Webfoots Topple Idaho, 11-4
'O' Harriers
Set to Run
Saturday
Coach Bill Bowerman sent his
Webfoot harriers through their
regular mid-week timings as he
primed them for their dual meet
this Saturday with the Idaho Van
dals on Hayward field.
Although hampered by a North
wind which swept down Hayward
field all afternoon, the Duck track
men were consistently slicing off
split seconds from their previous
dockings.
THE DUCKS will be at full
strength for the Vandal meet, Bow
erman said. However Jack Coun
tryman, distance man who knock
ed the skin off his left knee in a
fall at Corvallis last Staurday, is
still wearing a patch. Also Pete
Murer, one of Bowerman's top
hurdlers, complained of a sore leg
and didn't participate in yester
day's timings.
Highlight of yesterday’s action
eume in the 830-yard run, when
Phil Jones, Countryman, and Jack
Hutchins roared around the oval
and finished in that order with only
a stride separating the first and
third man.
Time for the event was 37.8 sec
onds, which is good considering
they were running against the wind
the majority of the distance.
THIS IS the first time this sea
son that Hutchins has been out of
the top spot, which shows quite an
improvement by Jones and Coun
tryman.
Another stride finish was chalk
ed up in the 75-yard dash, when
Davey Henthorne, A1 Bullier, and
Bob Weber fought the wind all the
way with Henthorne edging his
teammates in 8.2 seconds.
Don Pickens and Lloyd Hickok.
depth men in the pole vault behind
George Rasmussen, looked particu
larly good during their warmup
practices as they crossed the bar
easily at 13 feet.
THERE WAS no set competition
ic: this event, but a regular practice
session was held.
in other timings of the afternoon,
Pete Mundle covered the three
quarter mile in 3 minutes 25.2 sec
onds, while Jack Doyle skipped ov
er the high hurdles in 11.2 seconds.
Fijis Beat Pi K Phi
In l-M Net Play
Phi Gamma Delta whitewashed
l-n Kappa Phi's racketeers 2-0 in
i t intramural tennis duel yester
day afternoon.
The Fijis annexed singles play
by a default when the Pi Kaps
failed to have an entrant. They
copped the first doubles when Bob
Mensor and Chuck Corgan whipped
Joe Cartesagna and BUI Adams
0-2 in both sets.
tn the second doubles, Bonnie
Vannata and Russell Waddel
tucked away the first set easily at
0 1, but Pi ICapp Bill Higgins and
Doug Hayes came back in the final
^ . go to force the score 7-5 before
ving up.
Minneapolis Wins Title
ST. PAUL. Minn., April 14 Tn
icted wrist and all, George Mikan
P ished in 20 points last night to
lark Minneapolis to a 77-50 vic
tory over Washington for the
lampionship of the Basketball
a isocistion of America.
AL COHEN, slugging: Webfoot shortstop, came through with a
grounil-rule triple into the centeri'ield bleachers yesterday to bolster
Oregon’s 13-liit attack. The Ducks smothered Idaho, 11-4.
Joe DiMaggio Leaves Hospital,
But Heel Treatments to Continue
BALTIMORE, April 14—(API—
Joe DiMaggio will probably be dis
charged from Johns Hopkins Hos
pital today, but the New York Yan
kee centerfielder will continue
treatments for his sore heel as an
out-patient.
The big slugger arrived at the
hospital shortly before 2 a. m. Wed
nesday. His right heel, from which
a bony growth, or “spur,” had been
removed between seasons, was
paining.
He was examined by Dr. George
A. Bennett, who had treated him
several times before.
Afterwards, the hospital issued a
bulletin stating that the “length of
the disability will be determined by
the results of the treatment.” Doc
tors declined to speculate on just
how long that would be,
DiMaggio has been plagued by
injuries and other physical ailments
during most of his career. He has
made five trips to Johns Hopkins in
the last two years.
Apparently he will not be on hand
American Loop
Discusses Suits
CHICAGO, April 14 — (AP) —
American League officials yester
day conferred with Commissioner
A. B. (Happy) Chandler on player
suits against organized baseball,
but the discussions were kept sec
ret.
Chandler and his counsel met for
nearly three hours with 13 Ameri
can loop officials at the commis
sioner's suite in the Blackstone
Hotel.
Afterwards, the group posed wil
lingly for the news pictures, but
were mum on what had been said
about current litigation against the
major leagues. A similar meeting
had been held last Friday among
National League representative at
Cincinnati.
Chandler, however, said there
would be no joint meeting between
the two leagues on the same sub
ject. Such a meeting had been ex
pected.
Organized baseball must file an
swer in New York on April 23 to a
suit by Max Lanier and Fred Mar
tin, former St. Louis Cardinal pit
chers, for $2,500,000 damages. Tire
two ex-Cardinals were suspended
for five years because they jumped
to the Mexican League in 1940.
Oregon plays an exhibition game
with the Salem Senators Saturday
on Howe Field.
for the opening of the season next
Tuesday. This would make the eigh
th different year that ailments have
kept him out of opening games with
the Yankees.
