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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 12, 1949)
Willamette Tips Ducks, 4-3 Netters Lose to Oregon State,6-1 m • • Golfers to Leave for Seattle Teem Faces CPS Before Staking Title The 1949 Northern Division dual match golf championship ■will be at stake Saturday, when Coach Sid Milligan’s Oregon jgolf team meets the Washing ton Huskies at Seattle. Oregon, lone undefeated team iti the circuit, will be out to revenge last year's loss to the Huskies in the dual match finals. A win for the Ducks this weekend would give them the undisputed title. A loss would throw final standings into an Oregon-Washington tie. Comparative scores give Milli gan’s Webfoots the edge over the defending champions. Washing ton has lost only one match this year, a 15-12 decision to Wash ington State, while Oregon has defeated the Cougars IS'/, -8y2. The Ducks have also beaten Ore gon State State and Idaho in divi sion competition, and are undefeat ed in non-conference play. FOR A WARM-UP match Fri day. the Webfoots will play the College of Puget Sound at Tacoma. Probable Webfoot traveling Sauad, to leave this morning, m oludad Captain Dom Provost, Red O.mlid. John Eckstrom, Jim Dona hue, John Prince, and Bob Seder atrom. Division Standings Washington State .9 3 .750 OREGON .8 3 .727 Oregon State .6 4 .GOO W ashington .5 G .455 Idaho .0 12 .000 Weekend schedule: Friday—Ore gon vs. OSC at Eugene, Washing ton vs. Idaho at Moscow. Saturday ■ Oregon vs. OSC at Corvallis, W ashington vs. Idaho at Moscow. Handball Tourney At Quarter-finals Four men have reached the qudrter-finals in the All-campus handball tournament sponsored by Jim Vitti, intra-mural manag er. Ed Gudgel, Saal Lesser, A1 Lippman, and Whitely Lokan are as yet undefeated in the game of speed and skill with the outcomes of four other matches pending. The tourney is being held for the benefit of a select group of glove wizards whose purpose is to determine the handball king of the campus. Rebec, Hen Hall Cop IM Tilts Rebec house downed Susan Campbell hall 1-0 yesterday to win I championship in League II. NEITHER TEAM scored until the first half of the third inning when Ruth Watts, who had made a one base hit, was knocked in by Carol Lippman. Jean Neely, pit ching for the Rebec squad, struck out nine batters. Twin sister Jan was in the catching spot. Mary Do herty was catcher for Susy and Coralee Thompson pitched. Also the winning end yesterday was Hendricks hall when they swept past Pi Beta Phi 10-6. This puts the winners in the League fin als with Delta Delta Delta, so far undefeated. PLAYING TODAY will be Uni versity house, so far undefeated and Alpha Chi Omega for cham pionship in League I. DU's Win Tennis Delta Epsilon advanced in the intramural tennis race, heating Sigma Chi, 2-1. The DFs took both doubles matches and dropped the singles. West Virginia Prospect Nixes Coaching Position Dob Roe, head football coach at W heeling, West Virginia high, has turned thumbs down on an offer to serve as line coach for the Univer sity of Oregon. DUCK COACH JIM AIKEN said that he had been told this indirect ly yesterday, and that he expected to receive a letter from Roe giv ing the particulars of why he was unable to accept. Roe's father is sjck and this is believed to be one of the major stumbling blocks. Aiken declared that he would immediately begin searching for someone else, but that be was not going to rush things, since he Wants to be sure of obtaining the “right man.” He has two coaches under serious consideration now. |>nt it may tie virtually weeks be fore tie finally decides on one of ilietu. Meanwhile, the status of Bob (Buster) McClure was still hang ing' in thin air. McClure has been trying to sever his ties with the Boston Yanks, but there are con raet complications. One thing, however, on which McClure has made up his mind is that he wants to coach at Oregon and not play pro football next fall. THE DUCKS themselves took somewhat of a respite yesterday. Buoyed by the fact that Guard Ted Meland has disclosed that he in tends to perform again next fall, the boys showed plenty of pepper, but there was no contact work. The afternoon’s activities were limited to