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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 5, 1947)
Rain Stymies Pilot-Webfoot Diamond Tiff Oregon’s 1947 baseball opener, scheduled with Willamette uni versity at Salem ^esterifay, wan postponed because of the bad weather. Today’s slate pits thb lo cals against the Portland univer sity Pilots in a pair of seven -inn ing tilts that will be played off if the conditions allow at Portland. On the Eugene campus the Jay vee diamond squad is scheduled to play Lewis and Clark this af ternoon, depending again on dia mond and weather conditions. The varsity squad returns to the campus Monday to face the Pilots in a return double bill. The Montana Grizzlies are the next opponent, playing here April 10. Rain Stops Another Tilt MEDFORD — (AP) — Opening game of the Salem Senators of the Western International league, scheduled against Oregon State College here last night, was post poned because of bad weather. Jack Wilson, Senators’ manager, said the teams would play only their exhibition doubleheader here to morrow night. ALEX KAMPOURIS ... veteran of many years of campaigning in both flic minor and major leagues, is back bn the coast. He figures to help the pennant ambitibns of the Sacramento Senators in the 1947 Pacific Coast league race. Uclan Jumper Eligible LOS ANGELES (AP) UCLA athletic authorities today pro nounced Bill Lacefield, Negro broadjumper who won the NCAA and AAU events in 1938, eligible for competition for the 1947 track season. Lacefield, who quit school in 1939 for the Army, returned and has made up scholastic deficien cies. He won the.NCAA event with a leap of 25 feet 1 Vs inches, the AAU with 25 feet % inch. Islands to See Clouters BOSTON (AP) Auiaiciii uTTT" ers who fight in the semifinals of the National AAU championships here next week will be invited to compete in a special tourney in Hawaii early in May. Honolulu Superior Court Judge John R. Desha, Harvard alumnus who issued the blanket invitation, said that the 32 boxers who quali fy will be stacked against an all islands team in Honolulu. The local AAU committee dis closed tonight that 153 fighters have been entered for the three day clout carnival* i. ; • • A Ti 4 i4_ w 4 Jk4 M*. KANNY SMITH . . . One of Coach Howard Hobson’s baseballers who gained a last minute reprieve from a game scheduled for yesterday. Smith, a former Eugene high school athlete, roamed at shortstop for Hobson’s team last year. Spivey, Stafford Take Lead As Webfoot Golfers Qualify Glenn Spivey continued in the j lead for the varsity golf team as he completed his 36-hole qualify ing round with a 71 in yesterday’s play. Coupled with Thursday’s 74 round, Spivey sported a 36-hole total of 145. Also carding a 71 in yester day’s play was Lou Stafford who maintained his position one stroke behind Spivey at 146. Both Spivey and Stafford in cluded four birdies in yesterday’s wet weather play. Eight candidates completed their first round yesterday with the remainder of the squad sched uled to shoot the second eighteen today. New pairings will be posted tomorrow at the country club, according to scores. Another 86 hole round is to be completed by April 10. First * intercollegiate match for the Webfoot linksters will be against Washington at the local country club. The following golfers complete their first round yesterday: Glenn Spivey .74-71—145 Lou Stafford . 75-71—146 George Kikes .76-80—156 Bill Barash .76-81—157 Bruce Fisher .81-76—157 Dick Maier .78-81—159 Jim Dunahoo .82-77—159 Pete Blythe ...,.82-81—163 Grapefruit League By Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH — The Philadelphia Athletics were held to three hits today but pushed over a run in the seventh inning to take a 1 to 0 victory over the St. Louis Browns. * * * MEMPHIS The Southern As sociation Memphis Chicks landed on the Boston Red Sox’ star right hander, David (Boot Ferris, for seven bunched hits today to turn back the American League Cham pions, 5 to 4. ORLANDO — The Washington Senators ran their string of exhi bition victories to eleven today with a 6 to 2 win over the Pitts burgh Pirates. * * * PHOENIX—The New York Gi ants today registered their sixth consecutive victory of the current spring baseball training season when they came from behind to defeat the Cleveland Indians 10 to 6 in the first of a 10-game cross country series. Venerable Fan Dies MONTREAL (AP)—Joe Page, who was known as Canada's “Mr. Baseball." although he was born in Chicago, and who saw every world series since the fall classics began