BartleTells How to Boost Hit Average
by DICK MASK
Advice to the baseball novice on
tiow to raise your batting average
292 percentage points: Don’t try
to pull the ball, get that hitch out
of your swing, and have confidence
in yourself.
In the opinion of Dick Bartle,
Oregon first baseman, liis cor
rection of those three faults con
verted him into a .400 hitter this
year from a .108 baiter last sea
son.
“Last year when I got up there,
I thought I had to pull the ball,”
said Bartle. “This year I've quit
that, and just try to hit.”
Kirsch’s surprise package now
not only leads the team in hitting
percentage, but is also tops in hits,
runs scored, and runs batted in.
“Last season I also had a hitch
in my swing that I couldn’t get
rid of,” declared the big, bespect
acled first sacker. “Then when I
didn’t hit at first I lost my con
fidence.”
Bartle started off the first few
games hitting at above the .700
mark, but cooled off perceptibly
during the recent road trip.
“I’d gotten so many hits that I
was pressing when we played Id
aho. Their pitchers wer slowing up
on me and I was fouling them off.
After my disastrous road trip I
don’t know if I’ve improved my
batting or not,” grinned Bartle.
The Portlander first noticed his
change for the better last summer
when he played for Hills Creek of
the Cascade league and batted a
healthy .290. He also played on the
semi-pro Rialto team of Portland
in 1946 which placed fifth nation
ally at Wichita.
Rates Huskies
Bartle, a sophomore member of
Sigma Nu, thinks Washington is
about the toughest team the Ducks
have faced and considers the
Cougars a very close second.
“Washington is the best ball
club in the conference,” Bartle
said. “They have good hitting and
all of them run the bases well.
When they get on first, they go
all the way to third on a single
almost every time.”
Bartle rates WSC's first base
man, Gordy Brunswick, as about
the top hitter in the league and
also has a high regard for the
pitching abilities of Max Soriano,
Washington hurler, whom he terms
a “very smart pitcher.”
Between 9nnin<fl. . .
Webfoots Must Capture
Four Tilts for Title Bid
By BOB HEED
Despite the unsympathetic at
titude of the weather man. who
dropped more showers on Eugene
yesterday, the Oregon baseball
team put up with the wet field
long enough to go through some
inside baseball and tricks of the
trade in an attempt to sharpen
the Duck attack.
Nursing a mitt full of sore arm
pitchers, Don Kirsch ordered only
a short period of throwing for the
mound corps. Those pitchers who
have been out Lokan, DcBernar
di, and Brobst—are expected to be
ready by the first Oregon State
contest Saturday.
Until Saturday then, the Duck
schedule will be filled with lengthy
and hard practice sessions com
posed of plenty of time in the hit
ting cage plus defensive work.
Looking over the remaining
games to be played by Northern
Division teams within the confer
ence, every team in the league has
four games left. Oregon and Ore
gon State finish their conference
play in a four game series against
each other. Washington tangles
with WSC in two, and Idaho in
two; WSC in addition to the two
Washington tilts has two with
Idaho; and Idaho catches both
Washington and WSC.
Who has the inside chance to the
championship? WSC would re
ceive the nod because they at
present lead the league with six
victories and only two defeats
and it would take two set-backs
before any other club could over
take them.
The only combination of future
victories and defeats which would
give Oregon the title would be a
complete sweep of all the remain
ing games by Oregon and a .f>00,
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or split in the four games left for
WSC.
Mathematically, that is the solu
tion for bringing the title back to
Oregon. What actually happens
remains to be seen.
Turning atention to major
league baseball for a moment, an
interesting rumor has been making
the circuit to the effect that the
New York Giants and the St.
Louis Cardinals are taking up a
trade, which if completed would
send Walker Cooper back to the
Cards in exchange for two pitch
ers.
Whether or not this is true will
have to be solved later. But the
Cards do need catching badly, and
Cooper would fit the bill perfectly.
But New York in exchanve for
Cooper has asked the Cards for
Murray Dickson and Howie Pollet.
The Cards reportedly consented to
giving up Dickson, but balked at
turning over Pollet.
