to the Green score when he broke through the line to nail halfback Bob Sills be hind the goal line for a safety. Ducks Prep For Cougar Track Meet With only one more full day workout scheduled, Colonel Bill Hayward, Oregon's track inentoi, had his harriers continue their strenuous early-week workouts yesterday. Half-milers and distance men were the only ones to step-off speed against the clock yesterday. Walt McClure and Johnny Joachims, the top half-milers at the present, took a smooth ‘2:05 half for' their work out. George Hammock paced four laps for Hugh Stapleton,'and Stapleton continued on two extra laps in an effort to iron out his two-mile stride. The winning time of th 440 vard dash in the recent Idalto VVaslilngton State meet was 49.9; the hundred-yard dash, 9.8; 220-yard dash, 21.7; half mile, 2:02; mile, 4:27; broad jump, 21 feet 7 inches, pole vault, 12 feet (> inches; and the low hurdles 14.7. Compared to the Ducks’ times and distances, the Cougars have a favorable standing, especially in the century, mile, low hurdles and pole vault. The Cougars are an unknown factor in several of the events as their runners capped sec onds and thirds with no times re vealed. One fact is known, the old ace of the basketball courts, Vince Han . on, is contributing his bit to the track team. Hansen is the top high jumper at State and cleared the upright at G feet 2 inches last Sat * '"urday exactly the same height Oregon's Bill Beifuss topped in the meet against Washington. Helen Wills Returns BOS ANGELES, May 8. fTTF* > Mrs. Helen Wills Roark, who won the last of seven women’s sin gles tennis championships in 1931. teamed with Jack Kramer today to win the southern California ten nis championships mixed doubles. Baseball Results American St. Louis.... 000 000 001— 1 3 0 New York.. 200 000 30x— 5 7 2 Zoldak and Mancuso; Chandler and Dickey. Home run—Rizzuto. Cleveland .... 005 000 000—5 7 0 Philadelphia 000 001 001—2 6 4 Feller and Lollar; Knerr, Savage (3) Brown (8) and Rosar, De sautels (8). Chicago .... 000 310 303—10 17 2 Boston . 225 020 12x—14 17 4 Haynes, Grove (3) Papish (4) Caldwell (7) and Tresh; Harris, Ferriss (9) and Wagner. Detroit . 000 010 000—1 4 1 Washington.. 000 000 000—0 2 1 Newhouser and Richards; Wolff and Evans. National Brooklyn .. 000 000 104 3—8 16 2 Cincinnati.. 013 010 000 0—5 10 0 Higbe, Herring (3) Behrman (5) Webber (7) Lombardi (9) and An derson; Shown, Lambert (9) Hetki (10) and Lamanno. New York .. 000 090 010—1 5 0 Pittsburgh .. 000 000 000—0 8 0 Koslo and Lombardi; Ostermuel ler and Baker. Boston . 000 001 130— 5 9 4 Chicago .... 006 010 30x—10 14 1 Javery, Singleton (3) Reid (6) Wright (8) and Masi, Poland (7); Wyse and Livingston. Pacific Coast Baseball Results 1st game Portland .... 000 000 002—2 9 2 Los Angeles 002 002 OOx—4 11 1 Liska, Chetkovich (8) and Tur ner; Terry and Williams. UO Hoop Team Will Fly East Next Season Oregon’s 1916-47 basketball team will fly on its annual eastern tour, it was announced yesterday by Coach Howard Hobson at Pullman, Washington. The Webfoots have two games scheduled on the trip east. The opener will be against Niagara college in Buffalo on December 21 and New York university will be the opponent in Madison Square Garden on December 23. The travel by air and the light schedule will enable the team to make the trip without any of the players missing any of the fall term classes. Junior Olympics On Tap Here Teen-agers take over Hayward field again this weekend when the Eugene American Legion revives its popular Junior Olympics, last held in 1942. The program will in clude competition on both Friday and Saturday and is limited to boys between the ages of 14 and 17 who have never won a varsity high school letter. The schedule of events of the decathlon will be much the same as that in previous meets. A golf tournament and Red Cross spon sored swimming class are also in cluded in the weekend's activities.; Yeoman, Phi Delts,SAEs, Omega Win l-M Games An error-studded fifth inning rally gave the Yeomen a 5-4 victory over Delta Tau Delta in the high light of the intramural softball circuit Wednesday. Phi Delta Theta walloped Theta Chi, 12-4, and Ome ga hall outhit Phi Gamma Delta, to win 11-9, while SAE flattened the Campbell Club, 10-2, in other games. Going into the fifth inning with one run apiece, the Yeomen took advantage of three Delt errors and two sacrifices to add four runs to their score, making it five to one. The Deltas came back strong in the sixth to gather three runs, but lacked the winning punch. A 14-hit attack by the Phi Delta Theta club drove Theta Chi’s Tom my Wright from the mound. Theta Chi was held scoreless until the fifth, then four hits and two walks brought Theta Chi their four-run total. Erickson was reached for eight scattered hits, and gave up six walks. Omega hall’s classy club jumped on Phi Gamma Delta’s pitcher Schuchard for 14 bingles to win a six-inning game. Olts, shortstop for Omega, gathered two for two, closely followed by Pickens with three for four tries at the plate. Browning, pitching for the win ners, was found for ten taps while giving up two walks and striking out two. Sigma Alpha Epsilon’s power house steamrollered over the Camp bell clubbers. The clubbers were in the rear all game as winning pitch er, Popp, gave up but two hits. The SAEs reached pitcher Haskell for 13 hits. Coeds' Ball Loop Races Take Shape