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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 14, 1949)
|DUCK TRACKS By DON FAIR „ Emerald Sports Writer Yesterday's 11-4 win for the 'YVebfoots over Idaho at least temporarily snapped the hitting and fielding doldrums with which the Oregon nine has been having trouble. A 13-hit bar rage is a good opening show for the diamond team, although to ' day’s game may be something else again. Following the Vandal series, the Ducks will meet colorful ' Buck Bailey and his Washington State crew, April 18 and 19, in the next division contests. The Cougars have walked away - with the title honors the past two years, and seem heavy fa vorites to run the string to three successive crowns. WSC op ens its division season Friday and Saturday against a question mark team from Washington. Bailey, a natural drawing card by himself, again features a club which is long on power. In winning the ND toga in ’41 and ’48, the Cougars were noted as a fair-fielding, long distance hitting outfit. At last reports, Washington State boasted a healthy preseason record of 19 wins in 21 preseason fracases. Fans Shouldn't Miss Seeing Bailey “ Barrell-chested Bailey is a must-see for baseball followers, when he brings hi’s Cougars to Eugene next week. He can almost - steal the play from the two teams when he is performing at his natural best. His booming voice can be heard all over the field. His antics of charging umpires, stomping out to the pitchers’ mound, and kicking water buckets, catcher's mitts, or anything else handy when the breaks are going against his team make him such a crowd favorite. Chuck Finley s Idaho team, in yesterday s opener, seemed a little green, but they boasted only one senior in the starting lineup, pitcher Arnold Beebe. That’s mighty promising mater ial with which to build for the coming campaigns. The entire infield is composed of-Sophomores as are two of the outfield. A couple of the inner gardei^men for Idaho are very familiar ' to Oregon fans—shortstop Nick Stallworth and first baseman • Bob l’ritchett. Both men were basketball shining lights for the Vandals, and proved themselves quite adept at the diamond sport. ill* Stallworth Boosted as Another Marion * Stallworth is held in high esteem by the Oregonian Sporting Editor L. H. Gregory. He is listed as a coming Marty Marion, lanky smooth-fielding shortpatcher of the St. Louis Cardinals. Despite one error, Stallworth showed much promise afield, with his loose easy gait and throw. At bat, he did just about every thing, including a home run into the right field hedge. Pritchett and Dexter Linck, centerfielder and another bas keteer, looked the best for the Vandals, both fielding several chances flawlessly. With a little more experience, and if the hurling makes its appearance the Idaho nine may turn out much like last year’s cage team, a nemesis to one and all of the conference foes. They trek to Corvallis for two games Friday and Saturday. Aside from the hitting, the performance of hurler Mel Krause and backstop Gene Rose gave Webfoot hopes a boost. Krause tried a little in the late innings, but finished the nine-frame stint in one-two-three fashion. Rose, handling himself smartly behind the plate, cracked out a pair of timely blows, and now may have the inside ticket to the starting catching berth. - Over the Bank is a Double New ground rules are in effect this season on Howe field; " which got its first baseball baptism yesterday since the ’47 sea son. A ball hit over the bank in left field, unless going over on the - fly, is not an automatic double. This makes impossible some of the prettiest fielding plays ever turned in on the local diamond. - That was the Dick Whitman to Bill Carney, to the plate relay, on a ball hit over the bank, which cut off many potential home „ runs in the ’41 and ’42 seasons. Whitman and Carney were two of the fastest runners, true est throwers that ever performed for an Oregon baseball team. Whitman recently has been shuttling back and forth between the Brooklyn Dodgers and their farm teams, while Carney spent a couple of seasons displaying his talents for the Port land Beavers. Other outfield grounds rules : A ball hit into the hedge in right field is in play, with the batter entitled to whichever base he can reach.A drive over the right field fence is an automatic home run, and one hit into the centerfield bleachers is a ground rule triple. Athletic Director Leo Harris revealed that plans are under way to have a new baseball scoreboard bv the ’50 season. Present budget plans didn’t call for such an addition this year, but the chances of a new scoreboard are good for next year. Tentative sketches have already been drawn up by University student, Gene Hebrard. Doesn't Even Sound Like Softball! Stan Ray Astounds Hunter, 35-2 TODAY’S SCHEDULE 3:50 Vets’ Housing vs. Hunter Hall 4:55 Stan Ray vs. 13th St. A.C. By JOHN BARTON Another day of intramural soft ball went under the rope yester day afternoon, with a light sched ule of only three games. Most spectacular game of the day was the lop-sided affair in which Stan Ray hall beat Hunter hall 35-2. On the more moderate side, Phi Sigma Kappa came back in a replay game to beat French hall, 8-5, and Westminster beat the Lower Thirteenth street Ath letic club with the same 8-5 score. STAN RAY hall went raving wild in five innings against Hun ter hall to mount up a 35-run mar gin against two for the losers. In tramural department records were not consulted after the game, but the score is probably a record for five innings of play. The boys from Stan Ray were simply red hot, while the Hunter team had a decidedly rough time of it, with pitching, fielding, and hitting troubles. By innings, the track meet went as follows: Stan Ray got three runs in the first and 15 in the sec ond, while Hunter picked up one in this frame; eight in the third for Stan Ray, six in the fourth, and three in the fifth. HUNTER got a homer in the fifth on a Stan Ray error to bring their total to two runs. Stan Ray Pitcher Harry Wollin had a good day, while Hunter used both Gene Barnhart and Bob Clumb to little avail. Phi Sigma Kappa finally beat French hall, after having to re play the game yesterday because of a time technicality in last week’s game. Phi Sig Pitcher Russ Hawks was the main rea son for the win, giving up only one hit. Hawks held the hallmen hitless for three innings, but had trouble in the last inning, when French rallied and picked up five runs. French Pitcher Milo Emil exhibit ed his usual speed, but failed to come through with control when it counted. PHI SIGMA KAPPA grabbed four runs in the first inning, and Rickey Supports Clause NEW YORK, April 14—(AP) — Branch Rickey said yesterday base ball's reserve clause is opposed by persons of “avowed Communist tendencies” and he drew immedi ate fire from men challenging the game in the courts. the count stood at 8-0 going into the last frame, when French pulled their strong rally of five runs. The Lower 13th street Athletic club got off to a slow start against the hard-hitting club from West minster house. Westminster grabbed a 4-1 lead in the first frame, and held on long enough to win, 8-5. For the winners, Bill Love and Clell Conrad banged out home runs to aid their club’s cause. The Athletic club pulled a big rally in the third, to tie the score up at five-ail, but the Housemen went ahead to garner three more counters. 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