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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1948)
Baseball Team Blasts Vandals, 7-0 Webfoot Netters Blank Idaho; Golfers Edged by Washington Linksters Blow Early Advantage Oregon’s golf team, defending Northern Division titlist, came home second best yesterday, when a par-busting Husky six defeated ttie Webfoots 15;/,-llC- Today, the Webfoot squad will meet the Port land Pilots in a non-conference dual match at the Eugene country club. Only four golfers went over the regulation 72 strokes, and three of these were Oregon men. By vir tue of the win, the Washington divoteers almost assured them selves of winning the ’48 crown, with their second triumph against no setbacks. Little Ed Draper, the Huskies’ number two man, took medalist honors with a 67. The slight 5 .foot 7 inch 155-pownder consistent ly outdistanced all other tee art ists, with his powerful well-coor dinated swing. On the greens, the 20-year old Draper was for the most part deadly. Oregon's Lou Stafford and How ard Stroupe of the Huskies came in with 69s, for second honors. Rea son for the low scores may have been the sudden sunshiny weather made it an excellent day for golf ing The Webfoots took an early 6-3 load in the best ball morning round, with the duo of Dom Provist and A1 Crosbie carding 33-33—66 for low gross. In the afternpon indi vidual play, however, the Washing ton golfers found the course to their liking and put the pressure on all the way to score 12</, to Oregon's 5j/,. Stafford was the only duck to win an afternoon match. Ducks Not Out The defeat docs not drop the Webfoots for final conference honors, as the winner of the North ern Division matches, to be held in Eugene May 22, will be award ed a trip to the NCAA finals. Ore gon’s four-man team edged out Washington last year 566 strokes to 571, and went on to finish 17th in the nationals. Summary: BEST BALL—Lou Stafford John Prince (0) 67 defeated Joe Gfeene-Jim Mallory (W) 69, 2 to 1; Dom Provost-Al Crosbie (O) >6 defeated George Holland-How ard Stroupe (W) 67, 2C to l; >;j Bruce Fischer-Rod Taylor (0) 70i tied Ed Draper-Jim Cuthill (W) 70. 1/ to 1'... INDIVIDUAL Stafford (O) 69, defeated Greene (W) 71, 3 to 0; Draper (W) 67 defeated Provost (O) 71. 3 to 0; Holland (W) 72 de-i feated Taylor (O) 73, 2 to 1; Mai-j lory (W) 72 defeated Crosbie (O) 73, 2 to 1; Stroupe (W) 69 defeated Fischer iO) 72, 3 to O: and Cut In!! (W) 73 defeated Prince (O) 75, 2/ to 1C. ND Baseball Standings W. L Pet. Washington State .3 1 .750 OREGON .5 3 .625 Washington .-4 8 .571 Oregon State.I 1 .500 Idaho .0 5 .000 Bulletin Confident of victory in this af ternoon’s struggle, the Business Administration school will field a squad built around Elaine Mc Clelland and her famous “per fume ball” with Helen Robinson doing the receiving. Gridmen Hold Light Practice Coach Jim Aiken gave his grid men a mild surprise Friday after noon, as he sent them through a lighter-than-usual practice with out pads, for the first time this spring. Heavy work is slated to start again Monday, however. The head mentor decided that his charges had been working hard enough the past week, and so or dered a relief from body-contact practice, and spent the afternoon running the teams through offen sive plays. Still searching for a competent number two quarter back, a vacant spot on the team (Please tarn to /'age free) — Webfoots Smash Out Tennis Win Over Idaho By JOHN BARTON The Oregon Ducks swept their tennis match from the University of Idaho here yesterday, 7-0. win ning all singles and doubles match es, for their first victory of the year. Oregon, handicapped by the loss if its number three man, Bob Cor gan, who was out with an injury, took three of the singles matches by two straight sets. Bert Bowman, number one man, beat Vandal John Bretz 3-6, 6-3, and 6-1 in the opening court battle. Saal Lesser followed with a 6-4, 6-3 win over Jack Rainey in the number two singles. Fred Howard, moved up to the number three spot by Corgan’s ab sence, defeated Idahoan Bill Gar tin two straight 6-1 and 8-6. Webfoot Nick Reed kept up the pace by defeating Hal Barnes, 6-4 and 6-3. Rick Tromlitz finished the clean Ala 'Wandesi c^le'i a