running through signal drills, perfecting faking, timing and play execution, and taking a squint at some movies of last fall's games. Lesser Wins Lone Match For Webfoots By Martin Meadows Oregon State’s classy • net men lived up to advance notices yesterday by dumping the Ore gon Ducks, 6-1, in a Northern Division match on the local courts. THE BEAVERS captured four of the five singles contests and swept the doubles competition in racking up their third league win against a lone setback. Only Webfoot winner was Coach Saal Lesser, who engaged in a grueling three-set affair with Wes Brigham. Scores were 9-7, 8-10, 6-4. High Findlay, OSC number one man, had little trouble in down ing Bob Carey, 6-3 and 6-1; Jack Carrothers swept by Dave Van Zandt, by a 6-2, 6-3 count; Ivan Hatfield measured Bud Carpen ter, 6-2 and 6-2; and Nevin Cope pulled out another three-set tilt, drowning Bob Mensor by scores of 6-2, 2-6, 6-1. Cope and Hatfield teamed up in doubles play against Carey and Mensor, and after a tough first set, went on to win by a 7-5, 6-2 mar gin. FINDLAY AND CARROTHERS formed the other Beaver duo, and they also had little trouble in boun cing Van Zandt and Carpenter to the tune of G-2 and 6-2. The Ducks will have another chance to attempt to dump the Staters when the varsity as well as the Frosh squads invade Corval lis Saturday. Homer Sparks Frosh Victory By Paul Patterson DEWAYNE (MO US IE) OWENS’ home run at the start of the first inning sparked the Oregon frosh to a 9-4 victory over Eugene high yesterday afternoon on Howe field. Bill Dahlbeer, the winning pitch er, threw three innings of hitless ball before the Axemen could break through the Yearlings’ defense. Then they connected for four hits and on three errors got four runs across the plate. Dick Waibel and Ken Dunkelberger held the high schoolers at bay for the rest of the game. The Ducklings aided by ten Eu gene errors and six hits, went run less in only two frames. Owens and Gene Danzer led the frosh scorers with two runs each. Be sides Owens’ homer the only other extra base hits were doubles by Frosh Joe Proulx and Mel Jeffries of Eugene. The Ducklings play a double header with the Oregon State Kooks this afternoon on Howe field. The first game is scheduled to start at 1 o’clock. 11th Inning Rally Gives Bearcats Win at Salem SALEM, May 11—(Special). The Willamette Bearcats de- - feated Oregon Wednesday night 4-3 in 11 innings, behind the . tight hurling of John Slanchik. With the score tied 3-all in the 11th, Gordy Lenz started the . winning rally off Oregon reliefer Hal Zurcher, by singling when first baseman Dick Bartle misjudged his pop fly. After John DUCK BASEBALL Coach Don Kirseh is readying his team for the crucial home-and-home se ries with Oregon State this weekend. MarkosKie s .ny out, uick Brouwer drove a clean hit to left, advancing - Lenz to second. ZURCHER forced the next bat ter to fan, but Willamette catcher Roy Harrington bounced a single ' over the pitcher’s head. The throw - from centerfield beat Lenz to the plate, but the Bearcat baserunner hurdled the Oregon backstop to ’ tally the deciding marker. Jim Hanns started on the mound for Oregon, giving up the first three runs, while whiffing four bat ters. Hitting was evenly distributed - between the teams, Oregon garner ing 10 blows, all singles, to Wil lamette’s 11, THIRD BASEMAN CHUCK ‘ Strader and outfielder Norm Hen- . wood paced the Ducks at the plate with three hits each in five tries. Sparkling infield support by the - Line score: OREGON 011 001 000 00—3 10 4 Will. 013 000 000 01—1 11 l' Hanns, Zurcher (6), and Torkel- * son, Rose (8); Slanchik and Har- _ rington. M The tremendous damage done to America's range land by fire is a tragedy that affects EVERYONE. Look ... Each year range fires destroy millions of acres of land bearing essential grain and livestock feed! They kill thousands of cows, horses, sheep, and an inestima ble amount of wildlife! They burn homes, farms, farm equipment — sometimes entire communities! And, yes, range fires even take a toll of human lives! Range fires bring destruction and shortages which contribute to higher prices that no one can escape! 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