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Nine Holds First Rough
Practice with Frosh
i By BOB REED
The weatnerman finally smiled
.down upon Mentor Don Kirsch and
his varsity baseball squad yester
day. Under blue skies, a warm sun,
and chilly winds, the varsity nine
took the field for their first actual
game this season. The Oregon
Frosh, led by Barney Koch, were
the victims, on the short end of a
5-1 score.
Kirsch was deeply interested in
the way his four moundsmen per
formed. Since it will be the pitch
ing that will hold the key to the
1948 Duck hopes in the Northern
Division baseball race, Kirsch
paraded four men to the hill to
take their turn against the Frosh.
Lokan Starts Game
Whitey Lokan opened the game
on the mound for the varsity and
hurled two innings. The game was
not exactly a regulation affair,
since each team stayed at bat for
two innings, instead of alternating
after each three outs. Dick Wil
kins followed Lokan for two, then
Dick DeBernardi hurled the so
called fifth and sixth innings, and
a left hander, Willard Stradley
finished the game for the varsity.
Kirsch was impressed by the
way Lokan and Wilkins performed
on the hill. If they show up well
in the next four exhibition games,
they will more than likely be the
one and two pitchers on the Ore
gon squad.
Hitting Off
In the hitting department, the
varsity did not find its stride
until late in the game. During
their last turn at bat, long and
sharp hits rang from the bats of
practically every man in the line
up. A1 Cohen, Don Dibble, Walt
Kirsch, and Pat Wohlers connected
for good hits. Wohlers lifted a
drive over the hedge in right field
during one rally.
However, Mentor Kirsch isn’t to
worried about the team’s hitting
as yet. The varsity has had a long
lay-off in hitting practice and
has not reached top form
Positions Shape Up
Even though the team has been
somewhat inactive, especially in
the way of actual games played,
Skipper Kirsch has a pretty good
idea about his players in all de
partments. At present, here is the
way the positions can be summed
up.
Infield: The least of Kirsch’s
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Harris to Depart
For PCC Meeting
Athletic Director Leo Harris will
leave today for the Pacific coast
conference meeting in Los Angeles.
Harris will stop in San Francisco
and attend the meeting Monday
and Tuesday.
Uniformity of contracts and ac
counting procedure will be dis
cussed at the meeting. Others at
tending will be Wilbur Johns,
UCLA athletic director, Willis O.
Hunter, USC, and V’ictor Schmidt,
conference commissioner.
OSC Captures Relays
Sports Writers Needed
There will be a meeting for ev
eryone interested in working on the
Emerald sports staff, tonight at
7:30 p.m., in the basement sports
room of the journalism building.
Experience is not necessary, al
though helpful.
Baseball Skipper
Guiding the destinies of the Ore
gon baseball team is Don Kirsch,
in his first season as varsity
coach. Kirsch is a former Duck
diamond star.
Aiken Looks at Backfield Men
As Two Former Frosh Shine
Coach Jim Aiken sent his veteran
gridmen to the showers early yes
terday, and took a good look at his
new backfield material.
Out of 'the number of potential
ball-carriers that paraded their
stuff before the head mentor four
men looked especially promising,
two of them transfers and two up
from last fall's frosh football squad.
The two transfers, Woodley Lew
is, 185-pound left half from Los An
geles J. C., and John McKay, 170
pounder trying for the same spot,
have shown up well in previous
scrimmages, but it was the first
time tlie two freshman gridders
had exhibited their turf prowess.
Dick Morrison, 172-pound half
back, slipped through the defensive
line for two of the longest runs of
the day, as well as reeling off sev
eral shorter plunges. The other
Duckling was little Dick Maudlin,
155-pound ball carrier, who man
aged to squirm through the for
ward wall for a number of short
trips.
Bill Abbey, rugged little quarter
back who dropped out of football
last season because of the aggra
vation of an old injury, took a turn
a packing the ball from the full
back spot with a pair of newcom
ers, and in his usual jolting, jarring
form racked up some yardage. Ab
bey also cut loose with a beautiful
long pass that nailed the receiver
on the spot.
