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Frosh Thinclads Get First Action in Three-Team Meet Bill Bovverman’s fiosh track team steps on to Hayward field this afternoon at two for its first open meet of the season. The event will be a triangular meet with Cottage Grove and Springfield high schools. BOTH PREP SQUADS have im ptessive records so far in th cur rent season. Springfield boasts an unbeaten slate, with wins over Cot tage Grove and Albany high in duel meets, and a victory in a triangular meet with Corvallis and Albany. Cottage Grove came in fourth in the Hill Relays earlier in the sea son, and beat Eugene and Univer sity highs in a three sided affair. Coach Bowerman, who has lined Uj» the most rigorous season for a Frosh team In several years, said yesterday that, if the prep squads stay in their form, his thinelads may come out on the bottom of the meet. Bowerman has a very full squad. He will run Phil Jones in the sprints, and Art Wilson, and Herby Timms in the 100 yard dash. Jones and Joe Almand will be featured in the 220 yard event, while Bill Sores by and Tom Elliott will try for the tape in the 440. OLYMPIC RUNNER Jack Hut chins will pace the field in the half mile event. This will be Hutchin’s first try at this run since he came Lome from the famous London events last Summer. In the mile run, state high school champ Art Backlund, from Roseburg high, will carry the Frosh colors. Clearing the high hurdles for Bowerman will be Tom Joyce, Ral ph Risley, and Soresby, while Jack Smith and Elliott will run the low hurdles. Frosh shot-puters Bob Craig, Lew Langer, and Harold Simmons will heave the spherical weight, and Chuck Missfeldt, state prep champ, Craig, and Jerry Leslie will throw the javelin. Hurling the discus will be Lang er and Craig. Smith, Soresby, El liott, and Ed Robinson will try the high jump, and Almand and Robin son will pole vault to round out the frosh squad. Coach Bowerman has lined up seven meets for the frosh this sea son. The next event will be Friday on Hayward field against the OSC Rooks and the Oregon College of Education Frosh in a three-way meet Maxim, Lesnevich Meet CINCINNATI, April 11—(AP) A 15-round bout between Cleve land's Joey Maxim and Gus Lesne vich of Cliffside, N. J., for the “American. light-h eavyweight championship" was approved to day by the Cincinnati Boxing Com mission. The scrap is scheduled for May 23 at the Cincinnati Garden. Baseball Opens Tomorrow • * * OUT Webfoot Boss DON KIRSCH, Webfoot baseball cfoaeh, will send his charges against the Idaho Vandals to morrow afternoon in the Ducks’ opening Northern Division ac tion of the 1949 season. DeMoss Wins Tourney PEBBLE BEACH, Calif., April 11—(AF)—Grace DeMoss, Oregon State college star, who won Pebble Beach Women’s Golf Tournament here yesterday, downing Mrs. Roxie Setrakian, San Francisco, 6 and 4, in the 36-hole finals. Miss DeMoss was one under par 38 in the first round of the morning play, and finished the first 18 holes, 2 up. If Was Closer This Year But. . . Beavers Win Relays Again By Dave Taylor Only a baton pass which was ruled illegal kept Oregon’s thin clads from a tie in the Oregon-OSC relays held Saturday in Corvallis, as the Webfoots went down to de feat 5-3. IN THE DISPUTED RACE, the 880 yard relay, which the Ducks won by at least 15 yards, the field judges ruled that Jack Country man, Duck leadoff man, handed the stick to teammate Sullivan beyond the specified 10 yard area thus banding the event and the meet to Grant (Doc) Swan’s Beavers fot the eleventh consecutive year. I ittle Al Bullier, smooth striding sophomore, was the Individual Duck hero of the afternoon as lu reared around the oval m the final Inp of the mile relay making up a «ve yard deficit and winning the match with a photo finish as he ,u.sed out Orangeman Al Ueomud it'was also Bullier’s torrid third tap after the faculty Count^man t< -Sullivan pass m tin - - would have wrapped up