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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 11, 1948)
This Duck Flies High Big Ban Garza, two-year veteran, is the number One candidate for left end on Jim Aiken’s football machine next fall. Garza was among the outstanding ends on the const last year, gaining great promi nence on all-star teams. Ducks Correct Mistakes Made in Scrimmage Oregon’s football players found out that Junior Weekend festivi ties were definitely over Monday afternoon, as they went through a length scrimmage session, trying to correct the mistakes made in Friday's intrasquad battle. The first eleven, playing the of fensive role in the workout, con centrated on its air attack, witlr Quarterback Norm Van Brocklin passing chiefly to three receivers —left end Dan Garza, and Bob Anderson and Dick Wilkins, alter nating at right end. George Bell, running at right half, and Keith Decourcey, at the same spot with another backfield unit, were also on the catching end of a number of tosses. Wilkins had the most success if the afternoon hanging onto the pigskin. Twice he stole the ball from the hands of the safety man by outjumping him, and was clear to the goal line. A multitude of halfbacks per formed during the session, and r~-'j - - EUGENE’S NEWEST SELF SERVICE LAUNDRY R & R WASHATERIA Tumbler Dryer 8 A. M. until !) P. M. MONDAYS - WEDNESDAYS FRIDAYS 8 A. M. until 6 P. M. TUESDAYS - THURSDAY’S SATURDAYS Other Hours by Appointment s DO YOUR LAUNDRY THE CONVENIENT, | "Washateria Way" I 2-110 Alder Phone 5545-R many of them turned in good runs. Jimmy Aiken, Woodley Lewis, Bunny Easter, and John McKay all reeled off sizable runs through the secondary. And Bell and Decour cey showed drive as well as shift iness at right half. Aiken and Mc Kay are especially good runners after they break into the second ary, where they can dart and twist away from tacklers. Easter, in spite of his diminutive stature, squirmed out of tacklers’ arms re peatedly by his whirling tactics. All the regulars were in the forward wall for the first team ex cept Brad Ecklund, out with a mild case of the flue but expected back today. In his center spot was Dave Gibson, rugged youngster up from the frosh eleven. Beavers Trounce Cindermen Baseball Team Begins Workouts for OSC Game By BOB REED The Oregon varsity baseballers are headed for a tough week of hitting, running, and fielding in preparation for the first game of the Oregon-OSC series scheduled for this Saturday night. Following only a two day rest after returning from the road trip, Mentor Kirsch plans to continue lengthy and stiff workouts until Friday. Emphasis will be placed on ironing out some of the kinks that developed during the trip. Noting the very few chances the squad had to take batting drills on the road, Kirsch has placed the power department first on his list for special attention. Team in Fair Shape The seventeen man Duck squad returned from their tour late Fri day night in fair shap. Whitey Lo kan and Dick DeBernardi devel oped sore arms in Ptillman and were somewhat ineffective against Washington, and Don Dibble was injured in the WSC series suffer ing a pulled muscle in the leg. He was unable to play in Seattle, leaving the team short handed in the outfield and somewhat weaker at the plate for those two games. Commenting generally, mrsci spoke of different phases of the trip, and pronounced that to his satisfaction and also for the play ers the tour was a good one. The Ducks lost only two games, won two from Idaho, and one each from WSC and Washington. The one loss to WSC was somewhat of a hard pill to swallow. After wait ing all season to come up with good pitching, Lokan finally turned in a grand performance, only to come out on the bottom end of a 1 to 0 score. The hitters were definitely not up to par that day. However, Kirsch remarked yesterday that if all three dpart ments will coordinate at the same time, then the Ducks will be all right. Hitting Falls Off The swatting parade fell off on the trip, but that was to be ex pected. Bartle led the downswing, failing to hit the ball as hard and as solid as during his performances here against WSC, Idaho, and Washington. He contributed a ■home run however, in the WSC series that was helpful. Comment ing on the general trend towards a drop off of hitting throughout Hi, Smooth!!! I hear you bought a Cashmere at FENNELL'S Yes, we have one at our store for you, too. BLACK WHITE etc. BROWN YELLOW Assorted sizes— Buy one— Try one—• I W fr-OEgfc ' I the line-up, Kirsch pointed out several players who contributed in the clutches. For the top show in timely hitting, Kirsch named Hal Zurcher. Zurcher’s hitting in the Idaho series was instrumental in bringing the Ducks two victories. In the umpire department, things were not quite so gay. In Seattle officiating was good, but in Pullman and Moscow not so pleasant. The Ducks were unfor tunate in having a plate umpire who persisted on calling a third strike even though the ball clearly missed the strike zone, and the players only took half swings, not even breaking the wrists. Kirsch said that this happened five or six tims, and once during a crucial moment for the Ducks. The team complained of this, but got abso lutely no where. In fact, they were more than happy to get to Seattle. All Positions Open on Duck Tennis Squad All positions on the Oregon ten nis team are now open, Coach Her mit Smith announced yesterday. In preparation for the coming OSC match, to be played on Satur day on the local courts, Smith said he is declaring the team open, so as to assure a strong squad for the Beaver meet. Smith stated that he expects most of the positions to be filled by the same men now holding them, but he said that the tournament now in session may shuffle the line up slightly. Bob Corgan, out of the line-up for the past two weeks because of an abdominal injury, is now back in action. Corgan will seek the number three spot which he occu pied before his injury pushed him on the sidelines. I Rasmussen, Robinson Star In Duck Loss By EL.WJN PAXSON Although outclassed in tne field, the Oregon State harrier squad won every track event but two Saturday afternoon, as they hand ed the Oregon cindermen their fourth straight loss, 83-48. ■ Minus the services of ND sprint champ Dave Henthorne, the Ducks were able to salvage only the two mile and low hurdle races in the lop-sided contest, with Pete Mundle and Jack Doyle, respec t i v e 1 y, collecting the winner’s share of points. The Webfoots fared much better in the field, but what the Orange men lacked in first place tallies, they compensated for in seconds and thirds. Big Lou Robinson was the only Oregon double winngr as he an nexed both the javelin and shot put contests. Defending division title-holder Ray Heidenrich, took first in the discus to enable the Ducks to make a clean sweep of the weight events. The only other Oregon victory came in the pole-vault, where George Rasmussen, one of the coast’s outstanding performers, threatened the meet record as he cleared 13’10”, but failed in his 14-foot attempt. The mark is held by George Variff, Oregon, with a jump of 14’14”, established in 1939. High-pointer for the meet was Beaver Jerry Cole, who captured both the 100 and 220 in addition to placing second in the low hurd les. Summary: Mile: Dick Pettersori, OSC; Mundle, Oregon; Runyan, OSC. Time, 4:30.2. 440-yard dash: O. B. Hughes, OSC; Schlavain, OSC; Leonard, OSC. Time, :50.4. 100-yard dash: Jerry Cole, OSC;] Edmonson, OSC; Weber, Oregon. Time, :10.1. 120 yard high hurdles: Earl Turner, OSC; Doyle, Oregon. Al exander, OSC. Time, :15.2. Shotput: Lou Robinson, Oregon J (Please turn to page six) Get Wise! START SHOPPING ROY COPPING'S for ZIPPY! ZESTFUL! 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