Ducks Meet Huskies Today
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Sends His Men to Battle
Hon Kir sell, pictured above during his own recent college baseball
playing days, will send liis Oregon diamondmen out to face the Wash
ington Huskies today at the Civic Stadium. The game will eliminate
one of the nines from first place in the Northern Division.
Mound Role Filled
By Whitey Lolcon
By BOB REED
Barring weather fit only for the
Hudson Bay Company, or perhaps
pouring rain, the Oregon Ducks
will tangle with the University of
Washington this afternoon at Civic
stadium, in the first ball game of
the Husky-Duck series scheduled
for today and tomorrow.
Game time will be 3 p.m. In the
event that today’s game is post
poned, the Huskies and the Ducks
will engage in a double-header to
morrow.
Mentor Don Kirsch has nominat
ed Whitey Lokan to start on the
mound for the Ducks this after
noon. Lokan, in his first conference
start, lost a close, muddy battle in
the opening game of the season
against Washington State, 7 to C.
Kirsch, however, counts heavily on
this veteran hurler to carry a big
share of the burden in what re-;
tunins of the season.
The remainder of the line-up in
all likelihood will be the same at
every position. Dick Bartle, the
team’s leading hitter will bo on
first, Captain Walt Kirsch, the
Ducks’ number two swatter, on sec
ond, A1 Cohen at short, and either
Don Kimball or Ray Stratton on
“ third.
In the outfield, John Kovenz has
the left field spot, Hal Zurcher will
patrol center, and Don Dibble is in
right.
Even though the Ducks have had
little chance to practice during the
past two days, Kirsch believes;
that his squad is in good shape. j
and ready to play.
Kirsch had hoped to give hist
players quite a bit of hitting prac
tice in order to sharpen their eyes
before tangling with Washington.
But. even though the weatherman
intervened again, Kirsch will not
be too worried over the hitting. If
the Ducks continue to slug the way
they did in previous three games
and field in the confident, veteran
way, Kirsch will have only one
worry—the pitching situation. Lo
kan will be up against the experi
enced ball players that fill the line
up of the Huskies.
DeWayne “Swede” Johnson, the
Ducks’ number one southpaw, will
start the second game tomorrow.
From all reports, the Huskies
should have a squad that will be
equal in strength at least, with the
Washington State Cougars. In the
Cougar-Husky series at Seattle last
Friday and Saturday night, the two
Rain Stops
Tracksters'
Workout
The weatherman threw another
brick in John Warren’s cinder ma
chine Thursday as the varsity
tracksters were forced to call off
their practice session for the sec
ond consecutive day with the
Washington State meet just two
days off.
Warren again declined to make
any predictions about the meet, but
expressed the belief that the Ducks
would be in good shape for the in
vaders, regardless of the lack of
practice. WSC is favored to walk
off with the bacon with their well
rounded squad. The Webfoots, how
ever, have shown improvement dur
ing the past week, and should be
strong in every event.
Davey Henthorne's leg was
greatly improved yesterday as he
worked out briefly. The rest of
the squad went through a series of
short limbering up exercises under
the watchful eyes of Warren and
Trainer Tom Hughes.
The Washington State squad will
arrive in town Saturday morning
and engage in a light workout prior
to the meet.
Champ Falls
In Golf Match
PINEHURST N. C., April 22—
—Harvie Ward Jr., an up-and
coming youngster from Tarboro,
N. C., tumbled former national am
ateur champion Dick Chapman of
Binehurst out of the 48th north
and south amateur golf tourna
ment today with a 2 and 1 upset
in the quarter-final round.
Chapman’s erratic putting cost!
him the match. Once he rolled in
a beautiful 40-footer, but he three
putted another green and had
trouble on other holes.
Favorite Frank Stranahan of
Toledo, O., met little resistance as
he rolled over J. A. Fownes of
Orlando, Fla., 7 and 6. Stanahan
was four up at the turn and took
the next three holes to win.
teams split. The Huskies won the
opener 5 to 3, behind the pitching
of Max Soriano, and the Cougars
outslugged their rivals 16 to 8 in
the Saturday game.
Buck Bailey, the Cougar coach,
commented after the last game in
Seattle, that all the teams in the
Northern Division seem to be of
equal strength, except the Idaho
Vandals, who have shown very lit
tle up to datee.
Oranges, unlike apples and pears
do not ripen after plucking.
It's Bound
to be a good
Week-end
PREPARE FOR
A TRIP TO
THE BEACH
WALDERS
Associated Service
11 th and Hilyard
Oregon# Emerald
SPORTS
Don Fair, Fred Taylor, Co-Sports Editors
Golfers Slate OSC
Over Local Course
By KEN JOHNSON
Oregon’s defending Northern Di
vision golf champions, undefeated
in this year’s matches, meet the
Oregon State Beaver squad Satur
day at Eugene in the Webfoots’
third contest of the year. A victory
over the Beavers would give Ore
gon a strong hold on the league
lead.
The advantage of playing on the
home course will be in Oregon’s fa
vor and the excellent golf recent
ly played by the team against
Washington State and Idaho shows
promise of repeating.
Dom Provost has shown espee
cially high possibilities with his
sparkling sub-par golf in the last
two matches, while Bob Seder
s'trom, substituting for the ineligi
bility-stricken Chuck Taylor, has
brought himself into a tie for third
place in- team standings with A1
Reible. Lou Stafford’s game is the
same steady golf that stroked him
to the finals in the National Ama
teur championship in 1946. Staf
ford was also medalist in^ the
Northern Division last year.
Coach Sid Milligan has not
named the lineup for the coming
match, but it is expected that he
will use about the same squad as
in the last matches, with the possi
ble exception of A1 Crosbie in the
lead-off spot. Crosbie dropped to
an 81 and sixth place in team
standings at Idaho, where rain and
wind made good golf virtually im
possible. Rod Taylor, who was un
able to make the trip to the Inland
Empire, may also start.
Oregon’s long hitters will be at
home on the country club course,
which is very long and tricky. The
course is in fine condition, the
greens recently having been sanded
and packed down.
Sports Staff:
Fred Taylor
Bob Reed
Ken Johnson
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