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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 18, 1950)
Light Hitting Webfoots Prepare For Vandals; Johnson Mound Star By MARTY WEITZNER Chalking a pair of defeats up to rain, inexperience, and a tough opponent, the baseball Webfoots took stock of their recent ^_____| aet-to with the Washington State PCC Sports In Review Craig Weisman, Washington's sophomore sprint star will equal a 15-year-old Husky record if he can cut his time for 100 yards to :9.6. Training under poor condi tions, the Colfax speedster has gone the century in :9.8. The last time a University of Washington luan ran a :9.6 hundred was back in 1935 when Bruce Humber did it in a dual meet with Washington State. A United Press dispatch dated Compton, California, April 17, stated that Lennart Strand of Sweden, co-holder of the world’s 1500 meter record, has accepted an invitation to compete in the 1 Ith annual Compton Invitational Track and Field meet June 2. Meet director Herschel Smith announced Strand's acceptance. State Kalncd Out Oregon State came up with some novel plans for their rained out opener against Washington State last Wednesday. The Beavers planned to have a hitter vs. pitcher contest between Loris Baker, ex St. Louis Cardinal infielder; How ard Maple, former Washington Senator catcher, and Wes Schul ii terich, onetime Boston Brave out fielder. All were former players under OSC baseball coach Ralph Coleman. Two Northern Division teams started sophomores in their open ing baseball games. Don White was the opening day nomination for Oregon State, and Gene Con Ly was the first day hurler for (.Please turn to page five) Cougars, and Began preparation for a two-day series against Idaho, April 19 and 20. Quantity of hitting was not a fault of the sophomore studded team, but quality certainly was. While Buck Bailey’s crew were helping themselves to a home run, three triples, and two doubles, Ore gon is still looking for the first extra base blow in league competi tion. A total of eighteen singles were collected by the Duck batters. •Johnson Looks Good Only from the mound work of DeWayne Johnson could Oregon supporters draw any joy. Until an injury to a digit on his pitching hand forced retirement in the fifth inning of Saturday’s game, the big lefthander allowed but one safety, three bases on balls, and struck out a trio of hitters. Mel Krause, the opening day starter, received as rough a re ception as he has been called upon to take in the Northern Division. It was a rocky road for the swift righthander, as the Cougar hit ters thumped him for 16 bingles over the route. This was the long est journey of the year for Krause, his exhibition appearances having been stymied by rain. Base Running Spotty One phase of Oregon play that will be worked on is the coaching. With Coach Don Kirsch working from the bench, base coaches seemed to be a little careless, or baserunners were missing signals. On one occasion a runner wander ing off base was easily picked off by the pitcher, and another time the runner got back when first baseman Ted Tappe forgot to tag him with the ball. A ray of light shone in the base (Please turn to pane five) S / LEARN TO DANCE Why miss out on the fun any longer because you feel sin and awkward ? \Yc can understand your hesitation as some of our pupils have said, "It's worse than going to the den tist." the first time they come in—but after one les son thev are amazed at how simple and easy it is to become a good dancer. Come in this evening for a guest lesson and dance analysis. There is no charge or obligation. • FOX TltOT • \\ \I.TZ ^ SWIM! « TAP 0 MAMItO ^ lil MB Y 0 SAMBA • TANGO • BA1XKT Hours Monday Thru Friday — 10:00 A.M. — 10:00 P.M. Saturday, 10:00 A.M. — 0:00 P.M. Jacklyti’s Dance Studio 24 West /tli Avc. l'honc 4-5621 Nothing's Rotten Here HERE’S some Danish cheesecake that you won’t find in the bakery. This talented quintet performed in McArthur Court last night with the famed gymnastic team of Denmark. Gridders Run Bruising Monday Drill; Backs In For Play Polish Today Oregon’s varsity gridders ran through a rough and rugged three hour practice session Monday on the football drill turf, and 9M WriUJlefiJuf. By C. HERBY FAHLMAN IM Sports Editor This is the first in a series of fea ture articles on Intramurals. It is designed to be a "cure-all,” for the writer will attempt to summarize, predict, and receive and discuss all complaints and complements con cerning the intramural program (daily stories included). Getting down to well established facts, we find that old man weather (commonly referred to by men ol higher literary taste as Jupiter Pluvius) has caused a leak in IM softball action. Twenty-four teams saw