By Mary Anne Hansen League standings are taking shape in the softball intramurals with good weather still prevailing. Last year all spring sports ran into difficulty when old Jupg, Pluvius unloosened showers throughout the term. As it stands now Highland house and Hendricks hall are tied for first position in League I, the Ori des are outclassing the teams in League II, Judson house is leading League III, and the Chi Omegas are out in front of League IV. At the WAA retreat last week end up to McCreadie Springs, the cabinet definitely got plans or ganized for the coming year. A strong athletic manager organiza tion was suggested as a means for coordinating the various houses in their intramural participation. The postponement of games was also discussed and it was decided that Miss Catherine Jones, WAA adviser, must be notified by 5 p.m., the day preceding the tourney, if a team fishes to postpone their scheduled game. Otherwise the game will be defaulted to the op position. Installation of officers for Am phibians has been set for May 15 in the Eugene hotel. New officers to be installed will be: Beverly Bennett, president; Mary Anne Hansen, vice-president: and Lynne Langa, secretary-treasurer. Love Whiffs Thompson YAKIMA, Wash., May 8—(UP) -Gene Thompson, centerfielder for the Yakima stars of the Western International Baseball League and the club's leading hitter, has final ly struck out. He is getting mar ried. Fijis Win l-M Tennis Match The Phi Gamma Delta tennis team yesterday defeated the Yeo men tennis team, two matches to one. Bill Baird of the Yeomen play ing singles defeated John Lewis of the Fijis 6-0, and 6-0. Clark and Lonegon of the Fijis playing doubles defeated Gardner and Ail of the Yeomen 6-2, 6-4. The Fijis won their second doubles match by default. N D Tennis Finals Set The northern division tennis championship meet at Pullman, Washington, just two weeks away on May 24 and 25, will find six teams competing for honors. The teams will be Oregon, Oregon State, Washington State, Washing ton, Idaho, and Montana. Montana did not have a team in the north ern division competition, but will be represented at Pullman. Each school will play four sin gles matches and two doubles matches. The winners of the meet will be champions of the northern division. The meet will have no bearing on the conference stand ings. The Oregon Ducks will travel to Seattle for their match with the University of Washington Huskies on May 18. The Huskies are cur rently leading the northern divi sion race with two wins and no losses. The Ducks and Beavers are tied for second place with Wash ington State and Idaho following. The Ducks enroute to Seattle will tangle with the W'illamette Bear cats in a non-conference meet. Lehl Scatters 12 Husky Hits To Win Third SEATTLE, May 8 — Oregon's high-flying Ducks took a three game lead in the Northern Division baseball race here today by de feating the second-place Washing ton Huskies, 8 to 3. Freshman Dick Lehl won his third game of the season as he scattered 12 Washington hits and was in trouble only once. The two teams meet again to morrow in the final game of the 1946 series. Coaches Hobby Hobson and Tubby Graves are expected to send their aces to the mound—Hal Saltzman for the Webfoots and Max Soriano for Washington. All of the action today was cen tered in the middle three innings, Oregon broke a scoreless deadlock in the fourth with three runs, scored on two walks off Bill Jor genson, a Husky error and three singles. Walt Lozoski’s triple, followed by singles by Bob Santee and Tony Crish, an error and an outfield fly accounted for three more runs in the fifth and drove Jorgenson to cover. He was replaced by Bob Cole and Oregon picked up its last two tal lies in the sixth on a walk and three singles. Washington made its bid in the fifth on two singles and successive doubles by Frank Constantino and Cole. The loss was Washington's fourth in conference play and re duced the Husky pennant hopes to a minimum. The score: R H E Oregon . 000 332 000 8 10 1 Washington 000 030 000 3 12 3 Lehl and Rodiger; Jorgenson, Cole (5) and Constantino. Duck J V Nine Travels Today Barney Koch takes his JV base ball team to McMinnville today in an attempt to square the series with the Linfield college nine. Linfield won the first game of the series here Monday, 13 to 6. A1 Paulsen will get the call for the mound chores with either Bob Reed or Clyde Greene behind the plate. Infielders Dale Warberg, Dick Stoinoff, Boyd Gibson, and Tommy_ Williams will probably form the inner defense. Bass Dyer, A1 Smolish, Jim Northam, John Jones, Dick Madden and Dale Parker will make the trip as outfielders. Dick Wilkins and Lou Hlapcich will probably share the mound duties with Paulsen. Perfect Game Bowled At Bowling Congress BUFFALO, N. Y„ May 8.— (UP)—Leo Rollick, a little travel ing salesman from Santa Monica, California, turned in the tenth perfect 300 game in the 46-year old history of the American Bowl ing Congress today as he took the singles lead and moved into second place in the all-events. The last previous perfect game in the congress was bowled by William Hoar of Chicago in the 1941 meet at St. Paul. PCL Scribes Organize OAKLAND, Cal., May 8.—(UP) —Plans are under way for organi zation of the Pacific Coast League Baseball Writers’ Association of America, Darrel Dryer of the Oak land Post-Enquirer said today.