Aiken is trying to find out ex
actly what prospects he has among
the mass of new material that
showed up for the spring practice
session, and the get-acquainted
drills will continue until the cream
is brought to the surface. Although
no one will be cut from the squad
during spring practice a nucleus of
three or four top elevens will be
sifted out, and the attention will
be chiefly devoted to them.
Yesterday the coach at one time
had four full elevens running
through plays on the field, with
plenty of men standing around, a
novel sight to Oregon fans accus
tomed to seeing a scant three teams
on the gridiron.
Two gridmen will be out of prac
tice until Monday with minor in
juries. Bill Murphy, letterman
guard on the 1946 team, hurt his
leg in Tuesday’s practice, and Dar
rell Robinson twisted his knee last
night.
On the offensive line, which re
mained about the same during the
practice, were former frosh players,
Chet Daniels, husky little guard,
and Dave Gibson, 6 foot 3 inch cen
ter. Sam Nevills, 242-pounder at
left tackle, also did a bit of crunch
ing from his spot.
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Beavers Sweep Entire
Eight Events for Victory.
By ELYVIN PAXSON
The small band of spectators in
the Hayward field grandstand had
little to cheer about yesterday af
ternoon as a visiting band of OSC
tracksters romped away with ev
ery event to soundly defeat the
Oregon squad 8-0, in a postponed
relay meet.
Although several outstanding in
dividual performances were turned
in by the Duck cindermen, their op
ponents were superior in depth. A
lack of Weebfoot reserve strength
was noticeable throughout the one
sided affair, and as a result, two re
lays, the 4-mile and shuttle hurdle,
had to be forfeited.
Ducks YYrealt in Distances
It was evident that the Ducks
will be very weak in the distance
races this season, as the Beavers,
won both the two-mile and mile re
lays with no difficulty.
The sprints, however, were a dif
ferent matter. In the program
opener, the 440-relay, both Skiles
Hoffman and Dave Henthorne
gained rapidly on their opponents
after the Beavers had built up wide
margins in the first two legs, but
the deficit was too great. Hen
thorne’s blazing finish fell short by
a scant five yards and OSC jumped
into an early lead that was built up
steadily thereafter.
Again in the 880, the locals were
barely edged out by their tradition
al rivals, this time on an accident.
Hoffman, running in the number
three position, slowly crept up on
his competitor till only a few feet j
separated them. Then, as he was •
handing the baton to anchor man.
Henthrone he slipped and fell, and
the Klamath Falls flash was never
able to catch the flying feet of Cole*(
although he narrowed the gap con
siderably.
The shot and high jump relays
were also Aggie dominated, but
George Rasmussen, Oregon’s pole,
vaulting expert, provided the great
est surprise of the afternoon as he
high-jumped 6 feet and one-half*
inch by actual measurement. This
mark excelled that of either Merc
Brown or Jim Bocchi, regular Duck'
competitors in that event.
440-yard relay—Won by OSC^
(Edmunson, Schlavin, Cole, Laid
law). Time, :44.4.
2-mile relay—Won by OSC (Bow-*
ler, Runyan, Leonard, Hughes),
Time, 8:17.2.
880-yard relay—Won by OSC
(Edmunson, Radcliff, Schlavin,
Cole). Time, 1:32.6.
Shot-put relay—Won by OSC
(Rinearson, 39 feet 3 inches; Delay,
43 feet 6 inches; Soval, 42 feet 4
inches; Austin, 40 feet 4 inches).
Distance, 164 feet 11 inches.
High jump relay^-Won by OSCT
(Alexander, 5 feet 10 inches; Bar
ber, 5 feet 11(4 inches; Laidlaw, 5
feet 8 inches; Elliott, 6 feet (4*
inch.) Height, 23 feet 6 inches.
Mile relay—Won by OSC (Lab-,
hart, Clark, Leonard, Hughes),
Time, 3:30.3.
4-mile relay—Oregon forfeited,
Shuttle hurdles—Oregon forfeit- ,
ed.
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