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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 14, 1947)
' DUCKTRACKS By DON FAIR Assistant Sports Editor Friday and Saturday, the 21st annual Oregon high school track and field meet will be held at Bell field, Corvallis, with preparations being made for some 400-odd cinder stars. Both /A .a*ici i) schools will compete marking the first time this has been clone. Preliminaries in all events except the 880-yard run. t h e mile, high jump, and pole vault will be held Friday, and the finals are to come off the fol lowing Saturday afternoon. In dividuals participating will be -limited to three events and the relay, with 19 entrants compet ing in each event. Defending titlists are the Bend Lava Bears,’ who nosed ’ out Ashland by a half - point last year. Favorites for this meet seem to be centered PEST WELCH cuounci tne southern Oregon schools of Medtord, Klamath ^alls, and Grants Pass, with Eugene. Cottage Grove, and Jeff erson and Washington of Portland as outsiders. Fullerton Out to Crack R ecord George Fullerton, outstanding Ashland miler will be back to defend his crown and take a shot at breaking bis own record of 4:24. Strongest competition for him will come from Ben son's Indian runner Jim Newcomb, who turned in a 4:34 mile last weekend. In the dashes, Bill Brainerd of Grants Pass and John Free man of Sa^in in Portland have both turned in 10:1 in the 100. Freeman wtes clocked at 22:6 in the 220, and in addition throws the shot 49 feet or better. \Y aslungton s Ben Newcomb has the best pre-meet record in the shot put with a heave of 30' 1J4" in the Portland finals, while Pat Duff of Grant can toss the iron ball 48 feet. Lvle -m.Dickev, Lincoln, is still unbeaten in the pole vault, having turned in a best this season of 12' 2". Grants Pass Strong in Re lays The Grants Pass relay team of Parsley, Walsell, Reeter, and Brainerd has been clocking off the best time in the state for the 880-yard sprint, turning in a 1 :32.7 at Medford last Saturday. This is even better than the mark of 1 :33.2 which thev set at the Play ward relays this spring. Warren Windnagle's record of 1 :36.2 in the half mile which has stood,,jjdnce 1912 stands little chance of being bettered, Werner of-Medford having the best time this vear at 2:01.1. Another powerful point-man for the Black Tornados is Singler in the 200-yard low hurdlesv Pie set a new meet record at Med ford in his last outing, clearing the barriers in 22.9. His strongest competitor in the hurdle events will probably be from Hillsboro's Jerry Doyle, brother of Oregon's trackster Jack Doyle. Jerry has been practically a one-man team for the Spartans this season in the dashes and hurdles events. Huskies Wind Up Spring Football From Seattle, word comes that Pest Welch wound up spring football practice last Saturday with a "white team,” holding most of the baekfield power, trouncing the "purples,” who had the line strength, 27-6. The Husky coach used his veterans sparingly, with the result that some of last year's reserves showed plenty of prom -4._ise. Standouts included backs Dick Ottele, Fred Provo, and Sam Robinson, and linemen Mel Davis, Chuck Olson, Ernie Stein, and Gail Bruce. Finishing- the northern division schedule with no losses in four matches, Oregon’s golfers will begin preparations for the finals to be held at Moscow, Idaho May 24. The Duck Divoters won all of their dual meets by comfortable margins, including a \7l/i-9'i win from the runnerup Washington team. Today, the sputtering' Oregon baseball team will hit the campus with their chances for their fifth straight division pen nant definitely faded. The diamonders seemingly hit the fan after winning their first road game from Washington State, as they )ost the finale to the Cougars and then dropped their next game to Idaho. They momentarily broke the streak to level the Vandals 11-2, as the Duck bats awoke, but the Huskies quickly applied the cooler, winning two straight. All of the Webfoots’ hopes now rest on the final of the two-game Washington-WSC series, and the contests which the Cougars and Huskies have remain ing to play with the lowly, yet dangerous Idaho nine. Howard Hobson’s squad opens its four-game series with the Beavers next Saturday at Corvallis, with the next Eugene game slated for Howe field Monday. May 19. against the Stat ers. Washington plays Idaho Friday and Saturday and then opens their all-important series with the Cougars Monday and Tuesday at Pullman. Delts, Sig Eps, Minturn, K. Sigs Notch Wins as Field Narrows DU, Phi Delt Netmen win The Du and Phi Delt