the™* t( r the Webfoots. He outpaced tin Al Leonard to give Dave, Henthorne a ten yard advanta c jjoing into the stretch against Bca v v anchorman, Jerry Cole. HENTHOKNE ALSO Shared the Oregon limelight with Bulker when outdistanced Cole to the string tv seven yards in the -HO yard match after Woodley Lewis, Bot \ eber, and Jack Doyle had kept the mee even-steven until the final ,ok pass. The Ducks winning time to,- this event was -13.3 seconds, ex ec edingly fine for an early season meet. [n the shot put relay, the only other Duck victory. Lou Robinson s m feet 2% inch heave topped the competition as Bowerman’s lade chalked up a 172 feet 7', inch total over Oregon State’s 108 feet 7 inch es Duane Eby was high for the Or ange with a 43 feet 10 inch toss to best Bob Anderson, at 43 feet 3 inch es. Another tough break for the VVebfoots came in the shuttle hur dle relay when big Boh Anderson, running in the anchor slot for the Ducks, tripped on the fifth hurdle and fell into the sixth of the nine hurdle track. Up till the time of the accident, Anderson and State hurd ler Earl Turner had crossed the bars at the same time. Coach Bowerman's charge prov ed no match for the Orange dis lancemen as the Beaver walked off with the two mile and four mile events easily. The four mile was switched to a straight One mile race with the Swan men capturing the first four places as only one Duck, Hugh Stapleton, finished the complete distance. TWO SPA HKl.INti BEAVEK performances were turned in Dy Sprinter Joe Fisher and High Jumper Ken Elliot. Fisher practi cally won the two mile relay single handed as he burned up the cinders of Bell field for 880 yards. Elliott turned the high jump in to a one man show as he leaped G feet 2 inches to lead his team to a 23 foot 8 inch total. He later went 6 feet 4 inches in a practice exhibi tion. RESULTS: 440-yard relay—Won by Oregon (Lewis, Weber. Doyle, Henthorne), time: 43.3. 2-mile relay — Won by Oregon State (Boiler, Fullerton, Fisher, Ted Leonard, time 8:05.5. 880-yard relay Won by Oregon State by default (Edmundson, Mil ler. A1 Leonard, Colei, time 1:31.2. Shot put relay -Won by Oregon (Anderson, Heidenrich, Paxton, Robinson) 172 feet 7 inches. Shuttle hurdle relay Won by Oregon State (Rickert. Wikander, ! Seeing. Turner ) time 1:05.2. 4-mile relay (run as a single race) Won by Oregon State (Pat terson, Fullerton, Fisher, Spetz) time 4:32.5. High jump relay—Won by Ore gon State (Elliot, Laidlaw, Bar ber, Rinearson) 23 feet 8 inches. Mile relay — Won by Oregon (Countryman, Couglin, Sullivan, Bullier) time 3:29.1. Ducks Meet Idaho In First ND Game Tomorrow afternoon at 3 :00 Oregon's Webfoots start out on the long Northern Division roach meeting Idaho in the first of two games. The second tilt will be held Thursday at the same The Kirschmen wound up their pre-season schedule last Sat on a squeeze play. Both Duck chuckers, Mel Krause and Dick on a squeeze play. Bith Duck chuckers, Mel Krause and Dick DeBernardi, turned in good games and settled down the Webfoot mound problem. THE WIN WAS the seventh victory of the year, against four losses and avenged an 8-2 de cision the Senators took on Friday. The two teams will meet in a rub ber game this Saturday. KRAUSE WILL have an all-vet eran infield behind him with Dick Bartle at first, Walt Kirsch at sec ond, Captain A1 Cohen at short and Don Kimball at the hot corner. Kimball, though out of the Salem series with a pulled muscle, is in good shape and will return to regu lar duty. John Kovenz is slated to begin the game in left field, Hal Zurcher in center and Pat Wohlers in right, though Don Dibble may replace Wohlers. Order of 0 There will be a meeting of the Order of O this noon at the Theta Chi house, according to President Jim Bartelt. QUICK SERVICE for Your Easter Outfit To Help You Look Your Best V INSTANT PRESSING/ f T H I S W E E K 15% DISCOUNT on Sport Shirts wide choice of • style • colors • sizes I J ONLY at