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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 11, 1949)
Ducks, Willamette Collide at Salem * * * * Netters Pitted against OSC Here Today Oregon State’s experienced Varsity tennis team invades Eu gene today for a match with the Oregon Ducks slated to begin at 2 p’clock this afternoon. Although the Beavers are favored to top the Webfoots, Ore gon displayed good form on its recent road trip and will be tough to beat. In the matter of comparative scores, the Northerners Don Kirsch and his baseballing Ducks take on what they hope will be a breather tonight when they face Willamette at Salem. Gametime is 8 p. m. The Bearcats divided a double-header with Lewis Clark yes terday, dropping the opener 3-1, but snapping back to take the nightcap 14-3. However, while Oregon should not have too much trouble have a definite edge. *HEV BLANKED both Idaho and WSC while Oregon only split with these two teams. The Beavers have such capable performers as Hugh Findlay, Jack Currothers, Wes Brigham, Ivan Hatfield, and Nevin Cope, all let ter-winners, to throw at the Ducks. In today's matches Oregon plays er-Coach Saal Lesser expects to start Bob Carey in the number one position. Dave Van Zandt will oc cupy the number two slot, with Lesser holding down third. BUD CARPENTER was named to play fourth, and Bob Mensor will round out the group. Van Zandt and B. Carpenter will form one doubles team, while Lesser and Carey will compose the other. A return match is on tap for Sat urday, when Oregon will travel to Corvallis to play the Beavers. Freshman Nine Set to Tackle Axemen at 3 Oregon’s Frosh ball teaam held its final practice yesterday after ■ <»oon in preparation for a four game weekend starting with Eu gene high; today at 3. The year lings dumped the Axemen last Saturday 12-0 behind the no-hit pitching of Jim Courtright. BILL DAHLBEER will pitch for the Ducklings with either Jack Smith or Joe Segura behind the plate. Gene Louis will throw to Mel Jefferies for the prep schoolers. So far this season the Frosh Have had four wins in six games, both losses being to the Oregon State Rooks. STARTERS for the Frosh will be Phil Settecase, first; J. D. Wade, ..second; Gene Danzer, shortstop; TMick Schmear, third; Dewayne Owens, center field; Joe Proulx, night fielder; and either Jack Smith or Joe Segura in left field. Coach Duane Mellein has not named his first team as yet. Tomorrow Coach Falgren’s nine will face the Rooks here in a twin bill. It meets Albany high on Sat urday. Bevo Tops ND Hitters; Kovenz in Third Place Frank Roelandt, Oregon State’s hard hitting catcher, swung a mean stick last week, cracking out 11 hits in 16 tries, to surge ahead in the Northern Division races with a dizzy .548 average. Roelandt passed up former leader Bill Andring of Washington, who is second with .543, and left Oregon’s John Kovenz in third place. KOVENZ, at .442, replaced A1 Cohen as the Ducks’ top swat-mast er, the latter having slipped to .405. Cohen, however, still retained his RBI lead with 18. Washington State’s Gordon Brunswick is the pace-setter in the home run column with three, while Roelandt leads in triples with three and K. Chorlton of Washington in doubles with seven. Cohen, with five, is second in two-baggers. Kovenz has swiped the most hassocks, nine. DICK STILES of WSC maintained his lead among the pitchers with ed in three decisions and Oregon’s Homer Brobst in two. Sid Mills has a ed in three decisions and Oregon’s Homer Bropst in t^o. Sid Mills has a 3-1 record. .286. Washington is tops in team batting at .305, with Oregon second at Surprisingly, WSC, tied with the Ducks at the summit of the ND standings, is last in this department. The Cougars are hitting .251. Figures through Saturday, May 7: Player AB Frank Roelandt, OSC ...42 Bill Andring, Washington.:.33 John Kovenz, Oregon.43 A1 Cohen, Oregon.42 Bob Tate, Washington .30 Bob McGuire, WSC .. 