back in 1903, died last night after a lengthy illness. He was about 80. Time—He's Got It CHENEY, Wash. (AP) — Irv L^eifer, Eastern Washington Col lege basketball star, has won a collection of watches a jeweler might envy. The high scoring guard won his first watch on the basis of his high school playing and the rest in four national tournaments in Kansas City. He was chosen for the all-tournament second team as a sophomore and for the first team in 1946 and0 1947. New gift watches accompanied each honor. He also was named tl?e tourna ment's most valuable player this year. All in all, Leifer could wear a prize watch on each wrist and carry three in his pockets. That’s why ‘‘Watch Leifer” has become his nickname as well as a slogan of opposing coaches. Skiers Compete Sunday TACOMA — (AP) —Pacific Northwest ski jumpers will wind up the 1946-47 competitive season this Sunday with the resumption of the annual Sons of Norway tourney at Beav.br Lake hill at Snoqualmie summit. The heavy entry list for the event, last run off in 1942, include Erling Johnson. Einar Hermansen, Swen Ramsey, Olav Ulland, Ole Tverdahl, Amt Ofstad. Helge Sather. John Eilertson Jr., Elof Wold and Wil mer Hampton. Foul Weather Halts - Beaver-Duck Relays Foul weather conditions caused postponement of the track and field relay meet with Oregon State scheduled to be run at Corvallis today. The meet will be held Tuesday at 2:00 p. m. The announcement was made yesterday afternoon bv Colonel - ' O Bill Hayward, track mentor, so the cinder squad continued with regular workouts instead of tapering off for the meet, o BILL HAYWARD . . . Venerable University of Oregon track coach. Colonel Bill’s track team was forced to postpone today’s meet scheduled with Oregon State be cause of surly weather. Weather Report Mostly cioufry Saturday with light rain northwest portion spreading to northeast portion by night. Partly cloudy Sunday with a few scattered showers. Snow in mountains. Little change in temperature. Moder ate to fresh southerly wind off coast Saturday becoming west erly Saturday night and Sunday. BILL McKECHNIE ... for many seasons a major league manager, is a member of the brain trust of the Cleveland Indians. He is expected to aid Manager Lou Boudreau solve j his knotty pitching problem. It appears certain mat tne res lays would come off in adverse weather, and this, together with tha fact that the Corvallis track is in poor condition because of the recent heavy rains, was enough to warrant a change of schedule. Stiff workouts this afternoon were prescribed by Colonel Hay- * ward in light of the fact that the Oregon runners will now have two meets facing them in one week. Saturday afternoon on Hayward field the locals meet Idaho, and they will be pressed for time for adequate workouts. Many of the men on the relay team are slated to switch events for the Idaho meets and original plans were for the workouts next week to stress the switch. Many of the runners now in short distance runs will move up to long hauls and the sudden change will probably be seen in the results when the final count of the coming Oregon-Idaho meet results are tabulated. Sprinters Jake Leicht and Carl Maxey swished around the track several times and both appeared to be set for the meet, although Leicht wasn’t too sure about the 220 run. Quarter-milers Dave Henthorne and Jerry Hunter spent their time working on fast 300-yard dashes, and Hayward ^ had his distance and middle-dis tance men take two fast half-mile laps in order to build up wind and endurance. Several of the distance runners who are slated to run the half-mile and mile in the relays will be switched to the two-mile for Idaho; wind sprints will have 'to be dropped then. Five men on the squad were tem porarily ensnarled in eligibility reg ulations, but are expected to be straightened out by Tuesday. Bob Koch and Howard Frary of the shot put relay, Bob Dreisner and A1 Pietschman of the Jour-mile relay, and S'tu Norene of the two-mile re lay squad were declared temporari ly ineligible for the Beaver meet. The Aggie cinder team has weakened considerably recently by the loss of four men who failed to fulfill scholastic requirements, along with Dick Peterson, last season’s standout frosh miler, who is out with illness. Marvin Wilt, 1943 letterman, is also on the sick list with a broken leg. NO BETTER ^ _-f * o o o * TIME THAN • SPRING to freshen uu your room! Walls and furniture both need fresh, new color. Finest quality paints at MEYER'S ‘‘Your Marshall Wells Store" 948 W. 8th Ph. 4461