Qaad Qatyesi... Provost Talks, Sleeps, And Plays the Game By DICK MASK Paradoxical as it may seem, sub par golf has been what has kept the Oregon golf team 'way above par the past few years. One of the paramount reasons for the local linkstors’ rise to national promi nence has been the par-busting of sophomore letterman Dom Pro vost. Currently No. 2 man, the slim 19-year-old from Ashland turned slightly torrid as he defeated OSC’s Dan Torrey Saturday in individual match play, 67-76. Provost also teamed with A1 Crosbie iu a best ball match to record another siz zling 67, which was six strokes bet ter than their Beaver opponents could manage. Provost credits his steady play and unusually good short-iron game as the chief reasons in his Saturday showing. “I didn't have to sink any long putts, my second shots were land ing one, two, and three feet away from the pin,” explained Oregon's No. 2 golfer. The unassuming Mr. Provost, re luctan't to talk about himself, real ly lets go when asked about the golfing abilities of teammate Lou Stafford. “I’d put him up against anyone in the nation,” praised Provost. “I’d rather watch him than any of these pros.” Like the Bobby Joneses, Byron Nelsons, etc., the likeable Provost began chasing a small, round object around the fairways before any sign of peach fuzz appeared on his face. “I first started when 1 was 10,” mused Dom. “Then I laid off for a year, because the Ashland golf course went out of use. After that I went over to Medford to play once in a while.” Heredity was undoubtedly the big impetus toward Provost’s in terest in drivers, brassies, putters, and mashies. His dad formerly worked for Spalding and has been employed by Wilson for the past eight years. The best formula for striking up a conversation with Dom is to men tion golf. He's got the bug. We are justly proud of our famous Steak and Chicken Dinners Open evenings only Sundays 1:00 p.m. Half Moon Cafe On Highway 99 Springfield singles sweep with a three setter over Nolin Johnson, 6-2, 4-6, and 6-2. Bowman and Lesser started weak, but finished strong in their number one doubles match against Idahoans Bretz and Rainey. The two Vandals took the first set, 7-5, but the Duck doublers came back with 6-3 and 6-4 wins to take the match. In the second doubles match, Reed and Howard took two clean 6-0 and 6-4 wins from Moscow men Barnes and Johnson. In the first doubles games, Saal Lesser looked good with his close in net play. Several times, Lesser returned hard drives with a light tap over the edge of the net to send a Vandal scurrying for the ball. Coach Kerm Smith said after the matches that he expects his men to make a better showing for the rest of the season than they have to date. With better weather showing, the Duck netters will have more practice than conditions have al lowed yet this year. Sports Staff: Don Fair Sam Fidman John Barton Elwin Paxson Fred Taylor DeBernardi Hurls 4-Hif Whitewash The Oregon baseball team moved into a virtual tie for first place in the Northern division race yester day, by blanking cellar-dwelling Idaho 7-0 at Moscow. The two teams meet again this afternoon. Big Dick DeBernardi was a sur prise starter for the Oregon team, and he set the Vandals down with, only four scattered hits. The shut out stretched DeBernardi’s string of scoreless innings to 14. This was the second whitewash ing of the week suffered by Idaho. Washington State" turned the trick, 9-0, on Monday. Webfoot outfielder Hal Zurcher got a single in the third inning which started a six-run splurge. In this gib frame, the Oregon nine collected four hits and capitalized on two Idaho errors. Zurcher and Johnny Kovenz paced the Ducks at the plate, each garnering two hits in four tries. Short score: Oregon. 006 000 010—7 9 2 Idaho. 000 000 000—0 4 2 Batteries: for Oregon—DeBer nardi a“hd Burgher; for Idaho—• Fodrea, Plastino (3) and Williams. Indian Golfers Win LOS ANGELES, Apr. 30—(UP) . Undefeated Stanford golfers rolled to a 39 to 15 victory over UCLA today at Bel-Air country club. Bob Gardner with 71 was low man for the Bruins, who suffered their first loss of the season. Bob Rosburg was low for Stanford with 72. 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