DUCK TRACKS
By GLENN GILLESPIE
Emerald Sports Writer
1 hat dreaded six-game road trip is finally over, and Don
*Kirsch can breathe a little easier now. Oregon’s pitching held
- up remarkably well and the hitting- was impressive. The fate of
- Kirsch s baseball crew still isn’t decided in full, since an import
. ant four-game stint with OSC still remains, but the big job is
done.
This was written before results of yesterday's game at Seat
tle were in, but even if the Webfoots lose that one, they’ll still be
' tied for the Northern Division lead.
Not that the Oregon State series will be any pushover. Ralph
Coleman has a mighty smooth lefthander in Chuck Sauvain to
4 throw at the Ducks in two of the four games, 'and he’s always
’hard to beat, while footballer Ken Carpenter will probably work
, one of the other games.
Five Games Still on Tap for Bailey's Cougars
The Beavers are playing a two
game series with the winless Ida
* ho Vandals this weekend at Mos
, cow.
Buck Bailey’s WSC Cougars
have five games left on the slate,
two with Washington and three
. with Idaho, and if an upset of two
is managed in either of these ser
ies, the Ducks may have things
- their way.
So it’s May 13 and 20, on suc
cessive Fridays, in Eugene, and
May 14 and 21 in Corvallis, for
the 1949 diamond version of Civ
il War action.
Pacific Coast Conference play
offs between champion teams of
the Northern and Southern divi
sions are scheduled May 27 and
28, on the SD loop-leader’s home
field.
Rasmussen's Record Threatened by Rasmussen
The next track action at home for Bill Bowerman’s cinder
men comes May 14, when Oregon and Oregon State clash in an
‘nual dual meet rivalry on Hayward field.
The baseball teams play the same day at Corvallis, which may
• limit the crowd to some extent, but local interest should run
, fairly high for the meet. “O” trackmen will be out for a win this
year, to make up for:Oregon State’s, victory last season, and the
two squads seem to be evenly matched.
About the only record in danger is George Rasmussen's own
pole vault standard, which he set in 1947 at 14-feet, 2-inches.
Rass has a good chance to better this mark, but other records
‘seem safe. ,
With hopes still high that Oregon's long-on-the-day Student
. Union building Will be completed sometime next year, plenty of
-ideas are floating around on ways to utilize all that extra space.
How About Forming Intramural Bowling League
• Among the planned SU fea
tures will be several bowling al
lays, designed for student and
faculty fans. Oregon keglers will
- be able to roll their lines on mod
, ern, close-to-campus facilities
not so very far in the future, and
we think it’s about time to start
- thinking about an intramural
, bowling league.
There’s no question about stu
dent interest in the sport. Full
downtown alleys every weekend
* show there are more than enough
. bowling Webfoots to make intra
mural competion a success.
Only five bowlers from each
- living organization would be nec
essary for a team, and the houses
could be divided into leagues as
is done in basketball, softball, and
the other sports. A round robin
schedule could be worked out by
the intramural department, and
three-line games could be rolled
on the SU alleys.
When league-leaders are decid
ed, playoffs could be held for both
men’s and women’s champion
ships, with a final playoff for the
Oregon championship. Bowling is
one of the few sports where wo
men can compete with men on
equal terms, and the matches
should create plenty of interest.
•Ex-Ducks, Beavers Grab Coaching Posts
Faculty members who follow the sport could organize a lea
-gue of their own, entering their best team in the final playoff.
It's suggestion which will take plenty of planning, work, and
-support before it gets rolling. And. above all, the Student Union
is necessary. It’s a suggestion which the intramural department
.can follow up if the possibilities are here. What about the bowl
. ers in the crowd? Is it worth doing? We'll see what the I-M of
fice thinks.
Ex-Oregon and Oregon State athletes seem to be filling va
cant high school coaching spots regularly now, with three sign
ing in the past week or so.
Two new appointments go to Oregon State men, Paul “Friar
'Tuck” Evensen, the big Aggie football guard, and Alex Peter
- sen. four-year basketball forward for Slats Gill.
Evensen is signed as assistant football coach at Springfield
- high school, and Peterson goes to Astoria high, where he will
-guide basketball fortunes next year.
Oregon’s Roger Wiley recently joined the Bend high school
, staff basketball as headman.
IM Games
Marked by
Kin-Hitters
Regularly scheduled intra
mural softball play was con
cluded yesterday as two no-hit
ters featured the action of six
make-up games.
The day’s contests went as
follows: Chi Psi edged Tau
Kappa Epsilon, 3-1; Phi Delta The
ta rolled over Pi Kappa Phi by a 17
2 count; Phi Kappa Sigma bounced
Lambda Chi Alpha; 4-1; Min turn
Hall outscored French Hall, 8-7;
and Nestor Hall and Merrick Hall
wound up in a 2-2 deadlock. The
Fizzed's took a forfeit win from
Omega Hall.
JIM HAYDEN led his Chi Psi
mates to a close 3-1 victory by pit
ching hitless ball for the full dis
tance.
Bob Hurtig came through in the
clutch by doubling home two run
ners with the score tied at 1-1 and
in the final inning.
The other no-hitter was chalked
up by Bob Taggesell of the Phi
Delts, who coasted to the triumph
behind a shower of 17 counters.
Taggesell whiffed 12 men during
the fray.
THE KAPPA SIGS earned a ber
th in the playoffs by downing
Lambda Chi Alpha in another tight
affair, 4-1.
Minturn outlasted French in an
exciting free-scoring 8-7 game
which was highlighted by Mac
Hill’s three run homer for Minturn.
The Nestor-Merrick tilt was ev
en all the way, with neither side
able to punch .across the winning
marker.
A MEETING of the league win
ners is scheduled for 3:30 Monday
afternoon in the intramural office,
Jim Vitti, IM manager, announced.
Winners are Sigma Chi, Beta The
ta Pi, Vets Housing, Kappa Sigs,
Lambda Chi Alpha, Phi Delts, Phi
Kappa Psi, and Delta Tau Delta.
Playoffs will probably start Tues
day.
Vitti also requested that all in
tramural golf and tennis teams
with unplayed matches make every
effort to get them out of the way
over the weekend.
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Favored in Run-for-Roses
FRED HOOPER’S OLYMPIA has been established as a solid 6 to 5
favorite in today’s 75th running of the Kentucky derby at Churchill
Downs in Louisville. Some 14 thoroughbreds are expected to go post
ward, and if they are do, the winner will pull down $91,600. Observers
figure that Old Rockport and Palestinian have the best chances of
coming through if Olympia does not.
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