45 K. Chorlton, Washington .43 Nick Stallworth, Idaho......41 John Mack, OSC .41 Gene Tanselli, OSC..43 Clayton Carr, WSC .31 Bob Christianson, OSC .38 Gerald Kimmerle, Washington .32 Tom Marier, WSC .39 Pat Wohlers, Oregon .20 Pitcher K 17 14 20 11 11 12 11 9 9 9 10 10 8 TO 4 H 23 18 19 17 12 16 15 14 14 14 10 12 10 12 6 Ave .548 .545 .442 .405 .400 .356 .349 .341 .341 .326 .323 .316 .313 .308 .300 RBI 15 3 6 18 9 10 15 8 6 7 9 12 4 9 4 IP Dick Stiles, WSC .45 Ward Rockey, WSC .27 1/3 Homer Brobst, O.19 2/3 Sid Mills, O .312/3 Ken Carpenter, OSC ..24 Chuck Sauvain, OSC .26 Hal Arnason, W .21 Mel Krause, O .32 1/3 H 42 30 19 29 21 24 20 32 ER SO 11 13 12 12 15 8 14 16 19 9 5 16 13 23 15 10 W ERA W 6 2.16 5 3.96 5.49 4.23 2.97 4.86 6.84 5.22 11 6 26 18 14 12 25 3 2 3 2 2 2 3 L, 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 2 Pet 1.000 1.000 1.000 .750 .667 .667 .667 .600 Steers Joins Hall of Fame I.os Steers, former Oregon track ace who established the world's high jump record, was among the 4(i track and field stars and coach es named to the Helms’ Hall of Fame yesterday. Taggesell Registers No-Hitter As IM Softball Playoffs Start TODAY’S schedule: South Field—Beta Theta Pi vs. Phi Delta Theta North Field—Delta Tan Delta vs. Sigma Alpha Epsilon Brilliant pitching performances highlighted yesterday's intramural HOftball games as the playoffs for the championship began. In the afternoon's results. Bob -Taggesell twirled a no-hitter as Phi Delta Theta trampled Veterans Housing. 18-2; Kappa Sigma pin ned a 10-1 defeat on Lambda Chi .Alpha; Beta Theta Pi bounced Sigma Chi by a 4-2 count; and Sig ma Alpha Epsilon came through with an S-2 victory over Phi Kappa JPfd. ALTHOUGH he allowed Vets Housing no hits. Taggesell's wild ness led to his opponents’ only two runs in the first inning. He issued 12 bases on balls altogether, but was tough in the clutches. In addi tion, he slammed two triples to aid his own cause. Jerry Switzer chipped in with a triple, double, and single as the l’hi Delts racked up four counters hi the first and kept adding to their margin. They crossed the plate seven times in the fifth canto and added five more in the sixth for their de cisive win over Vets’ pitcher Don Buffington. THE KAPPA SIO.S received an other good hurling job as Sam Was ch scattered six safeties in pitch ing a 10-1 triumph over Lambda Chi. The victors unlimbered four ( Plsase turn la page eight) NEW! Our stock of fine sheen Gabardine sport coats have come. Solid colors. with Johnny Lewis’ gang-, it may ue recalled that in a pre-season exhi bition it had to go down to the wire to pull out a last inning 5-4 deci sion. AFTER returning from a suc cessful six game tour into the Nor thern hinterlands, Kirsch plans to give his overworked mound staff a rest. He will send Sophomore Jim Hanns against the Bearcats to night. The Ducks resume their ND com petition against Oregon State this weekend. Theta Chi Golfers Win The Theta Chi intramural golf team moved into the semifinal round by defeating the Betas 11-1 Monday. Eugene Hi Post Goes To Berwick Jim Berwick, first string de fensive guard on Oregon’s Cotton Bowl gridiron team, has been named assistant football coach at Eugene high school. A two-year letterman under the tutorship of Webfoot Coach Jim Aiken, Berwick teamed with big Ted Meland, who handled the JIM BERWICK offensive chores, to give the Ducks a fine pair of linemen at the left guard position. Berwick started his collegiate career at the University of Wash ington as a naval trainee and came to Oregon in 1946. Stelle, Paxton Shine in Scrum # * • * * * Trackmen Face Time Trials as Dual Nears Oregon s Webfoot cindermen will run through their weekly time and distance trials this afternoon as they prepare for their arch rivals from Oregon State whom they meet here Saturday in their final dual meet of the season. Since 1930, the beginning of the modern era of track, the Ducks have tangled with their favorite foe 18 times and walked off the oval victors 12 of those times. 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