netmen garnered quarter-final positions in the intramural tennis tournament yesterday by downing the Sigma Chi and Theta Chi squads. In the DU-Sigma Chi clash Herb Tainer bested Warren Car kin, 6-1, 6-0, in the singles match, and the DU doubles team of John Weisel and Doc Payne put down Dave Waite and Bob Ham mel of the Sigma Cliis, 6-8, 6-4, 7-5, for the margin of victory. The Sigma Chi doubles team of Marsh Gloss and Don Gassaway won over Larry Holden and Jim Nelson of DU, 6-3 and 7-5. Jim Thoburn, Phi Delt singles man, defeated Theta Chi”s Whiz zer White 6-3 and 6-3 while the Phi Delt doubles squad of Don Noel and Tom Davis were slipping by Tom Collie and John Coursey 6-2, 2-6, 6-3. The third match was not finished. Other tennis squads still in the running for play-off berths include SAE, Fijis, Betas, Kappa Sigs, SAM, Sig Eps, Sigma hall, and ATO. BASEBALL STANDINGS National League Chicago.14 8 .636 Boston .14 9 .609 Brooklyn.12 9 .571 Pittsburgh .9 9 .500 Philadelphia .11 12 .478 New York .9 10 .474 Cincinnati .10 14 .417 St. Louis.6 14 .300 BASEBALL STANDINGS American League Detroit .13 7 .650 Boston .13 9 .591 Cleveland .9 8 .529 Chicago .11 11 .500 New York .10 10 .500 Washington .8 9 .471 Philadelphia .10 12 .455 St. Louis .7 15 .318 Library Names ContestChamps Prizes for the Library Day con test, held annually to commemo rate the establishment of the Uni versity library, were announced Saturday. Winner of the undergraduate specialized library division was J. Arnold Shotwell, senior in natural science. j Second prize went to Borys Mal : kin, junior in anthropology, • and j third to Phyllis Wells, senior in I physical education. In the undegraduate general li l brary contest, sponsored by the As sociation of Friends and Patrons of the Library, first prize was award ed Leland Huff, sophomore in chem i istry. -Second and third prizes were giv en to Wesley Waters, sophomore in liberal arts, and Patrick R. ’Con nor, sophomore in pre-law. Awards for the graduate student libraries went to Bettie Mae Payne, graduate in Romance languages, first; Frederick Waller, graduate in English literature, second; and Howard K. Zimmerman Jr., gradu ate inchemistry, third. Golf originated when the Scot shepherds amused themselves by batting rounded pebbles across the moors with their shepherd’s crooks, i YESTERDAY’S RESULTS Delts 1, Hunter 3 Sig Eps 10, SAE 6 Minturn 15, Sherry Ross !) Kappa Sigs over Omega hall by forfcit The Delts won the right to par ticipate in the IM softball semi finals yesterday afternoon as they ! notched up their fourth straight victory of the season at the expense ] of Hunter hall, 7-3. In opening games the Sig Eps capitalized on their hitting power and numerous SAE bobbles to win a 10-6 decision, 1 and Minturn hall came from behind to swamp Sherry Ross, 15-9. The Kappa Sigs won by forfeit when Omega hall failed to appear. Dolt Hurler Wild Despite an occasional streak of wildness, ace Delt Hurler Chuck Larsen kept eight Hunter safeties well scattered, as his teammates successfully defended their unblem ished record by a score of 7-3. Jeb Smith and Bob Kehrli hom ered to pace the victors, who col lected three runs in a third inning splurge. Chaney Connects The Sig Eps opened their encoun ter with the SAEs in rousing fash ion by combining two singles, a walk, and a double by Swede Carl son for a trio of runs in the initial inning. In the second the losers nairowed the SPE lead to a single run, but were unable to keep pace for the remainder of the game, as the Sig Eps pushed across seven more runs in the final frames. Bob Chandy connected for a round-tripper in the fourth for the only circuit blow of the loosely played affair. Homers Not Enough Minturn hall overcame a two-n* deficit in its final time at bat and. aided by several Sherry Ross mis cues, succeeded in putting six tal lies across the platter. Dick Reiner and Woody Carson clouted round trippers for Sherry Ross in the final frame but could not overtake the Minturn hall sluggers. Two IM Games Friday Two make-up games are sched uled for Friday afternoon, wind ing up the regu'ar IM season. Hunter hall will meet Stitzer at 4:00, and the Betas and Campbell club will play at 5:00. Sports Staff This Issue: Don Fair A1 Pietschman Elwin Paxson Jim Wallace George Skorney DICK WHITMAN . . . the “Bird Dog,” this year sports the uniform iff the Montreal Kovels of the International league. Whitman was a base ball star at Oregon before the war and then graduated to the Big Time Last year he played with the Brooklyn Dodgers but this year was farmed to Montreal as the season opened.