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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 22, 1947)
' DUCKTRACKS By WALLY HUNTER Assistant Sports Editor Lou Stafford, Glen Spivey, Dom Provost and Rod Taylor with Jim Dunahoo as No. 5 man and alternate have been named as the men to represent Oregon at the Northern Division golf tournament From here it looks as though the Webfoots have < a sure-fire combination there. The Duck golfers have coasted § through a highly - successful | season and should be favored to run off with the big honors at Moscow this Saturday. In matches thus far this season ” Coach Sid Milligan’s lads have racked up 133*4 points to their opponents’ 46^4, according to Bill Stratton who is aiding Athletic News Director Art Litchman in keeping statistics on Webfoot athletes. No best ball scores were totaled be- * cause of the difficulty arising ^ from the fact that pairing were different in each match. LOU STAFFORD Lou Stafford has been the big* gun in the Duck ranks as Xo. 1 man all season. He has a total of 17p2 points to his credit so far. Only man to leave Stafford behind was an old rival from Portland, Jim Marlowe. Larrupin I,on is. however, undefeated in conference competition. . . . There is some doubt as to what effect the Idaho course will have on the XD swing ers. It's a nine-hoie affair and according to reports will never win any notiijf as being a top-flight layout. That, however, is hearsay and the course might be all right. Casanova Invites the Boys .., and They Come Quoting Royal Brougham in the Seattle P.I., . . . spring” ^football games won’t disclose many top secrets, but grid followers are wondering at the frankness of Santa Clara’s Coach Leonard Casanova, who invited every coach in Cali fornia to attend his final training game . . . maybe the coach did it only as a friendly gesture but if so, he must have been surprised when Bert La Brucherie, Phil Sorboe, and Dixie Howell all showed up.” Quoting Royal Brougham in the Seattle P.I., “. . . spring lege Evergreen we find this choice hit of prose. “. . . . down OSC way Prof. Ellison, a dyed-in-the-wool baseball fan, has this to .say. ah^t, why his,school is known as the Beavers: “The Beaver is one. of the of the smartest and most industrious animkls alive-t+mot like a dumb Duck . . ." Xo comment—that gem speaks fot itself. Webfoot track fans may not realize it, but Colonel Bill Hay ward's lithe George Rasmussen is one of the greatest potential stars ever to hang his gear in an Oregon track room. In the Oregon State meet last Saturday the Bend freshman topped 14 feet 2 inches in the pole vault, which is 1 inch better than the Xorthern Division record set in 1939 by another Haywarci athlete, George Varoff. Though the 14-foot-2-inch mark was tops fou the division until Saturday, Varoff still holds the Hay ward field record with a leap of 14 feet 7 inches. West Coast Relay Marks Cood At the Fresno West Coast Relays last Saturday, which Southern California won with a husky total of 55 5-6 points, some really fine marks were chalked up. Not only were they better-than-average, they were good enough to top anything that has ever been done in the Northern Division. For example: In the 120-yard high hurdles a lad named Dixon from UCLA skimmed the timber in 14.3 seconds. The record in this part of the country is 14.4 seconds. That mark was posted in 1929 by Steve Anderson of Washington. InTTTe with first place in 9.5 seconds. That time is equal to both the 100-vard dash the SC mercury man. Mel Patton, tripped away XD record held jointly by Carson Shoemake of Oregon and Lee Orr of'Washington State, and the University of Oregon record held by Paul Starr and the aforementioned Shoemake. Willy Steele Tops 25 Feet The broad-jump was taken by Willy Steele of San Diego State college with a jump of 25 feet 10 /4 inches. Is that°good? Well, Jesse Owens holds the world’s record in that event. He set it at 26 feet 8 '/4 inches in 1935 at Ann Arbor, Mich. Northern Division record in that event is 24 feet 2 5-8 inches. It was set in 1938 by Jim Panton of Washington. Another interesting angle on that was the fact that Steele’s final three jumps were all over 25 feet. Which proves, if nothing else, that he is a consistent per former. UCLA’s Don Barksdale was also entered in that event and his mark was 24 feet 5^4 inches. Theta Chi Bludgeons Phisis; Delts Chop Taus; Finals Next Sluggers Dominate Both Semi-Final Tilts By JIM WALLACE Theta Chi and Delta Tau Delta clash on the intramural diamond Friday at 4 p. m. for the campus intramural softball title. Theta Chi clobbered Phi Kappa Psi, 26 to 4, and the Delts tripped Alpha Tau Omega, 7 to 2, in a semi-final games yesterday. Theta Chi Scores First Theta Chi started fast, scoring in the bottom of the first when Billy Hutchinson doubled and dashed home on an outfield fly. The Hilltoppers added three more in the second. Bill Harber slam med Phi Psi pitcher Jim Bocchi’s slow teaser into the tall grass for a homerun, chasing two in ahead of him. The winners poured nine across in the fifth on a walk, Tom Collie's roundtripper, Keith Rebecs Nudge AGs for Title By DONNA KAY FAIR Rebec, with an eight-run out burst in the second frame, cap tured the coeds intramural soft ball title 8-0 from Alpha Gamma Delta at Gerlinger yesterday. Except for the second inning splurge, the game was a pitch er’s battle with neither t e a nv being able to dent the plate in the regulation five-stanza con test. Rebec, winners of League I, earned the way into the finals by trouncing Gamma hall, while the Alpha Gams, League III titl ists, downed Highland house for the right to enter the finals. Bard’s triple, doubles by Ed Vannett and Gene Hebrard, and a Phi Psi misfile. Eight Theta (’hi hits in the sixth racked up II more runs and ended the day’s scoring for Got It teams. The Phi Psis scored twice in the second, once each in the fourth and fifth for their four markers. In the second Russ Rohwer got an Annie Oakley, came across on Bocchi’s single, and Bocchi fol lowed on an infield error. In the fourt'h Bob Reed homered, and in the fifth Rohwer was errored home after knocking for three bases. ATOs Lead Early Alpha Tau Omega grabbed a first inning load, but faltered to lose. In that frame ATO Rolland Gable scqred on George Van Pelt’s i.— - ■ - —~ single. Delt Bob Kerhli, however, evened the count in the second with a homer. The Delts nosed one ahead in (he third, tallied once again in the fourth, and chased three more across in the fifth to end their share of the scoring. Zeh Czaikoski homercd with Ed San ford on in the third; George Red din tripled Jim Dunlap across in the fourth; Czaikoski, Kerhli, and Dunlap tallied in the fifth. The losing ATO squad scored its other run in the third when Ed Stoinoff made it home after reach ing first on an error. 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