PCL Baseball
PORTLAND, April .14—(AP)—
San Diego’s Max West rapped out
a homer to drive in three runs in the
first inning last night and the Pad
res went on from there to defeat
Portland,. 6-2, in their Pacific Cop.st
League baseball game.'
SAN DIEGO 300 101 100—6 11 1
PORTLAND 000 002 000—2 4 1
Flores and Stockhausen; Helser
and Fernandes.
OAKLAND, April 14 (AP)—Les
Scarsella’s two-run homer in the
last half of the ninth last night
gave the Oakland Acorns a 4-3 vic
tory over Los Angeles to square the
Pacific Coast baseball series at a
game apiece.
Los Angeles 100 002 000—3 13 1
Oakland 000 200 002—4 6 0
Anthony and Malone; Nelson and
Padgett.
Locke Leads in Tourney
FORT BRAGG, N. C., April 14
—(AP)-—Bobby Locke of South
Africa added a 74 yesterday to his
previous record-breaking 66 to
lead individual scoring in the Fort
Bragg pro-amateur golf tourna
ment.
Mel Krause Limits Vandals
To Five Blows in Opener;•
Squads Vie Again Today
By DICK CRAMER
Starting in the first inning and letting up only slightly as the
game progressed, Don Kirsch’s Oregon baseballers came
through with a convincing 11-4 win over an apathetic Idaho nine
yesterday on Howe field.
The win also eased the pitching situation when Sophomore
Mel Krause, making his first Northern Division start, held the
Vandals to five hits and three earned runs.
KRAUSE yielded only one base knock in the first five in
nings, a towering home run in
to the right field bushes by Nick
Stallworth. He then gave up
three runs in the next two
frames, and blanked the visitors
the rest of the way.
Tops in hitting for the Ducks
was left fielder Johnny Kovenz, who
had two singles in as many trips
and tallied three runs. Webfoot
sluggers reached two Idaho pitch
ers for 13 hits.
CATCHER Gene Rose had two
for three including a double, Walt
Kirsch and Hal Zurcher had two
for four, and Dick Bartle, coming
out of a long slump, blasted a dou
ble and a single in five trips.
Oregon opened fast on Idaho
starter Arnold Beebe, garnering
three runs in the first inning. Ko
venz walked and took third bn Zur
cher’s single. They both tallied on
Today's Game at 3
Oregon and Idaho will play the
second opening series baseball
game this afternoon at 3 on Howe
Field. Webfoot chances to sweep
the series depend on righthander
Homer Brobst, scheduled to take
the mound for Oregon.
A1 Cohen’s ground-rule triple into
the left-centerfield bleachers, and
Cohen came in on Don Kimball’s
one-baser.
STALLWORTH connected for
his homer in the second. He hit a.
towering fly to right field that went
over Pat Wohlers’ head and into the
hedge, and romped all the way
around when Wohlers couldn’t find
the ball.
The Webfoots came back with
two tallies of their own in the bot
tom of the second. Rose singled and
reached second when Stallworth
blobbed a double-play toss on
Krause’s hard grounder.
BOTH MOVED up when Kovenz
sacrificed and Vandal catcher Joe
Whitcomb, after faking to third,
held the ball and let Kovenz reach
first to load the bases. Rose scor
ed the fourth Duck run and Krause
took third on Zurcher’s long fly to
centerfield, and Krause came in a
moment later on Cohen’s fly to left.
IN THE FOURTH, the Kirsch
men rolled in three more runs to
sew the game up. Kovenz singled,
as did Zurcher, and they took sec
ond and third on a fielders’ choice.
The former tallied on Captain Co
hen’s fly and Zurcher came in on
Bartle’s towering triple to right.
The Webfoot first-sacker crossed
the plate on a wild pitch by Beebe.
OREGON CLOSED their scoring
in the fifth with three more runs.
Walt Kirsch walked and scored on
a double by Rose. Krause walked
and Kovenz singled, scoring Rose.
Idaho pulled a comedy Of errors
that finally wound up with Krause
out at third and Kovenz perched at
second on Zurcher’s infield roller.
Bob Mays threw ove^lftob Pritch
ett’s head, allowing Kovenz to score
and Zurch to take second.
The Vandals came back with a
single run in the sixth on Harley
Williams double, a single by Rod
Grider, and an infield out on Dex
ter Linck.
THEY PICKED up two in the
seventh on Cohen’s error, a double ,
by Hal Hunter, and a single by re
lief pitcher Don Fodrea, who had
replaced Beebe with nobody down
in the fifth.
Idaho didn’t seem fired up during
the game, and though making only
two errors in the field, they played
a loose defensive game and were
unimpressive. Dexter Linck, in cen
ter field, chalked up eight putouts,
a good days work for any outfield
er.
Box R H E
IDAHO 010 001 200 4 5 2
OREGON . 320 330 000—11 13 2
Beebe, Fodrea, (5) and Whit
comb; Krause and Rose, Warberg
(7).
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