Cooper was originally with the
Cards but went to the Giants be
cause of what St. Louis sport
writers suggested as a grudge
held by Cooper against Dyer. If
the rumors are true, then possibly
Cooper has patched up his differ
ences with the Card manager. And
of course Sam Breadon is out the
pitcher. Bob Hannegan, the new
club owner, may be behind the
deal.
Portland Boy
Leaves Reds
CINCINNATI, O., May 12—(UP)
—The Cincinnati Reds tonight op
tioned right-handed pitcher Ed
Erautt to the Syracuse Chiefs of
the International league.
The 29-year-old hurler from
Portland, Ore., was with the Reds
all last year, winning four games
and losing nine. He formerely
played for Los Angeles.
Oregon W Emerald
SPORTS
Don Fair, Fred Taylor, Co-Sports Editors
75 Gridiron Mentors Expected
To Visit Coaching Clinic Here
Forty high school football coach
es have already returned registra
tion cards to the University of
Oregon athletic department for the
second annual coaches’ clinic to be
held May 21 and 22. The coaches
Stockton Wins
Jaycee Meet
SANTA ROSA, Calif., May 12
—(UP)—Stockton won the 24th
annual Northern California junior
college track and field meet to
night on double victories by hurd
ler Don Brooks and sprinter Don
Hardy.
Stockton scored 52 points to
top San Francisco City college,
with 43, Modesto with 27 and San
Mateo with 21. '
Brooks won both hurdle events
and placed second in the 100 yard
dash to his teammate, Hardy. He
raced the high hurdles in 15.5 sec
onds and the lows in 25 seconds
flat. Hardy turned in a 10 flat
hundred and a 22.3 second 220
yard dash.
Two new meet records were set,
both by San Francisco. The Rams’
Seward Champman slashed 17
sceonds off the two mile mark by
turning eight laps in 9:59.5. The
San Francisco mile relay team
won in 3:23.3, clipping .2 second
off the record.
Sports Staff:
Elwin Paxson
Dick Mase
Dean DeLap
Fred Taylor
Don Fair
Bob Reed
John Barton
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received the cards only last mon
day.
At least 75 mentors are expected
to be on hand for the two-day ses
sion. Last year 60 coaches attended
the clinic.
The program, which will feature
instruction in T formation tactics,
by Head Coach Jim Aiken, Line
Coach Dick Miller, and Backfield
Coach Frank Zazula, will be con
cluded with an intrasquad battle
presented by the Oregon grid team.
The fray will be performed under
regular game conditions on Hay
ward field. Students will be admit
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Fall Behind
InTourney
Dave Van Zandt, previously num
ber seven man on the Oregon ten
nis team, is leading in the round
robin tournament to determine po
sitions for the coming OSC match,
Coach Kermit Smith revealed yes
terday.
Van Zandt has won four matches,
while losing to none. Bert Bowman
and Saal Lesser, former number
one and two men, respectively, are
lagging in the play-offs. Each has
won two matches, while dropping
the same number.
The round-robin tournament,
Coach Smith explained, will not be
completed until all men on the
squad have played each other in a
regulation match.
In the match Saturday, the Bea
vers will present a slightly differ
ent squad from that which beat the
Ducks earlier in the season.
Beaver Hugh Findlay will be
playing the number one position
for the Aggies, while Erwin Dou
glas will rest in the number two
spot.
Jack Carrothers, Wes Brigham,
and Bill Huested, make up the rest
of the Beaver ladder.
Giant Wins Ring Debdt
Against Normal Rival
NEW YORK, May 12— (UP) —
Jimmy Cully, seven-foot, two-incti
giant from Tipperary, Ireland,
made his American boxing debut
tonight by knocking out Wally
Baden, six.feet tall, of Scranton,
Pa,, in 2:13 of the first round at
the Jamaica arena.
A crowd of 2,500 booed the un«
even contest as Baden went to the
floor a total of five times in the
brief battling.
Cullyi weighing 262 pounds,
towered over his norman-sized
rival and was obliged to crouch to
aim his blows.
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