action in Monday and Tuesday play last week, but rainy weather cancelled games scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday. Friday was an open day on the IM calendar. Who Will Win? Although thirty-six games have been played so far, it is still a bit early for speculation in the win ner's market. However, with the ception of a few nines, hitting has been good and pitching so-so for this early in the season. Now, to dust the specks, and go back to Tuesday’s Delt-Minturn 2-2 deadlock. This is getting to be a bad habit. The two teams invariably meet each other twice and cross-up schedule makers. Ed Sanford and Ken Edwards hooked-up in a true pitcher's battle. Sanford, Delt tos ser, sent 13 out of 15 batters down via strikeouts. Edwards, Minturn windmiller, limited the Delts to four safeties. Golf Forfeits Some golf and tennis teams may wonder why “forfeit” has been placed by their entry. The inevi table answer is they didn’t sliow up. Another answer might be that they failed to contact Everett Peerp at the Intramural Office the best policy is to turn in results im mediately following the game. This makes for efficiency and better day-to-day coverage in the Em erald. Ye old scribe recently received a letter which expounded disgust with the current IM system because there was not enough "playing the game for fun.” Coach Jim Aiken decided that his squad was coming along—but slow. There will be another grid drill, the tenth of spring practice, this afternoon, but no scrimmage will be in order. Aiken explained that the line was becoming overly effective at bott ling up the backs, so there will be a few sessions devoted to the offen sive backfield. One element got too far ahead of the other, Aiken ex plained, and they have got to be evened up. This afternoon’s practice wiR highlight offensive play patterns, and is also designed to “let up” a little after the bone-crushing Mon day scrum. Aiken’s biggest trouble seems to be discovering the best combination of backs on the roster. So far, he hasn’t been too well pleased with the overall backfield performance, although he mentioned that Don Sloane, right half prospect from Portland, and Tom Edwards show ed well in yesterday’s drill. There will be four practices this week, Aiken said, but beginning next Monday, the squad will prob ably taper off to three drills per week. I stand agreed on one point of the letter. Sometimes, intramural ac tion almost equals the “play for pay” boys in tension and high-pit ched action. However, I believe this is good, for it creates genuine inter est in the IM program and puts an appropr iate amount of emphasis on championship play-offs. As for “playing the game for fun,” I take the premise that par ticipants in IM action are having a good time. They certainly wouldn’t be out there if the opposite was true. Theta Chi Wins Over Ed Sanford By GARY ROMAINE In the opening round of the third week of intramural softball play Monday evening, the Fijis squeez ed by the Stan Ray nine 9-8, West minster and Gamma battled to a tie at one all, and the TKEs whipped Sigma Chi 8-4. The Fiji-Stan Ray game was the closest of the afternoon. Stan Ray outhit the Fijis but came out on the short end of the 9-8 score. Paul Larsen hit a double and a triple for the victors and Harry Wallin got a homer for Stan Ray. Gamma Gets Tie At the end of the fourth inning the Westminster-Gamma Hall fra cas was called because of the 60 minute time ruling. The game was tied at one all and the remaining three innings will be played at a later date. Sigma Chi was toppled by the TKEs 8-4, yet the losers outhit the TKE nine, 8 hits to 6. Bob Lacy rapped out the longest hit of the game with a homer in the second. One shutout and a walkaway were registered in the second round of play. The Legal Eagles slaugh tered Alpha 28-7, in an error-ridden game. The Barristers opened up on the losers with 5 runs in the first inning and came back in the second to score 15. Dave Hobbs of the Al pha nine collected the only home run of the game. Warberg Hurls In the most heated and hard fought game of the afternoon pitch ers Ed Sanford and Dale Warberg had a twirling duel. Sanford the losing pitcher was touched for one hit and Warberg gave up two. None of the Theta Chi’s runs were earn ed as both were the result of errors. On his third strike, Paul Sowers raced for first when the catcher dropped the ball, the ball went wild! on the throw to first, and Sowers rounded the bases to score. Final score Theta Chi 2, Delts 0. Campbell Club downed the Sam mies 10-4. In this slugfest Bill Cool ey drove in two runs with his homer in the second and Jerry Barde got a homer for the Sammies. RENTALS OFFICE MACHINERY! & SUPPLY CO. Sales and Service 30 E 11th Phone 4-8035